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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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• Ohio sheriff's deputy speaks out after an IRS office security guard pulled a gun on him 

  17-07-2019 01:14 via News | Mail Online
  
  Ohio sheriff's deputy, Alan Gaston, who had a gun pulled on him by IRS security guard, Seth Eklund, has spoken out about the terrifying moment he braced for a bullet in the back.
  
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• Multi-millionaire businessman Dick Smith demands the ATO take back franking credits 

  17-07-2019 01:13 via News | Mail Online
  
  The electronics chain founder and Sydney businessman received $500,000 in franking credits from the government in a year - a sum he thinks is outrageous.
  
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• Buzz Aldrin fails to show up for 50th anniversary of moon landing celebrations

  17-07-2019 00:11 via Mirror - News
  
  The astronaut is the only person alive to have stepped foot on the moon but he failed to attend celebrations
  
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• Youngsters left needing hospital treatment after unknowingly using 'Spice' vape

  17-07-2019 00:05 via Mirror - News
  
  Chief medics have issued a public alert to avoid buying or using a fake natural cannabis-based "THC vape"
  
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• Parents told to collect kids 'immediately' after nursery is suddenly shut down

  16-07-2019 23:42 via Mirror - News
  
  One mum said she had to rush from work to collect her son from Busy Little Bees Nursery in Sheldon, Birmingham, where "staff were really upset and did not have a clue what was going on"
  
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• 101-year-old's moving letter as she begs government not to take away free TV licence

  16-07-2019 23:40 via Mirror - News
  
  EXCLUSIVE: As 11,688 people aged over 100 face losing their TV licences, Elsie Hancock has asked Tory PM hopefuls 'what are you going to take off us next?'
  
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• More than ONE in SIX shops are standing empty in town centres

  16-07-2019 23:37 via Mirror - News
  
  According to new research by business advisory group Duff & Phelps, more than 50,000 shops are empty
  
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• Under 16s 'will be BANNED from buying energy drinks in new crackdown'

  16-07-2019 23:27 via Mirror - News
  
  Health Secretary Matt Hancock has decided to impose an age limit on the products high in sugar and caffeine, according to reports
  
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• Autistic schoolboy, 13, hospitalised after 'being stamped on by fellow pupils'

  16-07-2019 22:48 via Mirror - News
  
  Dominic Mizon, 13, was "left a mess" after the alleged brutal assault at The de Ferrers Academy in Burton, Staffordshire
  
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• Partial lunar eclipse visible from UK as Earth passes between sun and moon

  16-07-2019 22:47 via Mirror - News
  
  The spectacular sight has wowed people around the world after it peaked at 10.30pm
  
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• 'Firecracker' mum-of-two killed herself while worrying about rent

  16-07-2019 22:47 via Mirror - News
  
  Emma Feeney, 38, from Hull, was "stressed" and struggling financially as well as being a "bit down" before she took her own life, her sister told an inquest
  
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• Schoolboy, 9, dies just two days after being diagnosed with rare cancer

  16-07-2019 22:41 via Mirror - News
  
  Football-mad Josh Harber, from Dover, Kent, had an unusual and aggressive form of cancer called acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)
  
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• Thousands of victims will be DENIED compensation for whiplash because of law change

  16-07-2019 22:33 via Mirror - News
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The Government estimates that 133,000 people will miss out on a payout for injuries that aren't their fault
  
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• Woman spends two days tracking carjackers and steals her car back

  16-07-2019 22:19 via News | Mail Online
  
  Danielle Reno, hunted down the thieves based off purchases from her debit card as well as GPS from her cellphone, both of which were inside her Toyota 4Runner when it was stolen.
  
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• R Kelly is DENIED bond, enters not guilty plea to child porn charges as three rape tapes confirmed

  16-07-2019 22:19 via News | Mail Online
  
  R Kelly will not be released from prison ahead of his federal court trials a judge ruled on Tuesday as he entered a not guilty plea to charges in Illinois related to the filming of rape tapes.
  
