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• Neil Armstrong's secret bag of moon landing mementos that were supposed to remain in space discovered by his widow in a closet

  08-02-2015 23:58 via
  
  Neil Armstrong's second wife Carol found a bag filled with nearly 20 artifacts from the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, including a camera used on the lunar module.
  
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• VIDEO: Highlights of the 2015 Bafta Awards

  08-02-2015 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bafta successes for Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore and the film Boyhood at star-studded night in London's west end
  
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• VIDEO: Bafta Awards 2015: The highlights

  08-02-2015 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bafta successes for Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore and the film Boyhood at star-studded night in London's west end
  
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• Thousands of British Muslims protest against Charlie Hebdo magazine for publishing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed

  08-02-2015 23:51 via
  
  The vast crowd of protesters gathered outside Downing Street for communal prayers before handing a petition signed by more than 100,000 British Muslims to No 10.
  
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• A million pensioners to benefit from bonds

  08-02-2015 23:51 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  More than 610,000 people bought pensioner bonds worth £7.5billion since they were launched last month, in a move branded 'inter-generational theft'
  
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• Crouching Tiger star wooed by drone

  08-02-2015 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, star of Crouching Tiger, is getting married after her musician boyfriend used a drone to propose to her.
  
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• Is the cost of fish and chips set to rise as cod prices take a battering? Wholesale value of the fish leaps by 25% in a year

  08-02-2015 23:40 via
  
  Commodity analysts Mintec reported that the price per tonne for wholesale Norwegian cod has leapt by 25.7% year on year to £1,060 as a result of tightening supplies and soaring demand.
  
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• Ivory Coast 0-0 Ghana (9-8 on pens)

  08-02-2015 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ivory Coast win the Africa Cup of Nations with a dramatic 9-8 penalty shootout victory against Ghana in the final.
  
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• The children's wards closing their doors as flu spreads: Surge in illness means units across the country have stopped admissions... with babies most at risk 

  08-02-2015 23:40 via
  
  Paediatricians say children’s wards up and down the country have had to temporarily close to new admissions this winter because they are full, and flu could ‘absolutely’ be adding to the pressure.
  
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• Asda introduces first SWEET red onion which causes fewer tears and won't linger so long on your breath

  08-02-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The new "sweet red" will have lower pungency levels and is reportedly milder, juicier and crunchier than more established varieties
  
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• 'Man Utd long-ball tactics hurt us'

  08-02-2015 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Ham United boss Sam Allardyce says Manchester United resorted to "thump it forward and see" tactics at Upton Park.
  
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• Pearson remains as Leicester manager

  08-02-2015 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leicester say Nigel Pearson remains their manager, after reports claimed he had been sacked by the Premier League club.
  
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• NHS losing an estimated £13MILLION every year from thefts, Mirror investigation reveals

  08-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shocking figures come after our story last month on children’s toys being chained to hospital beds to stop them from going missing
  
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• New Baby P mum 'was part of burglary gang that slit man's throat and left him for dead while stealing TV set and jacket worth £179'

  08-02-2015 23:25 via
  
  An on-the-run Polish killer, 30, and her boyfriend are at the centre of a Scotland Yard murder investigation after their six-month-old son died from serious head injuries.
  
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• Dermot Murnaghan: Watch angry president ripping earpiece off in disgust after Sky News anchor gets his name wrong

  08-02-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Estonian president Toomas Ilves reacted by refusing to even begin the interview, forcing Dermot Murnaghan to switch to another news item
  
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• After weeks of Siberian weather, a touch of spring brings highs of 12C to the UK, with balmy temperatures also predicted this week - and it's not a moment too soon!

  08-02-2015 23:14 via
  
  Britain enjoyed its first taste of spring today with temperatures soaring to 12C in the Northeast, pictured are lambs playing in the Cumbria countryside this afternoon.
  
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• Will the Green party turn Red to make a swoop for power like Greeks?

