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08/05/2016

Emma Barnett presents 5 live's rundown of the top 40 news, politics, sport and showbiz stories of the week that are making the biggest impact across social media and online.

Emma Barnett presents 5 live's rundown of the top 40 news, politics, sport and showbiz stories of the week that are making the biggest impact across social media and online. Running through the chart with Emma: Eleanor Mills of the Sunday Times and magazine journalist, Mark Frith.

40 Drake's new album continues to delight fans

39 Top Gear revs up for its big re launch with a new trailer

38 Living the 'highlife' at the VGMA's - Ghana's top music awards

37 Leicester snooker star Mark Selby wins his second World Championship

36 Celebrity photographer Matt Irwin dies at the age of 36

35 The EU Referendum is only 46 days away

34 RAF jets cause a sonic boom over Leeds

33 Campaigners force the Government's hand on Britain taking in child refugees

32 Meow-sic...tunes composed especially for cats

31 The Slo Mo guys have fun with giant balloons

30 Captain America: Civil War creates a buzz as it hits US cinemas

29 A police dance-off - Scottish constables strut their stuff in the Running Man Challenge

28 16 year olds complain that their iGCSE exam was too hard

27 Peaky Blinders is back and as tense as ever

26 The reputation of Britain's Universities is slipping

25 It's the injunction involving the Celebrity Big Brother winner and former escort Helen Wood

24 Tottenham's title dreams hit the canvas in the battle at the Bridge

23 Shakespeare 400 celebrations continue

22 Chelsea do their old manager Ranieri the ultimate favour

21 Harry Styles donates his locks to the Little Princess Trust

20 Manchester United are still in the Champions League hunt

19 The latest Call of Duty game - Infinite warfare - is shot down by gamers

18 Liverpool are through to the final of the Europa League

17 A powerful photo of a lone black woman standing up to neo-Nazis in Sweden goes viral

16 May Day is marked by protests across the world

15 World War One game Battlefield1 impresses critics and fans

14 George Clooney and Julia Roberts hitch a lift aboard Gwen Steffani's carpool Karaoke

13 A Russian Grand Prix disaster for Red Bull opens the car-door for Max Verstappen

12 The Hillsborough inquests lead to calls for an inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave

11 The Conservative Party gets into trouble over their election expenses

10 A 100-year-old woman from Warwickshire becomes Vogue's oldest model.

9 Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt gets a telling off for fiddling with his phone in the Commons

8 80-thousand people are evacuated from a Canadian city that's threatened by a huge wildfire

7 The battle for Syria's second largest city, Aleppo, is halted by a ceasefire

6 Is it a joke too far at the White House Correspondents dinner?

5 The stars go frock-tastic at the Met Gala in New York

4 Game of Thrones finally delivered that Jon Snow moment we were all waiting for

3 And then there was one - Donald Trump sees off his Republican rivals

2 The Premier League gets its fairytale ending - Leicester City are champions

1 The Uk's 'super Thursday'.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 May 2016 19:30

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  • Sun 8 May 2016 19:30