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• Carers 'ran child sex ring at Swaylands School in Kent for 30 years'

  04-03-2015 23:58 via
  
  Colwyn Baker, David Hennessy and Nigel Putman are said to have preyed on youngsters at the now-defunct Swaylands School in Penshurst, Kent, from 1963 to 1993.
  
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• David Walliams split: Lara Stone 'ended marriage over TV cross-dressing'

  04-03-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It has been claimed that the model called time on their marriage because she didn’t like constant talk about her husband being camp
  
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• Charity shop worker cleared of stealing £360 raised in memory of a mother who died

  04-03-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mandy Gillgrass, 51, was cleared of theft by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court
  
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• Tube Crush: Website showing attractive men on Underground is smash hit - in China

  04-03-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Users of Chinese micro-blogging website Sina Weibo are sharing the images with fellow enthusiasts - and one image alone can result in 100,000 likes and shares
  
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• Crush hour: Website showing attractive men on Tube is smash hit - in China

  04-03-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Users of Chinese micro-blogging website Sina Weibo are sharing the images with fellow enthusiasts - and one image alone can result in 100,000 likes and shares
  
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• VIDEO: Surveillance footage of Abid Naseer

  04-03-2015 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Pakistani man extradited from the UK to the US has been convicted for plotting attacks in several countries.
  
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• Oscar Pistorius 'so paranoid about being poisoned in prison he only eats tinned food'

  04-03-2015 23:44 via
  
  The Paralympic star, who was jailed four months ago for killing his girlfriend, has lost so much weight that his prosthetic limbs no longer fit him, according to local media.
  
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• Payback time: Axed worker stops clocks in Swansea plus how other ex-employees got revenge

  04-03-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Horologist David Mitchell was so wound up he stopped the hands of time on eight clocks around the city after clocking up 30 years
  
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• Meet the pick pocket who taught Hollywood A-Listers Will Smith and Margot Robbie how to 'steal'

  04-03-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If he turned crooked, he’d be the best in the business, but quick-fingered Apollo Robbins is an entertainer so good, that magicians mention his name in hushed tones
  
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• 'Boiler room' fraud gang made £1.5m duping investors into buying coloured diamonds

  04-03-2015 23:33 via
  
  Victims were allegedly lured into the so-called boiler room scam by 'persistent and persuasive' salesmen who told them the coloured gemstones would pay handsome returns.
  
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• Becky Watts: Stepbrother Nathan Matthews smiles in wedding picture with teen he is accused of murdering

  04-03-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Teenager Becky poses at her dad's wedding with stepbrother Nathan Matthews who is accused of killing her, and his girlfriend Sharon Hoare who is accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice
  
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• Sinkhole opens up yards from fence of HMP The Mount in Bovingdon

  04-03-2015 23:32 via
  
  The 15ft deep sinkhole has appeared just outside the walls of HMP The Mount in the village of Bovingdon in Hertfordshire.
  
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• VIDEO: Mine survivor speaks of horror

  04-03-2015 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some 33 miners are feared dead in a suspected methane gas blast at a coal mine in a rebel-held region of eastern Ukraine.
  
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• Critically-ill bride who got married in her hospital bed stuns doctors with incredible recovery

  04-03-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mandy and Paul Curran tied the knot after she was told she might not survive, but she is now set to return home to her new husband
  
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• 'Lucky' the cat, who survived 30-minute journey under the bonnet of a car, is reunited with his owner

  04-03-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Named Lucky by the RSPCA, the adventurous moggy is actually called Bubbles - and now he’s back home.
  
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• UKIP immigration policy in tatters as Nigel Farage insists no cap on numbers

  04-03-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  UKIP leader announced there will be no cap on immigration just days after spokesman said they would only allow 50,000 migrants into UK a year
  
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• Tony Blair gives £106,000 to Labour’s election campaign

  04-03-2015 23:04
  
  Tony Blair has donated £106,000 to the Labour Party by giving £1,000 each to the local campaigns in its 106 target seats.
  
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• Thief who groped drunk woman and stole her handbag is jailed

  04-03-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gary Chatterton, 24, claimed he rubbed his victim's legs to keep her warm - a claim dismissed by a judge as "ridiculous"
  
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• Lorry driver's miracle escape after truck slides off road and plunges 40ft down embankment

  04-03-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The accident happened in the early hours and it is believed the vehicle may have lost control on black ice
  
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• Watch passengers flee Turkish Airlines plane forced to crash land in Nepal

  04-03-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One passenger said:"All I heard was a big bang and crying and screaming - and very quickly the emergency exits were opened"
  
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• David Cameron issues 'final offer' over TV debates

  04-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Prime Minister will only take part in one debate, held more than a month before the election, featuring at least seven political leaders and attacks the "chaos" caused by the broadcasters.
  
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• Anti-drugs lessons are counter-productive, Government's drug experts tell Theresa May

  04-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs says there is no evidence just telling children about drugs decreases the likelihood of addiction and questions funding
  
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• A class apart: Politics has become a closed world

  04-03-2015 22:55
  
  “There are unfortunately too many people in politics who just don’t get it; who just don’t understand what life on benefits would be like,” Lord O’Donnell, the former head of the Civil Service, has warned. The factual assumption behind this lament cannot be denied. The biographical backgrounds of today’s professional politicians are not representative of the public at large, and the number who have had any direct experience of life at the bottom of the social pile is indeed very smal
  
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• Mayor accused of misleading Londoners

  04-03-2015 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson is accused of misleading Londoners over how much it could cost to fund a new garden bridge over the River Thames.
  
