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• 31 hours in another Pietersen saga

  12-05-2015 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How the Kevin Pietersen drama unfolded, from a triple century to being again told he will not be selected for England.
  
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• Kevin Pietersen hits out at 'deceitful' ECB over England snub as batsman asks what more could he have done to earn a recall? 

  12-05-2015 23:57 via
  
  LAWRENCE BOOTH: Kevin Pietersen claimed he had been deceived by England cricket chiefs after Andrew Strauss told him a lack of trust had wrecked his comeback hopes.
  
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• Tories heading back to the 1980s with plans to crush unions

  12-05-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Conservative front-bench plots to crush the unions as rail workers' vote to strike
  
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• Adorable video shows greyhound moving his bed to the last sunny spot in the house

  12-05-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mr Fry, a saluki mix, loves to bask in the sun, so he takes his bed with him to a sunny spot for a nice afternoon nap
  
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• VIDEO: People on streets after second Nepal quake

  12-05-2015 23:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Another earthquake has hit Nepal, only two weeks after more than 7,000 people died in a earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8.
  
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• Germany REJECTS demand for EU treaty change in first Brussels talk since election

  12-05-2015 23:52 via
  
  The Prime Minister has vowed to introduce new rules which would ban EU migrants claiming benefits for four years and allow the government to deport jobless Europeans after six months.
  
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• Russia delays ISS astronauts' return

  12-05-2015 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russia delays for about a month the return of three astronauts on the International Space Station after the recent failure of its supply spaceship.
  
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• Crowd trouble breaks out during Manchester derby between United and City Under-21s

  12-05-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The clash ended 4-0 to United in front of 16,000 fans at Old Trafford as supporters made the most of the free entry
  
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• Mugging victim Alan Barnes admits he's 'not settling in' at new home bought with £300,000 public donations

  12-05-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 67-year-old moved into his new home after being viciously mugged outside his former bungalow in Gateshead
  
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• Young mum has been left infertile - after her baby gave her cancer

  12-05-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carrie Aldridge was left infertile when she was just 27, nine months after the birth of her son
  
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• Flats fumigated after mum finds 'eggs from deadly spiders' in pack of supermarket bananas

  12-05-2015 23:45
  
  A BLOCK of flats had to be fumigated and evacuated after a mother found what she believed to be eggs from a DEADLY spider in a bunch of bananas.
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson and former Top Gear buddies could name potential Netflix show House of CARS

  12-05-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The title is a nod to Netflix’s hugely popular political drama House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey as US congressman Frank Underwood
  
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• Bus crashes into house in Sunderland

  12-05-2015 23:38
  
  Police investigating what caused a bus to crash into a house in Sunderland are urging the driver and passenger of a car to come forward, after they left the scene before officers arrived.
  
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• Cabinet reshuffle: Who's who in the new all Tory team

  12-05-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Conservatives don't have the Lib Dems getting under their feet any more - so who is playing for the Blues?
  
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• New Tory government on collision course with rail unions in throwback to Thatcher's days

  12-05-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New Business Secretary Sajid Javid said curbing the power of the unions would be a 'priority' in the Queen’s Speech on May 27
  
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• Honey waved a knife at parents and wanted to kill two classmates but doctors say she was not born naughty

  12-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'Seeing her being restrained by two police officers was the most heartbreaking moment of my life. I couldn’t watch, I had to leave the room', says mum Stella
  
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• Honey waved a knife at parents and wanted to kill two classmates but doctors say she was not a born naughty

  12-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'Seeing her being restrained by two police officers was the most heartbreaking moment of my life. I couldn’t watch, I had to leave the room', says mum Stella
  
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• Joshua Hazleby-Fear drowned at Quakers Yard near Merthyr Tydfilat

  12-05-2015 23:29 via
  
  The boy has been named today as Joshua Hazleby-Fear, who fell into the river at Quakers Yard near Merthyr Tydfil on Sunday at about 6.30pm while playing under a bridge near Merthyr Tyfil.
  
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• Prince Charles' secret letters revealed - and they could threaten his future as king

  12-05-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prince of Wales wrote 27 letters to ministers and former attorney general Dominic Grieve said the notes could "seriously undermine the prince’s ability to fulfil his duties when he becomes king”
  
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• Kerry and Putin in 'frank' meeting

  12-05-2015 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US Secretary of State John Kerry has a "frank meeting" with President Vladimir Putin on his first visit to Russia since the Ukraine crisis began.
  
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• Russell Brand admits he 'F****d up the election' for Ed Miliband

  12-05-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The controversial comedian praised the Labour leader's resignation speech, but admitted the late night rendezvous at Brand's house might have been a bad move
  
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• Rights Act pledge 'breaches NI deal'

  12-05-2015 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The new UK government's pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act would be a "flagrant breach" of the Good Friday Agreement, a human rights organisation says.
  
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• 'How are they expected to live?' Judge shows mercy to parents who stole out-of-date food

  12-05-2015 23:20
  
  A DESPERATE couple who stole food Tesco were throwing out in order to survive have been shown pity by a judge who asked: "How are they expected to live?".
  
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• Britain to be battered by fierce snowstorms as El Nino cycle begins

  12-05-2015 23:19 via
  
  An ice cold winter is forecast to hit the country because of changes in the Pacific Ocean which last time El Nino occurred, in 2010, gave Britain its coldest December in 120 years.
  
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• Watch audacious thief ride child's bright yellow toy bear out of busy supermarket

  12-05-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blue tracksuit wearing criminal takes the bright yellow toy bear, sits on it and - incredibly slowly - wheels it away down a long corridor overlooking the store
  
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• Audacious thief rides child's bright yellow toy bear out of busy supermarket

  12-05-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
   
  The blue tracksuit wearing criminal takes the bright yellow toy bear, sits on it and - incredibly slowly - wheels it away down a long corridor overlooking the store
  
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• Pensioner sent apology letter from THIEF who stole bird bath given to her by dead husband

  12-05-2015 23:16
  
  A PENSIONER who had her beloved bird birth stolen was left shocked when she received a letter of APOLOGY from the thief.
  
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• Sick sex attacker left horse impaled on two foot sharpened wooden stake

  12-05-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Skye, an eight-year-old mare, has undergone lengthy surgery after the shocking incident on Saturday night
  
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• Bradford City fire was started by a tourist who dropped a cigarette, says BBC documentary

  12-05-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A retired policeman says it 'obviously troubled' Australian visitor Eric Bennett that he accidentally caused the blaze which killed 59 people in 1985
  
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• RAF Typhoons scrambled to intercept Russian spy plane

  12-05-2015 23:04 via
  
  The two Typhoon jets, operating as part of Nato's Baltic air policing mission, were launched to intercept the Russian surveillance and reconnaissance plane over the Gulf of Finland at lunchtime.
  
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• Thug grandson jailed after throwing his gran into a wall over row about a bracelet

  12-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  William Dobinson, 40, launched into the vicious attack on his 83-year-old gran after she accused him of stealing
  
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• Sally Bercow's adultery makes her look a sad figure rather than a brazen good-time girl

  12-05-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alison Phillips says she feels sorry for the Speaker's wife despite her many faults but hopes she now has a chance to find happiness
  
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• Rail users face summer of chaos as workers vote to strike over pay

  12-05-2015 22:58
  
  RAIL workers are set to give the new Government its first union battle by threatening a national walkout which could bring chaos to the summer holidays.
  
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• Bayern Munich 3-2 Barcelona (agg 3-5)

  12-05-2015 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Barcelona reach their first Champions League final since 2011, despite a return-leg defeat by Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich.
  
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• Big Brother's little Tory: Conservative councillor and secretary of Cardiff MP enters reality TV show

  12-05-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joel Williams is the youngest councillor in Wales - and suddenly he's going to be one of the most famous Conservatives in the country
  
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• Teen soldier William Brutnell killed himself after he was accused of rape

  12-05-2015 22:53 via
  
  William Brutnell, 18, a trooper with the Blues and Royals Regiment, was on the phone to his girlfriend Zoe Chapman, when he stepped in front of a train near Southampton, Hampshire.
  
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• Ice cream seller smashed up rival's van with crowbar because he passed off Aldi desserts as luxury brand

  12-05-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Stevenson has been fined for threatening behaviour and criminal damage, after ending up in court when a bitter business spat erupted into violence
  
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• Newcastle thief who stole bird bath from pensioner's garden later left apology

  12-05-2015 22:51 via
  
  Rather than return the stolen item, the thief returned to the Newcastle property to scrawl a guilt-ridden apology note and promised to replace the item when they could afford it.
  
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• Serious case review to be conducted into death of Becky Watts

  12-05-2015 22:46
  
  A SERIOUS case review will be conducted into the tragic death of Becky Watts to identify if services can do anything differently to "prevent a future tragedy".
  
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• Man narrowly escapes death after bus ploughs into house after collision with car

  12-05-2015 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The yellow single decker Go North East bus hit a home in Pallion, Sunderland, just after 5pm. Northumbria Police said one person was in the house at the time, but he was not injured
  
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• Killed by a hot tub: DIY chain sued after store display leaves three dead of Legionnaires

  12-05-2015 22:42
  
  A DIY chain is being sued by the relatives of three men who were killed after being struck down with Legionnaires' disease - caused by a filthy hot tub on display at one of its stores.
  
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• Elgin Marbles: Greece should take UK to court over sculptures, claim human rights lawyers

  12-05-2015 22:34
  
  Greece should take the UK to an international court to win back the so-called Elgin Marbles, according to legal advice prepared by senior human rights lawyers including Amal Clooney and Geoffrey Robertson.
  
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• Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's former family home goes on sale for the first time since he sold it in 1956 

  12-05-2015 22:32 via
  
  Wilson lived in the Grade II listed property, in Hampstead Garden, north London, with his wife Mary and their two sons between 1948 and 1956 when he was a member of the Labour Cabinet.
  
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• Watch KFC workers wash chicken on concrete floor behind fast food restaurant

  12-05-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video has triggered an open apology letter from the chain after workers were filmed throwing chicken on the floor and hosing it down
  
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• Mohamed Rashwan killing: Loved ones beg for father-of-two's body to be returned home to Egypt

  12-05-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  His daughters told a family friend 'Please, please, please can you send my daddy's body home so we can give him a final kiss'
  
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• Osborne: We will stand firm and win Britain a better deal from the EU

  12-05-2015 22:27
  
  GEORGE Osborne today insisted the Tory Government had a “very clear mandate” to win a new EU deal for Britain.
  
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• Prince Charles's 'black spider' letters set for publication after 10-year legal battle

  12-05-2015 22:25
  
  The Royal Family’s reputation for political neutrality faces its most serious challenge in a generation as the “black spider” memos written by Prince Charles to senior ministers are finally set to published after a 10-year legal battle.
  
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• Adoption rates in freefall after court ruling leaves children languishing in unsuitable homes

  12-05-2015 22:16
  
  The number of children being put forward for adoption has plummeted over the past year following a series of court rulings that have left local authorities frightened of removing them from birth families.
  
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• Drivers could face more speed cameras as accident blackspot recorder goes live

  12-05-2015 22:14
  
  MOTORISTS could face more speed cameras following the launch today of a new accident recording system.
  
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• Simon Birks spared longer sentence after being compared to Fletcher from Porridge

  12-05-2015 22:11 via
  
  Simon Birks, 35,escaped a longer stretch of porridge after being compared to Ronnie Barker's hapless character from the 1970s sitcom at Leicester Crown Court.
  
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