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• The Envie art gallery chief sold customer's £5,000 painting then commissioned 'ugly copy'

  20-03-2015 23:59 via
  
  The Envie d’art gallery, in South Kensington, London, had been asked to look after the painting while the home of the customer who purchased it was undergoing renovations.
  
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• A470 Brecon Beacons crash: Parents' heartbreaking funeral tribute to 'cherished baby girl' Alesha O'Connor, 17

  20-03-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alesha O’Connor died alongside boyfriend Rhodri Miller, friend Corey Price and 68-year-old Margaret Challis on the A470 in south Wales
  
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• Giant US warship will boost Portsmouth economy by £1m as American sailors splash the cash

  20-03-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bars, clubs, restaurants and visitor attractions in Portsmouth, Hants, are bracing themselves for a massive footfall when the sailors hit dry land on Sunday
  
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• Civil partners embroiled in bizarre spat over parking space 'vendetta' in Upper Clatford

  20-03-2015 23:40 via
  
  Civil partners Neil Berry and Wesley Shepherd have accused their neighbour, Des Gale, of triggering a vendetta against them over a parking space in Upper Clatford, Hampshire.
  
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• Labour ‘open to the charge of hypocrisy’ after failing to divulge hedge fund manager’s donation

  20-03-2015 23:40
  
  Labour has received a huge donation from a multimillion-pound hedge fund manager whose identity the party tried to keep secret, The Independent can reveal. Martin Taylor has given Labour nearly £600,000 since 2012, making him the party’s fourth-largest donor, and has had at least one meeting with the Labour leader, Ed Miliband.
  
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• Vince Cable draws up plans to let unions vote to strike by online ballots

  20-03-2015 23:40
  
  Trade unions would be able to hold online ballots before strikes and to elect their leaders under plans drawn up by Vince Cable, the Business Secretary. The Liberal Democrat cabinet minister, who is responsible for union laws, has repeatedly blocked Conservative proposals to prevent strikes after low turnouts in postal ballots. The Tory manifesto at the May election is expected to include a pledge to ban strikes if unions fail to win the support of 40 per cent of their members.
  
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• 'Barmy' new visa law will see high-flying academic booted out of Britain

  20-03-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The world-renowned expert, originally from Japan, travels the world as a UK Government adviser - so she won't be allowed to live here
  
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• That's a lot to play with! Toy car collection sells for a full-sized £230,000

  20-03-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Retired car dealer Raymond Hainsworth, 78, and his wife Pat built up their collection over 50 years
  
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• Raheem Sterling contract talks hit deadlock but Liverpool stay calm

  20-03-2015 23:30
  
  • Liverpool forward puts talks on hold until the end of the season
  • Brendan Rodgers says the player can now concentrate on football
  • Chelsea and Manchester City have been linked with England man
  • Michael Carrick signs new deal with Manchester United
  • Club relaxed over Raheem Sterling’s futureBrendan Rodgers has said he cannot predict Raheem Sterling’s future intentions having been told by the 20-year-old that contract talks are on hold with Liverpool until the end of th
  
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• Manuel Pellegrini defends players and takes blame for Manchester City’s form

  20-03-2015 23:30
  
  • Manager insists full responsibility for City’s European exit lies with him
  • Pellegrini urges team to repeat last season’s late surge in league
  • Match preview: Manchester City v West Bromwich AlbionManuel Pellegrini has defended his players by insisting full responsibility for Manchester City’s season lies with him. City were knocked out of the Champions League on Wednesday by Barcelona for a second successive year at the last-16 stage. If Chelsea are not caught in the Premie
  
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• Len McCluskey issues warning over higher threshold on strike ballots

  20-03-2015 23:30
  
  Leader of Unite says he would not respect Conservative law change as Vince Cable attacks Tories for ‘ideological aversion’ to trade unionsLen McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite trade union, has warned that he would be prepared to hold unlawful strikes if the Conservatives change the law after the general election to enforce a higher threshold on strike ballots. As Vince Cable attacked the Tories for an “ideological aversion” to trade unions, McCluskey said he would not respect
  
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• Barcelona 0-3 Nike FC: is this a glimpse of football’s future?

