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• Max Clifford 'arrested by Operation Yewtree officers over further sex offences' 

  12-03-2015 23:59 via
  
  Max Clifford was jailed for eight years last May after being convicted of a string of indecent assaults. The 71-year-old is currently serving his sentence at Littlehey Prison, Cambridgeshire.
  
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• Are these the worst car parking jobs EVER? Facebook page shames bumbling motorists

  12-03-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The page - named 'Parking Like A T*** In Liverpool' - has already amassed 5,000 fans on Facebook
  
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• Hung by her wrists and tortured with electric shocks - a mother's terror in Syria

  12-03-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 32-year-old businesswoman was forced to confess to being a terrorist during 35 days of painful incarceration
  
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• Punching above your weight contestant disqualified - because her husband was dead

  12-03-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Widow Andrea Bedlington got through to the final of the 'Punching Above Your Weight' contest - then turned up with her late partner's urn
  
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• Woman with giant 48NN breasts weighing over two stone each is looking for love

  12-03-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kristy manages to carry around her 2.3 stone breasts every day, and now she is looking for someone to share them with
  
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• Anthony Crolla cleared to return to boxing after recovering from sickening burglar attack

  12-03-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fighter was hit over the head with a lump of concrete in December, fracturing his skull and breaking his ankle, but can now apply for a return to the sport
  
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• Defence penny-pinching means we rely on American protection, say angry MPs 

  12-03-2015 23:48 via
  
  Former Army captain John Baron MP, pictured, said yesterday that the UK was ‘ignoring the lessons of history at our peril’ by refusing to commit to spend 2 per cent of national income on defence.
  
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• Teenager left 'extremely shaken' following shocking knifepoint robbery

  12-03-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 16-year-old girl had money taken in the ordeal
  
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• Labour set to hand key marginal to Red Len's friend involved in vote-fix row: Unite's call for inclusion on shortlist for Halifax proves headache for Miliband 

  12-03-2015 23:45 via
  
  Karie Murphy, pictured, a close friend of Unite leader Len McCluskey, is the union's choice to stand for the key Yorkshire marginal seat despite the earlier vote rigging scandal in Falkirk.
  
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• Chicken David Cameron is terrified of live TV debates because he's selling our NHS

  12-03-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burham says the Tories forced a privatisation plan through Parliament with the votes of people with private health interests
  
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• Terry Pratchett dead aged 66 after battle with Alzheimer's

  12-03-2015 23:36 via
  
  He sold over 85million books worldwide in 37 languages, and in 2008 announced his diagnosis with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare variant of Alzheimer’s disease primarily affecting vision.
  
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• Ashya King takes his first unaided steps after months of gruelling physio

  12-03-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  His proud gran has said the five-year-old is now managing a few steps on his own following the completion of his treatment
  
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• Britain's cheapest home: £1 flat on picturesque Isle of Bute to go under the hammer

  12-03-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The spacious one-bedroom flat in Rothesay, valued at £20,000, is set to go up for auction in Glasgow on March 26.
  
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• NHS sell-out: Tories sign largest privatisation deal in history worth £780MILLION

  12-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The sales to a total of 11 private firms, some with dubious records, are intended to help hospitals tackle the backlog of patients waiting for surgery and tests
  
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• NHS privatisation winners revealed: 11 firms to be paid slice of £780million

  12-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt come under fire tonight after signing the largest privatisation deal in history
  
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• Google Street View does Everest: Cameras travel to rarely-seen Nepalese mountain village, capturing stunning images

  12-03-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Those behind the beloved Street View site have taken to one of the least-accessible parts of the world to share stunning views with armchair tourists
  
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• 'I felt disrespected': No charges for Ferguson residents arrested in raid

  12-03-2015 23:19
  
  Lamont Underwood, Iresha Turner and Martez Little were taken from home after a dawn swoop by heavily armed police — they were handcuffed and questioned after two officers were shot but were later released
  Three people living in a house in Ferguson that was pictured being raided as part of a police investigation into the shooting of officers told the Guardian on Thursday that they were released without charge after being questioned. Lamont Underwood, Iresha Turner and Martez Little said they we
  
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• Iceland drops EU membership bid: 'interests better served outside' union

  12-03-2015 23:16
  
  Country first applied in 2009 after economic crisis hit banking system hardOpinion polls had shown growing resistance to membershipIceland has announced it is dropping its bid to join the European Union in line with pledges made two years ago by its then-new eurosceptic government.Iceland first applied for EU membership in 2009 but its foreign minister, Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, said in a statement that the centre-right government had informed current EU president Latvia and the European Commissio
  
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• Owners of sex club in historic Tudor house told to carry on swinging by planners - despite complaints

  12-03-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Grade II-listed Stratford House was built in 1601 - now it's a sex club for fetish fans
  
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• Terry Pratchett 'took Death's arm and followed him through the door' as the best-selling author dies

  12-03-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 66-year-old Discworld author has passed away after battling Alzheimer's disease for the last eight years
  
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• Eldest daughter of Dale Vince's ex-wife suing for divorce payout 30 years later is a prostitute

  12-03-2015 23:10 via
  
  Emily Wyatt, 36, who is currently behind bars at Eastwood Park Prison in Gloucester for burglary, is the prostitute daughter of Kathleen Wyatt who is suing her hippie tycoon ex-husband Dale Vince.
  
