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• Hungary's PM loses 'super-majority'

  22-02-2015 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban loses the two-thirds majority that allowed him to pass a new constitution without opposition support.,
  
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• Young voters shunning major political parties as 70% say they wouldn't vote for any of them

  22-02-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An exclusive Mirror Voice of a Generation poll reveals 70% of 18 to 22-year-olds would most likely tick a box backing “none of the above” on their ballot papers
  
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• 'Racist football fans should be banned from watching matches on Sky Sports'

  22-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The call comes after three men sought in connection with an alleged racist incident involving Chelsea fans on a Paris train were spoken to by officers
  
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• Poor passport checks let 'ISIS' schoolgirls flee to Syria as they should have been 'red-flagged'

  22-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Friends Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, were reportedly seen in Syria at the weekend after flying to Turkey on Tuesday
  
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• MP urges early diagnosis for cancer of the oesophagus

  22-02-2015 23:29
  
  An MP who says he is only alive thanks to a “toss of a coin”, after suffering advanced cancer of oesophagus, is appealing for a government-backed drive to increase early diagnosis of the often terminal disease.
  
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• RAF fighter pilot averts disaster after dangerously close call with a glider

  22-02-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  According to an official report the RAF jet had been flying in formation with another fighter when it spotted the glider 500 to 600ft away and took emergency action
  
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• Liverpool rise 'built from the back'

  22-02-2015 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MOTD2 pundit Mark Lawrenson expands on his TV analysis of how Liverpool's defence is behind their rise up the table.
  
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• Westwood goes green and puts politics back into fashion

  22-02-2015 23:24
  
  With only 72 days until the general election, the outcome of which will have a considerable impact on the creative businesses that cash in on fashion, it’s a surprise that London Fashion Week has been so distinctly lacking in satirical bite thus far. Perhaps it’s a further sign that the renegades and rebels of yore have struggled to find counterparts in the modern day.
  
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• Vivienne Westwood goes green and puts politics back into fashion

  22-02-2015 23:24
  
  With only 72 days until the general election, the outcome of which will have a considerable impact on the creative businesses that cash in on fashion, it’s a surprise that London Fashion Week has been so distinctly lacking in satirical bite thus far. Perhaps it’s a further sign that the renegades and rebels of yore have struggled to find counterparts in the modern day.
  
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• Mission to Mars student: 'It's difficult to attract girls when you're going to space'

  22-02-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ryan McDonald, 21, is among five Brits to have made the final 100 candidates for the Mars One project, which aims to start ­colonising the Red Planet by 2024
  
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• Chelsea fan sorry over Paris incident

  22-02-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An ex-police officer and Chelsea fan apologises for his part in an alleged racist incident on the Paris Metro - but denies he is a racist.
  
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• March of the cat-sized RATS: Homeowner's horror after finding giant rodent at upmarket London home as pest controllers reveal shocking epidemic of mutants across UK 

  22-02-2015 23:15 via
  
  Homeowner Katie Firth photographed the rodent, which she estimated to be between 16 and 18 inches, as it peered through her back door in fashionable Belsize Park, north London.
  
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• Two school girls suffer horrific injuries when four masked men threw acid at them during class

  22-02-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES A gang of four masked men broke into the room the teenagers were studying in and hurled acid at them, it has been reported
  
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• Battle of the skies: London and New York compete for starchitects

  22-02-2015 23:07
  
  When Sheikh Hamed paid £100m for the best residence at London’s One Hyde Park apartment building in 2007, it confirmed the city as the world’s premier deluxe property investment honeypot.
  
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• Britannia rules the waves as P&O Cruises unveils new 3,600 passenger ship

  22-02-2015 23:07
  
  BRITANNIA will soon be ruling the waves again now that P&O Cruises has taken delivery of its new 3,600 passenger ship from Italian builders Fincantieri.
  
