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Bride threatens to delete friends on Facebook if they refuse to pay £2,000 to attend her wedding

9/15/2018, 5:47:05 PM
WITH outfits, travel and gifts to take into consideration, wedding guests usually expect to pay a couple of hundred pounds to attend their friends’ big days. But one bride has shocked with a … ✔ This is it you guys you have 3 days to respond to our invites or we're deleting you off FB and good luck keeping up with our lives then ✔ Then came another blow, with the woman writing: Don't get me started on the registry ✔ And forget two dresses - brides are getting their hair CUT halfway through their weddings


How Many Of These 25 Actual "Jeopardy!" Questions Can You Get Right?

9/15/2018, 6:49:45 PM
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The Latest: Storm causes first fatality in South Carolina

9/15/2018, 5:09:46 PM
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Storm Florence (all times local): 1:50 p.m. Officials in South Carolina are reporting the state's firs ✔ (Steve Earley /The Virginian-Pilot via AP) Breaches in the dune line on Hwy 12 between Frisco and Hatteras Village, N.C., created by Hurricane Florence's storm surge, are filled in ✔ 14) Officials with the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency warn residents in the Carolinas that Hurricane Florence will trek slowly on the coast and remain a threat, despite becoming a Category 1 hurricane


At the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana you can feel like a rockstar

9/15/2018, 7:38:35 PM
I AM sipping a potent rum cocktail in a natural turquoise pool, the sun on my back as a palm-fringed beach frames the horizon. The scene is typically Caribbean. But the tune blasting from a mobile … ✔ It is fast-paced, banging reggaeton a tropical hip-hop fusion that is taking Latin America by storm ✔ Welcome to the Dominican Republic, a Spanish-speaking island east of Jamaica that is now the most popular tourist destination in the West Indies ✔ Though a great family hotel, it is equally good for couples ✔ With winter looming, I wish I was planning another trip there now


The Latest: School gives football tickets to storm evacuees

9/15/2018, 7:07:55 PM
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Storm Florence (all times local): 2:50 p.m. Hurricane Florence evacuees from the Carolinas are getting ✔ (Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot via AP) A fallen tree is shown after it crashed through the home where a woman and her baby were killed in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday, Sept ✔ 14) Officials with the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency warn residents in the Carolinas that Hurricane Florence will trek slowly on the coast and remain a threat, despite becoming a Category 1 hurricane


Florence: Airline cancellations still climbing, now top 3,200

9/15/2018, 7:19:48 PM
Flights remained grounded at most airports along coast of the Carolinas Saturday morning as the remnants of Florence continued to spin over the region. ✔ Nearly all were tied to disruptions in the Carolinas, where Florence was expected to weaken and – eventually – pick up speed and move out of the region by Sunday night ✔ (Photo: National Hurricane Center) IN PICTURES: Embraer's line-up of commercial passenger planes IN PICTURES: Bombardier's line-up of commercial passenger planes


Have the perfect French family holiday — even with teenagers

9/15/2018, 7:01:20 PM
WHAT do you do when “I’m bored!” is replaced by “You’re stupid!” and “Are we there yet?” is now “You can’t tell me what to do!”? Holidaying with stroppy teens is a pretty terrifying proposition for… ✔ Alamy 7 Even teenagers will appreciate how much there is to explore in Paris Having just returned from working in Venezuela, where the rule of law is crumbling, I was almost as nervous about travelling to Paris with my two boys ✔ With a double bed and two single beds, there was plenty of room for us all to sleep ✔ Once home, we had a massive row about using the PlayStation before bed


Death toll rises to 7 as Florence pours on the rain

9/15/2018, 7:47:26 PM
NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — Thousands of people living near North Carolina's rising rivers were ordered evacuated Saturday as hurricane-turned-tropical storm Florence practically parked ✔ More than 2 feet of rain had fallen in places, and the drenching went on and on, with forecasters saying there could be an additional 1½ feet by the end of the weekend ✔ Schools canceled, postponed, switched sites or changed kickoff times because of Florence ✔ 14) Tropical Storm Florence is continuing to dump dangerous amounts of rain as it continues its slow slog across the Carolinas


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9/15/2018, 5:09:41 PM
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Toronto 2018 roundup: popcorn, syrup and a convict in space

9/15/2018, 4:46:02 PM
While Steve McQueen and Barry Jenkins led the hype for Oscars, it was veteran director Claire Denis’s bizarre sci-fi High Life that really caught the eye ✔ The Toronto international film festival is an increasingly glitzy affair, with enough world premieres from celebrated auteurs to have even casual moviegoers frothing at the mouth – and critics positively weak at the knees ✔ The French actor Louis Garrel (also the son of a film-maker, Philippe Garrel) writes, directs and stars in A Faithful Man


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