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• Prince Charles demands a VERY unusual rent from the new leaseholder of his quarry

  27-03-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prince of Wales has asked the new leaseholder, who has signed a 999-year-old, for ONE daffodil every 12 months as rent
  
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• Father who blamed police for not stopping his daughter joining ISIS at Muslim demo

  27-03-2015 23:56 via
  
  Abase Hussen, whose daughter fled Britain to join ISIS, was pictured at a notorious rally alongside Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale and hate preacher Anjem Choudary.
  
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• RAF 'widow' denied access to late partner's £48,000 pension as they never married

  27-03-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jane Langford lived as Air Commodore Chris Green's 'wife' for 15 years attending official functions but as she was already married judges dismissed her appeal
  
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• Amanda Knox cleared: 'I'm tremendously relieved and grateful for the decision'

  27-03-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The decision by the supreme Court of Cassation is the final ruling in the case, ending the long legal battle waged by Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito
  
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• Former solicitor is told he should be 'grateful' that vigilante paedophile hunter caught him

  27-03-2015 23:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Martin Currier, 51, went to meet a 13-year-old girl he met online but was confronted by famed paedophile vigilante Stinson Hunter who reported him to police
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson's sacking and Prince Charles' letters are two-nil down to the rich and privileged

  27-03-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the week Jeremy Clarkson was sacked and the Supreme Court told Prince Charles his lobbying letters could be seen by the pub, Brian Reade takes his hat off to the establishment
  
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• £2million statue 'looted from UNESCO site in Libya was brought into UK with false papers'

  27-03-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jordanian national Riad Al Qassas denies delivering a false document to HMRC in a trial at Westminster magistrates court
  
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• Armed cops swoop on Travelodge over 'hostage crisis' fears - only to discover 'gunmen' were ACTORS

  27-03-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A mother-daughter duo were gearing up to see pop star Usher perform, but were instead left cowering in a darkened room on the advice of a 999 operator
  
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• Conservative 'secret plan' for £12bn welfare cuts

  27-03-2015 23:47
  
  Secret plans for swingeing cuts to benefits have been drawn up by civil servants on the orders of senior Conservatives, it emerged last night.
  
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• Adults who sleep more than nine hours a night are 30 per cent more likely to DIE early

  27-03-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered getting too much sleep is just as bad for people as having too little
  
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• Germanwings captain Patrick Sondenheimer tried to break cockpit door 'with a crowbar'

  27-03-2015 23:34 via
  
  Captain Patrick Sondenheimer tried to break down the cockpit's door as the plane descended. The plane's final moments have been described by prosecutor Brice Robin (pictured).
  
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• European aviation chiefs FORCE British Airways to carry an extra person in the cockpit

  27-03-2015 23:33 via
  
  The Europe-wide order follows ‘foot-dragging’ by British Airways, which is engaged in a bitter behind-the-scenes row with UK aviation authorities over the measures.
  
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• Police let Jill Dando down and now they MUST launch a new hunt for her killer

  27-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The secrets behind the investigation into the murder of one of Britain's best-loved presenters, Jill Dando, can now be revealed by The Mirror
  
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• Amanda Knox cleared: Live updates as she is acquitted of murder of British student Meredith Kercher

  27-03-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight Italy's highest court - in Rome overturned the guilty verdict imposed on the couple in January last year
  
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• Lufthansa offers immediate financial assistance to Germanwings' passenger families

  27-03-2015 23:28 via
  
  Lawyers believe that any case will depend on whether Germanwings knew in advance of Andreas Lubitz's mental health problems and why the airline had failed to ground him.
  
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• Conservatives at war over another Lib Dem coalition after the generation election

  27-03-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has said her party should try to work with the Lib Dems again but Boris Johnson has disagreed
  
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• Germanwings captain Patrick Sondenheimer tried to break cockpit door 'with an crowbar'

  27-03-2015 23:28 via
  
  Captain Patrick Sondenheimer tried to break down the cockpit's door as the plane descended. The plane's final moments have been described by prosecutor Brice Robin (pictured).
  
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• Ed Miliband accuses David Cameron of being 'rattled' and 'running from his record' after TV interview

  27-03-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader told the PM 'of a zero hours contract is not good enough for you, it’s not good enough for the people of Britain'
  
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• Astronauts blast off for year-long stay on space station - video

  27-03-2015 23:27
  
  A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on their way to the International Space Station, a Nasa television broadcast showed. Two of the men, Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly, 51, and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, 54, will stay aboard the station for a year, twice as long as previous crews. Continue reading...
  
