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• Driver has lucky escape as car left on its roof after swerving to avoid a DUCK

  20-04-2015 23:56
  
  WHAT lengths would you go to in order to avoid hitting an animal in the path of your oncoming vehicle?
  
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• General Election 2015: Tory candidates' election tweets not as 'spontaneous' as they appear

  20-04-2015 23:55
  
  Tory MPs and ministers are getting daily instructions on what to tweet to their followers – but are being told to make them look “spontaneous”.
  
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• Inspector Morse Oxford Randolph Hotel fire 'started by flambéed beef stroganoff'

  20-04-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pictures showed the building ablaze with smoke billowing across the city but amazingly just 5 per cent of the hotel was damaged
  
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• Moving at a snail's pace! Lazy frog hitches ride on slow-moving mollusc

  20-04-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This hilarious photo shows a lethargic Japanese tree frog hopping straight onto the back of the snail in West Borneo, Indonesia
  
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• Arsenal fan who jumped barrier for protest shrug at Wenger is banned from games for three years

  20-04-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Father-of-two Luke Bryant says he was frustrated with club’s performance against Southampton but claims his action was 'five minutes of madness'
  
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• Inspirational Facebook video of six-year-old boy taking his morning dose of pills to treat cystic fibrosis goes viral

  20-04-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video has been viewed a stunning 500,000 times after his story touched the hearts of social media users from around the world
  
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• Migrant drownings: Child yards from promised land lifted lifeless from sea in latest heartbreaking Mediterranean tragedy

  20-04-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vincenzo Bonomo, captain of a fishing boat that came to the migrants' aid near Rhodes, said: “It was a sight that broke the hearts of even men of the sea like us”
  
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• Bobbi Kristina "will have a long life", doctors tell Bobby Brown but quality of it remains unknown

  20-04-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 22-year-old has been in a coma since January, but is showing significant signs of improvement
  
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• Neil Moore: Con artist jailed for escaping from prison by sending staff a fake email

  20-04-2015 23:39
  
  A con artist has been jailed after he made an “ingenious” escape from prison by sending staff a fake email saying he had been granted bail.
  
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• Driver fined £50 by Torbay for not displaying tax disc after law change

  20-04-2015 23:36 via
  
  Phil Haste, 60, of Torquay, was shocked to receive a £50 fine for failing to display his tax disc - despite it not becoming a legal requirement six months ago.
  
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• David Cameron to use scaremongering tactics to combat threat of Labour-SNP coalition

  20-04-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Tory source told the BBC “big hitters will be deployed” while the PM said such an alliance would be a “match made in hell” for Britain
  
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• Ed Miliband blasts claim SNP could call shots at Westminster saying: 'That ain't gonna happen'

  20-04-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader rebuffed the accusation after a poll found 59% of voters don't want the nationalists playing a part in the next government
  
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• New Lord Greville Janner 'child abuse' victims come forward since no charge revelations

  20-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It comes after the decision to not prosecute the ex-Labour MP due to his poor health was branded “a disgrace” by one alleged victim
  
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• James Bond's Daniel Craig earns £3.3MILLION for just holding a mobile phone

  20-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Leaked Sony Pictures emails show he got the fee from the firm’s electronics division for using their Xperia mobile in Skyfall
  
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• 'Calculating' rapist who prowled streets before raping woman in graveyard is jailed for life

  20-04-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police say Mahmoud Al-Khouladi deliberately prowled the area looking for a victim
  
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• Katie Hopkins and The Sun editor 'reported' to police for ‘inciting racial hatred’

  20-04-2015 23:21
  
  KATIE Hopkins and the editor of The Sun have been reported to the police for inciting racial hatred, it has been claimed today.
  
