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• Socialist Labour leader Arthur Scargill pledges to reopen pits and nationalise steelworks to end austerity

  23-04-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former NUM boss announced his party would also close down private schools and pull Britain out of the European Union
  
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• Hairdresser who bit another woman's ear off over homewrecker comment jailed

  23-04-2015 23:44 via
  
  Victim Shelley Williams accused Kate Temple (pictured), of Seaham, County Durham, of having an affair with her partner. Temple bit off part of Miss Williams' ear after getting into a scuffle with her.
  
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• Retired General describes UK's Isil strategy as 'dribbling'

  23-04-2015 23:42 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The former head of Britain's armed forces has described the nation's anti-Isil strategy as 'dribbling' instead of 'clouting'
  
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• Pictured: Model poses with bear for anti-hunting campaign

  23-04-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Photographer Olga Barantseva, who took the snaps, said that he wanted 'to show the natural harmony between humans and bears' in the photos
  
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• Model poses with bear for anti-hunting campaign - so why is she wearing a fur coat?

  23-04-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Photographer Olga Barantseva, who took the snaps, said that he wanted 'to show the natural harmony between humans and bears' in the photos
  
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• Teenager cancer survivors have photos of bald heads reported on Facebook as 'offensive'

  23-04-2015 23:41
  
  TWO teenage cancer survivors who bravely published photographs of their bald heads and scars after life-saving treatment have had their pictures REPORTED as being OFFENSIVE on Facebook.
  
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• David Cameron in humiliating U-turn as he deploys Royal Navy flagship to save drowning migrants

  23-04-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  HMS Bulwark will be sent to the North African coast “within days” together with two border control boats and three Merlin helicopters
  
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• ALERT: Paedophile with 'obsession' for girls vanishes from psychiatric unit

  23-04-2015 23:37
  
  A HUGE police manhunt has been launched for a convicted paedophile with a “fanatical obsession” for young girls after he vanished from a psychiatric unit.
  
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• Nigel Farage 'excited' as survey gives him South Thanet lead

  23-04-2015 23:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A telephone poll has put the Ukip leader ahead of his Tory rival Craig Mackinlay
  
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• Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman is sacked for 'corrupt practices'

  23-04-2015 23:31 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Police are facing criticism for failing to investigate allegations of widespread election fraud as the judge who sacked Britain's first Muslim mayor warned of 'postal voting factories'
  
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• Ex-CIA chief David Petraeus sentenced to 2 years' probation and a £100k fine for sharing classified information with his mistress

  23-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The high-ranking military chief who resigned after affair with his biographer came to light has apologised 'for the pain my actions have caused'
  
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• Ronan Keating confronts The Charlatans after Mark Collins yells 'you're s***' during live gig

  23-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Boyzone star was performing at a private party for music bigwigs when the indie band’s guitarist loudly heckled the Irishman
  
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• Lord Greville Janner child sex abuse file 'lost' by Home Office

  23-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders – who ruled Labour peer Janner will not face trial because he has Alzheimer’s – denied having any role in it
  
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• Teddy's story: Wales to become first country to have opt out for organ donation

  23-04-2015 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The new system, known as soft opt-out, changes the emphasis of donation completely so that unless you formally opt out it will be assumed you consent
  
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• Sea turtle photobombs group in the Philippines at just the right moment

  23-04-2015 23:25 via
  
  Tourist Diovani de Jesus was joined in his group photo in the sea by an unexpected addition after a green sea turtle popped up and stole the show.
  
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• In pictures: Police car smashes into lamppost and FLIPS onto its side, shutting off road

  23-04-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An eyewitness said that 'the windscreen is in pieces and the car’s in a bad way - it’s a write-off'
  
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• Russia flexes military muscle by rehearsing huge parade to mark 70th anniversary of VE Day

  23-04-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It has five times Britain's military personnel, and it's not shy about showing off. These images of Russian soldiers have a strange beauty
  
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• Teddy's story: Let his legacy be a nation of organ donors as part of Daily Mirror campaign

  23-04-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Backed by brave Jess Evans and Mike Houlston, parents of Britain’s youngest organ donor, we aim to boost both awareness and the numbers signed up
  
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• Open letter to Ed Miliband, Leader of the Labour party, from Lord Jones of Birmingham

  23-04-2015 23:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lord Jones of Birmingham, who was a minister from 2007 to 2008 in Gordon Brown's Government, has launched a blistering attack on Labour leader Ed Miliband in an open letter, published here by the Telegraph
  
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• Ed Miliband must stop sneering at Britain's wealth creators, says former Labour minister

  23-04-2015 23:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Election 2015: In an open letter, former trade minister Lord Jones of Birmingham accuses the Labour leader of being "ignorant at worst and disinterested at best" about the effects of higher taxes
  
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• Hatton Garden heist on Crimewatch: £20,000 reward for thieves who stole millions of pounds of gems

  23-04-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers told how they are still trying to trace six victims of the Easter weekend raid
  
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• New CCTV of bus stop rapist released

  23-04-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New CCTV footage of a man wanted for the rape and attempted murder of a woman in Leeds is released in a fresh appeal.
  
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• Autistic man beaten by thugs walking home after buying chocolate in Truro

  23-04-2015 23:01 via
  
  Gareth Blanks, pictured, was targeted by the group of three men and a woman because he suffers from autism according to his family. The 31-year-old from Truro in Cornwall was repeatedly punched and kicked.
  
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• Photographers banned from Downing Street back entrance

  23-04-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  News photographers have been told they will be moved on by police if they take pictures.
  
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• Jesus would pay a living wage and so should the government, says Archbishop of York

  23-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu explains why workers should be paid enough for a decent standard of living
  
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• Meet London Marathon's Ever Presents who have taken part in EVERY race for 34 years

  23-04-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One did it on crutches just after a stroke left him paralysed but for 34 years nothing could stop them doing the London Marathon
  
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• Hatton Garden heist reward offered

  23-04-2015 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A £20,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gang responsible for the Hatton Garden heist.
  
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• Traumatised gran, 95, tells of horror after being mugged by thug at bus stop

  23-04-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  She was pushed to the ground by the cowardly crook after being asked if she could give them 50p for travel fare
  
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• Universities come under fire for experimenting on lab monkeys

  23-04-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Protesters are calling for an end to primate tests including some 'where death is the end point'
  
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• Nasdaq closes at record high

  23-04-2015 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tech-heavy Nasdaq index closes at a record high, surpassing a level it last reached in 2000 at the height of the dot com bubble.
  
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• Sale of Lake District's Stickle Tarn could be called off

  23-04-2015 22:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The sale of Stickle Tarn in the Lake District could be called off after it was listed as an Asset of Community Value
  
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• Hatton Garden heist on Crimewatch: First picture of drill used in multi-million pound break-in

  23-04-2015 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police are appealing directly to the criminal community to help them track down the thieves
  
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• Mayweather-Pacquiao fight sells out

  23-04-2015 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao's fight sells out in minutes and tickets immediately appear on websites for £47,000.
  
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• Salford schoolboy with rare illness is subjected to racist abuse over brown suncream

  23-04-2015 22:34 via
  
  James Creag, from Salford, is so sick of being taunted that he has stopped putting on the special cream - meaning that it is not safe for him to go outside.
  
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• Identical twin tells of heartbreak as brother dies in high-speed crash

  23-04-2015 22:33 via
  
  Benjamin Townsend said he had lost his 'best friend' after his identical twin Charlie was killed when the car he was travelling in veered off the road and collided with a tree near Newbury, Berkshire.
  
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• Northampton sinkhole causes traffic chaos in town centre

  23-04-2015 22:29 via
  
  Witnesses described a scene like 'something from a disaster movie' as the gaping chasm opened in the street in Northampton at about 2pm - just hours after part of a London pavement collapsed.
  
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• Detectives offer £20,000 Hatton Garden raid award

  23-04-2015 22:26 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Police have offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of all those involved in the Hatton Garden raid
  
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• Petraeus fined over military leak

  23-04-2015 22:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Petraeus, a retired US four-star general and former CIA director, is put on probation and fined for leaking classified materials to his mistress.
  
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• 'Help... help me': Watch the hilarious moment a baby PUKES in unsuspecting big brother's mouth

  23-04-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This big brother got more than he bargained for while playing with his baby sibling
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon's SNP could do Labour up like a kipper at the General Election

  23-04-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  She is rapidly becoming the Tories’ recruiting sergeant... this Sturgeon-Cameron double act isn’t just silly vaudeville. It’s perilous
  
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• Claudia Lawrence murder suspects released on bail as detective continue York search

  23-04-2015 22:21 via
  
  The men, who are in their 50s,were arrested near the chef's home in York. They were questioned over night while police searched their homes before being released earlier today on police bail.
  
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• Amazon reports a quarterly loss

  23-04-2015 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amazon reports a loss of $57m in the first quarter and also said its web services business generated sales of $1.57bn.
  
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• Two killed in Wrexham collision

  23-04-2015 22:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two people die after a collision between a car and a coach in Wrexham, North Wales Police says.
  
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• Neighbours tried to save fire victim

  23-04-2015 22:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Neighbours tried "valiantly" but could not save an elderly woman from a house fire in Belfast, a chief fire officer says.
  
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• EU triples migrant rescue funding

  23-04-2015 22:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  European leaders are to triple funding for search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean following crisis talks in Brussels.
  
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• VICTORY! WW2 hero threatened with being put into care can now STAY in his own home

  23-04-2015 22:11
  
  A WAR hero threatened with being forced into care has been told he can stay in his own home.
  
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• Watch police break into booby-trapped cannabis farm protected by live electric current running through metal plate

  23-04-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  West Midlands Police found a cannabis farm inside the house, which had a dangerous device lying in wait for anyone who crossed the threshold
  
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• Adams pulls out after home burgled

  23-04-2015 22:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nicola Adams withdraws from this weekend's England Boxing Elite National Championships after her house was burgled.
  
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• General Election 2015: Northern Ireland party to show pro-marijuana broadcast

  23-04-2015 22:08
  
  A party political broadcast outlining the benefits of cannabis use is set to be screened on 23 April.
  
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• General election issues dominate FMQs

  23-04-2015 22:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Think tank analysis of party manifestos dominate early exchanges at Holyrood's First Minister's Questions as campaigning for the election continues.
  
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