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Kemi Badenoch arrives at the Conservative conference in Birmingham

Tory leadership contender Kemi Badenoch has said “not all cultures are equally valid” when it comes to deciding who should be allowed into the UK.

In an article for the Sunday Telegraph at the start of the Tory conference, she said: “Our country is not a dormitory for people to come here and make money. It is our home.

“Those we chose to welcome, we expect to share our values and contribute to our society.”

Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat are all vying for the Tory leadership after Rishi Sunak stood down in the summer following the party’s general election defeat.

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All four will get a chance to make their case over the next four days in Birmingham, culminating in four 20-minute speeches by each contender on Wednesday.

The field will then be whittled down to two by MPs, with the Tory membership getting the final say in an online ballot. The result will be declared on 2 November.

In her Telegraph article, Badenoch sets out what she calls a “hard-nosed” policy on immigration.

She calls for a complete overhaul of the system to ensure every public servant makes it a priority – not just the Home Office – and does not rule out leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

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She also calls for a better “integration strategy” that emphasises British values and culture.

Drawing on her own background as an immigrant – she was born in the UK but spent her childhood in Nigeria – Badenoch writes: “Culture is more than cuisine or clothes. It’s also customs which may be at odds with British values.

“We cannot be naïve and assume immigrants will automatically abandon ancestral ethnic hostilities at the border, or that all cultures are equally valid. They are not.

“I am struck for example, by the number of recent immigrants to the UK who hate Israel. That sentiment has no place here.”

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James Cleverly has, meanwhile, set out plans to give Conservative members a much bigger say in policy formation and candidate selection.

He said: “The truth is that we need to end the Tory psychodrama that has damaged our party for so long.

“We cannot expect our members and volunteers to be out campaigning while the parliamentary party rips itself apart in Westminster.

“Fixing our party will take work, and speed – I am ready for that challenge and I will deliver from day one. We need to hit the ground running.”

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Tom Tugendhat has said the Conservatives lost the general election due to “a lack of vision and a failure of leadership”.

He vowed to restore pride in Britain if he is elected leader and restore the Tories “fighting spirit”.

“We have always stood on the right side of history, and we should never apologise for who we are or for defending our values. Patriotism isn’t a dirty word—it’s the best antidote to decline.”

Leadership candidate Robert Jenrick, said he hasn’t shied away from “hard truths” during his campaign, and that he is “determined to win back the Red Wall”, to win the next election.

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“We do so by listening to the country, accepting our shortcomings, and showing the country we have changed,” he wrote in the Daily Express.

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Lord Hague gave Tory members the final say when he was leader

Meanwhile, former Conservative leader William, now Lord, Hague has told the BBC it “would be better” if the party’s leadership was decided by MPs, rather than the membership.

Hague was elected Tory leader in 1997 by MPs only under the old system but then brought in the current system.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour: “That’s my fault, I introduced these rules.

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“But now we can see the world has changed, political parties are smaller.

“It would be better if the decision was in the hands of Members of Parliament because the party membership has become so small.”

However, he said that MPs “still play a very big role” so “they have to be very careful who they support in case they give the impression to the members that they’re happy with someone they’re not really happy with”.

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Three people have been charged with the murder of a man who was found stabbed to death at a flat in Norwich.

The body of a 19-year-old man from London was found by police on Lefroy Road in the Mile Cross area of Norwich on 21 September. Police believe his body laid undiscovered for eight days.

The victim has been named as Kalvin Taylor, pending formal inquest proceedings.

Paying tribute, Mr Taylor’s mother said the killing had “left our family in a million pieces”.

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In a statement issued via the police, she said:

“Kalvin was a son, a grandson, a brother, a cousin and a friend to us all.

“We will remember and miss Kalvin all the days of our life.

“We love you Kalvin, rest in heavenly peace until we meet again.”

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A post-mortem examination confirmed the man’s death was consistent with a single stab wound to the chest, Norfolk Police said.

Overall, four people were charged in connection with Mr Taylor’s death on Saturday evening, police said.

Leon Bangura, 22, of Old Kent Road, London, is charged with murder and threatening another person with an offensive weapon.

He is also charged with possession of a bladed article, possession with intent to supply, and being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.

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Adam Dugdale, 55, of Shorncliffe Avenue, Norwich, is charged with murder.

Carrie-Anne Hall, 51, of Lodge Breck, Norwich, is charged with murder.

Matthew Holmes, 51, of Bowthorpe Road, Norwich, is charged with assisting an offender.

All four have been remanded in custody and are due to appear at Norwich Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

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A teenager arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder has been released on police bail.

