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• Jeremy Clarkson: Police investigate threats to kill BBC boss after Top Gear presenter is axed

  28-03-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scotland Yard confirmed it is looking into allegations of threats made after the BBC confirmed it would not be renewing Clarkson's contract
  
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• British skier dies in avalanche on Swiss Alps

  28-03-2015 23:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The 30-year-old man was caught in an avalanche on Mount Velan in Valais while out skiing with his brother
  
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• David Beckham joining James Corden for chat show comedy sketch to support pal's US career

  28-03-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Becks will fly to Los Angeles to join his comedian pal on the Late Late Show and ­support him in his push to make it big Stateside
  
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• BBC director-general 'sent' DEATH THREATS after ex-Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson's sacking

  28-03-2015 23:39
  DEATH threats were sent to the BBC director-general after he sacked former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, it has been claimed tonight.
  
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• Teenage girl rushed for HIV and hepatitis tests after she sat on a NEEDLE on a bus

  28-03-2015 23:35 via
  
  Francesca Palmer-Norris (pictured), 16, was on the top deck of the number 24 Brighton and Hove Bus Company vehicle when she was pricked by the needle.
  
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• World first as surgeons spot a brain tumour - with a 'bleeping pen': Laser helps surgeons tell the difference between healthy and cancerous tissue

  28-03-2015 23:32 via
  
  A British hospital is trialling a laser that bleeps like a parking sensor on a car when scalpels get to the edge of cancerous areas of the brain, letting surgeons know their margin for error.
  
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• 'My shock at discovering my mum is a jihadist terrorist linked to the White Widow'

  28-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As a law-abiding British citizen, nothing could prepare Amal Farah for the day police knocked on her door asking about her estranged mother
  
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• Football superstars face Operation Yewtree probe after being caught in Max Clifford's 'honey trap' blackmail plot

  28-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A string of married international, Champions League and Premier League stars are believed to have slept with a model hired by the disgraced PR boss
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson plans dramatic Top Gear comeback in just weeks - but it'll be in Australia

  28-03-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shamed 54-year-old will head to Sydney with James May, 52, and Richard Hammond, 45, to host the show in front of 40,000 fans over two days
  
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• British Vladamir Putin fanatic has passport seized for secretly plotting Ukraine terrorism

  28-03-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thomas Scott-Chambers was filmed last July urging support for a Putin-led takeover of Europe and exposed in a Sunday Mirror probe
  
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• The worst phone pest in Britain who plagues us with SIX MILLION cold calls a day - and the firm that rings you to discuss NUISANCE calls 

  28-03-2015 23:12 via
  
  Russell Church (pictured) is the main shareholder in a company that is currently under investigation for bombarding its victims, including the elderly and vulnerable, with unsolicited nuisance calls.
  
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• A Clockwork outrage: Leading literary figures blast 'pathetic' decision by English Heritage to refuse blue plaque for Anthony Burgess because he is not 'significant' enough

  28-03-2015 23:09 via
  
  British author Anthony Burgess has been refused a commemorative blue plaque by English Heritage because, it claims, his significance and profile are 'not strong enough' for recognition.
  
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• The haunting home of Peaches Geldof left abandoned and untouched since her tragic death

  28-03-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A pram, toys and a Minnie Mouse baby seat still lie by the front door but the trees and grass are overgrown
  
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• David Cameron: 'I want to win disaffected Tory voters back'

  28-03-2015 23:08 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron says disaffected Conservative supporters should put their trust his party's long-term economic plans instead of Labour's
  
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• Is this the cruellest tug-of-love battle of them all? This man lost his son in a toxic divorce, only to find he wasn't the father - after his wife said she'd swapped his sperm for an ex-lover's during IVF

  28-03-2015 23:07 via
  
  This is the heart-breaking story of Jonathan Whiting whose ex-wife duped him into spending six years bringing up a youngster as his own when, in truth, the boy was fathered using another man's sperm.
  
