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• Autistic boy invited friends to his birthday but no-one replied - what happened next was amazing

  22-03-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum Melissa just wanted a few people to cheer up her son Odin Camus - she had no idea just how big the response would be
  
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• ISIS butcher Mohammed Emwazi 'tried to recruit Muslims to terrorist cause at 12 British mosques'

  22-03-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Londoner known as Jihadi John toured Islamic places of worship as early as 2006 and was part of a terror fundraising network from as early as 2007
  
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• ISIS cleric known as 'Butcher of Nineveh' leads executions and tops dissidents' most-wanted list

  22-03-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The evil cleric, who is in his 60s, has signed death warrants and presided over the executions of dozens of locals in the Iraqi province of Raqqa
  
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• How many famous cities and landmarks can you name on a map of the UK?

  22-03-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shocking 83% of people asked had no idea where Birmingham was, while 51% did not recognise famous landmark the Giant's Causeway
  
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• 100,000 tons of U.S. firepower too big to dock at Portsmouth: Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt anchors off Hampshire coast after arriving into UK for five-day visit

  22-03-2015 23:32 via
  
  Thousands of spectators lined the banks of the River Solent in Hampshire today to welcome the 1,092ft-long USS Theodore Roosevelt as it arrived for a five-day visit to the UK.
  
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• Lawyer faces jail over scam to avoid £23,000 in rail fares

  22-03-2015 23:31 via
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Dr Peter Barnett, 43, was told he could be jailed after police discovered he spent more than two and a half years cheating the system when travelling to London’s Marylebone station.
  
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• Ted Robbins: I was dead for 15 minutes but woke up and told Judy I love her

  22-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The comedian recalls the night he collapsed on stage during Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights opening show and how a paramedic sat in the audience saved his life
  
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• Ted Robbins: I was dead for 15 minutes but then I woke up and told my beautiful wife Judy I love her

  22-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The comedian recalls the night he collapsed on stage during Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights opening show and how a paramedic sat in the audience saved his life
  
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• Fears ISIS are plotting WW2-style chlorine gas attacks on UK commuters

  22-03-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Retired head of chemical weapons for the Army and NATO Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said such an attack is “highly likely”
  
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• Fears ISIS are plotting First World War-style chlorine gas attacks on UK commuters

  22-03-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Retired head of chemical weapons for the Army and NATO Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said such an attack is “highly likely”
  
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• Cash for access: Fake donor pays way to heart of big parties

  22-03-2015 23:25 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Now David Cameron and Ed Miliband caught in cash for access row over chats with 'businessman'
  
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• Bedroom Tax: Grieving mum facing eviction after son's death told she can stay thanks to Mirror readers

  22-03-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Money has poured into a fund to help Carol Hall who couldn't afford to pay the Tory tax after her son Scott was brutally attacked by thugs
  
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• Bedroom Tax: Grieving mum facing eviction after son's death can stay thanks to Mirror readers

  22-03-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Money has poured into a fund to help Carol Hall who couldn't afford to pay the Tory tax after her son Scott was brutally attacked by thugs
  
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• Tory MP's £800-an-hour second job: Stephen Hammond joins firm he praised as transport minister

  22-03-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British firm Inmarsat recruited him as an adviser just five months after he was sacked from his Government position
  
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• Founding father and former prime minister of Singapore who transformed country into one of world's richest nations dies aged 91

  22-03-2015 23:07 via
  
  The founding father of modern Singapore who was both feared and admired for turning the city-state into one of the world's richest nations, has died. He was 91.
  
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• Claudia Lawrence's mum will never forgive cops for missing clues about her daughter's disappearance

  22-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joan Lawrence has hit out at the original police team not releasing CCTV earlier and failing to search wasteland near the missing chef's home
  
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• Claudia Lawrence's mum says she will never forgive cops for missing clues about her daughter's disappearance

  22-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joan Lawrence has hit out at the original police team not releasing CCTV earlier and failing to search wasteland near the missing chef's home
  
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• Government bans company from allowing charity to visit private prisons

  22-03-2015 22:45
  
  A company running two private prisons was banned by the Government from inviting a penal reform charity to see the work they are doing to improve conditions behind bars.
  
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• Ed Miliband donor’s firm makes cash from NHS

  22-03-2015 22:36
  
  A hedge fund that employs Labour’s fourth largest individual donor has invested almost £10m in a private healthcare firm that makes money out of the NHS, it has emerged.
  
