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• Hilarious spoof of Money Supermarket advert gets 6m views - more than the original

  23-03-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Father-of-four Wayne Phillips struts his stuff wearing hot pants and heels
  
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• Watch Prince Andrew and 400 guests sing 'happy birthday' to Princess Eugenie - over FaceTime

  23-03-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duke of York tonight surprised a room full of business leaders when he organised an impromptu Happy Birthday singalong for his daughter
  
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• Ashya King: Father of boy who 'beat' cancer with controversial therapy scared to let him return to UK

  23-03-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brett King's family have been living in Spain since Ashya, 5, completed proton beam treatment. He is worried social services will take him away
  
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• DUP names its price for electoral deal with Tories or Labour: £1bn for Northern Ireland

  23-03-2015 23:49
  
  The Democratic Unionist Party will seek up to a billion pounds more funding for Northern Ireland as the price of keeping a Tory or Labour government in power, according to one of its leading MPs.
  
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• Hospital apologises to family of great-grandmother who was told she was 'medically fit' while dying of lung cancer

  23-03-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The heartbroken family of Agnes say that if they had known she was so ill, she could have spent her final days at home
  
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• Fury as NHS pays £125million for the £35million machine that saved Ashya King

  23-03-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two Proton Beam machines are being bought for £250million but the price is way above the £35million for the same machine used at a clinic in Prague to cure Ashya
  
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• Anger as Tory candidate poses as killer Oscar Pistorius complete with fake blood and gun

  23-03-2015 23:45
  
  A CONSERVATIVE candidate has sparked fury after he was pictured posing as convicted killer Oscar Pistorius holding a gun and covered in fake blood.
  
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• Grandfather abandoned as three-week-old baby in cinema toilet still searching for his mum 59 years later

  23-03-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robert Weston was found abandoned in an Odeon Cinema cubicle with his head resting on a cushion back in 1956
  
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• Bronze bust of Russia's Vladimir Putin depicted as a Roman emperor to be unveiled

  23-03-2015 23:26 via
  
  The Roman-style statue is being gifted by St.Petersburg’s fiercely nationalist Cossack community to commemorate the allies’ victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
  
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• Claudia Lawrence: Married father arrested on suspicion of murder ''joked about previous police interview''

  23-03-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man in his 50s was held five days after officers released CCTV footage of a man seen lurking near her house the night her parents last spoke to her
  
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• Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson expelled from party after 'inflated invoice' row

  23-03-2015 23:21
  A UKIP MEP has been expelled by the party after her chief of staff was filmed apparently asking for an inflated invoice to claim on European expenses.
  
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• Taxi driver brutally beaten by boozed-up passengers after one of them vomited in his vehicle

  23-03-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The harrowing ordeal left the 57-year-old questioning whether or not to continue working as a taxi driver         
  
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• Triple killer Ian McLoughlin murdered a Good Samaritan while out on day release

  23-03-2015 23:19 via
  
  Ian McLoughlin stabbed to death Graham Buck, 66, while allowed out from HMP Springhill in Buckinghamshire, where he was serving a 25-year jail term for killing two men.
  
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• Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson expelled from party over expenses allegations

  23-03-2015 23:17
  
  The Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson – and her senior aide Christine Hewitt – have been expelled from the party for bringing it into disrepute over claims about inflated expenses.
  
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• Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson expelled from party

  23-03-2015 23:17
  
  Ukip has expelled MEP Janice Atkinson,after her chief of staff was filmed apparently asking for an inflated invoice to claim on European expenses.
  
