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• Fury as Tory candidate dismisses activist and woman beater's domestic violence conviction as 'shoving'

  10-04-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lucy Allan, 50,  has enraged charities and campaigners against domestic violence with her defence of council candidate Connor Furnival
  
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• Teen girl whose cigarette started fatal shop fire 'guilty of being careless'

  10-04-2015 23:54 via
  
  The teenager charged with arson after a fire ripped through Paul's Hair World in Manchester's Northern Quarter on July 13, 2013, killing Stephen Hunt, 38, (pictured) will not face trial, a judge said today.
  
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• Twins defy odds as one is born black and other is white

  10-04-2015 23:49 via
  
  Mother Rebecca Horton, 28, who is white, and father Curtis Martin, 24, who half Jamaican, said even they struggle to believe Kendall (centre left) and Baylee (centre right) are related.
  
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• Facebook boast robber Andrew Hennells is jailed

  10-04-2015 23:48 via
  
  Andrew Hennells posted about his plan to rob the supermarket, in King's Lynn, just 15 minutes before he walked into the Norfolk store and threatened staff with a knife.
  
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• Lord Uxbridge's Battle of Waterloo trinket box sold for more than £100k

  10-04-2015 23:48 via
  
  The 18-carat gold rectangular piece was a gift to Lord Uxbridge, whose stoic exchange with the Duke of Wellington after losing his leg to a cannonball has become etched in history.
  
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• SeaWorld lawsuit alleges orcas are drugged and confined in 'chemical tubs'

  10-04-2015 23:47
  
  Lawsuit is second in three weeks to attack marine park for abusive treatment of killer whales and demands reimbursement for all visitors in the last four yearsA new class action lawsuit has been filed against SeaWorld in Florida accusing the marine park of keeping its performing killer whales drugged and suffering from sunburn in tanks that are the equivalent of “chemical bathtubs”, leading to early death for the intelligent mammals.
  South Carolina grandmother Joyce Kuhl is suing the SeaWorl
  
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• Human Rights Watch warns that killer robots have no accountability

  10-04-2015 23:46 via
  
  The organisation will present their report at the UN in Geneva next week. They say that we must consider banning 'fully autonomous weapons' (image from the movie Terminator shown).
  
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• Man so angered by road damage he fixes potholes HIMSELF - and it costs just SEVEN POUNDS

  10-04-2015 23:40
  
  A DRIVER was so annoyed with potholes on his street damaging his car he has fixed them HIMSELF at a cost of just £7.
  
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• BREAKING: Stolen ambulance crashes with bus leaving one dead and six injured

  10-04-2015 23:38
  
  A STOLEN ambulance collided with a bus leaving one person dead and six injured tonight, it has been claimed.
  
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• BREAKING: Stolen ambulance crashes with bus leaving one dead and 10 injured

  10-04-2015 23:38
  
  A STOLEN ambulance collided with a bus leaving one person dead and 10 injured tonight, it has been claimed.
  
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• 'Vampire' mum-of-four dreading warm summer - as she is ALLERGIC to the sun

  10-04-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lorraine Valentine has been dubbed a 'real life vampire' suffers from a rare disease which causes a severe burning sensation
  
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• Mysterious 'phantom framer' decorates road signs with ornamental picture frames

  10-04-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Golden frames have been placed over less than glamorous road signs and dog fouling warnings in south London
  
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• Hatton Garden heist CCTV: 'Raiders stole a drill nearby'

  10-04-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Scotland Yard says the drill burglary is now a “key line of inquiry” after the Daily Mirror uncovered details of the incident
  
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• Royal chef Darren McGrady reveals that William and Harry once forged note to get him to cook pizza 

  10-04-2015 23:12 via
  
  Former Royal chef Darren McGrady said that as children the brothers swapped the instructions from their nanny for their own in which they asked for fast food.
  
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• Aintree Ladies Day girls are caught on film 

  10-04-2015 23:12 via
  
  Trotting into Aintree in a collection of floral, flamboyant and eye-catching numbers, thousands of female race-goers displayed their indomitable spirit for the occasion.
  