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• Cat balances cotton bud on its nose in a video that is even cuter than it sounds

  27-03-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If this does not brighten your day, we do not know what will
  
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• Cancer alert over chemical found in Roundup weedkiller

  27-03-2015 23:24 via
  
  Glyphosate has been declared a 'probable human carcinogen'. The chemical is most commonly used in the popular weedkiller Roundup, which is made by US firm Monsanto.
  
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• Former JetBlue pilot who had midair meltdown sues airline for letting him fly

  27-03-2015 23:21
  
  Clayton Osbon files $14.9m suit saying JetBlue made no effort ‘to ensure that he was fit’ for work despite warning signs exactly three years agoA former JetBlue Airways Corp pilot whose midair meltdown forced an emergency landing of a 2012 flight on Friday sued the carrier for $14.9m, saying it should have grounded him because it knew he was incapable of flying.Clayton Osbon, 52, filed his lawsuit in Manhattan federal court three days after the crash of a Germanwings plane in the French Alps
  
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• New York explosion may have been caused by people accessing gas line

  27-03-2015 23:19
  
  Mayor Bill de Blasio: gas line possibly ‘inappropriately accessed internally’Utility company says gas service in building had not passed inspection Someone may have improperly tapped a gas line before an explosion that leveled three New York apartment buildings and injured nearly two dozen people, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday, as firefighters soaked the still-smoldering buildings and police searched for at least two missing people. Continue reading...
  
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• Two Earth-like planets could be hiding close to our solar system

  27-03-2015 23:18 via
  
  A team of astronomers, led by Cambridge University, say these planets could be part of a more extensive solar system containing worlds like our own like 4.3 light years away.
  
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• Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's due date is April 25th

  27-03-2015 23:17 via
  
  The Mail can now reveal the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby is due on April 25, making Prince George 21 months old by the time his little brother or sister arrives.
  
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• 'I fell in love when I was 32. She was 92': Writer reveals special relationship that shatters perceptions of age

  27-03-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a touching account, Gregor Collins tells how the brief years he spent with Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann changed his world
  
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• How to open your own bed and breakfast

  27-03-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How to start your own bed and breakfast
  
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• Kate's due date is April 25th

  27-03-2015 23:03 via
  
  The Mail can now reveal the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby is due on April 25, making Prince George 21 months old by the time his little brother or sister arrives.
  
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• Labour to cap private profits in NHS

  27-03-2015 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Labour government would cap the amount of profit private firms can make from the NHS, Ed Miliband says as he launches the party's election campaign.
  
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• Herbal doctors will not be regulated, despite pleas from Prince Charles

  27-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Despite lobbying from Prince Charles, health officials have decided there is not enough evidence herbal medicines work to justify regulating the ancient practices
  
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• Savers face worst rates since the creation of Isas

  27-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Telegraph analysis shows rates at their lowest since 1999 with banks for the first time refusing to take part in 'Isa season'
  
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• Malaysia Grand Prix: floundering F1 chief has few answers to myriad problems

  27-03-2015 23:00
  
  ‘The trouble is we’ve got an old house and we keep repairing it,’ says Bernie Ecclestone before second race of 2015 Grand Prix season
  • Bernie Ecclestone lauds Lewis Hamilton Bernie Ecclestone admitted he is largely helpless when it comes to solving the myriad problems facing Formula One, after a meeting with team principals here on Friday.He even asked reporters for help. “All you bloody crowd have been complaining about everything, so let’s hear it. If you were in my position, apar
  
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• Justine Miliband vows to take vocal role in Ed’s election campaign

  27-03-2015 23:00
  
  Labour leader’s wife dismisses media storm over ‘two kitchens’ and promises to get out and talk to first-time voters
  Justine Miliband, the wife of the Labour leader, sought to brush off the “two kitchens” controversy as she pledged to campaign alongside her husband in what she described as the “slightly strange role” of a politician’s wife. In an interview with the Guardian, the environmental law barrister, known professionally as Justine Thornton, said the media storm about whic
  
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• VIDEO: 'I killed the cow': Hilarious moment woman pulls cold caller's leg in 'revenge'

  27-03-2015 22:58
  
  THIS is the hilarious moment a woman got her "revenge" on cold callers who continually pestered her by pulling one of their legs.
  
