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• UKIP loses fourth candidate in a week as Nigel Farage is accused of ignoring racism

  24-03-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tim Wilson was the second to quit in protest at Farage's failure to tackle MEP David Coburn for calling an Asian opponent “Abu Hamza”
  
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• 'Hundreds' of Nigeria children missing

  24-03-2015 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  About 500 children are missing from a Nigerian town recaptured from militant Islamist group Boko Haram, a former resident tells the BBC.
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson to be SACKED as Top Gear host after BBC probe

  24-03-2015 23:55
  
  JEREMY Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear host tomorrow after a BBC probe found he attacked a producer, reports say.
  
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• London WW2 bomb: Evacuees living near unexploded bomb allowed to go home

  24-03-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Road closures and cordons around the discovery site have now been lifted
  
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• Undertaker collapsed in shock when 'dead' woman woke up and asked 'Where am I?'

  24-03-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 92-year-old had been pronounced dead by a doctor at her care home
  
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• Germanwings Airbus A320: Facts about the world's most popular plane

  24-03-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than 150 people were killed in the tragedy when the jet crashed in the French Alps
  
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• Suspended Jeremy Clarkson 'will be sacked by BBC tomorrow after Top Gear fracas'

  24-03-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The popular presenter was suspended after a 'fracas' with a Top Gear producer
  
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• Suspended Jeremy Clarkson 'will be sacked by BBC today after Top Gear fracas'

  24-03-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The popular presenter was suspended after a 'fracas' with a Top Gear producer
  
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• Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: British passengers 'likely' among 150 dead, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond confirms

  24-03-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a statement, Mr Hammond said: "Based on the information available to us, it is sadly likely that there were some British nationals on board the flight"
  
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• Woman who wanted a dream wedding ended up planning her finance's funeral

  24-03-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Caroline Waine's fiancé lost his battle with cancer at the age of 31
  
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• Images of Kurdish Syrians returning to ghost town Kobane smashed by ISIS

  24-03-2015 23:28 via
  
  Six months ago the Kurds were fleeing Kobane as ISIS troops bared down on the Syrian city, now, with the fanatical jihadis driven back into the desert, they can return to their shattered homes.
  
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• Can you match the dog with their celebrity owner on National Puppy Day?

  24-03-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Who owns these cute mutts? Take our multiple choice quiz and see if you can work it out
  
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• Woman held in psych ward after claiming Obama follows her on Twitter - even though he does

  24-03-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The "eccentric" New Yorker was held against her will for eight days and administered a variety of psychiatric drugs. She has now filed a lawsuit claiming unspecified damages
  
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• David Cameron battles fall-out as Boris Johnson refuses to rule himself out of leadership race

  24-03-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister insists he has no regrets about the blunder during the interview with the BBC but critics have said it will harm the Tory election campaign
  
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• Watch as vandal is caught on camera scratching a sports car causing £1,350 worth of damage

  24-03-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Furious owner Dave Harrison rages: "I want to find out who did it"
  
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• Why should Elton John impersonate being a loving son for mum's 90th birthday?

  24-03-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Alison Phillips says the idea that children should respect their parents come what may ignores the fact that it is a human emotion which can never be demanded
  
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• Elephants drink from pool at Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa

  24-03-2015 23:04 via
  
  Rangers and visitors at the resort were treated to a very up-close view of the wild animals as specialist guide Mark Lautenbach snapped these amazing pictures at Phinda Private Game Reserve.
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson to be sacked by the BBC

  24-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked as Top Gear presenter after a BBC investigation found he did assault a producer in a row over steak and chips
  
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• Migrants who won't learn English to be stripped of housing benefits under Tories

  24-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Claimants who reject English lessons will lose housing support under Conservative plans to put 'rocket boosters' under current sanctions, The Telegraph learns
  
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• Huge asteroid capable of wiping out entire country is on near-collision course with Earth

  24-03-2015 22:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If the 2014-YB35 asteroid hit Earth it could wipe out a country
  
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• 'Snitches get stitches': Thug's campaign of terror while imprisoning man inside his home

  24-03-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A court heard that drunken bully Michael Talmage had 43 previous convictions for 64 previous offences dating back to 2002
  
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• Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: Football team avoided doomed flight after changing tickets at the last minute

  24-03-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Reassuring fans, the team's goalkeeper wrote on Twitter: "To all who have tried to contact us in the last hours, we are well and at home"
  
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• Pakistan takes aim at Sim cards in anti-terror drive

  24-03-2015 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Will Sim card crackdown thwart Pakistan's militants?
  
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• 'Alien skull' spotted on a comet by amateur astronomer

  24-03-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The photo shows the 80ft pyramid shaped 'head' with what looks like a face
  
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• Mum quizzed by police after bodies of two of her children found in bag in her freezer

  24-03-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman was being evicted from her home in Detroit, Michigan, when they made the grim find.
  
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• Inquest hears Bicester Hugo Boss staff had been warned to move mirror which crushed boy

  24-03-2015 22:19 via
  
  Austen Harrison, of Turners Hill, West Sussex, was crushed by the mirror at the Hugo Boss outlet in June 2013 - nine months after staff had been told the heavy object needed to be secured.
  
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• Council housing officer jailed after raping single mum afraid of losing her home

  24-03-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A court heard Clive Glasford carried out the vile attack while the mother's child was sleeping next to her
  
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• British plane spotters who have spent one month in Dubai jail have 'given up' hope

  24-03-2015 22:11
  THREE British plane spotters who are about to spend their 31st night in a Dubai jail have "given up" hope, according to their families.
  
