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• Vladimir Putin's ally issues chilling warning to the West: 'Tanks don't need visas'

  25-05-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin - seen by some as a future Kremlin president - claimed the West was now scared of Moscow's military muscle
  
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• Atheist mum bans children going to churches and mosques on school trips

  25-05-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Claire Baker says she believes an atheist upbringing is as much a choice as being raised with religion
  
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• BB King could have been POISONED by two closest aides, claim his daughters

  25-05-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Las Vegas police confirmed Karen Williams and Patty King have accused their late father's business manager and personal assistant of killing him
  
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• Incredible: UK Primary school where EVERY child has English as their SECOND language

  25-05-2015 23:29
  
  THIS is the incredible UK primary school where every one of the 859 pupils has English as their SECOND language.
  
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• First picture of 'Preston shirt snatcher' - who insists incident with young fan was 'misunderstanding'

  25-05-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum-of-two Vickie Timbrell, from Manchester, told the Mirror 'my story will soon come out' and has said she will clear the air with the boy's family
  
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• More than 3,000 pit bulls in Britain 25 years after they were banned

  25-05-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  legislation introduced following fatal attacks on children has failed to prevent the animals being bred and sold
  
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• Watch moment skydiver narrowly escapes death after smashing into power lines and tumbling to earth

  25-05-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Pitts was performing at a patriotic celebration in Tennessee when the accident happened
  
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• Moment skydiver narrowly escapes death after smashing into power lines and tumbling to earth

  25-05-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Pitts was performing at a patriotic celebration in Tennessee when the accident happened
  
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• Japanese firm invents 'Mewgaroo' hoodie that allows you to cuddle up with your CAT

  25-05-2015 23:07 via
  
  The 'Mewgaroo' is a sweatshirt with a large pouch in the front, big enough to carry a cat or a small dog. It is lined with thick fur to keep them snug and warm, much like a Joey kangaroo.
  
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• Tragic baby born with half a heart inspires brave mum to make heartbreaking memory box

  25-05-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Little Lilly-Anna Forrest was born with half a heart, a rare condition which means she is unlikely to reach adulthood
  
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• David Cameron must 'put money where his mouth is' on defence, senior Tories MPs warn

  25-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron warned that Britain's special relationship with the US will be put at risk unless he commits to spending 2 per cent of Britain's national income of defence.
  
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• Court orders 500,000 people to have pre-pay gas meters as they cannot pay their bills

  25-05-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Last year almost 100,000 homes were fitted with the meters as Britons struggled with soaring energy prices
  
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• British truckers steer clear of Calais as desperate migrants get more aggressive

  25-05-2015 22:59
  
  BRITISH lorry drivers are avoiding Calais because of iron-bar wielding illegal immigrants trying to force their way on to their vehicles.
  
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• Thousands affected by signal blackouts on 02 and Tesco Mobile phones across UK

  25-05-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Even the Government's Secretary of State for Business and Skills, Sajid Javid, has joined those complaining on Twitter - telling 02 to "sort it out"
  
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• O2 and Tesco mobile failures: Phone customers furious after service blackouts with two major operators

  25-05-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Even the Government's Secretary of State for Business and Skills, Sajid Javid, has joined those complaining on Twitter - telling 02 to "sort it out"
  
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• 02 and Tesco mobile failures: Phone customers furious after service blackouts with two major operators

  25-05-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Even the Government's Secretary of State for Business and Skills, Sajid Javid, has joined those complaining on Twitter - telling 02 to "sort it out"
  
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• Didcot murders: Who was triple-murder suspect Jed Allen?

  25-05-2015 22:46
  
  The body of triple-murder suspect Jed Allen has been discovered in woodland in Oxford, two days after his schoolgirl sister, his mother and her partner were found stabbed to death at their home in Didcot.
  
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• Prisoner 'eating his jail' by scoffing down screws, leather straps and needles

  25-05-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lamont Cathey has so far cost authorities a staggering £840,000 in healthcare for his rather unusual prison diet
  
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• Preston North End fan Vickie Timbrell grabs Jermaine Beckford's football shirt from boy

  25-05-2015 22:40 via
  
  The woman who sparked outrage when she grabbed a football hero's shirt out of the hands of an eight-year-old fan has been named as mother-of-two Vickie Timbrell, 31 (pictured).
  
