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• Clubber fighting for life after savage attack - two teenagers quizzed by cops

  08-03-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Irish man was set upon in an alleyway close to a pub and nightclub in a lively part of Liverpool
  
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• Exclusive: One in five gay teenagers claim they have suffered homophobic bullying from teachers and other adults in school

  08-03-2015 23:52
  Gay pupils across the country are being subjected to homophobic bullying at the hands of their teachers, according to research published today.
  
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• Exclusive: One in five gay teenagers claim they have suffered homophobic bullying from teachers and other adults at school

  08-03-2015 23:52
  Gay pupils across the country are being subjected to homophobic bullying at the hands of their teachers, according to research published today.
  
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• Police chief: 'Put CCTV in every home'

  08-03-2015 23:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan Howe says CCTV cameras should be installed by homeowners and businesses to help detectives solve crimes
  
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• Crufts 2015: Best in Show is crowned - and she's a Sottish Terrier all the way from Russia

  08-03-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Five-year-old Knopa beat 21,000 other dogs to walk off with the title at Birmingham’s NEC - the first Scottie to win since 1929
  
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• Crufts 2015: Best in Show is crowned - and she's a Scottish Terrier all the way from Russia

  08-03-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Five-year-old Knopa beat 21,000 other dogs to walk off with the title at Birmingham’s NEC - the first Scottie to win since 1929
  
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• Stars' children's charity in crisis after three directors quit over the way it is funded

  08-03-2015 23:36 via
  
  Kids Company, founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh (pictured) in 1996, supports 36,000 vulnerable children in the UK - but concerns have been raised over the way that the charity is run.
  
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• Shocking video captures moment building with 30 students on collapses at mass party

  08-03-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Californian students had been taking part in a massive "St Fratt's Day" party when a building came tumbling down
  
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• The ghost of Green Street walks again as all-star cast revisit one of Britain's most famous poltergeist cases

  08-03-2015 23:34 via
  
  The ghostly story of the Enfield poltergeist has been recreated by an all-star cast for a three-part drama series to be screened this spring on Sky Living.
  
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• Pictured: Manchester United ace Angel Di Maria's £4million mansion on sale a month after terrifying raid

  08-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Six-bedroom home boasts indoor pool, jacuzzi and changing room, a sitting room with drop-down screen, kids TV room, play room, office and gym
  
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• Pictured: Manchester United ace Angel Di Maria's £4million mansion on sale a month after bungled break in

  08-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Six-bedroom home boasts indoor pool, jacuzzi and changing room, a sitting room with drop-down screen, kids TV room, play room, office and gym
  
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• "Lock up their passports": Anti-terror chief issues warning to parents worried their children will join ISIS

  08-03-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Counter terror cop says speaking to the authorities behind children's backs and seizing their passports is right thing to do
  
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• Ladies in waiting: It will take 155 YEARS until women make up half the Commons

  08-03-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  The research by Labour plots the rate of change over the decades and takes into account the candidates standing at the election in May
  
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• UK Weather: What a difference five days makes as snow-covered town basks in sunshine

  08-03-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sleepy town of Hawes basks in spring sunshine after being blanketed with snow less than a week ago
  
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• Baby survives 14 hours in Utah river

  08-03-2015 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A baby girl is found alive in a car 14 hours after the vehicle plunged into a river in Utah, killing her mother.
  
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• VIDEO: International Women's Day worldwide

  08-03-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Events to mark International Women's Day are taking place across the world.
  
