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• UK weather: Cold snap to continue until Monday as Storm Rachel wreaks havoc

  15-01-2015 23:53
  
  One man died and at least three people were injured on Thursday, as gales and heavy rain battered parts of the UK– wreaking havoc for travellers and cutting the power supply to thousands of homes.
  
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• UK weather: Cold snap to continue until Monday, after Storm Rachel wreaks havoc across the country

  15-01-2015 23:53
  
  One man died and at least three people were injured on Thursday, as gales and heavy rain battered parts of the UK– wreaking havoc for travellers and cutting the power supply to thousands of homes.
  
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• UK weather: Cold snap to continue until Monday, after extreme weather wrought havoc across the country

  15-01-2015 23:53
  
  One man died and at least three people were injured on Thursday, as gales and heavy rain battered parts of the UK– wreaking havoc for travellers and cutting the power supply to thousands of homes.
  
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• Paris shootings: Terrorist Amedy Coulibaly spent New Year in Madrid with wife before killing spree

  15-01-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene were in Spain’s capital from December 30 to January 2 before she travelled to Turkey then Syria
  
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• Alancier the Newfoundland has had to go to the vet 100 times 

  15-01-2015 23:48 via
  
  Alancier the Newfoundland has spent an astonishing 210 hours in the care of vets in Bodmin, Cornwall, for a range of ailments including elbow dysplasia, urinary infections and allergies.
  
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• Belgium terror arrests: Recap updates as two killed in anti-terror raids

  15-01-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two terrorists have been killed and several others detained after a police operation this evening in the town of Verviers.
  
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• Prince Andrew allegations: Scotland Yard asked to probe claims teenage 'sex slave' was trafficked to UK

  15-01-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peter Saunders of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood has passed Virginia Roberts' allegations to ex-Operation Yewtree head Peter Spindler
  
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• Paris Shootings: Muslim man who hid Jewish supermarket hostages to be rewarded with French citizenship

  15-01-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Malian national Lassana Bathily, 24, has been hailed as a national hero for saving the hostages from gunman Amedy Coulibaly, who killed six people in the seige last Friday
  
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• Belgium terror arrests: Extremist cell 'was ready to strike imminently'

  15-01-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two suspected Islamic State jihadis died and a third was injured after Belgian police commandos swooped in on the group in Verviers
  
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• UK weather: Britain braces for winter onslaught

  15-01-2015 23:33 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain is on standby for a cold weather front as health authorities caution that the elderly are particularly at risk from the latest freeze
  
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• John Boehner explanation for foiled Capitol shooting plot at odds with FBI

  15-01-2015 23:32
  
  House speaker says plot was foiled by communications intercepted under Fisa surveillance – but FBI criminal complaint says secret informant was responsibleThe speaker of the House has offered an explanation for the apprehension of a suspect in a planned Capitol shooting at odds with the FBI’s description of the case. John Boehner said on Thursday that Christopher Cornell, the 20-year old Ohio man arrested for allegedly planning a Capitol Hill shooting spree, had his plot foiled thanks to com
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein: Prince Andrew's alleged efforts to protect paedophile pal could be revealed in court

  15-01-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A judge has ordered the disgraced tycoon’s lawyers to come up with “extraordinary circumstances” as to why so-called 'sex papers' should be kept secret
  
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• American Sniper review – worryingly dull celebration of a killer

  15-01-2015 23:30
  
  Clint Eastwood wastes Bradley Cooper in an unsubtle biopic of a famous US Navy Seal sharp-shooter
  
  • Why American Sniper is facing an uphill battle in HollywoodClean Harry could be an alternative title for Clint Eastwood’s bland, unsubtle and worryingly dull celebration of Chris Kyle, a real-life US Navy Seal and fearless sniper, renowned for 160 confirmed kills in Iraq. When an exasperated officer tells Kyle that one of the people in his crosshairs was no threat and reportedly carrying
  
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• Everton football legend Duncan Ferguson involved in car crash but 'refused hospital treatment'

  15-01-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ferguson was on the M57 near Liverpool when an Audi A3 convertible crashed into the back the of the BMW 1 series the former Rangers man was driving, it has been reported
  
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• Accountant Barry Dyson used mirror to peep up women's skirts in Manchester

  15-01-2015 23:21 via
  
  Barry Dyson, 39, who used a mirror to peep up women's skirts is the first person in the UK to be banned from carrying a reflective item. He was jailed today for 16 weeks.
  
