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• Big Brother star 'on luxury Caribbean holiday' - when she was due in court

  21-02-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sara McLean was seeing the sun in Trinidad when she was due in court accused of sending “menacing”
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• Watch Ukip councillor's vile racist rant that lead to her sacking

  21-02-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rozanne Duncan's rant filmed by a fly-on-the-wall documentary, to be screened on BBC2, she says she doesn’t like “negroes” because of how they look
  
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• Lee Rigby soldier who joined Kurdish military in fight against ISIS is in danger of being kidnapped and beheaded, say experts

  21-02-2015 23:50 via
  
  Concerns have been raised for the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment squaddie now thought to be fighting deadly jihadists on the frontline in Northern Syria.
  
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• Bobbi Kristina Brown 'was using heroin and cocaine' claims pal amid family denials

  21-02-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Whitney Houston daughter's family deny she was using the class A drugs after police confirm they have launched a criminal investigation
  
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• Labour Government 'would have kept East Coast Main Line public' - but Ed Balls says hands now tied

  21-02-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hopes had been high that Labour would ensure the line from Edinburgh to London Kings Cross was returned to public sector management, should the party win a majority at the General Election in May
  
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• Jimmy Savile report set to reveal the full evil of the perverted DJ's abuse

  21-02-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An investigation into at least 22 offences he committed as a volunteer at Stoke Mandeville is due out on Thursday
  
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• Your pictures: share your photographs on the theme of 'absence'

  21-02-2015 23:35
  
  Wherever you are in the world, we’d like to see your pictures of ‘absence.’ Share your best photos via GuardianWitnessReaders’ pictures on the theme of ‘restore’We’re now running a regular weekly photography assignment in the Observer New Review and the next theme is ‘absence.’
  Share your photos of what absence means to you – and tell us about your image in the description box. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour supporter branded a 'bigot' by Gordon Brown gives backing to Ed Miliband

  21-02-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rochdale resident Gillian Duffy famously ­challenged the ex-PM on policies including immigration while he was campaigning in her home town five years ago
  
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• Yemen's western-backed president flees house arrest in Sana'a

  21-02-2015 23:31
  
  Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi challenges Shia ‘coup’ after supporters stage diversion to help him escape house arrest and travel to AdenYemen’s beleaguered western-backed president escaped house arrest and fled the capital to friendly territory on Saturday, labelling as a coup the grab for power by the Shia militia that had held him.An aide said presidential guards had sneaked Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of his residence in Sana’a, and that he later made it to the main southern city of Aden. Con
  
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• Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule

  21-02-2015 23:31
  
  US air strikes have damaged morale in Raqqa, Syria, but a local anti-Isis activist says no one is expecting the group to be driven outWhen Isis took over Raqqa, a wave of black swept over the city. The group’s dark flags were raised where its members lived or worked, women were required to shroud themselves in black, and black paint was daubed on buildings and in public spaces.When US air strikes started, though, activists warned families not to dry dark clothes outside or on their roofs, in c
  
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• Ronald Koeman extols green grass of St Mary’s before Liverpool visit

  21-02-2015 23:30
  
  • Southampton manager admits he cannot compete with big clubs’ wages
  • ‘If you stay, you stay for different reasons’
  • Liverpool trio return to former club after summer transfersRonald Koeman has known all along that Southampton are unable to tempt players by offering big salaries. However, he believes the club’s ability to guarantee more game time, owing to having a smaller pool, is a reminder to his squad that the grass is not always greener on the other side.Southampton will
  
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• James Haskell has further England ambitions after strong Six Nations start

  21-02-2015 23:30
  
  Although now almost 30 years old, Haskell’s desire to continue to represent his country is undimmed, as are some of his other interests including learning to DJ, getting his black belt in jiu jitsu and becoming fluent in French
  • Resurgent Haskell enjoys revenge against Wales
  • Wales 16-21 England
  • England 47-17 ItalyJames Haskell is talking about life after rugby which, as he turns 30 in six weeks, is commanding more of his attention. Never mind that his back row team-mate Nick E
  
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• Vicar groped by 'pop legend' in 1980s after calling in clothes shop where he worked as assistant

  21-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The singer – who is a household name – at the centre of the claims has not yet been spoken to by officers, who say that their investigation is at “an early stage”
  
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• Jimmy Savile's secret daughter: 'Mum was abused by monster - I fear he is my father'

  21-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 29-year-old wants a DNA test after her mother Georgina Martin was snared by the paedophile at a railway station in 1982 aged just 13
  
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• Four more Baby Ps: Boys from same city suffer horrific deaths within year after social services failings

  21-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Months before the boys died, officials responsible for child safety were warned they needed to improve in 94 areas to prevent a tragedy like the Baby P case
  
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• Four children die within months of each other after fatal failures by city's social services

  21-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Months before the boys died, officials responsible for child safety were warned they needed to improve in 94 areas to prevent a tragedy like the Baby P case
  
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• Benefits mum spent £3k taxpayers' money on holiday of a lifetime - and doesn't feel guilty about it

