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• British Costa Concordia passengers to sue cruise operator after captain's imprisonment

  11-02-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lawyers are now issuing proceedings in the Italian courts against cruise firm Costa Crociere Spa on behalf of four British crew members and six passengers
  
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• Barack Obama wants legal backing for war on ISIS in the Middle East

  11-02-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The US President is keen to launch a three-year assault on militants as British officials are pulled out of Yemen
  
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• Michael Gove has shown his utter contempt for us so let's make his career a car crash

  11-02-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  All over Britain essential services are being scrapped - meals on wheels, day centres for the disabled, libraries and post natal classes
  
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• Sancidinu Da Silva: Footballer accused of raping woman 'said next to friends after alleged sexual assault'

  11-02-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-Benfica forward Sancidinu Da Silva, 20, denies raping the 24-year-old woman last summer
  
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• Not loving it: McDonald's customer left vomiting 'after being sold RAW Quarter Pounder'

  11-02-2015 23:41
  
  A McDONALD'S customer said he was left vomiting and "absolutely disgusted" after being sold a Quarter Pounder burger which was "completely raw" in the middle.
  
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• Revolutionary Parkinson's breathalyser test to go on sale to boost early diagnosis

  11-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts from Cambridge University hope new test will help diagnose patients more accurately and help with treatment
  
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• Cammy dodger: PM refuses to say FOUR times if he quizzed HSBC boss over tax scandal

  11-02-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The PM refused four times to reveal to MPs if he had quizzed the bank’s former chairman Lord Green about the affair before making him a minister in 2011
  
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• Scammer who asks £30 for a prize and then never delivers it

  11-02-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ever wondered what a scammer does to make his money? One way is to take a little cash from a lot of victims, such as junkmail crooks who ask for a £30 fee for a prize they’ll never deliver
  
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• A gamble that never pays off: How to lose £200k on an investment scam

  11-02-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ever wondered what a scammer does to make his money? One way is to take a little cash from a lot of victims, such as junkmail crooks who ask for a £30 fee for a prize they’ll never deliver
  
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• Axed top Tory Michael Gove uses taxpayers cash to be chauffeured 400 YARDS

  11-02-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The miserly Chief Whip is still be ferried around on daily trips from Downing Street to the House of Commons
  
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• Macer Gifford: Ex-public schoolboy ditches city job to join Kurds in the fight against ISIS

  11-02-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Macer Gifford, 28, is fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with Kurdish militants against ISIS
  
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• British victims to sue ferry operator over Concordia wreck

  11-02-2015 23:08 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  British families are preparing to sue the Costa Concordia operator following the jailing of the ship's captain, say their lawyers
  
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• Lynda Bellingham Memorial Service: Stars enjoy a 'quick boogie' as they bid her a final farewell

  11-02-2015 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dirty jokes and a heartfelt tribute from her husband mark her passing as her pals take up her jokey instruction to have a party
  
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• Watch crook dubbed 'The Worm Burglar' crawl on pub floors to steal from fruit machines

  11-02-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Leigh Cassidy, 47, would crawl or slide along pub floors to evade motion-sensing alarm beams
  
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• Nigel Farage: No coalition with any of the main political parties

  11-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Ukip leader for the first time makes clear that he will not form a Government alongside the Conservatives, Labour or the Liberal Democrats
  
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• Freddie Flintoff on his battle with depression and why he'll be on anti-depressants for life

  11-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff was English cricket's biggest star but the player was struggling with both depression and bulimia
  
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• Royal Horticultural Society manager accused of £700,000 swindle

  11-02-2015 22:57 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A senior Royal Horticultural Society manager has been accused of masterminding a 10-year scam to steal almost £700,000
  
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• Father wins custody battle with children's grandparents to return them to Australia

  11-02-2015 22:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An Aboriginal father has defeated his children's grandparents in his legal fight to return the infants to his native Australia after their mother died in the UK
  
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• Britain's best word play from the world PUN championships

  11-02-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The contest will take the format of a “rap battle”, with the acts taking it in turns to showcase their word-play wizardry on randomly chosen topics over four rounds
  
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• Watch brave shopkeeper chase off gang of robbers armed with crowbars and hammers

  11-02-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The gang-of-four approached The Gardens Convience store armed with crowbars and hammers - but left with nothing
  
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• Mum admits lying about her own baby's death at the tragic tot's inquest

  11-02-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tammie-Ann Latham found little Ollie Taylor with “floppy limbs”, lying on his dad Grant’s chest but told police he was in his Moses basket
  
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• Bobbi Kristina is “opening her eyes” as aunt insists that she’s “doing well” and showing signs of improvement

  11-02-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Whitney Houston’s daughter remains on life support but is “doing good”
  
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• You SHOULDN'T be sacked for fondling a woman's breasts - providing you only do it once

  11-02-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Judges ordered a garage to reinstate a mechanic, 37, who was fired for groping a ­cleaner while saying: “These look fun.”
  
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• Former Chelsea and Liverpool striker Fernando Torres fined for going 47mph in 30mph zone

  11-02-2015 22:40
  
  FORMER Chelsea and Liverpool striker Fernando Torres has been fined today for going 17mph over the speed limit.
  
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• Southend Hospital 'grenade': Bomb squad called out after device found in heart clinic

  11-02-2015 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers evacuated part of the hospital and closed a nearby road while Army bomb disposal experts took the suspected grenade away for testing
  
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• Toddler Oliver has rare skin condition that gives him 'wings' 

  11-02-2015 22:36 via
  
  Every parent thinks of their own offspring as like a little angel. But for Matt and Stephanie Brown from Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, the comparison is closer than most.
  
