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• Nepal earthquake: 120 Britons fly home amid fears of second Brit death

  29-04-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  They were due to arrive back at Stansted airport in the early hours of Thursday morning on a plane which had flown to Nepal to deliver aid
  
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• Student 'in hiding' after father threatens to kill her because of 'Westernised behaviour'

  29-04-2015 23:52
  
  A frightened student is at a “confidential address” after her father threatened to kill her because of her “Westernised behaviour”, a family court judge has been told.
  
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• Samantha Cameron's feet a hot topic as Leaders' wives go out on the campaign trail

  29-04-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The wives of Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband went out on the campaign trail but it was Samantha Cameron's toe's that got Twitter chattering 
  
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• Snorting one line of cocaine could change your brain PERMANENTLY

  29-04-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hoovering up just one lone dose of the white powder was found to change a molecular mechanism in the brain
  
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• James Holmes trial: Policeman searched through dead bodies fearing son was at Batman cinema screening

  29-04-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sargeant Gerald Jonsgaard broke down as he recalled discovering the body of a six-year-old boy at the scene of the massacre
  
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• International dark web drug traffickers who specialised in 'party packs' are jailed

  29-04-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When investigators arrested the men in August 2013, they seized almost 40 orders, containing 15 different Class A and B drugs, awaiting dispatch to customers in the US, Russia, Sweden, Ireland Greece, Israel as well as within the UK
  
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• Royal baby news: Cocaine found in Kate Middleton's hospital toilet at St Mary’s

  29-04-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Health chiefs have launched an investigation as the Royal Family - and the rest of the world - awaits Kate’s second baby, thought to be a week overdue
  
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• Robert Downey Jr calls Krishnan Guru-Murthy a 'syphilitic parasite' after storming out of C4 News interview

  29-04-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Hollywood superstar had laid into the British journalist and claimed he had 'a creepy dark agenda'
  
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• Andrey Eshchenko: Footballer ploughs into pole after hitting 105mph in sports car

  29-04-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Russian national team defender Andrey Eshchenko, 31, was driving his Nissan GT-R in the centre of the city of Krasnodar in south-western Russia, when he suddenly drove lanes and hit the concrete base of a streetlight
  
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• Schoolgirl arrested after pupil cut in face with knife

  29-04-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The girl, 15, a pupil at Bedwas High School near Caerphilly, is in custody after being arrested on suspicion of assault
  
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• Nepal earthquake: Man pulled from rubble drank his own urine to survive for four days

  29-04-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror spent 24 hours with the first UK search and rescue team at work as they began inching through the devastated Sindhupalchowk region
  
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• Sex abuse inquiry will review allegations against Lord Janner

  29-04-2015 23:15
  
  AN official child sex abuse inquiry will carry out an “exhaustive and critical” investigation into claims against alleged paedophile peer Greville Janner.
  
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• House prices hit record high: Average property value soars to £193k

  29-04-2015 23:06
  
  HOUSE prices have hit a record high this month with the property market set for another bumper summer.
  
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• General Election 2015: Labour claim a Tory government would extend VAT and cut tax credits despite Cameron's Five Year Lock pledge

  29-04-2015 23:03
  Labour has claimed the Conservatives would extend VAT to food, children’s clothes and rents despite David Cameron’s cast iron pledge not to increase the tax.
  
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• Clandon Park fire: Valuable historical artefacts destroyed after blaze guts 18th Century mansion

  29-04-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dozens of firefighters battled the blaze, which is believed to have started in the basement of Clandon House before spreading to the roof
  
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• General Election 2015: Tory promise not to raise taxes was a foolish move

  29-04-2015 23:01
  
  If people don’t think a brand of washing powder will get their clothes white, stamping the word “guaranteed” over the slogan “washes whiter” is unlikely to persuade them. Thus, David Cameron’s promise of a law against tax rises is not just evidence of Conservative desperation but of his failure to understand psychology. If the voters fear a Conservative government would put their taxes up, promising to pass a law is hardly going to reassure them.
  
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• Diesel cars could be banished as Britain ordered to cut air pollution

  29-04-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Transport experts have predicted that diesel cars will be phased out as part of government plans to cut air pollution
  
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• Amy Winehouse fiance Reg Traviss furious after being CUT from 'misleading' biopic of her life

  29-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Film director Reg, 38, spent hours being interviewed for the documentary and said he is "concerned about the way Amy is portrayed"
  
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• General Election 2015: 'Slippery snake-oil' Tories' secret plan to slash child benefit and tax credits

  29-04-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts also lined up to savage the Conservatives' planned five-year tax lock as a desperate “gimmick” that could unleash economic disaster
  
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• Check it out: Morrisons bring back staffed tills as customers avoid self-service

  29-04-2015 22:53
  
  SUPERMARKET Morrisons is installing 1,000 new manned checkouts as research shows two-thirds of shoppers avoid self-scan services.
  
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• Bat-like feathered dinosaur with wings made of skin discovered in China

  29-04-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Named "Yi qi" - Mandarin for "strange wing" - the tiny aviator weighing less than a pound (380 grams) lived during the Jurassic Period 160 million years ago
  
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• Stately home hit by major blaze

  29-04-2015 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A major blaze breaks out at an 18th Century stately home run by the National Trust in Surrey.
  
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• ISIS in Iraq: Cellist performs at site of blast just an hour after explosion killed five

  29-04-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The vehicle explosion in the Mansour district of Baghdad had occurred just before midnight on Monday, killing five people and injuring 15
  
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• Former 'world's fattest man' Paul Mason has 21kg of excess skin removed from his body

  29-04-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former postie from Ipswich, Suffolk, underwent the nine and a half hour operation in New York after failing to get it on the NHS
  
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• Former boxer Chris Eubank weds his manager on Las Vegas holiday

  29-04-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ex-world super-middleweight champion, 48, married Claire Geary in a quickie ceremony
  
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• Emotional scene as birthday cards pour in from around the world for boy 'with no friends'

  29-04-2015 22:27
  
  A MOTHER who said her 11-year-old son had no friends and pleaded on Facebook for people to wish him happy birthday has received hundreds of cards from around the world.
  
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• Rubella eradicated from Americas

  29-04-2015 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  North and South America become the first regions to completely eradicate rubella, or German measles, after no cases in five years
  
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• Real Madrid 3-0 Almeria

  29-04-2015 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  James Rodriguez's stunning volley sets Real Madrid on the way to a victory over Almeria that narrows the gap on leaders Barcelona.
  
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• Concussion causes Hohaia to retire

  29-04-2015 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  St Helens half-back Lance Hohaia says he is retiring because of "recurrent post-match concussion-type symptoms".
  
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• Germanwings plane crash: Andreas Lubitz had mental health questioned by bosses as far back as 2010

  29-04-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  America’s Federal Aviation Authority debated whether to grant the rookie pilot a license to fly in the country
  
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• Jobs event for Tullis Russell staff

  29-04-2015 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Staff made redundant when a Fife paper-making firm went into administration have the opportunity to meet employers interested in recruiting next week.
  
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• O'Sullivan stunned by superb Bingham

  29-04-2015 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ronnie O'Sullivan suffers a shock 13-9 defeat by Stuart Bingham in the last eight of the World Snooker Championship.
  
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• VIDEO: Historic Clandon House up in flames

  29-04-2015 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dozens of fire-fighters are tackling a large blaze at Clandon Park House, a stately home in Surrey.
  
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• UN launches Nepal earthquake appeal

  29-04-2015 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UN launches a $415m appeal for survivors of the Nepal earthquake, as frustration mounts at the pace of relief efforts.
  
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• Tories pledge law to curb tax rises

  29-04-2015 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Conservatives promise a law guaranteeing no rise in income tax rates, National Insurance or VAT before 2020 - dismissed as a "ridiculous gimmick" by Labour.
  
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• Britain set to host world's largest radio telescope

  29-04-2015 22:16 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The headquarters of the project which will aim to solve unanswered questions relating to the Big Bang will be in Britain after a winning bid
  
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• Woman slave Zunduri tortured for two years by Mexican family

  29-04-2015 22:15 via
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Known as Zunduri, 22, (pictured) she was forced to work in a dry cleaning business in Mexico City for 12 hours a day and beaten when she tried to take a break.
  
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• Ghosts are tricks of the mind, scientists say after fooling people into believing a spooky 'presence' is haunting them

  29-04-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Swiss experts hoodwink ordinary people into thinking they have met an apparition from beyond the grave
  
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• Quake Briton tells of narrow escape

  29-04-2015 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A British survivor of the earthquake in Nepal speaks of his narrow escape from death, as he is reunited with his family in the UK.
  
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• Over 50,000 families shipped out of London: Two women affected by the crisis

  29-04-2015 22:06
  
  ‘Susanna’
  
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• George Davis 'Britain's fattest teenager' crane lifted from home in 7 hour operation

  29-04-2015 22:06 via
  
  A number of roads had to be closed in the neighbourhood as firefighters worked to remove Georgia Davis, 22, from her specially-adapted flat in Aberdare, south Wales.
  
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• The price that Ed Miliband is prepared to pay to win the Muslim vote

  29-04-2015 22:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Labour leader's pledge to redefine Islamophobia as an aggravated crime will be cheered by child sex-grooming gangs in Rotherham and election-stealers in Tower Hamlets
  
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• Over 50,000 families shipped out of London in the past three years due to welfare cuts and soaring rents

  29-04-2015 22:05
  
  More than 50,000 families have been silently shipped out of London boroughs in the past three years, an investigation by The Independent can reveal.
  
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• Police question trader in £130m suspected Ponzi investment fraud

  29-04-2015 22:03
  
  Fraud squad officers are questioning a currency trader linked to a suspected global £130m Ponzi scheme.
  
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• Deadly Uzi sub-machine gun found in London graveyard as police probe gang links

  29-04-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The powerful weapon was discovered during a search of Croydon Cemetery in south London this afternoon
  
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• California ramps up emissions fight

  29-04-2015 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US state of California has stepped up its attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by setting tough new targets for 2030.
  
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• UK falls behind Australia in young university rankings

  29-04-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain has lost its standing as the best place in the world for emerging universities to Australia for the first time
  
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• Top 100 new universities - the list in full

  29-04-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rankings published by Times Higher Education reveal the top 100 world universities under 50 years of age. Check out the list in full, including 15 UK institutions
  
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• Take the Hitler tour: Germany actively marks sites of Nazis' worst atrocities

  29-04-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The anniversary of Hitler’s death will go unmarked in Berlin - but guided tours show Germany is finally coming to terms with its dark history
  
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• General Election 2015: Labour accuse BBC of stacking pro-Coalition audience for final debate

  29-04-2015 21:57
  
  Labour accused the BBC of stacking the audience for the final election “debate” with supporters of the Coalition Government.
  
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