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• Judge tells ex wife of millionaire to get a job and stop living off him

  23-02-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Judge tells mum of two that she must work and not rely on handouts from the wealthy vet
  
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• Traces of nuts in a child's diet can prevent an allergy later in life

  23-02-2015 23:52 via
  
  In the study by King's College London, less than one per cent of babies introduced to peanuts under the age of one developed allergies later in life after eating it three times a week.
  
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• Protein: Eating too much protein can strain your kidneys but too little is bad for your muscles

  23-02-2015 23:49 via
  
  There is now a raft of protein-enriched products, from breads and pastas to yoghurts and drinks, has arrived — and they’re aimed not at super-fit athletes, but at everyday shoppers.
  
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• Roman Polanski asks for media ban in extradition hearing over 1977 sex case

  23-02-2015 23:48 via
  
  The 81-year-old, who was charged with unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, will attend the hearing on Wednesday in his childhood city of Krakow, Poland.
  
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• Jayda Johnson: Girl aged 2 could be scarred for life after suffering severe allergic reaction to a plaster

  23-02-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dad Daniel put Savlon plaster on Jayda's shoulder after she got a tiny nick to stop her from scratching it
  
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• Pension question facing millions: Is it worth working 5 more years for 33% boost?

  23-02-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror Personal Finance Editor Tricia Phillips takes you through the potential ramifications of delaying retirement for state and private pension payouts
  
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• "Massive" lobbying power of tobacco companies diluted European regulation of cigarettes, study shows

  23-02-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Intense pressure, secret meetings and thousands of copy-and-pasted responses diluted regulation, a study shows
  
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• Malcolm Rifkind: I am entitled to more than £67k salary

  23-02-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sir Malcolm Rifkind says: "£60k could sound like a lot to some people but I can earn much more than that" as he tries to defend himself after cash for access scandal
  
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• Fifty Shades of Grey: Watch gran's hilarious reaction as granddaughter tells her all about raunchy movie's sex scenes

  23-02-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The steamy film has been a global hit but this elderly woman wasn't impressed with her granddaughter's explanation of the EL James novel
  
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• Cops collar prolific joyriders after they pin pictures of themselves in stolen cars on bedroom wall

  23-02-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Connor Daniels and Jordan Irving posed for pictures at the wheel of stolen high powered cars including Mercedes, Audis and a BMW
  
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• George Osborne knew of HSBC tax dodge scandal before he became Chancellor

  23-02-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He read a newspaper report telling how HMRC had the names of 1,100 clients who allegedly avoided tax - but did nothing in Government the following year
  
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• Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw cash for access scandal: As it happened

  23-02-2015 23:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As The Telegraph exposes Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind for offering their services to a private company for cash, we monitor the political and media reaction
  
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• Former Sky TV researcher dies after breaking her neck in Caribbean island car crash

  23-02-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former analyst had moved out to the island to start a new life, but died in the tragic accident
  
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• Ex Sky TV researcher dies after breaking her neck in Caribbean island car crash

  23-02-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former analyst had moved out to the island to start a new life, but died in the tragic accident
  
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• Star Trek Legend Leonard Nimoy 'is rushed into hospital with severe chest pains'

  23-02-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 82-year-old actor, famous for playing the sci-fi show’s Dr Spock, revealed  recently that he has a serious lung disease after smoking for 30 years
  
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• Love rival gouged victim's eyes before cutting out one metre of intestines and running him down with car

  23-02-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 49-year-old unleashed the murderous attack the day after being dumped by his former lover
  
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• HSBC boss: I get £7.6m pay but how can I keep tabs on my staff?

