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• Sick new ISIS video shows CHILDREN helping behead hostages in Syria

  29-03-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Young militants hand out knives to executioners before eight Syrian nationals are butchered
  
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• Jill Dando murder: Jeremy Paxman and Sir Cliff Richard interviewed by cops as witnesses

  29-03-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pair were spoken to as witnesses by detectives seeking to build a picture of Jill’s routine shortly after the killing
  
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• Katie Hopkins reported to police over Rochdale tweets as she's accused of inciting hatred

  29-03-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour MP Simon Danczuk reveals that he has sent a letter to the Police Commissioner of Greater Manchester Police
  
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• Jill Dando murder: Serbian mafia, the IRA and London's gangland had her in their sights

  29-03-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Documents show all three of the organisations had the blame for the Crimewatch presenter's death laid at their door
  
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• ISIS children take centre stage in jihadists' latest sick propaganda showing apparent beheading of eight Syrians

  29-03-2015 23:41 via
  
  The clip was posted on social media today, and said the eight men were beheaded in the central Syrian province of Hama.
  
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• General Election 2015: Labour seeks legal advice to stop Cameron 'squatting' in No 10 even if Tories win fewer seats

  29-03-2015 23:36
  Labour is consulting constitutional and legal experts about fears that David Cameron could try to stay on in Downing Street even if the Conservatives have fewer MPs than Ed Miliband’s party after 7 May.
  
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• General Election 2015: Ed Miliband attacks David Cameron on EU to woo business bosses

  29-03-2015 23:34
  
  Ed Miliband will try to rebuild bridges with bosses worried about his anti-business rhetoric today by warning that David Cameron would take Britain to the EU exit door.
  
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• Jill Dando murder: More than 100 suspects were NEVER traced by police on the case

  29-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Intelligence reports pointing to key underworld figures, including M25 road rage killer Kenneth Noye, were marked “no further action”
  
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• Bakery set to make more than 40 million hot cross buns in time for Easter

  29-03-2015 23:14 via
  
  Gunstones Bakery, in Sheffield, which produces one third of the nation's hot cross buns, will get througha staggering 30 tonnes of flour and 20 tonnes of fruit to produce a quarter of a million buns every day.
  
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• The courthouse frozen in time: Building left to crumble and rot for 20 years... but the public gallery, benches and dock are still intact

  29-03-2015 23:12 via
  
  The Old Town Hall in Sheffield, which housed the city's crown and high court until the 1990s, has lain dormant since 1996, but its public gallery, benches and dock are still intact.
  
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• Bodies found days after NY gas blast

  29-03-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three days on from a massive gas blast in New York that flattened three buildings, two bodies are found in rubble.
  
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• Former teacher and girlfriend who streamed sex with underage girl on the internet CLEARED of child pornography charges due to legal loophole 

  29-03-2015 23:04 via
  
  William Hanna (pictured) and Dianne Whitehouse, of Birmingham, had convictions overturned as the sex videos were not permanent and so did not fit the legal definition of child pornography.
  
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• Motor racing driver Jann Mardenborough 'very distressed' after spectator killed in horrifying crash

  29-03-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Witnesses said Mardenborough, from Cardiff, was able to walk away from the scene, but was taken to hospital for routine checks
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: What we do and don't know about the air disaster

  29-03-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz claimed the lives of 149 people when he deliberately crashed the plane into the Alps
  
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• Family of Germanwings hero pilot Patrick Sondenheimer launch attack on Andreas Lubitz

  29-03-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brave Patrick desperately tried to avert disaster after Lubitz locked the cockpit door and could be heard shouting "open the goddamn door"
  
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• Kerry stays on to make final push for Iran nuclear deal

  29-03-2015 22:31 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  US secretary of state spends his fourth day in meetings in Lausanne with Iranian foreign minister as clock ticks towards March 31 deadline - and Israel voices its fury
  
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• Thugs jailed for 'horror movie'-style bottle attack that sprayed blood across packed train

  29-03-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mohammed Osman and Ishmail Mohammed sliced Dale Relton with a Vodka bottle in '11 seconds of madness'
  
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• Painstaking search for bodies of 2,600 soldiers buried alive in Second World War caves gets underway

  29-03-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts begin sifting through explosive-ridden caves to find remains of missing troops
  
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• A question for Indian men: What does your wife do?

