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• Who won the BBC Question Time Election Leaders Special?

  30-04-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  This evening David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg faced David Dimbleby and a BBC TV audience. What does the data tell us about who won?
  
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• Nasa prepares to crash Messenger into Mercury's surface in 8,750 mph impact

  30-04-2015 23:53 via
  
  Messenger is expected to slam into Mercury today at speeds of 8,750 mph (14,081 kph), creating a crater an estimated 52 feet (16 meters) across.
  
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• Question Time election leaders: Highs and lows of tonight's final TV showdown

  30-04-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Cameron turned a tricky question about foodbanks into a plea for more time, but seemed evasive on child benefit
  
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• Question Time election leaders: Highs and lows of final TV showdown

  30-04-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Cameron turned a tricky question about foodbanks into a plea for more time, but seemed evasive on child benefit
  
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• Clegg not sorry for 'brave' coalition

  30-04-2015 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg says he will never apologise for his "brave and plucky" decision to enter coalition with the Conservatives.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon 'appalled' at Ed Miliband ruling out deal

  30-04-2015 23:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The First Minister warns Scots will never forgive Mr Miliband if he makes good a new pledge that he would rather not have a Labour Government if it meant doing a deal with the SNP.
  
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• Couple who rented their home out on Airbnb horrified after 'drug-fuelled orgy' causes damage costing £50,000

  30-04-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark and Star King, from Calgary, Canada, thought they’d make a little extra cash by renting out their home to four adults.
  
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• Sweating David Cameron slammed over cuts and NHS on BBC Question Time

  30-04-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The audience turned on the PM for his cruel welfare reforms and failing say to where the £12billion of further cuts would come from
  
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• Andy McSmith's Sketch: Feisty audience is the real star of an enlightening show

  30-04-2015 23:37
  
  It turns out that David Cameron was right after all. Putting the three party leaders in front of an alert and often hostile studio audience, one after another, actually shed more light than a three-way debate conducted from behind lecterns was ever likely to. The audience was the star of the show. Some were passionately anti-Tory, others equally hostile to Labour, and most were contemptuous of the Liberal Democrats. They gave the three leaders the sort of grilling politicians used to face in tho
  
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• Divorce? That's not as stressful as moving home

  30-04-2015 23:33
  
  MOVING home is more stressful than a relationship breakdown, divorce or even a new job, according to research.
  
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• General Election 2015: Ed Miliband insists he will not do deal with SNP to become PM

  30-04-2015 23:31
  
  Ed Miliband has said he would rather lose the opportunity to become prime minister than strike a deal with the Scottish National Party to prop up a minority Labour government.
  
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• 7 things David Cameron said on tonight's Question Time debate that weren't *quite* correct

  30-04-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We're not going to let Cameron get away with these claims without factchecking
  
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• 7 things David Cameron said on Leaders Question Time that weren't *quite* correct

  30-04-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We're not going to let Cameron get away with these claims without factchecking
  
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• Police chief 'told of Hillsborough cover-up': Inquest hears of plan to blame fans

  30-04-2015 23:26
  
  A SENIOR officer revealed that South Yorkshire Police were planning to “concoct a story that all Liverpool fans were drunk,” the inquest into the Hillsborough tragedy heard today.
  
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• Website supporting rapist footballer Ched Evans is not illegal, say lawyers

  30-04-2015 23:22
  
  A WEBSITE supporting rapist footballer Ched Evans' appeal is not illegal, lawyers have ruled.
  
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• i named National Newspaper of the Year

  30-04-2015 23:21
  
  i, the sister paper of The Independent, has been named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2015 News Awards.
  
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• 'Best ever' Porsche owned by Sir Stirling Moss going under hammer for £2m

  30-04-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The legendary British motor racing driver says the RS-61 is the 'best car you could buy' if you can afford it
  
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• Leaders Question Time brought fierce questioning - but will it have changed anybody's mind?

  30-04-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ed Miliband, David Cameron and Nick Clegg managed not to blunder, but was it enough?
  
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• Failed asylum-seeker awarded compensation for being wrongly detained after break-in and sex assault

  30-04-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joao da Silva should have been moved to a hospital and not held in a detention centre because of his mental health issues, a judge ruled
  
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• Mother of Corfu gas tragedy children storms out as rep won’t say sorry over deaths

  30-04-2015 23:16
  
  THE mother of two children killed by carbon monoxide at a Corfu hotel chalet today stormed out of an inquest in fury at a holiday rep who refused to apologise over their deaths.
  
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• Question Time election leaders: Snap poll picks David Cameron as TV showdown's winner with 44%

  30-04-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The poll by ICM for the Guardian had 44% of people saying Cameron did ‘best on the night’, compared to 38% for Miliband
  
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• Gurkhas march in London but thoughts are with their families in quake-hit Nepal

  30-04-2015 23:08
  
  GURKHAS marched through London today to mark 200 years of service to Britain – but their minds were on the earthquake tragedy in homeland Nepal.
  
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• Victim's video helps jail rapist

  30-04-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A rape victim who was found dead before her attacker's trial helped to convict him "from beyond the grave", police say.
  
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• Question Time election debate: How the three party leaders fared in the spotlight

  30-04-2015 23:01
  
  David Cameron
  
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• Question Time election debate: How the party leaders fared in the spotlight

  30-04-2015 23:01
  
  David Cameron
  
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• Porn websites scare parents more than super violent terrorism videos, shock study claims

  30-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Research suggests mum and dad are terrified of the filth and smut which is freely available online
  
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• Ronnie Wood: Faces reunion 'brilliant', but we won't do it for the money

  30-04-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Ronnie Wood says he would love a Faces reunion - as long as it wasn't about money
  
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• Research shows spending two minutes an hour on your feet can help you live longer

  30-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Getting on your feet instead of sitting at a desk or slumping on the sofa can have a dramatic impact on your health, according to scientists
  
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• General Election 2015: Tory minister admits bedroom tax is 'not an easy sell' on the doorstep

  30-04-2015 23:00
  
  The so-called bedroom tax is “not an easy sell” on the election doorstep, a Tory Cabinet minister has privately admitted as he suggested that tenants struggling to pay the charge should move to a different part of the country.
  
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• Emmanuel Jal on triumphing against all odds: Hollywood star considered eating friend as a child soldier

  30-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The star of The Good Lie, which tells the story of South Sudan’s 1983-2005 civil war, saw many horrific things in his young life
  
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• Cancer teen's dying wish to walk mum down aisle in jeopardy as more funding needed

  30-04-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Binney, 19, has just weeks to live due to cancer in his spine, lungs and brain - he needs more help to see Trish wed Mark Hall in Gretna Green next week
  
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• Did chewing gum kill my daughter? Mother wins fight to get answers

  30-04-2015 22:59
  
  A MOTHER has won a four-year battle to discover if her teenage daughter was killed by chewing gum.
  
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• From 'Jillaroo' to Green Party leader

  30-04-2015 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Green Party leader Natalie Bennett's Aussie tones have become a familiar sound at the UK general election - but how did she get to where she is today?
  
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• Leaders Question Time proved Nick Clegg will never escape tuition fees albatross

  30-04-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Liberal Democrat leader never regained standing after that opening gambit
  
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• Question Time election leaders: Schoolboy humour takes over as leaders joke about 'darkened room'

  30-04-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  What started as an inadvertent slip by David Cameron turned into a running joke - and that's not to mention the 'stubby pencil'
  
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• Heathrow passengers walk down M4 hard shoulder with suitcases after getting stuck in motorway jam

  30-04-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chaos broke out as frustrated motorists took to the hard shoulder with their suitcases after getting stuck in standstill traffic on the M4
  
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• Former Colombian spy chief jailed

  30-04-2015 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former head of Colombia's secret police, Maria del Pilar Hurtado, is jailed for 14 years for spying on politicians, judges and journalists.
  
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• David Cameron's father left assets in offshore tax haven to his family

  30-04-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister's father held assets in Jersey, which he left to his family when he died
  
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• BBC Question Time Leaders' special: how the exchanges unfolded

  30-04-2015 22:41 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron insisted an EU referendum was a red line, while Ed Miliband said he would walk away from Downing Street rather than do a deal with the SNP
  
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• Angry voters made Leaders' Question Time riveting and revealing - and tough on politicians

  30-04-2015 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Cameron and Ed Miliband were grilled by audience members, while Nick Clegg felt like an afterthought
  
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• Claudia Winkleman to speak about daughter's Halloween outfit accident

  30-04-2015 22:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Presenter Claudia Winkleman is due to appear on consumer show Watchdog to speak of the moment her daughter suffered burns when her Halloween outfit caught fire
  
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• Stokes doubtful for third Test

  30-04-2015 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  All-rounder Ben Stokes may miss the third Test against West Indies as England aim to win the series in Barbados.
  
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• VIDEO: Clegg: 'I'm not going to be PM'

  30-04-2015 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nick Clegg says he will not be prime minister after the General Election in the final televised leaders event.
  
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• BBC Question Time sketch: David Cameron v Ed Miliband... and Liam Byrne

  30-04-2015 22:32 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In a special edition for the 2015 general election, the Prime Minister attacks Labour using the notorious 'no money' note from 2010
  
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• Paul Routledge: Turn left and we'll be back on track

  30-04-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Paul Routledge pens a heartfelt plea to voters still scratching their heads at the crossroads to follow him down the road back to Labour
  
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• US Navy to assist ships through Gulf

  30-04-2015 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Defence officials have said that US Navy ships will accompany US-flagged commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, to make sure they are not interfered with by Iran.
  
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• PM: No plans to cut child benefit

  30-04-2015 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron rejects Lib Dem claims the Conservatives are planning to cut child benefit and tax credit if they remain in power.
  
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• Keira Knightley film stately home is reduced to 'shell' by blaze

  30-04-2015 22:29
  
  A STATELY home which featured in the hit film The Duchess has been left a “shell” after being ravaged by a devastating fire.
  
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• NASA's Messenger probe crash lands on Mercury after 'unprecedented' and pioneering 10 year mission

  30-04-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Space fans toast the end of an era as spaceship meets a fiery end on the surface of a distant planet
  
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• Sol Campbell reactivates Twitter account to rant about Ed Miliband being a communist

  30-04-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We all knew that Sol had become a Tory - but not that he had become a ranty one
  
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