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• Grandmother, 64, savaged to death by out-of-control dog

  22-03-2015 22:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rhona Greve, a 64-year-old widower, died from neck and face injuries after being mauled by the raging animal at a home in Cardiff
  
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• Gerry Adams faces calls to apologise to sister of a man who died after an IRA punishment attack when he was shot three times in the leg

  22-03-2015 22:30 via
  
  Andrew Kearney, 33, from Belfast bled to death in an IRA punishment attack in 1998. His sister Eleanor King is now calling for a public apology from Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams (pictured).
  
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• Mum-to-be fears for baby's health after she's given abortion pill by mistake

  22-03-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rachel Nicholson, 23, is terrified about the serious damage the chemicals may have caused her unborn child
  
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• 'I lost three stone in a month': Bodybuilding mum's battle with bowel disease that nearly killed her

  22-03-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Louise Stock, 30, was barely able to walk and off work for six months
  
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• Inside North Wilkesboro Speedway, the abandoned NASCAR track

  22-03-2015 22:18 via
  
  These striking photos show North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina, which opened its doors to a crowd of more than 10,000 fans in 1947. Now, the track lies silent and abandoned.
  
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• The Media Column: The Conversation is capitalising on ‘explanatory journalism’

  22-03-2015 22:06
  
  Is the BBC’s dashing Ross Poldark a radical redistributionist or merely David Cameron in disguise? It’s a question currently being debated in a digital publication written entirely by the world’s leading academics that is now viewed by 20 million people a month.
  
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• DISCOVERY of proteins could lead to diagnosis of arthritis up to ten years before symptoms

  22-03-2015 22:04
  
  A SINGLE blood test could soon detect crippling arthritis up to a decade before its symptoms strike.
  
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• I ran 1,820 miles in my dining room - and lost 10 stone!

  22-03-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kirste Crompton covered the same distance as from Scotland to Rome on a treadmill... and almost halved her weight
  
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• Prison conditions are worse than Strangeways 25 years ago says Lord Woolf

  22-03-2015 21:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  England's former top judge is calling for a review into the country's prison service as the three main parties use the issue like a "politcal football"
  
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• Drug smuggler who hid £4million of cocaine in tulips from Amsterdam is jailed

  22-03-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lorry driver Artur Doda hid 30 kilos of high-purity designer drug in lorry which was bringing flowers in from Netherlands
  
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• Far right National Front leader Marine Le Pen's promise to 'invade the Elysee' in tatters after party makes limited gains

  22-03-2015 21:51 via
  
  Marine Le Pen's hopes of becoming President of France received a huge blow tonight as her National Front was beaten into joint second place in regional elections.
  
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• Salmond says SNP will 'hold the power' in hung parliament

  22-03-2015 21:45
  
  Scottish National party would probably have a ‘vote-by-vote arrangement’ with a minority Labour government, says former first minister Alex Salmond has piled pressure on Ed Miliband by pledging to force the hand of a minority Labour government by pushing for deals on a “vote-by-vote” basis in which the Scottish National party (SNP) would seek to water down Labour’s fiscal plans in its first budget.On the eve of a pre-election visit by Miliband, the Labour leader, to Scotland, where pol
  
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• Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91

  22-03-2015 21:45
  
  Country’s first prime minister, who is widely credited with building Singapore into one of the world’s wealthiest nations, died on Sunday morning
  Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, has died aged 91, its current leader has confirmed.In a statement released on Sunday evening, the serving prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said the country’s former leader died in the early hours of the morning. Continue reading...
  
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• ActionAid: The charity spreading ‘groundless’ fears over GM

  22-03-2015 21:42
  
  Donors to one of Britain’s largest humanitarian aid charities have been unwittingly funding an aggressive anti-GM food campaign in Africa that misleadingly warns farmers that eating the crops could give them cancer.
  
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• Woman mistakenly told her OVARIES had been removed 'after locum confused her with another patient'

  22-03-2015 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The patient was told her sub-total hysterectomy had been a success - but five months later a consultant discovered the organs hadn't been removed
  
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• Reborn – the giant tree felled as a result of a bar-room wager

  22-03-2015 21:37
  
  It would have been the biggest tree alive today had it not been so ignominiously felled in 1890 – reputedly to satisfy a drunken bet about making a table big enough to seat 40 guests from a single slice of tree-trunk.
  
