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• Labour's Yvette Cooper calls for new child poverty law to halt soaring number of deprived kids

  13-06-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leadership hopeful is desperate to stop the number of children in poverty rising from 3.5 million today to 4.7 million by 2020
  
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• Thrill seekers forced to climb down from roller coaster after it breaks down mid-ride

  13-06-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two dozen passengers had to go down an 'unstable ladder' to reach safety in the latest terrifying incident to hit the thrill-ride industry
  
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• Sex attacks in Armed forces: Ministry of Defence has launched 240 probes in past five years

  13-06-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the past year 24 serviceman including officers were convicted of sex offences by a court martial with most put on sex offenders' register
  
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• 'Text walking lanes' in Belgian city

  13-06-2015 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Belgian city of Antwerp introduces temporary "text walking lanes" - similar to cycle lanes - to stop mobile phone users from bumping into pedestrians.
  
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• 'Danniella Westbrook lumbered me with £8,000 drug debt - now gangsters want to kill me'

  13-06-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cagefighter Tom Richards made the claims after spending the night with his on-off ex - days after police dropped assault charges against him
  
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• Meet the BASE jumper who avoids authorities to throw himself off some of UK's highest buildings

  13-06-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  BASE jumping has been around for nearly 40 years and now it is easier to access than ever
  
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• Victory all that matters - Hodgson

  13-06-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England boss Roy Hodgson says victory is more important than the performance in Sunday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Slovenia.
  
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• David Cameron vows to give stricken 12-year-old Abi Longfellow his personal attention

  13-06-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Abi suffers from a rare kidney disease and her MP Andrea Jenkins pleaded with the PM to order the NHS to give the 12-year-old the life-saving drug Eculizumab
  
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• Couple on benefits wed in ceremony that cost taxpayers £5k - and get NHS op to improve sex life

  13-06-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Richard Broom and Sandra Gallagher incredibly also want YOU to pay for their honeymoon in Malaysia
  
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• Defence chiefs: UK 'feeble' on world stage

  13-06-2015 23:25 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Top military leaders warn Britain's military presence has been rendered 'feeble' against world threats
  
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• Teenage boy in court accused of attempted murder of his school teacher

  13-06-2015 23:25
  
  A 14-YEAR-OLD boy appeared in court yesterday accused of the attempted murder of a teacher at his school
  
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• Blingo! Pensioners to blow £5billion after cashing in their retirement funds

  13-06-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than five million over-55s have been handed legal right to access their retirement funds under the Chancellor's pensions revolution
  
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• Baku European Games 2015: British trade envoy offered to boost Azerbaijan's medal prospects

  13-06-2015 23:10
  
  The Prime Minister’s trade envoy to Azerbaijan offered British coaches and facilities to train Azeri athletes, to improve their medal-winning chances before the controversial European Games. The special offer was made last year, as Britain sought to curry favour with the authoritarian regime in Baku to secure better oil and trade deals.
  
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• Sir Richard Branson will not give upon space tourism project despite death crash last year

  13-06-2015 23:10
  
  TYCOON Sir Richard Branson is planning to create a network of satellites as he continues with his dream of conquering space.
  
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• Tim Farron urges George Osborne to go public on thought process behind RBS sell-off

  13-06-2015 23:09
  
  George Osborne is under pressure to divulge his thinking behind selling the taxpayer’s 79 per cent stake in Royal Bank of Scotland at an expected loss.
  
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• Bring back American nukes? US involvement in Trident means they're already here

  13-06-2015 23:06
  
  Bring back the Greenham Common women. That’s my first thought, now that the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, has started talking about allowing American nuclear weapons into Britain again, to let Russia know it can’t mess with us.
  
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• Doctors blast NHS plans to audit CONFIDENTIAL medical records of patients

  13-06-2015 23:05
  
  DOCTORS have attacked an NHS plan to “audit” tens of thousands of confidential medical records and find out who is costing the most money.
  
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• Ashya King: Boy who sparked international manhunt thrown party after receiving cancer all-clear

  13-06-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The six-year-old and his parents disappeared from a UK hospital  after being refused a state-of-the-art cancer treatment
  
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• 'He's earned a lot of money while he has been here, but has done nothing'

  13-06-2015 23:02 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Palestinians looking on from the West Bank and Gaza accuse Tony Blair of being "useless" as Middle East envoy
  
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• Tony Blair lobbied Treasury minister on behalf of Arab state

  13-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Questions over former PM's talks with Treasury minister before a £1 billion property deal was signed with Abu Dhabi equity group
  
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• Some Chelsea stars 'can barely write let alone sign autographs' claims club shop worker

  13-06-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Club captain John Terry told a fan on Instagram his 'signed picture' was a fake - until the supporter revealed he had bought it from the club's Stamford Bridge ground
  
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• Plunkett & Jordan out of ODI series

  13-06-2015 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chris Jordan and Liam Plunkett will miss the rest of England's one-day series with New Zealand through injury.
  
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• Energy company lobbied minister over controversial coal gas project off Scottish coast

  13-06-2015 22:48
  
  An energy company behind controversial plans to extract gas from coal off the Scottish coast lobbied a minister to endorse the scheme. But at the same time he attacked civil servants who questioned the project and called them “supine”, official documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal.
  
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• Fight or flight: Why is the hen harrier facing 'extinction by persecution' in England?

  13-06-2015 22:48
  
  Steve Garnett was first to spot the figures crouched on a ridgeline in the middle distance. Sitting in the heather scanning for birds of prey, the RSPB warden had noticed that we were being watched.
  
