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• Medical helpers to see patients and ease GP pressure under new NHS plans

  18-05-2015 23:44
  
  PATIENTS visiting their GP could be seen by nurses or medical assistants instead as part of a drive to a seven-day NHS, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt revealed today.
  
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• Watch motorbike gang perform terrifying drive-by shooting on father's home while he is inside with his daughter

  18-05-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A court heard how masked men on motorbikes shot at Mark Rowe's windows while his little girl was inside, sparking an angry reaction from him in a pub
  
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• Size 12 schoolgirl, 16, devastated after worker told her she 'must eat and eat and eat'

  18-05-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Holland and Barrett employee also told Molly Woodley she was "big for her age"
  
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• Size 12 schoolgirl, 16, devastated after work colleague worker told her she 'must eat and eat and eat'

  18-05-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Holland and Barrett employee also told Molly Woodley she was "big for her age"
  
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• CCTV cameras fitted to bin lorries to tackle homeless people death toll

  18-05-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Four people were crushed to death and 93 people were found sleeping rough in industrial-sized wheelie bins last year
  
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• Twitter anger as Benefits Street star Maxwell 'boasts' about buying stolen goods

  18-05-2015 23:31
  
  BENEFITS Street star Neil Maxwell has tonight angered viewers after he appeared to buy stolen goods with payments of cannabis.
  
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• Gifted teenager believes she was rejected by top medical schools because she is from deprived area

  18-05-2015 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joanne Martin, 18, wants to be a doctor but has been snubbed every time she had applied for a place at top medical schools because she is from a less privileged background
  
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• Pub giant Wetherspoon’s £1m bill for barring travellers from one of its bars

  18-05-2015 23:25
  
  PUB chain JD Wetherspoon is facing a seven-figure legal bill after it was found guilty of “direct racial discrimination” against a travellers group banned from one of its bars.
  
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• Stepping Hill: Hospital patients who needed care but fell prey to a killer

  18-05-2015 23:21 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Two of Victorino Chua's 22 victims suffered agonising deaths and a third patient was left brain damaged
  
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• John Bercow returns as the Commons Speaker with MPs' backing

  18-05-2015 23:19
  
  JOHN Bercow was returned unopposed as Speaker of the House of Commons today after critical MPs held back from trying to block him.
  
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• England goalie Joe Hart set to wed Kimberly Crew at secret location near Florence

  18-05-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Guests at the lavish three-day bash will include Wayne and Coleen Rooney, Frank Lampard and Christine Bleakley, and past and present Manchester City stars
  
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• Heartbroken widow banned from laying flowers at husband’s grave after 'rift' with daughter

  18-05-2015 23:10
  
  A WIDOW has been banned from putting flowers on her husband’s grave after a rift with her daughter.
  
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• Homeless thug beat up man for iPad so badly his EYEBALL fell out

  18-05-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Richard Harper, 43, has been jailed for seven years over the horrific platform assault in Hertfordshire
  
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• For sail, a house on the river: Londoners left bemused as blue cottage floats down Thames

  18-05-2015 23:03
  
  SOME might call it the definitive houseboat.
  
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• RAF spy planes could be deployed to tackle Mediterranean migrant crisis

  18-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  EU agrees plans to tackle migration crisis, but Libya vows to block the plans
  
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• British holiday-makers left terrified after plane is surrounded by police over hijacking fears

  18-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Passengers on board a Jet2 flight from East Midlands airport found themselves surrounded by police after touching down in Majorca
  
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• Stepping Hill: The scandal of foreign nurses with bogus papers

  18-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Prosecutors warned about the danger of unqualified foreign nurses after realising how easy it was for Victorina Chua to forge qualifications
  
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• Make-up packed with poison is flooding into the UK but what other fake products could be dangerous?

  18-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From self-igniting phone chargers to poisonous make-up - find out how to avoid being ripped off with imported goods
  
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• Karen Danczuk's half brother arrested for allegedly harassing her on Twitter

  18-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ex-Rochdale councillor married to Labour MP Simon Danczuk reported Paul Taylor after a string of online message
  
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• David Brent's back! Ricky Gervais to hit the big screen in Life on the Road

  18-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The comedy star says the film will see Brent's new life as a travelling salesman while trying to get his rock band Foregone Conclusion off the ground
  
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• 'It's going to fall off, I just can't say when': Experts fear for Dorset's cracked Jurassic Coast

  18-05-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Warning signs are being put up around the cracked coastline, warning of the potential danger caused by the 45-metre long gap
  
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• Tech-addicted humans have an eight-second attention span - worse than a GOLDFISH

  18-05-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Get to the end of this article and you're WAY cleverer than most other people
  
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• Con artist Julia Holmes may be one of two bodies found in farmhouse 

  18-05-2015 22:55 via
  
  Julia Holmes was wanted by police in Northern Ireland after she didn't turn up to court in 2011 over allegations of fraud. Her body is now believed to be one of two rotting corpses found in a Limerick house.
  
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• Ben Needham's family say: We think we have the magic call that will lead us to missing son

  18-05-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After making her appeal on Greek television, the vanished tot's mother says the response was 'overwhelming' as detectives prepare to follow up seven new leads
  
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• Ben Needham's family say: We have the magic call that will lead us to missing son

  18-05-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After making her appeal on Greek television, the vanished tot's mother says the response was 'overwhelming' as detectives prepare to follow up seven new leads
  
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• 'Posh' Tory councillors to give themselves a 17% pay rise

  18-05-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  West Berkshire council - which includes the village where David Cameron was raised - has sparked fury from workers and unions with the plan
  
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• Chelsea Flower Show is royal family affair as three generations take a garden tour

  18-05-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prince Harry proudly showed off his charity Sentebale’s garden to the Queen, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Camilla who praised him and his team for their efforts
  
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• Prince Harry felt 'extremely nervous' about showing Queen his Chelsea Flower Show garden

  18-05-2015 22:41
  
  HIS father talks to plants and his grandparents are keen on horticulture too.
  