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• Royal Navy sailors accused of 'disturbing' sex attack in Canada forced to surrender their passports

  20-04-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Craig Stoner, 24, Darren Smalley, 35, Joshua Finbow 23, and Simon Radford, 31, are accused of attacking a civilian woman during an ice hockey tour
  
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• Doritos unleash hottest snack ever in UK - 10 times more fiery than a jalapeño pepper

  20-04-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  With the randomised bags featuring intensely hot flavours, the snack manufacturer wars: "Have a glass of milk at the ready"
  
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• Pictured: Horrific facial wounds suffered by pretty girl, 21, in bottle attack

  20-04-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chloe Knapton is back at home recovering after the shocking attack no her as she drove her car
  
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• Pictured: Horrific facial wounds suffered by girl, 21, in bottle attack

  20-04-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chloe Knapton is back at home recovering after the shocking attack on her as she drove her car
  
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• General Election 2015: Ed Miliband to reveal Labour's 'NHS Rescue Plan'

  20-04-2015 23:06
  
  An “NHS rescue plan” would be implemented in the first 100 days of a Labour government, Ed Miliband will announce.
  
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• Too many vitamins can give you CANCER, major new study warns the millions who take them

  20-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Around 18 million Brits down supplements thinking they are getting a health boost, but research has found they can have the opposite effect
  
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• Labour Party makes £300m General Election pledge to end Britain’s ‘pothole crisis’

  20-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Transport Secretary Michael Dugher says the money will fix six million potholes and offers an extra £89 million to boost cycling and walking
  
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• Ed Miliband's 100-day NHS rescue plan will recruit an extra 1,000 nurses

  20-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader will warn that without urgent action the health service will “slide into crisis"
  
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• Another Tory government will lead to a mental health services crisis, warn top health staff

  20-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a letter to the Daily Mirror more than 100 mental health workers say the Coalition have conducted a “sustained and vicious” attack on frontline services
  
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• Hillsborough inquest: Cop Terry Wain denies wanting to blame tragedy on 'drunken' fans

  20-04-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-chief superintendent Terry Wain calls former colleague Clive Davis an “idiot” and complained his reputation had been destroyed by false evidence at the hearing
  
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• Jail for drug dealing gangster who has never worked in his life but lived in £800k mansion

  20-04-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Doyle plotted to flood the north west with heroin, cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines after struggling to keep up the payments on his mortgage
  
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• Royal Navy sailors accused of gang raping woman in Canada are released on bail

  20-04-2015 22:53 via
  
  Joshua Finbow, 23, Craig Stoner, 24, Simon Radford, 31, and Darren Smalley, 35, attempted to cover their faces in hooded sweatshirts as they were led to court in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
  
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• A man bought a Tesco creamy chicken bake but he would not have expected this to be inside

  20-04-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jamie Ferguson was stunned after biting into his lunch and finding there was nothing at all inside
  
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• 'I found a UFO': Alien craft hunter spots mysterious disc-shaped object in 55-year-old NASA photograph

  20-04-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blogger found the image which was taken during NASA's early days of space exploration
  
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• Wildfire warning: British countryside could EXPLODE into FIREBALLS in hot temperatures

  20-04-2015 22:46
  
  AREAS across Britain are at risk of exploding into raging infernos due to the combination of hot and dry weather.
  
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• Ex-soldier blinded in one eye after yob hurled brick into home in Oldham

  20-04-2015 22:37 via
  
  John Young, 66, has been left blinded in one eye after thugs through a brick 'directly' at him when he confronted them about throwing stones at his property in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
  
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• Deborah Steel: Cold case cops dig up patio of former landlady's pub 17 years after she disappeared

  20-04-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 37-year-old's body has never been found.  A 73-year-old man arrested as part of the inquiry is currently on police bail
  
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• General Election 2015: Ed Miliband accused of waging class warfare by Cobra Beer entrepreneur

  20-04-2015 22:36
  
  Ed Miliband is resurrecting a society of class warfare by stirring up hostility to businesses and "blowing issues like zero-hours contracts out of proportion", one of Britain’s leading entrepreneurs has warned.
  
