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• Taking shelter underground: Boy, 5, waits for lunch in the bunker where his family have been living for nine months during heavy fighting in Donetsk

  01-03-2015 23:56 via
  
  Pavel and his family live in the basement of the cultural centre in Petrovskiy, an area of Donetsk under pro-Russian rebel control which has seen months of heavy fighting.
  
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• Community spirit, award-winning restaurant and population of just 1,400: Former tin-mining town in Devon is named best place to live in Britain's countryside

  01-03-2015 23:56 via
  
  The town of Chagford lies in the picturesque Teign Valley in Dartmoor National Park and its biggest attraction is arguably the 750-year-old church of St Michael the Archangel (pictured).
  
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• Top US general 'very concerned' about Britain's defence cuts

  01-03-2015 23:53
  
  The US army’s most senior general has said he is “very concerned” about the effect of cuts to the UK military’s budget.
  
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• Top US general Raymond Odierno 'very concerned' about Britain's defence cuts

  01-03-2015 23:53
  
  The US army’s most senior general has said he is “very concerned” about the effect of cuts to the UK military’s budget.
  
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• VIDEO: CCTV of missing girls on way to Syria

  01-03-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  CCTV images have emerged showing the three British teenage girls who are believed to have gone to Syria to join Islamic State.
  
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• Argentine leader hails lower debt

  01-03-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner defends her economic policy in her last speech to Congress before she steps down in December.
  
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• Swindon rave: Watch man describing how illegal ravers were just looking to have 'a great time' at event

  01-03-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police officers were injured after coming under 'sustained attack' when they confronted hundreds of people taking part in the rave this morning
  
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• VIDEO: IS defector: 'Jihadi John a loner'

  01-03-2015 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC speaks exclusively to a former member of Islamic State who met Mohammed Emwazi - dubbed "Jihadi John" - during his early days in Syria.
  
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• Van driver fighting for life after being dragged along motorway by trickster thief he stopped to help

  01-03-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim, 28, desperately clung onto his own van after the crook stole it
  
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• 'Jihadi John was cold and a loner'

  01-03-2015 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Islamic State fighter known as "Jihadi John" was cold and a loner who set himself apart from others, says an IS defector who met him in Syria.
  
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• Pentagon's most expensive fighter jet set for use by the Royal Navy on HMS Queen Elizabeth can not carry advance weapons because of design flaw

  01-03-2015 23:31 via
  
  The Ministry of Defense has ordered 48 F-35Bs and they are the only fighter jets set to launch off two planned British aircraft carriers - the HMS Queen Elizabeth and the HMS Prince of Wales.
  
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• Top cop: Web trolls are swamping police and should be given lifetime social media bans

  01-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Durham Police chief Mike Barton says there was a 40 per cent rise in charges relating to improper use of electronic messages in England from 2010-13
  
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• RAF jets worth £300m come within 500ft of crashing in Britain's worst air near miss

  01-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two £126million Typhoon Eurofighters and three Hawk trainers were on a collision course as low as 250ft in Wales
  
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• Pakistan school massacre: Taliban killed his brother and burned teacher alive but won't defeat our son

  01-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ahmad Nawaz, 14, is being trated in hospital in Britain after surviving the terrorist attack on his school and his family say he refuses to be intimidated by the terrorists
  
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• Jihadi John's sister grew up 'knowing nothing about Western culture' her former boss claims

  01-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An ex-employer of the ISIS terrorist's architect sister Asma told the Mirror's special correspondent David Collins in Kuwait she had never heard of Kim Kardashian
  
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• Jihadi John's father flees Britain for Kuwait - but is tracked down by the Mirror

  01-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror's Russell Myers and David Collins in Kuwait contacted Jasem Emwazi by phone but he was in no mood to talk about his son Mohammed
  
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• 'I was battered by my own children 30 times a day - my son even stabbed me'

