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Mancunians send grave Game of Thrones-inspired warning to Boris Johnson

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‘The North Remembers’: Mancunians hit out at to Boris Johnson with Game of Thrones memes as their city is plunged into Tier Three lockdown Deadlocked negotiations saw PM impose tighter curbs on Greater Manchester  Many people used Game of Thrones references in their reaction to the news  Some praised Mr Burnham, while others blamed him … Read more

Strictly’s Shirley Ballas reveals she received death threat which showed her digging her own grave

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Shirley Ballas has revealed she received a shocking death threat which depicted her digging her own grave and branded her an ‘old witch.’ The Strictly Come Dancing judge, 60, told how a death threat was hand-delivered to a theatre where she was performing in pantomime in an excerpt from her new autobiography, Behind The Sequins. … Read more

Forensic workers identify Mexican model found in a clandestine grave

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The remains of a missing model whose body was discovered in a secret mass grave with six other bodies in northern Mexico last month, has been identified. Yessenia Alvarado, 24, a mom-of-one who worked as a model in Mexico, was shopping in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, on August 18 when a several armed men wearing masks … Read more

Mass Siberian grave belonged to ancient population of head cultists, says expert 

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Macabre 5,000-year-old mass grave containing the remains of five decapitated Siberians belonged to an ancient population of ‘head cultists’, expert claims Cultists severed their victims’ heads after death and then kept them for worship The burial at site in Novosibirsk region contained three adults and two teenagers Also found was a miniature clay figurine on the … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Ian Fleming’s family are shaken after vandals target his grave

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His most famous creation was James Bond, but even 007’s global fame has proved unable to protect Ian Fleming’s grave from vandalism. The grave, at St James’ Church, Sevenhampton, in Wiltshire, is the final resting place not just of Fleming, who died from a heart attack in 1964 aged 56, but also of his wife, … Read more

Mother launches £75,000 legal battle after finding out her son’s grave has been empty for 45 years

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Mother launches £75,000 legal battle after finding out her son’s grave has been empty for 45 years after he died at just one week old Lydia Reid’s son Gary Paton died at an Edinburgh hospital aged one week in 1975 She has been fighting to find out what happened to his body for 45 years … Read more

Extraordinary 2,500-year-old grave of an ancient Scythian ‘warrior couple’ is unearthed in Siberia

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An extraordinary 2,500-year-old grave of an ancient warrior couple has been found in Siberia. The pair are believed to have died in their 30s and were buried with a baby and an ‘elderly’ servant woman, archaeologists say. The elderly woman was likely in her 60s when she died and was entombed in a crumpled position under the … Read more

Campaigners raise glass to Polly the pint-swilling pig as her grave is saved from developers

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Tucked away in an ivy-clad corner of the car park of the Cock Hotel in Worsley, near Salford, is a small, intricately-carved headstone. It is inscribed as follows: In memory of Polly, mother of 200 pigs. Died December 23, 1904, aged 15½ years. For more than a century since, men, women and children have enjoyed … Read more

Weight loss expert Steve Miller says Eat Out To Help Out is like ‘telling people to eat your grave’

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Weight loss expert Steve Miller thinks the Eat Out To Help Out scheme will make Brits gorge on junk food and is like ‘telling people to eat their grave’.   Fat Families presenter Steve Miller, from the West Midlands, has slammed the new government scheme, which gives diners a 50 per cent discount on meals and soft drinks at … Read more