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• Mum expecting order of baby clothes receives parcel from kind stranger instead

  20-11-2019 15:50 via Mirror - News
  
  Caoimhe's online order of baby clothes never turned up - but another parcel did
  
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• Parents furious over school's 'strict and ridiculous' new lunch rules

  20-11-2019 15:42 via Mirror - News
  
  Welton Primary School in Hull says it was forced to introduce the new rules due to the old system causing a financial loss - but parents aren't happy
  
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• NHS hospital declares 'black alert' as patients queue for hours in A&E corridors

  20-11-2019 15:27 via Mirror - News
  
  New admissions at the Royal Cornwall Hospital's emergency department were filmed queuing to be seen in what the trust said was a spike in emergencies over the weekend
  
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• Greg James says Kate Middleton and Prince William told him off

  20-11-2019 15:26 via News | Mail Online
  
  Radio 1 DJ Greg James, 33, has told how he was given a talking to by Kate Middleton and Prince William, both 37, after mocking Princess Charlotte on her first day of school.
  
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• General Election: Worker skewers Boris Johnson with 'people like you' question

  20-11-2019 15:15 via Mirror - News
  
  The Tory leader was hit with an awkward question at a Teesside factory after locals shouting 'liar' protested outside
  
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• Boris Johnson spoils election manifesto launch by blurting out major policy

  20-11-2019 15:15 via Mirror - News
  
  Tory leader Boris Johnson was caught on the hoof by a factory worker who skewered him with a question on tax cuts for people like him
  
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• Boris Johnson branded 'inhumane' over £625 NHS fee for immigrant medical staff

  20-11-2019 15:11 via Mirror - News
  
  The Tories announced they plan to increase the NHS surcharge from £400 to £625 per year and extend it to all medical staff from outside and inside the European Union.
  
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• Lady Victoria Hervey felt 'watched' at Jeffrey Epstein's home

  20-11-2019 15:06 via News | Mail Online
  
  The aristocrat, who once dated Prince Andrew (shown), claimed she was offered a place to stay by the convicted paedophile but 'cut the trip short as I felt I was being watched'.
  
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• Heartless stranger scrawls 'let the baby die' on desperate dad's fundraising posters

  20-11-2019 15:04 via Mirror - News
  
  Dad 'KH' from Ohio, was shocked to find multiple signs calling for his son Randy James 'to die' in line with Darwinism, which relies on theory of natural selection
  
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• Student who said Muslims should be 'wiped off face of earth' facing jail

  20-11-2019 15:03 via Mirror - News
  
  York St John University student Louis Duxbury, 22, claimed he was only talking about extremists and terrorists - but it was not his first inflammatory anti-Islam remark
  
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• Joseph McCann trial: Mum 'tied up as kids were sexually abused' thought they'd die

  20-11-2019 14:46 via Mirror - News
  
  The mum told how she had met Joseph McCann, 34, in a bar in Greater Manchester, before describing how she feared her whole family were going to die just hours later, the Old Bailey heard
  
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• First-time mum gives birth to one of UK's biggest babies - without pain relief

  20-11-2019 14:43 via Mirror - News
  
  Baby Lily-Grace was born at Hull Women and Children's Hospital and weighed in at a whopping 10lbs and 10oz - in a 'big' surprise for mum Jessica Drake, 23, who gave birth to her without any painkillers
  
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• Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe locked in battle with neighbours

  20-11-2019 14:43 via News | Mail Online
  
  Fracking and chemicals billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who is worth some £18.2billion, has submitted plans for the property in the garden of his home in Beaulieu in the New Forest, Hampshire.
  
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• Boost for Jeremy Corbyn as NHS overtakes Brexit as most important election issue

  20-11-2019 14:41 via Mirror - News
  
  A new poll by Ipsos MORI has the NHS overtaking Brexit as the most important issue for adults in the UK ahead of next month's general election. Labour's favourability among voters has also improved.
  
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• Could Prince Andrew do ANOTHER TV interview? Duke of York 'wants second chance'

  20-11-2019 14:32 via News | Mail Online
  
  The Duke of York wanted the Newsnight special to 'draw a line' under his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but instead it has engulfed the royal family in a major crisis.
  
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• Oxford Union president quits after blind student 'dragged by ankles from debate'

  20-11-2019 14:29 via Mirror - News
  
  Union president Brendan McGrath apologised for the 'stress and reputational damage' caused to postgrad student Ebenezer Azamati and agreed to resign - after video footage of the incident emerged online
  
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• WWI diary of captain from Bantam unit for short soldiers is revealed

  20-11-2019 14:27 via News | Mail Online
  
  Captain Angus McKenzie Forsyth, from Nottingham, had been below the British Army's minimum height requirement. But he was able to enlist in 1914 after the creation of special Bantam units.
  