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• Isis welcomes Boko Haram's allegiance and plays down coalition 'victories'

  12-03-2015 23:04
  
  In a 30-minute tape Isis spokesman speaks of ‘the expansion of the caliphate to west Africa’, but analysts downplay the allegiance as propgandaThe Islamic State welcomed a pledge of allegiance made to it by Boko Haram and vowed to press with its expansion, according to a recording Thursday purportedly from its spokesman.“We announce to you to the good news of the expansion of the caliphate to west Africa because the caliph ... has accepted the allegiance of our brothers of the Sunni group
  
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• Romelu Lukaku rouses Everton to secure advantage against Dynamo Kyiv

  12-03-2015 23:01
  
  English hopes of progress in Europe remain intact, but only just. An 82nd-minute penalty from Romelu Lukaku gave Everton a slender advantage over Dynamo Kyiv in the last 16 of the Europa League as Roberto Martínez’s team fought back from a goal down and against a tense Goodison Park crowd to preserve their chances of a place in the quarter-finals.Lukaku’s late penalty, awarded after Danilo Silva handled Leon Osman’s cross near the by-line, was the Belgian striker’s seventh goal in
  
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• Elderly given power to decide where to die

  12-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Government consultation document sets out plans to give patients more powers to plan and make decisions about their "end of life care".
  
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• New pension rules to let retired savers cash in annuities

  12-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An announcement expected in the Budget next week would allow six million savers to sell 'lifetime' retirement contracts for a lump sum
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about cooking

  12-03-2015 23:00
  
  Baking cakes to steaming stews, barbecue grills to saucy snacks, suggest a musical menu of your tastiest songs with food preparation as inspiration
  Welcome to the Readers Recommend kitchen and diner. Here Elvis Presley may well have had huge appetite for hamburgers, butter and ice cream. Dolly Parton once said that when she’s not cooking on a Sunday with her husband “we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries i
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson handed himself in because his OWN team were turning against him

  12-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Top Gear presenter left it five days before ringing to tell BBC director of television Danny Cohen that he had “forcibly manhandled” his colleague Oisin Tymon
  
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• Outrage as lesbian couple kissing on a train platform are told by staff: 'You cannot do that'

  12-03-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thousands have signed a petition calling on the train company to apologise after its silence left the couple 'disgusted'
  
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• Everton v Dynamo Kyiv: Europa League – as it happened

  12-03-2015 22:55
  
  A late Romelu Lukaku penalty gave Everton a richly deserved victory in the first leg of their Round of 16 tie. 9.55pm GMT And that’s your lot. Kyiv were the best side for the first 30 minutes, after which Everton were almost always on top. Roberto Martinez’s side were excellent in the second half, and thoroughly deserved their late winner. They’ll take a lead to Ukraine, and are one draw away from the quarter final of the Europa League! A 1984-style cup success, in the face of league strug
  
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• Police car flips onto roof during high speed police chase through town centre

  12-03-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The chase began when a thief jumped into a delivery vehicle while its driver was making a drop off - several accidents occurred during the pursuit
  
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• American diagnosed with Ebola to be flown to US from Sierra Leone

  12-03-2015 22:47
  
  Healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while fighting the outbreak in Sierra Leone is due to arrive at an NIH facility in Bethesda, Maryland, on FridayAn American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while fighting the outbreak in Sierra Leone will be brought to the US for treatment, the National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday. The healthcare worker is due to arrive at the NIH facility in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday. The patient, who has not been identified as male or female, was
  
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• Jackie Hagan: Amputee comic decorates her stump with celebrities' faces to draw awareness of disability issues

  12-03-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jackie, who is originally from Skelmsdale but lives in Manchester, lost her leg in the summer of 2013 after a series of blood clots and infections
  
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• Muslims labelled 'disgrace' for praying at Liverpool game thank fans for their support

  12-03-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Solicitors Asif Bodi and Abubakr Bhula were pictured worshipping during the half-time break as the Reds took on Blackburn Rovers at the weekend
  
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• Watch brave shop workers stand up to axe-wielding thug, wrestling him to the ground to thwart robbery

  12-03-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The employees wouldn't let this thug get away with robbing their store, with their heroics captured in incredible CCTV footage
  