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• Janice Atkinson expelled from Ukip over false expenses claims

  23-03-2015 23:13 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  MEP Janice Atkinson - and her chief of staff Christine Hewitt - have been expelled by Ukip for bringing the party into disrepute over claims about inflated expenses,
  
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• Sketch: Who can self-flagellate his way to No 11? Both of them can

  23-03-2015 23:12
  
  If it really is “the economy, stupid”, then heaven help us. None of this was the fault of the Sky News political editor, Faisal Islam, or a decent group of questioners. But this was so not a “debate” between the Chancellor and his shadow, that even their separate appearances had a half-hour interval between them in case either of them actually met, let alone started arguing with each other. This did not make for riveting television.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: George Osborne's Agincourt gag costs him historian's vote

  23-03-2015 23:04
  
  While the polls imply that George Osborne’s Budget last week has had no measurable impact on public opinion, the din of battle still resounds around the remarks he cracked about Agincourt. In his Budget speech, the Chancellor described the battle, 600 years ago this October, as a story of how “a strong leader defeated an ill-judged alliance between the champion of a united Europe and a renegade force of Scottish nationalists.” Get it? David Cameron equals Henry V, Ed Miliband is Charles VI
  
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• Naval power of the USS Roosevelt reveals a deck that serves 60 war planes

  23-03-2015 23:01 via
  
  Anchored off the Hampshire coast, it is an awesome show of US naval power - and a timely reminder of what the Royal Navy lacks.
  
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• Simon Danczuk is backing Ed Miliband despite saying Labour leader is costing him votes

  23-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Crusading Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk said the unpopular Leader leader was costing him votes but he still wanted him as prime minister over David Cameron
  
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• Cardiff dog attack: Grandmother 'killed by the pet bought to protect her'

  23-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rhona Greve, 64, was killed by her family’s pet American bulldog at the widow’s home on Friday night
  
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• Boozed-up women forced to pay more than £2.5million in drunk fines

  23-03-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Figures from police forces in England and Wales show 30,309 on-the-spot £80 tickets were issued between 2009 and 2013
  
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• Solar Eclipse: 'Super tide' caused by lunar spectacular reveals shipwrecks off British coast

  23-03-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  High tides and extreme low tides have been seen across the country because of the gravitational pull of the sun, moon and planets
  
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• 'Here's your stupid litter back' Cyclist throws dumped Pepsi cup back into driver's car

  23-03-2015 22:49
  A CYCLIST found himself heading for trouble when he confronted a motorist who allegedly threw litter out of his car window.
  
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• Terror as RAF Voyager jet plummets 5,000ft after cockpit mishap

  23-03-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The jet was six hours into a flight from RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, to Camp Bastion, in Afghanistan
  
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• David Cameron quitting BEFORE the election could be a huge own goal for the Tories

  23-03-2015 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tory leader’s incredible blunder fired the starting gun for a Conservative bun fight to replace him, says Kevin Maguire
  
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• Benz out of shape: £4m vintage racing car in crash at Goodwood

  23-03-2015 22:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A millionaire German economist has accused the son of British motor racing legend Barry Wood of causing a crash at Goodwood
  
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• 100-year-old car salesman still going strong - 66 years after his first sale

  23-03-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Revealing his secret to longevity, the inspirational father-of-two said anyone could do it... unless "you sit around the house and watch TV"
  
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• Football team fined for cancelling game - after manager had a stroke

  23-03-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Manager Graham Norrie has branded amateur league chiefs “heartless”
  
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• Ted Robbins: I'm 3 stone lighter since DYING on stage but it's not ideal diet

  23-03-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the second instalment of our interview, the Phoenix Nights comedian tells how he is taking small steps to getting himself back on the right track
  
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• Everything is Awesome: Lego-mad dad recreates Jurassic Park in stop-motion film using £66,000 of toy bricks

  23-03-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The short film takes some of the famous scenes from the Speilberg hit, and adds music, dialogue and even changing facial expressions
  
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• Watch Pope Francis get pizza delivered straight to his Popemobile in hilarious video

  23-03-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The leader of the Catholic Church accepted the tasty snack from an Italian restaurateur waiting in the crowd
  
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• Cardiff grandmother Rhona Greve died after she was bitten 16 times by American bulldog

  23-03-2015 22:14 via
  
  Craig Greve, 23, was today accused at Cardiff Magistrates' Court of illegally owning a dangerous dog which killed his grandmother in a savage attack.
  