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• Kellyanne demands to know ethnicity of reporter who asks what natoins the squad should 'go back' to

  16-07-2019 22:18 via News | Mail Online
  
  'If the president was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin,' asked a Jewish reporter, 'to which countries was he referring?'
  
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• Billionaire Peter Thiel says 'woke' Google employees 'probably prefer Communist China to the US'

  16-07-2019 22:16 via News | Mail Online
  
  PayPal co-found Peter Thiel, 51, suggested that 'super left wing' Google employees are anti-American and prefer China to the US, while appearing on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox on Monday.
  
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• Southern Charm's Thomas Ravenel claims his ex Kathryn Dennis is a sex addict with a drug problem

  16-07-2019 22:15 via News | Mail Online
  
  Thomas Ravenel, 56, claims his ex Kathryn Dennis, 27, is addicted to prescription medication, marijuana, alcohol, shopping and sex, in explosive court documents obtained by DailyMail.com.
  
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• Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott 'under police investigation for shoving a security guard in May'

  16-07-2019 22:15 via News | Mail Online
  
  Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is now being investigated by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department after being recorded shoving a security guard at a music festival on May 19.
  
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• Business owner whose job offer was rejected by a panhandler joins him on road with his OWN sign 

  16-07-2019 22:14 via News | Mail Online
  
  Ryan Bray was travelling back to his home in Bradenton on Sunday when he encountered a panhandler, one of five or six encounters he has each week, on the corner of Manatee Avenue West.
  
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• Brexit-hating Ursula 'the soloist' is approved as Juncker's successor

  16-07-2019 22:10 via News | Mail Online
  
  The German minister won the vote by 383 to 327 in Strasbourg, needing the support of 374 MEPs for an absolute majority.
  
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• Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss accused of attacking his wife

  16-07-2019 22:10 via News | Mail Online
  
  Laura Fleiss, who is a former Miss America winner, filed an emergency domestic violence restraining order against her 55-year-old husband Mike Fleiss on Tuesday.
  
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• 'They can go wherever they want': Trump keeps hammering 'the squad'

  16-07-2019 22:03 via News | Mail Online
  
  Donald Trump kept hammering the 'squad,' saying the liberal lawmakers can stay or leave the U.S. but 'they should love our country.'
  
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• Fitness-mad mother, 33, breaks her wrist during daughter's school sports day

  16-07-2019 22:00 via News | Mail Online
  
  Alicia Denis, pictured, from Cardiff faces several months in recovery after breaking her wrist while taking part her daughter, Mya's school sports day in an unfortunate accident.
  
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• Amber Rudd makes strongest call yet to cut DWP's 5 week Universal Credit wait

  16-07-2019 22:00 via Mirror - News
  
  She also repeated her call for the Tories’ cruel four-year benefit freeze to stop as planned next April - and said she wants to see more money plunged into Universal Credit
  
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• Voice of the Mirror: After a life of hardship centenarians deserve free licences

  16-07-2019 21:56 via Mirror - News
  
  Don't deny our OAPs - it is the tip of a scandalous iceberg
  
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• Parents argue school's reward system 'shames kids who don't always get it right'

  16-07-2019 21:55 via Mirror - News
  
  Meltham CE Primary School in Holmfirth, west Yorkshire, rewarded half its pupils with an ice-cream in the sun while the rest stayed in their lessons
  
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• Mother whose pregnant daughter had her baby hacked out of her speaks out about the nightmare ordeal

  16-07-2019 21:53 via News | Mail Online
  
  Pregnant Savanna Greywind, 22, died after Brooke Crews cut her unborn baby out of her womb at her apartment in Fargo, North Dakota in August of 2017. Her daughter Haisley survived.
  
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• 'Whatever': How Trump campaign responded to primary challenge threat from South Carolina governor

  16-07-2019 21:51 via News | Mail Online
  
  Donald Trump is unbothered that Mark Sanford, a former South Carolina representative, is considering launching a primary challenge against him in 2020.
  
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