'UFO' spotted over Gants Hill in Essex, UK

Footage of what appears to be a UFO flying over Gants Hill in Essex, UK earlier today.

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  • Duke and Duchess of Sussex agree partnership with US brands giant Procter & Gamble

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  • LA protester accuses uncle, an LAPD officer, of ordering projectiles fired on him

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  • How Hamas pierced Israel's famous Iron Dome shield

    Israel's military was facing questions on Wednesday as to whether its Iron Dome missile defence system needed an upgrade, after five Israeli civilians were killed by rocket strikes. The system, which Israeli officials say has a 90 percent interception rate, has already avoided heavy loss of life in Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and other cities which became a focal point for Hamas as it sought to overwhelm air defences. But on Wednesday, Israeli analysts said that for some time intelligence sources had been warning that Hamas had significantly improved its weaponry, to the extent that it could "pierce the Iron Dome shield." “Iron Dome always had a weakness,” the Jerusalem Post’s intelligence, terrorism and legal analyst Yonah Jeremy Bob wrote in an article on Wednesday, referring to the system’s success rate. Mr Bob stressed that this did not mean that the Iron Dome was no longer effective.

  • Fox News host confronted over election lies by defiant union boss live on air

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  • British citizens living in the EU 'left out in the cold' with Brexit

    "The British government has left us out in the cold," says Terence Knott. He's the man behind EUBritizens, an action group of British people living in Europe whose lives have changed dramatically due to Brexit. They've lost their freedom of movement and their right to study, their professional qualifications no longer apply and some are even stuck at home unable to drive as their driving licenses are no longer valid. They're aiming long term to win back European citizenship, starting with a legal case to allow them the right to vote in Europe as they say they've been disenfranchised. Knott joined us for Perspective.

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  • Two Teenagers who beat and killed a 13-year-old boy sent home to parents on probation

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  • The Republican Party just showed its real face and it’s uglier than we thought

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  • Robert Peston Gets Schooled After Saying Teachers Did ‘Not Very Much Teaching’ In Lockdown

    ITV News’s political editor was taught a swift lesson.

  • Next winter could be even worse if Covid variants elude vaccines, Boris Johnson warns

    ‘We also face the threat of new variants....they would have the potential for even greater suffering than we endured in January’

  • My mentor died a broken man after Keir Starmer’s groundless prosecution

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  • Duchess of Sussex's legal battle with Mail on Sunday branded 'tortuous' by judge

    A High Court judge branded arguments in the Duchess of Sussex’s legal case against the Mail on Sunday as "tortuous". Lord Justice Warby ruled that the Duchess, 39, won her copyright claim after a letter sent by former aide Jason Knauf "emphatically" denying ownership of a letter she wrote to her father rendered the newspaper’s case "unreal". In a ruling explaining his decision, the judge noted that it was his eighth judgment in the case and appeared to criticise both sides about the lengthy courtroom tussles on every point. Summarising a long-winded argument about the misuse of private information claim, he referred to one response as "the final twist (so far) in this tortuous story". The Duchess successfully sued Associated Newspapers for breach of privacy and copyright in relation to the publication of five articles featuring extracts of the letter sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in February 2019. Earlier this year she won a summary judgment - a legal step negating the need for witness evidence - in relation to the privacy claim and the bulk of the copyright claim. Lord Justice Warby last week awarded a summary judgment on the outstanding copyright claim. The Duchess’s legal team applied for indemnity or higher costs after they were copied in on a series of emails sent from the Mail on Sunday’s legal team to Mr Knauf’s lawyers in error. Meghan, 39, had revealed that when drafting the letter to her estranged father, Mr Knauf "provided feedback" in the form of "general ideas".

  • Asian man, 80, beaten and robbed by teens near San Francisco

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  • Coronation Street star Maximus Evans calls for Seb flashbacks to air

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  • Jack Whitehall opens Brit Awards with Line of Duty skit starring Martin Compston and Jackie Weaver

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