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Spice Girl Mel B almost millionaire again after struggling financially following Stephen Belafonte divorce

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March 3, 20210

Mel B almost millionaire again after struggling financially following divorce (Picture: Getty)Spice Girl star Mel B is almost a millionaire again, after racking up the cash following her expensive divorce from ex-husband Stephen Belafonte. The singer, 45, struggled financially following her marriage split and was later forced to fork out millions on her ex, with reports claiming Mel also owed the taxman thousands of pounds. In the last 18 months, Mel has boosted her bank balance from £53,081 to £834,910, according to new documents filed via Companies House for her company Moneyspider Productions. The accounts reveal that Mel has a total net assets of £649,313, while £186,672 is due to be paid to creditors. Mel moved back to the UK from LA in 2019 following her split from Bel

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How to prepare children for going back to school as lockdown lifts

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March 3, 20210

It’s nearly time for children to return to the school environment (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)If we feel like the last year has been a long and confusing slog, think about what it must have been like for children, for whom a year can feel like a lifetime. For adults, a year flashes by but for a child, it’s a whole era of development, life events, discoveries and memories that shape them for life. Covid-19 has disrupted routines in ways no-one could ever have forseen and parents and caregivers have been doing their best to juggle home life, careers, lockdown rules and home schooling their children. Across the months, children have been ping ponged between being at school, being at school socially distanced, sent home, sent back and so on and so forth. It’s confusing, frustrating

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Five questions you need to ask when you’re buying a house

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March 3, 20210

Before you start packing boxes – do you know how old the roof is? (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)Buying property can be stressful, confusing and it can take a lot longer than you might first think. It’s a massive investment, so you need to make sure you have really got your head around the process – particularly before signing contracts or progressing with a sale. The old adage says knowledge is power – and that is particularly true when it comes to property. You don’t want to be blindsided with big problems after you have already handed over you life savings. So, it is really important that you ask the right questions before agreeing to anything. Property expert Heather Barrigan, from MyJobQuote, has shared the top five questions that you should never forget to ask when you’r

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Piers Morgan slams Meghan Markle amid new ‘bullying’ claims: ‘If you rattle a cage enough, the cage rattles back’

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March 3, 20210

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Piers Morgan has continued his slams against Meghan Markle claiming the latest allegations of bullying made against her was simply ‘the cage rattling back’.  Speaking on Good Morning Britain this morning, Piers was given plenty to talk about regarding the Duchess of Sussex overnight, with claims that she had ‘bullied two aides into quitting their positions’.  The new broke as it was also claimed Meghan wore ‘chandelier’ earrings gifted to her by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, three weeks after he was linked to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.   ‘It seems that if you rattle a cage enough, eventually the cage rattles

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$119million Beverly Hills mansion featured in The Godfather is the most expensive house for sale in the US

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March 3, 20210

It’s the most expensive house for sale in America (Picture: Beauchamp Estates)A Hollywood home with a rich celebrity history is the most expensive property for sale in the US – coming in at $119million (around £90million). The enormous 18-bedroom Beverly Hills mansion has featured in films including The Godfather and The Bodyguard, as well as Beyonce’s Black Is King video. It was also the honeymoon home of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy and served as the former president’s election HQ. However, despite these incredible merits, it seems no one wants to buy the impressive property… or perhaps no one can afford it. The house – which is set on 3.5 acres with 25 bathrooms and an Olympic-size swimming pool – has been on and off the market for 10 years without a buyer. It includ

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No, that isn’t Tom Cruise you’re watching on TikTok – it’s a scarily good deepfake

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March 3, 20210

Pictured here – not Tom Cruise (Picture: TikTok)You’d be forgiven for thinking that Tom Cruise had joined TikTok if you stumbled across a new account that surfaced last month on the platform. In three videos uploaded to @deeptomcruise, the 58-year-old can be seen practising his golf swing, falling over in a store, telling an anecdote about Mikhail Gorbachev and performing a magic trick with a coin. Only… it isn’t Tom Cruise. These are highly slick deepfakes, which are either fascinating or terrifying, wherever you stand on the technology. The channel @deeptomcruise has notched up 1.1 million likes and 380,000 followers, as well as nearly 12 million views on its three videos, as people freaked out over the uncanny replica of Tom. As well as looking exactly like the Mission: Impo

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Boy and girl found walking alone in the cold in South Shore

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March 3, 20210

A boy, thought to be about 2-years-old, and a girl, thought to be about 3-years-old, were found walking alone in the cold March 3, 2021, in the 7200 block of South Jeffery Boulevard. | Adobe Stock PhotoThe girl was only wearing a coat and boots, police said. The boy was wearing a shirt, jogging pants. A boy and a girl were found walking alone in the cold early Wednesday in South Shore on the South Side. About 12:30 a.m. a man was driving south on Jeffery Boulevard, when he saw a young girl, thought to be about 3-years-old, and a young boy, thought to be about 2-years-old, walking without proper outer garments in the 7200 block of South Jeffery Boulevard, and called police, Chicago police said. The girl was wearing a coat and boots, police said. The boy was wearing a shirt, jogging pan...

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Doctor, 30, writes book to son as heartbreaking last gift before dying of brain tumour

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March 3, 20210

This dad wrote one last heartbreaking book for his son (Picture: PA Real life)A doctor who died from a rare brain tumour aged just 30 has written two children’s books for his three-year-old son. Paediatrician Aria Nikjooy, from Manchester, explained illness in parents and the importance of family – as a final heartbreaking gift to his little boy Eliyas. The dad was only 27 when he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, called a grade 4 cerebellar medulloblastoma, in November 2018. Despite having the tumour removed, the cancer returned several times before spreading to his spine and Aria died in February this year. While undergoing chemotherapy in 2019, he wrote Eddie and the Magic Healing Stone for Eliyas, now three. Before Aria died, he managed to get the book publish

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Denmark becomes first European country to tell Syrian refugees to return home

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March 3, 20210

A girl looks out of her apartment on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, which the Danish government says is a safe zone (Picture: AFP)Denmark has been criticised for telling Syrian refugees that it is safe for them to go home. The Scandanavian country became the first European nation to decide that the area around the capital Damascus was now safe, before stripping some 94 people from Syria of their residency permits. Now the Danish Government has extended the safe zone to the southern area of Rif Dimashq – which could leave around 1,500 people facing a choice between staying in deportation camps or returning to a country which nearly all of the rest of the world considers dangerous. The move means a further 350 Syrians residents will have their temporary prote

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Rishi Sunak admits ‘I’m a total coke addict’ to two boys – then corrects himself

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March 3, 20210

Rishi Sunak didn’t let the potentially embarrassing connotations stop him from extolling the virtues of his favourite drink (Picture: Youtube/ Big George)Rishi Sunak accidentally admitted to being a ‘total coke addict’ before spending an inordinate amount of time clarifying that he meant the drink, not the drug. In unearthed footage, said to be from summer 2019, the chancellor is seen making awkward conversation with two schoolboys, confessing: ‘I’m a coke addict, a total coke addict.’ In a moment of blind panic, he then looks at the camera and clarifies: ‘Coca Cola addict, just for the record. Just to be totally clear. Coca Cola addict’ While many would have moved swiftly on at this point, Mr Sunak chooses to linger on the topic, going on to extol the virtues of the drink – at...