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• Save Abi: How can one girl be given a life-saving drug while another is denied it?

  30-05-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bitter-sweet meeting of Abi Longfellow and Ellie Kilty who both have rare kidney diseases – but only one of them is being given the lifesaving treatment by the NHS
  
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• Valentine the calf spared from the dinner table thanks to perfect heart on her head

  30-05-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Farm staff have fallen for the adorable baby cow after being born with a perfectly formed white heart marking on her forehead
  
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• 'Not enough cells' for child abusers

  30-05-2015 23:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sue Berelowitz, who is currently chairing the government's inquiry into child abuse, said the public would be shocked by the sheer scale of the problem
  
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• Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais: Legendary creators of Porridge and The Likely Lads on their new sitcom Henry IX

  30-05-2015 23:52
  From Porridge to The Likely Lads, writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have created some of British comedy’s most indelible characters.
  
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• Troubled Cliff Richard flies home to Britain on budget airline with his beloved sister

  30-05-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 74-year-old star, who faces claims of historic sex abuse, was snapped at Stansted with sister Joan Pilgrim after a seven-hour delay to his Ryanair flight
  
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• Haroon Ahmed: Violent escaped prisoner reportedly 'in Spain'

  30-05-2015 23:46
  
  Police hunting for a violent criminal who escaped from prison say they are "investigating all lines of inquiry" amid reports he fled to Spain.
  
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• More than HALF of UK GP's would help a patient die if it was legal, survey reveals

  30-05-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Just a year ago a poll showed far fewer – 19 per cent – would be prepared to assist in a suicide
  
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• Nigeria militant attacks kill 29

  30-05-2015 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Militants launch deadly raids in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, including a suicide attack on a mosque, after the inauguration of the new president.
  
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• Gay bull saved from the slaughter has an eye for the ladies after all!

  30-05-2015 23:37
  
  A “GAY” bull saved from slaughter after an international campaign appears to be on the turn after showing a more frisky side.
  
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• Save Abi Longfellow: 105,000 join campaign against NHS decision to withdraw girl's lifesaving treatment

  30-05-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister is under pressure to intervene after the Sunday People highlighted the case of the 12-year-old refused a vital kidney treatment
  
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• Brendan Rodgers comforted by girlfriend after his bad month gets even worse

  30-05-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The beleagured Liverpool boss is under pressure over the team's end of season slump and was also taken to court for maintenance by his estranged wife Susan
  
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• The Clangers: Michael Palin delighted to be back narrating children's TV series as it returns to British screens

  30-05-2015 23:24
  When the much-loved children’s TV series The Clangers returns to British screens next month, viewers can expect a few changes to the original. But the enhancements in the Michael Palin-narrated series come with the support of one of the people who was around from the very beginning.
  
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• The Battle of the Beanfield: The violent new-age traveller clash with police at Stonehenge remembered 30 years on

  30-05-2015 23:24
  ‘It was a hideous thing, a defining point in my life,” says Dale Vince, a former new-age traveller and owner of the green energy company Ecotricity. “I slept with one eye open after that. It was hard to feel secure.”
  
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• Little girl drowns in pond as her mum gives birth to baby boy in hospital

  30-05-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police in Ohio, US, said the 18-month-old toddler was found in a pond while staying with a relative
  
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• Arsenal 4-0 Aston Villa

  30-05-2015 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal retain the FA Cup with a win over Aston Villa to become the most successful team in the competition's history.
  
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• Rare photos unearthed of stars from Muhammad Ali to the Beatles

  30-05-2015 23:17 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Photos taken for the TV Times magazine made into fine art prints after being discovered after 50 years
  
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• Man 'admits killing wealthy Briton' found dead in Indian forest

  30-05-2015 23:14
  
  A DRIVER has been charged with killing a British millionaire entrepreneur whose body was found in a forest in India.
  
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• Wills puts boot into Fifa

  30-05-2015 23:09
  
  PRINCE WILLIAM launched a thinly veiled attack on Fifa yesterday calling on football’s world governing body to stamp out the corruption that has “long lingered” around the game.
  