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• Suspected illegal immigrants trapped inside a lorry thrown oranges out of a hole in its side

  20-11-2019 14:25 via News | Mail Online
  
  Stunned motorists spotted the fruit being flung from a small hole in the trailer as the lorry became stuck in a traffic jam on the A14 near Huntingdon, in Cambridgeshire.
  
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• Couple jailed for dissolving body of dead daughter, 2, in bucket of acid

  20-11-2019 14:23 via Mirror - News
  
  Monica Dominguez, from Texas, claimed Rebecka drowned in a bath while left unsupervised, but due to the state of her remains the cause of her death will remain a mystery
  
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• Brazen masked thugs try to break into home of Britain's Got Talent's Stavros Flatley

  20-11-2019 14:23 via News | Mail Online
  
  CCTV images show two people using screwdrivers to try and break into the Enfield, north London, house of dancing duo Stavros Flatley. The home is occupied by tenants, who chased the men away
  
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• 'If Prince Andrew wasn't a Royal he'd have been fired by now'

  20-11-2019 14:21 via Mirror - News
  
  His Royal Dryness probably wishes he could resign and "leave the process". But he is paying the same price as us for having a constitutional monarchy
  
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• British man 'beaten to death by jealous husband of his lover' in Greek hotel

  20-11-2019 14:16 via Mirror - News
  
  The British 40-year-old was found with severe head injuries by staff at the hotel on the island of Ithaca, Greece, and he was pronounced dead at the scene
  
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• UK weather: Britain faces weekend washout with more than 70 flood warnings still in place

  20-11-2019 14:15 via News | Mail Online
  
  Britain has endured severe conditions in recent days with a week's worth of rain falling over the South West in six hours this morning, after the coldest night of autumn so far yesterday bringing -10C (14F) lows.
  
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• 'Disgusting' train passenger brushes his teeth and spits it out on platform

  20-11-2019 14:15 via Mirror - News
  
  The man was pictured finishing his morning routine on the 'packed' commute before 'repeatedly' spitting on the platform
  
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• BBC News presenter George Alagiah reveals he didn't want to know his chances of surviving cancer 

  20-11-2019 14:08 via News | Mail Online
  
  BBC News presenter George Alagiah told the Bowel Cancer UK podcast that he chose to remain ignorant of his chances of survival. Alagiah, who lives in north London said he is happy despite his illness.
  
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• DUP candidate says party will still have 'leverage' over Tories after election

  20-11-2019 14:05 via Mirror - News
  
  Lagan Valley candidate Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is not convinced that Boris Johnson's Tory Party will have a huge majority after the general election next month
  
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• Lib Dem manifesto policies 2019 in full: Summary of general election pledges

  20-11-2019 14:00 via Mirror - News
  
  The Liberal Democrats and leader Jo Swinson have today unveiled their 2019 general election manifesto with pledges on tax, the NHS and of course Brexit. Here's everything you need to know
  
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• Lib Dem election manifesto reveals plan to hike taxes on frequent flyers

  20-11-2019 14:00 via Mirror - News
  
  Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson published her offering to voters ahead of the December 12 poll - and also revealed she'd scrap the continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent despite being willing to press the nuclear button
  
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• Woman 'beat cabin crew while trying to open plane door and caused RAF sonic boom'

  20-11-2019 13:54 via Mirror - News
  
  Chloe Haines, 26, from Buckinghamshire, has been accused of trying to open a plane door mid-flight and assaulting a member of cabin crew on her way to Turkey
  
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• Greg James reveals Kate Middleton and Prince William told him off

  20-11-2019 13:51 via News | Mail Online
  
  Radio 1 DJ Greg James, 33, has told how he was given a talking to by Kate Middleton and Prince William, both 37, after mocking Princess Charlotte on her first day of school.
  
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• Plasterer, 23, dies of meningitis after returning from a dream holiday in Benidorm

  20-11-2019 13:48 via News | Mail Online
  
  Luke Brown's family said the keen Tranmere Rovers fan had been fit and healthy all his life. But in September he was rushed to hospital in Wirral after his parents discovered him having seizures.
  
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• Tory who said Brit Jews return from Israel as ‘brainwashed extremists’ suspended

  20-11-2019 13:24 via Mirror - News
  
  Amjad Bashir, who had been the MP candidate for Leeds North East, made the anti-semitic remarks in a European parliament debate on Gaza while he was a UKIP MEP
  
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• Horror as two men 'boiled alive' after car plunges into red-hot sinkhole

  20-11-2019 13:11 via Mirror - News
  
  The steaming sinkhole opened up beneath a car carrying Vladimir Valyalkin, 49, and Igor Chikasov, 53 in the Russian city of Penza and boiled the men to death
  
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• Inquest to look at death of mother who died after waiting in ambulance

  20-11-2019 13:09 via News | Mail Online
  
  HR director Samantha Brousas died aged 49 in February last year after waiting for hours outside Wrexham Maelor Hospital in north Wales.
  