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• HSBC tax dodge: George Osborne squirms as he refuses to answer questions on scandal SIX times

  04-03-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor was asked repeatedly if he had raised HSBC’s collusion in tax evasion before appointing the bank’s former boss as a government minister
  
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• Why are Sooty and Sweep the latest victims of the Coalition's benefits clampdown?

  04-03-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michael Knight has been running a fanpage for the children's show - but its future might be in jeopardy
  
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• School worksheet describing Palestinian 'terrorism' given to 11-year-old pupils

  04-03-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The document, which has gone viral online, talks about suicide bombings carried out by "separatists" and asks kids to describe "Palestinian terrorist activities".
  
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• Moment bus driver was stabbed in the EYE on Penge high street

  04-03-2015 22:27 via
  
  The 41-year-old was driving his route along the high street in Penge, south east London, when the suspect, who was holding a child's hand, and another man with a dog walked out in front of the bus.
  
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• Boris Nemtsov murder: Could Russian dashcam footage help solve the shooting of outspoken Putin critic?

  04-03-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footage may prove vital in the investigation into the shooting as all the CCTV cameras in the area were either "being repaired" or were "turned the wrong way" at the time.
  
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• Polly Hudson: Why I agree with Kanye West for the first time ever

  04-03-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Polly Hudson says she finally agrees with Kanye West and his artistic aspirations
  
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• ISIS releases tourist brochure-style images of Mosul market

  04-03-2015 22:22 via
  
  Taken in the ISIS' Iraqi power base of Mosul in Nineveh province, the travel brochure-type images show crowded market stalls loaded with olives, pickles and all manner of sweets.
  
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• RAF flypast marks 125th birthday of the Forth Bridge

  04-03-2015 22:21 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A flypast by an RAF Tornado and Spitfire marks the 125th birthday of one of Scotland's most iconic landmarks, the Forth Rail Bridge
  
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• Colin Hendry admits drink driving but blames 'rare metabolism'

  04-03-2015 22:16 via
  
  The 49-year old former Rangers and Blackburn Rovers defender was arrested last month after police stopped him near his home in Lytham, Lancashire in the early hours of February 21.
  
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• Refugees in Somalia left homeless after troops destroy their shelters

  04-03-2015 22:15 via
  
  Despite knowing the hardships people there face, government soldiers destroyed dozens of temporary shelters and shops at a refugee camp in southern Mogadishu.
  
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• Posing topless in the name of high fashion as Paris models bare their breasts

  04-03-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rising French star Simon Porte Jacquemus certainly caught the attention of the audience at his avant garde show in Paris
  
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• Rapist white witch Redvers Barnard jailed for 22 years over sex offences

  04-03-2015 22:12 via
  
  Redvers Barnard, pictured, abused six girls over three decades during which time he claimed he was a 'white witch' with the power to heal people. He was jailed today at Manchester Crown Court.
  
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• Gynmast Rosie Connolly died after swim at Laboratory Spa in Mill Hill

  04-03-2015 22:10 via
  
  Rosie Connolly, 21, a receptionist at the Laboratory Spa in Mill Hill, north London, fell unconscious at the poolside.
  
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• Syrian Nusra Front rebels taunt the West after capturing US-made weapons

  04-03-2015 22:05 via
  
  Nusra Front terrorists are seen wearing military fatigues as they pose with deadly American-made BGM-71 TOW missiles in a warehouse in Atarib, a town 15 miles west of the city of Aleppo.
  
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• Reading mother 'had sex with 14-year-old friend of her daughter'

  04-03-2015 22:04 via
  
  Tammy Gregory, 36, appeared at Reading Crown Court today accused of having sex with the 14-year-old boy - who is a friend of her daughter - at her home in Reading, Berkshire, in 2013.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: If the Mail man won't admit to drug use, should Nick Clegg?

  04-03-2015 22:04
  
  At his drugs policy launch with Sir Richard Branson, Nick Clegg complained that he had had several private expressions of support for decriminalisation from senior figures in what he called “the mainstream parties”.
  
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• Bay City Rollers star sells prized guitars in desperate bid to fund lifesaving op for beloved dog

  04-03-2015 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alan MacLeod, 61, hopes that selling off two Fenders will help raise £4,000 for an operation for German shepherd Kayden.
  
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• If the arrogance of 'Musketeer midwives' cost babies their lives they should face court of law

  04-03-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carole Malone says an internal disciplinary is not enough when the lives of babies are compromised
  
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• Election 2015: Latest polling reveals Tories and Labour on course to win the same number of seats - with the SNP holding the balance of power

  04-03-2015 22:01
  The Tories and Labour are on course to win the same number of seats in  Westminster after the election on 7 May with the SNP emerging as the third largest party holding the balance of power, a new poll suggests.
  
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• BBC to host Ronnie Barker comedy lectures

  04-03-2015 22:01 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The BBC has unveiled plans for an annual lecture about comedy that will honour the memory of the late Ronnie Barker.
  
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• First Briton killed fighting Isil was an 'amazing' man, girlfriend says

  04-03-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Konstandinos Scurfield, who was killed fighting Isil in Syria, was trying to give something back after feeling the Kurdish people had been let down by the West, his girlfriend says
  
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