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• VIDEO: Cars are brought off Hoegh Osaka

  27-01-2015 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Land Rovers, Minis and Jaguars are being brought off the Hoegh Osaka, which is now docked in Southampton.
  
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• Less than ship-shape! Luxury cars leave stranded vessel bearing dents and scratches

  27-01-2015 23:47
  
  MORE THAN £30million of luxury motors have been recovered from a stricken car transporter grounded in the Solent - but not all the vehicles have been left in ship-shape condition.
  
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• Ukrainian soldiers' forced to EAT their uniform by Russian 'separatist' commander

  27-01-2015 23:43 via
  
  Four frightened soldiers kneel on the ground while the aggressor, believed to be a pro-Russian rebel commander, brandishes a large knife and cuts the badges from their uniforms.
  
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• Shetland celebrates Up Helly Aa

  27-01-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shetland's spectacular annual re festival
  
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• Fury as triple cop killer Harry Roberts quaffed CHAMPAGNE while in prison for the murders

  27-01-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The killer, who murdered three hero police officers, enjoyed champagne and bowling while serving his sentence
  
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• Winchester hit by EARTHQUAKE as town is 'shaken from top to bottom'

  27-01-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The five-second earthquake shook buildings and made a huge noise, with shocked locals claiming it 'felt like an explosion'
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko: Russian spy assassination was an act of 'nuclear terrorism'

  27-01-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The public inquiry into the death of the 43-year-old has heard lives of the public were put at risk by the killing
  
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• Labour attacks Government for 'wasting' foreign aid budget

  27-01-2015 23:22
  
  Ministers will be accused of choosing to bankroll high-profile overseas aid projects at the expense of schemes designed to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and hunger.
  
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• TTIP: Vince Cable clashes with David Cameron over controversial international trade deal

  27-01-2015 23:22
  
  A Coalition split over a planned free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States has emerged after the Liberal Democrats demanded tough new safeguards for British jobs and industry to be written into the deal.
  
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• Meet the woman who got so tired of dating she married HERSELF

  27-01-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Love is never easy, so when one woman could not find it, she just looked in the mirror
  
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• Isis issues direct threat to Barack Obama in rant during new beheading video

  27-01-2015 23:20 via
  
  'Know, oh Obama, that will reach America,' proclaims a black-clad militant. 'Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House, and transform America into a Muslim Province.'
  
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• Chelsea v Liverpool: Capital One Cup semi-final – live!

  27-01-2015 23:19
  
  Capital One Cup semi-final second leg (first leg finished 1-1)Barney Ronay: Chelsea soft centre exposes defence – Mourinho knows itAnd email [email protected] or tweet @bglendenning 10.19pm GMT A set-piece goal from Branislav Ivanovic sees Chelsea through to the Capital One Cup final after a tremendously entertaining, incident-packed game. Diego Costa was lucky to avoid two red cards and may face retrospective punishment, while Jordan Henderson and Lucas were also lucky not to
  
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• Branislav Ivanovic heads Chelsea into final with late win over Liverpool

  27-01-2015 23:17
  
  There was a point here when the heat of the battle was becoming so intolerably high the two managers had come together on the touchline and were straying dangerously close to a full-on confrontation. That clash between José Mourinho and Brendan Rodgers seemed emblematic of a night when the undercurrent of bad feeling between the two teams was never too far the surface and Diego Costa went far enough the Football Association may feel compelled to act.It was a breathless encounter full of i
  
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• Helen Macdonald wins 2014 Costa book award for ‘haunting’ H is for Hawk

  27-01-2015 23:15
  
  ‘Scalpel-like prose’ of book exploring grief, love and nature hailed by Costa book award panel members in £30,000 win
  
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  H is for Hawk – reviewA book which explores grief, love and nature – as well as just how you train a goshawk you’ve bought for £800 – won its author Helen Macdonald a second leading literary prize.H is for Hawk was named the £30,000 winner of the 2014 Costa book prize, adding to the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fictio
  
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• Police release shocking video of man shot in back of head as he dined at fast food restaurant

  27-01-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE Detectives are still trying to trace the mystery gunman who shot the Dutch victim at point blank range
  
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• US museums consider London outpost

  27-01-2015 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's largest museum and research institution could be heading for London as part of a multi-million dollar redevelopment of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
  
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• City fatcat Jon Moulton admits he knew parcel firm City Link was 'doomed' weeks before pulling the plug

  27-01-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Better Capital boss Jon Moulton was hauled before furious MPs on Tuesday to explain when he first knew the stricken firm could not be saved.
  
