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• Uber tells Government that limiting firm's cars will increase congestion and pollution

  23-05-2015 23:59
  
  Any moves by the Government to use this week’s Queen’s Speech to limit the number of cars operated in London by Uber will cause more congestion and pollution, according to the firm’s UK chief.
  
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• Thomas Cook executive in Corfu death legal bid to get £11m bonus

  23-05-2015 23:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former Thomas Cook chief executive who was in charge when the company sought a large compensation payout over the deaths of two children in Corfy reportedly being given £11m bonus
  
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• Somali MP killed in Mogadishu attack

  23-05-2015 23:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Somali MP is shot dead in the capital Mogadishu in an attack by suspected Islamists, one of a number of violent incidents in the war-torn country.
  
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• David Cameron faces pressure from 400 councils to ban lethal legal highs

  23-05-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  For three years the Sunday People has campaigned to end legal highs which are openly sold in “head shops” on Britain’s streets
  
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• Max Clifford and Rolf Harris hire private eyes to investigate alleged victims

  23-05-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shamed millionaires were jailed for sexual offences and now fear a fresh wave off allegations will bankrupt them and see them die in prison
  
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• Greenham Reach: The families trying to prove that compact, ecological farms can make a living

  23-05-2015 23:31
  
  Tucked away down a narrow lane in Devon, the 22 acres of Greenham Reach are an idyllic spot. Set among rolling fields, between the banks of the river Tone and the nearby Somerset border, the land is dotted with vegetable beds, wild flowers and herbs, fruit trees, a salad garden, chickens, goats and a beehive.
  
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• Terry Sue-Patt: Tragic Grange Hill star lay dead in his home for a MONTH

  23-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Terry, 50, who had been battling a drink problem, was lying face down in bed in his housing association flat in Walthamstow, East London
  
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• Prisoners learn to coach football on course run by Chelsea and funded by TAXPAYERS' money

  23-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chelsea have received £1billion since Roman Abramovich bought the club but the course was funded by over £30,000 of public money
  
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• Prisoners learn how to coach football on course funded by TAXPAYERS' money

  23-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chelsea have received £1billion since Roman Abramovich bought the club but the course was funded by over £30,000 of public money
  
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• Princess Margaret had affair with Peter O'Toole, says new biography of the hell-raising actor

  23-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Laurence of Arabia star is said to have comforted the bohemian sister of Queen Elizabeth when her marriage to Lord Snowdon fell apart
  
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• Mo Farah's brothers on rift: Olympic hero's forgotten his roots and didn't invite Dad to wedding

  23-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Father Muktar Farah, who brought him to the UK and helped to kickstart his career, was also missing from the roaring crowd at the Olympic Stadium
  
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• BBC pays Jeremy Clarkson £1m for his rights to Top Gear after axeing him from show

  23-05-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  His co-stars James May and Richard Hammond, who are joining him on a live arena tour, got nothing because they have no stake in the motoring series
  
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• Family's grief after toddler crushed to death by steel gate at horse riding centre

  23-05-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 2-year-old boy was on his family’s equestrian centre when the incident happened at around 2pm on Saturday
  
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• Benefits cheat who stole £110,000 was working as a civil servant for 12 YEARS

  23-05-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neil Smith was working in Whitehall as a clerical officer for Home Office’s UK Visas and Immigration division
  
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• Beard festival in Hungary

  23-05-2015 23:24 via
  
  Having spent years perfecting and styling their facial hair, these men finally had the chance to show off their eye-catching efforts at the beard festival in Hungary, pictured is Juergen Burkhardt.
  
