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• Woman booted off flight for jabbing snoring passenger with pen

  16-04-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The snoozy man nodded off before the flight even took off and complained when the woman poked him with the pen
  
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• BBC Election Debate 2015: RECAP after 5 election candidates battled it out in the challengers TV debate

  16-04-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour leader Ed Miliband battled it out live with Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, UKIP's Nigel Farage, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood during tonight's leadership debate
  
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• X marks the spot... for Da Pinchi Code thieves: Police release list of symbols burglars daub on walls to help identify easy targets 

  16-04-2015 23:52 via
  
  The marks, highlighted by Lanarkshire Police, give potential housebreakers details about the building, such as whether it is a good target or has an alarm.
  
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• Son's Facebook post of his elderly mother's 'disgusting' meal at sheltered housing goes viral

  16-04-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve Ashton, from Newport, posted the picture on Facebook to complain about the quality of meal served to mum Joan
  
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• Karen Buckley: Well-wishers donate £50,000 to grieving parents after nurse found deadin field outside Glasgow

  16-04-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fundraiser had set a target of £5,000 to support the Buckley family with the costs of travelling and staying in Glasgow and the upkeep of their farm in Cork while police searched for Karen
  
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• Karen Buckley: Well-wishers donate £50,000 to grieving parents after nurse found dead in field outside Glasgow

  16-04-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fundraiser had set a target of £5,000 to support the Buckley family with the costs of travelling and staying in Glasgow and the upkeep of their farm in Cork while police searched for Karen
  
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• Fury as Lord Greville Janner won't face charges over alleged child sex abuse

  16-04-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 86-year-old is said to be suffering from such severe dementia he is not fit to stand trial
  
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• Alleged sex abuse victims' fury as Lord Greville Janner won't face charges

  16-04-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 86-year-old is said to be suffering from such severe dementia he is not fit to stand trial
  
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• Nigel Farage left hanging as leaders flock to Ed Miliband at the end of the BBC election debate

  16-04-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Only Nicola Sturgeon offered Farage a pity shake after the "challengers" debate
  
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• Who won tonight's leaders debate according to the data?

  16-04-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Survation poll on behalf of the Daily Mirror found the audience preferred Ed Miliband over other opposition leaders in tonight's debate on the BBC
  
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• Who won BBC leaders debate according to the data?

  16-04-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Survation poll on behalf of the Daily Mirror found the audience preferred Ed Miliband over other opposition leaders in tonight's debate on the BBC
  
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• Art collector has handbag snatched with £4M in jewellery inside during Paris tunnel robbery

  16-04-2015 23:47 via
  
  The German woman, who has not been named, was in a taxi which was stuck in traffic in Landy Tunnel, Paris, shortly after arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Billions of giant jellyfish appearing off the British coastline

  16-04-2015 23:45 via
  
  Higher sea temperatures have attracted billions of giant barrel jellyfish to the coastal waters off Devon and Cornwall. The species, which can grow to six feet, have been spotted by fishermen and cruises.
  
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• Challengers TV election debate: Five things we learnt

  16-04-2015 23:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Tory warnings of Labour-SNP negotiations come true; Nicola Sturgeon may be Britain's best political performer; Nigel Farage is becoming a bit-part player
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon verdict: How did the SNP leader perform in the BBC election debate?

  16-04-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nicola Sturgeon did well in early debates - here's how she fared in the BBC's 'challengers' debate
  
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• Poldark Ponies saved from death are named after characters in the hit TV series

  16-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The family of ponies was found on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall - the same area where the popular BBC drama is filmed
  
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• 'My wife was beating cancer then a bug from a filthy hospital tap killed her'

  16-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Heartbroken Rene Dee says battler Eileen died just five days after contracting lethal infection at Royal Sussex County Hospital
  
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• Coronation Street used my real life teen mum story after I got pregnant at 12 and kept it secret

  16-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alleshia Gregson knows exactly how Corrie's Faye Windass feels after she gave birth to her first baby aged just 13
  
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• Crooked banker jailed for plundering £450,000 from Halifax customer accounts - including one belonging to dead friend

  16-04-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Greedy Aseeb Younis, 25, stole cash and then spent it on shopping spree with other criminals
  
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• Conservatives are too right wing to win the election says Tory heavyweight Ken Clarke

  16-04-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tory veteran has launched a withering attack on David Cameron's election campaign and described voter bribes as "silly"
  
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• Ed Miliband verdict: How did the Labour leader perform in the BBC election debate?

  16-04-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ed Miliband was 'Prime Ministerial' in the BBC's 'challengers' debate - here's how our panel rated him
  
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• BBC Election Debate 2015: Absent David Cameron biggest loser as Ed Miliband rules TV showdown

  16-04-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour leader Miliband gave a fiery performance while the gutless Tory PM took a kicking from all sides for his decision to duck out
  
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• Where is David Cameron? Here's why he wasn't included in tonight's BBC election debate

  16-04-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Cameron and Nick Clegg weren't involved in tonight's "challengers" debate - here's why
  
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• Zbigniew Huminski: Violent immigrant who 'strangled nine-year-old girl to death after sexually assaulting her' was coming to UK

  16-04-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim was abducted while out playing in the street close to her home on her way back from school
  
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• Daisy the drowning Westie saved by owner in Caernarfon with kiss of life

  16-04-2015 23:14 via
  
  Dave Rickard and his wife Brenda feared they had lost Daisy when she disappeared beneath the waves after plunging 10ft from a quay and into the sea in Caernarfon, North Wales.
  