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• Tory benefits crackdown 'will make more young people homeless and penalise struggling parents'

  27-01-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charities warned that David Cameron's plan to axe housing benefit for young people and reduce the benefits cap will throw more people onto the streets
  
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• Spain charges priests with sex abuse

  27-01-2015 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A judge in the southern Spanish city of Granada charges 10 Roman Catholic priests and two Catholic lay workers with child sex abuse.
  
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• David Cameron accused of trying to 'wriggle out' of TV debates

  27-01-2015 23:04
  
  David Cameron was accused of trying to “wriggle out” of televised election debates between the party leaders after he called for them to take place before the final stages of the campaign.
  
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• Labour election chaos over NHS as Ed Miliband accused of running 'comfort zone campaign'

  27-01-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As both parties stepped up their election campaigns, the Labour leader's efforts to put the NHS at the heart of his party's strategy appeared to backfire
  
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• Petrol prices falls 'will act like 1pc tax cut'

  27-01-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Families will be as much as £770 better off this year thanks to the falling price of petrol, study indicates
  
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• Why I let my five-year-olds wear fake tan and wiggle their bums in beauty pageants

  27-01-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Proud mum Kirsty says kiddie beauty pageants aren't child abuse - it's just born stars doing what they do best
  
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• Stuart Broad sparks outrage by apparently telling those on minimum wage to 'stay humble'

  27-01-2015 22:58
  
  ENGLAND CRICKETER Stuart Broad sparked outrage today after apparently tweeting that people on the minimum wage should "stay humble".
  
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• Lottery-winning pensioners held at GUNPOINT as balaclava-clad gang ransacked house in terrifying robbery

  27-01-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The thugs have now been jailed for the Oldham raid which left the elderly couple, one suffering from cancer, fearing for their lives
  
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• Holocaust memorial to be built in Britain to remember the six million Jews murdered in death camps

  27-01-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The multi-million pound tribute, backed by all parties, will go ahead whoever wins the general election in May
  
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• Chilcot inquiry delay: Chairman Sir John Chilcot admits publication of his report has taken 'longer than expected'

  27-01-2015 22:54
  
  The chairman of the Iraq inquiry has admitted that the publication of his report has taken "longer than expected" as he prepares to face MPs next week to explain its delay.
  
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• Islamic extremist hacks website of non-league football club after mistaking it for a Premier League side

  27-01-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An extremist believed to be from Morocco hit Chatham Town FC, which has an average attendance of 143
  
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• Labour rule out SNP coalition deal if May election results in another hung Parliament

  27-01-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said there was 'no chance' of teaming up with Alex Salmond's party if Labour fall short of an overall majority
  
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• Isis issues direct threat to Obama in rant during new beheading video after second Japanese hostage says jihadis will execute him and Jordanian airman within 24 hours unless jailed female terrorist is released

  27-01-2015 22:43 via
  
  'Know, oh Obama, that will reach America,' proclaims a black-clad militant. 'Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House, and transform America into a Muslim Province.'
  
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• Woman sheds FIVE STONE after being called fat by strangers in the street

  27-01-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Inspirational student Kim Bowman is now a bikini model after the bullies hurled vile insults
  
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• Earthquake strikes Winchester

  27-01-2015 22:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The tremor shook buildings and rattled windows but there are no reports of injuries
  
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• Miss California contestant exposes BOOBS in catwalk wardrobe malfunction

  27-01-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It was just another day at the office for Chanelle... but then disaster struck
  
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• England cricketer Stuart Broad says sorry after he insults minimum wage workers on Twitter

  27-01-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The star invited critics on social media after his provocative tweet seemed to tell workers to 'stay humble'
  
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• Hitler crony's Auschwitz lies exposed after revelations he designed the death camp

  27-01-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nazi war criminal Albert Speer escaped a death sentence, claiming he knew nothing about Auschwitz - but actually drew up the plans
  
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• Wheel nuts loosened, tyres damaged and cars smeared with POO in parking feud

  27-01-2015 22:33
  
  A PARKING war has escalated after locals began marking their parking territory with DOG POO
  
