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• Myleene Klass: Stop the ‘bonkers’ birthday-present arms race

  05-02-2015 23:53
  
  Emails from mothers to the parents of their children’s school friends asking them to contribute towards a “class birthday gift” have reignited the debate around children’s party etiquette.
  
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• David Cameron branded 'sad' after revelation he spends £100,000 A MONTH to get Facebook 'likes'

  05-02-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Invoices show the party spent a staggering total of £236,000 with the website in just two months last year
  
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• FGM trial: DPP to face questions over failed court case against doctor

  05-02-2015 23:45
  
  The Director of Public Prosecutions faces questions from MPs over her decision to charge a doctor with female genital mutilation days before she was due to be grilled about the failure to bring anyone to justice for the crime.
  
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• Twitter shares soar after sharp revenue increase but growth still slowing

  05-02-2015 23:41
  
  Revenues rise 97% to $479.1m in fourth quarterMonthly active users rise 20%, falling short of expectationsTwitter’s growth continued to slow in the fourth quarter, but the microblogging company’s shares soared in after-hours trading as it announced a sharp increase in revenues.The company has struggled over the last year as its share price plummeted amid continuing signs of slowing growth. Twitter announced on Thursday that monthly active users rose 20% to 288 million by the end of December
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Culture Secretary rides to defence of posh entertainers like Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch and James Blunt

  05-02-2015 23:37
  Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, James Blunt and all the entertainers who went to expensive schools have a friend in the Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid.
  
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• 'David Cameron's NHS shake-up has wasted BILLIONS and made the NHS worse'

  05-02-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Respected think tank The King's Fund have described the NHS changes as "misguided" and said the service is "not fit for purpose"
  
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• Football v Homophobia: Proud Lilywhites took on Gay Gooners to bring LGBT fans together – video

  05-02-2015 23:33
  
  As part of the Football v Homophobia month of action, two rival fan groups met in north London to play out a special version of the North London Derby. Proud Lilywhites took on Gay Gooners in a five-a-side match to bring together LGBT fans as well as ex-Spurs midfielder Steffen Freund and Troy Townsend from Kick It Out to stand together against homophobia and discrimination Continue reading...
  
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• Spurs’ Mauricio Pochettino: I always wanted to keep Emmanuel Adebayor

  05-02-2015 23:31
  
  • Tottenham Hotspur manager: player is recovering his confidence
  • Forward had been denied a loan move to West ham by chairman Daniel Levy
  • Tottenham v Arsenal: which players make our combined XI?Mauricio Pochettino has revealed that he always wanted Emmanuel Adebayor to stay at Tottenham Hotspur, as he looks to put the unsettling nature of the January transfer period behind him and his squad.Adebayor was one of a number of players who either wanted to leave White Hart Lane last month
  
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• Child sex abuse gangs could have assaulted ONE MILLION youngsters in the UK

  05-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rotherham’s Labour MP Sarah Champion describes it as a “national disaster” and is demanding a taskforce to fight the “horror"
  
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• Girl aged ELEVEN charged with sex offences as angry parents protest outside primary school

  05-02-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Locals described the scene as "absolute chaos" and reported dozens of pupils being pulled out of the school by their worried parents
  
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• Hundreds of desperate cancer patients BANNED from hi-tech life-saving cure

  05-02-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seriously ill people have been refused the pioneering £2million Gamma Knife, while an NHS England inquiry into spending on radiation therapy is underway
  
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• Labour plans to hand workers right to buy out firms and turn them into co-operatives

  05-02-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ed Miliband's 'power to the workers' pledge is part of an attack on the Tories for siding with fatcat bosses and millionaire donors ahead of decent wages and conditions
  
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• Model student dies in plunge from 30-metre crane after drinking with pal

  05-02-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carl Salomon was a former pupil at one of Australia's most prestigious schools
  
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• Man who burned down his OWN HOME after he sets off fireworks box in bedroom jailed

  05-02-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Ellis was teasing his teenage brother when the fuse lit and the fire quickly spread through the home
  
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• Man burns down own home after he sets off fireworks box in bedroom

  05-02-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Ellis was teasing his teenage brother when the fuse lit and the fire quickly spread through the home
  
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• Evan Davis: Gays take more drugs as they don’t have kids

  05-02-2015 23:09
  
  Gay people are more likely to engage in destructive behaviour like taking illegal drugs because they lack the “discipline” of going home to a family and children, according to BBC Newsnight presenter Evan Davis.
  