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JOHANNA LEGUERRE/AFP French-Lebanese lawyer Robert Bourgi answers to journalists questions outside Europe 1 radio station on September 12, 2011 in Paris.JOHANNA LEGUERRE/AFP

Robert Bourgi has lifted the lid on decades of work with French and African presidents

It was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville.

He was there to collect funds for the approaching French presidential election on behalf of the centre-right Gaullist candidate Jacques Chirac, who was mayor of Paris at the time.

Who should then be ushered into the same antechamber but Roland Dumas, former French foreign minister and right-hand man of ruling Socialist President François Mitterrand, Chirac’s arch-rival.

“Good day, Bourgi,” said Dumas. “I believe we are here for the same purpose.”

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Claiming seniority, Dumas went into Bongo’s office first. Emerging a short time later, he said to Bourgi: “Don’t worry, there’s still a bit left!”

Recounted in Bourgi’s newly-published memoirs They know that I know it all – My life in Françafrique, the anecdote says everything about the money-grabbing and mutual dependence that for so long linked French and African politics.

For four decades Robert Bourgi was at the centre of it all.

Born in Senegal in 1945 to Lebanese Shiite parents, he rose to become a confidant of a generation of African leaders – from Omar Bongo in Gabon to Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso.

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Robert Bourgi President Mobutu Sese Seko with Robert BourgiRobert Bourgi

Robert Bourgi (R) rubbed shoulders with some of Africa’s biggest leaders, including Mobutu Sese Seko of what was then Zaire

And in Paris, he inherited the mantle of the legendary Jacques Foccart – the Gaullist who oversaw the post-colonial Françafrique system, with its arrangements of influence and protection, markets, materials, muscle… and money.

From the early years after World War Two – during which it had been a centre of activism in favour of France’s post-war leader Charles de Gaulle – Africa and its former French colonies had been a source of financing for all French political parties. By the 1980s, when Bourgi came onto the scene, it was routine.

Bourgi says that he himself never imported the bags of cash.

“The procedure was simple. When there was an election approaching, Chirac made it clear that I should deliver a message in various African capitals,” he said in an interview in Le Figaro newspaper this week.

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“The [African] heads of state then sent an emissary to my office in Paris with a large sum. Several million in francs or dollars.”

In each of the 1995 and 2002 presidential elections – both won by Chirac – he says around $10m (£7.5m) was given by African leaders.

The 2002 race provided Bourgi with another colourful story, when a representative of Burkinabe leader Blaise Compaoré arrived in Paris with a large sum of money concealed in djembe drums.

According to Bourgi, he accompanied the envoy to the Elysée Palace, where they were greeted by Chirac. They opened the sealed drums using a pair of scissors, upon which a rain of banknotes fell out.

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RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP French President Jacques Chirac (L) talks to his counterpart Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso, after a press conference at the end of the ninth Francophone summit in Beirut, 20 October 2002RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP

Burkina Faso officials denied the allegations surrounding Blaise Compaoré (R) and large sums of cash for Jacques Chirac (L)

“Typical Blaise,” Bourgi quotes Chirac as saying. “He’s sent us small denominations.” The money was apparently all in fives and tens.

Handling the cash was not always easy. Remembering a big donation to Chirac from another African leader, Bourgi says: “The money arrived in Puma sports bags. I wanted to put the wads in paper so I went into my daughter’s room and took down one of her posters, and wrapped the money in that.”

Robert Bourgi Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso (R) with Bourgi (C) and Ivorian official Georges Ouégnin (L)Robert Bourgi

Bourgi (C) here with Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso (R) and an Ivorian official

The system was so widespread that it gave rise to a verb cadeauter – from the French cadeau, meaning a present.

When Bourgi’s allegations first surfaced in 2011 they were denied by officials in Burkina Faso and elsewhere, although a former presidential adviser in Ivory Coast conceded they were “historical practice”.

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Jacques Chirac and his then chief of staff Dominique de Villepin also strenuously denied Bourgi’s claims.

A preliminary investigation was opened but later dropped without further action, because the payments were considered too long ago.

For African leaders at the time, says Bourgi, it was normal, and they did it among themselves. Giving large sums of money was a way of establishing trust and support.

But in a changing world it was unsustainable and Bourgi says he grew disillusioned. Nicolas Sarkozy came to power in 2007 vowing not to take a single franc from Africa, and Bourgi says he kept to his word.

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Sarkozy has since been placed under investigation for allegedly taking campaign funds from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi – which he denies. Bourgi, a Sarkozy loyalist, says he does not believe the charges.

The former lawyer, now aged 79, also reflects on his rather different role in another election – that of Emmanuel Macron in 2017. That was when Bourgi helped scupper the chances of the man who was for a time the runaway favourite, the conservative François Fillon.

