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• Mourinho jokes: 'I'll sign Gerrard'

  20-01-2015 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho jokes about signing Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard on loan.
  
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• Widow, 86, lives on CRUISE ship for £108,000 a year after late husband said 'never stop cruising'

  20-01-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seven years ago Lee Wachtstetter, 86, sold her luxury home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to permanently reside at sea, after her dying husband told her to "never stop cruising"
  
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• VIDEO: Solar-powered plane set for global flight

  20-01-2015 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mark Lobel reports on the solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, which a team will attempt to fly around the world using only the sun's energy.
  
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• Nigel Farage admits Ukip is NOT a credible party and has not been honest with voters

  20-01-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A leaked document reveals a meeting of Ukip's ruling executive Farage admitted voters were starting to see through the party's policies
  
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• Ebola scientist warns business elite

  20-01-2015 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leading Ebola scientist Professor Peter Piot warns the World Economic Forum that developed nations are "vulnerable" to epidemics and must invest more in research.
  
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• May's general election has created a zombie Parliament as MPs work for just 190 minutes

  20-01-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Government has run out of steam raising questions about whether taxpayers will get value for money in the months running up to polling day on May 7
  
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• Ukraine accuses Russia of attack

  20-01-2015 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Ukrainian military accuses Russia of attacking its forces with regular troops as fighting in eastern Ukraine spreads towards the Russian border.
  
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• Chilcot Inquiry report will NOT be published until after the General Election

  20-01-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The six-year, £10million inquiry was set up in 2009 and the report was due to be published by the end of 2011
  
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• Ed Balls defends mansion tax against Peter Mandelson who slammed it as 'crude'

  20-01-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lord Mandelson who owns an £8m said the mansion tax was a crude way of clobbering people with tax
  
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• Plebgate MP Andrew Mitchell has paid out £300k in legal fees after quitting as chief whip

  20-01-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tory MP's lawyers said he has paid £150,000 each to the Police Federation and News Group Newspapers
  
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• Safe at last: Lionesses touch down in Britain after rescue from horrific German circus

  20-01-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Maggie and Sonja where tormented and forced to perform painful and degrading tricks for food. Now they are to roam free in South Africa
  
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• Miracle phone call gave little Sarah Cox the gift of life at just 21 days old

  20-01-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jennie Cox was devastated to be told her baby's heart was failing but then came the phone call that saved her little girl's life
  
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• Coronation Street filming cancelled as stars 'too sad' to work following the death of Anne Kirkbride

  20-01-2015 23:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The show's executive producer said it was 'almost unheard of' to suspend filming but it was the 'right thing to do'
  
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• 'My tragic baby boy is helping another four children live - that's why I donated his organs'

  20-01-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bodie lost his fight for life but his dad, Nick Hodges, was determined his brave little boy would still help others
  
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• Hundreds at funeral of hero RAF vet they had never met after Vernon Kay appeal

  20-01-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An appeal for people to attend the funeral of Keith Ingham Nutbrown, who had no family or friends, was backed by TV host Vernon Kay
  
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• Dambusters raid: Marbles used to help design 'bouncing bomb' sell for £27,000 at auction

  20-01-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The four marbles had been expected to raise £60 but eventually went for 45 times more
  
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• Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea

  20-01-2015 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Raheem Sterling cancels out Eden Hazard's penalty to leave Liverpool's League Cup semi-final with Chelsea finely poised.
  
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• Teacher 'begged underage girl he is accused of having sex with not to tell his fiancee her age'

  20-01-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Norbury, 33, denies charges of sexual activity with girls under the age of 16
  
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• Periods 'last taboo' for sportswomen

  20-01-2015 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-British number one Annabel Croft says sportswomen's periods are "the last taboo", after Heather Watson became unwell during the Australian Open.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Kiss and ride' at Virgin station

  20-01-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Lancashire railway station erects a 'Kiss and Ride' sign at its drop-off zone to ease congestion caused by goodbye kisses.
  
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• King James's School boy has to sit GCSE in isolation over bleached Mohican haircut

  20-01-2015 23:02 via
  
  Oscar Ward was separated from his classmates at King James's School in Huddersfield for nine days because his new haircut went against school policy.
  
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• Yemen rebels attack president's home

  20-01-2015 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shia Houthi rebels in the Yemeni capital Sanaa shell the president's home in an attack condemned by the UN Security Council.
  
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• Tessa Jowell: I will tax the owners of empty homes in London

  20-01-2015 23:00
  
  Punitive tax penalties would be imposed on the owners of empty homes under a plan unveiled by Tessa Jowell, the senior Labour MP hoping to become Mayor of London.
  
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• Passport for Mali-born Paris 'hero'

  20-01-2015 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Mali-born man lauded as a hero for helping people during the recent attacks in Paris is granted French citizenship at a ceremony.
  
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• End to topless Page Three 'overdue'

  20-01-2015 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Sun's apparent decision to stop featuring pictures of topless women on Page Three is welcomed by campaigners and MPs as "long overdue".
  
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• Labour mayor defects to Ukip

  20-01-2015 22:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Colin Race, Mayor of Bishop Auckland, County Durham, tells colleagues that Labour is no longer supporting hard-working families
  
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• 'Batman' killer James Holmes: Jury selection for trial of mass murder suspect underway

  20-01-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors asked for video footage of the mass murderer in jail to be deleted, a court heard. They are trying to prove he was sane when he committed the atrocity
  
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• Netflix shares up on strong earnings

  20-01-2015 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shares in internet TV streaming service Netflix jump over 12% in after-hours trading after the company reports better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings.
  
