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Glastonbury Festival secret set announced as 00s rock band confirms appearance
Kasabian have taken to social media to confirm their surprise appearance at Glastonbury this year - which marks their first performance since the departure of frontman Tom Meighan in 2020
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Prison care workers became 'infatuated' with inmates and smuggled drugs for them
Amy Portwood, 35, and Adrienne Juniper, 41, burst into tears as they were jailed for becoming 'infatuated' with inmates - and smuggling drugs into prison for them
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'Idiot' teen told 'get off your backside and get a job' after reckless crash
Ammaar Razwan was driving dangerously when he crashed into two stationary vans - pedestrians narrowly escaped being hit. The judge slammed him for his reckless actions
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Mum, 33, glassed woman in Wetherspoons over feud started in school
Rosie O'Brien and her victim had been at school together but they were not friends. O'Brien and others used to call the woman a "rich b***h because she came from an affluent background"
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Pooch saved from dog fighting ring unrecognisable as The Mirror finds new home
Eight-year-old bull terrier Jane was one of 19 dogs seized in the RSPCA’s Operation Ghoul, which has led to ring leader Philip Ali jailed having trained his dogs for blood-thirsty battles
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Gangland machete victim who had leg hacked off led police on 140mph car chase
Former crime group member James Sheridan, 29, had his leg amputated following a horror attack that saw him targeted at home in May 2023
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Music conductor walks free after police sting catches him tying to meet boy, 14
London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Jan Latham-Koenig was spared jail at Southwark Crown Court as a judge heard vile details of his conversation with an undercover cop posing as a child
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Sunak's National Service garbage is the latest sign of Tory desperation
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conveniently forgets his government has utterly failed young people over the past 14 years
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'Ticket Queen' who used dozens of identities to flog gig tickets is jailed
Maria Chenery-Woods, 54, of Norfolk, used multiple identities to snap up gig tickets for stars including Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga, before re-selling them at highly inflated prices
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'Reckless' farmer caused 'catastrophic' pollution after slurry store collapsed
Derek Dyer, 74, caused what experts described as one of the largest slurry contaminations they had seen in decades after allowing a slurry store built from farmyard manure to collapse
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Drunk Brit passenger threatened to 'chin' EasyJet crew after they took drink
Benjamin Lynch and his mother Patricia both got drunk on a return EasyJet flight to Manchester from Antalya leaving children on the flight 'terrified', a court heard
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Wife stabbed her husband in the chest for falling asleep while she was talking
Deborah Stallard knifed Barrie Stallard, her partner of 21 years, at their mobile home in Dymchurch, Kent, after an evening of drinking at a pub in April last year
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Cocaine dealer caught after car crashes after high speed collision
Cocaine dealers Ryan Lawrence and Joshua Goodwin careered into the wall of a council building in Stanley, Co Durham, before police uncovered several bags of cocaine
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Creepy stalker made woman's life hell and hid tracker on her car
Peter Beaven, 70, also sent a Valentine's card to his victim which had a QR code inside containing a message telling her she would see him. He's been ordered to pay her £3,000 in compensation
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Thug hit man in face with gin glass after being kindly invited to gathering
Ryan Boldra, 28, had been invited to a family gathering by a mutual friend after he had been out drinking before he glassed his victim and pushed him over, causing a broken wrist
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Images show transformation of Bulldog left so starved it couldn't stand
WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS Police discovered Nala, an 11-month-old American bulldog, in a filthy cage at a Gateshead property last August - but she has now been adopted and is thriving
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Inside abandoned cannabis farm once worth £500,000 set up in old care home
Explorer Kyle Urbex took photos of the inside of Moorfield Lodge care home in Moortown, Leeds which dates back to the early 1800s and was once home to an illegal drugs operation
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Tragedy as woman dies falling into pub cellar before daughter's surprise party
Olwen Collier, 69, was preparing a pub function room for a surprise birthday party for her daughter when she opened the wrong door and fell down the stairs into the dark cellar
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New right to ask for flexible working from first day in job comes into force
The previous rule required employees to be with their employer for at least 26 weeks before making such a request
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Woman who kept child in cage and tried to sell child for £1million found dead
Despite her two child neglect convictions Claire Boyle was spared jail and was allowed to look after the kids
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Royal Navy serviceman lost 'dream' career after being attacked outside club
A court heard how the sickening late night attack shattered the victim's hopes of a long career seeing the world and his life has changed 'drastically' since the attack
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Conwoman, 26, spared jail for 'deception' where she faked papers to rent flats
Sian White from Pickering, North Yorkshire encouraged her partner to 'make himself homeless and jobless' and he suffered 'significant psychological harm' while she also conned a number of people
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Man's three chilling words to 999 after smothering frail mum with a wet flannel
Kevin Pearce, 60, was the sole carer for his 89-year-old mum Eileen Pearce for more than a decade until he killed her at the home they shared in Bexleyheath in what the judge called "an act of mercy"
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Man sentenced after filming his dog violently chasing and attacking a deer
Sampson Richard, from Cornwall, pleaded guilty after concerns of a video on Facebook chasing and bringing down a deer were raised. The 28-year-old was sentenced to a 12-month community order
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Son who smothered his mum, 89, to 'give her release' from dementia walks free
Kevin Pearce had looked after dementia and osteoporosis sufferer Eileen Pearce, 89, for 10 years before he killed her at their home in Bexleyheath, south London, in June 2021