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• Just cracking! British cheeses give continentals a run for their money in taste test

  30-05-2015 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  2013 Masterchef winner Natalie Coleman gives English brands the thumbs up to celebrate start of British Cheese Week
  
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• The darker side of Buddhism

  30-05-2015 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Are some monks encouraging violence and hostility?
  
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• Cameron's EU reform must not be a 'sham'

  30-05-2015 23:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Prime Minister has an opportunity to be radical and he must take it, says David Campbell Bannerman
  
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• Life at the world's largest shipyard

  30-05-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Life at the world's largest shipyard
  
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• Tobacco industry accused of fueling cigarette smuggling to boost profits

  30-05-2015 23:03
  
  The tobacco industry has been accused of “appalling hypocrisy”, amid claims that it is fuelling the illicit trade in cigarette smuggling to bolster its arguments against tax increases and other anti-smoking measures.
  
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• Arsenal 'must target Premier League'

  30-05-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal forward Theo Walcott says the Gunners have to challenge for the Premier League title after winning the FA Cup.
  
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• Second referendum 'in five years' if voters choose to stay in EU

  30-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Cabinet ministers raise Scottish-style "neverendum" threat, as top Tories warn David Cameron must not put a "sham" deal to voters in the EU referendum
  
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• Hawking's fear cuts pose threat for disabled students

  30-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Stephen Hawking says he fears someone with his severe disabilities would not be given the help and opportunity to succeed today because of financial pressures on universities
  
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• Davina McCall: 'You must keep your husband satisfied in the bedroom'

  30-05-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The television presenter tries to pick underwear her husband will like and watches her diet carefully
  
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• FA Cup final: Fans clash on tracks at Kilburn underground station following Arsenal's 4-0 victory over Aston Villa

  30-05-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fans have brought the Jubilee line to a standstill following a clash between fans at the station
  
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• VIDEO: Arrests at Moscow gay pride rally

  30-05-2015 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russian police detain several gay rights activists for attempting to stage an unauthorised gay pride rally in central Moscow, as well as detaining several anti-gay Orthodox religious counter-demonstrators.
  
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• New campaign will see thousands set to abandon creature comforts and go wild outdoors

  30-05-2015 22:46
  
  Climate change is important but we need to concentrate too on our immediate environment, the Prime Minister’s former strategy adviser Steve Hilton told an audience at Hay Festival last week. “We need a fundamental rethink [of] humanity’s relationship with the natural world that we inhabit,” he said. He argued for “moving the pendulum back towards the system of our ancestors, in which we benefit from nature while simultaneously giving back to and co-existing with it”.
  
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• Jonathan Goddard: Meet the man using rap to make Latin a hip new subject

  30-05-2015 22:46
  
  Rapper Jonathan Goddard is using his skills to motivate his students in a classroom in a deprived area of London. The children, some as young as eight, are rapping, singing and gesturing in unison, but the language they’re using isn’t English. It’s Latin.
  
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• HMRC's late tax return fine waiver 'absurd' and 'ethically wrong'

  30-05-2015 22:46
  
  The legality and effectiveness of waiving the £100 fine for a late tax return is being queried, despite the move receiving a warm welcome from taxpayers.
  
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• Tim Farron to propose massive overhaul of UK electoral system

  30-05-2015 22:46
  
  Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leadership favourite, will propose another “Great Reform Act” to overhaul Britain’s electoral system on one of the few days that the weakened party will have significant parliamentary influence.
  
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• EU referendum: In-out vote in May 2016 too soon, says electoral commission

  30-05-2015 22:45
  
  David Cameron has been warned by Britain’s elections watchdog to avoid going for an early EU referendum because it is such an “important constitutional issue”, as Nicola Sturgeon prepares to tell the Prime Minister that Scotland will not be dragged out of Europe “against our will”.
  
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• Lawyers question David Cameron’s pledge to offer right to buy to housing-association tenants

  30-05-2015 22:45
  
  Councils and Whitehall departments will be told by the new Communities Secretary this week to “loosen their grip” on surplus land that they own so it can be released for housebuilding.
  
