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• Teachers’ unions blast Government over insufficient plans to cut red tape

  06-02-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Deputy PM Nick Clegg and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan had hoped to win staff support in election run-up – but instead are accused of ignoring their views
  
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• Great Train clobber goes up for sale with Ronnie Biggs' watch on offer

  06-02-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A wristwatch and signet ring worn by Ronnie Biggs during the robbery are being offered as part of a lot of the crime's memorabilia
  
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• Move daffodils to stop people eating them, shops told

  06-02-2015 23:50 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Health officials say bulbs are being mistaken for onions and stems for Chinese vegetables, telling shops to move the flowers away from food
  
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• Mamadou Sakho: I never considered quitting Liverpool despite derby snub

  06-02-2015 23:50
  
  • Defender walked out of Anfield before home match with Everton
  • ‘I never doubted I would come back – I’m happy at Liverpool’
  • Gerrard: Liverpool must seal Sterling and Henderson deals
  • Sturridge may start against Everton, says Rodgers
  • Match preview: Everton v LiverpoolMamadou Sakho has said he never considered quitting Liverpool despite walking out of September’s Merseyside derby at Anfield following a snub from the manager, Brendan Rodgers.The France international init
  
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• 'No-one else will die like Nadejah' promise Labour as it vows to change its cancer policy

  06-02-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nadejah Williams, of Channel 4’s Shipwrecked, died at 23 from colon cancer after being denied CyberKnife treatment
  
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• Why it is better for golf if BBC makes itself scarce on the fairways

  06-02-2015 23:31
  
  From 2017 the Open Championship will go to Sky Sports and the national broadcaster will take two hours of highlights each evening – and not before timeIf it means putting the cash towards more Wolf Halls, I’m entirely in favour of televised sport migrating to subscription channels. Wolf Hall is what the BBC does best. Better than anyone in the world, you might think. Sport? Once upon a time but no longer.It was announced this week that golf’s Open Championship will stay with the BBC but on
  
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• Your Money: Are old computers a potential investment?

  06-02-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Are old computers a potential investment?
  
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• Louis van Gaal: consistency will make Manchester United best team in country

  06-02-2015 23:30
  
  • Manager believes United can improve all aspects of their play
  • Ángel Di María set to start against West Ham despite burglary traumaLouis van Gaal believes that when Manchester United consistently find their best form they will be the country’s No1 team, though the manager said it also depends on how Chelsea and Manchester City develop.United trail Chelsea by 10 points and City by five yet Van Gaal, who will deny an FA charge of bringing the game into disrepute during the FA Cup four
  
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• Chelsea’s José Mourinho returns reluctantly to the media fray

  06-02-2015 23:30
  
  • Prickly manager admits he is ‘not super-happy’ to be at press conference
  • Familiar complaints aimed at Football Association over past decisionsJosé Mourinho has made a prickly comeback to media duties by offering a familiar reminder that Arsène Wenger escaped sanction for appearing to push the Chelsea manager on the touchline earlier this season, and reaffirming his belief that clubs who flout Uefa’s financial fair play rules, implying Manchester City, should be docke
  
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• Arsenal’s Arsène Wenger ready for battle with Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino

  06-02-2015 23:30
  
  Arsenal manager knows his opposite number in the north London derby is a tough opponent and has respect for his managerial achievements so farArsène Wenger had been asked for his memories of Mauricio Pochettino, the player, and he responded by turning his palm upwards and making a karate-chopping gesture in a diagonal direction.“Tough,” the Arsenal manager added, with a smile. Wenger, clearly, has vivid recollections of Pochettino’s brutal, scything foul on Michael Owen at the 2002
  
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• St Helens kick off Super League defence with victory over Catalans Dragons

  06-02-2015 23:29
  
  • St Helens 18-7 Catalans DragonsKeiron Cunningham tasted success in his first game as St Helens coach in a stop-start match against Catalans Dragons that saw former Australia centre Willie Tonga knocked out just 12 seconds into his Super League debut.Former London Broncos forward Atelea Vea marked his Saints debut with the game’s first try and 19-year-old Andre Savelio scored his first try for the club as the defending champions ground out an 18-7 victory against their injury-stricken oppon
  
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• European energy regulations could be strengthened under commission plans

  06-02-2015 23:25
  
  Proposals for new legislation on energy efficiency would be brought forward this October, but it could take years for any changes in directives to be enforcedRules on how buildings should be constructed so as to save energy are set to be strengthened in European member states, if plans under way from the European commission reach completion.
  The current directive on the energy performance of buildings, which sets certain standards for construction and refurbishment to ensure good insulation an
  
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• Lizabeth Scott obituary

  06-02-2015 23:13
  
  Film-noir femme fatale of the 1940s and 50sIn the mid-1940s, Paramount described their latest star signing, Lizabeth Scott, who has died aged 92, as “beautiful, blonde, aloof and alluring” and, in anticipation of her becoming another tough-girl siren of the period, nicknamed her The Threat. However, during her 12-year film career, the critics and public never saw her as a threat to the two other noirish dames she most resembled, Lauren Bacall and Veronica Lake, although they rarely played du
  
