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• Finn McEwen: Family's bone marrow appeal to help save seven-year-old with rare condition

  15-03-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Finn, from Crosby, is in desperate need of finding a match - after his family were ruled out
  
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• Aidan Turner's brooding Poldark thrills viewers (and love interest Demelza) with his very own Mr Darcy moment... as he strips naked for a dip in the sea 

  15-03-2015 23:56 via
  
  Tortured and dashing Captain Ross Poldark, played by the hunky 31-year-old Irishman, stripped completely naked before enjoying a dip in the sea on the second episode of the remake.
  
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• Norman Lamb: Lib Dems rally round minister after he reveals blackmail plot against his son

  15-03-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Party leader Nick Clegg told of his “immense admiration” for the Minister’s “dignity and courage” in speaking out
  
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• Gareth Bale strikes twice to earn Real Madrid victory over Levante

  15-03-2015 23:46
  
  Gareth Bale struck twice to end a nine-game goal drought and earn Real Madrid a 2-0 victory over struggling Levante at the Bernabéu on Sunday, a result which ended a run of three games without a win for the European champions.The Wales international, who has been whistled by Real fans during their recent poor run, scored both goals in the first half and went close to completing a hat-trick midway through the second. Continue reading...
  
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• Pictured: The man wanted in connection with body found in boot of burning car

  15-03-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sussex Police want to speak with Christopher Jeffrey-Shaw, 26, from Lewisham in south east London as part of their investigations, and are warning the public not to approach him.
  
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• Cops quiz devoted husband on suspicion of wife's MURDER thanks to bungling call centre staff

  15-03-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Histon, 70, phoned the NHS line after a paramedic allegedly told him he was calling them too much
  
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• Kelvin MacKenzie scorns the Conservatives in favour of a new party

  15-03-2015 23:39
  
  Former Sun editor argues that it’s time for a party to represent southern EnglandYou might have thought that we have a surfeit of political parties to fight the coming general election. But Kelvin MacKenzie would like to see yet another in the field: a party to represent the people of southern England.In a column in today’s issue of the London giveaway title, City AM, he argues that the Conservatives “have come to the end of their useful life” and looks forward to David Cameron losing th
  
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• Lewis Hamilton shows Nico Rosberg who is boss in great start to F1 season

  15-03-2015 23:34
  
  • Lewis Hamilton wins his first Australian Grand Prix since 2008
  • Stroll suggests British driver will win his third championship with ease
  • Hamilton starts title defence with win in Australia
  • In pictures: the best images from the Australian Grand PrixLewis Hamilton’s stroll in Albert Park was an imperious dismissal of his team-mate Nico Rosberg’s Formula One aspirations. Hamilton is attempting to become the first British driver to win back-to-back titles and his 34th GP victory �
  
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• Watch: Couple see hordes of rats in city centre after romantic night out

  15-03-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marc Donaghey, 22, and girlfriend Brooke, 21, had been enjoying a Saturday night out when they saw the sea of vermin
  
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• Manuel Pellegrini is a dead man walking after Manchester City loss at Burnley

  15-03-2015 23:30
  
  • Pellegrini: We must find a way to improve results
  • Burnley are in better form than teams around us, says George Boyd
  Only one thing can save Manchester City’s season now and alter the perception of Manuel Pellegrini as a dead man walking. Any hope of the Premier League title is gone, City face a fight to even finish second, but staying alive in the Champions League at Barcelona’s expense would see the confidence return and possibly convince the club’s owners that progress is bei
  
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• Brendan Rodgers says Steven Gerrard not certain of Liverpool return

  15-03-2015 23:30
  
  • Captain Gerrard has missed seven games
  • Manager Rodgers has Lucas Leiva fit again as well
  • Match report: Besiktas 1-0 LiverpoolBrendan Rodgers has said Steven Gerrard does not have an automatic route back into the Liverpool team as the club captain aims to make his comeback at Swansea City .Gerrard has missed his team’s previous seven matches with a hamstring problem but is fit for the trip to the Liberty Stadium where Rodgers’ team will seek to maintain their push for Champion
  
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• Alan Pardew: Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha must stop sulking to succeed

  15-03-2015 23:30
  
  • Winger still damaged by Old Trafford transfer says manager Pardew
  • Chris Ramsey says QPR ‘got a shadow over it’ after defeatAlan Pardew says Wilfried Zaha is still smarting from being flushed out of Manchester United but could reignite his career at Selhurst Park, if he alters his attitude, and eventually earn another transfer to Old Trafford.Sir Alex Ferguson made Zaha his final signing as Manchester United manager when he paid £15m for him in 2013. But the winger was immedia
  