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• Extreme summer temperatures will soon cause deaths of up to 1,700 more Britons a year, says government report

  30-05-2015 22:45
  
  Extreme summer temperatures will, in five years’ time, cause the deaths of up to 1,700 more Britons a year, according to a new government report. And that is on top of the 2,000 people a year who currently die from heat-related illness in Britain.
  
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• Wrongly accused Stepping Hill murders nurse Rebecca Leighton says 'I was chewed up and spat out'

  30-05-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  In her first ever newspaper interview, the innocent woman locked up and dubbed 'The Angel of Death' tells the Sunday People how she is trying to rebuild her life
  
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• JD Wetherspoon admits 'racially stereotyping' against Travellers - again

  30-05-2015 22:40
  
  One of the UK’s largest pub chains has admitted racially discriminating against Travellers for the second time in as many weeks, paying out more than £10,000 to three people who were refused entry to a bar in Cambridge.
  
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• Tesco store manager accused of beating up man with mental health issues

  30-05-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The mother of the alleged victim, who was seen dancing with a fairy wand in the freezer aisle of a Sheffield supermarket, says he has been in and out of psychiatric hospital for 12 years
  
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• Chuka Umunna: The Labour Party has taken 'ethnic minority support for granted'

  30-05-2015 22:32
  
  The Labour Party has taken the support of ethnic minority voters for granted and risks losing them to the Conservatives, says Chuka Umunna.
  
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• 'Villa have got a losing mentality'

  30-05-2015 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood promises to rid the club of its "losing mentality" after their FA Cup final loss to Arsenal.
  
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• Paedophile Sidney Cooke's potential links to murder of boy, 8, ignored by police

  30-05-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vishal Mehrotra was snatched after his family watched Princess Diana's wedding procession and Cooke was mentioned at least EIGHT times in a censored police report
  
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• Leading employers prefer work experience over grades, says new research

  30-05-2015 22:28
  
  Leading employers value work experience among graduates more than the grades or the university they have been to, according to new research. Figures show that 58 per cent of employers rated work experience as “the most popular qualification among those presented” – with a student’s personality coming second, with 48 per cent favouring this.
  
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• Michael Gove determined to scrap Human Rights Act - even if Scotland retains it

  30-05-2015 22:23
  
  Scotland could be allowed to retain the Human Rights Act even if Westminster sidelined the European Court in favour of an “English” Bill of Rights, according to new plans being considered by Michael Gove.
  
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• Firm which mocked Bedroom Tax victims in advert has fatcat Tory MP as a director

  30-05-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Furniture Village, which has Stephen McPartland MP on its board, joked about the hated tax in an advertisement for an £800 mattress
  
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• Pro12 final: Glasgow Warriors 31-13 Munster

  30-05-2015 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Glasgow Warriors win the Pro12 for the first time with an assured victory over Munster in the final in Belfast.
  
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• Armed robber WALKS out of prison and into hiding in Spain - but we've tracked him down

  30-05-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Haroon Ahmed simply “walked out” of HMP Dovegate, Staffs, on Wednesday with a group of people who had been visiting him
  
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• Tory MP Julian Lewis: My party left Britain’s military capabilities 'enfeebled'

  30-05-2015 22:08
  
  A leading Tory MP has savaged his own party’s record on defence, saying that the previous Labour government had been more “strategic” on the future of the armed forces while the Tories had left Britain’s capabilities “enfeebled”.
  
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• We must reform the European Court of Human Rights, not reject it

  30-05-2015 22:00
  
  The Conservative general election success is a victory few predicted. Within this mandate is a commitment to scrap the Human Rights Act and introduce a British Bill of Rights. The Queen’s Speech said the Government will “bring forward proposals” for this.
  
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• Lib Dem MP insists he 'did not rape little girl in the woods and is not a paedophile'

  30-05-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The MP claims that his alleged victim’s detailed account of long-term sexual abuse – which is now subject to a major police investigation – is “completely made up”
  
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