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• Woman 'stabbed boyfriend to death after he discovered her about to have sex with another man'

  07-04-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Natasha Elderfield is accused of murdering Robert Dobinson after he returned to the houseboat they shared and found a rival with his trousers around his ankles
  
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• Scottish leaders' debate in 60 seconds: Moustache man, Murphy's Messi analogy, and more

  07-04-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There were plenty of highlights from Tuesday night's leaders' debate - including the now-famous moustache man
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson stages BBC comeback A MONTH after being fired from Top Gear

  07-04-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  BBC chiefs have decided to allow the presenter back on screen on April 24, despite ­dropping him from the BBC2 show for allegedly assaulting a producer
  
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• Margaret Thatcher 1983 election battle bus is on sale for £25,000

  07-04-2015 23:52
  
  A BOMBPROOF bus used by Margaret Thatcher in the 1983 election is on sale for £25,000.
  
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• Michael Easy who went on run then taunted police on Facebook is back behind bars

  07-04-2015 23:48 via
  
  Michael Easy, 29, from Southampton, Hampshire, sparked a major police manhunt after going on the run and taunted police by posing in Dame Edna Everage-style glasses and a wig in Facebook photos.
  
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• 'Syrian preacher from west London mosque' found shot dead in a car

  07-04-2015 23:41
  
  A MURDER investigation has been launched after a man believed to be a Syrian preacher from a west London mosque was found shot dead in a car.
  
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• UKIP leader Nigel Farage could face legal action over his claims about former MEP

  07-04-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Amjad Bashir’s lawyers have demanded the UKIP leader apologises for claims he made following Mr Bashir’s defection to the Tories in January
  
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• 'I couldn't believe it': Stunned teen discovers six-foot SNAKE on bathroom radiator of Rochdale home

  07-04-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fortunately a police officer who keeps snakes as a hobby was on hand to defuse the tense situation and come to her rescue
  
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• Scottish Leaders Debate: Five things we learned from the STV showdown

  07-04-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jim Murphy and Nicola Sturgeon clashed over who hated the Tories most, but most people watching were more interested in a moustache
  
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• Abdul Hadi Arwani: Syrian preacher 'found shot dead in car in London'

  07-04-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Abdul Hadi Arwani was an imam who was known to have preached out of a mosque in west London
  
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• Transgender filmmaker Lewis Hancox knew he was in the wrong body from the age of four

  07-04-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 25-year-old is in the final stages of his gender realignment surgery, and recalled being “in the wrong body” as a very young child
  
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• NHS treating transgender kids aged just three as sex change doctors see soaring numbers of under 10s

  07-04-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An eight-year-old boy has told how he struggles with being a boy and lives as a girl, Jessica, with the full support of his parents
  
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• Harry Leslie Smith: Don't let future be mean streets of my past

  07-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Guest columnist for Ros Wynne-Jones, Harry Leslie Smith, NHS campaigner, aged 92 says he doesn't want a return to the bad old days
  
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• Grand National jockey who grew up allergic to horses hoping to become race's second-youngest winner

  07-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sean Bowen, 17, will ride Mon Parrain for champion trainer Paul Nicholls and will race against his trainer dad Peter's fancied horse Al Co
  
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• British Army fired 46 million rounds at Taliban costing taxpayer £200m

  07-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The amount of ammo expended shows how British troops in Afghanistan were fighting for their lives every day.
  
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• General Election 2015: British residents who do not pay tax on overseas earnings will be stripped of 'non-dom' status, says Miliband

  07-04-2015 23:29
  Wealthy British residents who do not pay tax on their overseas earnings would be stripped of their “non-dom” status by Labour, Ed Miliband will announce today.
  
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• Sir Stirling Moss reveals why he now drives a Renault Twizzy

  07-04-2015 23:28 via
  
  Sir Stirling, who won 212 races in his 14-year career, also spoke about how he has swapped the high-octane vehicles of his heyday for a tiny Renault Twizy that has a top speed of just 50mph.
  
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• Scottish Leaders Debate: Labour's Jim Murphy tells SNP 'we don't need your help'

  07-04-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon had offered to prop up an Ed Miliband government to keep David Cameron out of Downing Street
  
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• Syrian Imam Sheihk Abdul Hadi Arwani ‘shot dead in London’

  07-04-2015 23:22
  
  Police have launched a murder investigation after a man believed to have been a Syrian preacher was found with gunshot wounds in a car in north-West London today.
  
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• General Election 2015: Cameron points finger at Lib Dems over Sturgeon leaked memo row

  07-04-2015 23:07
  
  David Cameron has pointed a finger of suspicion at the Liberal Democrats in the row over who leaked a memo alleging that Nicola Sturgeon wanted to see him remain prime minister.
  
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• Mexican police killed in ambush

  07-04-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fifteen police officers have been killed and five others wounded after an ambush in the Mexican state of Jalisco, prosecutors say.
  
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• The copycat who nearly died air-mailing himself home

  07-04-2015 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man who hated Australia so much he posted himself home
  
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• David Cameron interview: ‘We protected the poorest, the NHS and pensioners’

  07-04-2015 23:06
  
  Is David Cameron still the “compassionate Conservative” who won the party leadership in 2005 and was derailed by economic crisis, or is he a Thatcherite who reverted to type when he got the chance? It is a question that some Tory modernisers ask themselves as Mr Cameron runs what is widely seen as a safety-first campaign based on the economy and bashing Ed Miliband.
  