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• Woman who forgot where new car was parked after job interview reunited with it thanks to social media

  12-03-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fallon Jerome, 21, was deluged with helpful calls and messages after forgetting where she had parked her new white Seat
  
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• Jamie Carragher hits out at Premier League quality after Chelsea exit

  12-03-2015 22:36
  
  • Former Liverpool star believes English clubs are losing identity
  • ‘We are falling short in things that we used to do to other teams’
  • Chelsea behaved ‘like babies’ over red card
  • Steven Gerrard defends Chelsea players’ ‘normal’ pressuring of refereeJamie Carragher has questioned the Premier League’s quality in the wake of Chelsea’s Champions League elimination.The former Liverpool defender, who is now a pundit for the Premier League’s biggest cheerleader,
  
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• Clapham South Tube accident: First picture inside station where woman was dragged under a train

  12-03-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Horrified witnesses told the 28-year-old victim let out "blood-curdling screams" as she was dragged under the train
  
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• Vladimir Putin 'missing': Health of Russian president in spotlight after his withdrawal from public eye

  12-03-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Another theory is that Putin may be lying low because he 'fears an assassination bid'
  
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• Cocaine-fuelled thug used girlfriend as 'punch bag' during night-long ordeal after Merseyside derby

  12-03-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  James Matthews, 20, burst a blood vessel in his victim's left eye when he repeatedly punched her after a day of boozing.  He has today been jailed.
  
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• Mum, 33, refused entry to night club for being 'too fat and ugly'

  12-03-2015 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stacey Owen is demanding an apology from bar staff after claiming doormen said her and two friends were 'too big' to come in
  
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• Former Lib Dem fundraising chief quits as party election candidate after illegal donations row

  12-03-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ibrahim Taguri allegedly told a reporter posing as a ­businessman how to pledge more than £7,500 through a “cousin” without publicly declaring it
  
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• David Cameron to close gap in oversight of mass surveillance

  12-03-2015 22:02
  
  Prime minister rushes out statement after inquiry reveals security services had ‘blank cheque’ to covertly collect data in bulk
  David Cameron has moved to close a hole in the oversight of Britain’s intelligence agencies after it was revealed for the first time that they were creating “bulk personal datasets” containing millions of items of personal information, some of it gathered covertly without any statutory accountability. Some of the data appears to have been gathered from other
  
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• Tycoon's divorce wife is ‘cashing an old lottery ticket’

  12-03-2015 22:01
  
  THE legal battle between a tycoon and his penniless ex-wife who divorced 23 years ago descended into a bitter war of words yesterday.
  
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• Transsexual Kiss Me Kate actress speaks about closing the curtain on being a man

  12-03-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bea Coleman revealed her life changing decision to say 'goodbye to Ben' in the programme notes for her latest production
  
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• Anti-FGM campaigners urge focus on girls at risk in remote areas

  12-03-2015 21:57
  
  Jaha Dukureh: ‘We need to reach girls before FGM happens’New York meeting told that current efforts are ‘like preaching to the choir’Campaigners against female genital mutilation (FGM) called for renewed action to reach the girls most at risk from the practice.On Thursday, the campaign’s leading advocates gathered across the street from the UN headquarters in New York City, which has been hosting this week’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, to discuss the next steps
  
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• Drink driving estate agent crashes into a petrol pump while four-times over the limit

  12-03-2015 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tina Knowles hit the fuel tank’s vapour release pipe and then said: “It’s my car. I’m an alcoholic".
  
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• GRAPHIC CONTENT: Fireball engulfs pub landlord after boiler blew up in his face

  12-03-2015 21:56
  
  A PUB landlord has been forced to rely on factor 50 suncream for the rest of his life after his skin was ripped off in a horror boiler explosion.
  
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• Glenn McGrath predicts an Ashes whitewash this summer – again

  12-03-2015 21:51
  
  • Former Australia bowler backs Michael Clarke’s side for 5-0 win
  • England won last home series 3-0 in 2013 before 5-0 loss down underGlenn McGrath has repeated a familiar rallying call by predicting Australia will inflict a 5-0 Ashes whitewash on England this summer.The former pace attack leader of Australia’s all-conquering Test team in the early 2000s has habitually forecast thrashings for England in the past, and has been embarrassed when Australia have not performed as he expected,
  
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• Boy George and Martin and Gary Kemp carry coffin at Steve Strange funeral

  12-03-2015 21:49 via
  
  More than 300 mourners, including some of the biggest popstars from the eighties, came together at All Saints Church in Porthcawl, South Wales, to bid farewell to the late Visage singer.
  
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• Hillsborough inquests: Police chief denies there was a cover-up after the tragedy

  12-03-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Duckenfield has admitted he failed to authorise the opening of a gate at the Leppings Lane end of Sheffield’s Hillsborough ground that led to the crush
  
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