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• Fury at Royal Mail sell-off as public left in the dark over who bought £750m worth of shares

  11-06-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The latest shares were sold at a 3% discount but a stock market announcement only stated that 150 millions shares were placed with ''institutional investors''
  
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• Nestlé battle to trademark KitKat's four-fingers chocolate treat hit with setback from Euro lawyer

  11-06-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The company claimed 90 per cent of people would mention KitKat if shown a four-fingered chocolate bar
  
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• New Med migrant rescue drama: Hundreds are saved from drowning off Tunisian coast

  11-06-2015 23:50
  
  HUNDREDS of suspected illegal immigrants were plucked from the Mediterranean by the Tunisian navy and returned to shore after their boat capsized on its way to Italy.
  
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• Mum with terminal breast cancer pens heartbreaking final blog post

  11-06-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rosie, who lives with her husband and children in London, was diagnosed with breast cancer last year
  
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• Exercise to fight misery of back pain: Experts reveal their top tips to help sufferers

  11-06-2015 23:49
  
  HEALTH experts are calling for a national exercise “step change” as sufferers from back pain are costing the UK £1billion a year.
  
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• Taylor Swift shocks family with $15,000 donation after firefighter saves his OWN wife and son from horrific car crash

  11-06-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A fundraising page was set up for the family as the seven-year-old child and his mum are still recovering from their injuries in hospital
  
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• Oculus Rift virtual reality headset officially unveiled - and critics claim it looks REALLY 'SILLY'

  11-06-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Facebook-owned firm lifts the lid on amazing virtual reality headset - but will anyone actually wear one?
  
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• UK weather: Isle of Wight Festival set to be washout as rain and storms set in

  11-06-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Met Office warns thunder and lightning could bring bursts of heavy rain to parts of the South East over the next two days
  
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• Rising numbers of ethnic minority pupils fuel demand for primary school places

  11-06-2015 23:38
  
  STATE primary schools are facing a continuing surge in demand, fuelled in part by a rise in the numbers of pupils from ethnic minorities, official figures suggest.
  
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• Bradford teacher stabbing tip of iceberg as 55 school staff assaulted EVERY DAY

  11-06-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There were 10,000 attacks in England and Wales in the 2011/12 school year and 10,750 in 2012/13
  
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• Cake congratulating men on 'office romance' found stuffed in bin sparks online hunt

  11-06-2015 23:31
  
  THE search is on for two men after a cake congratulating them on their office romance was found in a bin.
  
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• Twitter terrorist who encouraged men, women and even children to wage violent jihad is jailed

  11-06-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Iraqi Alaa Esayed posted more than 45,000 Tweets in Arabic on an open account to her 8,240 followers encouraging men, women and even children to get involved in holy war
  
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• You can't keep on hiding, police warn mother who is on the run with three-year-old son

  11-06-2015 23:29
  
  POLICE hunting a mother who vanished with her three-year-old son warned: “You can’t keep hiding.”
  
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• Tamir Rice: Judge finds probable cause for murder and negligent homicide against police officers

  11-06-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 12-year-old boy was shot dead after officers responded to reports a man was seen brandishing a had gun
  
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• Blair's down time: Former PM dined out with wealthy friends and contacts while on business trips

  11-06-2015 23:22 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Secret files reveal how Tony Blair spent his spare time on his taxpayer-funded business trips all over the world
  
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• Robbie Keane posts touching tribute to his cousin who died in horror sewer accident

  11-06-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alan Harris, who owned a drainage firm, collapsed and died when he was 'overcome by underground sewerage fumes'
  
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• UK has ‘turned its back’ on skilled foreign workers claims Nigel Farage

  11-06-2015 23:14
  
  THE cap on the number of skilled migrants from outside the European Union coming to the UK has been reached for the first time.
  
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• Backpacker Eleanor Hawkins' dad slams 'halfwit Canadian' for stirring up naked mountain picture media storm

  11-06-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Blogger Emil Kaminski, arrested along with Brit Eleanor, mocked the Malaysians and described sacred Kinabalu as “just a f***ing mountain”
  
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• This girl's EPIC fall is the most replayable accident ever caught on camera

  11-06-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's a MIRACLE this girl didn't seriously injure herself after falling seven feet over a banister
  
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• Mother jailed for sheltering nursery school teacher's murderer

  11-06-2015 23:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Fiona Cullum sobs in the courtroom as her suspended sentence for perverting the course of justice is declared 'unduly lenient'
  
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• National debt will hit unsustainable levels by 2060s because of rising elderly population says watchdog

  11-06-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Whitehall budgets will face repeated cuts to cope with soaring health, pension and benefit bills for the aged, according to the Office for Budget ­Responsibility
  
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• Give me back my parents: Ashes of mum and dad stolen from son's house in burglary

  11-06-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The remains of Steve Cochrane's mum and dad - Mavis and Cyril - were taken along with war medals, paintings and other irreplaceable items
  
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• This is one un-bear-ably cute selfie: Inquisitive animal caught 'posing for the camera'

  11-06-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bear looked deep into the camera lens...and then picked it up in its mouth and covered it with slobber
  
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• Luxury hotels in 20 countries: How Tony Blair touts for global business

  11-06-2015 23:03 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former Prime Minister took eight UK police officers at a time on trips all over the world as he built his global business empire, secret files reveal
  
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• 'Black Madam' sentenced for killing British dancer with illegal buttocks injection

  11-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Padge-Victoria Windslowe convicted of murdering Claudia Aderotimi by injecting her with industrial-strength silicone to make her bottom larger
  
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• More Britons trained as terrorists than ever before, says MI5

  11-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Number of UK-linked suspects involved in or exposed to terror training or fighting is "unprecedented" and risk to security, report reveals
  
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• Labour split on David Cameron's EU referendum 'purdah' position

  11-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  After senior figures publicly contradict each other within 24 hours Labour's frontbenchers remain split on whether to join Tory rebels to defeat PM
  
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• Why is Tony Blair being accused of conflicts of interest?

