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• Teenager's birthday party hijacked by gang with knives

  21-06-2015 23:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A 16-year-old's birthday party is shut down by police after armed gangs show up after it was advertised on social media
  
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• On 200th anniversary of Waterloo how 378 hungover Germans held off Napoleon

  21-06-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The German heroes only lost 21 men while the emperor lost 2,000 troops in a clash leading up to the famous battle
  
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• Moment hate preacher rants at young police officer because he's wearing Help for Heroes wristband

  21-06-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The radical cleric can be heard spouting a stream of vitriol at the officer, saying the beat bobby should not be displaying a “political agenda”
  
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• SNP plan to privatise island ferries sinks anti-Tory image and puts Nicola Sturgeon in bad company

  21-06-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The nationalists are going further than Thatcher or Major by handing routes over to Serco, a company with a dubious record which has hit fares and services in the past
  
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• Mother releases heart-wrenching open letter written to son, 6, who vanished in January

  21-06-2015 23:12
  
  A DISTRAUGHT mother has written an emotional letter to her six-year-old son who has not been since vanishing with her estranged husband at the beginning of this year.
  
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• Prince Harry writes to grieving mum of 5-year-old boy who died after battling host of health problems

  21-06-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prince Harry met Carson Hartley last year when he handed him an Inspirational Child award and was so touched by boy's positive outlook he felt compelled to write letter about his sadness
  
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• The brutal dog eating festival that sees hounds beaten to death and blow torched

  21-06-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This story contains footage, pictures and descriptions that many will find very upsetting
  
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• Jihadis enter Europe disguised as refugees fear terrorism experts

  21-06-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Terror experts fear Islamic State bomb attacks as Jihadis are sneaking into Europe masquerading at terrorists
  
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• Fathers stage protest at Westminster Abbey

  21-06-2015 22:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New Fathers4Justice highlight campaign for the rights of fathers to see their children
  
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• Traveller who studied at Oxford to return to work on family's fairground after completing degree

  21-06-2015 22:50 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Shelby Holmes read English literature at Trinity College but will return to fairground to earn some money
  
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• UK needs over one million new engineers and technicians, says Royal Academy of Engineering

  21-06-2015 22:33
  
  The UK will need more than a million new engineers and technicians in the next five years, but despite the skills shortage women still account for less than 10 per cent of the sector’s workforce.
  
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• I found my 'soulmate' online but he was a conman and rapist who made my life hell

  21-06-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christopher Swain used dating site Smooch to prey on women before subjecting Charlotte to a reign of terror that left her so terrified, she planned her own funeral
  
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• I found my 'soulmate' online but he turned out a conman and rapist who made my life hell

  21-06-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christopher Swain used dating site Smooch to prey on women before subjecting Charlotte to a reign of terror that left her so terrified, she planned her own funeral
  
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• Meet the Peter Pan of South Korea: Baby faced 'boy' who looks like young teenager is actually 26

  21-06-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shin Hyomyung from Korea was filmed by local TV station drinking booze and getting in nightclubs with an ID card that says he was born in 1989
  
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• Jelly wrestling banned by former Archbishop of Canterbury for being sexist

  21-06-2015 22:04
  
  A BID to bring jelly wrestling to a Cambridge University drinking society has been scuppered by Dr Rowan Williams.
  
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• Dawood sisters who ran away to join ISIS have had their benefits stopped

  21-06-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The three women used Income Support and Child Tax Credits to fund their flight to the Middle East and could have drawn further payments from cashpoints in Syria
  
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• Terror suspect who won electronic tag case constantly breaches court orders

  21-06-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Concerns human rights victory will make it easier for terror suspect to renew extremist activities
  
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• David Cameron 'threatened to close down BBC' over election story, says political editor Nick Robinson

  21-06-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister is said to have made the comments on the Conservative Party battle bus, adding fuel to the debate over the Corporation's licence fee
  
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• Two giant Komodo dragons clash like real life Jurassic Park battle

  21-06-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Giant lizards gave new meaning to the words Enter the Dragon as they went head to head in a rare wrestling match
  
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• TripAdvisor attacked by users after they notice negative reviews disappearing from site

  21-06-2015 21:31
  
  TRAVEL website TripAdvisor has come under fire for deleting hundreds of critical reviews about a country estate.
  
