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• Firm boss who slated Labour revealed as a Tory EU pullout

  07-02-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peter Hargreaves, who co-founded investment giant Hargreaves Lansdown, said Labour would bankrupt Britain
  
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• The bravest mother in Britain... or the craziest? When Justine Radiven faced the anguish of losing her husband to cancer, they made an astonishing decision - to have as many children as possible before he died

  07-02-2015 23:52 via
  
  What makes their undeniably tragic story even more remarkable is that Daniel was diagnosed before he met Justine. She says: ‘I had never known him not to have cancer.’
  
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• Secrecy over guests at Tories' £15,000-a-table fundraising ball as organisers try to keep table plans under wraps

  07-02-2015 23:44 via
  
  Organisers of the Tories' Black and White fundraising ball, to be held in London tomorrow, have banned table plans to keep identities secret, pictured is David Cameron at the ball in 2008.
  
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• Quiz: Terminator 2 Judgment Day - How much can you remember from this iconic film?

  07-02-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  To celebrate E4 airing the Arnold Schwarzenegger starring classic we've compiled the best quiz to test your memory
  
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• It may not feel like it, but here's the proof... spring IS in the air: Lambs and blooms herald the return of warmer weather 

  07-02-2015 23:37 via
  
  The lamb was born in Downderry, Cornwall, where shepherd Arthur Phillips, 58, has been working round the clock to make sure that his new arrivals survive the chilly weather.
  
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• Death rate up at struggling hospital despite being put into special measures

  07-02-2015 23:32 via
  
  Tameside Hospital in Manchester (pictured) was one of 11 NHS Trusts ordered to undergo the ‘improvement’ process in July 2013 by NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh.
  
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• The NHS whistle-blowers who spoke out for patients

  07-02-2015 23:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As Sir Robert Francis prepares to publish the first independent review of the treatment of whistle-blowers in the NHS, we look at some of those whose disturbing experiences led to the review:
  
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• MoD police officer suspended after 'searching for Paul Gascoigne on confidential database'

  07-02-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The officer involved has been removed from his post after allegations he looked at the police log from the Dorset force where Gazza lives
  
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• Ministry of Defence police officer suspended after 'searching for Paul Gascoigne on confidential database'

  07-02-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The officer involved has been removed from his post after allegations he looked at the police log from the Dorset force where Gazza lives
  
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• Enfield the Eighth: Hidden from view in suburban North London, a stunning home with a very surprising link to England's Wolf Hall monarch  

  07-02-2015 23:18 via
  
  The Tudor Room inside Little Park was the place where Henry VIII’s children – Elizabeth, Mary and Edward – were summoned to be told that the King was dead.
  
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• Rare snowdrop bloom worth £50 a BULB covers country estate in carpet of flowers worth up to £5m

  07-02-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rare varieties of snowdrops are highly prized and sought after by gardeners for their early-rising annual blooms, meaning they can change hands for big money
  
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• Police force tells officers 'stop investigating crime' as it struggles to cope with Government cuts

  07-02-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than 150 officers with  Leicestershire Police will instead spend their time on so-called “neighbourhood duties” as part of a cost-cutting drive
  
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• Harrowing undercover footage in butcher's abattoir shows farm animals kicked, punched and thrown around

  07-02-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sheep, pigs and cows destined for the butcher’s block scream in harrowing footage captured by animal welfare campaigners
  
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• Barbaric butcher's abattoir: Screaming animals KICKED and PUNCHED before being slaughtered

  07-02-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sheep, pigs and cows destined for the butcher’s block scream in harrowing footage captured by animal welfare campaigners
  
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• Petrol bomb attack in Bangladesh kills 9

  07-02-2015 23:08 via
  
  Nine people have been killed and at least 30 injured in Bangladesh following petrol bomb attacks linked to the country's disputed elections.
  