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• Greek and German finance ministers clash at debt relief talks

  05-02-2015 23:09
  
  No agreement to disagree on Athens’ debts as Varoufakis brings up spectre of Greek nazism and Schäuble offers 500 German tax collectorsGreece’s radical Syriza government remained locked in a bitter standoff with its German paymasters, as finance minister Yanis Varoufakis issued a stark warning of the rise of nazism in his country if the eurozone fails to heed the democratic voice of Greek voters.As Varoufakis completed the last leg of a whistle-stop round-Europe tour to seek support for Syr
  
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• Chadderton bus driver sacked after taking time off work to grieve for daughter

  05-02-2015 23:05 via
  
  Robert Parkisson, 62, from Chadderton, Greater Manchester, was diagnosed with depression and has been on sick leave since his daughter tragically died after giving birth seven months ago.
  
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• Ben Jennings on Britain's role in Iraq – cartoon

  05-02-2015 23:05
  
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• Wales v England: this is rugby noir – not just a World Cup warm-up

  05-02-2015 23:00
  
  The bigger picture follows later in the year but Friday’s Six Nations opener in Cardiff will be as fiercely fought as ever for two nations with a shared horror of losing to the other
  • The Guardian’s top 25 Six Nations players – interactive
  • Wales’ Warren Gatland has no need to play mind gamesIn seven months’ time the opening night of the Six Nations championship will feel like a world away. The Rugby World Cup will be about to kick off and even the most dyed-in-the-wool Wales
  
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• Rescued circus animals need £200,000 so they can fly 'lion air' to their new lives

  05-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A British charity is desperately trying to get the big cats to their new home, but needs £200,000 to fly them there
  
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• Anni Dewani's dad: 'My girl would NEVER have married Shrien if she'd known about his sordid secret past'

  05-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the final extract of his book, the murdered bride's father Vinod Hindocha talks about the shock of his son-in-law's secret sordid past
  
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• Teenager died after ambulance took more than THREE TIMES target time to reach him

  05-02-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tragic Kyle Lowes, 16, died after his scooter collided with a car as he left a McDonald's with friends
  
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• Ralf Little under fire over angry tirade at Clarke Carlisle as he claims: 'I know the full story'

  05-02-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ex-footballer has admitted to clearing out Little's bank account to fund a two-day bender when the pair were friends
  
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• Tianna Measuria dialled 999 after finding her mother unconscious and saved her life

  05-02-2015 22:50 via
  
  Tianna Measuria bravely dialled for an ambulance and told the call handler 'mummy's a bit ill' after she found 24-year-old Jazmin Carter unresponsive in her bed at their home in Falmouth, Cornwall.
  
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• VIDEO: Is it fair to 'shame' online?

  05-02-2015 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Was it fair to 'shame' man online?
  
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• AFCON: Shocking moment players BEG fans not to riot during semi-final marred by crowd trouble

  05-02-2015 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bottles were thrown by Equatorial Guinea supporters throughout the host nation's match with Ghana, prompting the referee to halt proceedings for half an hour
  
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• Stephen Perry accused of hiring girls to ogle and grope CLEARED of sexual assault 

  05-02-2015 22:36 via
  
  Stephen Perry has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting two 17-year-olds when they worked for him at his business in Rotherham in 2012 and 2013.
  
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• Greedy accountant who stole £100,000 from employers ordered to repay just ONE POUND

  05-02-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lauren Cherry, 32, treated herself to expensive holidays, designer clothes and jewellery - but will only make a nominal repayment because she has no assets, a court heard
  
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• A US politician spent $100k on 'Downton Abbey' office decor - but that's drab compared to some of Britain's corridors of power

  05-02-2015 22:30
  Political office is precarious enough before public servants consider the walls between which they work, and how best to decorate them. A strapping young congressman from Illinois has discovered the price of excess: demands for an ethics enquiry on top of the $100,000 (£65,000) of public money he reportedly spent on a lavish "Downton Abbey" makeover.
  