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• World's ONLY all-girl sextuplets celebrate adding another to their huge family

  06-02-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Walton sisters went through 11,000 nappies a year and now one of them has a baby of her own
  
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• Girl aged 11 charged with sex offences 'had access to hardcore porn'

  06-02-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The girl's older brother broke the news on Facebook prompting an angry gathering of parent's outside the girl's school
  
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• England storm back to beat Wales in stirring Six Nations opener

  06-02-2015 23:05
  
  • Wales 16-21 England
  • Relive the action with Dan Lucas’s MBM report
  • Wales v England: Six Nations in pictures
  • Player ratings from the Six Nations match in CardiffGreat occasions do not always produce classic games but England will long remember this frantic thriller. Under the Friday night lights this was as tense and breathless as any Anglo-Welsh contest in recent memory, a prime-time example of why the Six Nations retains its allure. If it is an indicator of what lies in
  
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• Wales v England: Six Nations 2015 – as it happened

  06-02-2015 23:03
  
  Match report: Wales 16-21 EnglandBen Youngs orchestrates shock win in Cardiff 10.03pm GMT Well what a result that is for England. They went into this match with nothing to lose, really, and have come away with a remarkable win. Yes they have greater strength in depth than other teams, but they can’t give everyone international experience and for such a novice group to come and win in one of the world’s most intimidating stadiums is remarkable.Wales looked rusty, both sides made mistakes and
  
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• Tony Blair loyalists called Alan Johnson to probe rumoured plot against Ed Miliband

  06-02-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lord Mandelson and Alastair Campbell rang the former Home Secretary to ask if he was seeking to oust the Labour leader
  
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• Half of EU voters back David Cameron's bid to reform Brussels, poll finds

  06-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In a major boost to the Prime Minister, a poll of European countries finds growing support for reform of the European Union
  
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• Victory for seven-year-old leukaemia sufferer after the government AXED his benefits

  06-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tommi Miller's family had their benefits cut after the youngster was given the all-clear from leukaemia but they were not reinstated when the disease returned
  
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• Angels of the bridge as mum and daughter drag suicide man to safety

  06-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paula Woolven, 42, and her girl Becca, 19, saved the 25-year-old’s life after he lost his grip and fell from the bridge 20ft over a cold and fast-flowing river
  
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• Watch: Bafta awards live stream

  06-02-2015 22:56 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Live footage direct from the Bafta red carpet at the Royal Opera House in London - coverage starts at 4.45pm GMT
  
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• Hillsborough inquest: Officer says cops threw struggling fans back into crowded pens

  06-02-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former sergeant tells jury he shouted at colleagues: “let them over the fences”, and claims head officer lacked experience for the job
  
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• To Kill a Mockingbird: Is Harper Lee being manipulated by lawyers for lucrative sequel?

  06-02-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  To many it seems strange that the reclusive Harper Lee would release a sequel so long after her 1961 novel and many wonder if she is being manipulated. Mirror US Editor Chris Bucktin visits the nursing home where the legendary author lives
  
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• 'It is NOT rape if the woman is drunk': Outrage as top barrister says men should be cleared

  06-02-2015 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Furious rape campaign groups have condemned barrister David Osborne’s claim on his website in a blog he has called “SHE WAS GAGGING FOR IT”
  
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• Boy aged 9 held by police after huge fire in shopping centre leaves 17 people dead

  06-02-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police believe the youngster was playing with a lighter before the enormous blaze broke out, which also injured four firefighters
  
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• 'I make £25,000 from men who want to be my sugar daddy': Durham University student's shock claims

  06-02-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 21-year-old, is juggling a law degree with living the high life - including top nights in hotels and trips to Dubai
  
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• Government 'knew flu jabs were useless' almost one year ago

  06-02-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Current Flu jabs are useless on 97% of people and now it emerges the Government may have known this all along
  
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• How Labour's leader became the Ed Miller Band and other mistakes in live TV subtitles

  06-02-2015 22:05 via
  
  A Heath Robinson system called ‘re-speaking’ is used to create subtitles as programmes are being broadcast. Sometimes, however, the computer software doesn’t get things quite right . . .
  
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• British extremist accused of faking his death to return to UK posed with severed head in Syria

  06-02-2015 22:05 via
  
  Imran Khawaja, 27, posed for the picture while with the Rayat al-Tawheed (RAT) insurgents to 'create propaganda' for Islamic State extremists.
  
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• Dozens of rotting bodies found in abandoned Mexican crematorium

  06-02-2015 22:03 via
  
  The 61 bodies, most of them male, were discovered in a disused funeral home near the popular resort of Acapulco, Mexico, in varying states of decomposition.
  
