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• Fenton Hogan: First picture of tragic toddler revealed as mum faces manslaughter charge over his death

  26-02-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two-year-old died of a methadone overdose at his home
  
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• Three in four homes now sell for below the asking price

  26-02-2015 23:56 via
  
  Three out of every four homes that were sold last month went for below the asking price amid a drop in interest from buyers, caused by uncertainty in the build up to the looming general election.
  
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• Steve Strange: Boy George and members of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet to attend Visage singer's funeral

  26-02-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stars also rumoured to be attending the funeral in South Wales on March 12 include Kylie and Morrissey
  
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• Why did it take the Americans to unmask Jihadi John as Mohammed Emwazi?

  26-02-2015 23:51 via
  
  The British Government remains tight-lipped over the naming of Jihadi John who was named today as 26-year-old Mohammed Emwazi, from Queen's Park in west London.
  
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• Yves Bouvier who stores treasures for the rich and famous is arrested in fraud case 

  26-02-2015 23:50 via
  
  Yves Bouvier (pictured) was detained in Monaco amid accusations 'Freeport' stores for the super-rich, including the £50m Luxembourg one he owns, are being used to dodge tax.
  
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• Llama drama: World gripped by saga of two escaped animals evading American authorities

  26-02-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two South American mammals, one black, one white, escaped from an unknown location in Sun City, Arizona
  
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• Pictured: Yet another driver ends up stuck on Manchester tram tracks - the 13th since November

  26-02-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Metrolink chief apologises but says he cannot 'legislate for the public’s driving standards'
  
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• Jihadi John identity is known: How spooks will trap evil butcher Mohammed Emwazi

  26-02-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The multi-million-pound search for the 26-year-old Briton may even dwarf the search for former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
  
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• Sir Paul McCartney's childhood home sold at auction for £150,000 in six minutes

  26-02-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There were at least two bidders calling in from overseas hoping to win the house
  
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• Inspirational 9-year-old who can't walk or talk achieves dream of becoming a model

  26-02-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pretty Holly Greenhow was picked to star in the latest modelling shoot for F&F children’s clothes at Tesco
  
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• How McDonald's 'avoided paying £730m in tax'

  26-02-2015 23:31 via
  
  According to British charity War On Want – which tackles poverty around the world – McDonald’s opened a Luxembourg-based offshoot called McD Europe Franchising Sarl in 2009.
  
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• Jimmy Savile report: Paedophile's reign of terror in hospitals could've been stopped on 10 occasions

  26-02-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One formal and nine informal complaints were made against the paedophile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire
  
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• Fawwaz guilty of US embassy attacks

  26-02-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  A former aide of Osama Bin Laden has been found guilty of plotting the al-Qaeda bombing of US embassies in east Africa in 1998, killing 224 people.
  
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• Reason Simon Cowell missed the Brits afterparty revealed - we didn't expect this

  26-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Here's the reason we didn't see the X Factor mogul stumbling out of a nightclub in the early hours of this morning
  
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• Lionel Ritchie hits out at Kayne West's N-word performance at the Brit Awards

  26-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Hello legend was left shocked by the expletive-filled performance which drew complaints from TV viewers
  
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• Plenty of Fish theft: Man who stole car from woman he met on dating site is jailed

  26-02-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wesley Brennan took the car from Leoney Dunphy on their first date and later sold it off for scrap at a dealers
  
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• Iraq war sergeant James Harkess sells bravery medal for £156,000

  26-02-2015 23:18 via
  
  Colour Sergeant James Harkess, 46, has sold the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross awarded to him after he helped wipe out 50 enemy troops in one of the deadliest battles of the Iraq conflict.
  
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• Robshaw reveals Ireland motivation

  26-02-2015 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England captain Chris Robshaw says the memory of losing last year's Six Nations to Ireland is motivating his team.
  
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• Cliff Richard performs at Barbados charity event as police investigate abuse claims 

  26-02-2015 23:13 via
  
  Sir Cliff Richard, pictured, played a special charity concert for severely brain damaged children while on holiday with his lifelong friend John McElynn in Barbados last weekend.
  
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• You won't believe how many Lego bricks it took to build this incredible Welsh castle

  26-02-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It took one man six weeks to construct this small scale model of Rhuddlan Castle - this amazing timelapse video captures his progress
  
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• Have you ever been this hungry? Bar customer eats SIX-year-old McDonald's chips

  26-02-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The food had previously been in a museum after remarkably not going mouldy despite being made in 2009
  
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• Gigantic 2 PINT glasses introduced for students - but university says is isn't a gimmick

  26-02-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The move by the student union at Dundee University is aimed at reducing queuing times during big sporting events - when long waits anger customers
  
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• Michael Schumacher: F1 legend sells Norwegian mountain holiday home for £2million as recovery from horror ski accident continues

  26-02-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The racing star's family now plan to build £10million hospital facility at their home as he recovers from a six-month coma
  
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• Jimmy Savile: Hospital staff knew of abuse, report finds

  26-02-2015 23:11 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Report finds that NHS hospital staff knew about Jimmy Savile abuse, hospital staff apologise for failings
  
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• Three ponies including foal torn to death by pitbull-type dogs

  26-02-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police seized two dogs from a nearby house following the savage attack in Dudley in the West Midlands
  
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• British Second World War bomb forces evacuation of German football stadium