  23-02-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Asked if he could prevent scandals, Stuart Gulliver said: “If, as one individual, I’m expected to know what 257,000 people are doing, clearly I can’t”
  
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• Mum's terror as rhino smashes into car at safari park with her and toddler son inside

  23-02-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vicky Liggins has demanded tighter safety controls at the park after the two-ton animal caused £500 worth of damage to her 4X4
  
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• Conjoined Knatalye Hope and Adeline Faith Mata survive world-first operation to separate them

  23-02-2015 22:50 via
  
  Conjoined twins Knatalye Hope and Adeline Faith, 10 months, were successfully separated at the Texas Children's Hospital despite sharing vital organs including lungs, liver intestines and colon.
  
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• There's a cure for the lobbying problem reignited by Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind sting, but you won't want to hear it

  23-02-2015 22:48
  Once again the UK’s elected MPs are in trouble. The current furore involves only two of them, two of the biggest in Parliament: former foreign secretaries caught out in another TV sting. But the voters’ disdain will extend well beyond the duo, who were filmed discussing potentially lucrative assignments. A lot of voters will feel renewed anger as they respond with those famous clichés, “They’re all the same”. “They’re all in it for themselves.”
  
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• Jack Straw to take job for firm he lobbied for in Commons

  23-02-2015 22:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jack Straw privately lobbied Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, on behalf of Senator International, which later offered him a position on its advisory board
  
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• French aircraft carrier joins the fight against ISIS in Iraq

  23-02-2015 22:41 via
  
  France's Charles de Gaulle
  aircraft carrier has started military operations against the Islamic State in Iraq, a French army source said today.
  
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• Head 'encouraged schoolchildren to disrupt lessons of supply teachers they didn't like'

  23-02-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jill Elizabeth Evans denies wrongdoing of bullying and misusing school funds as she faces allegations at a General Teaching Council for Wales hearing
  
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• Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw cash scandal: Latest news - Live

  23-02-2015 22:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As The Telegraph exposes Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind for offering their services to a private company for cash, we monitor the political and media reaction
  
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• Wolf Hall's Mark Rylance says Shakespeare is 'anti-Semitic'

  23-02-2015 22:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The actor and director added he often cuts down the Bard's work when it becomes 'long and boring'
  
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• Nutella jar causes fatal blaze

  23-02-2015 22:34 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A house fire sparked by sunlight reflected through a jar of Nutella hazelnut spread destroyed a family home and killed a pet dog trap inside
  
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• Feeding peanuts to babies protects from peanut allergies, scientists find

  23-02-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rise in allergies driven by bad nutritional advice which warned parents to keep babies away from peanuts, scientists at Kings College London have found
  
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• Eating peanuts can protect children from becoming allergic, study finds

  23-02-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New findings suggest gradual exposure to foods like peanuts can build up an infant's immune system against becoming allergic to them
  
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• Brave mum dies two days after receiving MBE in hospital

  23-02-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 47-year-old local hero passed away on Sunday following a special ceremony at her hospital bed because she was too ill to go to the palace
  
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• Budget 2015: George Osborne promises crackdown on tax evasion

  23-02-2015 22:26 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Budget next month will include tough new measures to tackle tax evasion in the wake of the HSBC scandal
  
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• Paedophile who sexually molested boy on bus is jailed

  23-02-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 54-year-old admitted sexual assaults to police but then changed his story and forced his victim to endure a trial
  
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• Minimum wage should rise by 20p an hour, low pay commission says

  23-02-2015 22:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The independent Low Pay Commission has called for the minimum wage to be increased to £6.70 an hour
  
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• Chuka Umunna slams Tory MP over ''pregnant women cannot give jobs their full attention'' comments

  23-02-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Rosindell made the claim in reference to pregnant frontbencher Rachel Reeves' plan to go on maternity leave in the early days of a Labour government
  
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• Homeless deaf drug addict who killed pal by pushing him under a bus jailed for seven years

  23-02-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Edward Connors had pleaded not guilty to unlawfully killing Eoghan Dudley on December 6, 2012
  
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• Watch moment shameless fly-tipper dumped haul of rubbish into canal in broad daylight

  23-02-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man shown chucking bags of waste into the water is a 'frequent offender' according to the woman who filmed him in action 
  
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• Remains of Ottoman progenitor relocated in Syria by Turkish soldiers

  23-02-2015 22:05 via
  
  Soldiers re-interred the remains of Suleyman Shah, whose grandson Osman I founded the Ottoman Empire in the 12th Century, after yesterday evacuating it from Aleppo Province.
  
