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• Teachers quitting profession in record numbers as 4,000 leave every MONTH, Government's own figures reveal

  30-01-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nearly 50,000 left the profession last year - around one in 12 full-time teachers - according the Department for Education’s own statistics
  
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• Andy Murray fiancée Kim Sears targeted by vile trolls after Australian Open 'swearing row'

  30-01-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Her rant attracted abuse from social media users in the Czech Republic, with one posting: 'Die you s***'
  
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• Weird cures around the world: From Pot Noodle Spas to Burmese python massages

  30-01-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A three-tonne Asian elephant has been filmed using its trunk and feet to massage tourists - but it’s not the craziest health treatment dreamt up...
  
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• VIDEO: Fifty shades of manipulation?

  30-01-2015 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Will Gompertz discusses appropriation - and Fifty Shades of Grey - in his latest blog
  
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• Child rapist who made girls watch porn and issued chilling 'lots of men' threat is jailed

  30-01-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Perverted Ashley Wright has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars after he admitted a string of child sex crimes
  
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• Tory-UKIP pact chaos as Grant Shapps contradicts David Cameron by ruling out power-sharing deal

  30-01-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Labour source said of the Tory chairman's claim: “Nobody will be impressed... The only chaos is on his side [and] of his and David Cameron’s own making”
  
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• Saudis shelve blogger flogging again

  30-01-2015 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Saudi Arabia postpones for a second time a further round of flogging against blogger Raif Badawi, whose case caused a global outcry.
  
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• In pictures: Churchill celebrated

  30-01-2015 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's state funeral
  
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• VIDEO: What not to say in an obituary

  30-01-2015 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australian writer's mean obituary sparks online fightback
  
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• Found: Key to longer life

  30-01-2015 23:33
  
  SCIENTISTS have identified changes in our body clock that predict how long we will live.
  
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• Terry Hall: Tributes pour in for 'extremely popular' 13-year-old found dead in park

  30-01-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police say the tragic death is not being treated as suspicious and are working with the coroner to establish the full circumstances of the boy's death
  
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• Thousands needlessly filling in tax forms

  30-01-2015 23:31 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Taxpayers who owe less than £3,000 in tax and filed returns may not have needed to do so
  
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• Let them go! Fake Frozen dolls containing CANCER toxins could be on sale near you

  30-01-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Parents have been warned not to buy cheap copies of Disney's famous characters after a haul was seized by trading standards officers
  
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• Family of depressed woman found hanged in hospital A&E following four-hour wait demands answers

  30-01-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wayne Williams says his wife Jane 'was severely ill and didn’t get the help she needed or care she deserved' after being found dead at the Royal Blackburn Hospital
  
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• David Haines: 'I'm still haunted by his face in beheading video' says heartbroken brother of aid worker

  30-01-2015 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mike Haines said he can still picture the fear in his brother's eyes when he was hauled into shot after the murder of Steven Sotloff
  
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• Chris Evans reveals he's having tests for prostate cancer to millions on his breakfast radio show

  30-01-2015 23:26 via
  
  The ginger-haired father-of-three, 48, told millions of listeners about his plight on the Chris Evans Breakfast show.
  
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• Nigerian GP who groped suicidal woman telling her 'you want it' keeps job after he blamed 'cultural differences'

  30-01-2015 23:25 via
  
  The General Medical Council called for Emmanuel Kanu, 36, to be struck off. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service suspended the Nigerian father-of-one for six months.
  
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• Sir Winston Churchill funeral anniversary: Towering tribute as hero's final journey retraced 50 years on

  30-01-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Watched by 350m TV viewers around the world it became one of the most poignant moments in British history - and today that last river voyage was recreated
  
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• Man critical after Belfast shooting

  30-01-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who was shot in the head in north Belfast is in a critical condition in hospital, police say.
  
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• Watch what it looks like to send a £12k diamond into space

  30-01-2015 23:13 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Expensive diamond that was launched into space and sent back to earth in the hope someone would find it has been found - and its amazing footage recovered
  
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• More people are happily living alone so how did I get lumbered with this lot?

  30-01-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Fiona Phillips on the growing number of people living the single life, whether attached or not - and how jealous she is of them
  
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• VIDEO: Awaiting return to war-torn Kobane

  30-01-2015 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Days after Kurdish forces drove Islamic State militants from Kobane in northern Syria, people who fled the town are now waiting to return.
  
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• Terrified child saw brutal robbers stab mum in stomach during vicious car robbery

  30-01-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nursery manager had handed over her keys to the robbers but that did not stop one of them stabbing her with a knife
  
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• Amazing sounds of an iceberg being born revealed

  30-01-2015 23:10 via
  
  Scientists have recorded the sounds of icebergs crashing into the sea (stock image shown). The recordings were made at the Hans Glacier in Svalbard, Norway.
  
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• Islamic State eyes al-Qaeda lands

  30-01-2015 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Islamic State group is forging links with militants across North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, challenging its al-Qaeda rivals.
  
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• VIDEO: Suge Knight hands himself in

  30-01-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Suge Knight, the man behind the Death Row Records label, has been arrested on suspicion of hitting and killing a man with his truck.
  
