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• Nine dead as rival motor bike gangs turn Texas Twin Peaks restaurant into warzone

  17-05-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "It was like the wild west" claims one witness, who saw so much blood it was running down the drains
  
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• What were they inking? See the weird and wonderful body art on show at annual tattoo convention that attracts thousands of fans

  17-05-2015 23:42 via
  
  Some 230 ink artists attended the Athens Tattoo Convention at the Tae Kwon Do Stadium at Faliron Bay, a three-day event which brings together tattoo enthusiasts from all over the world.
  
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• ISIS fighters take a major Iraqi city after relentless 'bloodbath' campaign of suicide bombers

  17-05-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Around 500 people have been killed by the fanatics in a chilling bombing spree that has terrified the country
  
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• Outrage as re-enactors wear NAZI uniforms at Second World War Festival

  17-05-2015 23:35
  
  FESTIVALGOERS were outraged to see re-enactors wearing NAZI uniforms - just a week after Britain marked 70 years since the liberation of Europe.
  
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• Boy 'murdered by pals' who are too young to be charged in savage killing

  17-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christopher Raymundo Marquez was found buried face down in a shallow grave after going missing for two days
  
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• Boy 'murdered by pals' who are too young to be charged in 'Mexican James Bulger' killing

  17-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christopher Raymundo Marquez was found buried face down in a shallow grave after going missing for two days
  
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• Call girls can be ordered on mobile phone app for up to £500 an hour

  17-05-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Girls make thousands of pounds a week selling their bodies, according to Channel 4 show High Class Call Girls
  
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• Chesterfield mother shares bed with sons aged 9 and 10 while dad sleeps elsewhere

  17-05-2015 23:25 via
  
  Julie Darby, 41, shares her bed with boys Kai (left) and Brayden (centre) at home in Chesterfield while husband Gary, 43, has to be content with a single bunk bed in his sons' room as they prefer sleeping with their mother.
  
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• White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite 'has killed 400 people in reign of terror against the west'

  17-05-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Spy chief says the British mum of four is believed to have directed terror raids, suicide attacks and car bombings in Somalia and Kenya
  
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• Reckless teen smashes dad's £100,000 sports car into pensioners' house while twice over drink drive limit

  17-05-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Harry Bishop, 19, ploughed his fathers Audi R8 into OAPS' home - just inches from where they were sleeping
  
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• Is this how Charlotte will look when she's 18? Computer age-progression experts picture the princess as a grown up

  17-05-2015 23:12 via
  
  Computer experts in the US have created an image showing how they believe two-week-old Princess Charlotte will look like when she turns 18.
  
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• Tory Jeremy Hunt rakes in £1m as his minister's salary and education company shower him with cash

  17-05-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  While austerity continues to bite in the UK, the Health Secretary pocketed a £972,538 dividend from his firm Hotcourses while the NHS falls into crisis
  
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• REVEALED: Chuka Umunna's posh drinking den secret

  17-05-2015 22:44
  
  FORMER Labour leadership candidate Chuka Umunna faced embarrassment yesterday after it emerged that he frequently visits a members-only late night drinking den.
  
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• Horrific video shows moment little girl gets dragged down the street by a school bus

  17-05-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Terrified child, pulled along after backpack gets stuck in door, just 'wants her mum'
  
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• Football hooligans: Shocking video shows moment raging thugs launched savage 'bottle and glass' attack

  17-05-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Men are heard shouting at each other while bottles smash in the background as stunned people watch
  
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• Disgusted mum finds DEAD MOTH in custard pot she is about to feed to baby son

  17-05-2015 22:25
  
  A MOTHER says she was left feeling physically sick after she found a DEAD MOTH inside a pot of custard she was about to feed to her baby son.
  
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• Lazy UK is shamed as ‘sick man of Europe’

  17-05-2015 22:19
  
  BRITAIN is one of the sickest countries in Europe – as damning new evidence shows laziness is killing us.
  