  21-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kay Bird has just returned with daughter Chloe from a month-long trip to Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Turkey, Greece and the Netherlands
  
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• Soup-er food! Venison broth to build muscles, chorizo and kale to boost immunity - our nutrition guru is bowled over by recipes in a new book 

  21-02-2015 23:27 via
  
  The concoctions detailed here have specific benefits, but you might simply use them as inspiration for your own combinations. The brilliant thing about soup is that it’s hard to go wrong, so enjoy…
  
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• Health Notes: Cancer children are 'dying' because of EU red tape, say doctors

  21-02-2015 23:24 via
  
  Doctors have hit out at a European legal loophole that means some pharmaceutical companies only have to test new treatments on adults even though they could add years to children's lives.
  
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• A 'natural' facelift... with vitamin jabs that perk up Katy Perry's posterior! The bizarre beauty trend getting under celebrities' skin

  21-02-2015 23:20 via
  
  Mesotherapy involves having infusions of vitamins directly under the skin on the face in an effort to reverse environmental damage. Singer Katy Perry is known to inject her bottom.
  
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• We've found our place in history: From modernists to castles, National Trust has some stunning homes for rent (and some cost less than a London flat) 

  21-02-2015 23:15 via
  
  The National Trust lets about 5,000 properties, with leases initially for six months but which can be extended to ten or 20 years. Among them is Hackhurst Farm in Surrey, £2,500 a month (pictured).
  
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• Sperm donor cowboy who's 'fathered 40 children... with 15 on the way'

  21-02-2015 23:10 via
  
  Declan Rooney, 42, pictured with his partner, claims he is ‘Britain’s most successful sperm donor’ and also has six children born naturally – meaning he has the potential to be the father of 55 children.
  
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• British mum, 59, in bid for world medical first: I'll give birth to baby of my dead daughter 

  21-02-2015 23:10 via
  
  The woman, 59, and her husband will claim their daughter told them before she died of bowel cancer that she wanted her eggs to be fertilised by donor sperm and implanted into her own mother’s womb.
  
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• Prince Andrew was 'sexploited'. So was I, says his former lover Koo Stark

  21-02-2015 23:09 via
  
  Prince Andrew's former lover Koo Stark has told of how a holiday on the Caribbean island of Mustique was cut short when stills from an erotic film she'd made found their way into the press.
  
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• As Karen Danczuk tells MoS she is naming her attacker to police a defiant rebuttal to the mother who doubted her... No I'm not a fantasist, Mum. I was raped in our home hundreds of times

  21-02-2015 23:09 via
  
  Karen Danczuk, 31, has said that she intends to report her alleged abuser to police as a 'matter of urgency', after her own mother branded the allegations a 'figment of her imagination.'
  
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• Cuba frees Canadian businessman

  21-02-2015 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cuba frees the president of a Canadian transport company, Cy Tokmakjian, after more than three years in jail on bribery charges.
  
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• 'Schoolgirls have already crossed Syrian border', say sources

  21-02-2015 23:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Turkish intelligence sources fear three British teenage runaway "jihadi brides" have already been smuggled into Isil territory despite a desperate search for them
  
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• 'They can't keep brushing this under the carpet', says victim of aerotoxic syndrome

  21-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Dee Passon, who has campaigned for six years about aerotoxic syndrome, feels vindicated by the Coroner's letter about Richard Westgate's death
  
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• What is aerotoxic syndrome?

  21-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As a Coroner writes to British Airways and the Civil Aviation Authority calling for 'urgent action' about aircraft air contamination, we ask whether we should be worried
  
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• Liam Fox: It is time to arm Ukraine

  21-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former Defence Secretary says West must face reality of Russian aggression
  
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• Tyson Fury closes in on title fight with Wladimir Klitschko or Deontay Wilder

  21-02-2015 23:00
  
  • Frank Warren believes he is very close to a deal for a fight in the UK
  • Fury must beat Christian Hammer next Saturday
  • Fury believes Klitschko will not fight him, regardless of money involved
  • Klitschko to fight Bryant Jennings in New York in April
  • In video: Fury: ‘I’ll knock Klitschko out’
  • Deontay Wilder proves he’s no fraud against Bermane StiverneFrank Warren has returned from talks with HBO and Showtime executives in New York convinced he is “very, ve
  
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• Owen Paterson: 'The Green Blob' is threatening lives in Africa

  21-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former Environment Secretary to attack EU and Greenpeace over opposition to genetically modified crops
  
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• West Ham’s Sam Allardyce needs result against Tottenham after poor run

  21-02-2015 23:00
  
  Speculation over the manager’s future at Upton Park is rife despite his side being on course for their best league finish since 1999
  • Sam Allardyce relaxed about contract speculation
  • Andy Carroll set to miss rest of season with knee injuryIf West Ham United win at White Hart Lane at lunchtime on Sunday – and they won there 3-0 last season – Sam Allardyce’s side would be two points behind Tottenham Hotspur, sitting in a very respectable eighth place. That would be a huge boon t
  