  29-03-2015 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Asking Indian men a question they are not used to hearing
  
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• Man stabbed neighbour in chest during 'petty' feud over wheelie bins

  29-03-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Drunken Lee Craig Richardson narrowly missed the man's heart in the knife attack
  
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• Graphic Isis exhibition branded ‘grotesque’ and ‘profiting from misery’

  29-03-2015 22:16
  
  The creator of a museum exhibition that includes photographs and videos of Isis extremists beheading victims in Iraq and Syria has been accused of profiting from their deaths and potentially stirring up trouble for Muslims in Britain.
  
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• Jamie Oliver launches attack on Gordon Ramsay as chefs reignite bitter feud

  29-03-2015 22:01 via
  
  Jamie Oliver, 39, has claimed fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, 48, is 'deeply jealous' of his success after the Scottish chef criticised Oliver for not attending the opening of his Hong Kong restaurant.
  
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• Family and friends of Lee Rigby gather in his hometown for memorial unveiling

  29-03-2015 22:01
  
  THE FAMILY and friends of murdered soldier Lee Rigby gathered in his hometown today to witness the unveiling of a memorial in his honour.
  
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• Pension details 'ending up in hands of criminals'

  29-03-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Investigation launched into claims details of pensioners' salaries, value of their investments and size of their pensions are being sold
  
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• Tributes paid to 15-year-old schoolgirl killed when car smashed into a tree in crash which also killed man, 22

  29-03-2015 21:51 via
  
  Levi Jade Apsley, 15, was killed when a blue Vauxhall Corsa careered off the road in Offerton, Stockport, Greater Manchester, early this morning. The 22-year-old man has not yet been named by police.
  
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• Want to know what a woman keeps in her handbag? It's more than you'd think

  29-03-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Research finds that women are carrying around some seriously expensive kit in order to cope with modern lifestyles
  
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• Director of online gambling firm linked to two Premier League football clubs arrested in £21m fraud probe

  29-03-2015 21:37 via
  
  Paul Bell, a director of 666Bet, which signed Harry Redknapp for its adverts, was arrested at Heathrow as part of a money laundering probe by HMRC and the National Crime Agency.
  
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• UK weather: Country on storm alert as experts warn it will be a wet and windy Easter

  29-03-2015 21:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gales topping 60mph are forecast across parts of the country as temperatures plunge and the weather will be bad until Easter Monday
  
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• Moment ousted UKIP councillor says 'I wouldn't form friendship with her' after being confronted by black woman

  29-03-2015 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rozanne Duncan, who served on the district council for Thanet - where Ukip leader Nigel Farage is standing for election - made her latest controversial statement during a televised debate show
  
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• General Election 2015: No sign of a clear winner as the race begins

  29-03-2015 21:22
  
  The election campaign kicks off today with the Conservatives and Labour in a virtual dead heat. And while Ed Miliband appears to have the better chance of being the next prime minister, the Tories could still turn the tables.
  
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• Foreign students coming to Britain to learn how to make WMDs

  29-03-2015 21:21 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  MPs call for the system preventing foreign students coming to the UK to learn the secrets of chemical and nuclear weapons to be extended to home grown jihadists
  
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• The Media Column: Can traditional broadcasters capitalise on the first ‘digital election’?

  29-03-2015 21:09
  
  “It’s going to be the most anarchic election in living memory,” predicts Kev Kharas, editor of Vice UK, the youth-focused digital channel winning awards for its innovative news coverage. “It would be a shame to have to cover it in the same grey, old boring way.”
  