Once close to Fillon, Bourgi had become estranged: he accused the former prime minister of being rude and stingy. So he released to a journalist the fact that he had made Fillon a gift of two very expensive suits.

Campaigning on a message of probity, Fillon never recovered. Later he was convicted of giving a fake parliamentary job to his British wife.

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But Africa is Bourgi’s love.

He reflects that though the corruption at the heart of Françafrique was wrong, the system at the time brought stability, and a bond – often personal – between French and African leaders.

Today, that is gone.

France has a worsening image in its former colonies, and its influence is on the wane. Witness the recent retreat from its former army bases in Mali and Niger.

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“I note with sadness the disintegration of French relations with the continent,” Bourgi says.

“But it is too easy to put all the blame on Françafrique… Africa has globalised. France has been unable to adapt to this new fact. And it keeps making the same mistake: arrogance.”

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UK weather: Britain braced for MORE heavy rain and gales with up to 3 INCHES of rain to fall & 44 flood warnings

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BRITAIN is braced for yet more heavy rain and strong winds just days after homes and businesses were flooded.

Two fresh weather warnings come into force today for wind and rain which will hit areas already saturated by downpours earlier in the week.

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Commuters attempt to shelter as they cross London Bridge during torrential rainCredit: George Cracknell Wright
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Two fresh weather warnings come into force today for wind and rainCredit: Met Office
Between 20mm and 30mm of rain could be seen within the warning area

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Between 20mm and 30mm of rain could be seen within the warning areaCredit: MET Office

A yellow rain warning has been issued by the Met Office meaning further heavy rain is likely to cause some travel delays and flooding.

It covers much of southern England and South Wales between 4pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday.

Between 20mm and 30mm of rain could be seen within the warning area across nine to 12 hours on Sunday and 50mm to 80mm could fall in some localised places on higher ground, the Met Office said.

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Met Office meteorologist Becky Mitchell said it was “not a huge amount of rain”.

But because of the recent weather “river levels are quite high and grounds are quite saturated” so more flooding could develop.

The Environment Agency had 44 flood warnings and 84 flood alerts in place across England on Saturday evening.

Meanwhile a yellow warning for wind is also predicted to cause disruption across south-west England and Wales between 9am on Sunday until the end of the day.

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Gusts of between 50mph and 60mph could be seen with large waves, trees brought down, travel disruption and some power cuts, Miss Mitchell said.

There could potentially be further rain warnings issued for Monday but it is forecast to be drier later in the week, she added.

The Met Office said temperatures on Sunday will be 3C-4C below average in the low double figures.

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Craig Snell, Met Office meteorologist, advised people travelling on Sunday to plan ahead.

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He said: “Check rail conditions before setting off, check buses are running on time, and allow extra time for your journeys.

“If you’re driving allow extra braking distances.

“For the areas affected under the yellow rain warning, if you are concerned about flooding, for people in England the main advice is to check the Environment Agency website or Floodline, if you live in Wales it will be Natural Resources Wales.”

UK 5 day weather forecast

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Sunday:

Low pressure will bring wet and windy weather to southwestern parts through the day.

Northern and eastern areas staying largely dry with increasing cloud. Temperatures remaining a little below average.

Outlook for Monday to Wednesday:

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Staying unsettled on Monday, with heavy rain and brisk winds and temperature on the cool side.

Slowly brightening up from the west as we head through Tuesday and into Wednesday.

It comes after areas across England suffered heavy rain and localised flooding in recent days with commuters facing widespread disruption on road and rail services.

According to the Met Office, some counties in southern and central England have already had more than 250 per cent of their average September rainfall.

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Parts of the country had more than the monthly average rainfall on Monday and there were further downpours on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

About 650 properties were flooded in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and the home counties, according to the Environment Agency, which estimated around 8,200 properties had been protected.

Rail services between Shrewsbury in Shropshire and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands were cancelled on Friday after severe flooding at Wellington station and a tree on the line earlier.

The pitch at the SEAH Stadium in Wellington, home to Telford United FC, was completely flooded on Thursday evening.

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The Marston Vale line in Bedfordshire, which operates services between Bedford and Bletchley, is suspended until Monday because of standing water on the track.