  08-02-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Socialists are flocking to the Green Party whose anti austerity policy seems to mirror the formula that won over so many Greek voters
  
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• V&A Museum raises £2.8million to save four bronze angels meant for Cardinal Wolsey's tomb for the nation

  08-02-2015 23:11 via
  
  The metre-high works were made in 1524 to show off the wealth of Henry VIII's chief adviser, but his tomb remained unfinished after the pair fell out and the angels vanished into obscurity until 1994.
  
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• 'Why Man Utd are toiling in attack'

  08-02-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former West Ham striker and MOTD2 pundit John Hartson explains why Manchester United are under-performing in attack.
  
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• Pigs might SWIM in the Bahamas, where these beach bum oinkers paddle up to 300ft from the shore to enjoy the 24C Caribbean sea 

  08-02-2015 23:00 via
  
  This family of swimming pigs are something of a tourist attraction on the uninhabited island in the Bahamas, with hundreds of people visiting to take a dip with the animals every year.
  
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• Former ministers in cross-party plea for defence spending

  08-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain must stick to its commitment to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence say former ministers
  
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• ''Sex addiction'' stopped Mike Tyson from being the best boxer ever

  08-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former manager Rory Holloway said he could have been the greatest of all time if he hadn’t been floored by his “weakness for women”
  
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• Ed Miliband to promise extra two weeks’ paid paternity leave for new dads

  08-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He will vow to double the amount of time off for fathers to four weeks under a Labour government
  
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• Zane Gbangbola: Dad's touching letter to seven-year-old son on first anniversary of his death in floods

  08-02-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Zane Gbangbola died when floodwater entered the basement of his family home in Surrey on February 8 last year
  
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• Baby born prematurely in New York leaving parents facing a feared £130,000 medical bill flies home in style - by private jet!

  08-02-2015 22:50 via
  
  Dax Lee Johnston spent seven weeks in the city after his unexpected arrival weighing just 3lbs while his parents were enjoying a four-day getaway after Christmas.
  
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• Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be allowed to veto a UK exit of the EU, says Plaid Cymru leader

  08-02-2015 22:43
  
  Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be allowed to veto a UK exit of the EU, the leader of the Welsh nationalists said yesterday.
  
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• ''I booked gastric band op before Hollyoaks then realised - I'd rather just be me''

  08-02-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Comedian Helen Lederer almost had weight-loss surgery last month to fit in with the Hollyoaks cast, but now at 60, she is finally learning to accept herself
  
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• Brickies, plumbers and sparks built house for free for little disabled boy

  08-02-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kindly bricklayers, plumbers, electricians and decorators gave up weekends and evenings for free to gut and rebuild a ramshackle house for four-year-old Aidan Jackowiak
  
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• Scotland's First Minister and Labour leader don SOMBREROS

  08-02-2015 22:17 via
  
  Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon giggled as she posed alongside Luis Garcia wearing a sombrero and carrying a guitar at St Columbkille's Church in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire.
  
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• Video: Meet the talented pooch who can balance anything from glasses to THREE ORANGES on his head

  08-02-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brac the border collie started his balancing acts when he was just a six-month-old puppy and has never looked back
  
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• Grieving father writes heartbreaking letter to the seven-year-old son killed in last year's floods as campaign continues to find out why he died

  08-02-2015 22:10 via
  
  A pathologist concluded Zane Gbangbola died from carbon monoxide intoxication at home in Chertsey, Surrey but his parents maintain he was killed by hydrogen cyanide poisoning.
  
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• Raif Badawi: Prince Charles 'planning to raise case of blogger' during Saudi Arabia visit

  08-02-2015 22:07
  
  Prince Charles plans to challenge the new king of Saudi Arabia about the flogging of jailed blogger Raif Badawi, it was reported today – following an outcry against the British Establishment’s close ties with the regime.
  
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• Egypt football deaths: At least 14 killed after riot erupts when cops stop fans entering stadium before match

  08-02-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Clashes broke out when security forces banned fans from entering a stadium to watch a match in a local league in Cairo
  
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• HSBC 'helped clients dodge tax'

  08-02-2015 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  HSBC, Britain's biggest bank, helped wealthy clients cheat the UK out of millions of pounds in tax, thousands of documents seen by BBC Panorama show.
  