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• Tate Britain exhibition Sculpture Victorious showcases the best works of the Victorian era

  23-02-2015 22:04 via
  
  The collection at Tate Britain will be open for two months and showcases the best of British sculptures created in the Victorian era amid a flurry of productivity thanks to industrial development.
  
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• Tories in fundraising brain drain as they book the UK's DULLEST man for after-dinner speech

  23-02-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Drain-spotter Archie Workman has been signed up to 'play' a Tory fundraising dinner
  
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• MH370: Data 'strongly suggests' doomed jet was deliberately flown off course towards Antarctica

  23-02-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New evidence is being presented in the upcoming release of a documentary investigating the mysterious disappearance of the plane
  
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• PM tells airlines: Don’t let jihadi-risk girls fly

  23-02-2015 21:53
  
  DAVID Cameron stepped into the row over three British “jihadi bride” schoolgirls by demanding tighter airport security to stop teenage runaways flying to terror hotspots.
  
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• Dad thrashed daughter with BELT after she etched name of boy she met on Facebook onto her arm

  23-02-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After hitting her with the belt, he ordered the 14-year-old to remove the name – using a heated knife
  
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• Minimum wage to rise by 20p to £6.70 despite George Osborne suggesting it should be higher

  23-02-2015 21:46 via
  
  Ministers boasted it would take the hourly rate to its highest level in real terms since 2010, but it falls short of the idea it could hit £7 floated by the Chancellor a year ago.
  
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• Minimum wage could increase to £6.70 under new recommendations

  23-02-2015 21:41
  
  THE MINIMUM wage should be increased to £6.70, the Low Pay Commission recommended today.
  
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• Former Sky TV worker Kate Clayton dead after breaking her neck in Caribbean island car crash

  23-02-2015 21:40 via
  
  Kate Clayton, from Southampton, suffered devastating injuries when her car swerved off a country road in the Cayman Islands, where she was working as a diving instructor.
  
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• Andy Coulson to face Scottish perjury trial

  23-02-2015 21:40 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron's former director of communications Andy Coulson is to stand trial on a charge of perjury in Scotland
  
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• Open letter to Carol McGiffin: My husband kissed breast cancer scar and said ''you're beautiful''

  23-02-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kay Wardley, 64, empathises with the former Loose Women star battling cancer and tells of her own battle to love herself again - and talks up her own male rock
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Motherhood proved no obstacle to the Iron Lady - so why should it for Rachel Reeves

  23-02-2015 21:39
  
  Andrew Rosindell, a Conservative MP best known as a bulldog-owning, Union Jack waving Thatcherite, has embarrassed the Conservative leadership by suggesting that Labour’s Rachel Reeves would be unfit to hold a cabinet job if Labour wins in May, because she is heavily pregnant.
  
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• 'Cash for access' scandal sketch: Two men, one message - 'I did nothing wrong'

  23-02-2015 21:34
  
  The differences in the two rejections were noticeable. Jack Straw ruefully acknowledged that having once castigated other Labour MPs for being “suckered” by such a “sting”, he was “mortified” after “falling into the skilful trap” set by the undercover journalists, clouding what should have been his pleasantly “valedictory” last few weeks in the Commons.
  
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• Revealed: Children splash the cash on mums - but when it comes to gifts dads are often forgotten

  23-02-2015 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A study has estimated the lifetime expenditure on gifts, with shocking results
  
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• Britons to work extra two years to make up for £8,000 short pensions

  23-02-2015 21:31
  BRITONS face having to work two extra years to make up an £8,000 shortfall in pensions as wages fail to keep up with the cost of living.
  
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