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• Manchester City and Arsenal fans urge their clubs to pay living wage

  15-01-2015 23:20
  
  • Fans groups write to clubs before Manchester City v Arsenal
  • Many matchday staff at both clubs on low pay
  • Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Debuchy ruled out for three monthsManchester City and Arsenal supporters have jointly written to the two clubs before Sunday’s Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium calling on them to pay all staff a living wage. The letter, signed by the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, Man City Fans Living Wage Campaign, Canal Street Blues, the GMB
  
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• Arab cartoonists pen their responses to Charlie Hebdo affair

  15-01-2015 23:19
  
  Leading caricaturists across the Middle East question the meaning of free speech while attacking Israel and Arab leadersArab cartoonists are hitting back over the Charlie Hebdo affair with satirical works of their own questioning the meaning of free speech in the west while attacking Israel and the perceived double standards that are applied to Muslims.Leading caricaturists across the Middle East condemned last week’s killings in Paris but the magazine’s publication of another image of the P
  
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• Jack Gargham and Simeon Evans blind man in one eye with belt buckle over taxi

  15-01-2015 23:18 via
  
  The 32-year-old man was chased down and beaten by Simeon Evans, 30, and Jack Gargham, 26, in Birmingham city centre last January following a late-night fight over taxis.
  
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• Saudi Arabia to build 600-mile barrier to defend Kingdom from ISIS

  15-01-2015 23:16 via
  
  The fence and ditch, punctuated with surveillance towers, command centres and guard posts, aims to protect the oil-rich country from invasion by the Islamic State insurgency.
  
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• Ched Evans’s ‘true friend and supporter’ abused victim of rape

  15-01-2015 23:16
  
  • Ciaran Goggins made derogatory comments about woman
  • Ched Evans’s website distances itself from protagonist
  • Evans faces 14 months out of football over pending legal challengeA “true friend and supporter” of Ched Evans made abusive comments about the convicted rapist’s victim and posted a link to a website that unlawfully names her, the Guardian can reveal.Ciaran Goggins’ picture was posted in a gallery of photographs on the website set up by Evans’s family and friends
  
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• Blue Peter competition will see winners given tour of MI5 HQ

  15-01-2015 23:15 via
  
  As part of a unique competition, three lucky youngsters will be offered the chance to go on a very special mission behind the scenes at HM Secret Services, in London.
  
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• Thug attacked teenage ex-girlfriend 'causing miscarriage' by punching her

  15-01-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES Ex-boyfriend given a two-year non-harassment order banning him from any contact with the victim
  
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• South Oxfordshire fires: Farmer caught in 30 year planning row under arrest

  15-01-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Main, 47, is being questioned by police on suspicion of arson over the devastating fires, all involving gas canisters
  
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• Teenager killed after breaking into 'racist' Gangnam Style dance in shop

  15-01-2015 23:06
  
  A TEENAGER who broke into the Gangnam Style dance was killed by another boy who thought his actions were "racist", a court heard today.
  
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• Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance review – dexterous and witty ninth album

  15-01-2015 23:00
  
  (Matador)Despite some indications that Belle and Sebastian’s ninth might be a politically motivated album – Allie’s reference to “bombs in the Middle East”; the title itself – Stuart Murdoch and co ultimately focus on matters of the heart, whether in Glasgow or Gaza. The gorgeously ambient Today (This Army’s for Peace) drifts into a slumberous state despite its tormented lyrics, single The Party Line is the disco-dancing partner to 2004’s Your Cover’s Blown,
  
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• Fears of a 'disenfranchised generation' after almost a million people disappear from electoral roll

  15-01-2015 23:00
  
  Hundreds of thousands of young people could miss the chance to vote in May’s general election following a change in the way people register, prompting fears of a “disenfranchised generation”.
  
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• Ed Miliband: This government is betraying the next generation of voters

  15-01-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader is calling on people to make sure their voice is heard in the general election because its outcome affects us all
  
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• Ed Miliband slams the scandal that could see ONE MILLION people excluded from voting

  15-01-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader calls on young people to register to vote in this year's general election before the April 20 deadline
  
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• Clumsy cops get SIPPY cups so they keep their new £7.6million headquarters clean

  15-01-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  The lidded mugs were brought in after bosses had to fork out for a deep clean when Princess Ann officially opened the centre just a month after it opened
  
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• Bowel cancer breakthrough: Immune system boosted by SUNSHINE and other sources of Vitamin D

  15-01-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The “sunshine vitamin”, produced through the skin’s reaction to sunlight, is found in oily fish like mackerel and sardines or eggs
  
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• David Cameron facing row with Church as he 'profoundly disagrees' with Archbishops' attack

  15-01-2015 22:51 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Prime Minister 'profoundly disagrees' with The Church of England's assesment of Britain as an unequal country where 'entire cities' are being 'cast aside
  
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• US to ease restrictions on travel to Cuba as countries seek to normalise relations

  15-01-2015 22:43
  
  Slew of changes – from reversing the ban on foreign ships entering US waters to allowing travelers to return with $100 worth of cigars – will take effect on FridayDecades of punitive US sanctions on Cuba will be rolled back as early as Friday, in a move to swiftly normalise relations between the long-estranged countries. From reversing the ban on foreign ships entering American waters to allowing travellers to return with $100 worth of cigars, the new guidelines published by the US Treasury
  
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• Shocking footage shows moment before woman is 'publicly executed by Al-Qaeda for adultery'

  15-01-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES The barbaric killing is said to have even drawn criticism from ISIS supporters
  
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• Suspected UK Ebola case: Person rushed to hospital after returning from West Africa with fever

  15-01-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The patient has been taken to the infectious diseases unit of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh
  
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• Watch: Moment three Rhinos make escape bid from zoo after security guard falls asleep

  15-01-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A guard nodded off to sleep and failed to notice until too late what was happening
  
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• Yosemite climbers on 'relief and joy' of historic ascent - video

  15-01-2015 22:33
  
  Professional climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson describe the 'relief and joy' of finishing their historic 19-day ascent up El Capitan in California's Yosemite National Park. The pair are the first to climb the peak's so-called Dawn Wall without bolts or climbing tools. 'When you would grab that last hold, you could literally feel all the hope and desire and stress just drip off of you,' says Jorgeson Continue reading...
  