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• George Osborne's Budget 'a smokescreen for billions more in cuts' if Tories win general election

  15-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor made clear he would press ahead with cuts to public services and welfare on Wednesday to fund tax cuts for the rich
  
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• Tory chairman urged to resign as he DID have a second job while a serving MP

  15-03-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Grant Shapps has always denied he worked for web marketing firm How To Corp after being elected MP for Welwyn Hatfield in 2005
  
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• Aston Villa fan's pledge to get cheeky tattoo if striker scores on 300th appearance comes back to bite her on the bum

  15-03-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  To mark striker Gabriel Agbonlahor's 300th Premier League appearance for the club at Sunderland on Saturday, Samantha Eldridge tweeted: "If Gabby scores today I'll get his name tattooed on my a**e #avfc."
  
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• Man sought over body found in boot of burning car dumped near Sussex golf course

  15-03-2015 23:19
  
  Police want to trace a man in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found in the boot of a burned-out car.
  
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• A mother's anguish: A 'killer' took my son and now the Bedroom Tax will take my home

  15-03-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After losing her son, Scott, in horrific circumstances Carol Hall now faces the agony of being forced out of her home
  
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• Huge blaze tears through Manchester recycling plant

  15-03-2015 23:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Eight fire engines and 40 firefighters battled with the flames at the fire near Salford, bringing traffic to a standstill on the nearby M60
  
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• Look at me now, Mum! The baby boy doctors said would never live after his mother's waters broke at 18 weeks celebrates his first birthday

  15-03-2015 23:01 via
  
  Michael Moloney was born at 26 weeks weighing just 1lb 12oz. Despite being premature he is now thriving, and the family held a birthday party for him at his Coventry home on Thursday.
  
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• Watch: The Telegraph's exclusive Nigel Farage interview in full

  15-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Standing to become an MP for South Thanet, Nigel Farage gives us an insight to his world of Ukip on the build up to the next General Election
  
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• Nigel Farage autobiography: I'm putting it all on the line in the election

  15-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Announcing that if he doesn't win South Thanet he will quit as leader of Ukip, Nigel Farage says he is risking everything in the coming election
  
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• Nigel Farage's autobiography - fives things we have learned

  15-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph examines Nigel Farage's autobiography and here are the five key things we have learned from it
  
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• Nigel Farage's autobiography - five things we have learnt

  15-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph examines Nigel Farage's autobiography and here are the five key things we have learnt from it
  
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• My evil ex-husband lured our amazing sons to their death in blazing loft

  15-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When Claire Throssell waved sons Jack, 12 , and Paul, 9, off to school one morning, she never suspected 'control freak' Darren Sykes was planning to kill them in a fire
  
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• Retired NYPD officer says he saw a ghost among the rubble when he responded to the 9/11 attacks

  15-03-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former NYPD lieutenant Frank Marra described the apparition as African-American and dressed in white in the style of a Second World War Red Cross worker
  
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• Retired NYPD officer says he saw a ghost among the rubble of the 9/11 attacks

  15-03-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former NYPD lieutenant Frank Marra described the apparition as African-American and dressed in white in the style of a Second World War Red Cross worker
  
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• Don't buy George Osborne's clapped out patter - he's the Arthur Daley of politics

  15-03-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire says the Chancellor could give the dodgiest of used car dealers some lessons on how to cheat and deceive the public
  
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• Cut traffic jams - let tanks drive at 40 mph on British roads

  15-03-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Defence chiefs want speed limit for armoured vehicles doubled, amid concerns of traffic jams and dangerous overtaking
  
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• Mother's Day Miracle: My daughter beating cancer is the best present ever

  15-03-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Justine McKenna, from Tullyallen, Co Louth, Ireland, has now been able to book a holiday in Disneyland Paris for daughter Zoe, seven, now that doctors gave the youngster the all clear to fly
  
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• Sarah Champion MP claims £17 for poppy wreath

  15-03-2015 22:11
  
  A Labour MP was condemned yesterday for claiming £17 for a poppy wreath to honour the war dead on Remembrance Sunday.
  
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• British Medical Association under fire for offering doctors cheap alcohol

  15-03-2015 22:04
  
  The British Medical Association (BMA) is facing allegations of hypocrisy after the magazine distributed to its 153,000 members contained cut-price drinks deals.
  
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• Over a quarter of board members on new bodies commissioning NHS care have links to the private health sector

  15-03-2015 22:00
  More than a quarter of board members on the new bodies charged with commissioning care for the NHS have links to the private health sector, new analysis shows.
  
