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• Grand National 2015: Liverpool ladies appear to be the real winners on Aintree's opening day

  09-04-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bosses issued a “lighthearted” style code, inspired by Coco Chanel’s famous saying - and the racegoers followed suit
  
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• Crazy motorists slammed by police for playing FOOTBALL on the M25

  09-04-2015 23:56
  
  HOT weather and boredom got the better of some drivers on the M25 when they started playing FOOTBALL on the motorway.
  
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• Woman hit by car dies of injuries

  09-04-2015 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An 86-year-old woman who was hit by a car in Portglenone in March dies from her injuries in hospital.
  
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• Let gay clergy marry, says Church of England bishop

  09-04-2015 23:47 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rt Rev Alan Wilson, the Bishop of Buckingham, urges politicians to intervene to end what he said is a 'manifest injustice'
  
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• Gatwick Airport oil is Britain's answer to Dallas and could be producing 'black gold' in two years

  09-04-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Even though only between 5% and 15% of the oil is expected to eventually be brought to the surface, it would still net an estimated £450billion
  
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• Watch theatrical con artist throw himself against TWO moving cars in bizarre 'insurance scam'

  09-04-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dashcam footage shows the man run into the cars then play dead until he's realised they have driven away
  
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• Who will win Election 2015? Tories claw back polls after Labour took lead

  09-04-2015 23:36 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Latest polls and predictions from April 9
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson pulls out of hosting Have I Got News For You

  09-04-2015 23:34 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The star was due to make his first BBC appearance since the corporation let him go after he attacked a producer on Top Gear
  
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• Abby Swinfield: Teenage mum dies after 'her drink was spiked with M-Cat at house party'

  09-04-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The grieving family of the 18-year-old today said she suffered two heart attacks after being spiked with the former legal high drug
  
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• Landlord Lorenzo Simon murdered tenant Michael Spalding and chopped his body up

  09-04-2015 23:32 via
  
  Birmingham landlord Lorenzo Simon has today been found guilty of murder for killing and dismembering his tenant and then stuffing the body parts into suitcases which he dumped in a canal.
  
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• General Election 2015: Tories pledge to freeze commuter rail fares for five years - saving season ticket holders an average of £400 by 2020

  09-04-2015 23:32
  Commuter rail fares would be frozen in real terms for five years by a Conservative government, David Cameron will promise.
  
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• Abby Swinfield 'has heart attacks and dies after taking M-Cat'

  09-04-2015 23:30 via
  
  Abby Swinfield, 18, was taken to hospital in the early hours of March 30 after collapsing at a house party in Tamworth, Staffordshire, and was placed in a coma, but died a week later.
  
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• Twins to get gift of life-saving bone marrow transplant thanks to Mirror appeal

  09-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Luis and Kian King have a genetic flaw which is destroying their bodies and is set to kill them before they are 13 if they don’t get treatment
  
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• Prince William to be Britain's next king? More than half of Mirror readers hope so

  09-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some 58% would prefer Wills to take the throne in favour of his father Prince Charles
  
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• Watch: Parents of tragic Thomas Beaty describe their heartache one year after hospital death of healthy baby boy

  09-04-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thomas, had died a day after being born at Royal Oldham Hospital. He had suffered catastrophic head injuries during a birth that included five failed attempts to deliver him with forceps
  
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• Teacher, 25, who had sex with two teenage pupils is spared jail

  09-04-2015 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kimberley Macemore was arrested by police after she told another pupil - who tipped off the school's headteacher
  
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• Female cyclist killed in lorry accident near Lambeth Bridge

  09-04-2015 23:24 via
  
  Witnesses reported seeing the front wheel of her bike ‘completely squashed’ under the lorry following the accident close to Lambeth Bridge near the Houses of Parliament at about 9.30am.
  
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• Has Robert Mugabe grown an AFRO? Perfectly timed snap of Zimbabwe president's new 'makeover'

  09-04-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mugabe had arrived in Pretoria for a three-day visit - but photographers couldn't have timed this better
  
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• Jean-Marie Le Pen says 'it's possible daughter may want him dead'

  09-04-2015 23:11 via
  
  Marine Le Pen has said she will oppose herfather - the honorary president of France's far right party - standing in elections later this year after he called the Nazi death chambers 'a detail of history'.
  
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• Andy Murray and Kim Sears: A look back at their 10-year relationship

  09-04-2015 23:05
  
  THEY'VE had its ups and down but Andy Murray and Kim Sears will be cementing their relationship this weekend by tying the knot in Scotland.
  
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• General Election 2015: Cameron would be held hostage by Ukip if Tories form minority government, says Clegg

  09-04-2015 23:04
  David Cameron would be held “hostage” by Ukip and “swivel-eyed” right-wing Conservative MPs if he forms a minority government after the election, Nick Clegg has warned.
  
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• Clarkson pulls out of BBC appearance

  09-04-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson pulls out of his planned appearance as guest host of the BBC show Have I Got News For You.
  
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• Grand National 2015: How a Dream came true for owners of the working class horse

  09-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brian and Jan Vokes didn't have millions at their disposal but they and friends took the plunge into horse racing - and didn't look back
  
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• Montpellier bus driver proposes separate service for Roma passengers

  09-04-2015 22:57 via
  
  Dominique Granier sparked outrage after he suggested putting on a service specifically for people travelling from a Roma encampment next to a cemetery into the centre of Montpellier.
  