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• David Cameron is about to let loose the hounds on the Welfare State and NHS as well as foxes

  17-05-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire says the Tories are the Nasty Party and our human rights and living standards will also pay the price of their victory
  
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• ISIS: Terror group smuggling fighters to the west by hiding them among refugees

  17-05-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jihadis exploiting crisis in the Mediterranean to get extremists into Europe, investigation reveals
  
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• JAILED: Serial rapist who plied girls with horse tranquilliser drug

  17-05-2015 21:55
  
  A MAN who raped a 15-year-old girl and two other young women after plying them with drugs has been caged for 15 years.
  
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• Attorney General Dominic Grieve questions what Tories trying to achieve by replacing Human Rights Act with British Bill of Rights

  17-05-2015 21:51
  The former Attorney General Dominic Grieve has questioned what the Conservative Party is trying to achieve through its plan to replace the Human Rights Act with a new British Bill of Rights.
  
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• Charity clinic where majority of patients are illegal migrants

  17-05-2015 21:51
  
  NEARLY 60 per cent of patients at an emergency clinic are illegal migrants, it was revealed last night.
  
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• Here comes the pug: Watch doggy bride get hitched in $2,000 wedding dress

  17-05-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Canine couple exchange vows in lavish Australian ceremony to raise cash for rescue charity
  
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• Don't move a muscle! Frog is caught on camera keeping stock still to ensure he doesn't get stung by the WASP perched on his head 

  17-05-2015 21:46 via
  
  You'd expect this frog to be hopping mad when an over-familiar wasp flew a bit too close - and landed on his head. as he was resting in the sun in Indonesia.
  
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• Labour’s Simon Danczuk 'very concerned' long-delayed inquiry into child sex abuse could last eight years

  17-05-2015 21:45
  
  A campaigning MP is “very concerned” about claims that the long-delayed inquiry into historic child sex abuse could go on for eight years.
  
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• Praise for Harry’s plea to bring back National Service

  17-05-2015 21:41
  
  PRINCE Harry has been applauded for calling on Britain to bring back National Service.
  
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• Starbucks barista who went wild and abused cafe full of customers quits her job

  17-05-2015 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Angry employee - known only as Melissa - says viral video only tells one side of the story
  
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• Family killed in plane crash fireball on Texas farm just minutes after take-off

  17-05-2015 21:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Young family thought to have died on impact shortly after take off in shock smash
  
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• Rolling on… Prince Philip the proud carriage driver

  17-05-2015 21:27
  
  PRINCE Philip was the reining royal at the Royal Windsor Horse Show yesterday as he showed off his carriage driving skills.
  
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• Migrant boat off Indonesia sinks killing 100 over food fight as 700 survive

  17-05-2015 21:24 via
  
  700 migrants, mainly from Bangladesh and Burma, were rescued and are now being housed in warehouses close to the port of Langsa in Indonesia after the smuggler ship they were on began to sink
  
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• Armed police gatecrash Greenwich church garden party to hunt suspect firing gun 

  17-05-2015 21:20 via
  
  Eyewitness Robert Gray, 59, described the 15-minute incident at St Alfege Church in Greenwich, south east London, as like something out of TV detective drama Midsomer Murders.
  
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• 'Charities bombard me with 90 letters a month': Widow reveals her 'charity letters HELL'

  17-05-2015 21:08
  
  A WIDOW has been “bombarded” with up to 90 begging letters a month after she began just three charity donations.
  
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• Apocalypse NOW! Dramatic photos from around the globe record mankind's destruction of the planet from wasteland forests to slaughtered wild animals and oceans overflowing with garbage

  17-05-2015 20:57 via
  
  Global warming isn't the only thing to worry about. Overpopulation, pollution, poaching and mining are just a few of mankind's other harms that are leaving the Earth scorched and ruined.
  
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• Shocking photos show filthy home where rotting corpse was found after workers joked "is there a body?"