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• Man arrested over Karen Danczuk abuse claim

  22-02-2015 23:03
  
  A 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection with sex abuse allegations made by Karen Danczuk.
  
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• The Wurzels re-work 1974 Number One hit 'Combine Harvester' for farm safety campaign

  22-02-2015 23:02
  
  THE Wurzels are re-launching their 1974 chart topper 'Combine Harvester' to help boost a nationwide farm safety campaign.
  
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• How Jack Straw lobbied Ukrainian PM and European Commission on behalf of sugar firm

  22-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  'We got it sorted out', says Jack Straw as he reveals how he convinced the Ukrainian prime minister to change his country's rules on sugar production
  
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• Westminster's history of cash for access and influence

  22-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  How Cash for Questions gave way to Cash for Honours, Cash for Amendments, and Cash for Questions Part II
  
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• Timeline: Westminster's history of hubris

  22-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  How Cash for Questions gave way to Cash for Honours, Cash for Amendments, and Cash for Questions Part II
  
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• Nurse who was too fat to carry on with her job sheds an amazing 10 stone

  22-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carol Sykes, 56, from Wakefield in West Yorkshire, blew her retirement fund on the trip after retiring from her job as a nurse because she was too fat
  
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• Listen to Tories' plot for bankers to dodge the bumper bonus cap

  22-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Party MEP Kay Swinburne was recorded informing City fatcats of “schemes which bypass” the rules, while Conservative MP Mark Garnier branded the cap “vandalistic legislation”
  
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• Jack Straw: A Labour grandee

  22-02-2015 22:57 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The veteran politician who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful figures in Westminster
  
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• Sir Malcolm Rifkind: The suave Scot with a sharp mind

  22-02-2015 22:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Kensington MP has been one of the Conservative party's 'big beasts' for more than three decades, after occupying some of British politics' highest-profile roles
  
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• The train fare trick that can save railway user MILLIONS: Website uses secret code to find cheaper tickets by splitting a journey into legs while travelling on same train 

  22-02-2015 22:53 via
  
  The website TrainSplit.com allows travellers to break up their journey into legs, offering a lower combined fare while travelling on the same train with the 'split tickets'.
  
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• The rules on MPs' outside earnings

  22-02-2015 22:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lobbying - is it the next big scandal waiting to happen?
  
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• MPs' second jobs: How we crunched the numbers

  22-02-2015 22:52 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Analysis by The Telegraph reveals that MPs registered more than £7.4m in additional earnings in 2014. Here, we explain the methodology behind the data investigation
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson issues foul-mouthed Twitter rant in defence of newspaper column criticising Liverpool

  22-02-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Top Gear presenter had claimed Scousers "earn less, die more quickly, have fewer jobs and live in houses that are worth the square root of sod all"
  
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• The MPs who topped up their salaries with £1,600-an-hour second jobs

  22-02-2015 22:48 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As an investigation by The Telegraph exposes a new 'cash for access' scandal, we look at how much in outside earnings MPs registered last year
  
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• Hundreds of miners rescued after terrifying blaze a mile-and-a-half underground

  22-02-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Workers were evacuated after a blaze broke out more than 2,000m below the earth's surface at the Kusasalethu mine 75km from Johannesburg
  
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• Ex-ministers Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind brag to business about their political contacts

  22-02-2015 22:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw say they would expect thousands of pounds to advise fictitious Chinese company
  
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• Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind in latest 'cash for access' scandal

  22-02-2015 22:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jack Straw reveals he operated 'under the radar' to use his influence to change EU rules, while Sir Malcolm Rifkind boasts about his 'useful' access to diplomats
  
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• Watch: Sir Malcolm Rifkind says he's "self-employed" but gets MP's salary of £67,000

  22-02-2015 22:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sir Malcolm Rifkind says "you'd be surprised how much free time I have" as describes himself as "self-employed" despite receiving a £67,000 MP's salary
  