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• 'You have a voice' campaign reaches out for young people to register to vote

  20-04-2015 22:32 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  On the eve of the General Election, "you have a voice" tells young people to vote
  
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• Border farce as passengers on late flight allowed to walk through UK passport control unchecked

  20-04-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stunned holidaymakers on board a delayed Ryanair flight from Madrid to Manchester simply strolled past the empty security cubicles without showing their documents
  
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• Boris Johnson handed unfortunate spelling of his own name on the campaign trail

  20-04-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mayor of London told staff at a signage firm in his target seat: "I think it’s better like that. I think I might change it"
  
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• General Election 2015: ‘Red Ed’ pays price for standing up to media barons

  20-04-2015 22:26
  “Ed’s pledges already  unravelling”… “Devious Ed’s not worth Tory panic”… “Red Ed would  put millions back on dole, warns angry Cameron”...
  
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• The naked eye: Amazing photos of nude models painted into the backgrounds of nature scenes

  20-04-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  German artist Joerg Duesterwald has been using the naked human body as a canvas for his work for 20 years
  
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• 'Ghost' train station closed a century ago FOUND by construction workers

  20-04-2015 22:24
  
  THE ghostly remains of a station which has been closed to the public for 100 years has been uncovered by construction workers.
  
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• San Martino couple fined £9,000 for noisy sex which forced neighbours out

  20-04-2015 22:21 via
  
  The noisy couple, who are in their 30s, have been ordered to pay £9,000 after being convicted of noise pollution and harassment for the 'deafening' screams during sex sessions at their home in San Martino, Italy.
  
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• Tabasco sauce and cake rain from the sky after helicopter accidentally drops cargo 100m from M4

  20-04-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blunder came during a NATO-backed 'war game' exercise carried out over UK skies
  
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• Two Brits dead as plane crashes into golf course in the Dominican Republic

  20-04-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The plane was trying to make an emergency landing when it struck the ground and burst into flames
  
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• Sheriff Mbye: Two charged with murder after teenager is stabbed to death outside KFC

  20-04-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rakeem Riley, 18, of no fixed address, and Omar Robinson, 21, have been charged with murder and will appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court
  
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• Jay Hart: Internet trolls target the young sister of the striker sacked for having sex in the dugout

  20-04-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Semi-professional striker Jason Hart became a Twitter sensation after he was caught on camera romping with a mystery fan following his team’s defeat
  
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• Rupert Murdoch berated Sun journalists for not doing enough to attack Ed Miliband and stop him getting to No 10

  20-04-2015 21:40
  
  Rupert Murdoch berated journalists on his tabloid papers for not doing enough to stop Labour winning the general election and warned them that the future of the company depended on stopping Ed Miliband entering No 10.
  
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• Rupert Murdoch berated Sun journalists for not doing enough to attack Ed Miliband

  20-04-2015 21:40
  
  Rupert Murdoch berated journalists on his tabloid papers for not doing enough to stop Labour winning the general election and warned them that the future of the company depended on stopping Ed Miliband entering No 10.
  
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• Thief who killed shopkeeper for trying to stop van theft is jailed

  20-04-2015 21:38 via
  
  Father of one Prasanna Arulchelvam (pictured) died in hospital 11 days after the attack in a Costco car park in Watford. Today the man who pushed him out of the van was jailed for 11 years.
  
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• Facebook's toughest interview questions revealed - can you answer them?

  20-04-2015 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From chucking lightbulbs off the Empire State Building to finding a needle in a haystack, it's all in a day's work for wannabe Facebook staff
  
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• General Election 2015: Senior Conservative peer warns party against bashing the SNP

  20-04-2015 21:29
  
  The future of the UK is under threat due to a “short-term and dangerous” game being played by top Conservatives who are building up the SNP to damage Labour in Scotland, the senior Tory peer Lord Forsyth has said.
  
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