Regions and local authorities affected:

London & South East England

Brighton and Hove
East Sussex
Hampshire
Isle of Wight
Oxfordshire
Portsmouth
Southampton
Surrey
West Berkshire
West Sussex

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Bath and North East Somerset
Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole
Bristol
Cornwall
Devon
Dorset
Gloucestershire
North Somerset
Plymouth
Somerset
South Gloucestershire
Swindon
Torbay
Wiltshire

Wales

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Bridgend
Caerphilly
Cardiff
Carmarthenshire
Merthyr Tydfil
Monmouthshire
Neath Port Talbot
Newport
Pembrokeshire
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Swansea
Torfaen
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ONE of the most popular autumn activities in the UK is pumpkin picking, with many farms offering tickets throughout October.

Pumpkin patches have become increasingly popular among families in the UK, where you can not only pick them but have photoshoots and even decorate them.

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Pumpkin picking is hugely popular in the UK now, coming from the USCredit: Getty

Here are 11 of the best from all over the UK for you to visit this year.

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Kenyon Hall, Warrington

Tickets for Kenyon Hall are already on sale, with more than 20,000 pumpkins expected to grow on their patch this autumn.

Family photo shoots with professional photographers can be booked on certain days as well, while there’s also a maize maze and fruit picking on site too.

Entry tickets start from £2.95 for adults and children; infants under 18 months go free.

The patch will be open from September 28 until October 31, although there are limited dates left.

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Kenyon Hall lets you book pumpkin photo shoots tooCredit: Kenyon Hall Farm

Balgone Barns, North Berwick, Scotland

Scotland‘s largest pumpkin patch promises to let everyone “experience the countryside and Halloween to its fullest”.

More than 60,000 pumpkins are growing on the site across more than 10 acres. Prices for the pumpkins depend on the weight.

There is also a spooky haunted trail stretching 2km around Balgone Barns’ lake, while visitors can toast marshmallows at the Crooked Cauldron.

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Visitors should book ahead online, with tickets range from £12 to £15, with select dates throughout October.

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Balgone Barns is the largest pumpkin patch in ScotlandCredit: balgoneestate

Avon Valley Adventure & Wildlife Park, Bristol

Avon Valley has the ” South West’s biggest Pumpkin Extravaganza” this year.

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There’s also a small fairground, as well as theatrical performers and fire shows taking place on site.

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Pumpkin Paintball, Seasonal Slingshot and an apple cannon add to the Halloween activities available for families to enjoy.

The patch is open on selected days between September 28 and October 31.

Tickets can be booked online for up to £8.99 per person.

Avon Valley Adventure & Wildlife Park even has a fairground and pumpkin paintball

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Avon Valley Adventure & Wildlife Park even has a fairground and pumpkin paintballCredit: Avon Valley

Tulleys Farm, Crawley, West Sussex

Tulleys Farm declares itself to be the UK’s number one pumpkin festival, with more than a million pumpkins grown across 100 acres of farmland.

Live roaming characters ox wizards and scarecrows can be seen mingling among the pumpkins.

Street food stalls and a pumpkin bar serving cocktails and beers enhance the experience, while live music will be performed at Pumpkin Nights shows.

Tickets are available online for selected dates between September 28 and October 31.

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Day time tickets range from £5-8, while evening tickets range from £8-12.

Tulleys Farm calls itself the "no.1 UK pumpkin festival"

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Tulleys Farm calls itself the “no.1 UK pumpkin festival”Credit: Tulleys farm

Mr Pumpkin, Derby

Located just outside of Derby in Morely, Mr Pumpkin has become a favourite for pumpkin pickers since it first opened in 2017.

They have more than 90,000 pumpkins planted for visitors this year from more than 40 different varieties.

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A pumpkin trail will also be raising money for the air ambulance, with more than £12,000 raised in recent years.

The event is running on most dates between September 29 nd October 31.

Tickets are £2.50 for adults, kids up to the age of 15 go free.

Mr Pumpkin is free for kids up to 15

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Mr Pumpkin is free for kids up to 15Credit: Mr Pumpkin

Spilman’s Farm, Thirsk

This family-run farm in Yorkshire has more than 125,000 pumpkins ready to be picked on the 25 acre patch.

Tickets, which cost £7.50 per person, will grant each guest £5 to spend on either pumpkins or Spilman’s activities.

It also allows visitors to watch the family-friendly show Fright Delight.

Twilight picking evenings are back for another year too, with live music, a bar, street food and cosy fire pits.

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The patch is open on weekends from September 30 until October 31.

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Spilman’s Farm has more than 125,000 pumpkins to choose fromCredit: Spilmans

Manorafon Farm Park, Abergele, Wales

North Wales‘ largest selection of pumpkins is also home to a pumpkin carving tent for visitors to decorate their veg on site.

A mad scientist’s trick or treat show, creepy crawly handling, walkabout characters and the “horrid hallows” all add to the farm’s spooky Halloween atmosphere.

