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• 'Racist' headmistress found guilty of calling her staff 'f***ing Muslims' banned from classroom for life

  12-06-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  On one occasion, Anupe Hanch, 49, said: "if we have any more Muslims in here it's going to start looking like Al Jazeera" while checking CVs at her east London school
  
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• Sample of Sir Alexander Fleming's penicillin mould set to make thousands at auction

  12-06-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The scientist gave the specimen, from his pioneering antibiotics research that saved millions of lives, to a couple who foiled a burglary at his home
  
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• Toddler shoots himself dead after finding mum's handgun in her purse and playing with it

  12-06-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marques Green was shot in the chest and in a horrific phone call to police, his mother is heard screaming: "he’s shot in the heart"
  
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• Sir Henry Angest: Banker who gave Tories millions is knighted in reward for 'political service'

  12-06-2015 23:48
  
  A millionaire ex-Tory party treasurer with links to a high-interest loans company has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, as others who donated to the Conservatives during the election are also recognised.
  
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• Queen's Birthday Honours: Sir Henry Angest, banker who gave Tories millions, is knighted in reward for 'political service'

  12-06-2015 23:48
  
  A millionaire ex-Tory party treasurer with links to a high-interest loans company has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, as others who donated to the Conservatives during the election are also recognised.
  
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• Watch an out-of-control SUV plough into a restaurant as diners are sat down eating

  12-06-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The terrifying moment, which was captured on CCTV, shows the Kia Sorento appear out of nowhere and burst through a wall
  
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• EuroMillions jackpot of £93 million won by ticket bought in UK

  12-06-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "We await a claim and, of course, have plenty of champagne on ice ready for our latest EuroMillions multi-millionaire," a Camelot said
  
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• Damehood for former EC science chief

  12-06-2015 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After her post was controversially axed, the former chief scientific advisor to the European Commission, Anne Glover, is made a Dame.
  
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• Actors lead entertainment honours

  12-06-2015 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kevin Spacey gets an honorary knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours, while Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Eddie Redmayne are also recognised.
  
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• Rebecca Minnock: missing mother returns with son and hands herself in to police

  12-06-2015 23:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rebecca Minnock, 35, fled her home in Highbridge, Somerset, with three-year-old Ethan two weeks ago following a court order that he should live with his father, Roger Williams
  
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• Lucky UK ticket-holder scoops £93 MILLION Euromillions jackpot

  12-06-2015 23:36
  
  A single ticket bought in the UK has scooped the £93m EuroMillions jackpot.
  
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• EuroMillions results: Lucky UK ticket-holder scoops £93 MILLION jackpot

  12-06-2015 23:36
  
  A SINGLE EuroMillions ticket bought in the UK has scooped the £93million jackpot.
  
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• Queen's Birthday Honours: Van Morrison and Paddington creator top the arts list

  12-06-2015 23:33
  
  Van Morrison, the reclusive singer-songwriter, has received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List – one of a number of arts and entertainment stars to be honoured.
  
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• Queen's Birthday Honours: Van Morrison and Paddington creator Michael Bond top the arts list – as founder of The Independent is knighted

  12-06-2015 23:33
  
  Van Morrison, the reclusive singer-songwriter, has received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List – one of a number of arts and entertainment stars to be honoured.
  
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• Dads take over in the kitchen as 30% take sole charge of family cooking

  12-06-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Conversely, the barbecue is no longer the male domain it once was, with virtually the same number of men and women using it
  
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• Watch prankster spike his mate's McDonald's drink with extra hot chilli sauce

  12-06-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The friend is left writhing around in agony after taking a big slurp of his very spicy fizzy drink
  
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• Birthday Honours: Twelve famous faces

  12-06-2015 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twelve of the well-known recipients of Birthday Honours
  
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• Queen's Birthday Honours: Bank of England's Minouche Shafik leads the business gongs

  12-06-2015 23:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Bank of England Deputy Governor made a Dame as world of regulation and banking recognised
  
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• Shocking moment man 'pulls knife and stabs driver's car window' in street row

  12-06-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police are now investigating the video which appears to show a row between a group of men escalating on a street in Stamford Hill, north London
  
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• Kate Middleton returns to work tomorrow - just six weeks after Princess Charlotte's birth

  12-06-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge, 33, will make her first public appearance since her daughter was born by attending the Queen’s official birthday parade
  
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• Kate Middleton returns to work today - just six weeks after Princess Charlotte's birth

  12-06-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge, 33, will make her first public appearance since her daughter was born by attending the Queen’s official birthday parade
  
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• It's no honour for Lenny Henry and Benedict Cumberbatch to be given gongs by the Queen

  12-06-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's that time again when people you once admired become grovelling Baldricks in their desperation to be honoured by an archaic system, writes Fiona Phillips
  
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• Queen's Birthday Honours: Tory party backers get top awards

  12-06-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Conservative Party Treasurer Henry Angest was given a knighthood for “political service" after donating £1.9m to the Tories
  
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• Queen's Birthday Honours: Benedict Cumberbatch, Lenny Henry and big hearted Katie Cutler among those awarded

  12-06-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kind-hearted Katie Cutler has been honoured alongside the country’s biggest stars of sport and showbiz in the Queen’s birthday honours
  
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• Hundreds pay respects to Charles Kennedy as former Lib Dem chief is laid to rest in Scotland

  12-06-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Family members join party colleagues including Nick Clegg and Lord Steel, and Labour politicians Gordon Brown and Alistair Campbell, for funeral near Fort William
  
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• Police hope sex attacker's aftershave will be a clue to sniffing him out

  12-06-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pervert's victim was unable to provide a full description her her assailant - but recognised the scent of Paco Rabanne 1 Million
  
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• Runaway mum Rebecca Minnock hands herself into police

  12-06-2015 23:08
  
  A MOTHER who fled her home with her three-year-old son has handed herself into police after saying that he "needs his routine" back.
  