  01-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pauline Bubb lived in fear of her own children and had to cover her bruises because she was embarrassed
  
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• David Cameron is a bag of hot air just waiting to be burst by TV debates

  01-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire says the reason the PM is dodging a head-to-head confrontation is because he knows he has a record he can't defend
  
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• Boris Nemtsov: Political rival of Vladimir Putin warned Russia leader would kill him

  01-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Deputy Prime Minister claimed he had received anonymous death threats before he was shot four times in the back
  
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• Coleen Nolan's advice for mums who are attacked by their own children

  01-03-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror's agony aunt says parents who are on the receiving end of violence from their own offspring must not suffer in silence
  
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• Data thieves raid TalkTalk customers' bank accounts: Thousands at mercy of fraudsters after addresses and phone numbers were stolen from firm's computers

  01-03-2015 23:28 via
  
  Criminals have stolen account numbers, addresses and phone numbers from the phone and broadband firm’s computers with thieves posing as employees over the phone.
  
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• Lib Dems want extra £1bn bank levy

  01-03-2015 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lib Dem Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander is calling for an extra £1bn tax on Britain's banks to help pay off the deficit.
  
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• Chandos Green has survived a brain tumour three times since he was three 

  01-03-2015 23:21 via
  
  Chandos Green, a student at Chichester University, West Sussex, must still have annual MRI scans after he endured three risky surgeries merely to survive to the age of 19.
  
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• Cornish pasty prize won... by a Chilean: Entrant beats competition with traditional dish containing beef, hard-boiled eggs, olives and sultanas 

  01-03-2015 23:11 via
  
  Jorge Pereira won the amateur prize at the World Pasty Championships, in Cornwall, with his empanada Chilen- made with beef, onion, hard-boiled egg, olives and sultanas.
  
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• How Man City let Liverpool duo shine

  01-03-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MOTD2 pundit Danny Murphy says Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini's team selection suited Liverpool in the Reds' win.
  
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• Former England footballer Sol Campbell wants to become Tory MP in Malcolm Rifkind's seat

  01-03-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Campbell recently had lunch with Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps and is also considering a run as Tory candidate for London Mayor
  
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• Former England footballer Sol Campbell considering becoming Tory MP in Malcolm Rifkind's seat

  01-03-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Campbell recently had lunch with Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps and is also considering a run as Tory candidate for London Mayor
  
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• Kay Diamond: First picture of woman found dead in flat after suffering 'blunt force trauma to the head'

  01-03-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two men, aged 52 and 48 and from Toxteth, remain in police custody where they are being quizzed by detectives
  
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• Ikea to launch desks, tables and lamps to charge phones and other devices wirelessly

  01-03-2015 23:01 via
  
  The Swedish furniture giant revealed that the new collection will use Qi wireless technology to power-up compatible devices that are placed on or near the furniture.
  
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• BBC chairman faces questions over £10,000-a-day HSBC role

  01-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rona Fairhead, the chairman of the BBC, was paid more than £500,000 by HSBC last year - five times more than she receives from the corporation
  
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• Pensioners need tax breaks to downsize

  01-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The government needs to 'go beyond' supporting first-time-buyers and help older people to downsize if it wants to solve the housing crisis
  
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• Tory big beast Ken Clarke earns £20,000 in one day by speaking at boozy dinners

  01-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New records show the former Chancellor was paid the sum after speeches at events for hedge fund barons
  
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• US military chief: Britain cannot cut more troops

  01-03-2015 22:56 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  General Raymond Odierno, chief of staff, says British forces could be reduced to operating 'inside' American units
  
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• Cat dyed pink by owner dies 'after ingesting toxic substance on its fur'

  01-03-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The animal was given the fluorescent makeover for a ‘pretty in pink party’ but later fell ill
  
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• 'Like last year's car, but better'

  01-03-2015 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mercedes' testing times leave competitors unable to hide their dejection, but there's still plenty to race for - writes Andrew Benson.
  