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• Moustache Man revealed: Audience member in disguise at Scottish TV Leaders debate is Dundee singer

  07-04-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He was the unlikely highlight of the Scottish debate - and he's also the singer in a Led Zeppelin tribute band
  
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• The leaders' debate soundbite to end them all: 'David Cameron ain't no Lionel Messi'

  07-04-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy somehow got onto the subject of David Cameron, and came out with this corker
  
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• Woman 'killed' elderly man after 'ramming him with trolley' in M&S store, court hears

  07-04-2015 23:01
  AN elderly man was "killed" after being rammed with a shopping cart during a "trolley rage" incident in the run up to Christmas, a court heard today.
  
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• Could you pass an 11-year-old's maths SATs test?

  07-04-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Key changes to the maths curriculum mean there is now more emphasis on the practical application of numbers. But do you know your algebra from your equations?
  
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• Kevin Maguire: If my enemy's enemy is my friend then Cameron owes Nicola Sturgeon a bottle of Glenfiddich

  07-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Every seat the SNP leader steals from Labour's Jim Murphy could edge Cameron closer to Downing Street
  
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• Endangered rhinos, elephants and rhinos hunted by Facebook poachers

  07-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Killer gangs are specifically scouring social media sites for tourists on safaris whose photos unwittingly pinpoint the ­whereabouts of rare animals
  
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• Woods worked 'sun up to sun down'

  07-04-2015 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former world number one Tiger Woods says he has worked "his ass off" to get himself ready for this year's Masters.
  
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• Kingsley Burrell was 'punched in the head by police and denied toilet access' an inquest hears

  07-04-2015 22:57 via
  
  Kingsley Burrell, 29, died at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital in March 2011 four days after being taken into police custody and sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
  
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• Can you guess which airport has NEVER lost an item of luggage?

  07-04-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The annual awards revealed that the airport has never lost an item of baggage since it opened
  
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• Syrian preacher found shot dead In London: reports

  07-04-2015 22:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A Syrian preacher from a west London mosque has reportedly been found shot dead in a car in Wembley
  
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• Robert Mugabe on South Africa state visit appears to have new haircut and earrings

  07-04-2015 22:42 via
  
  At a quick glance, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe appeared to be sporting a new hairstyle and even a pair of earrings when he arrived into South Africa for a state visit today.
  
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• Violent thug who stabbed man because he threw a napkin at him is jailed for 14 years

  07-04-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mergim Krasniqi chased the man down in the street close to Wembley Stadium and left him for dead
  
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• A&E wait is worst for a decade as patients find it harder to see GPs

  07-04-2015 22:30
  THE proportion of patients seen within four hours at A&E departments in England has dropped to its worst level in a decade.
  
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• General Election 2015: 100 leading doctors sign letter accusing Government of 'withering away' NHS in England

  07-04-2015 22:28
  More than 100 leading doctors have signed a letter accusing the coalition Government of endangering the NHS in England.
  
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• ISIS launches English language radio bulletins on its Iraqi broadcast service

  07-04-2015 22:27 via
  
  The extremist group's first English bulletin - hosted by a man with an American accent - aired on Tuesday on its al-Bayan radio network, which already boasts updates in both Arabic and Russian.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon won't rule out another Scottish Independence referendum next year

  07-04-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The SNP leader was booed when she wouldn't rule out another poll on breaking up the UK as soon as 2016
  
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• From Dewsbury to Syria: Families in shock after their "ordinary Yorkshire lads" flee to war-torn country

  07-04-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hassan Munshi and Talha Asmal are thought to have fled via a trip to Turkey
  
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• Spanish cannibal slugs invading Britain

  07-04-2015 22:09 via
  
  Britain is in the grip of an invasion from six-inch-long Spanish cannibal slugs - nicknamed killer slugs - that have been spotted 50 miles inland for the first time.
  
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• A quarter of UK's wheat crop could be wiped out by virulent new strain of Himalayan fungus

  07-04-2015 22:08
  
  A virulent new strain of fungus from the Himalayas threatens to wipe out up to a quarter of the wheat crop in some areas of the UK this harvest season, experts have warned.
  
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• Millions of families could lose child benefit under Tory plans to slash welfare

  07-04-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  George Osborne repeatedly refuses to rule out cutting the benefit as part of his £12billion spending cuts
  
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• Couple set to tie knot halfway around London Marathon course

  07-04-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Elliott and Laura Harvey will exchange vows in front of 80 guests after 13 miles then complete the race before heading to their reception
  
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• In pictures: Police launch probe after arsonists target car dealership leaving trail of destruction

  07-04-2015 21:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The early-morning blaze is now subject to a police investigation after firefighters battled the intense flames
  
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• Hypersonic jets in pipeline which could see journey to New York take just 58 minutes

  07-04-2015 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British company Reaction Engines is testing hypersonic aircraft which could travel at speeds of Mach 2.5 all the way up to Mach 5
  
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• Nuclear-powered planes could see passengers change flight MID-AIR and jets refuel in the sky

  07-04-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scientists looking to shape the next generation of air travel as they test a system of huge, nuclear-propelled aircraft constantly circling the globe
  
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• General Election 2015: Failing primary school children face more resits under Tory plans

  07-04-2015 21:55
  
  Any child who fails English and maths tests at 11 will be forced to repeat them in secondary school, under Conservative plans to improve literacy and numeracy.
  
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• Forget Sturgeon - the real star of the Scot Debate was the bloke wearing the fake moustache

  07-04-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Help us find the man wearing the comical hat and the fake moustache
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: The old master’s cadences bless young Miliband

  07-04-2015 21:51
  
  He’s back and he’s angry. And not with Ed Miliband! Though he behaved as if he’d never been away from Sedgefield. The sunny weather was what “you can always expect in the North-east”, he joked, like a man who had come to rest in County Durham instead of criss-crossing the world at dizzying speed for the past seven years.
  
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