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• David Cameron: New pensions freedoms are a 'big change'

  28-03-2015 23:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, the Prime Minister discusses landmark pension reforms which will come into force on April 6
  
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• Elton John vows to keep paying his mum's bills despite their bitter seven year feud

  28-03-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The star is said to be furious after Sheila ­Farebrother, 90, told an interviewer they had not spoken for seven years since he allegedly said he “hated” her
  
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• A stable investment: The £1million family cottage with everything a horse-lover could ever want 

  28-03-2015 23:04 via
  
  Keeper's Cottage, in Hertfordshire, is more than just a charming family home, coming with seven stables, a tack room, paddock, Olympic-size training area and five-and-a-half acres of land.
  
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• Boost for Alzheimer's patients after drug trial success: New treatment reverses damage to brain caused by disease

  28-03-2015 23:03 via
  
  A new Alzheimer’s drug that reverses the damage the disease causes in patients’ brains could ‘change the landscape’ of future treatment, according to researchers.
  
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• Grandfather of murdered Becky Watts makes heartbreaking music video as hundreds turn out for memorial service 

  28-03-2015 23:01 via
  
  John Galsworthy decided to make the poignant video, in which he sings Somewhere, from the musical West Side Story, following the 16-year-old's death in Bristol in February.
  
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• Fifth Isil runaway held on take-off

  28-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A fifth girl from Bethnal Green Academy was stopped from travelling to Syria in December by police two months before her three schoolfriends were able to travel to join Isil.
  
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• Former bodybuilder with liver cancer is given just three weeks to live - but says he'll beat the disease with healthy eating 

  28-03-2015 23:00 via
  
  Dean Wharmby (pictured), 39, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was told he had just weeks to live in November after a large tumour was found on his liver.
  
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• David Cameron: My plan to win back disgruntled Tories

  28-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, the Prime Minister says he wants new tax cuts for married couples as he seeks to regain the trust of Conservatives who have lost faith
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: Heartbroken dad of British student killed in Alps horror says 'this must never happen again'

  28-03-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Bramley, 28, from Hull, was studying abroad and boarded the ill-fated Airbus as he headed home to Britain via Germany following a holiday
  
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• VIDEO: Grandfather of Becky Watts sings heart-breaking tribute to murdered schoolgirl

  28-03-2015 22:44
  
  THIS is the heartbreaking moment the grandfather of murdered teenager Becky Watts sings an emotional tribute to the "beautiful" schoolgirl.
  
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• Police's failure to investigate rapes report shelved until after the general election

  28-03-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers have been told the damning report, which was due to be published last month, has been shelved because of “political interference”
  
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• Woman injured in Tunisia attack dies

  28-03-2015 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Frenchwoman wounded in the attack on Tunisia's national museum dies of her injuries, bringing the total number killed to 22.
  
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• Aristocrats 'feel entitled to abuse people' says son of the 10th Earl of Sandwich who was raped by his father as a child

  28-03-2015 22:18 via
  
  Robert Montagu, who was abused from age seven to 11, was speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival when he said those from 'noteworthy families' were more likely to abuse people.
  
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• Nigeria voting extended to Sunday

  28-03-2015 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Elections in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, are extended to Sunday in some parts of the country after delays and a number of attacks.
  
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• Becky Watts: Heartbroken dad says life is 'living hell' since teenager's death as hundreds march in tribute

  28-03-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Becky's family and friends wore t-shirts, held banners and released balloons in honour of the tragic 16-year-old as her father Darren Galsworthy spoke of the family's devestation.
  