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• Syria helicopter crash: Rebels capture Army copter crew with one man 'executed on spot'

  22-03-2015 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Video footage on social media showed a helicopter crashing in the distance but Syrian television claimed it was forced to make an emergency landing
  
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• Caroline Flint: ‘We are in touching distance of winning because of Ed, not in spite of Ed’

  22-03-2015 21:32
  
  The thing about being one of the original “Blair Babes” is that it dates you.
  
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• Man being hunted by police after leaving teenage twin 'millimetres from death when he slashed brothers following party in rural village'

  22-03-2015 21:16 via
  
  The suspect, who is described as between 20 and 30-years-old, is accused of attacking the 16-year-old brothers with a 'very sharp blade' in Dilton Marsh, near Westbury in Wiltshire, last night.
  
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• Great Barrier Reef campaign: scientists call for scrapping of coal projects

  22-03-2015 21:14
  
  Australian coral reef experts say if the mining and port expansion projects go ahead, there will be permanent damage to the reefAustralia’s leading coral reef scientists have called for huge coalmining and port developments in Queensland to be scrapped in order to avoid “permanent damage” to the Great Barrier Reef.The Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) report, compiled by experts from five Australian universities and submitted to the United Nations, warns that “industrialising the Grea
  
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• War hero makes film paying tribute to all armed forces personnel who died in Iraq and Afghanistan

  22-03-2015 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The names and ranks of 632 men and women who were killed in the two conflicts are read out in Zak Anderson's video Thanking the Fallen
  
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• It's Hairy Potter! Man has Britain's longest beard measuring two foot two inches long

  22-03-2015 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Wright, 34, has spent six years growing his whiskers and now competes against other beard-lovers from across the world
  
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• Richard III: Once vilified as a tyrant, the former king is given a royal send-off

  22-03-2015 21:02
  
  The last time Richard III visited Bosworth Field, on 22 August 1485, he was hacked to death. This time his mortal remains, discovered to worldwide astonishment beneath a Leicester car park in 2012, got a much friendlier reception.
  
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• Richard III: Once vilified as a tryant, the former king is given a royal send-off

  22-03-2015 21:02
  
  The last time Richard III visited Bosworth Field, on 22 August 1485, he was hacked to death. This time his mortal remains, discovered to worldwide astonishment beneath a Leicester car park in 2012, got a much friendlier reception.
  
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• Man charged after woman dies as result of dog attack in Cardiff

  22-03-2015 21:01
  
  A man has been charged under the Dangerous Dogs Act after a woman died as the result of a dog attack.
  
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• Richard III reburial: 'May you rest in peace in Leicester'

  22-03-2015 21:00
  
  Mayor, dignitaries and thousands of people turn out to welcome remains of the king back to the city after extraordinary journey In the long shadows of a golden evening, after an extraordinary day when the cortege of a man who died more than 500 years ago passed through country lanes and suburban streets lined with hundreds of thousands of people, the remains of a king came back to Leicester.“King Richard, may you rest in peace in Leicester”, the city mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby said, standing o
  
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• To move beyond boom and bust, we need a new theory of capitalism

  22-03-2015 21:00
  
  Finding one is the the holy grail of economicsThis is the year that economics might, if we are lucky, turn a corner. There’s a deluge of calls for change in the way it is taught in universities. There’s a global conference at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, where the giants of radical economics – including Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis – will get their biggest ever mainstream platform. And there’s a film where a star of Monty Python talks
  
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• Convicted killer on 'most wanted' list arrested in the Canary Islands

  22-03-2015 20:59
  
  A convicted killer on the run after breaching his probation has been arrested in the Canary Islands by Spanish police.
  
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• 'No deal with SNP' says chair of Scottish Labour MPs, Michael McCann

  22-03-2015 20:57
  
  The chair of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party has gone further than Ed Miliband and dismissed the possibility of any form of post-election deal with the SNP.
  
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• Government pupil premium policy sees schools report dramatic changes

  22-03-2015 20:55
  
  Thinking outside the box can do wonders for disadvantaged pupils, according to evidence from schools about how they are using the Government’s pupil premium to improve performance.
  
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• Far-right Front National denied first place in local elections in France

  22-03-2015 20:55
  
  Former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative UMP party and allies lead first round but voter turnout is low
  France’s mainstream parties gave a collective – if qualified – sigh of relief on Sunday after they appeared to have seen off a threat from the far-right Front National.Opinion surveys in the run up to Sunday’s vote had suggested the FN, led by Marine Le Pen, could win up to 30% of votes, marginally ahead of former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre right UMP but leaving the
  
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