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• Tony Blair 'to step down' as Middle East peace envoy

  15-03-2015 21:58
  
  Tony Blair has questioned the value of democracy in the Middle East saying “effective government” is more important - amid reports that he is preparing to step down from his high-profile role as peace envoy to the region.
  
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• Tony Blair says democracy isn't everything amid claims he is to step down as Middle East envoy

  15-03-2015 21:58
  
  Tony Blair has questioned the value of democracy in the Middle East saying “effective government” is more important - amid reports that he is preparing to step down from his high-profile role as peace envoy to the region.
  
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• Blair ‘to step down’ as Middle East peace envoy

  15-03-2015 21:58
  
  Tony Blair has questioned the value of democracy in the Middle East saying “effective government” is more important - amid reports that he is preparing to step down from his high-profile role as peace envoy to the region.
  
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• Jenny Watson, chair of the Electoral Commission: ‘The idea of marking an X in a box probably seems completely alien’

  15-03-2015 21:41
  The question Jenny Watson gets asked most often is: “When can I vote online?” The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing generation is used to making their choices at the touch of a smartphone button. Yet, come 7 May, it is back to the Dark Ages of pencil and paper.
  
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• Web users given power to kill a rat with their phones as part of an 'art project'

  15-03-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Florian Mehnert, 44, began broadcasting webcam shots of the rat with a gun pointed into its enclosure on Saturday
  
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• Coventry nightclub murder: Four arrested on suspicion of murder after teen was killed at city centre venue

  15-03-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unnamed 18-year-old suffered fatal injuries during a brawl outside the venue before being pronounced dead in hospital
  
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• Coventry nightclub murder: Four arrested on suspicion of murder after teen was killed at city centre nitespot

  15-03-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unnamed 18-year-old suffered fatal injuries during a brawl outside the venue before being pronounced dead in hospital
  
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• Superheroes taking time out: Fans dressed as their favourite comic book characters wait for coffees and the cash machine at London convention 

  15-03-2015 21:34 via
  
  Revellers at London's Super Comic Book Convention didn't let down, showing off wild headdresses and painted torsos in homage to their fictional counterparts.
  
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• End the road for eyesore bus station: Unloved building dubbed 'the mouth of hell' by locals is finally razed to the ground

  15-03-2015 21:33 via
  
  The dilapidated Greyfriars bus station in Northampton was reduced to rubble in just six seconds after more than 2,200 explosive charges were used to rip through the redundant building.
  
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• Watch the UK's biggest ever lamb which weighs in at as much as a HUMAN toddler

  15-03-2015 21:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The lamb, born at a farm in North Wales, has been named The Big One as it is THREE TIMES the size of a normal lamb
  
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• Miracle survivor of grizzly bear attack recalls his harrowing tale 10 years on

  15-03-2015 21:23 via
  
  Johan Otter and his daughter Jenna were visiting Montana's Glacier National Park when a mother bear appeared out of nowhere.
  
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• Miliband aide: Labour could be extinct in a decade

  15-03-2015 21:21 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jon Cruddas says rise of radical parties on Europe shows Labour could be wiped out
  
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• IN PICTURES: Real-life Mowgli comes face-to-face with Bengal tiger

  15-03-2015 21:20
  
  MEET the fearless four-year-old who has taken a shine to a terrifying Bengal TIGER.
  
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• Talk about moving the goalposts: Football match cancelled after groundsman knocks over goal frame with heavy grass roller

  15-03-2015 21:05 via
  
  A non-league football match between Brockenhurst FC and Bournemouth Poppies had to be postponed after a groundsman demolished the goalposts rolling the pitch in Hampshire.
  
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• Fussy felines will have purr-fect seaside retreat when five-star cat hotel opens

  15-03-2015 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Longcroft Luxury Cat Hotel in Birkdale, Southport, is due to open at the end of the month and will be offering top of the line accommodation for pampered pets.
  
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• Nigel Farage 'Labour/SNP coalition would be dream for attracting northern Ukip voters'

  15-03-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Ukip leader claimed a post-election deal between Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon would push disaffected Labour supporters to his party after 2015
  
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• Vladimir Putin: Russian leader is 'getting treatment for back pain from Austrian doctor' as speculation about disappearance mounts

  15-03-2015 20:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The hardline leader has not been seen for more almost two weeks and wild rumours have erupted about his health or whether he has been toppled by coup
  
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• Not a single high street chain will commit to the living wage, investigation finds

  15-03-2015 20:47
  
  Retailers have come under fire after investigations by The Independent revealed that not a single high street retail chain has guaranteed staff the living wage.
  
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