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Labour turned its fire on Reform on the first day of its annual conference – branding the party's policies "racist", a gunman rammed his vehicle into a Mormon church in Michigan before opening fire, an a Tui flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Birmingham after a bird strike. 

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1 | Labour turns fire on Farage's 'racist' policies with warning Reform will make UK a 'cultural wasteland'

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2 | Michigan church horror: 40-year-old suspect opened fire on hundreds of Mormon worshipers

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3 | Andy Burnham comes out fighting as he warns Starmer's Labour faces 'peril'

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4 | Shabana Mahmood: 'We will deport immigrants unless they earn their right to be British'

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5 | Tui flight makes emergency landing at Birmingham Airport after take-off bird strike

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Readers weigh in on Noel Fitzpatrick finally wanting kids at 57

Some appear to think that it's just women that have reached the end of the fertility window by their mid-fifties or often much earlier – but it isn't, it's men as well.
But if this was a woman in her 50s publicly advertising that they'd like to meet their birthing partner who's 20 years younger than her, she'd be labelled a 'cougar' or a 'cradle snatcher'.
So then, why is it acceptable in the reverse? I just don't find that fair at all.

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STAT OF THE DAY

9

The number of hours George Galloway was held in Gatwick Airport after being stopped by counter terror police 

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The quotes attributed to him are pure invention fed, one can only assume, by sources intent on sabotaging any reconciliation between father and son."

Prince Harry has lashed out at false claims about his recent meeting with King Charles, saying it was an attempt to sabotage any reconciliation with his father.

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