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• Watch dramatic footage of 142mph police chase as shop burglar attempts to evade capture in high-performance car

  06-02-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage shows police pursuing £40k shop raider Scott Parker at speeds of more than 140mph along M42
  
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• Teenager not guilty of killing Muslim boyfriend after they rowed over Western lifestyle

  06-02-2015 21:53
  
  A TEENAGE Muslim convert has today been cleared of killing her Islamic boyfriend after the pair argued over her Western lifestyle.
  
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• Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande sit down with Vladimir Putin to press for peace deal

  06-02-2015 21:38 via
  
  The leaders of France and Germany sat down with Vladimir Putin in Moscow today as the world leaders tried to hammer out a peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis.
  
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• Two Algerian men and two Czech women sentenced to jail for sham marriages

  06-02-2015 21:36 via
  
  Two Algerian men and two Czech women have been imprisoned for sham marriages - but the men fled half way through the trial at Teesside Crown Court and have not been seen since.
  
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• Teenage Muslim convert cleared of killing boyfriend after claiming he stabbed HIMSELF during row

  06-02-2015 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Law firm worker Sarah Willis, 19, said Bilal Saddique was unhappy with her 'Westernised' lifestyle and accused her of dressing "like a s**g"
  
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• Sick thief stole 82-year-old woman's purse as she lay dying in road after being hit by lorry

  06-02-2015 21:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Detectives investigating the theft in Leigh, near Manchester, say it is one of the most 'disgusting' crimes they have ever come across
  
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• Schoolboy was turned into a sexual predator after getting hooked on online pornography

  06-02-2015 21:21 via
  
  The boy, now aged 16, from Devon, admitted sexually assaulting one girl aged 11 and another aged 13, and bullied a 12-year-old into sending him explicit pictures of herself via Facebook.
  
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• Brothers ordered to remove song from iTunes because it says Peppa Pig is 'no longer cool' 

  06-02-2015 21:12 via
  
  Peppa Pig bosses sent brothers Joshua Lima, 10, and brother Noah, 8, from St Albans, Hertfordshire, a legal letter ordering them to remove their song about the animated character from iTunes.
  
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• Is your love written in the stars? It could be! Now you can send your Valentine's Day message into SPACE

  06-02-2015 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Want to tell your partner they're 'out of this world'? This could be the perfect gift for February 14
  
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• Midwife who used laughing gas in hospital delivery room is struck off

  06-02-2015 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Colleagues found Fiona Midgley snoring in her rest break after the overheard her inhaling nitrous oxide – and bosses uncovered a string of errors in her work
  
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• Keep daffodils away from spring onions, shops told

  06-02-2015 20:58
  
  Supermarkets across Britain have been asked by health officials to keep daffodils away from food after some customers mistook the poisonous plants for a kind of spring onion or Chinese vegetable.
  
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• Daffodils must be kept away from vegetables in case people think they're onions, shops told

  06-02-2015 20:58
  
  Supermarkets across Britain have been asked by health officials to keep daffodils away from food after some customers mistook the poisonous plants for a kind of spring onion or Chinese vegetable.
  
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• Baby beats the bookies to share a special birthday with her dad AND gran

  06-02-2015 20:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It seems good things really do come in threes as little Arabella Moore arrives on January 27 – against the odds of 133,225-1
  
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• Satanists: the beast worshippers of Bolsover

  06-02-2015 20:57
  
  Sitting behind what seemed an ordinary desk in an ordinary office, Andrew Tristram of Old Bolsover Town Council offered an apparently genial smile and reassured us: “I am not the emissary of Beelzebub. I am not the unholy servant of Satan. I am the town clerk.”
  
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• ‘World of Warcraft’ fraudsters: Cyber-crime chief warns of new threat

  06-02-2015 20:57
  
  Young people are being drawn into increasingly serious cyber crime after beginning with acts of petty theft inside online fantasy games such as World of Warcraft, Britain’s most senior cyber detective has said.
  
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• Southern trains admits to 5,000 complaints A DAY - and then changes its mind

  06-02-2015 20:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The firm replied to a Tweet and confessed to receiving between 2,000 and 5,000 complaints a day and then claimed it was ALL contact and not just complaints
  
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• Ukip’s man in khaki: forget Russia, it’s Argentina and Spain we need to fear

  06-02-2015 20:52
  
  The Middle East may be awash with violence while fears of “total war” between Russia and Ukraine persist, but Ukip’s top military man appears to be gearing up to fight older battles.
  
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• Me Generation: Middle class 'are more self-centred', claims new study

  06-02-2015 20:51
  
  WORKING in an office makes people more selfcentred, a new study claims.
  
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• Woman who conned John Lewis by getting refunds for items she had shoplifted is jailed

  06-02-2015 20:43 via
  
  Laima Butke, 55, who conned John Lewis out of more than £30,000 by claiming refunds for items of clothing she had shoplifted has been jailed for 19 months at Aylesbury Crown Court.
  
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