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TONIGHT is Hallowe’en, when witches are said to take to the air on their broomsticks to wreak mischief before All Saints’ Day on November 1. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed

TODAY marks the 15th anniversary of Freeview which delivers most of the nation’s favourite television channels at no cost. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed

THERE are two curious reasons to write about bats today, but the coincidence is too great to ignore. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed

Today is World Food Day, commemorating the founding of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization on October 16, 1945. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed

THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY, based on JRR Tolkien’s books, are considered some of the best films ever made. Here are nine incredible facts you didn’t know about them. Daily Express :: Films Feed

TODAY is Unesco’s World Teachers’ Day which has been celebrated on October 5 every year since 1994. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed

TODAY is World Animal Day, celebrated annually on October 4, the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed

THE month of October has now settled in comfortably, so let’s have a few facts. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed

TODAY is World Rabies Day, celebrated every year by the World Health Organisation on the anniversary of the death in 1895 of Louis Pasteur, who developed the first successful rabies vaccine. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed

SINCE 1980, the United Nations has celebrated World Tourism Day on September 27. The day was chosen as falling around the end of the holiday season in the northern hemisphere and its start in the southern. Daily Express :: Life and Style Feed