  26-02-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An unexploded World War II bomb was found near Borussia Dortmund's stadium ahead of a press conference about an important upcoming match
  
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• British bomb from Second World War forces evacuation of German football stadium

  26-02-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An unexploded World War II bomb was found near Borussia Dortmund's stadium ahead of a press conference about an important upcoming match
  
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• Litvinenko: CCTV footage of suspected killers at London hotel shown for first time

  26-02-2015 23:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Images of suspected killers of Alexander Litvinenko - Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun - in hotel moments before his poisoning released to inquiry
  
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• Jihadi John: From ordinary schoolboy to world's most wanted man

  26-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Mohammed Emwazi, identified as 'Jihadi John', was just a regular schoolboy growing up in west London. Nobody imagined he would turn into the most barbaric terrorist on the planet
  
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• 'Stop talking about hedgehogs!': Green Party leader Natalie Bennett given interview advice by media experts

  26-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Coaches working on her interview technique for the election were bemused when she kept on about them
  
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• Claudia Lawrence: Mum shocked that police failed to search wasteland just yards from her home

  26-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joan Lawrence says it 'beggars belief' police did not search rundown garage and waste ground behind Claudia's terraced home until now
  
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• Brian Blessed targets MARS after heart surgery and admits life of adventure caused on-stage collapse

  26-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The much-loved actor said: "This old bugger has climbed Everest, scaled mountains and volcanoes and trained as an astronaut... I’ve put my heart under severe strain"
  
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• Loving parents get daughter's huge birthmark recreated on their legs

  26-02-2015 22:59
  
  A CARING mother and father have had their toddler's birthmark tattooed on their legs so she never has to feel self-conscious.
  
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• Jihadhi John's former university postpones talk by extremist cleric Haitham Al-Haddad

  26-02-2015 22:52 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Westminster University puts off lecture by Sheikh Haitham Al-Haddad following unmasking of Isil militant as Mohammed Emwazi, a former student
  
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• Islamic State 'smashes Iraq statues'

  26-02-2015 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A video released by the Islamic State group appears to show the destruction of statues said to be ancient artefacts from northern Iraq.
  
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• Hockney art inspired by fly-tipping

  26-02-2015 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Hockney releases artwork showing the landscape that inspired him after it was blighted by fly-tipping.
  
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• Children as young as seven are being lured into street gangs, MPs warn

  26-02-2015 22:44
  
  Children as young as seven are at risk of becoming embroiled in gang culture, but the Government has no idea how many gangs are operating in the country, a report from MPs has said.
  
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• YouTube is losing money even though it has more than 1 billion viewers

  26-02-2015 22:40 via
  
  Analysts said that there was ‘a lot of junk’ on YouTube and that the large number of young users did not buy anything from the adverts. Google bought the site for $1.7billion.
  
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• Llama chase captivates Twitter

  26-02-2015 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two unlikely fugitives go on the run in Arizona
  
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• ISIS kill 'spies' in Iraq after CAGE blame Jihadi John beheadings on MI5

  26-02-2015 22:29 via
  
  These images show four men before and after they were murdered by ISIS in Salahuddin province, emerging hours after 'Jihadi John' Mohammed Emwazi was defended by a campaign group.
  
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• Lealands pupils in Luton hospital after taking legal highs before starting school 

  26-02-2015 22:29 via
  
  Three pupils collapsed and another three became dizzy at Lealands High School, in Luton, Bedfordshire, after taking an unknown legal high this morning before school.
  
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• Man arrested in pink pyjamas during police drug raid avoids prison sentence

  26-02-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thomas Joyce was taken away in his 'Weekend Offender' nightwear during police operation in Middlesbrough
  
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• 'Jihadi John' named as London man

  26-02-2015 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in videos of the beheadings of hostages, is named as Mohammed Emwazi from London.
  
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• 'The engine was purring'... cat survives terrifying motorway journey trapped under car bonnet

  26-02-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lucky crawled inside the engine of the blue Mazda to keep warm - but never expected his frightening ordeal.
  
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• Classic car Noel Edmonds drove NAKED at 186mph goes on sale for £4.5m

  26-02-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The TV presenter took the classic Ford GT40 for a spin with his bare Crinkly Bottom on the seat on the Tring Bypass in Hertfordshire
  
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• GAA fund has brought 60 bodies home

  26-02-2015 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fund set up by members of the GAA in Newry, County Down, 19 months ago says it has helped to repatriate the bodies of 60 people who died abroad back to the island of Ireland.
  
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• Carl Mills: Investigation into jealous lover who went on to murder family by torching their home was 'inadequate'

  26-02-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A report said that it was 'likely' action would have been taken to protect the family should AN appropriate investigation have been taken out
  
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• Drinking coffee 'may protect against multiple sclerosis'

  26-02-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Researchers analysed data from two Swedish and US studies comparing a total of 2,788 people with MS and almost 4,000 healthy individuals
  
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• Rebecca Watts missing: Madeleine McCann sniffer dogs join hunt for teenager as parents' home searched

  26-02-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The highly trained victim identification dogs from South Wales Police were drafted in to search the property in Bristol today
  
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• Hero shopkeeper who fought off gunmen with a baseball bat speaks about brush with death

  26-02-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police are now hunting the robbers who held him at gunpoint before fleeing in fear
  
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