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• Pictured: Escaped prisoner who evaded police while wearing nothing but his underpants

  01-03-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Connor Smith-MacPhee, caged for violent robbery, still on the run but police say he is not a danger to the public
  
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• Woman born without uterus becomes mother for the first time after sister gives birth to a son for her 

  01-03-2015 22:20 via
  
  Susan Hughes, from Swadlincote, Derbyshire, discovered at 16 she would never be able to carry her own children. But her wish to be a mother came true when sister Sarah Wheeler gave birth to her son.
  
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• Pictured: Driver abandons car in city centre alleyway after it gets wedged on set of steps

  01-03-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blue Ford Multipla had to be winched out of the walkway after becoming stuck on the brickwork
  
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• The Media Column: Brilliant run of dramas sees foreign buyers snap up the best of British TV

  01-03-2015 22:14
  
  “It’s a great time for British drama,” said Mark Gatiss, co-creator of the BBC’s Sherlock series and a screen regular, who played Henry VIII’s secretary Stephen Gardiner in Wolf Hall.
  
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• IS frees 19 abducted Christians

  01-03-2015 22:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nineteen of the 220 members of an Assyrian Christian community kidnapped by Islamic State in Syria have been freed, activists say.
  
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• Christian children's worker 'sacked for telling gay colleague: God doesn't condone homosexuality' launches unfair dismissal claim

  01-03-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sarah Mbuyi has launched the claim following her dismissal for gross misconduct and says she believes that "following the Bible is a problem now"
  
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• Baby Amelia raises hopes Huntingdon's disease can be wiped out

  01-03-2015 21:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Amelia Queen was conceived using a pioneering screening technique - one of the first such births in Britain
  
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• The Independent Bath Literature Festival: Michael Frayn’s Hard Problem with Stoppard and his ‘stupid’ audiences

  01-03-2015 21:47
  Tom Stoppard was wrong to suggest that audiences were too stupid to understand his plays, according to the playwright Michael Frayn, who added it was up to the writer “to make things clear”.
  
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• Is 'emotional last farewell' fly past of Penang island the key clue to the mystery of missing Malaysia flight MH370? British pilot's theory

  01-03-2015 21:45 via
  
  The doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was taken on a fly-past of the pilot’s home island before being deliberately landed and sinking intact thousands of miles away, according to a British pilot.
  
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• Watch moment skydiver has epileptic fit at 9,000ft leaving him hurtling unconscious towards the ground

  01-03-2015 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Posting the video under the name Nomadic Adrenaline, he described the experience in November 2014 as "possible the scariest moment of my life"
  
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• Drivers using mobile phones at the wheel must be banned says police chief

  01-03-2015 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chief Constable Suzette Davenport accused ministers of refusing to get tough on dangerous drivers for fear of losing votes          
  
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• Parents who forced their young children to live in filth among dirty nappies and dog poo spared jail

  01-03-2015 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Horrified policeman describes Birmingham mum and dad's squalid home as the 'worst he had ever seen'
  
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• Bringing up the Rhea: Meet the gangly bird that thinks the zoo-keeper is its father

  01-03-2015 21:42 via
  
  He hatched from an egg in a zoo-keeper's hands and quickly grew into a 5ft bird. But Zazu the rhea, a flightless cousin of the ostrich and emu, still follows Colin Northcott around Dartmoor Zoo.
  
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• Sierra Leone's Samuel Sam-Sumana in quarantine over Ebola worries

  01-03-2015 21:38 via
  
  Despite his quarantine, Samuel Sam-Sumana is set to become acting president today as President Ernest Bai Koroma travels to Belgium to attend an EU conference on Ebola.
  
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• Families clubbing together to build their own affordable accommodation

  01-03-2015 21:33
  
  Families unable to afford somewhere to live are clubbing together to build their own affordable accommodation in a new trend as communities are forced to find their own ways of solving the British housing crisis.
  
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