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• UFO sighting: Family 'gobsmacked' as four mysterious objects zoomed across sky during BBQ - chased by 'MOD helicopter'

  23-03-2015 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The family were left spooked, claiming the UFOs were followed by an 'MOD helicopter' fast in pursuit
  
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• Doctor holds a prosthetic baby hand at the temporary border hospital in Turkey

  23-03-2015 22:07 via
  
  A doctor at a border hospital in Reyhanli, Turkey, holds up a prosthetic hand being made for a baby who has fled the conflict in neighbouring Syria along with its family.
  
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• David Cameron ridicules Bercow over Commons clerk appointment failure

  23-03-2015 22:07 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron has ridiculed the Speaker's failure to secure his choice for the new Commons Clerk
  
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• 'Miracle' face of Jesus appears in South American landslide

  23-03-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nearby landowners have started charging visitors to view the wonder
  
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• Beluga whales show their playful side by squirting water into their trainers' faces 

  23-03-2015 22:02 via
  
  The striking creatures were rescued by Primorskiy Sea Mammal Research Centre in Vladivostock, south east Russia, after they were found either injured or orphaned in the wild.
  
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• Stepping Hill poison trial: 'Prescriptions records sabotaged by nurse'

  23-03-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Victorino Chua is accused of poisoning 21 patients with insulin at the hospital
  
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• Ex-BNP leader Nick Griffin tells right-wing conference Russia will save Europe

  23-03-2015 21:59
  
  Undeterred by his waning power over the extremist right-wing in the UK, Nick Griffin has kept with his cause by declaring that Russia will save “Christendom”.
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson is a 'disaster waiting to happen'

  23-03-2015 21:58 via
  
  Former BBC Director General Greg Dyke said the corporation has been placed in an impossible position and 'can't win either way' whatever the outcome of the Top Gear inquiry.
  
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• Richard III burial: Thousands queue for four hours to glimpse fallen king's coffin

  23-03-2015 21:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The coffin bearing the remains of Richard III, covered in a dark pall and flanked by Armed Forces veterans, attracted large crowds to Leicester Cathedral
  
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• Polish man 'stole Britain's nuclear submarine documents' to sell them to his government

  23-03-2015 21:53
  
  A POLISH man stole secret documents about Britain's nuclear submarines from a neighbour and tried to sell them to his Government for £50,000, a court heard.
  
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• Brian May: I could support Ukip candidates at the election

  23-03-2015 21:52 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Queen guitarist has launched a campaign calling for MPs to be free-minded and not to be swayed by party whips
  
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• Terminally ill children to be given a say on whether they want treatment to continue

  23-03-2015 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Under controversial new guidelines to be published today, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health sets out when it can be considered no longer in their best interests.
  
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• Former student spat at for wearing sandwich board begging for work has landed his dream role

  23-03-2015 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Reece Enfield said he wanted to "conduct a social experiment to prove to millions of students across Britain that University doesn’t have to be their only option"
  
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• 'You're f*****g scum': Cops probe shocking footage of woman's foul-mouthed rant at 'begging foreigner'

  23-03-2015 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING STRONG LANGUAGE The clip - which sees the victim being called “f***ing scum” in front of passersby - was filmed by an onlooker
  
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• Security guard fraud exposed by undercover reporters

  23-03-2015 21:18 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Thousands of security guards responsible for protecting Britain's most sensitive sites could have purchased their qualifications
  
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• Inside David Cameron's kitchen: Does the Prime Minister have a 'Calm Down Dear' chopping board?

  23-03-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The PM was embroiled in a sexism row after telling Labour’s Angela Eagle to 'calm down, dear' during a commons debate
  
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• Cruz puts liberty top of 2016 push

  23-03-2015 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Republican Ted Cruz vows to "reignite the promise of America" as he makes individual liberty the key theme of his White House campaign announcement.
  
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