All news for 2024-03-06

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Louis Walsh reveals cheeky way he helped 'joke' X Factor stars win
Louis Walsh will be hoping CBB fans use the same crafty tactic to help him win that he relied on when he was an X Factor judge and Simon Cowell always gave him the worst category
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Everyone can see perfumes - but you have high IQ if you can spot lipstick
If you can manage to see past the distractions in the busy image in order to find the hidden lipstick you can pat yourself on the back, as it means you have 'high IQ'
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Gladiators semi-final absent from schedule in shake-up ahead of final episode
Gladiators returned for its reboot on the BBC earlier this year and there are just a few episodes of the series left, though one of them is understood to be airing later than expected
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EastEnders fans spot huge blunder in Sonia Fowler scene amid Whitney twist
EastEnders viewers have spotted a big error in a scene with Sonia Fowler tonight, as she returned to Walford after visiting Whitney and Bianca in Milton Keynes
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The Open announce key rule change Phil Mickelson gets lucky escape from
Phil Mickelson has not made the cut at The Open since 2018, his only year advancing to the weekend since finishing as the runner-up to Henrik Stenson at Royal Troon in 2016
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Francis Ngannou breaks silence after Fury confrontation ahead of Joshua fight
Fury confronted Ngannou as the heavyweight rivals met for the first time since their controversial clash in Saudi Arabia last October
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Boris Johnson defends his dad Stanley as 'heroic' despite breaking wife's nose
New Channel 4 series The Rise And Fall Of Boris Johnson discusses the childhood of the former Prime Minister
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Capcom Highlights showcase start time, how to watch, and what to expect
Capcom is also set to show off it's new IP Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess during the first of two upcoming streams
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Ex-pilot's chilling MH370 theory of what really happened to missing flight
When MH370 was declared missing, governments launched a search to find the wreckage before calling it off three years later. Many aviation experts have done their own research into the case, as featured in BBC's Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370
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'I'm adopted and I've discovered my wife is biological sister after simple test'
A man was left horrified when test results came back saying the unimaginable - but some people said there was no point in bringing it up as it would change his life
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Zoe Ball's Radio 2 replacement as BBC DJ shares heartbreaking family news
BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball has announced that she will be taking time away from her breakfast show following a cancer diagnosis in her family, with her mother Julia Peckham having been diagnosed with the disease
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Jim Ratcliffe's three-man shortlist for next Man Utd boss includes surprise name
Erik ten Hag's position as manager of Manchester United is becoming increasingly uncertainty as the end of the season nears, with new co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe already looking at options to replace him
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Rishi Sunak told to call general election now as Budget flops with voters
Keir Starmer demanded Rishi Sunak call a general election now as he accused him of being 'out of touch, out of ideas and nearly out of road' as the Budget flopped
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Israel's IDF kills Hamas rocket commander in devastating Gaza airstrike
Amar Atiya Darwish Aladini, who was behind Hamas rocket fire for years and played a key role in the 2008 war between Israel and Hazan militants, has been killed
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Missing MH370 pilots - 'final two words, marriage woes, and deleted route'
As examined in BBC documentary Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370, senior pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah and first officer Fariq Hamid commanded the Malaysian Airlines flight, which went missing 10 years ago
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Bargain Hunt viewers vent fury moments into episode as they share same complaint
Fans of the long-running BBC lunchtime show Bargain Hunt were left furious on Wednesday when an episode started to air - which many realised they had seen just weeks before
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Hull KR's Sam Luckley on injury, Sam Burgess and Newcastle season tickets
Scotland prop, 28, is back in action after lengthy foot injury and ready to take on Warrington Wolves
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Emma Caldwell killer to appeal after being jailed for life over 2005 murder
Iain Packer, 51, has been convicted of killing Emma Caldwell, 27, in Lanarkshire in 2005. The sex worker's death had been one of Scotland's most high-profile unsolved murders
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'Radar breakthrough finally shows where doomed MH370 jet could be' - expert
As featured in BBC's Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370, retired British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey has been using pioneering technology to try and locate the missing aircraft
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Boy, 11, dies after viral social media 'chroming' challenge goes wrong
Tommie-Lee Gracie Billington, 11, died after allegedly attempting a dangerous online stunt called 'chroming', which involves inhaling toxic chemicals such as aerosol cans
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Max Verstappen defends dad's fiery Christian Horner claim - "He is not a liar"
Max Verstappen did not completely rule out a move away from Red Bull but expects to remain with the team despite his father's comments about team principal Christian Horner
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Emmerdale Chas Dingle star's eight word response to soap exit
Emmerdale star Lucy Pargeter has opened up about her future on the ITV soap as Chas Dingle amid a cancer storyline, which has seen her character diagnosed with breast cancer
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'Budget needed much better salesman than Hunt to sound even remotely plausible'
'Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is gambling voters will swallow the sugar-rush of tax cuts and ignore the bitter taste of further public spending cuts,' the Mirror's Jason Beattie writes
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'Investing in NHS, schools and high streets would breathe life back into UK'
Robert Palmer, executive director at Tax Justice UK, says Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered a 'cut and run' Budget which will spell more agony for public services
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Rishi Sunak's family can still benefit from tax loophole worth up to £300m
Jeremy Hunt said he was scrapping non-dom tax loopholes in the Budget - but exemption from inheritance tax isn't part of the changes introduced today