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• Sisters 'arrested and kicked out of Cambodia after taking NAKED photos at sacred Buddhist temple'

  07-02-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lindsey Adams, 22, and 20-year-old Leslie Adams were reportedly discovered taking 'nude pictures' in the Preah Khan temple at the world heritage site
  
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• 'What the f*** have I done?' Actress Dakota Johnson admits doubts over Fifty Shades film

  07-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The 25-year-old actress has admitted she had doubts about accepting the part of Anastasia Steele in Sam Taylor-Johnson's film
  
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• Hunt: Sweeping reforms to end 'NHS cover up culture'

  07-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jeremy Hunt has vowed to change the NHS culture, with a national review to prevent needless deaths and new safeguards for staff who blow the whistle on poor care
  
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• HMRC plan to scrap £100 fines for late tax returns

  07-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Government's £100 fine for late tax returns could be scrapped for hundreds of thousands of people who return the forms "a day or two" late
  
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• Badly wounded British veterans using war pensions to pay for their care due to bureaucratic 'absurdity' 

  07-02-2015 22:59 via
  
  The Royal British Legion is calling on David Cameron (pictured) to address an anomaly that means some veterans must hand over most of their weekly injury payments should they require social care.
  
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• Brit linked to Bangkok body-in-a-suitcase bar girl murder protests innocence – while on the run

  07-02-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shane Looker, 45, from Stoke is wanted for questioning after he was the last person seen with Laxami “Pook” Manochat before her her dismembered corpse was found in a suitcase
  
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• Top businessman who believes Ed Miliband can take the country forward

  07-02-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour's chair of small business taskforce Bill Thomas says that while Ed Balls couldn't remember his name, Labour are good for business
  
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• Emma Thompson home schools her daughter after girl says school 'wasn't for her' 

  07-02-2015 22:28 via
  
  Thompson's husband Greg Wise has revealed the couple's 15-year-old daughter Gaia has left her north London private school, and is now being taught in a specially built classroom in the garden.
  
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• Cops find 60 decomposing bodies in crematorium which shut a YEAR ago after its owners went bust

  07-02-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING graphic images: Police entered the building after complaints of a bad smell and found the 'perfectly embalmed' corpses which had been prepared for cremation
  
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• Revealed: Fatcat finance gurus accused of promoting tax avoidance are pocketing MILLIONS of pounds

  07-02-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A report published this week by the Public Accounts Committee accused PwC of pushing tax avoidance schemes on an “industrial scale”
  
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• Clarke Carlisle suicide attempt witness: I told 999 he was dead - then his arm moved

  07-02-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chris Kilbride, 24, said he has been so traumatised by the incident he suffers flashbacks and nightmares – and has been forced to quit his job
  
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• Wounded war veterans forced to fund their own care

  07-02-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Thousands of injured veterans are having to give up compensation money to pay for their own social care under 'profoundly unfair' Government guidelines
  
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• PM: Ed Miliband has a 'sneering hatred of business'

  07-02-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron tells The Telegraph that Ed Miliband is a "clear and present threat" to families and could cost Britain 100,000 jobs, as former Labour donors criticise the party's economic policies
  
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• Chocolate-coated scallops, darling? Heston Blumenthal's recipe for love

  07-02-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Michelin-starred chef has created a menu designed as the "ultimate culinary aphrodisiac" for a new TV series
  
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• Labour vow to double childcare places at Sure Start centres after Tories break promise

  07-02-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour make election pledge to create 118,00 Sure Start places and ensure all the Sure Start centres must provide childcare
  
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• Hay Festival cancels Mexico event

  07-02-2015 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The governor of Mexico's Veracruz state defends security in Xalapa after the UK Hay festival cancelled its annual event in the city.
  