  20-03-2015 23:30
  
  Mega brands are the real superpowers of the sporting world, so surely it’s only a matter of time before they buy into Europe’s top leaguesFor the last month some slickly edited highlights have been floating around on YouTube of an English academy team playing Barcelona’s juniors at La Masia. The Barça kids start well, romping about like handsome schoolboys, hitting the post a few times and generally caressing the ball as though it’s the last golden ostrich egg left on earth. Gradu
  
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• McDonald's customer outraged after finding 'man hairs' in her breakfast McMuffin

  20-03-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disgusted April Gilmour was shocked when she saw human hair littered throughout her fast food treat
  
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• Holiday from hell families win £350,000 payout after gastric bug hit dozens at Egyptian resort

  20-03-2015 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A judge ordered First Choice Holidays to pay families of 32 children, some of which will receive up to £20,000 each
  
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• Martin Taylor: Some Hedge Fund Managers do support the Labour Party

  20-03-2015 23:26
  
  Earlier this week a journalist highlighted the fact that a certain ‘Martin Taylor’ has donated nearly £600,000 to the UK Labour Party over the past two years and that the identity of this person – my having such a common name that it defied the powers of Google – was an apparently newsworthy ‘mystery’. There is no mystery. This ‘Martin Taylor’ is me. I am a born and bred Londoner, who also happens to be a Hedge Fund manager. And I am proud to support the Labour Party.
  
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• ISIS suicide bombers slaughter 140 in bloodbath at two mosques in Yemen

  20-03-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Four suicide bombers, two at each mosque, struck in the capital Sanaa during midday Friday prayers, the most crowded time of the week
  
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• Liberal Democrats and Nick Clegg in new party fundraising scandal

  20-03-2015 23:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Senior Lib Dem Lord Strasburger resigns from party as Electoral Commission begins investigation over allegations that party took donations against regulations
  
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• Clutha bar: Vile teenager who stole charity cash for tragic helicopter crash pub avoids jail AGAIN

  20-03-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The heartless teen has escaped being locked up for offences including stealing from the disaster-hit pub, threatening to slit a schoolboy’s throat and attacking a police officer
  
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• Union members could vote for strike action on mobile phones under radical new plans

  20-03-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Business Secretary Vince Cable wants to boost turnout in important ballots by ending archaic laws
  
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• Derby’s Steve McClaren fumes at referee as slump continues at Wolves

  20-03-2015 23:09
  
  Steve McClaren hit out at the referee Keith Stroud after defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers left Derby County’s automatic promotion hopes in the balance.Derby are winless in six games after this defeat at Molineux following Nouha Dicko’s strike and Lee Grant’s own goal. The keeper punched into his own net in the second half to confirm Derby’s defeat and leave them still five points off the Championship top two. Continue reading...
  
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• Did King Richard III kill the princes in the tower? A Scotland Yard detective investigates

  20-03-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex Scotland Yard detective Peter Kirkham tries to solve the mystery ahead of the monarch's burial
  
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• Thug slashed man's face and hand with Stanley knife leaving him scarred for life and needing 90 stitches

  20-03-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Grant, 26, crept up on his victim and attacked him from behind
  
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• Mother and two children found hiding in back of a refrigerated Tesco lorry for 48 hours

  20-03-2015 22:53 via
  
  The family were found at 8am by the lorry driver who could hear voices coming from the rear as he arrived at the supermarket's chilled distribution centre in Avonmouth near Bristol.
  
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• Manchester boy, killed another teen because he thought his Gangnam Style dance was racist

  20-03-2015 22:51 via
  
  Jordan Brennan, 17, had broken into the dance made famous by South Korean artist Psy at a corner shop in Gorton, Manchester.
  
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• Fraggle Rock is coming back soon... you should be excited

  20-03-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Yes, the cave-dwelling muppets will be back and we hope the theme tune has not changed in any way
  
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• Alex Salmond's new book labelled the 'longest exercise in literary masturbation since politics began' by Paddy Ashdown

  20-03-2015 22:50
  Alex Salmond’s new book has been labelled the “longest exercise in literary masturbation since politics began” in a blistering attack by Paddy Ashdown.
  
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• Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has 'forgotten where she's come from' but would 'never vote Tory'

  20-03-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The millionaire X Factor judge, 31, said the mansion tax for the rich would “f*** her over” but a source close to the star insists she would never vote for David Cameron
  
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• Hundreds of Kurds mob hearse carrying ex-Marine killed fighting ISIS

  20-03-2015 22:46 via
  
  Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, 25, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, became the first Briton to be killed fighting the terror group in Syria when he was brought down by mortar fire on March 2.
  
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• Homeless dog to have a nose implant after losing his original sniffer

  20-03-2015 22:42 via
  
  A stray dog called Parys, from Bialystok, Poland, who lost his nose after he accidentally caught it in a snare could soon be able to smell again thanks to surgeons who will insert an implant into his snout.
  
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• Ebola case undermines Liberia hopes

  20-03-2015 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liberia confirms its first new Ebola case in three weeks, dashing hopes of being declared officially free of the disease.
  
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• Pope: 'Death penalty represents failure' – no 'humane' way to kill a person

  20-03-2015 22:27
  
  Pope Francis outlines the Catholic church’s opposition to capital punishment in a letter to the International Commission against the Death PenaltyPope Francis says nothing can justify the use of the death penalty, and there is no “right” way to humanely kill another person. Related: Pope Francis blasts life sentences as ‘hidden death penalty’ Continue reading...
  
