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In Focus

All the latest from Metro’s In Focus series, which explores the stories behind the headlines – diving deep into the issues that intrigue and matter, from the cost of living crisis to health and social issues, as well as offering unique insights into every day life and much more.

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Loud music and endless abuse - what it's like to live next to a neighbour from hell

Channel: Property Property September 14, 2024 By Sarah Ingram

The Great Train Robbery: 'My commute cost me £265.20 a day'

Channel: UK UK December 20, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson

I live in the UK but had to travel hundreds of miles to get an abortion

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle August 31, 2024 By Oliver Murphy

'I don't want to die, but I don’t want to endure endless amounts of pain'

Channel: UK UK August 24, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson
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I'm young, fit and healthy - but I live with a hidden condition

Channel: Health Health March 23, 2025 By Oliver Murphy

The cost of living crisis really screwed us, we're better off living apart than together

Channel: UK UK August 11, 2024 By Hannah Shewan Stevens
IN FOCUS The sextortion gangs killing teenagers METRO.CO.UK / GETTY

The teen boys who ended their lives after being scammed by sextortion gangs

Channel: UK UK August 3, 2024 By Oliver Murphy
In Focus - AI brought my friend back from the dead, but he told me he was in hell

AI brought my friend back from the dead - he told me he was in hell

Channel: Tech Tech July 27, 2024 By Sarah Ingram
(In Focus) Children and toddlers exploited in horrific Philippines online sex ring

The children being sexually abused on sick live stream videos for the world to watch

Channel: News News July 22, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson

Women are still being killed by men – here's what needs to change

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle July 16, 2024 By Emma Clarke

Online pranks are killing children - but is there any way to stop them?

Channel: Families Families July 1, 2024 By Sarah Ingram

Online covens and internet rituals: How witchcraft went digital

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle June 14, 2025 By Sarah Ingram

Drowning, dehydration and heart attacks. Are we taking ultra fitness too far?

Channel: Health Health June 22, 2024 By Sarah Ingram
A man in handcuffs next to a prison fence

Behind bars for 99 years - the petty criminals locked up with no sign of release

Channel: News News June 16, 2024 By Sarah Ingram

The children as young as 10 being groomed into county lines drug gangs

Channel: News News June 12, 2024 By Oliver Murphy

Welcome to the Gay Games - a sporting event like no other

Channel: Sport Sport June 13, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson

This is what paramedics want you to know about ‘horror’ ambulance wait times

Channel: UK UK May 18, 2024 By Oliver Murphy
In Focus: The AI revolution in education - cheating or winning? Credit Getty / metro.co.uk

I use ChatGPT to do my homework – teachers are too lazy to check

Channel: Tech Tech September 10, 2024 By Nicholas Fearn
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I was angry, aggressive and in chronic pain - until a party drug changed everything

Channel: Health Health May 4, 2024 By Sarah Ingram
FEATURE WITH LOGO - IN FOCUS: As Killing Kittens reports a 400% increase in membership, meet the millennials behind the sex party boom

Down with monogamy, up with orgies! Why the sex party industry is thriving

Channel: Sex Sex April 28, 2024 By Kimberley Bond