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• Business leaders targeting Ed Miliband are just rattled Tory fat cats protecting their own interests

  07-02-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In his Sunday Mirror column John Prescott zeros his sights on why David Cameron's chums are sniping at the Labour leader
  
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• Sunday Mirror investigates: Shady teeth whitening 'technicians' are leaving a nasty taste in people's mouths

  07-02-2015 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A growing number of sharks are getting their own teeth into the lucrative dental cosmetics industry – and playing fast and loose with the law
  
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• Kate Middleton friend's sex parties for the rich and famous are booming thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey

  07-02-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emma Sayle’s members-only elite sex club Killing Kittens has seen ­bookings for its kinky ­parties sell out in the run-up to the film’s release on Friday
  
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• Kate Middleton friend's sex and bondage parties are booming thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey

  07-02-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emma Sayle’s members-only elite sex club Killing Kittens has seen ­bookings for its kinky ­parties sell out in the run-up to the film’s release on Friday
  
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• Sandra Chambers: Devastated mum pays tribute to "vibrant" daughter killed in horror crash

  07-02-2015 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mother-of-two Sandra Chambers, 21, died after the motorbike she was a passenger on was involved in a tragic collision
  
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• Sam Smith vetoes Russia gigs in protest over country's stance on gay rights

  07-02-2015 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Despite a huge fan base in the country, the singer has said he detests ­president Vladimir Putin’s stance on ­homosexuality
  
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• War mums refused chance to honour hero sons killed in Afghanistan

  07-02-2015 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Special service was held to honour boys killed in line of duty but there was just 906 places despite 2,400 invites being sent out
  
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• Shocking photos show leopard being BURNED on pyre after it attacked villagers

  07-02-2015 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING graphic images: The leopard was tracked down and killed before being set alight on the funeral pyre-style stack of wood in a forest clearing
  
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• Shocking photos show leopard being BURNED on pyre after it attacked for people

  07-02-2015 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING graphic images: The leopard was tracked down and killed before being set alight on the funeral pyre-style stack of wood in a forest clearing
  
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• Birmingham school said to have sent £1million of public money to Pakistan is revealed to have £3million in debts 

  07-02-2015 21:08 via
  
  New leadership was brought into Al-Hijrah School last year, after the council forced out old governors and sacked its headteacher amid claims of financial irregularities and poor education.
  
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• Breadline Britain: 20MILLION now living in poverty as landmark study reveals how tax system creates inequality

  07-02-2015 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The largest ever survey of poverty in the UK claims that one in three Britons is now below an internationally accepted minimum living standard
  
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• Everton 0-0 Liverpool

  07-02-2015 20:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool's three-match Premier League winning run ends as the 224th Merseyside derby ends in a goalless draw at Everton.
  
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• Heartbreak of cancer girl who accepts she'll never experience true love before she dies

  07-02-2015 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kathryn Cartwright, 24, has never received a Valentine's card and had a 'bucket list' picture taken wearing a wedding dress as she won't have time to find Mr Right
  
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• Heartache of cancer girl who accepts she'll never experience true love before she dies

  07-02-2015 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kathryn Cartwright, 24, has never received a Valentine's card and had a 'bucket list' picture taken wearing a wedding dress as she won't have time to find Mr Right
  
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• How 'Iron Man' McCoy became a legend

  07-02-2015 20:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tales of broken bones and broken records behind 19-time champion jockey AP McCoy's legendary career.
  
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• Arsenal's Mesut Ozil buys SHISHA pipe - just as Arsene Wenger denies club has smoking problem

  07-02-2015 20:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Gunners manager could well be left fuming at our exclusve pictures following recent incidents involving midfielder Jack Wilshere and goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny
  
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• Michael Le Vell shocks co-stars with on-set 'porn confession' during break in filming

  07-02-2015 20:49 via
  
  Michael Le Vell, 50, reportedly told fellow Coronation Street stars that he is a fan of porn website RedTube during a gap in filming, admitting that the site is one of his 'favourites'.
  
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• Sixties swingers get drug blame as inquiry held into growing number of ageing users

  07-02-2015 20:48
  
  An inquiry is to be held into growing numbers of ageing drug users, as the Swinging ’60s and ’70s generations age.
  
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• Gary Glitter superfan selling CALENDARS of paedophile rocker despite latest child abuse convictions

  07-02-2015 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Adoring Claire Shephard, 50, proudly brought out a 2015 calendar costing £20 a time dedicated to the singer as he awaited trial
  
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