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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day. 

1. #HOT HOT HOT Met Éireann has issued a high temperature warning for all of Leinster and Co Tipperary. 

2. #M50 CRASH The mother of a man who was injured after a collision involving a car driving the wrong way on the M50 has said there “has to be consequences for what’s happened”.

3. #PLANE DIVERTED A plane had to divert to Dublin Airport after reports of smoke in the cabin from a portable power bank.

4. #EARTHQUAKE Colombian volunteers and rescuers cleared rubble with their bare hands to search for survivors after the country’s strongest earthquake in a decade killed at least 169 people and smashed dozens of buildings.

5. #BUS FIRE Passengers had to be evacuated from a Dublin Bus that caught fire in the Donnybrook area this morning.

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