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• ''Cold air can kill me - I could die if my body drops below 4C''

  08-02-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Patricia Hackett, 71, spends much of the winter indoors and risks fatal anaphylactic shock in the cold weather
  
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• Christie wins speed-skating silver

  08-02-2015 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British skater Elise Christie takes 500m silver in the ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Dresden, Germany.
  
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• Lush planting, grand fountains and a beautiful retreat grown out of tragedy: A peek inside Britain's most beautiful gardens

  08-02-2015 21:52 via
  
  Hidden fountains, cobbled courtyards, wild flowers and Japanese-influenced oases of calm - some of Britain's most breathtaking spaces are all winners of this year's Society of Garden Designers awards.
  
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• Was Bruce Jenner texting? Police to check phone records after fatal rear-end crash which killed 69-year-old Kardashian neighbour 

  08-02-2015 21:41 via
  
  Police are checking Bruce Jenner's phone records amid claims he was texting at the wheel as his Cadillac Escalade ploughed into the back of another vehicle, leaving its driver dead.
  
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• Barney Arkel: Kids leave touching roadside tributes for much-loved lollipop man as thanks for keeping them safe

  08-02-2015 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The popular school fixture was known for his 'jiggly dances,' high fives and cheery demeanour
  
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• Bafta Awards 2015: Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch arrive on the red carpet

  08-02-2015 21:34 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Best Actor nominees Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch go head-to-head at the Bafta Awards 2015 - watch as they arrive on the red carpet
  
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• Wikipedia to be beamed into space so aliens can learn about the human race

  08-02-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wikipedia is becoming Wookiepedia as boffins hope the informative website will help us reach out to intelligent life forms
  
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• Teaching assistant who slipped on a JIGSAW piece costs education bosses nearly £40,000 in compensation case

  08-02-2015 21:28 via
  
  A teaching assistant in Blackpool who slipped on a jigsaw piece has cost a local council almost £40,000 in taxpayers' cash. It was one of 281 payouts to teachers and their assistants last year.
  
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• Shocking pictures show family being cut from mangled car after horror crash on motorway

  08-02-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Passenger were cut from the wreckage after reportedly being hit by another vehicle when they suffered a puncture on the M42
  
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• Family in miracle escape after being cut from mangled car following horror motorway crash

  08-02-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Passengers had to be removed from the wreckage after reportedly being hit by another vehicle when they suffered a puncture on the M42
  
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• Baftas 2015: full list of winners

  08-02-2015 21:18 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The winners of the 2015 British Academy Film Awards
  
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• Tiny badger is named Little Star when it is nursed back to health after a Jack Russell brought it in from the cold - in its JAWS

  08-02-2015 21:12 via
  
  A baby badger has been nursed back to health after the dog took the newborn home to its owner in Derbyshire. It appeared to be dead but was revived by the warmth of the woman's hand.
  
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• 'I miss you so much' Dad writes heartbreaking letter to son killed in last year's floods

  08-02-2015 21:12
  
  A GRIEVING FATHER has written a heartbreaking letter to to his seven-year-old son who was killed during last winter's floods.
  
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• Boy kicks around CANNONBALL with his mates before the bomb squad are called to blow it up

  08-02-2015 20:56 via
  
  Ryan-Morgan Freeman, 10, found the English Civil War era cannonball in a bramble bush near his home in Sinfin, Derby, then used it in a kickabout with his friends on a basketball court.
  
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• Doctors hail 'medical miracle' siblings born weighing just 5lb BETWEEN THEM who survived against the odds

  08-02-2015 20:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Little Daisy weighed just over 1lb and was in special care for four months while brother George was two months early
  
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• Vladimir Putin is behaving like a 'mid 20th-century tyrant' over Ukraine, says Hammond

  08-02-2015 20:50
  
  THE British Foreign Secretary, Phillip Hammond has accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of behaving like a "mid 20th-century tyrant" over Ukraine.
  
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