  11-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Documents seen by the Telegraph show former PM Tony Blair used trips supported by the taxpayer to carry out both private business meetings and talks
  
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• Twitter and other firms could tip off terror suspects that they are under watch by spies, report reveals

  11-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Communications providers have policy to notify users of requests to access their data unless ordered not to, landmark snooping report says
  
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• Researchers compile 'smell maps' of urban areas using the noses of thousands of volunteers

  11-06-2015 23:00
  
  How does your neighbourhood smell? That's not the set-up for a feeble joke; a group of people are genuinely interested. Perhaps your picturesque village has a light floral bouquet. Maybe you live near farmland where there's a whiff of manure if the wind changes direction. If, like me, you live in London, researchers have already plotted our "urban smellscape" onto a map based on data gleaned from exploratory "smell walks", combined with information mined from Flickr, Instagram and Twitter.
  
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• Heroin gang ram cops and run over detective in desperate bid to evade capture

  11-06-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Drugs kingpin David Charlton had only been out of jail for a few weeks when he was found to be embroiled in the criminal enterprise
  
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• Graphic: The A-Z of Tony Blair's global business deals

  11-06-2015 22:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Our graphic shows how the former Prime Minister's concerns now stretches from Albania to the Swiss financial services firm Zurich Insurance Group
  
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• How two men survived a prison where 12,000 died

  11-06-2015 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How two men survived a prison where 12,000 were killed
  
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• Tony Blair tells Labour to look to future – and blames Ed Miliband for looking backwards

  11-06-2015 22:50
  
  Tony Blair has appealed to Labour members to make the right choice when they elect their new leader, and criticised Ed Miliband for adopting backward-looking policies which did not address the problems of today’s world.
  
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• From bailout to sale: RBS’s traumatic seven years

  11-06-2015 22:48
  
  “The Government is not a permanent investor in UK banks. Its intention, over time, is to dispose of all the investments.”
  
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• A-level physics paper which sparked social media fury had MISTAKE in a question

  11-06-2015 22:45
  
  AN A-LEVEL physics paper which was slammed by students for being too difficult had a MISTAKE in a question, it has emerged.
  
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• Watch: Video on how to get a pigeon out of the house goes viral

  11-06-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The rescuer attempts a brave display of manliness - but then squeals and flaps around himself as the bird is set loose
  
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• The traditional British picnic of pork pies and cheese sandwiches 'is on the way out'

  11-06-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MP3 players and disposable barbecues are now order of the day for people to enjoy a spot of food in the sun
  
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• Labour fears sale of RBS is being 'rushed' by Tories as share price remains below break-even

  11-06-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie believes RBS doesn't have to be sold off as quick as it was bailed out
  
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• Spring now arrives across Britain 11 days earlier

  11-06-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Spring now moves faster up the country, speeding through Britain at 1.9mph compared with 1.2mph in the 19th century
  
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• Revealed: The true scale of Tony Blair's global business empire

  11-06-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Secret documents seen by the Telegraph disclose details of private jets, five-star hotel stays and police guards funded by taxpayer
  
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• Spring has sprung much quicker across the UK than in the past says study

  11-06-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The average speed of the passage of spring this year was around 1.9mph, taking nearly three weeks to cover the length of the country from south to north
  
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• Fury at council's bid to buy £1.2m mansion as a holiday home for problem families

  11-06-2015 22:30
  
  A COUNCIL sparked fury after it put in a £1,250,000 offer on a mansion so it can send troubled families on holiday.
  
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• Bradford school stabbing: Vincent Uzomah desperately tried to stem bleeding after attack

  11-06-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The injured teacher stumbled from the classroom and collapsed in a corridor as the boy who knifed him fled
  
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• George Osborne considers slashing £5bn from child tax credits - despite David Cameron's promise not to

  11-06-2015 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Cameron says he "rejected" the idea of slashing child tax credits - but it's reportedly back on the table as part of £12bn raft of benefit cuts
  
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• Festival goers fury as Download's cashless wristbands 'crashes'

  11-06-2015 22:17
  
  MUSIC fans have vented their fury after a 'cashless' payment system at a major British festival appeared to crash.
  
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• Windsor stabbing: Police launch huge manhunt after man critically injured in drive-by attack

  11-06-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 21-year-old victim was knifed twice in the chest and once in the kidneys and is in a critical condition in hospital
  
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• 'I felt rejected by my adoption and turned to drugs but now I have two mums who love me'

  11-06-2015 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  No matter how many times Peter Gun was told he was special he could not blot out the pain of his adoption
  
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• China releases wife of British sex tape investigator for GlaxoSmithKline

  11-06-2015 22:04
  
  The wife of a British corporate investigator who was working for the drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in China has been released early from jail.
  
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• China releases wife of British investigator for GlaxoSmithKline

  11-06-2015 22:04
  
  The wife of a British corporate investigator who was working for the drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in China has been released early from jail.
  
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