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1. Voices: ‘A national disgrace’: Readers fume over the UK’s sewage crisis exposed in Dirty Business

   Our community has responded to Channel 4’s show with anger and frustration, highlighting years of sewage pollution, regulatory failure, privatisation, corporate greed and environmental mismanagement, while calling for urgent action to protect rivers, public health and ecosystems

2. Polls open in Gorton and Denton by-election that could decide Starmer’s future

3. Christina Applegate says she spends most of her day in bed amid MS battle

   Actor was diagnosed with MS in 2021

4. Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump approves Putin-Zelensky meet as Kyiv starts anti-drone netting across frontline

   Zelensky says leader-level meeting with Putin ‘only way to finally end the war’ after phone call with Trump

5. Has Drive to Survive run out of road? Why new season of F1’s Netflix hit falls flat

   Review:With fewer episodes, less fly-on-the-wall footage and chief protagonists absent, Kieran Jacksonexplains why one of sport’s standout docu-series has lost its cutting edge

6. Singer D4vd is ‘target’ in investigation of killing of girl whose decomposed body was found in Tesla

   The decomposed body of the teenager was discovered last year inside a Tesla, which had been towed from the Hollywood Hills

7. Third victim dies from wounds suffered in Rhode Island ice rink attack

   Officials say a third victim has died from injuries

8. North Korea says it’s willing to ‘get along’ with US – but there’s a catch

   Kim Jong Un declares South Korea a hostile state and rules out reconciliation

9. Greek island becomes most searched overseas destination – thanks to Alan Carr

   Searches for Corfu on Rightmove increased by 173% in January compared to the previous year following the BBC series Amanda & Alan’s Greek Job

10. Sarah Palin’s libel claims against The New York Times is taken to a new jury

    Palin has asserted that the newspaper defamed her by falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting