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• Nicola Sturgeon most popular politician on Twitter during the election

  10-05-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The SNP leader was 14 points ahead of David Cameron, according to analysis of the social network over the campaign
  
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• Man dies and two Brits seriously injured in balcony plunges as Spanish tourist season begins

  10-05-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The three falls all happened in the space of 48 hours and come just a week after another man fell to his death from a 13th floor balcony in party resort Magaluf
  
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• Stores 'give bad advice on car seats': Two thirds of high street shops are unable to advise on how to fit them properly 

  10-05-2015 23:47 via
  
  Mystery shoppers from the Good Egg Safety campaign found 53 out of 82 popular stores did not give the right advice about installing child seats, leaving parents baffled by the confusing instructions..
  
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• Red or brown? Now you can have black: Sauce for your bacon butty created by makers of Guinness set to hit the shelves 

  10-05-2015 23:47 via
  
  If successful, Guinness Sauce could join Heinz Tomato Ketchup and HP Sauce on the nation’s breakfast tables to be enjoyed with fry-ups and even steak.
  
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• Syria rebels storm besieged regime loyalists: monitor

  10-05-2015 23:40 via
  
  Harrowing pictures show the moment suicide bombers attacked a hospital in northwestern Syria on Sunday. where around 250 soldiers and civilians have been trapped for two weeks.
  
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• Disneyland trip ends with hospital visit for boy, 8, after over-the-top hug from Pluto leaves him with a severe muscle strain

  10-05-2015 23:38 via
  
  An eight year old boy called Ethan had a trip to Disneyland in California to forget after a hug from an overzealous Pluto left him nursing a sore back. A trip to the hospital resulted in a muscle strain diagnosis.
  
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• Sally Bercow admits she's a 'terrible' wife and her husband's cousin has left her 'heartbroken'

  10-05-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sally Bercow has opened up about the claims she had an affair with her husband's cousins and has said she is not sure she wants to be forgiven
  
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• Gaddafi's son Saadi appears in Libyan court on murder charges

  10-05-2015 23:36 via
  
  Bisexual playbody Saadi Gaddafi, pictured in 2014, is accused of being involved in the disappearance of Libyan star striker and football pundit Bashir al-Riani who went missing in 2006.
  
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• Drunk teenage passenger who caused chaos on flight with abusive and aggressive behaviour faces jail

  10-05-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rahees Iqbal’s booze-fuelled antics on an Emirates flight caused fear to both passengers and crew, a court was told
  
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• 2016 Olympic Games in Rio attracts five times fewer ticket applications than London 2012

  10-05-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A lack of interest in many of the sports involved, and the poverty suffered by millions of Brazilians, is being blamed
  
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• Serial killer Rose West swaps recipes and knitting patterns with another jailed murderer

  10-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The prisoner has developed a letter-writing friendship with a female inmate who murdered a young woman
  
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• Nick Grimshaw set join the X Factor judging panel as a replacement for Louis Walsh

  10-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Simon Cowell wants the BBC Radio 1 breakfast star to join the judging team to freshen up the ITV show
  
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• Labour leadership: Dan Jarvis rules himself out of race - saying he won't do it because of his kids

  10-05-2015 23:28
  
  Dan Jarvis has ruled out himself out of the Labour leadership contest, after being made one of the early favourites to succeed Ed Miliband, insisting he wanted to put his children before his immediate political career.
  
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• Labour leadership: Dan Jarvis rules himself out of race - saying he won't do it because of his children

  10-05-2015 23:28
  
  One of the favourites to succeed Ed Miliband as Labour leader – ex-Army paratrooper Dan Jarvis – has ruled himself out, saying he did not want his eldest children to “lose their dad” to the job following the death of their mother.
  
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• Ant and Dec repeat Bafta success

  10-05-2015 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ant and Dec win two prizes at the Bafta TV awards for the second year in a row, while Sherlock, Happy Valley and Coronation Street get top prizes.
  
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• Police cars double as ambulances to ferry thousands to A&E: Force is 'extremely worried' about practice as 999 crews struggle to cope with demand 

  10-05-2015 23:26 via
  
  Bosses at the Metropolitan Police confirmed that between January 2014 and January 2015 its officers took 931 patients to hospital after ambulances failed to show.
  
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• MoD pays out £334,000 compensation to cyclists who injured themselves on military bases including £27,000 to one who slipped on mud 

  10-05-2015 23:24 via
  
  Among the 'ludicrous' claims was a cyclist who skidded on freshly painted road markings and another who was given £14,205 they hit an 'unmarked sleeping policeman' and fell of their bike.
  
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• Morgan Freeman 'smokes, snorts, drinks, and eats hash' to ease pain caused by car crash 38 years ago

  10-05-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Hollywood movie legend wants to see cannabis legalised across the board so others can "toke the pain away" worry free
  
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• Castro thanks Pope for US mediation

  10-05-2015 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cuba's communist leader Raul Castro thanks Pope Francis at the Vatican for his role in Cuban-US rapprochement.
  
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• Police investigation launched after body inside suitcase fished out of London canal

  10-05-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The grim discovery was made this afternoon, after the force was called out reports of a body in the water
  
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• Bear Grylls accused of animal cruelty after women slaughter tame pig on Channel 4 survival show

  10-05-2015 23:11 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Animal rights charity PETA said Grylls should be arrested for cruelty to animals along with the producers of The Island, which is filmed on a remote island off Panama
  
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• Tory backbenchers threaten to block David Cameron's defence cuts ahead of meeting

  10-05-2015 23:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Prime Minister warned that his rebellious backbench will not agree to dropping below two per cent defence spend ahead of 1922 Committee meeting
  
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• Hunt for rapist after teenage girl brutally attacked on walk home

  10-05-2015 23:04
  
  A RAPIST is being hunted after a teenager was brutally attacked as she walked home along a cycle path after a night out.
  
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• Eurosceptic Tory MPs demand major concessions when David Cameron renegotiates Britain's EU membership

  10-05-2015 23:02
  David Cameron’s brief honeymoon after his stunning election victory ended as Eurosceptic Conservative MPs demanded that he win major concessions when he renegotiates the terms of Britain’s EU membership.
  
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• My horse diagnosed my cancer - then she helped me through harrowing ordeal

  10-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  Myrtle kept nudging the left breast of owner Helen Mason, who says: "We’ve such a close bond she often knows how I’m feeling before I do"
  
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• Henpecked hubby of Britain's most notorious nagging wife put in 'safe house'

  10-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Norman Griffiths has put up with years of flak from wife-from-hell Julie, who was handed a five-year Anti-Social Behaviour Order in 2012
  
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• America scores victory over terror as CIA cuts off funding to al-Qaeda and other networks

  10-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri is increasingly looking for new ways to channel cash as US spooks hunt it down
  
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• Fraudster who faked coma to evade jail has moved to another prison after inmate tried to kill him

  10-05-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alan Knight, 47, was asleep in his cell when the fellow lag allegedly tried to suffocate him
  
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• Angela Merkel pays tribute to millions who died at the hands of Nazi Germany

  10-05-2015 22:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The German Chancellor acknowledged Germany's 'historical responsibility' for WW2 in a moving speech
  
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• George Galloway to challenge election defeat in the court

  10-05-2015 22:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Respect leader says he's started legal proceedings to have the Bradford West election result set aside
  
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• Michael Gove - the UK's new Justice Secretary - once called for the return of hanging

  10-05-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a 1998 article he claimed the threat of the gallows would force courts to act with “scrupulous fairness” and make miscarriages of justice less likely
  
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• Glasgow pensioner bet £30k on Tory majority - but still hasn't picked up his £240k winnings

  10-05-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There has been no sign of the mystery customer since he placed the bet at 7/1 in April
  
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• Father stopped for drink-driving at 121mph - with two young children in the car

  10-05-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Humberside Police said the speeder was twice the legal limit
  
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• Royal baby twins greeted by huge crowds in Monaco for lavish christening ceremony

  10-05-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prince Albert II of Monaco and his wife Princess Charlene showed off their baby son and daughter outside the cathedral
  
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• New landmark remembering the 24,000 allied soldiers who died 200 years ago at Waterloo to be unveiled at station named after the battle 

  10-05-2015 22:35 via
  
  The new statue in London Waterloo station will be unveiled next month to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle, which saw the Duke of Wellington's forces end the tyrannical reign of Napoleon.
  
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• Family claim modelling studio acted ‘irresponsibly’ by selling £2,000 picture package to mum with learning difficulties

  10-05-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tracy Fitton took her 13-year-old daughter Shannon for a photo shoot but says she had no idea of the price until the end of the day
  
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• I had nightmares of being a beached whale on holiday - now I've got a size 10 dream body

  10-05-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The thought of baring her size 24 body gave Angie Gallagher nightmares. But now she has a beach body and is ready to show it off
  
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• 'Anyone want to get a kale smoothie after the riot?' Hipster cop takes internet by storm

  10-05-2015 22:01
  
  A POLICE officer's moustache has taken the internet by storm after he was pictured keeping order at an English Defence League march.
  
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• Waitrose tightening rules on free coffee after claims customers have 'abused the system' by getting drinks for friends

  10-05-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Upmarket store says 'rules are rules' and restricts access to the loyalty scheme after 'losing £150,000' on free drinks
  
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• Dan Jarvis says he won't run as Labour leader

  10-05-2015 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-army major Jarvis, who's currently Mirror readers' favourite for the top Labour job, says he won't be throwing his hat in the ring
  
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• Doting husband so focused on ensuring sick wife beat cancer he didn't realise same disease was killing him

  10-05-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The caring 57-year-old only discovered he himself was gravely ill when his bile duct cancer had become terminal, just weeks ago - and now he's passed away
  
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• Wife of man arrested for her attempted murder after her parachute failed to open 'struggling to cope'

  10-05-2015 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Victoria Cilliers, 39, plummeted 4,000ft to the ground when her main and reserve canopies failed to open during a solo jump
  
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• The Election shenanigans you DIDN'T see but is everything what it seems? 

  10-05-2015 21:38 via
  
  These pictures give a 'behind-the-scenes' glimpse of what election shenanigans could have been like, featuring party leaders David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon.
  
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• Buckton Vale Primary School teachers send inspirational letter to pupils

  10-05-2015 21:35 via
  
  Parents have praised Buckton Vale Primary School in Cheshire for sending a letter to students aged between 10 and 11 saying their SATs will not assess what makes them 'special and unique'.
  
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• Labour's Naz Shah says battle with George Galloway was 'dirtiest campaign this democracy has ever seen'

  10-05-2015 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The new MP for Bradford West says fighting to oust George Galloway was a "nightmare"
  
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• Nepal earthquake: World's greatest mountaineer Apa Sherpa fears for the future of his homeland

  10-05-2015 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The mountaineer, who has reached the summit of Mount Everest a record 21 times, says people have "lost everything" and are scared and depressed
  
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• We will take over from Labour in the north, says Ukip's only MP

  10-05-2015 21:23
  
  Ukip is well placed to take over from Labour as the natural party of the north, its only MP has said.
  
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• Election results: Left-wing lecturer attacked for comparing Tories to racists and sexists

  10-05-2015 21:16
  
  Britain’s liberal intelligentsia normally tries to react to setbacks in the spirit of peace, love and understanding. But, for one member of this oft-scorned tribe, the Conservatives’ shock victory in the general election and the thought of “shy Tories” lurking among her social media friends proved too much.
  
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• Election results: Backlash as liberal philosopher asks people to 'unfriend' Tories

  10-05-2015 21:16
  
  Britain’s liberal intelligentsia normally tries to react to setbacks in the spirit of peace, love and understanding. But, for one member of this oft-scorned tribe, the Conservatives’ shock victory in the general election and the thought of “shy Tories” lurking among her social media friends proved too much.
  
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• Couple 'told vulnerable student she would get £13m if she worked as prostitute for sex trafficking documentary'

  10-05-2015 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Delay and Marysa Comer are alleged to have given the woman a written contract before she faced five years working cities across the US and beatings if she dared complain
  
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