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• TV Channel stages silent protest over Indian government banning of documentary about country's rape crisis

  08-03-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  NDTV Channel shows slate with documentaries name for an hour when it would have gone out instead of screening alternative show
  
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• Official NHS calculator predicts when you will have a heart attack

  08-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Take the test: A new NHS tool which estimates how long you will live until having a heart attack or stroke promises a 'wake-up call' to shock Britons into changing their lifestyles
  
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• BBC's director general backs lowering voting age to 16

  08-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lord Tony Hall tells school pupils in Camden he backs dropping voting age to 16 - a policy backed by Labour but opposed by the Tories
  
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• Missing ISIS schoolgirls 'traced to Syria home run by British woman who helped them flee UK'

  08-03-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, are thought to be in the city of al Raqqa
  
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• Pair charged over Nemtsov murder

  08-03-2015 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two men are charged in connection with the murder of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, and three other suspects appear before a court in Moscow.
  
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• What's the first thing you would do if charged by an angry hippo? This couple got their CAMERA out and took these amazing shots

  08-03-2015 22:53 via
  
  Michael and Jacqueline Tucker from Johannesburg were holidaying in Botswana when the animal bore its fangs at them during a guided tour of Chobe National Park.
  
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• Cheltenham Festival 2015: 'Trepidation Tuesday' for bookies as punters set to gamble record £250million

  08-03-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Four fancied favourites on the opening day have won 33 races in 36 starts – an unprecedented situation which betting firms described as “the perfect storm”
  
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• Two schoolboys killed after car smashes into tree in Leeds

  08-03-2015 22:36
  
  TWO schoolboys were killed and two more are fighting for their lives after a car crashed into a tree in Leeds.
  
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• David Cameron admits families hammered by cost of living - but it's taken him five years

  08-03-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a leaked draft of his speech seen by the Daily Mirror the PM accepts the scale of the cost of living crisis to hit households on his watch
  
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• The Media Column: ITV ratings are falling, but with digital and ad revenues up, US buyers are interested

  08-03-2015 22:17
  
  Relations between ITV and the BBC have been disappointingly cordial in recent years, so it was good to hear Adam Crozier, ITV’s chief executive, blaming his licence-fee-funded rivals for his own network’s ratings slump.
  
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• Butcher who runs short of rabbits starts selling squirrel - and sells out in three hours

  08-03-2015 22:11 via
  
  Elveden Estate butchers in Suffolk is restricted to the numbers of rabbits it can shoot every month due to plummeting numbers and added the delicacy to its menu in a bid to replace stocks.
  
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• Watford football fan fights for life after suffering serious head injuries when he was attacked in the street as he made his way home from watching match against Wolves 

  08-03-2015 22:07 via
  
  The supporter, named locally as 44-year-old Nick Cruwys, was on his way to Wolverhampton train station from the Molineux stadium (pictured) when he was assaulted by a gang.
  
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• Missing schoolgirls believed to be in Isil-controlled Raqqah

  08-03-2015 22:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The three London schoolgirls feared to have travelled to Syria are believed to have successfully reached Isil controlled territory, according to Sky News
  
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• Jihadi schoolgirls 'staying in Raqqa with fellow Brit'

  08-03-2015 22:06
  
  THREE British schoolgirls who travelled to Turkey to join Islamic State are staying in Raqqa, Syria, according to reports.
  
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• 'When my husband murdered my sons I thought my life was over but my family has shown me love again'

  08-03-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve Wilson killed his two boys, Bret, eight, and Brad Lee, seven, in 2002, leaving their mother utterly heartbroken
  
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• Millions of animals being subjected to ‘disturbing’ scientific research at UK universities

  08-03-2015 22:02
  
  Nearly 2 million animals were used for scientific research in British universities in one year – with many subjected to “distressing and disturbing” procedures, campaigners say.
  
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• Toddler fighting for life after being trapped in car for 14 hours after it plunged into river

  08-03-2015 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 18-month-old girl's mother was found dead in the driving seat after the car careered off the road
  
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• Petrol drinking sex pest facing jail after breaching his ASBO by guzzling unleaded eight hours after prison release 

  08-03-2015 21:56 via
  
  Robert Stephens, of Oxford, is addicted to drinking petrol and was banned from doing so after a previous incident in which he made sick remarks to schoolgirls while high on gasoline.
  