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• Brothel madam who used vice earnings to buy 100 pairs of designer shoes and 400 luxury handbags is ordered to hand over £1million

  25-05-2015 22:38 via
  
  Margaret Paterson, 62, and Robert Munro, 63, (pictured) were among five people who were ordered to pay back almost £1.5 million in separate cases at the High Court in Edinburgh today.
  
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• Woman, 21, dies from blood clot just ONE MONTH after she starts taking contraceptive pill

  25-05-2015 22:37
  
  DEVASTATED parents whose 21-year-old daughter died from a blood clot are blaming a contraceptive pill for killing her.
  
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• Ireland's first gay marriages set for autumn as new laws to be enacted by end of July 

  25-05-2015 22:35 via
  
  Following the weekend's decisive vote, Ireland's Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said she was working to fulfil the wishes of same-sex couples who want to wed as soon as possible.
  
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• Tim Farron interview: Front-runner to replace Nick Clegg as Lib Dem leader says party needs to return to grassroots

  25-05-2015 22:29
  It would be fair to say that over the past five years Tim Farron has never been the Liberal Democrats’ greatest coalition enthusiast.
  
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• Jed Allen Didcot murders: Police are 'satisfied' the body is that of the 'Wolverine killer'

  25-05-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 21-year-old fugitive was discovered in north Oxford by people out enjoying a bank holiday walk
  
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• Our top 50 favourite smells revealed (and the 20 worst) 

  25-05-2015 22:26 via
  
  Others to make the top 10 included cakes baking in the oven, the seaside, just laundered clothes, a Sunday roast and fish and chips, while bins, drains and body odour were top of the 20 worst.
  
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• Jealous husband stabbed wife 20 times and left teenage daughter to treat life-threatening wounds

  25-05-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Tuley, 44, chased terrified wife Theresa into a neighbour's garden before launching the frenzied attack, which was heard by her children
  
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• Tim Farron says Lib Dems must reinvent themselves as campaign movement

  25-05-2015 22:24
  
  The Liberal Democrats must comprehensively reinvent themselves, ditching Edwardian-style party structures and creating a new movement that campaigns on issues that “fire up” new members, the front-runner for the party’s leadership has said.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Yvette Cooper appeals to family vote with childcare pledge

  25-05-2015 22:18
  
  Labour must reach out to a generation of families who struggle to work and bring up children, with an offer of a free, Scandinavian-style system of universal childcare, Yvette Cooper has said.
  
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• Off-duty nurses saved life of Alison Lyons who 'died' FOUR times

  25-05-2015 22:13 via
  
  Alison Lyons, 49, suffered a heart attack at the side of the road in Stoke-on-Trent while she was training for a half-marathon. Two off-duty nurses had to resuscitate the mother-of-two four times.
  
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• I want the Labour Party to lead a revolution in family support

  25-05-2015 22:10
  
  There’s never any shortage of politicians using the word “family” – promising to be family-friendly, help working families or hard-working families.
  
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• Queen's Speech: The Tories' commitments

  25-05-2015 22:06
  
  Tax cuts for low earners
  
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• Queen's Speech 2015: Scrapping the human rights act, right to buy, and an EU referendum – what you can expect

  25-05-2015 22:06
  
  The Queen's Speech marks the start of this session of parliament. The address, written by government ministers, is delivered by the Queen and lays out the government's agenda for the next year.Here's what you can expect from this year's Queen's Speech, which will be delivered by the Monarch on 27 May 2015.
  
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• Jed Allen Didcot murders: Recap of updates as police find body believed to be Wolverine killer

  25-05-2015 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police had been hunting for the 21-year-old since the bodies of Jan Jordon, 48, Philip Howard, 44, and six-year-old Derin were found on Saturday
  
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• Tom Cruise's next role is a 280lb drug smuggler and CIA gun runner in Mena

  25-05-2015 22:02 via
  
  Tom Cruise is to play drug smuggler Barry Seal, a pilot from Baton Rouge, LA, who brought the Medellin cartel's cocaine to the USA then turned informer before being gunned down in 1986.
  