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• Invention to cut driving speed BEFORE you go over the limit will save motorists a fortune

  24-03-2015 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Intelligent Speed Limiter’s camera can read road signs and slows down the car by limiting fuel, not sudden braking
  
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• Married father of two, 59, who was arrested on suspicion of murdering missing chef Claudia Lawrence is released on bail

  24-03-2015 22:02 via
  
  The man, who is from the York area, was released earlier today 'to allow detectives time to follow up lines of inquiry', a spokesman for North Yorkshire police said.
  
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• Dad facing deportation to US despite living in UK for 53 years

  24-03-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robert Carl Jordan, who moved to Britain from America aged three, now faces being separated from his children and sent back to the States
  
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• Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: Manchester mum and her baby named as victims in tragic air disaster

  24-03-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There were 150 on board the plane when it crashed into the French Alps, with authorities confirming that there were no survivors
  
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• Now Alex Salmond vows to bring down a minority Tory government

  24-03-2015 21:49 via
  
  The former Scottish First Minister said the Scottish National Party would vote down a Tory Queen's Speech if it holds the balance of power after the general election.
  
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• Armed robbers dressed in drag with wheelchair who pull out shotgun an raid village post office

  24-03-2015 21:48 via
  
  CCTV footage from the armed robbery in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Monday morning, shows two men entering the local post office dressed in long-haired wigs and dresses.
  
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• Teen lured love rival who got pregnant by her boyfriend into ambush

  24-03-2015 21:42 via
  
  Abigail Moody flew into a jealous rage and brutally attacked Melissa Benhamou after finding out she had slept with her partner Sam Bridge, Worcester Crown Court heard.
  
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• Multi-million pound El Greco masterpiece stolen by the Nazis in 1944 finally returned to rightful owners after 70-year search 

  24-03-2015 21:40 via
  
  El Greco's 'A Portrait of a Gentleman' had been missing ever since the Gestapo raided the collection of Jewish banker Julius Priester in 1944, stealing 50 valuable paintings.
  
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• China's lli pika could be the cutest endangered animal in the world

  24-03-2015 21:40 via
  
  The Ili Pika is one of the world's rarest mammals, and has been spotted for the first time in 20 years in its natural territory in the Tianshan mountain range in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China.
  
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• Chip shop 'scent' packing by ex-L'Oreal boss who went to court over the pong at his home

  24-03-2015 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sir Lindsay - former boss of cosmetics giant L'Oreal - claimed the 'nauseating smell' from the mobile food stall had devalued his home in the exclusive ski resport of Val d'Isere
  
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• 'Petite' female firearms officers say the force is 'malicious'

  24-03-2015 21:36 via
  
  Victoria Wheatley and Rachael Giles (pictured) have been signed off sick with stress after they won sex discrimination case against the Civil Nuclear Constabulary in February last year.
  
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• Watch video of 'drunk' Secret Service agents nudging White House bomb scene barrier with vehicle

  24-03-2015 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two senior agents are accused of drinking before driving into the White House complex
  
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• Kenneth Brown, kills himself a year after surviving suicide pact with wife

  24-03-2015 21:35 via
  
  Kenneth Brown, 75, from Liss, Hampshire, had been 'living in misery' since the death of his wife Helen in a joint suicide pact which he survived, Portsmouth Coroner's Court (pictured) was told.
  
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• Tory MP Priti Patel accused Labour's John Clarke of sending misogynist and racist tweets

  24-03-2015 21:23 via
  
  Ms Patel, (pictured) who represents Witham in Essex, has called for John Clarke to be de-selected after he compared her to a 'village idiot' on Twitter. He has since apologised.
  
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• Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: Victim's wife 'did not board flight because she was too pregnant'

  24-03-2015 21:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man, named by Spanish media as Josep Sabat Casellas, was among the 150 who died in the tragic crash
  
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• George Osborne refuses to rule out VAT rise FIVE TIMES in echoes of past Tory tactics

  24-03-2015 21:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He also refused to set out which benefits he would axe under the Tory plans to slash welfare by another £12billion
  
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• Retiring MPs in line to make up to £9 million profit from sale of second homes

  24-03-2015 21:11
  
  Veteran MPs could cash in on their taxpayer-funded second homes to the tune of £9 million, according to research.
  
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• Ending Foodbank Britain: Labour's 5-point plan targets Bedroom Tax, benefit delays and sanctions, minimum wage and zero-hour contracts

  24-03-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves tells Real Britain columnist Ros Wynne-Jones of the people she's met who NEED to see this Government ousted
  
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• Dangerous daffodils banned from the village green, selfie sticks barred from nightclubs and chippies stopping customers using salt and vinegar - the top 10 health and safety myths revealed

  24-03-2015 20:52 via
  
  EXCLUSIVE: From daffodils being banned on a village green to a chippy not allowing customers to put salt and vinegar on their meal, here we reveal exactly what is not banned under health and safety.
  
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• Twice as many mentally ill children wait more than four hours in A&E under Tories

  24-03-2015 20:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Number of vulnerable children waiting so long in A&E has more than doubled under Tory-led Government
  
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• Teresa Gilbertson who tried 'to boil her husband' jailed for four years

  24-03-2015 20:43 via
  
  Former special constable Gilbertson, 60, appeared at Peterborough Crown Court today for sentencing after being convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. Ken Gregory, 65, suffered horrific burns.
  
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• Tony Blair accused of 'dirty little deal' in Northern Ireland that let a man go free

  24-03-2015 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The case against John Downey, 62, collapsed last year as he wrongly received a letter in 2007 listing him among 186 “on-the-run” Republicans no longer to be pursued
  
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