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• Exam board chief: Private schools are being 'punished' in league tables

  30-01-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Simon Lebus, the chief executive of Cambridge Assessment, whose exam boards include OCR, says it is "plainly absurd" that top schools such as Eton College are listed near the foot of the latest league tables because their pupils sat International GCSEs (IGCSEs)
  
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• NHS 'spin bill' soars as crisis grows

  30-01-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New figures show steep rise in NHS spending on public relations as crisis in health services mounts
  
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• 'Boozed-up James Bulger murderer Jon Venables blamed victim’s MUM for crime'

  30-01-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The convicted child killer, 32, blurted out his ridiculous ­allegation to a reveller in a packed 'gay friendly' pub – putting his £1million secret ­identity at risk
  
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• UK weather: Arctic blast set to bring more snow and sub-zero temperatures this the weekend

  30-01-2015 22:56
  
  Forecasters are warning the UK to brace itself for another bitterly cold night as sub-zero temperatures take grip, with an Arctic blast set to sweep the country over the weekend.
  
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• Canadian PM seeks wider terror laws

  30-01-2015 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Encouraging terror attacks against Canada will become a crime under legislation proposed by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
  
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• Baby penguin scared of water had to be taught to swim by zookeepers in Russia

  30-01-2015 22:38 via
  
  Chudi (pictured) the three-month-old penguin was so scared of diving into the pool at Russian zoo in Krasnoyarsk, he need two personal swimming instructors to show him what he was missing.
  
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• Woman who was genetically a man gives birth to TWINS after doctors GREW her a womb

  30-01-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hayley Haynes, 28, had miracle babies Avery and Darcey after undergoing IVF treatment using an egg donor
  
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• Shocking video shows moment driver with child on back seat FLIPPED car during 97mph police chase

  30-01-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scott Smith has now been jailed for 12 months following after he was caught on camera trying to escape from officers
  
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• Man is shot in both legs in Belfast

  30-01-2015 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is shot in both legs in what police describe as a paramilitary-style attack in north Belfast.
  
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• Lord of the Rings attack sees thug jailed after flooring brother with 'knockout punch'

  30-01-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 35-year-old launched the attack mid-movie without warning in a 'night in gone wrong'
  
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• Earliest known colour footage of the Beatles showing Fab Four in Blackpool emerges 

  30-01-2015 22:19 via
  
  The three-and-a-half minute film, that has never before been seen shows John, Paul, George and Ringo backstage and then performing at the ABC Theatre in Blackpool in August 1963.
  
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• Study fells cosmic inflation claim

  30-01-2015 21:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists who claimed to have found evidence for a cosmic super-expansion at the Big Bang made no such discovery, a soon-to-be published study will say.
  
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• Taxi left man, 83, to walk a mile in snow

  30-01-2015 21:54
  
  A FRAIL 83-year-old man had to tramp a mile through snow and ice after a taxi driver refused to take him all the way home.
  
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• Margaret Thatcher warned of paedophile scandal, secret documents reveal

  30-01-2015 21:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New dossier shows Mrs Thatcher was briefed on Sir Peter Hayman paedophile scandal when she had been in Downing Street only a year, and officials feared the diplomat's offending went back to at least 1966
  
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• What a doughnut! Is this the funniest armed robbery of all time?

  30-01-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Doughnut shop workers could not help but giggle at the rather unconvincing disguise the robber was donning
  
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• M4 re-opens after oil spill

  30-01-2015 21:45
  
  Parts of the M4 were closed earlier due to an oil spill, just before rush hour traffic was due to hit roads.
  
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• King of the tin: Britain's favourite biscuit revealed - but is it the same as yours?

  30-01-2015 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The crumbly treats have taken the crown in an online survey - beating the humble chocolate digestive by a landslide
  
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• Plebgate MP Andrew Mitchell snubbed libel offer - it cost him £500k in legal fees

  30-01-2015 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ex-Cabinet Minister refused to accept a deal offered by newspaper bosses and went on to lose his case
  
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• Top banker Crispin Odey warns of coming financial crash ''to be remembered in 100 years''

  30-01-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts already warn that falling oil prices, while delivering a big savings for households, are a sign of a slowing worldwide economy
  
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• Leeds Rhinos given confiscated cannabis factory lights to help grass grow at stadium

  30-01-2015 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  West Yorkshire Police donated the powerful lamps for use at the club's Headingley stadium after seizing them from an illicit drugs farm in the city
  
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• VIDEO: Mother of abused pupil speaks out

  30-01-2015 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Teacher Jeremy Forrest who ran off with pupil 'cried to her mother'
  
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• Return of the Lada: Much laughed at car set for comeback after Land Rover Defender demise

  30-01-2015 21:19
  
  LADA, the brand who were once the butt of many jokes on British roads, is set for a comeback after the demise of the iconic Land Rover Defender.
  
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• CIA 'used British island to interrogate terror suspects for weeks at a time,' says former White House aide

  30-01-2015 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A former aide to the Bush administration claims Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was used as a transit site and for interrogations by US intelligence
  
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• Stepping Hill poisoning trial: Agony of first alleged insulin attack victim

  30-01-2015 20:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A jury at Manchester Crown court was told Josephine Walsh, now 72, was the first victim of drips contaminated with insulin by nurse Victorino Chua, 49
  
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