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• Amazing double betrayal of mum who stole daughter's boyfriend - and then her son as well

  23-05-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Heather Ford said of her mum Helen “It’s sick, like something from a horror film. It’s as though she is trying to steal my whole life from me"
  
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• Amazing double betrayal of mum who stole daughter's boyfriend - and her SON

  23-05-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Heather Ford said of her mum Helen “It’s sick, like something from a horror film. It’s as though she is trying to steal my whole life from me"
  
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• Top Tories clash over human rights: party split over act abolishment

  23-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron is facing a major split in his party over plans to abolish the Human Rights Act, with senior Conservatives warning the move will damage Britain's standing in the world
  
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• Government to force council merger to speed up adoptions

  23-05-2015 22:48
  
  PLANS to force councils to work more closely with each other to speed up the adoption of children waiting to be matched with new parents are to be announced in this week’s Queen’s Speech.
  
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• We've an inkling that hurts! Thousands of tattoo lovers converge on London for international body art show with world's best artists showing off their skills

  23-05-2015 22:47 via
  
  Tattoo enthusiasts immersed themselves in the weird and wonderful world of body art at the Great British Tattoo Show in London today.
  
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• IRA killers may have been offered immunity

  23-05-2015 22:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lord Mountbatten's murderer could be among 'on the runs' covered by secret deal
  
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• Leading Ukraine rebel chief 'killed'

  23-05-2015 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the top rebel commanders in eastern Ukraine, Alexei Mozgovoi, is killed in an attack on his car, media say.
  
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• Elamai Harding: Hunt for missing 11-year-old girl over after she is found 'safe and well'

  23-05-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The youngster had been missing since early Saturday morning and police are desperate to find her due to her young age
  
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• Democracy ditched in race to install 'powerhouse' mayor

  23-05-2015 22:33 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Unelected victor will have greater control than anyone outside Westminster
  
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• Tories at war over plan to scrap Human Rights Act

  23-05-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Government figure may quit in order to vote against controversial Tory plan, as Andrew Mitchell, Dominic Grieve and Damian Green warn against watering down human rights
  
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• Russian supergrass 'poisoned after being tricked into visiting Paris'

  23-05-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Deadly substance derived from a rare plant may have been put into Alexander Perepilichnyy's food or drink during trip to France, according to the latest theory
  
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• Half-naked man left taped to traffic lights by pals wearing nothing but pair of pants

  23-05-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wearing just a pair of patterned briefs, the man was strapped with his hands behind his back using duct tape and cling film
  
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• Murder probe: Schoolboys among 11 arrested after body found in SHED

  23-05-2015 22:18
  
  Police have arrested 11 people including two schoolboys after a body of a man was found in a shed in a quiet residential street.
  
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• Killer nurse Victorino Chua's wife and children have moved away and severed all contact

  23-05-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sources close to the case said wife Maryanne, 43, and their two young children left the family home in Stockport following the poisoner’s arrest in 2012.
  
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• NHS bosses refuse to let 12-year-old girl have lifesaving drugs stored just yards from her hospital bed

  23-05-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Abi Longfellow has a rare kidney disease that will kill her in five years unless she gets the medicine she needs
  
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• NHS bosses refuse to let 12-year-old Abi have lifesaving drugs so she may be dead in 5 years

  23-05-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lifesaving drugs are stored yards away from the 12 year old's hospital bed but she can't have them
  
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• Storage Hunters star Dan Hill celebrates after picking up £5k ring for £1.50 at a car boot sale

  23-05-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The channel Dave presenter, who has already cashed in with an oil painting bonanza, shares his tips for picking up a bargain
  
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• Doctor Zhivago's Omar Sharif 'has Alzheimer's disease'

  23-05-2015 22:12 via
  
  Tarek El-Sharif revealed his father, Hollywood actor Omar Sharif, 83, is suffering from Alzheimer's and often mixes up the names of his best-known films which he starred in during the 1960s.
  
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• Chemistry teacher from Wales turns her family home into a drug factory 

  23-05-2015 22:11 via
  
  Susan McKay - who has continued to work as a teacher since her arrest - transformed her seven-bedroom country home in Llandyrnog near Denbigh, Wales, into a cannabis factory.
  