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• Urgent call for new drugs to treat causes of Parkinson’s

  21-02-2015 23:00
  
  Doctors and scientists believe urgent action is needed to discover new medicines to tackle degenerative nerve ailmentDeryal Wood was 45 when she first began to suffer tremors in her hands. Her symptoms slowly worsened and she was diagnosed nine years ago as having early onset Parkinson’s disease. “I was given the drug L-dopa. The tremors disappeared,” she said.But the tremors returned a few years later and doctors had to increase her dosage. “The side effects became horrible. My legs wou
  
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• The world has broken its promises about rebuilding Gaza – and the children will suffer

  21-02-2015 23:00
  
  Six months after international donors pledged billions after the last war, the cash has not materialised, lives remain shattered and the desperate suffering goes on
  Baby Salma died of hypothermia at just 40 days old. Her body was drenched with freezing rainwater. It was frozen “like ice-cream”. Gaza was hit by a severe winter storm called “Huda” in January. Salma was its youngest victim.I meet Salma’s mother, Mirvat, and 14 members of her extended family in the very place, indeed the
  
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• Jamaican farmers face bleak future as EU axes cap on sugar beet production

  21-02-2015 23:00
  
  Europe will soon allow its states to grow more sugar beet, which will devastate economies in the Caribbean, and a trade that underpinned the British empireThere is a photocopied sign above the desk in the one-room office of the North St Elizabeth Cane Farmers’ Association that reads: “Plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when they built the ark!”The association represents 564 smallholders growing sugar cane on the hilly margins of the Appleton rum estate in south-west Jamaica – and last week
  
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• Arsenal’s Arsène Wenger scarred for life by his war on Med with Monaco

  21-02-2015 23:00
  
  Arsenal manager developed his managerial philosophy at Monaco but rivalry with Marseille and his loathing of corrupt Bernard Tapie cast shadow over seven-year reign
  • Scandal reminds Arsène Wenger of Marseille misgivingsThe question prompts a few seconds of considered silence before Claude Puel, so at ease discussing his subject of choice, delivers an assessment of how Arsène Wenger is best remembered at Monaco. “He left an impression,” says the club’s former stalwart player an
  
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• Fire crews, police and a helicopter make birthday boy's day after no-one turns up to his party

  21-02-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When no one turned up to her son's birthday, Ashlee Buratti took to Facebook with very surprising results
  
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• ISIS: Third 'jihadi bride' school girl believed to have joined Islamic State has been named

  21-02-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scotland Yard named 15-year-old Amira Abase today amid growing fears for her safety after initially refusing to reveal her identity at request of her family
  
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• UK weather will see Britain hit by snow and battered by a 'super moon' tide

  21-02-2015 22:47 via
  
  Gusts of 50mph alongside higher than average spring tides could mean stormy weather, and travel disruption, across many of the UK's seaside towns and villages, the Environment Agency said.
  
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• 'Get out of Europe': Sunday People readers favour leaving EU if it means tighter immigration control

  21-02-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Those prepared to leave Europe rose to 73% among Tory voters and 92% for Ukippers - but more than half of Labour voters also agreed
  
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• Warning over toxic fumes in plane cabins

  21-02-2015 22:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Coroner urges action to prevent deaths after warning toxic fumes in cabin air pose a health risk to frequent fliers and aircrew
  
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• Family of third missing schoolgirl plead with her to come home

  21-02-2015 22:32 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Third missing British schoolgirl named as 15-year-old Amira Abase as her family urge their "strong, smart, beautiful" daughter to come home
  
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• Care homes received almost 15,000 neglect complaints last year

  21-02-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Relatives of care home patients say the system designed to handle such complaints is flawed and they often go unheeded
  
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• Anti-terrorism chief quits over failure to expel suspects

  21-02-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Senior official quits over fears scheme to deport terrorists isn't working
  
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• Jasper Conran unveils collection of cashmere dresses and sophisticated silks at LFW

  21-02-2015 22:30 via
  
  Talking FEMAIL through his AW15 collection backstage ahead of the show on a blustery Saturday morning, he explained that his aim is to empower women.
  
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• Britain and US vow to take action against Russia if conflict in Ukraine continues

  21-02-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  US Secretary of state John Kerry says America and its allies are not prepared to play games with Russia and are discussing sanctions against Moscow
  
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• 'It's certainly not your typical men’s jail!' The prison home to 35 inmates living as women

  21-02-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new dress code at HMP Isle of Wight bans some types of undies, including underwired bars, and says heels must be no higher than an inch
  
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• Lord Prescott returns to frontline politics as climate change adviser

  21-02-2015 22:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Ed Miliband has announced he has appointed former deputy prime minister John Prescott as his personal adviser with specific responsibility for climate change
  
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• Ed Miliband set to reveal plans to slash students university tuition fees

  21-02-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour Party are ready to announce a proposal to cut fees which have trebled to a staggering £9,000 a year during the Conservatives' time in government
  
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