  17-05-2015 20:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neighbors had called police after growing concerned about a vile stench that was coming out of the home
  
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• Anti-vivisection activists win right to legal challenge over how Home Office investigated the care of animals at leading research institution

  17-05-2015 20:46
  Anti-vivisection activists have won the right to a legal challenge over the way the Home Office investigated the care of animals at a leading research institution.
  
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• Trident whistleblower William McNeilly claims it is easier to enter sensitive nuclear weapons installations than 'most nightclubs'

  17-05-2015 20:37
  The Royal Navy was investigating claims by one of its servicemen that security and safety around Trident nuclear submarines are inadequate and the programme is a “disaster waiting to happen”.
  
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• Church of Scotland plan for gay ministers offers possible 'template' for Anglicans

  17-05-2015 20:36 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Church of England liberals hail Scottish 'opt-out' idea as possible breakthrough for divisions over homosexuality
  
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• Syrian army kills five Islamic State commanders as militants are driven back in fierce fighting

  17-05-2015 20:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nearly 300 people have been killed in four days of fighting between the army and IS militants in Syria
  
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• Scientists set to hit over 70 UK pubs in the Pint of Science festival

  17-05-2015 20:27
  
  If everything goes to plan, it will be the perfect opportunity to present the not necessarily sober voice of science.
  
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• Ana Hick: Tragic teen who collapsed with heart attack after 'taking dodgy ecstasy pills' dies

  17-05-2015 20:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 18-year-old was outside a nightclub with pals when she fell to the floor suffering cardiac arrest
  
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• John Bercow confirmed as Speaker of the House of Commons despite unpopularity with Tories

  17-05-2015 20:20
  
  John Bercow will be confirmed in his role as Speaker of the House of Commons, despite his unpopularity among Tory MPs and turmoil in his private life.
  
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• Little Ships set off for Dunkirk to mark 75th anniversary of heroic Second World War rescue

  17-05-2015 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nineteen of the wooden motorboats that helped save more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the advancing Germans return to the beach battle scene
  
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• Nigel Farage under renewed pressure to take break from Ukip leadership

  17-05-2015 20:13
  
  Nigel Farage has come under renewed pressure to take a break from the leadership of Ukip, with the party still looking in danger of tearing itself apart after a disappointing general election.
  
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• Unite chief Len McCluskey: We will stop funding Labour if they turn to the right

  17-05-2015 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The union boss says the party must stop losing working-class support but outgoing Scottish leader condemns his 'destructive' influence
  
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• Football star Adam Johnson gets child sex court case moved - so he can play for Sunderland

  17-05-2015 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The midfielder will now be able to play against Arsenal to help his team in their relegation battle
  
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• Football star Adam Johnson gets alleged child sex court case moved - so he can play for Sunderland

  17-05-2015 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The midfielder will now be able to play against Arsenal to help his team in their relegation battle
  
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• Nascar-loving cowgirl woke up as a genius after suffering terrible brain injuries

  17-05-2015 19:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ranchworker from Colorado becomes artist, poet and maths whizz following catastrophic accident
  
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• Unite union could sever links with Labour amid war of words over new leader, says Len McCluskey

  17-05-2015 19:57
  
  The controversial leader of the Unite union has raised the spectre that Britain’s biggest trade union could sever its link with Labour if the party does not choose a leader to the unions’ liking.
  
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• Unite union could sever link with Labour amid war of words over new leader, says Len McCluskey

  17-05-2015 19:57
  
  The controversial leader of the Unite union has raised the spectre that Britain’s biggest trade union could sever its link with Labour if the party does not choose a leader to the unions’ liking.
  
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• Dogs create amazing paintings by shaking their coats on canvas

  17-05-2015 19:49 via
  
  The canines have created their own masterpieces by being covered in animal-friendly paint and shaking their coats for an exhibition in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which led to five of the eight being adopted.
  
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