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• Home Office deported top lecturer because of 'mad' visa laws

  20-03-2015 22:25
  
  A TOP academic who travels the world advising governments is being kicked out Britain because of “mad” new visa laws.
  
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• The floating man of Brazil: Homeless man lives in bizarre tent-boat

  20-03-2015 22:24 via
  
  A homeless man in Brazil has built himself a floating home out of rubbish he found on the street. Hamilton Cunha Filho, 30, can be seen floating around Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro.
  
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• Philip Baxendale: Pervert pensioner caught masturbating in car outside girls’ school - but avoids jail

  20-03-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The vile 65-year-old claimed he was relieving himself in his car because of a medical problem which means he needs to urinate often
  
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• Two children and a woman found alive in refrigerated lorry after two days

  20-03-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The trio, believed to be illegal immigrants, did not require medical treatment after they were found at the Tesco distribution centre at Avonmouth
  
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• Ukip in meltdown after two candidates suspended and a third quits in disgust

  20-03-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nigel Farage has been left reeling after a disastrous 24 hours and plummeting poll ratings for Ukip ahead of the general election on May 7
  
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• Millionaire's son jailed over bar brawl that left drinker blind in one eye

  20-03-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shocking CCTV showed the brawl which included 28-year-old Antonio Boparan, from one of Birmingham's richest families
  
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• Council accused of anti-Semitism after voting to boycott goods from West Bank

  20-03-2015 22:12
  
  ONE of Britain’s biggest local authorities has been accused of anti-Semitism after voting to boycott goods from Israelis living in the West Bank.
  
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• Meet the rugby-playing beauty queen who beat the bullies

  20-03-2015 22:11 via
  
  After friends told rugby-loving Amy Brown that she should enter her local beauty competition, she promptly won and now finds herself in the finals of the Miss England beauty pageant.
  
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• Watch as Scot tries to order food at American drive-thru - but they can't understand his accent

  20-03-2015 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  All this tragic soul wanted was some grub but sadly he ended up leaving empty-handed
  
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• France balks at US plan for phased lifting of Iran nuclear sanctions

  20-03-2015 22:06
  
  Negotiations are set to resume next week, only five days before deadline for agreement
  Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme will adjourn in Lausanne amid disagreements between the US and France over a common negotiating position with Tehran, according to diplomats at the talks.The US secretary of state, John Kerry, is due to meet his counterparts from the UK, France and Germany on Saturday, somewhere in Europe, to try to mend the rift – largely over the lifting of sanctions on Iran –
  
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• McCann Twitter troll killed herself with helium gas after being exposed on TV

  20-03-2015 22:04
  
  A TWITTER troll who targeted the parents of Madeleine McCann killed herself with a helium gas overdose four days after being exposed on TV, an inquest heard yesterday.
  
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• The cat who thinks he's a dog! Teddi performs classic canine tricks

  20-03-2015 22:03 via
  
  Teddi the cat has become a huge internet hit after showing off his skills doing classic dog tricks. Owner Barbara Connor, based in Spain, taught him to imitate dogs by jumping through hoops and giving paw.
  
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• Bear Grylls teams up with Scouts to teach kids to cook healthily even on the campfire

  20-03-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The TV action man is leading the campaign to tackle childhood obesity and is backing the scheme that teaches kids how to cook from scratch and where their food comes from
  
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• Bodies of five babies found hidden in house in south-western France

  20-03-2015 22:01 via
  
  Police made the macabre discovery after a 40-year-old father called them at 7am in the town of Louchats, in the south west, close to Bordeaux.
  
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• Breast may be best but it won't feed a child's intelligence

  20-03-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fiona Phillips breastfed her children but she doesn't see any correlation between that and a child's intelligence
  
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• Vitriolic letter in which future Edward VIII blasted locals in Quebec

  20-03-2015 22:00 via
  
  A vitriolic letter written by the future King Edward VIII in which he branded the French Canadians 'rotten' and 'the completest passengers' during a tour of the country has emerged 96 years later.
  
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• Journalists cleared of paying public officials for stories appeal for the 'witch hunt to stop'

  20-03-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chief reporter John Kay, 71, and royal editor Duncan Larcombe, 39, were found not guilty of wrongdoing
  
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• Staff go extra mile for cancer mum school run

  20-03-2015 21:58
  
  A CANCER-STRICKEN mother denied emergency transport by a council is being helped with the school run by a rota of teachers – including the headmaster.
  
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• Dad jailed for racially aggravated murder of former Plymouth Argyle footballer

  20-03-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lee Dent, 42, smashed a bottle of Newcastle Brown into 17-year-old Alex Peguero Sosa’s neck
  
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