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• Why China are planning to dig a tunnel through the middle of Mount Everest

  10-04-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Line through Mount Everest could connect Beijing to Calcutta and estimate work could be finished by 2020
  
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• Alison Sharland can appeal her divorce case with AppSense founder at Supreme Court

  10-04-2015 23:09 via
  
  Alison Sharland, from Cheshire, agreed a £10.35m settlement in a deal that saw her give up her claim to an equal share in her husband's company, but she now claims she is entitled to more.
  
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• Sylvester Stallone: I've got rid of my entourage - I even clean up after my dogs

  10-04-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Hollywood superstar tells the Mirror's Clemmie Moodie how he now lives an unglamorous, grounded family life after being brought to his senses by his wife
  
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• Electric car buyers 'need to hurry'

  10-04-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why electric car buyers may need to hurry
  
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• Death of the credit card perk

  10-04-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Warning to customers as bank becomes first to scrap cashback scheme following new EU laws
  
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• Son of Thunderbirds creator backs DIY genetic testing kit for Alzheimer's

  10-04-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jamie Anderson, whose father Gerry created the hit sci-fi TV show, tells why he took a genome test to learn his chances of inheriting the deadly disease that killed his dad
  
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• Whiston Hospital shooting: Live updates

  10-04-2015 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two men have suffered gunshot wounds with a large police presence close to Whiston Hospital's Accident and Emergency department
  
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• Hatton Garden robbery: Everything we know about daring central London raid

  10-04-2015 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The six-man raid in central London, is believed to be one of the largest in British history and may have netted the thieves property worth £200million
  
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• Huge fire at Warwick Castle caused by flaming CANNONBALL sees hundreds flee

  10-04-2015 22:35
  
  HUNDREDS of terrified tourists have been evacuated from Warwick Castle after a flaming CANNONBALL set fire to an ancient thatched building.fire
  
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• Walter Scott shooting: Family don't want death penalty if police officer is convicted of murder

  10-04-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anthony Scott, who will bury his older brother on Saturday, said he would plead with courts to spare the life of Micheal Slager
  
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• Pensioner reunited with precious lost ring after social media search went viral

  10-04-2015 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thoughtful Roxy Walsh posted an appeal on Instagram after she found the ring in a bar in Bali
  
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• Is this the world's only BLACK flamingo? Bizarre-looking bird snapped playing in Cyprus

  10-04-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bird was spotted by photographers in Cyprus playing among its traditionally-coloured friends
  
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• I found SAS hero who saved me in Belsen and now we'll be friends for life

  10-04-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Extraordinary tale of death camp survivor who finally found the SAS hero that saved her life aged just 15
  
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• Racist headteacher Margaret Gretton banned from classrooms for life

  10-04-2015 22:05 via
  
  Margaret Gretton, 46, who was headteacher of Burton Joyce Primary School in Nottingham from September 2007 until November 2013, has been barred indefinitely from the profession.
  
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• Chinese soldier makes wife all her meals for the next YEAR before returning to Tibet

  10-04-2015 21:55 via
  
  A senior high school teacher from Anshun has been dubbed the 'luckiest wife in China' after her husband prepared enough food to last for a year before he returned to service in Tibet.
  
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• Chinese leukaemia sufferer GRILLS himself over hot coals to cure cancer cells 

  10-04-2015 21:54 via
  
  A leukaemia patient in China who cannot afford hospital treatment is hoping to kill cancer cells by lying above a fire each day. Jia Binhui built the device after doctors told him cells die at above 42C.
  
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• 'Racist' headteacher who also mocked pupils with special needs is banned from the profession

  10-04-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A discpiplinary panel heard that Margaret Gretton, 46, made monkey noises when talking about a black man and called special needs pupils “cuckoo”
  
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• Judge apologises to teenager who had sex with 15-year-old girl when he was 17

  10-04-2015 21:46 via
  
  Judge Sylvia de Bertodano slammed the decision to prosecute Connor O'Keefe for having consensual sex with the girl after they got drunk at a 'peace festival' in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire last summer
  
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• Hatton Garden jewellery burglary: Met police under fire for failing to respond to alarm

  10-04-2015 21:45
  
  Scotland Yard has come under fire after it emerged police were told a burglar alarm had gone off at the scene of the Hatton Garden safety deposit raid, but decided it did not require a response.
  
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• Conservative candidate Michael Fabricant reveals he has skin cancer

  10-04-2015 21:44
  
  Tory candidate for Lichfield Michael Fabricant has revealed he has been diagnosed with skin cancer.
  