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• Rescued featherless chickens now have their own JUMPERS dubbed the chi-kini

  20-01-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare in Sussex is urging people to help them cloth the latest rescued chickens
  
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• Businessman wanted over the killing of a student is arrested in Africa after international hunt

  20-01-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  American Sammy Almahri left the UK just hours before his girlfriend Nadine Aburas, was found dead in a hotel near her home in Cardiff on New Year’s Eve
  
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• Maryam Najafian: Colleagues pay tribute to teacher who died in sledging accident in Glasgow park

  20-01-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 25-year-old suffered terrible head in juries in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow on Sunday afternoon and later died.
  
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• 'England can do something special'

  20-01-2015 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andrew Flintoff on England's World Cup hopes, how English cricket can learn from the Big Bash - and feeling like Superman.
  
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• More than a thousand turn up at funeral of RAF veteran,Keith Ingham Nutbrown, 83,

  20-01-2015 22:32 via
  
  Keith Ingham Nutbrown, 83, died at Treflys care home in Llandudno, North Wales, and it was expected that nobody would attend his funeral.
  
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• VIDEO: 'Supermarket hero' receives citizenship

  20-01-2015 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Muslim shop assistant, who hid Jewish shoppers in a freezer during the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, has been granted French nationality.
  
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• Chilcot inquiry 'will not be published until after the election'

  20-01-2015 22:24 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sir John Chilcot due to announce that the Iraq War inquiry, which is now four years overdue, will not be before May
  
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• Teaching assistant, Andrew Tetley, 28, who had affair with a 15-year-old pupil is SPARED jail

  20-01-2015 22:20 via
  
  Andrew Tetley, 28, from Leyland, Lancashire, admitted sexual activity with a child as a person in a position of trust, but was handed a six month sentence, suspended for two years.
  
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• Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq war 'will not report before election'

  20-01-2015 22:13
  
  The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war will not report until after the UK election, it has been reported.
  
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• Portsmouth teen, randomly stabbed three women because he couldn't lose his virginity

  20-01-2015 22:12 via
  
  Ben Moynihan, 18, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, compared himself to serial killers and was found guilty at Winchester Crown Court of the three charges.
  
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• Nearly half of Japanese adults are not having sex

  20-01-2015 22:04 via
  
  Nearly half of Japanese adults are not having sex and more than 20 per cent of all Japanese men between 25 and 29 said they had little or no interest in sex what so ever, according to a survey.
  
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• Security stepped up at Jewish primary school in North London after pupils threatened

  20-01-2015 22:00 via
  
  Teachers and police have stepped up security measures at an unnamed Jewish primary school in North London after pupils aged ten were told they would be ‘beaten up’ during a school trip.
  
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• 'Lee Westwood saved my life': Drowning millionaire rescued by top golfer in Barbados

  20-01-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Colin Davies, from Solihull, got into trouble swimming off the coast in the Caribbean paradise - luckily the former world number one was on hand to save him
  
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• Deirdre Barlow was a true woman of our times and captured a nation's hearts

  20-01-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alison Phillips reflects on the life of Anne Kirkbride and says never again will a fictional character on television hold such a grasp on the national consciousness
  
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• Death of 'human cannonball' Matthew Cranch was an accident, inquest rules

  20-01-2015 21:49 via
  
  A Coroner said the death of a 'human cannonball' at a stunt show in Kent County was 'undoubtedly a tragic case', but ruled that Matthew Cranch's death was an accident.
  
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• Oxford newsagents abandons plan to sell Charlie Hebdo amid threats

  20-01-2015 21:47 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Hamid Hadi of Wendy's News cancelled his order of the French satirical magazine after receiving phone calls threatening to burn down the shop
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Wind fails to fill Sajid Javid's sails as official 'waxes lyrical' about energy policy

  20-01-2015 21:44
  
  Wasn’t it odd, Bournemouth West Tory Conor Burns asked Sajid Javid, that when invited to comment on an offshore wind farm threatening the Jurassic coast’s status as a World Heritage site, a Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) official had forwarded the wind-developers’ “impact assessment” (saying it was environmentally hunk-dory)? She then “waxed lyrical” about energy policy – which had nothing to do with the DCMS.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Lots of wind fails to fill Javid’s sails as he 'waxes lyrical' about energy policy

  20-01-2015 21:44
  
  Wasn’t it odd, Bournemouth West Tory Conor Burns asked Sajid Javid, that when invited to comment on an offshore wind farm threatening the Jurassic coast’s status as a World Heritage site, an official had forwarded the wind-developers’ “impact assessment” (saying it would be hunk-dory)? He had then “waxed lyrical” about energy policy – which had nothing to do with the Department of Media Culture and Sport.
  
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• Labour election video warns of return to the workhouse

  20-01-2015 21:44 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  RAF veteran recalls sister's death in workhouse in plea to defend NHS at general election
  
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• Forensic science: How its use revolutionised the way we detect crime

  20-01-2015 21:44
  
  The Chinese military general and philosopher Sun Tzu once famously solved a murder in a village by asking all its residents to bring out their sickles and leave them in the sun. Eventually, flies settled on one particular sickle and the murder weapon, and the murderer, were identified.
  
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• Anne Kirkbride dead: Corrie falls silent as cast prepare to honour actress at awards show

  20-01-2015 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many of the Coronation Street cast are expected to attend the National Television Awards to support Bill Roache, AKA Ken Barlow, when he gives a speech
  
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• Police hunt man who 'sexually assaulted young woman as she slept on train'

  20-01-2015 21:41
  
  A YOUNG woman was sexually assaulted as she slept on a train heading from south London to Kent.
  
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