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• Rescuers call off search for wife of British yachtsman missing off South Africa

  21-06-2015 21:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rescuers call off massive search for Carly Hill, wife of a British yachtsman, who is thought to have fallen off her yacht near the coast of South Africa while her husband was sleeping
  
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• EU referendum: Cabinet ministers may quit over European Union vote, says Liam Fox

  21-06-2015 21:20
  
  David Cameron is under pressure from Tory right-wingers to spell out more details of his plans to wrest back powers from Brussels to Britain by the autumn.
  
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• Charleston church congregation: 'Devil entered and tried to take charge but he can't take control'

  21-06-2015 21:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Poignant service to pay tribute to those killed in race hate gun massacre
  
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• Deddington 'rape': Young woman pulled into churchyard and sexually assaulted after end of village festival

  21-06-2015 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The distraught woman was believed to have been attacked as the annual arts and culture festival in the Oxfordshire village of Deddington had come to an end
  
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• Battle of Waterloo procession: two men in britches bring home news of victory

  21-06-2015 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  200 years on, historical re-enactors paraded through London to deliver news of victory at Waterloo to the Princess Royal
  
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• VE Day: Land Girls identified 70 years after taking a quick dip

  21-06-2015 20:59
  
  It is an image that captures the joy of VE Day – two women arm-in-arm with sailors in the Trafalgar Square fountain as the nation celebrates the end of six long years of war.
  
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• Royal Ascot 2015: The 32 best hats in pictures

  21-06-2015 20:50 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In pics: Fabulous hats in all shapes and colours. We choose the best
  
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• Ranking the 32 best hats at Royal Ascot

  21-06-2015 20:50 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In pics: Glamour and fashion at Royal Ascot and fabulous hats in all shapes and colours. We choose the best
  
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• Horror as mum and four children hit by car 'doing 100mph' on residential street

  21-06-2015 20:48
  
  A MUM and her four four children are fighting for their lives after being mowed down by a car which one eyewitness said was travelling at 100mph.
  
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• £200,000-a-year primary school head to have pay halved

  21-06-2015 20:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  inquiry by Sutton Council leads to Isabel Ramsay's pay being slashed to £158,000 whilst next year her basic salary will drop to £109,000.
  
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• Drunk woman with 10-year-old passenger crashed into double decker bus and flipped car after downing vodka

  21-06-2015 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shamed Manchester
  Airport worker Kerry Molloy declined legal representation, saying: "I deserve to be punished for what I did,” before being disqualified for 28 months
  
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• Langley Mill fire: First pictures of mum and baby killed in tragic house inferno

  21-06-2015 20:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman and child, named locally as Amy Smith and Ruby Gaunt, died in blaze along with family friend Ed Green, while the baby's father Shaun escaped
  
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• Lib Dem's Tim Farron calls for changes to arms export laws to halt sales to repressive regimes

  21-06-2015 20:36
  
  A major overhaul of arms exports policy to prevent British-made weapons being used for internal repression and military aggression is being demanded by the frontrunner in the contest for the Liberal Democrat leadership.
  
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• GB women win World League semi-final

  21-06-2015 20:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hollie Webb and Alex Danson score as Great Britain's women beat China 2-0 to win the World League semi-final in Valencia.
  
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• Police 'complicit' in radicalising Bradford sisters who fled to Syria, say solicitors

  21-06-2015 20:33
  
  British police were “complicit  in the grooming and radicalising” of the three sisters who are believed to have taken their nine children to join Isis in Syria, according to solicitors for their families.
  
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• VIDEO: Waterloo victory message re-enacted

  21-06-2015 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Princess Royal takes part in a re-enactment of the moment when Britain received news that it had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
  
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• Sweden U21 0-1 England U21

  21-06-2015 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jesse Lingard's late goal boosts England's European Under-21 Championship knockout stage hopes as they defeat Sweden.
  
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• Waterloo dispatch marked in London

  21-06-2015 20:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo end with a re-enactment of the moment news of Wellington's victory reached London.
  
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• 35,000 people bend and stretch as New Delhi makes a bid for world's biggest mass yoga session

  21-06-2015 20:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined the record attempt and said the ancient discipline could train the mind to usher in an era of peace and harmony
  
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• