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• Police hunt for JoeJoe the parrot after intruder threatened to kill it if owner went to police

  02-03-2015 23:51 via
  
  An intruder kidnapped the African Grey and left a threatening letter made from newspaper headline clippings inside his cage. The abductor struck while owner Cara Cosson, 45, from Bedford, was at work.
  
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• Oovoo: Parents claim paedophiles are using smartphone app to target children

  02-03-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Greater Manchester Police confirmed they are investigating three incidents of sexual activity with a child by an adult using the app
  
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• Labourer banned from keeping or handling fish after swallowing live goldfish and washing it down with Strongbow

  02-03-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Luke Berry posted a video on social media of himself trying three times to gulp down the unfortunate fish after a day of heavy drinking
  
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• Pictured: Robber who tied up girl, 13, and threatened to cut off her fingers and kill her

  02-03-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two men, who were both masked, smashed their way into the girl’s house in Hollinwood, Oldham, by throwing a paving stone through a rear kitchen door
  
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• Tory plans to build 200,000 yuppie ghettos for first-time buyers slammed

  02-03-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Campaigners say the next generation of social housing will be axed under plans backed by David Cameron
  
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• Manchester City star Frank Lampard turned down opportunity to stand as Tory MP

  02-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 36-year-old former Chelsea and England star's representatives assured the Tories he would be too busy to stand due to his football commitments
  
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• Myleene Klass' tears at Nepal mum's ordeal: ''Her newborn died because hospital cost so much''

  02-03-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The star could not bring herself to show grieving Sushma, who lives in the Himalayas, photos of her own daughters Ava and Hero
  
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• Student cuts off penis and stabs mother 11 times in drug and alcohol-fuelled attack

  02-03-2015 23:28
  
  A STUDENT cut off his penis after stabbing his mother 11 times with a knife in a drug and alcohol-fuelled attack.
  
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• 'Chav cheap trash': Posh restaurant's rebuke at hen party revellers' online reviews

  02-03-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The restaurant said the hen party guests were 'the chaviest worst most vile people ever to grace our restaurant'
  
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• Predator who robbed OAP just a week after release from a 17-year prison sentence faces jail for life

  02-03-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dickinson, 49 has spent less than three years at liberty since being locked up as a 20-year-old - burgling and robbing the homes of scores of vulnerable victims
  
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• Walworth police stabbing: Man remanded in custody over attempted murder of two Metropolitan police officers

  02-03-2015 23:12
  
  A 20-year-old man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with the attempted murder of two police officers.
  
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• 'Racing' motorist denies causing death of step-sister after she fell off motorbike into path of his car

  02-03-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aaron Bridgeman, 35, drove away from the scene following the collision and left Claire Franklin's body in the road for another motorist to drive over, a court heard
  
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• The Clutha pub in Glasgow where 10 people died in police helicopter crash to reopen

  02-03-2015 23:04 via
  
  The Clutha pub in Glasgow city centre has been shut since November 29, 2013, when the Police Scotland helicopter crashed into the building, killing seven customers and three police officers.
  
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• Pictured: Moment freak explosion erupts inside petrol station

  02-03-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A CCTV image shows a cashier reeling back with his hands in the air as a fireball of up to a metre erupts in the pay kiosk
  
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• Terminally-ill groom dies two weeks after marrying childhood sweetheart on Valentine's Day

  02-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Williamson wed Anne Hope after the people of Coventry rallied round to make the couple's dream day a reality
  
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• Tory minister Liz Truss blows £34,000 of taxpayers' money on first-class flights and five-star hotels

  02-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Environment Secretary travelled to China to promote British food and spared no expense as she racked up hotel bills of £3,200 for just four nights
  
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• More than 450 nuclear safety incidents reported at Britain's Royal Navy submarine base

  02-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The incidents took place between 2008/09 and 2013/14 at Her Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde, where the country’s nuclear armed Trident subs are housed
  
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• Labourer filmed swallowing live goldfish banned from keeping or handling fish

  02-03-2015 23:00 via
  
  Luke Berry, 26, posted a video of himself on social media attempting to down the creature three times after a day of heavy drinking in Farringdon, Oxon.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: MPs who talk fearful drivel and fight pointless battles

  02-03-2015 22:56
  
  There is a Conservative quartet of Peter Bone, Christopher Chope, Philip Davies and Philip Hollobone who cannot be faulted for the amount of time they spend on their feet in the Commons, arguing. Chope spoke in 75 Commons debates last year, well above the average for an MP, but he was eclipsed by Bone, who spoke in 95, Davies 136 and Hollobone 185. Given that the Commons sat for only 162 days in the 2013-14 session, there was hardly a day when they did not hear from one or more of the quartet.
  
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• Crook caught posting photos on Facebook from his prison cell

  02-03-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dad-of-six Adam Ali uploaded the pictures from Featherstone prison in Wolverhampton - despite the fact that mobile phones and social networking sites are banned behind bars
  
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• How counting drugs and prostitution in its GDP boosted Italy's economy

  02-03-2015 22:49 via
  
  Italy saw its 2010 GDP jump by one per cent, the biggest boost to any economy in the European Union, when including 'estimated illegal activities' such as sales of drugs and prostitution.
  
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• Jihadi brides: British cops 'should be sent to Turkey to stop girls joining IS'

  02-03-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Senior MP Keith Vaz wants police spotters to be stationed at airports to halt the wave of radicalised young girls heading for Syria
  
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• British cops should be sent to Turkey to stop jihadi brides joining IS says senior MP

  02-03-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Senior MP Keith Vaz wants police spotters to be stationed at airports to halt the wave of radicalised young girls heading for Syria
  
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• Do'h! A deer! Driver stunned to discover animal he collided with INSIDE his car engine

  02-03-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve Clark hit the wayward animal at 40mph, but miraculously it survived with just a few small injuries
  
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• Meet family of six in two-bed council house who are on 12 year waiting list for suitably-sized home

  02-03-2015 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Husband Gareth Cowell sleeps on the sofa and teenage daughter Gemma revises for her GCSEs on a bunk bed with her four-year-old sister Katie while twin sons David and James, two, sleep in their mother's room
  
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• Miners' strike 30 years on: Diary of Nottinghamshire picket Dennis Skinner labelled ''tower of strength''

  02-03-2015 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  On the 30th anniversary of the NUM's return to work, read how Clipstone pitman John Lowe threw himself into the fight for jobs
  
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• Will Clipstone Colliery headstocks be saved? Community group plans 100mph zip line in ambitious regeneration plan

  02-03-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Protected by Grade II heritage status, debate has raged across the Nottinghamshire village about the iconic winding towers' fate since the pit closed in 2003
  
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• Mother of Adam Johnson's girlfriend defends footballer after arrest on suspicion of sexual activity with under-age girl

  02-03-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Speaking from the family home, the mum said: ""He hasn't been found guilty of anything. He is a great lad and has not done anything wrong."
  
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• Jihadi John's brother 'was a member of so-called Muslim mafia at school'

  02-03-2015 22:22 via
  
  Omar Emwazi - whose older brother Mohammed was exposed as the infamous ISIS killer - is said to have supported Sheikh Khalid Yasin, who was lauded by Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale.
  
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• Ted Robbins is 'lucky to be alive' after collapsing on stage during Phoenix Nights live

  02-03-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The comic collapsed with heart problems in January and has now opened up about the ordeal on BBC Radio
  
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• Forbes rich list: Bill Gates retains top spot as world's wealthiest man

  02-03-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It is the 16th time in the last 21 years the philanthropist has topped the rich list
  
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• Woman grieving for fiancé who dropped dead refused refund by wedding dress makers

  02-03-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fiona Mullins was told by The Wedding Warehouse in Carlisle it would continue making the dress "in case of a change of circumstances"
  
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• Thug who threw pensioners into fridge as she watched Eggheads jailed for 10 years

  02-03-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Rowlands, from Newport, crept into the pensioner's home and carried out the sick attack for just £40 to pay off drug dealers
  
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• Thug who threw pensioner into her own fridge jailed for 10 years

  02-03-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Rowlands, from Newport, crept into the pensioner's home and carried out the sick attack for just £40 to pay off drug dealers
  
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• Thug who threw pensioner into fridge as she watched Eggheads jailed for 10 years

  02-03-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Rowlands, from Newport, crept into the pensioner's home and carried out the sick attack for just £40 to pay off drug dealers
  
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• 'Ashamed' GP 'lied about failing to make house call to baby who later died of meningitis'

  02-03-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Jason Tahghighi told an inquest he was "under considerable stress" when he did not visit five-month-old Leo Radcliffe at the family's home in Oldham
  
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• Coffin for UK's tallest man to measure 8ft and require 10 pallbearers

  02-03-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christopher Greener, who played basketball for Britain and was the circus giant in David Lynch’s film The Elephant Man, needs a double-sized plot of land
  
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• Undercover cop joined construction union UCATT to spy on workers

  02-03-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Activists believe personal information gathered by Mark Jenner was used by industry bosses to blacklist workers who raised health and safety concerns
  
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• Online dating giant Tinder launches premium service which charges MORE if you're over 28

  02-03-2015 21:58
  
  ONLINE dating giant Tinder are today launching a premium service which charges MORE if users are aged over 28.
  
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• Woman on £1,100 benefits filmed in foul-mouthed rant about Queen's homes

  02-03-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Debbie Merton, 46, hasn’t worked in 24 years as a result of a disability and lives in a council flat on the East Sussex coast
  
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• Single woman on £1,100 a month benefits says she deserves more handouts from the state

  02-03-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Debbie Merton, 46, hasn’t worked in 24 years and lives in a council flat on the East Sussex coast
  
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• Boy George has planning application for his Grade II-listed London home rejected

  02-03-2015 21:45 via
  
  The 53-year-old applied to have the extension at his multi-million pound home in Hampstead, but Camden council said the designs were an 'over-dominant and incongruous addition'.
  
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• Student high on miaow miaow stabbed mother 11 times and then cut off his penis

  02-03-2015 21:37 via
  
  Charles Mann launched the frenzied attack on his mother, Emma, in December 2013 at their West Sussex home after bingeing on the party drug and copious amounts of alcohol.
  
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• Alan Medd: Paedophile ex-teacher, 77, jailed for 'depraved, despicable and abhorrent' child abuse

  02-03-2015 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There is now every chance warped Medd will die behind bars
  
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• David Cameron talks big but is waving a small stick at the Russian bear

  02-03-2015 21:34
  
  David Cameron, according to his critics among senior diplomats and military commanders, seems to have turned Teddy Roosevelt’s advice on foreign policy – “speak softly and carry a big stick” – on its head.
  
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• Watch: new drug driving advert designed to make viewers feel paranoid

  02-03-2015 21:27 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A powerful new campaign video warns people who drive under the influence of drugs that a change in the law means it's now easier to get caught.
  
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• Mum murdered her son, 5, by poisoning him to death with salt

  02-03-2015 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors said Lacey Spears, 27, deliberately made her son ill because she 'craved the attention' of family, friends and medics
  
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• Vulnerable man 'killed with single punch by 16-year-old for being too friendly'

  02-03-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lee Devlin was killed with a single punch 'for a laugh' by a youth 'playing the big man in front of his friends,' a court has heard
  
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• Man 'killed by 16-year-old for being too friendly', court hears

  02-03-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vulnerable Lee Devlin was allegedly killed with a single punch in Whitley Bay 'for a laugh' by a youth 'playing the big man in front of his friends'
  
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• Getting young people to vote: From #VOTESELFISH to Bite the Ballot

  02-03-2015 21:10
  
  Personal attacks, mud-slinging, celebrity endorsement, scare tactics, brightly coloured buses and getting creative with the facts have long been an essential part of any political party's election campaign toolkit. Who can forget the Tories' "New Labour, New Danger" poster featuring a demon-eyed Tony Blair? But rarely do such techniques stir much interest among the under-25s – a problem a number of new initiatives are trying to address.
  
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