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Woman slams 'frustrating' Ryanair seatbelts that don't fit 'average size' people
Katie Higgins has criticised Ryanair after she found herself squeezed by a seatbelt on a Ryanair flight from Glasgow, Scotland to Cork in the Republic of Ireland
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I’m a bigger woman & wept as I had to be ‘lassoed’ into a Ryanair plane seat
A ‘curvy' beautician claims she was “lassoed” into her chair by a short seatbelt on a Ryanair flight - while plus-size passengers are exposed to
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'I'm a gay man but I have a girlfriend - it's the happiest we've ever been'
Jacob Hoff was convinced he was gay and only attracted to men until he met best friend Samantha Wynn Greenstone and the two couldn't deny their feelings any longer
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Great-gran mistaken for 40-year-old despite posing for 80th birthday snaps
Connie Meyer-Ping, 80, often gets told her she's aging 'backwards' and compared to film character Benjamin Button as she looks less than half her age and even gets ID'd for alcohol
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'I'm in age gap marriage - and spend £61K to look better for millionaire hubby'
Leila Griffin, 29, spent a whopping £61,000 on surgery to keep up appearances with her millionaire husband, saying she 'doesn't let herself go like so many women do'
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'My giant Wetherspoon's chip was so huge it dwarfed my beef burger'
Sophie Turnock believed she had the "biggest Wetherspoon chip in the world" - served at The Reginald Mitchell pub in Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent, and was "so gobsmacked"
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Househunters gobsmacked to find cannabis farm hidden in £25,000 home
The two-bedroom terrace in Liverpool is up for auction - and it appears to have been previously transformed from a liveable home into a drug-making cave
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'My baby's chronic eczema disappeared when we started travelling the world'
Nadia Akhtar and Irfan Aziz left their home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire to head to Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia with their young son Zakariya
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'I'm banned from flying with easyJet for 10 years - all because of my name'
Kieran Harris was looking forward to flying to Alicante after booking with easyJet - but found himself barred as he happens to share both a name and a birthday with a notorious former passenger
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Student misses exam after being hospitalised for vertigo from spinning on chair
When Zonera Williams suffered acute vertigo when she repeatedly spun round in her chair in the library at University of Bradford, the third-year student was taken to hospital
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'I forage dandelions and nettles to feed kids - we eat like kings and save cash'
Thrifty mum-of-two Kaye Wilkinson is sharing how to forage safely in open fields and 'get food for free' - plus what dangers to avoid when picking plants in public
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Vandals destroy allotment dosabled woman used to feed those in need
Carly Burd has been growing produce to help feed those in need from her allotment in Harlow, Essex, since last July, but over the weekend sick vandals tore up the plants and salted the earth
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Bar staff beg customers to 'stop having sex' in photo booth after sick discovery
Staff at NQ64 Arcade Bar are sick of doing 'constant deep cleans' after randy party goers keep getting it on in their photo booths - with one leaving their bra behind
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Girl loses smile after family's rescue pup becomes a 'man-eater' within 24 hours
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Rebekka Bolline said three-year-old daughter Emily was delighted when the family adopted a rescue puppy but within 24 hours the new pet savagely attacked the child
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I bought a pair of Boohoo cargo pants but was horrified when they arrived
A MUM was stunned to discover her new Boohoo trousers were designed for a person with 'the world's longest legs' and 'could fit the green giant' at ne
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Mansion snapped up in three days despite being on fire in property listing
A $1.5 million (£1.2 million) mansion in Franklin, Tennessee, America, changed hands in just three days despite burning down in its online property listing, leaving the new homeowner with an extensive list of damages
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Family 'terrorised' by 'ghost under the floorboards' days after visiting psychic
Gillian Harper and Kieron Ruse say they are 'tormented' by the knocking under their floorboards at their home in Hull, but have been forced to "live" with it as they "don't know what to do"
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Stranger screams woman is 'vile b**** who should be drowned' while she's fishing
Elsa Joan was left in "pure shock" after she was abused by a woman in Dartford, Kent, while fishing last weekend - even though she let the 10lb carp go as soon as she caught it