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• i Editor's Letter: iDebate heads for booming Bournemouth to contest the motion - Political chaos on 8 May would be good for British democracy

  16-04-2015 23:10
  We’re coming to Bournemouth a week on Tuesday, for our next iDebate. Our panelists will contest the motion, “Political chaos on 8 May would be good for British democracy.” If you haven’t been to one of our iDebates – and we’ve so far staged them in Cardiff, Manchester, Edinburgh and Leeds – the debating teams slug it out, the audience gets to challenge them, and afterwards we lay on free drinks for the crowd. This iDebate is staged for students (university or college), who seem to
  
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• Lorenzo Simon is jailed for 19 years over Michael Spalding's suitcase murder

  16-04-2015 23:09 via
  
  Lorenzo Simon, 34, of Smethwick, West Midlands, and his girlfriend Michelle Bird used their friend Michael Spalding for slave labour before Simon killed him and dismembered his body.
  
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• Pictured: Tiny 5ft wide London house sells for whopping £750k

  16-04-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The cosy dwelling is squeezed between two other properties in Islington, north London
  
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• Disabled pensioner Alan Barnes gets the keys to his new home

  16-04-2015 23:03 via
  
  Alan Barnes, 67, who suffered a broken collar bone when he was attacked outside his old Gateshead home, said he felt 'fantastic' after finally getting the keys to his new two-bedroom home.
  
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• Muslim women should be allowed to wear the veil in court, top judge suggests

  16-04-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lord Neuberger, the President of the Supreme Court, says that judges should show respect toward different cultures
  
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• Bradford City stadium fire: Former chairman's son vows to clear father's name of tragic blaze blame

  16-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Simon Heginbotham is staggered by suggestions his late dad Stafford may have deliberately started the Valley Parade fire which killed 56 people in 1985
  
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• Nigel Farage gets the national debt wrong AGAIN in the live BBC election debate

  16-04-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  For the second time, the leader of UKIP has mislead the public on Britain's public sector debt
  
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• Pole who raped and killed 9-year-old girl in Calais was 'on his way to UK'

  16-04-2015 22:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Immigrant Zbigniew Huminski, 38, confessed to strangling his nine-year-old victim after luring her away from friends
  
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• Becky Watts's mother tells of fear of seeing Nathan Matthews mother

  16-04-2015 22:58 via
  
  Tania Watts is dreading seeing Anje Galsworthy, who was stepmother to Becky (pictured) and whose son Nathan Matthews is accused ofmurdering the teenager in Bristol in February.
  
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• Naomi Jacobs: Amnesiac, 32, woke up thinking she was 15 - and her son was a complete stranger

  16-04-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Imagine not knowing your children, thinking John Major was PM and being utterly bewildered by commonplace items like mobile phones, tablets and DVDs and even your own home?
  
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• Mother of pupil who told Labour's Tristram Hunt he backed Ukip says she's embarrassed

  16-04-2015 22:55 via
  
  Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, had asked the year six pupil from Derby who he would vote for in next month's election if he was allowed take part.
  
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• Ed Miliband challenges David Cameron to face him in a one-on-one showdown

  16-04-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ed Miliband challenged David Cameron to face him in a one-on-one showdown
  
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• Funniest Twitter reactions to the live election debates

  16-04-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In case you missed tonight's leaders debate, here's what went down
  
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• Watch terrifying 'ghost' manifest in front of restaurant's CCTV camera

  16-04-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marcus Levin, who owns Get Baked in Leeds, spotted the spooky sight as he checked CCTV footage from the early hours of the morning
  
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• Bizarre weather sees worms fall from the sky in Norway

  16-04-2015 22:48 via
  
  A biology teacher discovered the worms (pictured) on the surface of the snow while she was skiing in the mountains near Bergen, Norway at the weekend.
  
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• BBC Election Debate 2015: Ed Miliband looked positively Prime Ministerial after David Cameron no-show

  16-04-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire said the Labour leader's four rivals frequently asked him questions, singling him out as top dog
  
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• BBC debate sketch: Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon... a romance for our times

  16-04-2015 22:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Labour leader comes under pressure in the Election 2015 Challengers' Debate, as he faces Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage, Natalie Bennett and Leanne Wood
  
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• David Cameron left red-faced as voters WALK OUT of a Tory election campaign event

  16-04-2015 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister hoped to win over mobile phone workers with a town hall-style question-and-answer session
  
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• 'Murder victim' found in cardboard box is mummy stolen from Peru archaeological dig

  16-04-2015 22:38 via
  
  The remains of a 900-year-old mummy were found in a cardboard box which had been left next to an archaeological dig site in Peru. A man who found it feared, the rope-bound body had been murdered.
  
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• Judge jails four Wentworth Croft Care Home assistants

  16-04-2015 22:35 via
  
  Nicole Howley, Chloe Pearsall, Joanne Fisher and Barbara Holcroft were jailed for the 'systematic abuse' they committed at Wentworth Croft Care Home in Bretton, Cambridgeshire in 2013.
  
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• Angry Natalie Bennett loses her temper with Ed Miliband as BBC debate descends into shouting match

  16-04-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Greens showed their claws as emotions ran high over the NHS
  
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• Multiple sclerosis sufferers could be saved from blindness with new drug treatment

  16-04-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Doctors have discovered that the drug can reduce optic nerve damage in people with MS
  
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• Labour moves two points clear of the Conservatives

  16-04-2015 22:28 via
  
  Mr Miliband's party has jumped to 35 per cent, up one point from last month. The Tories meanwhile remain stuck on 33 per cent, according to the pollsters Ipsos MORI.
  
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• Ex Scotland Yard cop claims he had to release men who were 'part of MP Cyril Smith's paedophile ring'

  16-04-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unnamed policeman told of his frustration at being forced to let the men go under on the orders of a senior officer
  
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• Nick Clegg goes to pub instead of attending live election debates

  16-04-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nick Clegg and David Cameron were not present at tonights live election debates
  
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