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• Four out of five British cider makers will be pressed by new European Commission tax threat that could put them out of business

  08-03-2015 21:43 via
  
  The UK government was formally told last week to change its current excise duty, which means cider makers that produce less than 70 hectolitres (12,000 pints) a year do not have to pay duty.
  
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• 'Expectations are high' Britain's first female bishop installed at home diocese

  08-03-2015 21:35
  
  THE first female bishop in the Church of England was installed in her home diocese today - on International Women's Day.
  
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• Sprint 200m record broken by 95-year-old - who then went for a long nap

  08-03-2015 21:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Charles Eugster broke the indoor running record at the British Masters Championships after only taking up the sport last year
  
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• Jeremy Hunt under fire for failure to publish critical NHS report

  08-03-2015 21:24
  
  Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been accused of undermining his own plan for a “transparency revolution” in the NHS by refusing to publish a report said to be critical of the Government's handling of the health service.
  
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• Cops slam rumours rape was 'racially motivated' after Nick Griffin uses the attack to spew hate

  08-03-2015 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former BNP boss posted an inflammatory message on his Twitter account after a rape suspect was described as 'Asian'
  
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• Man charged after spending EIGHT hours wandering on Houses of Parliament roof

  08-03-2015 21:20
  
  A 23-YEAR-OLD man has been charged after spending EIGHT hours wandering around the roof of the Houses of Parliament.
  
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• Scottish National Party preparing for second independence referendum

  08-03-2015 21:18
  
  THE SNP was last night accused of “going back on a promise” after it emerged the party plans to put another independence referendum in its 2016 Holyrood election manifesto.
  
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• Leeds crash: First pictures of tragic teens killed in horror smash

  08-03-2015 21:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  George Wharton and Rhys Baker both passed away in the crash after being picked up by a 21-year-old man
  
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• Rape lessons for 11-year-olds to 'prepare them for life in modern Britain'

  08-03-2015 21:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The lessons – which could come in soon after the Easter holidays – will cover what consent is, boundaries and alcohol wrongly being used as an excuse for attacks
  
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• Tory MPs revolt against Lynton Crosby’s ‘aggressive, uninspiring’ strategy

  08-03-2015 21:00
  
  Lynton Crosby, the Conservatives’ election campaign director, is facing a growing Cabinet backlash over his strategy, with ministers worried that the party is pumping out an aggressive and uninspiring message to voters.
  
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• Beer is getting WEAKER according to official figures thanks to rise of low-strength tipples 

  08-03-2015 20:57 via
  
  Stronger lagers, such as Becks, Stella Artois and Budweiser, have all reduced their alcohol levels from 5 per cent to 4.8 per cent as low-strength beers grow in popularity.
  
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• Jihadi John says sorry to his parents for bringing shame on the family

  08-03-2015 20:53
  
  MOHAMMED Emwazi has apologised to his parents for bringing shame on the family after he was unmasked as “Jihadi John”.
  
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• NHS backs plans for 'high risk' organ donations

  08-03-2015 20:49 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Organs from donors who are drug users or suffering from cancer could be offered to patients awaiting kidney transplants, amid shortage of healthy donors
  
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• President Obama follows in the footsteps of Martin Luther King on 'Bloody Sunday'

  08-03-2015 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  President Obama has said America’s racial history still cast a “long shadow” over the nation as he marked the 50th anniversary of one of the pivotal civil rights protests
  
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• Apple Watch could cost £8,000 for 'luxury' edition

  08-03-2015 20:36 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Tim Cook will announce prices and availability of his company's new Apple Watch in San Francisco on Monday 9 March
  
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• Wild lynx to return to Britain after 1,300 years

  08-03-2015 20:32 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In one of the most ambitious 'rewilding' projects ever to take place in the UK, the large deer-eating felines could be introduced to three unfenced estates later this year
  
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