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• Hatton Garden heist CCTV: Watch dramatic moment £60m gem raiders are caught on camera

  10-04-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror World Exclusive as Real life Reservoir Dogs heist gang is revealed as we catch Mr Ginger, Mr Strong and The Gent on CCTV
  
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• Paul Walker killed by Kyle Major with a single punch on New Year's Day

  10-04-2015 21:40 via
  
  An alcohol-fuelled 14-year-old boy cowardly killed a father-of-two in an unprovoked street attack after wishing him 'Happy New Year', a court has heard.
  
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• Bungling armed robber jailed after boasting about his crime… on FACEBOOK

  10-04-2015 21:35
  
  A BUNGLING armed robber who updated his Facebook status with the words "Doing. Tesco. Over" minutes before holding up a store has been jailed for four years.
  
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• Fiona Cullum spared jail for sheltering Sabrina Moss' killers

  10-04-2015 21:33 via
  
  Fiona Cullum (pictured) provided a safe haven for Hassan Hussain as he and fellow murderer Yassin James were hunted by police for gunning down Sabrina Moss in a London street.
  
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• The Chagossians: The Indian Ocean islanders exiled from their home and struggling to make ends meet in Britain

  10-04-2015 21:33
  For Bernard Nourrice and his wife, Willie, their life is contained in a bedsit above a garage in West Norwood, in south London. It feels a long way from an Indian Ocean island paradise. “We have no sitting facilities; nowhere to relax, apart from the bed,” says Bernard.
  
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• House sellers won't admit market has cooled and over-value properties by £74,000 

  10-04-2015 21:31 via
  
  Britons selling their properties do not admit the market has cooled and mistakenly believe they are sitting on goldmines, analysis shows. Forecasts suggest prices will hardly grow this year.
  
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• Chief constable Sue Sim retires on full pension following bullying probe

  10-04-2015 21:27 via
  
  Northumbria Police chief constable Sue Sim - currently facing a bullying probe for her alleged Alex Ferguson-style hair dryer treatment of colleagues - is to retire with full pension after 30 years of service.
  
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• Hatton Garden jewellery burglary: The extraordinary underworld of London’s jewellery quarter

  10-04-2015 21:21
  
  There is a complex and hidden geography to the jewellery quarter of Hatton Garden, unknown even to those who have been working there for decades, that is sure to receive more attention since it became the scene of the biggest heist recorded in British history.
  
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• Hatton Garden jewellery burglary: Extraordinary underworld of London's jewellery quarter

  10-04-2015 21:21
  
  There is a complex and hidden geography to the jewellery quarter of Hatton Garden, unknown even to those who have been working there for decades, that is sure to receive more attention since it became the scene of the biggest heist recorded in British history.
  
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• NYPD cop Ian Cyrus suspended for 'stealing during police raid'

  10-04-2015 21:19 via
  
  The manager of the deli in Brooklyn said Detective Ian Cyrus, who has been suspended without pay, was caught on camera stealing cash. His supervisor has been placed on desk duty.
  
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• Britain's oldest paedophile who described himself as a 'filthy devil' JAILED – at the age of 96

  10-04-2015 21:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gaston Pinsard has been named the most elderly prisoner in the UK after her admitted sex abuse
  
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• Hero pilot prevents disaster after lightning bolt causes plane to nosedive over Scotland

  10-04-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The drama occurred in skies over Scotland as the plane plunged to just 1,100 feet
  
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• Aintree Ladies Day 2015 Recap: Gossip, fashion pictures and style verdicts

  10-04-2015 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dresses, hats, horses and fun are the order of the day today as thousands of women make their way to the Aintree ahead of the Grand National
  
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• Raffaele Sollecito shopping for lingerie ahead of compensation payout 

  10-04-2015 21:14 via
  
  The 31-year-old was spotted out and about with a blonde companion this week looking through the lingerie section of a shop in Rome, Italy.
  
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• Pakistan frees Mumbai attacks 'mastermind,' angering India

  10-04-2015 21:13 via
  
  Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was allowed to leave Adiala Prison in Rawalpindi late on Thursday. His release was slammed with Indians calling it an 'insult' to the victims of the brutal attack.
  
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