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• David Cameron faces EU referendum revolt over who will be allowed to vote in it

  23-05-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tory Euro-sceptics want to ban the 2.7million EU citizens living here and 1.3million UK nationals living in Europe from taking part in the historic vote
  
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• A drowned terrier and vigils for cows: What does Britain's fixation with animals say about us?

  23-05-2015 21:55
  
  Captain Stephen Woodhouse could not stand the way the dog next door kept yapping, so he drowned her in a bucket of water. “I reached my wits’ end,” the 52-year-old airline pilot told police. “All I could think of was that the noise had to stop. It was driving me bloody mad.”
  
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• X Factor's Chris Maloney has £60k of cosmetic surgery after pressure of show caused breakdown

  23-05-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The singer suffered merciless bullying during the 2012 series from Twitter trolls who branded him Mr Potato Head and targeted him with death threats
  
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• Michael Brelo: Cop who fired 15 shots at two unarmed car passengers is cleared of manslaughter

  23-05-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michael Brelo was charged with involuntary manslaughter after the fatal 2012 shootings - during which  137 shots were fired
  
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• Farc rebels killed in new air strike

  23-05-2015 21:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Colombia's security forces kill at least five rebels from the Farc a day after the left-wing rebel group suspended its unilateral ceasefire.
  
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• Hospital patient bled to death when nurses left him in ward toilet for 3 HOURS

  23-05-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Ombusdman has criticised Homerton Hospital, Hackney, after Susan Lyon complained about the death of her partner Allan Hawdon
  
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• 5-year-old British child given SHOTGUN license

  23-05-2015 21:27
  
  ALMOST 50 children aged under 10, including one five-year-old, have been granted shotgun licences in the past five years.
  
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• Train smashes through bridge into river after hitting tree which had fallen on tracks

  23-05-2015 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  These dramatic pictures show the mangled wreckage of the express train hanging from the bridge
  
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• Drugs kingpin who smuggled £5million of cocaine in children's jigsaws and presents jailed for 15 years

  23-05-2015 21:13 via
  
  Raheem Bailey, 44, from east London was the head of an international drug smuggling gang which stuffed drugs into children's toys and jigsaw boxes (pictured).
  
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• Former Stepping Hill suspect Rebecca wants time to rebuild her life

  23-05-2015 21:13
  
  THE family of Rebecca Leighton, the nurse wrongly accused of the Stepping Hill Hospital murders, have said they now just want time to rebuild their lives, writes Eugene Henderson.
  
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• Loose Women star Sherrie Hewson is planning a facelift because she doesn't like her looks

  23-05-2015 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pals of the Benidorm and ex-Coronation Street actress liken her to Cilla Black for her matchmaking skills but she can't find her own Mr Right
  
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• Loose Women star Sherrie Hewson having a facelift "to meet Mr Right and fall in love"

  23-05-2015 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pals of the Benidorm and ex-Coronation Street actress liken her to Cilla Black for her matchmaking skills but she can't find her own Mr Right
  
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• Perv schoolmaster Jeremy Forrest plans to teach in Thailand when he's released early from jail

  23-05-2015 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The maths teacher who fled to France with an underage pupil could be out on licence by the end of July after serving half his sentence
  
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• Bride-to-be invited paedophile monster who raped her throughout her childhood to her own wedding

  23-05-2015 20:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pictures of what should have been Kristy Sutton's favourite day still make her shudder because child rapist George Spooner was among the guests
  
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• Bride invited paedo monster who raped her throughout her childhood to her own wedding

  23-05-2015 20:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pictures of what should have been Kristy Sutton's favourite day still make her shudder because child rapist George Spooner was among the guests
  
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• Ashers Baking Company to only bake cakes for birthday celebrations

  23-05-2015 20:47 via
  
  The decision comes after a judge at Belfast County Court ruled that Ashers Baking Company had acted unlawfully by declining an order from gay rights activist Gareth Lee last year.
  
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