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• Watch: Jack Straw says his "name" would benefit companies looking to hire him

  22-02-2015 22:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jack Straw describes how he would bring his "name" to a company looking to hire him in a new undercover video
  
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• Rescue helicopter scrambled to save pair swept into sea by waves in gale-force winds

  22-02-2015 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Powerful waves knocked the couple off a wall and into the sea in North Yorkshire
  
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• Man dies after being swept into sea during gale-force wind

  22-02-2015 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Powerful waves knocked a couple off a wall and into the sea in North Yorkshire
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson criticises Liverpool as BBC bosses arrive for conference

  22-02-2015 22:40 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Controversial Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has poured scorn on the people of Liverpool just as BBC executives arrived in the city to drum-up foreign revenues
  
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• 'Al-Shabab video' calls on Muslims to attack London shopping attractions including Oxford Street and Westfield Stratford City

  22-02-2015 22:37
  A video claiming to be by Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked rebels has urged Muslims to attack London shopping sites including Oxford Street and Westfield Stratford City.
  
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• 'Al-Shabab video' calls for attacks on London shopping centres including Oxford Street and Westfield Stratford City

  22-02-2015 22:37
  A video claiming to be by Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked rebels has urged Muslims to attack London shopping sites including Oxford Street and Westfield Stratford City.
  
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• 'Al-Shabaab video' calls for attacks on London shopping centres including Oxford Street and Westfield

  22-02-2015 22:37
  A video claiming to be by Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked rebels has urged Muslims to attack London shopping sites including Oxford Street and Westfield Stratford City.
  
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• Is community spirit dead? One in six of us don't even know our neighbour's name - and a quarter have NEVER performed a 'random act of kindness' 

  22-02-2015 22:32 via
  
  A study by Home Heat Helpline found the majority of people said they did not feel part of a community, with less than a quarter willing to trust their neighbours to look after their homes.
  
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• Britain's biggest fake Viagra ring smashed as gang convicted of selling £10million of drugs

  22-02-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eleven crime syndicate members sold fake Viagra online to thousands of unsuspecting punters who risked serious side effects
  
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• Chelsea overtakes Kensington and Knightsbridge as the most popular destination for the mega-rich after surge in domestic buyers

  22-02-2015 22:17 via
  
  The upmarket area of West London accounted for 18 per cent of the total sales of homes costing more than £6.5million in the capital this year ahead of Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Kensington.
  
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• Shopping mall terror threat 'serious'

  22-02-2015 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The head of US homeland security urges vigilance after Somali-based militants call for attacks on shopping centres in the US, Canada and Britain.
  
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• Chelsea racism row: Ex-policeman sought over Paris incident 'apologises for his involvement'

  22-02-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  But Richard Barklie, who is ex-Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and a member of the World Human Rights Forum, insists he is not a racist
  
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• Watch hammer-wielding robber demand cash from terrified shop worker in shocking CCTV footage

  22-02-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charlie Veck, 30, was jailed for three-and-a-half years after admitting the terrifying armed robbery
  
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• First Aids case was in 1908 and was a chimpanzee hunter in south east Cameroon

  22-02-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The hunter was infected by the disease when he was attacked by a chimp in south east Cameroon and was the first known person to have the disease
  
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• Ukip MP Douglas Carswell accepted £20,000 after an anti-fraud probe

  22-02-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carswell received the money in October from Derek Clark, who paid back £31,000 after an ­investigation into payments to UKIP staff
  
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• Maths whizz, 10, becomes one of UK's youngest university students

  22-02-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Young number cruncher Esther Okade is studying for an Open University maths degree
  
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• Oakley Porter-Mcaveeney suffering from flat head syndrome has to wear £2k helmet

  22-02-2015 21:57 via
  
  Oakley Porter-Mcaveeney, from Coventry, suffers from brachycephaly - a rare condition better known as flat head syndrome - and must wear the helmet every day for up to six months to rectify his skull.
  
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