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• Thumbs up from woman involved in savage attack that blinded man as she AVOIDS jail

  15-01-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Attacker Sophie Sheldon received a suspended sentence after the court heard her estranged mum had committed suicide
  
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• Paris terror attacks: Chilling Jewish supermarket CCTV images show hostages forced to remove security cameras

  15-01-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pictures show terrified hostages huddled together in the supermarket, that had been seized by Amedy Coulibaly
  
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• Fernando Torres hits double as Atlético end Real’s Copa del Rey defence

  15-01-2015 22:21
  
  • Round of 16, second leg: Real Madrid 2-2 Atlético Madrid (agg 2-4)
  • Ramos 20, Ronaldo 54; Torres 2, 46
  • Read Gregg Bakowski’s minute-by-minute reportWhen Fernando Torres returned to Atlético Madrid, 45,000 fans turned up to welcome him home. Microphone in hand, he asked them what he had done to deserve such a reception. Three days later he defeated Real Madrid for the first time as an Atlético player; eight days after that he scored two to knock their great rivals
  
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• Ebola in the UK: Suspected Ebola patient treated in Scotland

  15-01-2015 22:17
  
  Doctors in Edinburgh are treating a patient suspected to have Ebola.
  
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• Ebola in the UK: Suspected Ebola patient being treated in Scotland

  15-01-2015 22:17
  
  Doctors in Edinburgh are treating a patient suspected to have Ebola.
  
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• Alcohol firm sponsorship in football under threat as Labour draws up health crusade plans

  15-01-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Clubs with drinks brands emblazoned across their shirts, showpiece tournaments and even advertising hoardings inside stadiums could be targeted
  
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• Pit Bull terriers 'found being trained on treadmills'

  15-01-2015 22:09 via
  
  Darren Wheatcroft, pictured, and his son Callan, from Accrington, Lancashire face trial on 16 charges in relation to an alleged dog fighting ring along with family friend Simon Whitworth.
  
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• Saving his owner's bacon! 17-stone pot-bellied pig scares off burglars during attempted raid on their home 

  15-01-2015 22:09 via
  
  Ludwig the pot-bellied pig, pictured, chased a gang of burglars away from the Derby home of his owners Mike Maughan, rear, and Liane Scholz, right, some time on New Year's Eve.
  
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• Tot who stops breathing 20 times EVERY night finally gets to sleep like a baby

  15-01-2015 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Phyllisity Ramm has the rare condition central sleep apnoea but her life has been transformed thanks to a life-saving oxygen machine
  
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• VIDEO: Tesco urged to 'get out of town'

  15-01-2015 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A council urges Tesco to sell land it owns in a Kent town after it pulled out of building a supermarket with restaurants and more than 200 flats.
  
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• UK Border Agency officer helped boyfriend con immigrants to pay off debts

  15-01-2015 22:06 via
  
  Anjali Patel, 31, read secret files at work to give migrants 'tailored' advice in a scheme run by her boyfriend Abdul Farooq, 28, who was still at London's Brunel University but claimed to be qualified.
  
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• London and Washington: despite wars, special relationship is still trade-led

  15-01-2015 22:03
  
  Cameron and Obama summits more likely to be talks on transatlantic deals than meetings over ‘existential threats’The last time David Cameron’s name came up in a White House daily media briefing, Barack Obama’s press secretary responded by borrowing a quote from a rather better known figure in Washington: local baseball star, Bryce Harper. “That’s a clown question, bro,” said spokesman Josh Earnest, to much amusement among American reporters, after he was asked whether the UK prime
  
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• Real Madrid v Atlético Madrid: Copa del Rey – as it happened

  15-01-2015 22:01
  
  Fernando Torres scored twice – his first ever goals againt Real in an Atleti shirt – to seal a quarter-final place for Diego Simeone’s side against a sloppy Real Madrid 8.59pm GMT And that’s that. Well, Real paid the heaviest of prices for a sloppy start in both halves. That will really anger Carlo Ancelotti. The possession his team had – and the chances – didn’t really matter after each goal was scored. It felt like they’d given themselves a needless extra hurdle to leap before
  
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• Ban the gadgets and let children be bored, says Education Secretary whose son, 7, woke her at 5.30am to play on tablet

  15-01-2015 21:58 via
  
  Mother-of-one Nicky Morgan said parents have to 'grapple' with limiting the amount of time children have with gadgets and warned against doing children's homework for them.
  
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