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• BBC book coverage is 'an absolute disgrace', says Robert Harris

  27-01-2015 22:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Chairman of the Costa Book Awards judging panel is cheered as he calls on BBC director-general Tony Hall to 'do a little bit more for the book trade, please'
  
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• Judi Dench reveals secret mission - to get a tattoo for her birthday

  27-01-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Actress who played 007's boss M has also been learning text speak and although James Bond may have lived twice she now knows the meaning of YOLO
  
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• Andy Murray to face on-form Tomas Berdych in Australian Open semi-final

  27-01-2015 22:19
  
  Murray has dropped only one set en route to the last four, but that is one more than Berdych, his opponent in the semi-final
  • Match report: Murray beats KyrgiosWhen Andy Murray stands in the middle of a storm it is normally one of his own making but this time, he is an island of calm as peers and rivals, notably absent friends Roger Federer, then Rafael Nadal, succumb to the charge of the next generation at the Australian Open.In three finals since 2010, Murray has let himself down but only
  
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• VIDEO: 'I didn't think anyone would read it'

  27-01-2015 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Helen Macdonald wins the Costa Book Awards Book of the Year 2014 for her book H is for Hawk.
  
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• David Lowe guilty of molesting ten boys at Westminster Cathedral Choir School

  27-01-2015 22:14 via
  
  David Lowe, 61, was today convicted of abusing 10 boys aged under 14 while teaching at Westminster Cathedral Choir School in London and Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire in the 1970s and 1980s.
  
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• Winchester hit by earthquake of 2.9 magnitude

  27-01-2015 22:14
  
  Residents in Kingsworthy area felt something ‘like an explosion which shook their houses’, Hampshire police reportAn earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 has been recorded in Winchester.Hampshire police said they had received lots of calls from concerned residents in the Kingsworthy area following reports of something which “felt like an explosion which shook their houses”. Continue reading...
  
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• Female Pakistani teachers taught to kill after Peshawar massacre

  27-01-2015 22:05 via
  
  A group of eight teachers in Peshawar, Pakistan, have been trained by an instructor in how to use handguns and Kalashnikovs and the principles of taking cover before returning fire.
  
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• GRAPHIC CONTENT: Fraudster who sued council for broken ankle caught in puddle-jumping clip

  27-01-2015 22:04
  
  A FRAUDSTER who sued the council claiming he broke his ankle in an unrepaired drain was caught out when a video appeared online of him taking a running jump into a shallow puddle.
  
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• Government in £9 million payout after single letter blunder causes business to collapse

  27-01-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A High Court judge has found Companies House liable for the demise of Taylor & Sons Ltd, after they mistakenly recorded that it had been wound up
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko inquiry: Former spy's death was 'an act of nuclear terrorism that put thousands at risk,' court told

  27-01-2015 21:58
  Alexander Litvinenko was “eliminated” because he was exposing Vladimir Putin’s intimate links with organised crime, a public inquiry into one of the most chilling and extraordinary murders in recent British history heard today.
  
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• Scottish whisky industry ‘bigger than UK iron and steel or computers’

  27-01-2015 21:57
  
  Report finds investment pouring into new distilleries, but Scotch Whisky Association calls on government to reduce taxScotch whisky is worth more than £5bn to the UK economy, according to a report that highlights its contribution to the country’s exports and job creation.Distillers spread from the lowlands of Scotland to as far north as Kirkwall in Orkney directly employ 10,900 people, but they also support a further 30,000 jobs through the supply chain, the research group 4-consulting f
  
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• Sir John Chilcot admits report into Iraq war has taken far too long

  27-01-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee will probe Sir John over the four-year delay on February 4
  
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• Mother's agony over girl killed saving friend from speeding car

  27-01-2015 21:53 via
  
  Jasmyn Chan sacrificed herself to save her friend Tia Tucker, then 12, in Sheffield before driver Naseeb Ellahi, 34, knocked her down at 60mph in a 30mph zone while high on cocaine.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: When it comes to Chilcot, Sir Jeremy Heywood is less Yes Minister, more Wolf Hall

  27-01-2015 21:53
  
  It’s just as well that Sir John Chilcot will be at the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee next month to try to explain why, at five years and counting, his inquiry has, as Sir John himself said, “taken longer than any of us expected”.
  
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