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• Banksy: Palestinian police seize artist's £400k mural after penniless homeowner 'tricked' into selling it for just £118

  09-04-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A similarly-sized painting by the artist left on the wall of a Bristol social club sold for more than £400,000
  
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• Yaphet Kotto says James Bond should be portrayed by a white man amid Idris Elba rumours

  09-04-2015 22:57 via
  
  The very first black James Bond villain, Yaphet Kotto, has said the legendary secret agent role should only ever be portrayed by a white actor and 'political correctness be damned'.
  
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• Bodies washed ashore on Haiti coast

  09-04-2015 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bodies of at least 17 people have washed ashore in northern Haiti amid fears they were the victims of a shipwreck.
  
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• Former soldier reunited with lost son after 25 years thanks to Facebook

  09-04-2015 22:53 via
  
  Darren Goddard, of Basingstoke, was resigned to the fact that he would never see his son Lewis Helget again before the Facebook appeal popped up. The pair were finally reunited in March.
  
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• Blackpool robbers point gun at couple with baby during Londis store raid

  09-04-2015 22:51 via
  
  Luke Munro, 19, and Dylon Thompson, 21, raided the Londis shop in Cleveleys near Blackpool, Lancashire, in October last year while the owner and his wife were behind the counter with their baby.
  
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• North Korean school textbook claims leader Kim Jong-un learned to drive aged 3

  09-04-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It sensationally goes on to claim that the young supreme leader first raced a yacht aged nine - and won
  
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• General election 2015 sketch: Forget about 'sluts' - Ukip love women (and 'our ethnic compatriots')

  09-04-2015 22:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In London, Ukip attempt to promote their 'policies for women' - but it turns out that their poll rating isn't the only thing that's collapsing...
  
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• Prisoner chillingly predicted own murder in unopened letter to jail bosses

  09-04-2015 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Adnan Rafiq, 22, sent the letter four days before being attacked in his cell at HMP Hewell near Redditch, Worcestershire
  
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• Rex Cinema bans mother and baby screenings in Berkhamsted

  09-04-2015 22:36 via
  
  The manager of The Rex Cinema in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, cancelled the regular Tuesday baby matinees due to a combination of 'whingeing, bitching, snitching and the law'.
  
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• New map shows UFO sightings throughout world from 1933 to present day

  09-04-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Levi Pearson, a blogger on data analysis website Quantbait, created the map using data from the National UFO Reporting Center and map making software
  
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• Argentina summons British ambassador in Falklands oil row

  09-04-2015 22:32 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Argentina has summoned the British ambassador in a tit-for-tat response to Britain's calling in Ambassador Alicia Castro
  
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• 7 things we learnt from the LBC Radio all-women general election debate

  09-04-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight LBC hosted a debate with four women politicians, and here's what we learnt
  
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• UKIP candidate sorry for HIV tweet

  09-04-2015 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UKIP's candidate in a key general election seat is forced to apologise after she appeared to question the cost to the NHS of treating British people who are HIV positive.
  
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• Headteacher Sean Heslop arrested over 'relationship with former pupil' 

  09-04-2015 22:22 via
  
  Sean Heslop, pictured, has been suspended from his role in two Kent schools following his arrest over abuse of trust allegations. The 47-year-old executive principal is alleged to be expecting a child with a former pupil.
  
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• Acidic oceans helped fuel extinction

  09-04-2015 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Acidic oceans helped fuel the biggest mass extinction in the history of life on Earth, a study says.
  
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• LBC debate: Recap updates as four female MPs clash ahead of the General Election

  09-04-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Conservative's Nicky Morgan, Labour's Harriet Harman, Ukip's Diane James and Lynne Featherstone of the Liberal Democrats will battle it out
  
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• Decaying ruins are all that remain of the abandoned asylum where patients were once restrained with iron handcuffs

  09-04-2015 22:01 via
  
  Eerie photographs have given a glimpse inside an abandoned Victorian asylum (pictured). St George's County Asylum in Stafford in the West Midlands has a 197-year history.
  
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• When China woke up to Wham!

  09-04-2015 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  When China hosted its first Western pop concert
  
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• Meet the terrifying 4ft tall terror bird who stalked the Earth 3.5 million years ago

  09-04-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  “Scaglia’s Magnificent Bird” lived in South America - now an exceptionally preserved fossil gives voice to the ancient terror bird
  
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• 'I hope you die in jail': Mum's delight as son's racist killer has jail term extended

  09-04-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kriss Donald, 15, died after a horrific four-hour ordeal, because his attackers wanted 'revenge' on someone with white skin
  
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• VIDEO: How Wham! helped change China

  09-04-2015 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Singer Cheng Fangyuan remembers the day that British band Wham! became the first western pop act to play a concert in China.
  
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• WI president and church elder raided the bank account of dying life-long friend

  09-04-2015 21:57 via
  
  Kathleen Bailey (pictured), 70, of Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, a church elder and avid charity fundraiser, was given power of attorney over her terminally ill 87-year-old friend's finances.
  
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• Schoolboy dies from meningitis - family given antibiotics

  09-04-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unnamed boy, from Brighton, passed away this week after battling the killer brain infection
  
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• Ukip MEP Diane James: I admire 'nationalist' Putin

  09-04-2015 21:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Diane James, a Ukip MEP, claims Russian president was provoked into conflict in Ukraine by the European Union
  
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• Kent Police blast motorists playing football on M25 after getting stuck in traffic jam 

  09-04-2015 21:53 via
  
  Kent Police received reports that people started kicking a ball about in a closed stretch of the M25 in Ortford while an air ambulance landed to rescue a seriously injured female motorcyclist.
  
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• Former Met commissioner to be investigated over Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry

  09-04-2015 21:53
  
  FORMER Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens will be investigated over Scotland Yard's handling of the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry.
  
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