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• BREAKING: Runaway mum Rebecca Minnock hands herself into police

  12-06-2015 23:08
  
  A MOTHER who fled her home with her three-year-old son has handed herself into police after saying that he "needs his routine" back.
  
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• Missing mother Rebecca Minnock hands herself in to police and admits 'my time has run out' after running away with son

  12-06-2015 23:06
  
  The mother who defied a court order and disappeared for a fortnight with her three-year-old son has handed herself in.
  
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• Missing mother and toddler: Rebecca Minnock hands herself in to police and admits 'my time has run out'

  12-06-2015 23:06
  
  The mother who defied a court order and disappeared for a fortnight with her three-year-old son has handed herself in.
  
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• Missing Rebecca Minnock 'hands herself in to police' after frantic 17-day search for mum and son

  12-06-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The mother was on the run after fearing she would lose contact with her beloved son Ethan following a court ruling
  
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• Ignore government advice urging more housing for gypsies, minister tells councils

  12-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  James Wharton says advice telling councils to grow housing stock for travellers by 3 per cent a year is just 'guidance' and does not need to be implemented
  
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• Screen and stage stars dominate Queen's honours – as hero Alan Barnes fundraiser gets gong

  12-06-2015 23:00
  
  STARS of screen, stage and music were honoured by the Queen in recognition of their services to British cultural life.
  
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• Screen and stage stars dominate birthday honours

  12-06-2015 23:00
  
  STARS of screen, stage and music were honoured by the Queen in recognition of their services to British cultural life.
  
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• Tories ready to give thousands of pensioners technology to block nuisance calls

  12-06-2015 22:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Government analysing trials in Scotland with hope of distributing special devices which help block cold calls to vulnerable households
  
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• Ministry of Defence officials caught 'rifling through coroner's bin' at inquest into SAS march deaths

  12-06-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keith Turner QC, representing the widow of one of three soldiers killed in 27C temperatures, told coroner Louise Hunt MoD officials had been going through bins
  
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• YouTube to launch video gaming site

  12-06-2015 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  YouTube is to launch a dedicated site and app for gaming in an attempt to take on Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch.
  
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• Mum's heartbreaking Facebook appeal to find doctor who tried in vain to save life of her little girl

  12-06-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lucy Godding's two-year-old daughter Chloe tragically died while on a family holiday in Portugal in May
  
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• Quad bike horror at Michael Owen's home as lad rushed to hospital

  12-06-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ambulance bosses said the child was treated for a “serious but not life-threatening injury”. The boy was not ex-England striker Michael’s nine-year-old son James
  
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• Pride of Britain 2015: Hollyoaks stars name their unsung heroes - but who are yours?

  12-06-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Pride of Britain coach tour pulled into Merseyside today and actors from the Channel 4 soap led by example by naming their own nominees
  
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• Polo player jailed for abusing young girls and filming it on his mobile phone

  12-06-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Simon McLaren-Tosh also set up cameras in his home to catch footage of people without their knowledge
  
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• How Tony Blair built a business empire in China

  12-06-2015 22:18 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Tony Blair has been courting influential Chinese leaders - and then introducing them to the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund he works for
  
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• Watch a Norwegian builder make a hotdog using his 'precision excavator'

  12-06-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In Norway, they have very strange ideas about how to make fast food
  
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• Blind children's author in court accused of making 10,000 indecent photographs of children

  12-06-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nick Sturley, who has Usher syndrome, has been charged with nine counts of making indecent photographs of children
  
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• Mary Creagh pulls out of Labour race

  12-06-2015 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shadow international development secretary Mary Creagh announces that she has withdrawn from the Labour leadership contest.
  
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• M74 southbound open after tanker fire

  12-06-2015 22:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One carriageway of the main motorway link between Scotland and England has reopened following a tanker fire.
  
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• Victims of paedophile doctor 'disgusted' as he has prison sentence reduced by six years

  12-06-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Myles Bradbury, 41, attacked 18 vulnerable children aged eight to 17 but appeal court judges have reduced his 22-year sentence
  
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• Girl, 4, hopes £50,000 operation will help her walk - and play like Peppa Pig

  12-06-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mayzi Price's family are now trying to raise £50,000 to pay for private surgery
  
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• Mary Creagh quits Labour leadership race

  12-06-2015 21:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Shadow international development secretary
  
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• Today is the day to go: Four siblings 'kill themselves after being abandoned by parents'

  12-06-2015 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The boy and three girls left a suicide note saying, "today is the day to go" before drinking poison
  
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