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• Drink (tap) water - not sports drinks, unless you really are a football star

  11-07-2014 01:01 via The Guardian
  
  Sports drinks are fashionable and considered healthy among teenagers, who drink them while watching TV, but they contain useless added sugar. Water is the better optionSports drinks - if they have a justification at all - are for people playing serious sport. According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), they are useful only for "active individuals performing endurance exercise". That is not even a half-hearted kick-about of a ball in a park, let alone the spectator sport of
  
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• Why vinegar is tipped to be the hottest cooking ingredient of 2019

  14-12-2018 10:25 via Mirror - News
  
  You can use it to make a salad dressing, pickle with it, marinade meat or fish, or toss through roasted vegetables or fruits but there is a lot more to vinegar than shaking on your chips
  
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• Desperate mum on Universal Credit 'begged on streets to buy £12 Christmas tree'

  14-12-2018 10:17 via Mirror - News
  
  Annette Hodges begged on the streets of Plymouth, Devon, so she could buy her baby daughter a B&M Christmas tree         
  
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• Theresa May is now too weak to be able to act for Britain: Mirror Politics morning briefing

  14-12-2018 09:59 via Mirror - News
  
  Theresa May looks set to leave Brussels empty handed after a disastrous summit which only underlined her feebleness
  
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• Yaxley dog attack: Baby boy dies after being savaged by Staffordshire bull terriers

  14-12-2018 09:48 via Mirror - News
  
  Reuben McNulty was just a month old when he was attacked by the pet dogs in Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, last month
  
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• Devastated mum whose baby was stillborn 'taunted' by Facebook ads for new parents

  14-12-2018 09:31 via Mirror - News
  
  Anna England Kerr, 30, found herself bursting into tears as she scrolled past adverts for baby toys, post-maternity clothes and weaning products
  
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• Hit-and-run Audi driver ploughs into boy sending him flying 100 FEET through the air

  14-12-2018 09:05 via Mirror - News
  
  WARNING - DISTRESSING VIDEO: Ahmed Yousef suffered "horrendous" life-changing injuries in the hit-and-run collision
  
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• Migrant girl, 7, dies of dehydration and shock after being detained at US border

  14-12-2018 08:40 via Mirror - News
  
  The girl and her father, from Guatemala, were detained by immigration officials after approaching US agents in New Mexico
  
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• Mum sacked and called a liar after telling bosses she was raped by colleague

  14-12-2018 08:29 via Mirror - News
  
  Jan Cruickshank says her bosses at the Construction Industry Training Board believed her colleague's side of the story, but she has finally been vindicated
  
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• UK weather forecast: BLIZZARDS and snow to cause chaos - will it fall in your area?

  14-12-2018 07:52 via Mirror - News
  
  The Met Office has issued yellow 'danger to life' warnings for snow and ice, saying up to 8ins of snow could fall this weekend as the wintry conditions threaten to make roads impassable
  
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• 1lb baby born so premature she'd have been classed as miscarriage if she'd died

  14-12-2018 07:35 via Mirror - News
  
  Ayah Malik, now 21-months, was given just 5% chance of survival when she was born at 23 weeks and one day into mum Christie's pregnancy
  
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• Florida executes death row prisoner convicted of killing woman during burglary

  14-12-2018 07:26 via Mirror - News
  
  Jose Jimenez, 55, was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke at 9.48pm local time
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May call time on studio car shows

  14-12-2018 07:11 via Mirror - News
  
  The former Top Gear trio will instead focus their time on developing on-the-road specials for their Amazon Prime show The Grand Tour
  
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• Meghan Markle will have to ‘curtsy to Kate Middleton’ when she’s Queen

  14-12-2018 06:01 via Mirror - News
  
  The revelation came in an ITV documentary, where royal biographer Andrew Morton speaks candidly about Meghan's current role as the Duchess of Sussex
  
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• Bank robber politely queued for 15 minutes before threatening staff with 'acid'

  14-12-2018 04:32 via Mirror - News
  
  Simon Jones, 38, waited in line at the NatWest in Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, wearing blue latex gloves, a hooded top pulled up, a face mask and dark glasses
  
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• Ellen reunites Brit with NYC cops who found engagement ring after proposal blunder

  14-12-2018 03:56 via Mirror - News
  
  John Drennan popped the question to girlfriend Daniella Anthony but the proposal turned to disaster when the ring slipped from her finger and down a subway grate
  
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• Young mum tragically dies suddenly 'from migraine which stopped heart beating'

  14-12-2018 03:15 via Mirror - News
  
  Laura Burns, 32, awoke in the early hours of Sunday morning complaining of a "crippling" migraine, before passing out and going into cardiac arrest
  
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• Theresa May delivered crushing blow by EU leaders in bid to win over Tory rebels

  14-12-2018 02:25 via Mirror - News
  
  The PM had begged them to give ground on the Irish backstop but European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker rejected her plea
  
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• Unsolved murders: 10 chilling killings that will keep you up at night

  14-12-2018 01:49 via Mirror - News
  
  The fact there are still no answers is a source of terror for some, and fascination for others
  
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• Theresa May issues desperate final plea to EU leaders to buy off Brexit rebels

  14-12-2018 01:36 via Mirror - News
  
  After surviving a vote of no confidence, the PM begged her counterparts to give ground on the hated Irish backstop as she faces a major battle to get the deal through Parliament.
  
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• World Pie Eating Championship bans meat and potato flavour over flatulence fears

  14-12-2018 01:28 via Mirror - News
  
  But World Pie Eating Championship purists have complained swapping to chicken pies will make the competition too easy
  
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• 100 years since women first voted, who were the suffragettes and what did they do?

  14-12-2018 01:05 via Mirror - News
  
  14 December 2018 marks 100 years since the first time that women legally voted in a general election
  
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• Women's votes: UK marks 100 years since females headed to polls for first time

  14-12-2018 01:04 via Mirror - News
  
  The Representation of the People Act passed in 1918 gave the vote to women over 30 who owned a house in a massive break through for the suffrage movement
  
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• "Sexist" ads showing women doing all housework to be booted off TV-screens

  14-12-2018 01:01 via Mirror - News
  
  Themes such as women being bad at parking and men being useless in the home are expected to be banned
  
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• Crime fiction fans reveal the one book they're all planning to give as a gift this Christmas

  14-12-2018 01:00 via Mirror - News
  
  Martina Cole followers explain which of her blockbusters they would give away and why
  
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• Brit pensioner held over '£2m cocaine smuggling plot' rushed to hospital from jail

  14-12-2018 00:54 via Mirror - News
  
  Cruise line passenger Sue Clarke - who is accused of cocaine smuggling in Lisbon, Portugal, with her husband Roger - was taken to hospital after a medical emergency
  
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• UK weather: Britain braced for -3 degrees as freezing rain and gales hit this weekend

  14-12-2018 00:51 via Mirror - News
  
  Met Office weeather forecasters are predicting snow could reach as far south as the Midlands while other areas face heavy rain
  
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• Free TV licences could 'stripped from 3 million pensioners as Tories break pledge'

  14-12-2018 00:46 via Mirror - News
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The Government promised to protect the benefit but the BBC could axe the perk
  
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• Britain's King of Pantomime prepares for his 56th year on stage

  14-12-2018 00:38 via Mirror - News
  
  Martin Crowther has been treading the boards since he was four - and there's barely a role he hasn't tried
  
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• Here are 12 alternative Christmas traditions that will mix up your festive week

  14-12-2018 00:36 via Mirror - News
  
  From sausage dog walking to making the ultimate gingerbread house - there are ideas to entertain everyone
  
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