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• Kabul car bombing: First picture of Briton killed in suicide attack in Afghanistan

  18-05-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michael Hampshire, from Huddersfield, died when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives
  
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• Motorist leaves 'please be kind' note for traffic warden but gets £70 fine

  18-05-2015 22:39 via
  
  Tilly Vacher, 64, left her car on double yellow lines near her home in Bristol so she would not have to walk a long way home in the dark, but she was still fined despite leaving a note.
  
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• Driver mowed down dad-of-ten and his partner within days of losing his licence

  18-05-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mobein Ali had just had his licence revoked after racking up six penalty points
  
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• Brad Pitt and Kate Moss's jam-making skills bear fruit as home-made preserve on the rise

  18-05-2015 22:29
  
  CELEBRITY jam-makers Brad Pitt and Kate Moss have helped send sales of home preserve-making equipment soaring by 172 per cent.
  
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• Labour's Dennis Skinner wins battle of the benches with SNP MPs

  18-05-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The SNP MPs arrived early for the first day of the new Parliament and took it in turns to hold on to his usual spot on the front corner of the Commons benches
  
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• Watch pilots struggle to land at 'Europe's most dangerous airport' which has notoriously difficult conditions

  18-05-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A short runway alongside being situated right by the ocean makes this airport notorious among pilots - and this video shows why
  
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• Prince Philip’s aide ‘in sex attacks on girl of 11’, court hears

  18-05-2015 22:19
  
  AN EQUERRY to Prince Philip sexually abused a lonely 11-year-old girl after treating her to sweets, trinkets and a ride to Buckingham Palace, a court heard yesterday.
  
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• Dan Jarvis backs Andy Burnham's Labour leadership bid

  18-05-2015 22:18 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Mr Jarvis, a former army major, says Mr Burnham can unify the party and connect Labour with voters in both the North and the South
  
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• Ruthless fraudsters who conned vulnerable pensioners out of life savings jailed

  18-05-2015 22:12
  
  A PAIR of "ruthless" fraudsters who swindled thousands of pounds out of their elderly victims have been jailed today.
  
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• Britain's Got Talent: Why fun-loving David Walliams seems to be running the show

  18-05-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It looks like bad news for Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon because the Little Britain comic is the only judge who understands Britain
  
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• Vogue Williams won Bear Grylls' reality survivor show despite having a fractured back

  18-05-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Model, presenter and wife to ex Westlife star Brian McFadden, Vogue Williams talks about her battle with a fractured spine
  
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• Cancer stricken teenager fulfils his dying wish to walk mum down the aisle

  18-05-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Binney, 19, who has been given just weeks to live, sees mum tie the knot in emotional ceremony at Gretna Green
  
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• Ed Balls dismisses claims he could make quick return to Parliament

  18-05-2015 21:59 via
  
  A source close to the former shadow chancellor told MailOnline reports he could mount a swift comeback after his shock general election defeat earlier this month were 'total rubbish'.
  
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• South Wales Police faces £160k fine for losing child abuse victim's account DVDs

  18-05-2015 21:57 via
  
  The recorded interview took place in August 2011 and the loss was discovered by staff after an office move in October that year. The DVD, which clearly shows the victim's face, has not been found.
  
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• Victorino Chua: Fears growing many more medics on wards after LYING about exam results

  18-05-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Victorino Chua faces a life sentence after being convicted of poisoning the sick by injecting insulin into saline drips and ampoules
  
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• Deepcut probe would have been impossible without Human Rights Act - that Tories want to scrap

  18-05-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The father of a soldier who died at Deepcut barracks has slammed Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act
  
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• Paedophile becomes first in Britain to be banned from owning ANY vehicle after trying to lure 11-year-old schoolboys into his car

  18-05-2015 21:56 via
  
  Paedophile Martin Kidd, 24, has been banned from owning any vehicle or using more than one mobile phone, computer or other electronic equipment to access the internet.
  
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• Victim of Buckinghamshire Asian abuse gang had sex with 60 men 

  18-05-2015 21:56 via
  
  The girl and her friend were allegedly abused by 11 men from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire after she met father-of-two Vikram Singh, 45, (pictured) in the town's branch of Woolworths.
  
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• Tesco to cut sugar in its own-label soft drinks by 5%

  18-05-2015 21:49 via
  
  Tesco will cut the sugar content in all its own-label soft drinks by five per cent this year. The decision comes in response to concerns that a national addiction to sugar is fuelling obesity.
  
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• Danah Vince whose partner shook her little daughter to death killed herself

  18-05-2015 21:49 via
  
  Danah Vince, 20, was assaulted in her local pub and subjected to a barrage of abuse after her former partner William Stephens was convicted of killing their little girl, Paris Vince-Stephens.
  
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• British man killed by Taliban in Kabul named as Michael Hampshire

  18-05-2015 21:47
  
  A Briton killed in a terrorist car bomb attack in Afghanistan yesterday has been named as Michael Hampshire, from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.
  
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• Britain's oldest poppy seller Avon Gorge left 'beautiful note' to family

  18-05-2015 21:47 via
  
  The family of Britain's oldest poppy seller have revealed how she left a 'beautiful note' before her death and now plan to set up a fund in her name.
  
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