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• Woman 'owes dog life' for sniffing out cancer while resting head on her stomach 

  20-11-2019 13:07 via Mirror - News
  
  Stephanie Herfel, from, Wisconsin, America, began noticing changes in her dog Sierra's behaviour when she started pushing her nose into her stomach - and now says she owes Sierra her life
  
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• Man with uncontrollable head twitch finally cured after 14 years of misery

  20-11-2019 12:58 via Mirror - News
  
  The rare genetic disorder left Saad Harbi Haid Al-Karawi bending his neck backwards all the time and was unable to walk for three years until he found a cure at an Indian hospital
  
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• Couple accused of 'promoting rape' with Handmaid's Tale-themed pregnancy announcement

  20-11-2019 12:57 via Mirror - News
  
  Leah Hampton and her husband Marquis, of Orlando, shared the baby news by posting a series of photos but were shocked by the accusations of a "rape baby"
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn accused of 'bizzare' mis-pronounciation of Jeffrey Epstein's surname by Jewish groups

  20-11-2019 12:54 via News | Mail Online
  
  The Labour leader was accused of trying to make the American child abuser - who killed himself in prison earlier this year - sound 'more Jewish' in the ITV leaders' debate.
  
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• Questions are raised over 'gaps' in Prince Andrew's New York charity trip

  20-11-2019 12:53 via News | Mail Online
  
  The Duke of York denied the alleged liaison with Jeffrey Epstein's 'slave' was possible because of his full diary while in the city as patron ofthe Outward Bound Trust in April 2001.
  
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• Millennials are 'seeing their health decline faster than Generation X'

  20-11-2019 12:53 via News | Mail Online
  
  A report by Moody's Analytics warns that millennials in the United States could see their mortality rates climb by 40 per cent compared to their predecessors in Generation X.
  
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• Serial shoplifter, 33, is banned from every shop in England except a Tesco Metro in Swindon

  20-11-2019 12:52 via News | Mail Online
  
  Anna Burns, 33, can only enter the Tesco Metro in Swindon town centre. She appeared in court yesterday where she was set to be sentenced for thefts from stores includingMothercare and Boots.
  
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• Furious mother of ice addict burglar who died when he broke into Ben Batterham's home

  20-11-2019 12:52 via News | Mail Online
  
  Ben Batterham was found not guilty on Wednesday of the murder and manslaughter of Ricky Slater, 34, who died in hospital a day after the struggle in March 2016.
  
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• Horrifying moment kidnapper snatches girl, 8, in street as mum screams for help

  20-11-2019 12:51 via Mirror - News
  
  Michael Webb said he scanned the area for witnesses before abducting the girl but a neighbour came running after hearing the mother's cry in Fort Worth, Texas
  
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• Mother transforms conservatory into soft play room for her four children for just £500

  20-11-2019 12:50 via News | Mail Online
  
  Sarah Balsdon, 29 and her husband Kyle from Northumberland, completed the renovations in secret, revealing the finished room to their youngest child, Elijah (pictured together).
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon attacks Jo Swinson over nuclear weapons stance

  20-11-2019 12:49 via News | Mail Online
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has condemned Jo Swinson after the Liberal Democrat leader said without hesitation that she would authorise the use of nuclear weapons.
  
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• Labour leaflet poster boy 'was disciplined for sharing anti-Semitic slurs'

  20-11-2019 12:47 via News | Mail Online
  
  A Labour-backing general election leaflet features a party activist who was disciplined for sharing anti-Semitic material online, it has emerged.
  
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• How former PM John Howard was the victim of 'ball tampering' before his infamous bowling in Pakistan

  20-11-2019 12:47 via News | Mail Online
  
  The former prime minister memorably threw the ball directly at his own feet in front of local children and the Australian military during a visit to earthquake-ravaged Pakistan in 2005.
  
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• Doctor son of former president stabbed to death while giving hospital lecture

  20-11-2019 12:47 via Mirror - News
  
  Doctor Fritz von Weizsäcker, son of former German president Richard von Weizsäcker, was giving a lecture on liver diseases at the Schlosspark hospital in Berlin Hospital when he was attacked
  
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• Former White House physician dismisses Trump's 'routine health check' claims as 'balderdash'

  20-11-2019 12:44 via News | Mail Online
  
  Donald Trump's visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on Saturday sparked speculation that he had health concerns.
  
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• Flock of geese take one of final walks with last stroll set for next week amid Christmas demand

  20-11-2019 12:44 via News | Mail Online
  
  The flock of 500 geese walk through Croxton Kerrial in Nottinghamshire every day as they waddle between their barn and a field. Next week will be the six-month-old birds last walk through the village.
  
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