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There’s also street food, a shooting range, a slime lab and special pumpkin festival nights, with a bar for adults and live music.

Tickets are £15.30 for adults and £16.20 for children if you book ahead, with one pumpkin per child’s ticket included.

Pumpkin fest will be running on a select few dates in October.

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Manorafon Farm Park even has pumpkin festival nightsCredit: Manorafon Farm Park

Pumpkin Moon, Kent

Pumpkin Moon has three different locations in Kent – Maidstone, Faversham and Rainham.

There is street food and drinks available, while fancy dress is actively encouraged by those who run the patch.

Everyone needs to book before visiting, with prices from £3.75.

It will run for the weekends of September 5-6 only in Faversham, following by all of the farms from September 12 – October 13, and then October 19 – 31.

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Pumpkin Moon is found at two Kent locationsCredit: PA:Press Association

Whitehouse Farm, Morpeth

From October 21-19 this Northumberland farm will be changing its name to Frighthouse Farm and running a Halloween ‘spooktacular’.

As well as pumpkin picking, there’ll be Magic Merlin’s School, with Halloween themed games and prizes to be won.

There’s also a walkway of terror a spider’s lair, catacombs, a bat chamber and an eerie grave yard.

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A fancy dress contest will see the winner claim a gift voucher to use at the farm, while visitors can get up close and personal with owls and critters.

Tickets are available for £15.45 for adults and children and the event will run from October 12 to October 31.

Morperth's Whitehouse Farm won't just have pumpkins

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Morperth’s Whitehouse Farm won’t just have pumpkinsCredit: Whitehouse farm

Forage Farm, Glamorgan

This South Wales pumpkin patch comes with pigmy goats, pigs, alpacas, tractor rides, pumpkin catapults, an interactive maize maze and face painting among many attractions.

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There’s also a hay bale tower and plenty of other picture perfect backdrops to create lasting memories with.

The patch will be open on select weekends – October 5-6, 12-13, 19-20 and 26-30, as well as October 25 and 31. After dark pumpkin picking experiences are also available.

Daytime tickets cost £9 per car, while evening tickets are £6 per person.

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Forage Farm in Glamorgan has lots of attractions along with pumpkin pickingCredit: Forage farm shop

Arnprior Farm, Glasgow

Scotland‘s “original” pumpkin festival will run for more than three weeks in October this year, with more than 20,000 pumpkins to choose from.

As well as pumpkins, they have a quad pod ride, pumpkin cannon, bale mountain, an indoor hay barn, face painting, bouncy castle, lots of photo opportunities and a polytunnel shop.

There’s also a selection of food and drink each day including Loops and Scoops’ infamous churros, Skinners of Kippen burgers and pumpkin soup, pizzas, hot chocolates, Lous home baking and Gin fizz.

The event runs from October 9-29 and tickets start from £15.70, including a pumpkin voucher.

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What is it like to go pumpkin picking?

Mum Catherine Lofthouse took her boys to a pumpkin picking patch – here’s what you can expect.

With one million pumpkins over 300 acres, Cattows Farm in Leicestershire rebrands itself as Halloween Farm every October and attracts thousands of visitors from across the UK.

The family-friendly fun starts from the moment you arrive – even the entrance tent is decorated to the max, with spooky spiders hanging down and pumpkins columns setting the scene.

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I took my four-year-old during unseasonably warm weather at the start of October and it was lovely to see all the little ones running round the pumpkins in their costumes, which would normally have to be covered by coats at this time of year.

Although my little one took one look at the huge skeletons by the door and the dark inside and decided he’d rather stay out in the sunshine.

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Hundreds of Americans have filed lawsuits in multiple states against pharmaceutical giants Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, claiming that their weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Mounjaro, have caused life-altering injuries. The legal actions come as these medications have generated billions in revenue for the companies.

Three Bad Cases

According to Ziare, Dana Filmore, a 55-year-old grandmother from Ohio, can no longer eat solid foods and has to puree her meals.

She was prescribed Ozempic to manage her type 2 diabetes and experienced severe nausea that led to a diagnosis of gastroparesis, a condition that impairs the stomach’s ability to empty. “Solid foods are very difficult for me. My body just rejects them,” she stated.

Jacqueline Barber from Louisville suffered similarly, battling uncontrollable vomiting that left her dangerously malnourished. After being prescribed Ozempic in 2021, she lost 140 pounds and struggled with severe depression as her condition worsened.

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Bob Tuttle, a Tennessee oil worker, was also affected, suffering excruciating stomach pain that forced him to quit his job. He was diagnosed with gastroparesis after being unable to eat for four days while working offshore.

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