All news by author: Tim Hanlon

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Met Police officers stop and search black man but not white pal who was with him
Tallan Bent, 36, has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Metropolitan Police after accusing officers of racial discrimination for stopping and searching him but not a white friend
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Gran killed in dog attack 'likely' to have been breaking up 2 fighting bulldogs
Ann Dunn, 65, was found collapsed with "catastrophic injuries" at her Liverpool home and it is likely that she was trying to break up a fight between two American bulldogs, an inquest heard
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Missing girl, 10, found safe and well after eight hour police search
A 10-year-old girl who went missing in Exeter has been found "safe and well" said police
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EasyJet passenger sobs as £250 bag appears on carousel 'burned and shredded'
Chou Lim burst into tears when she found her £250 Osprey backpack on the luggage belt at Tenerife South Airport, claiming it smelled of "burning" and looked like it had gone through a "shredder"
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House 'frozen in time' since owners were 'poisoned' still has table set for tea
An abandoned home near Edinburgh has been left untouched since the 1960s as amazing photos show the inside of the property frozen in time after the owners mysteriously died from "poisoning"
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Simple 3-minute exercise can lower blood sugar levels in big news for diabetics
Walking for just three minutes after half an hour of sitting down can improve blood sugar levels meaning those with type 1 diabetes can better manage the disease, new research suggests
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'Impatient' elderly driver filmed moving traffic cones to escape queue on A12
An HGV driver has filmed an elderly woman getting out of her car during a traffic jam on the A12 in Essex and moving cones so she could move into another lane before being stopped by an irate workman
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Russian woman, 70, fined for calling Volodymyr Zelensky 'handsome young man'
Russian woman Olga Slegina, 70, has been fined almost £400 for calling Volodymyr Zelensky a “handsome young man” during a conversation with another woman who said the Ukrainian leader was a "freak"
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Man who raped and killed teen 30 years ago jailed after dad hunts him down
Dad Martin Mestre tracked down Jaime Saade, the man who brutally raped and murdered his 18-year-old daughter, in Brazil, and has ensured that he will be jailed in Colombia
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Popular restaurant Wahaca ditches steak from its menu despite being bestseller
Wahaca, the popular Mexican chain with 13 restaurants, has made the "bold" decision to no longer serve some popular steak dishes because of the effect on the environment
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Trainee nurse, 22, dies after bungling medics inserted breathing tube wrongly
Jodie McCann, 22, died after a breathing tube was incorrectly inserted while she was in hospital with pancreatitis, and a coroner said she would likely be alive today but for the error
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Man claiming £22k for back injury posts pictures hanging upside down on zipwire
Ferenc Kirinovits, from Norfolk, claimed £22,000 for whiplash injuries and a prolapsed disc after his car was hit by another vehicle, but he later posted photos of himself on a zip wire while on holiday in Mexico
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Woman loses arm as she's mauled by rescue dog to sue RSPCA 'who didn't warn her'
Joanna Harris, 49, has told how a one-year-old American bulldog she was fostering from the RSPCA attacked her leading to such severe injuries that she needed to have her arm amputated
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House on the market for £275,000 - but you only get a single room
A three-bedroom house in affluent Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, appears to have tempted many house hunters by its overall appeal but it has one room that is putting people off
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'Bomb site' hotel axed from Booking.com as family flee minutes after arrival
Pamela McInally and Mark Fletcher refused to stay at the Blackpool Promenade Hotel claiming that it was like a bombsite and "full of rubbish" with the hotel now suspended from Booking.com
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Woman attacked with boiling water so hot her freckles melted in row over pet rat
Charlotte Foster, 29, has told of how her freckles "literally fell off my face" as they "melted away" when her brother-in-law poured boiling water over her during a row about a pet rat
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Camera-shy ghosts blamed for restaurant fire two days after being exposed on TV
Rob Braddick, who owns The Pier House, in Westward Ho!, Devon, has told how a tumble dryer caught fire causing £25,000 worth of damage two days after investigators aired a TV show about resident ghosts there
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Bedsit to rent in posh London suburb for £1,240 - but it's missing key feature
A bedsit in Bayswater, west London where the average price is £1.4million, is available to rent for £1,240 a month, but there is a hidden catch as it is missing a key feature
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Estate agents share 'naff' common feature now knocking £15,000 off house prices
A once popular feature of houses and a way of adding to the value of property is now seen as "naff" and it could take £15,000 off the price with energy efficient homes now the most sought after
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Student, 24, dies after being pulled from sea in desperate marina search effort
Sai Tejaswi Kommareddy, 24, who was studying astronautics and space engineering at Cranfield University, in Bradford, tragically died after being pulled from the sea by Brighton marina
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BBC star's husband forced to tell son, 6, she had died after Covid jab
Lisa Shaw's husband Gareth Eve is suing AstraZeneca for answers after the death of the BBC presenter who became unwell from taking her first Covid jab as he says he wants "answers"
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Britain's 'worst ever pothole' is big enough to swallow a kid at five feet deep
A massive pothole, dubbed the biggest in the UK, is five feet deep and so large a child could fall down and disappear, as locals complained about its huge dangers
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Woman left looking like 'demon' after eyeliner fail turned whole eyeball black
Holly Rogers began seeing black tears trickle down her face after her whole eyeball went black when she used too much eyeliner and looked like a character from a horror film
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Ancient monument older than Egyptian pyramids sat on UK council estate
A stone surrounded by cheap railings to keep away vandals on an Edinburgh housing estate is actually an ancient monument older than the pyramids of Egypt, built around 4,000 years ago
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Man felt something moving during night and woke with massive spider in pants
A TikTok user has told how he found a massive huntsman spider sitting on the waistband of his pants after claiming to have felt something moving during the night