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• Tenants' mess showcased in pictures used to sell £450,000 Marylebone flat on Zoopla 

  25-05-2015 22:02 via
  
  The astonishing collection of pictures, which can be viewed on property website Zoopla, show unwanted junk bursting out of cupboards and living areas that appear to have been ransacked.
  
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• O2 users hit by phone signal failure problems - even the Business Secretary is affected

  25-05-2015 22:02
  
  PHONE mast problems are causing chaos for mobile users on the O2 network tonight.
  
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• The breakthrough that could stop diabetics going blind

  25-05-2015 22:00 via
  
  Scientists from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found theprotein angiopoietin-like 4 can trigger blindness in people with diabetes. Drugs to block its action could save their sight.
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron under mounting pressure to let under-18s vote

  25-05-2015 21:56
  
  David Cameron is facing mounting pressure to let 16- and 17-year-olds vote on membership of the EU as Labour and the SNP said they would demand such a move in Parliament this week.
  
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• Police hunt rapist who attacked 13-year-old girl in broad daylight after arranging to meet her day before

  25-05-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man, described as Asian and in his early 20s, spoke with the girl in Camden before asking her to meet him in Kingston-upon-Thames the next day
  
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• Hunt for rapist who attacked 13-year-old girl on grassland after arranging to meet victim day before

  25-05-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man, described as Asian and in his early 20s, spoke with the girl in Camden before asking her to meet him in Kingston-upon-Thames the next day
  
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• Jihad fears in Calais: Undercover police search for ISIS extremists in migrant camps

  25-05-2015 21:52
  
  UNDERCOVER officers are infiltrating migrant groups in Calais looking for jihadists trying to sneak into the UK, it has been revealed.
  
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• Meet the man who takes his fiance for walkies with dog collar and lead

  25-05-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nathan Riely says to Xena a collar is just like a ring and he is her 'fiance master'
  
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• 'Hit litter louts with bigger fines to clean up Britain's streets' says pressure group

  25-05-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keep Britain Tidy wants the penalties hiked for yobs who drop chewing gum and cigarette butts on streets as councils await more cuts
  
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• Malta drownings: British victims were partners in Birmingham dental practice

  25-05-2015 21:38
  
  TWO Britons who drowned in Malta were today named as dentists Mehwish Kamran Shabir and Lyace Ali.
  
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• Lord Justice Leveson: 'I don't feel crushed by the European jackboot'

  25-05-2015 21:33 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lord Justice Leveson says British judges no longer feel that 'Strasbourg has spoken and that's the end of it'
  
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• Charlie Charlie Challenge: Top five strangest questions asked to 'demon' in bizarre internet craze

  25-05-2015 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thousands of youngsters are experimenting with the ouija board-inspired game, with many claiming they've been able to communicate with a Mexican ghost called Charlie
  
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• Stephen Lawrence: Internal police memo 'shows officers were ordered to spy on campaigners' ahead of public inquiry

  25-05-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shocking message was circulated to senior officers on the force’s computer system before being passed on to junior ranks
  
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• Is David Beckham the hottest punt chauffeur ever? Star tries his hand on River Cam during family trip

  25-05-2015 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If the former footballer finds himself short of work, looks like he’d make a good hand on the boats
  
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• Campaigners unite in bid to save 'exceptional' Victorian home from being turned into flats

  25-05-2015 21:19
  
  One of the best preserved Victorian homes in the north of England, whose magnificent interiors were admired by poet John Betjeman, is under threat, campaigners say, due to plans to convert the building into flats.
  
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• UK lorry drivers boycott Calais over fears 'somebody will be killed' by illegal immigrants

  25-05-2015 21:18 via
  
  Lorry driver Michael Pearson (pictured) said he was boycotting Calais because he fears somebody will soon be 'seriously injured or killed' by illegal immigrants.
  
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