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• Report reveals huge appetite for 'citizen's assemblies' to take power back from state

  13-06-2015 22:47
  
  A majority of people would participate in “citizens’ assemblies” in which they would take decisions on local and national issues as part of a transfer of power from the state to individuals, a report published this week has found.
  
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• Chuka Umunna says Labour neglected the wealth creators under Ed Miliband and Ed Balls

  13-06-2015 22:45
  
  Chuka Umunna has launched a stinging critique of Labour’s economic policy under Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, accusing them of not placing enough focus on the “producers” who create wealth in the economy.
  
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• Asghar Bukhari: Muslim campaigner claims 'Zionists sneaked into home as he slept and stole his shoe'

  13-06-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK made the claim online - and posted a picture of a missing shoe - but was then ridiculed for it
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Yvette Cooper pledges to end child poverty within a generation

  13-06-2015 22:44
  
  Yvette Cooper will pledge to restore the target to end child poverty in Britain if she becomes prime minister.
  
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• New Look announces stores will have separate entrances for men and women

  13-06-2015 22:39
  
  It could be the first step towards a gender-segregated British high street. One of the UK’s largest clothing chains has declared that new stores opening this year will have separate entrances for male and female customers.
  
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• Kenny Sansom swaps booze for yoghurts after checking into rehab in a bid to beat his demons

  13-06-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The retired footballer, 56, checked into the private detox clinic on Monday with help from the Professional Footballer’s Association and the Sunday Mirror
  
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• Food charities braced for a busy summer with more children than ever set to go hungry

  13-06-2015 22:31
  
  Food charities across Britain are bracing themselves for what could be their busiest summer yet, as rising childcare costs, low wages and the fallout from the Government’s welfare reforms mean more children than ever risk going hungry.
  
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• Scotland's passing dismays Strachan

  13-06-2015 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gordon Strachan praises Shaun Maloney but laments Scotland's slack passing in the 1-1 draw with the Republic of Ireland.
  
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• Chilcot report into the Iraq war 'unlikely to be published for another year'

  13-06-2015 22:24
  The Chilcot report has taken six years and cost £10m but is “unlikely to be published for another year at least”, according to sources close to the inquiry.
  
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• Thailand's deadly fish dish

  13-06-2015 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Thai meal that can give you cancer
  
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• Tory minister Anna Soubry claimed £14 cost of delivering Remembrance Day poppies

  13-06-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The office of Soubry – who was Veterans Minister at the time – billed taxpayers for travel expenses for the 32.3-mile trip last November
  
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• Swedish royal wedding: Watch Prince Carl Phillip struggle to put ring on ex-model Sofia Hellqvist's finger

  13-06-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prince Carl Phillip tried to take Beyonce's advice and put a ring on it, but everything did not go according to plan at the couple's lavish ceremony
  
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• Stacey Hyde: I was branded a cold-hearted killer but that night it was him or me

  13-06-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 22-year-old who has been cleared of murdering Vincent Francis after five years in prison says she will never forget him
  
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• Kate Middleton and Prince William celebrated Queen's 89th birthday with monarch in wine bar

  13-06-2015 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left the kids with their nanny to enjoy their first night out together since the birth of Princess Charlotte
  
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• Arrests in Morocco for exam cheating

  13-06-2015 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dozens of people are arrested in Morocco accused of selling answers to final exams taken by thousands of secondary school pupils.
  
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• Alton Towers Smiler probe to investigate claims staff 'ignored emergency call' shortly before the crash

  13-06-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Whistleblower claims a member of staff alreted the ride's control booth that a carriage was stuck in the “batwing” section of the ride - but the ill-fated second carriage was still sent out
  
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• Meth-fuelled crime-spree comes to end as carjacker is finally arrested - naked

  13-06-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Watch the surreal moment cops finally catch up with a clothes free Kenneth Michael Brown after a 12 hour manhunt
  
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• Couple tie knot with combined age of 194

  13-06-2015 21:49 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  George Kirby also became Britain's oldest ever groom on Saturday when he tied the knot with Doreen Luckie, 91, on his 103rd birthday
  
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• Scottish tourism dropped drastically as result of General Election, research shows

  13-06-2015 21:49
  
  TOURISM to Scotland from the rest of the UK appears to have suffered a major slump during the General Election period.
  
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• Jimmy Savile had love affair with 21-stone King of Cornets accused of abusing young boys

  13-06-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police intelligence states Savile had a sexual relationship with Peter Jaconelli. They were suspected of being part of a paedophile ring in Scarborough
  
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• Thousands at pro-gay marriage march

  13-06-2015 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of people have attended a march in Belfast, calling for the introduction of civil marriage for same-sex couples in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Wife of Clarke Carlisle to sell home as part of 'fresh start' following former footballer's suicide attempt

  13-06-2015 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gemma Carlisle, 34, has moved out of the home she shared with Clarke, two months after he revealed they were separating
  
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• That awkward moment when you're wearing the same dress - as the floor

  13-06-2015 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A woman has posted a picture of herself wearing an outfit that completely matches both designs of the floor she was walking on
  
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• Soaring numbers of men are in the moob for breast reductions as 'regular blokes' seek beach bods

  13-06-2015 21:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A recent study has found that male breast reduction, called gynecomastia, is now the UK's ninth most popular cosmetic procedure
  
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• Banned eBay forger back to his old tricks

  13-06-2015 21:03 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An art forger was banned by the auction site a year ago - but is still selling his work under a different name and making thousands of pounds
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Battle for party's soul demands return to values of social justice, fairness and opportunity

  13-06-2015 21:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall have enough nominations but I’d also like to see Jeremy Corbyn on the leadership ballot
  
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