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• Fraudster escapes from one of Britain's most secure prisons by forging letter granting him bail

  27-03-2015 22:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The trickster usedd 'extraordinary criminal inventiveness' to slip out of the jail from which notorious Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs escaped in 1965
  
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• Harry Kane makes perfect start for England in simple win over Lithuania

  27-03-2015 22:53
  
  • England v Lithuania MBM reportPresumably, Harry Kane knows international football is not always this easy. The crowd were kept waiting to see England’s man-of-the-moment but it quickly became apparent Kane was a man in a hurry. He had been on the pitch only 78 seconds when his neck muscles were tensed, the ball thudded off his forehead and the crowd was rising to acclaim another extraordinary story in an increasingly bulging file.Kane’s career has been on such a steep, upwards trajectory
  
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• Amanda Knox and ex-boyfriend acquitted of murder of British student Meredith Kercher by Italian court

  27-03-2015 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Seattle-based representative for Knox said she was 'overjoyed' after the decision, adding 'the truth has won out'
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: Elite teams stay overnight at wreckage site to stop looters stealing victims' valuables

  27-03-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tom Parry in Seyne-les-Alpes on the massive operation at the site of the tragedy which claimed the lives of all 150 people on board
  
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• Amanda Knox murder conviction annulled - live coverage

  27-03-2015 22:50
  
  Italy’s top court acquits American Amanda Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito of murder of British student Meredith Kercher 6.53pm ET The mother of murdered British student Meredith Kercher has said she was “surprised and very shocked” by the decision, the Press Association reports.
  Arline Kercher, Meredith’s mother, said she had heard little more about the decision other than the verdict.
  She told the Press Association: “[I am] a bit surprised, and very shocked, but that is about it a
  
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• Co-operative Bank announces another wave of job cuts with more branches to close

  27-03-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The latest misery for workers came as the Co-op announced it had slashed annual losses to £264million, from £632.8m the year before
  
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• General Election TV debate: Miliband gets a head start for the seven-way debate

  27-03-2015 22:35
  
  For Labour, Ed Miliband’s debate appearance was the first step in its election drive to boost his dismal ratings among the public and improve his credibility as a prime minister-in-waiting.
  
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• Father calls police to school disco scuffle

  27-03-2015 22:34 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The parent 'pulled the children apart' and started 'shouting and swearing' before dialling 999 and telling cops one of the children 'assaulted' the other one
  
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• Yemen’s Houthi rebels advance despite Saudi-led air strikes

  27-03-2015 22:32
  
  Gains threaten last refuge of president Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and could undermine air campaign to support himYemen’s Houthi rebels made broad gains in the country’s south and east on Friday despite a second day of Saudi-led air strikes meant to check the Iranian-backed militia’s efforts to overthrow the president, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi. Shia Muslim Houthi fighters and allied army units gained their first foothold on Yemen’s Arabian Sea coast by seizing the port of Shaqra 100km (60 mile
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: Andreas Lubitz 'split up with girlfriend one day before tragedy'

  27-03-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  French media is reporting that the co-pilot broke up with his still-unnamed fiance, whom he was due to marry in 2016, not long before he flew the Airbus into the Alps
  
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• Missing Isis schoolgirls: Grounded pupils are from same school as three runaway girls

  27-03-2015 22:31
  
  Five teenage girls barred from travelling abroad by a judge after showing an interest in going to Syria are pupils at the same London school as three girls already thought to have fled there to join the Islamic State, the High Court has been told.
  
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• England v Lithuania: Euro 2016 qualifier – live!

  27-03-2015 22:30
  
  Minute-by-minute updates from the qualifier at WembleyEmail [email protected] with any thoughtsOr you can tweet him @Simon_BurntonAll the rest of tonight’s action in our Euro 2016 qualifier clockwatch! 9.49pm GMT Timing update: the latest I’ve heard is that there were 78 seconds between Harry Kane coming on and Harry Kane scoring. 9.45pm GMT Statistical latest:24 - England are now unbeaten in 24 qualifying games, winning 17 and drawing seven. Powerhouse. 9.44pm GMT A bad night fo
  
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• Sir Cliff Richard 'has no idea' who historical sex abuse accuser is, star's pal claims

  27-03-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bonnie Lythgoe, 65, who has been staying with the star in Barbados, says he is 'distraught' over the allegations and doesn't know who the alleged victim is
  
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• Why the MCG will play a big role in the 2015 Cricket World Cup final

  27-03-2015 22:25
  
  Australia v New Zealand is an evenly matched contest, but you wonder how much confidence the Aussies take from knowing this cavernous, epic structure like the back of their collective hand
  • Brendon McCullum’s fire can set alight New Zealand’s World Cup dreamThe MCG is an imposing structure, even as you approach it from a few hundred metres away. Before Sunday’s World Cup final a predicted crowd of 100,000 will enjoy a glorious stroll through Yarra Park, autumn leaves beginning to fall a
  
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• Ancient woods face gravest threat for decades, Woodland Trust warns

  27-03-2015 22:22 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The trust says 500 ancient woods are endangered, the highest number they have ever recorded, due to the Government's controversial planning laws
  
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• Lobbying group for fracking in Lancashire supported by firms mainly outside county

  27-03-2015 22:22
  
  A major lobbying group created to make the business case for fracking in Lancashire is mainly supported by firms outside the county, an investigation has revealed.
  
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