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Wilko and Walkers staff make a clean sweep and join great British litter-pick

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Wilko and Walkers staff make a clean sweep: Staff from the household goods company and the crisps giant join in great British litter-pick Walkers and Wilko are official partners of the Great British September Clean Wilko staff held a clean-up outside their base in Gravesend, Kent, this weekend Walkers brand manager Nick Day took part in … Read more

Scarlett Moffatt and Jacqueline Jossa team up for Celebrity Supermarket Sweep

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EXCLUSIVE: Scarlett Moffatt and Jacqueline Jossa team up for Celebrity Supermarket Sweep… as the likes of Megan McKenna and Frankie Bridge also sign on to ransack the aisles By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 10:11 BST, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 10:14 BST, 19 August 2020 Queens of the jungle Scarlett Moffatt and Jacqueline Jossa have … Read more

Drivers are rescued from cars, roads submerged and shopping centres evacuated as storms sweep UK

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A shopping centre was evacuated and drivers had to be rescued from their cars as parts of Essex were hit by severe flooding after a fortnight’s worth of rain fell in just one hour. Chelmsford city centre has been completely flooded forcing staff to evacuate the Meadows Shopping Centre sparking a fire alarm to go … Read more

Thunderstorms sweep Britain as three-day deluge begins

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Thunderstorms and torrential downpours are set to sweep across the UK in a three-day deluge, hampering Britons’ plans for weekend staycations and causing wide-spread travel disruption.  The Met Office has issued a yellow thunderstorm warning for vast swathes of England and Wales on both Saturday and Sunday – just as thousands of holidaymakers rushed back … Read more

Flash floods leave town underwater as torrential rain and thunderstorms sweep across Wales 

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Flash floods have left a town underwater as torrential rain and thunderstorms sweep across Wales. Parts of Britain face more than two months’ worth of rain in just three hours today as forecasters said the ten-day heatwave will continue until at least Friday, bringing temperatures of up to 99F (37C) this afternoon. Aberystwyth in Wales … Read more

New boss aims for clean sweep at Reckitt Benckiser

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Laxman Narasimhan, the boss of Reckitt Benckiser, has been running the global consumer goods giant during lockdown from his west London flat, where he has been staying with his mother, who celebrates her 80th birthday this week.  The arrangement has brought a human side to corporate life. In a move that would win kudos from … Read more

Stylish face mask chains have become the latest accessory to sweep the internet

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Never forget your face mask again! Stylish customised chains to keep coverings in place have become the latest accessory to sweep Instagram (but a gold-plated one could set you back £20) Face mask chains have become latest must-have accessory to sweep Instagram Users are customising homemade mask chains with beads, glitter and pearls  Handmade and vintage  retailer … Read more

‘Brave and talented’ police dog Poppy is given the Speaker’s chair during security sweep of Commons

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It’s John Barkow! ‘Brave and talented’ police dog Poppy is given the Speaker’s chair during security sweep of the Commons ‘Brave’ police dog Poppy was given the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons The spaniel, age five, was doing a regular security sweep of chambers on Sunday Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was ‘honoured’ to … Read more

Retired chimney sweep, 90, died just hours after virus claimed life of his wife

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Devoted husband who refused treatment to die with his sweetheart: Coronavirus-hit pensioner, 90, died just days after his wife of 63 years after ‘pulling off his oxygen mask’ when he heard she had passed away on another ward Mary Dartnall, 90, became unresponsive and went to hospital in Southampton  After initially appearing to improve, Mrs … Read more