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• Islamic State will lose, says Obama

  11-02-2015 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Barack Obama has said Islamic State (IS) militants "will lose" as he asks Congress to formally authorise military force against them.
  
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• Cabbie who invited stuck teenager in to watch Take Me Out says: 'I'd do the same for anybody'

  11-02-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The teen had woken up in the back of his taxi not knowing where he was after a night out, so was invited in for a brew and a spot of TV
  
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• Boy, aged 11, dies after collision with bus near school in Newcastle

  11-02-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A schoolboy has died after an incident involving a bus outside Excelsior Academy school in Newcastle
  
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• Murders 'over parking, not religion'

  11-02-2015 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The wife of the man accused of killing three Muslim students in North Carolina said the attack was due to a parking dispute, not religious hate.
  
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• EastEnders' Linda Henry cleared: Heather Trott actress Cheryl Fergison shows her support for ex co-star

  11-02-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cheryl Fergison appeared at Bexley Magistrates court today following the Shirley Carter actress, Linda Henry, being cleared of harassment charge
  
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• England bans smoking in cars

  11-02-2015 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drivers in England will be banned from smoking in their car from October if they are carrying children as passengers.
  
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• All rail passengers will get free Wifi on trains - when does it happen?

  11-02-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prime minister says internet access is vital for all rail passengers and free wifi will be an obligation in rail franchises
  
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• Costa captain gets 16-year sentence

  11-02-2015 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino is jailed for 16 years for the manslaughter of 32 people who died when the cruise ship sank in 2012.
  
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• EastEnders' Linda Henry CLEARED of racially abusing a black council worker

  11-02-2015 21:52 via
  
  Linda Henry, who plays Shirley Carter in the long-running BBC soap has been cleared of calling a female council worker a n***** outside Jamie Oliver's Greenwich restaurant.
  
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• Helena Bonham Carter gets naked with giant tuna

  11-02-2015 21:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Helena Bonham Carter overcame a fish phobia to pose naked with 27kg fish in a campaign to stop tuna going the way of the dodo
  
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• Salford 'alien' sighting: Watch 'creepy and weird' lifeform caught on film by terrified witness

  11-02-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The YouTube account which posted the video claims to have been shut down in the past by the government
  
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• 'Our lives will never be the same again': Family in heartbreaking tribute to 14-year-old daughter struck by train

  11-02-2015 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Authorities continue to investigate her death in a bid to piece together what happened to Sacha Wheeler
  
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• Young home buyers denied 'best ever' mortgages

  11-02-2015 21:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The amount of money first-time buyers can borrow is being reduced by tens of thousands of pounds, putting home ownership out of reach for many
  
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• Paramedic who stood with hands in his pockets and watched man, 47, die of heart attack spared jail

  11-02-2015 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paramedic Matt Geary, 36, watched from his ambulance as Carl Cope collapsed and waits 30 seconds before attending to him
  
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• Union baron who accused DJ of wife beating was probed over domestic abuse claims

  11-02-2015 21:20 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An RMT union official who accused an LBC radio presenter of hitting his wife was himself investigated by police for domestic abuse
  
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• How I lost Arsenal the London derby match - without really even trying

  11-02-2015 21:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  For those who don’t know what the North London derby is – like me, last Saturday, before I COMPLETELY RUINED IT – it’s Arsenal and Spurs playing a game of ­football
  
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• Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino sentenced to 16 years in jail

  11-02-2015 21:09 via
  
  Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship when it crashed into rocks off Gigilo island, Italy, in 2012 killing 32 people, has been sentenced to 16 years in jail.
  
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• France gives Fifty Shades of Grey under-12s restriction

  11-02-2015 21:04 via
  
  The president of France's Board of Film Classification defended the low rating, saying Fifty Shades a 'schmaltzy romance' and 'not a film that can shock a lot of people'.
  
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• Richter breaks record for most expensive living artist in Europe

  11-02-2015 21:04 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for £30.4m at Sotheby's, making him the most valuable living European artist
  
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• Smoking in cars with children to be banned from next October

  11-02-2015 20:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  More than 700 senior doctors backed a legal ban last year, saying that being in a car significantly worsened the harm done to children by cigarette smoke
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Tory don't-tell policy holds over 'dodgy donors' allegedly linked to HSBC scandal

  11-02-2015 20:59
  
  Whether David Cameron’s contacts, or non-contacts, with the former HSBC chairman Lord (Stephen) Green before he was appointed a minister were a classic case of “don’t ask, don’t tell” remained less than clear after today’s notably abusive PMQs.
  
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• Animal rights activists tell National Marine Aquarium: 'Take fish off the cafe menu'

  11-02-2015 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Campaigners writing on behalf of 'all the fish in the sea' claim conservation charity should serve different dishes
  
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• Horrified diner 'finds COCKROACH in his curry' during romantic meal with girlfriend

  11-02-2015 20:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disgusted Stu Beevers, 28, claims to have discovered the insect in his chicken kerala while eating with his partner at a restaurant in Manchester
  
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• Raoul East: Former cricketer jailed for battering friend who he saw kissing his wife on pub CCTV camera

  11-02-2015 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Raoul East was cleared of attempted murder but jailed for four years for the attack
  
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