All news by author: Izzy Hawksworth

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'Spud brothers' become global TikTok sensations for their baked potatoes
Jacob, 28, and Harley Nelson, 21, have seen customers queuing for hours to get their hands on their famous spuds in Preston, Lancashire, after they went viral on TikTok
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Britain's unluckiest game show contestant winless after over 50 TV appearances
Edward Oldfield has appeared on shows including The Weakest Link, Tipping Point, Decimate, and Two Tribes but has only ever won an elephant costume and a mug
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Groom nearly dies before wedding after stag do punch as attacker avoids jail
Lee Burns had been to the Grand National with a group of friends for his stag do, but suffered a fractured skull and two bleeds on the brain after being punched
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Mum diagnosed with two brain tumours thanks doctors who 'saved her smile'
Mum Claire Corser, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, was diagnosed with a slow growing tumour in 2010, after she experienced a 12-week long headache and hearing loss
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Missing cat reunited with owners - more than three years after he disappeared
Distraught owner Katie Salt, 39, spent weeks searching for the 12-year-old black and white cat, but Oscar never returned home after unexpected heavy snow in 2020
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XL Bully owner who beat vet at surgery for failing to save dog's life jailed
Arbaz Hamza Hamid, 24, punched Stephen Stead so hard he was left with a bloody nose at his surgery and his glasses left an imprint on his skin, York Crown Court heard
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Britain's oldest DVD rental shop still going strong despite Netflix challenge
Colin Richards opened TVL Allstar Video in 1984 to lease video tapes and his store is still going strong despite the booming popularity of online streaming with over 8000 discs in its library
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Killjoy council serves eviction notices leaving people just two weeks to move
Some of the group have lived in caravans beside South Beach Parade in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, for years and now they're furious with the Tory-controlled council
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Tui sued by Brit holidaymakers hit by gastric illness at five star resort
Approximately fifteen people have reported that their holidays were ruined this year by gastric symptoms whilst staying at the Hotel Riu Palace Santa Maria hotel in Cape Verde
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AI robot developed by UK scientists will 'fix potholes' as costs hit £1billion
A 'world-leading', self-driving AI robot that fixes potholes all by itself is being designed by British scientists as the cost of repairing roads reaches £1billion
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Woman locked in legal battle after blocking ramblers from using path near home
Sine Garvie-Mcinally used wooden stakes to block off a 150m stretch of footpath by her home near the Norfolk village of Newton by Castle Acre amid a legal battle with walkers
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BBC star sues over '110hr work week and harassment from air traffic controllers'
The star of the hit BBC TV series Airport Jeremy Spake is claiming that his mental health was damaged due to 'overwork' and 'harassment' from air traffic controllers
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Mum feels toddler's liver while they hugged which led to devastating diagnosis
Sophia Wylie needed surgery and months of chemotherapy when she was just two years old after doctors told her parents that she had developed a form of liver cancer
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Historic UK building collapses into river one year after new owners bought it
The 194-year-old Listed Old Courthouse building in Cockermouth, Cumbria, has partially collapsed into the River Cocker - less than two years after being declared unsafe
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Boxer defends his 'friendly' XL Bully and blames owners for 'nasty' behaviour
Mark Heffron, who is from Oldham, Greater Manchester, says his two-year-old dog Tyson is a "big friendly giant" who "loves kids" and is "so laid back and chilled"
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Boy reunited with Lego figure he lost after he creates 'missing person' poster
Jack Steel, ten, was left devastated after he lost his Lego figure, which is based on himself and is also called Jack, and so he launched an innovative 'missing person' campaign
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Four-foot Pelican on the loose after breaking out of zoo to fight off seagulls
A 14-week-old pelican escaped from Blackpool Zoo in Lancashire on Friday and keepers are now searching for the bird. They believe it headed towards the South Shore area of Blackpool
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Neighbour made pensioner's life 'hell' because she watered her hanging baskets
Kim Porter-Wilson took photos of her neighbour Ann Breen and sounded an alarm every time she watered her plants, a court heard. The pensioner said the woman made her life 'hell' for nine months
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Man vows never to eat Quavers again after hidden 'metal zip' snaps tooth in half
While watching TV, full-time actor Paul Ford, 33, realised there was a hard piece of metal hidden inside one of the curly crisps - and that he had snapped his front tooth while eating Quavers
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Mass brawl erupts on ferry as men exchange blows in front of terrified families
The mass brawl broke out on Saturday (July 8) during a trip from Dublin in Ireland to Holyhead, Wales
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'I'm 100 years old and believe the secret to my long life is my love of gin'
Beatrice Peters turned 100 on Tuesday and celebrated the milestone birthday with a drop of gin and a telegram from King Charles III at the care home in Preston, Lancashire
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Body of missing man found in lorry was mistaken for a horror movie prop
Ian Roberts was reported missing back in October last year, but when the 35-year-old was found dead in a lorry, the person who found him thought his body was a horror movie prop
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Abuse victim struggling to kick attacker out of home has to pay his £61k bill
Kirsty Easthope was abused by her mother's partner Arthur Hepple, 84, for over a decade before she reported him to police in 2014. He was jailed and she then lost her bid to force him out of the family home
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Rampaging bull shot dead by police after 'charging at people' near UK school
A bull was seen charging at people on Wells Avenue in Haslington, Cheshire, yesterday morning, and pupils in a nearby primary school were put into lockdown before the animal was shot dead by police
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Family's holiday turned into nightmare in hotel with mould, sick and toenails
The Pugsley family's break in the famed seaside resort of Blackpool quickly got off to a bad start when they were told the hotel they were staying at had been hit by flood damage
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