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• BBC licence fee dodgers are still criminals

  05-02-2015 22:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Peers, led by former chairman of the BBC Lord Grade, defeat a government-backed attempt to reform the law
  
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• Millionaire Culture Secretary ''has no problem'' with rip-off ticket tout websites hoovering up concert tickets

  05-02-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tory rising star Sajid Javid said unscrupulous websites have every right to flog gig and football tickets at five or ten times the asking price
  
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• Babies fed by bottle 'could be more prone to allergies'

  05-02-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New research by University of North Carolina discovers breastfeeding boosts growth of bacteria in baby's gut, making digestion of solid food easier
  
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• Drink-driver caught when he runs out of petrol on the motorway

  05-02-2015 21:54 via
  
  Tariq Mahmood, 31, has been banned from the road for three-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to driving over the limit today at Manchester Magistrates Court.
  
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• Surprise Ofsted visit forces head to halt term-time trip

  05-02-2015 21:39 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Claire Spinks, headteacher of Wharton Church of England Primary School, jetted off to Cyprus during the summer term
  
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• Keen golfer faces jail after pocketing £26k in benefits despite entering club tournaments

  05-02-2015 21:32
  
  A KEEN golfer has been found guilty of benefits fraud after wrongly pocketing £26,000 at the same time as competing in championship tournaments.
  
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• ISIS threat: David Cameron warns fight against Islamic extremism will continue for a ''generation''

  05-02-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The PM hit back over criticism from MPs that Britain is not doing enough to fight Islamic State
  
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• British jihadist posed with severed heads in Syria and faked his own death in an attempt to slip back into UK, court told

  05-02-2015 21:25
  A British jihadist, who was filmed holding severed heads while in Syria, joined a terrorist training camp before faking his own death and attempted to sneak back into the UK, a court has heard.
  
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• Quiet janitor stuns community by leaving MILLIONS in surprise donations

  05-02-2015 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ronald Read had also worked as a petrol station attendant but had secretly amassed a £5.2million fortune
  
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• Elderly man spent his final years working as a janitor - despite being a secret MILLIONAIRE

  05-02-2015 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ronald Read, 92, appeared to live a frugal life - but left huge sums to his local hospital and library when he died
  
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• Andrew Lansley’s ‘damaging reforms at root of the current NHS crisis’

  05-02-2015 21:18
  The Coalition’s health reforms were “damaging and distracting” for the NHS, and government policy for the past two years has been “devoted to limiting the damage”, health experts have said.
  
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• The British Army launches drive to recruit more Muslims

  05-02-2015 21:17
  
  The Army is making a determined push to recruit Muslims in an attempt to counter the rise in radicalisation which has driven hundreds of young men from this country to join violent extremist groups like Isis and al-Shabaab.
  
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• Chancellor ignored advice from Treasury to launch Help to Buy scheme

  05-02-2015 21:13
  
  The Chancellor’s economic justification for his Help to Buy programme was contradicted by the Treasury’s own internal analysis, The Independent has learned.
  
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• Family who spent thousands painting their house bright YELLOW told they must repaint it

  05-02-2015 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Varese family have been told by their local council to change the colour of the house following complaints from locals
  
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• Glasgow bin lorry driver thinks of the six victims 'every minute of every day'

  05-02-2015 21:12
  
  The driver of a bin lorry that killed six Christmas shoppers in Glasgow has said that he thinks of the victims "every minute of every day".
  
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• Rolf Harris interviewed under caution by Operation Yewtree detectives

  05-02-2015 21:10 via
  
  The Australian presenter was questioned this week at a police station in Stafford, Staffordshire by officers investigating historic sex offences in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
  
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• Gary Glitter guilty of sexual abuse and attempted rape of young girls

  05-02-2015 21:09 via
  
  The paedophile pop star, who was previously convicted of possessing a huge haul of child porn, had denied attempted rape and indecent assault.
  
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• Crocodile snaps its jaws around Elephant's trunk as it takes a drink in South Africa 

  05-02-2015 21:09 via
  
  These incredible photographs captured the moment a four meter crocodile clamped its jaws round the trunk of a bull elephant and refused to let go at the Sabi Sands game reserve in South Africa.
  
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• Father charged with causing seven-year-old son's death by dangerous driving after car crash

  05-02-2015 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tragic Alin Mosa was killed when his family's grey Kia Soul crashed with a DAF lorry on their way back from a holiday last August
  
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• Jordan bombs ISIS in revenge raid for pilot terrorists burned alive then salutes dead hero

  05-02-2015 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two days ago IS released a brutal video showing captured Jordanian Muath al-Kasaesbeh being burnt alive in a cage - today he was honoured with a fly-past
  
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