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• Kym Marsh in Jamie Bulger tribute as Corrie star sings at charity event to remember murdered toddler

  28-03-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kym, 38, and her daughter Emilie sang at a black-tie event to mark what would have been the tragic tot's birthday
  
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• Fears over energy drinks leading to hyper children prompt calls for them to be taxed

  28-03-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many think the drinks, which are high in sugar and caffeine, should also be banned for children under 16
  
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• First baby born from IVF technique which eliminates inherited disease

  28-03-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A pioneering IVF technique allows babies at risk from inherited illnesses to be born free of disease
  
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• 'Post-natal depression made me stab my man and attack him with a hammer'

  28-03-2015 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Antonia Fox woke up in a police cell – and still cannot ­recall anything about the night she assaulted her partner Simon Taylor
  
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• Six-year-old striker scores 100 goals in a season - could he be a football star of the future?

  28-03-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The young goal machine idolises Cristiano Ronaldo but wants to play for Liverpool FC when he's older
  
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• Nicotine addict aged just 12 makes pals violently ill with NHS-prescribed spray

  28-03-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The student has been disciplined after several of her classmates were sick and one needed hospital treatment
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: British victim's final ever picture taken with the love of his life

  28-03-2015 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Bramley, 28, from Hull, was studying abroad and boarded the ill-fated Airbus as he headed home to Britain via Germany following a holiday
  
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• Israel 0-3 Wales

  28-03-2015 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gareth Bale scores twice to send Wales two points clear at the top of Group B with a comfortable win over 10-man Israel.
  
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• Boxing legend Errol Christie vows to KO cancer as he faces fight of his life

  28-03-2015 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former European middleweight champion has started a gruelling round of chemotherapy for lung cancer at a hospital near his South London home
  
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• Three held over gun attack released

  28-03-2015 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three men arrested by police investigating a shooting in Coleraine, County Londonderry, are released on police bail.
  
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• Spectator dies at Nurburgring after British racing driver Jann Mardenborough's car flips into air and crashes into crowd

  28-03-2015 21:10 via
  
  Driver Jann Mardenborough was cresting a hill when the car flipped upright, travelling 100ft before slamming into a barrier and flipping over a safety barrier into the crowd.
  
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• Woman filmed hurling 'racist' abuse at two men on the Tube

  28-03-2015 21:09 via
  
  Passengers said the woman took offence after hearing two men speaking a foreign language. She accused them of only using English to 'get something' in a 'racist' tirade on the London Underground.
  
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• UK weather: Easter break to be a wash-out as fierce 65mph winds, rain and SNOW hit Britain

  28-03-2015 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Met Office has issued weather warnings as strong winds are set to cause disruption across much of the UK
  
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• MP Simon Danczuk spotted 'favouriting' hard-core pornography

  28-03-2015 21:06 via
  
  A constituent flagged up to the Labour MP for Rochdale that he had favourited a tweet linked to an 18+ account for posting pictures 'sexy pictures of women.'
  
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• Tories accused of blocking ordinary workers from serving on board of Britain's gangmasters' watchdog

  28-03-2015 21:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The watchdog, set up in the wake of the Morecambe Bay tragedy when 21 Chinese cockle pickers were killed, now has no workers' representative
  
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• Kitten starts house fire but then saves owners by miaowing till they wake

  28-03-2015 20:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The tiny feline, called Jesse, knocked over a scented candle causing the upstairs to catch fire but managed to wake the Rogers family in the nick of time.
  
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• Terrorists launch two deadly attacks on voters and kill six people in Nigeria

  28-03-2015 20:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Extremist group Boko Haram opened fire on their victims as they walked to vote in the presidential elections
  
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• Yemen leader accuses 'Iran stooges'

  28-03-2015 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Yemen's president accuses Iran of destabilising his country, as Saudi Arabia vows to continue air strikes until Yemen is "stable and safe".
  
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• Jihadists in Syria 'capture Idlib'

  28-03-2015 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Islamist militants capture the north-western Syrian city of Idlib for the first time, monitoring groups and jihadists say.
  
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• Alps co-pilot 'predicted notoriety'

  28-03-2015 20:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The co-pilot of the Germanwings Airbus which crashed in the French Alps predicted "one day everyone will know my name", his ex-girlfriend says.
  
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