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• Floating voters: How living on a houseboat meant I didn't officially 'exist'

  29-03-2015 21:01
  
  Perhaps it was because Russell Brand said I shouldn’t, perhaps it was the guilt-inducing spectre of Emily Pankhurst, or it could simply have been an instinctive reaction to David Cameron over-exposure, but this year, I told myself, I really must register to vote in the general election.
  
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• Shocking image shows restaurant worker left for dead by baseball bat attack

  29-03-2015 21:00 via
  
  Jamil Ahmed needed hospital treatment for two weeks after he was set upon by the vicious gang in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, on December 15 last year.
  
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• UK weather: Britain put on TORNADO alert as forecasters warn of Easter wash-out

  29-03-2015 20:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Forecasters have predicted gale-force winds, heavy rain and even snow for some parts of the UK over the next few days
  
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• Watch moment dogs show off impressive acrobatics in circus-like display

  29-03-2015 20:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage of impressive animal gymnastics attracts 410,000 hits in a few days
  
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• MP Simon Danczuk admits he watches porn - and says he's just like any other 'man of the world'

  29-03-2015 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour MP came clean after accidentally favouriting hard-core pornography on Twitter
  
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• Every baby to be vaccinated against meningitis B in world first protection programme

  29-03-2015 20:26
  
  EVERY baby is to be vaccinated against meningitis B after the Government struck a landmark price deal with a drug company.
  
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• Business Secretary Vince Cable: 'I was the bookies’ favourite to be first to leave the Cabinet'

  29-03-2015 20:22
  
  Who would have thought that of all the ministers to stay the course of the Coalition, Vince Cable would be one of them? Certainly not him.
  
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• Gran lost her leg after she was injected with DISINFECTANT during surgery

  29-03-2015 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The gran called Gina, who is 67, screamed out in pain but no one realised the blunder in 2013 until her skin came out in blotches
  
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• British diabetics are among first in the world to receive an artificial pancreas

  29-03-2015 20:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The gadget can help improve blood glucose control and gives diabetes sufferers the chance to live a fuller life
  
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• Labour party sparks row with souvenir 'controls on immigration' mug

  29-03-2015 20:14 via
  
  The £5 souvenirs were supposed to drum up cash for the party's election fighting fund but they have sparked a storm of criticism, with prominent backbencher Diane Abbott branding them 'shameful'.
  
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• Preacher uses parish magazine to rant about cheating wife

  29-03-2015 20:13 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  James Wilson stuns fellow parishioners with his outpouring in the parish magazine in which he accuses his wife of committing a 'heinous act' by conducting an affair
  
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• Honoured at last: A tribute to an inventor who saved millions of lives during World War II

  29-03-2015 20:13
  
  He’s the genius inventor who helped save millions of lives during the Second World War, but whose achievements went unheralded following an early death.
  
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• Bournemouth and Barking: The two areas of UK where people are getting younger

  29-03-2015 20:06
  
  The outlook is decidedly grey across Britain, with the population of almost every city, town and village set to get older in the coming years.
  
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• Terrified Germanwings passengers screamed for more than five minutes as the doomed plane crashed

  29-03-2015 19:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disturbing account of the cockpit voice recordings from black box of plane that smashed into French Alps
  
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• New mushroom species found in Norfolk (don't eat it)

  29-03-2015 19:57 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Scientists say a fungi with a strange, manlike appearance found in Cockley Cley 15 years ago was in fact a new species
  
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• Alex Salmond unwittingly steals the show at SNP conference

  29-03-2015 19:56
  
  If someone tried to side-line Alex Salmond and keep him well away from the centre-stage of the largest-ever SNP clan gathering, then the plan back-fired – spectacularly.
  
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• Father blasts 'cowardly' killer jailed for life over murder of dad-of-seven in house party stabbing

  29-03-2015 19:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scott Jefferson 'slyly' knifed Uriel Moskwa as he walked away from Tyneside brawl
  
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• Woman upset with constant cold callers gets her own back by telling worker 'I killed a cow'

  29-03-2015 19:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disgruntled Deanne Gold bursts into laughter as she spins call-centre worker a yarn about a dead bovine
  
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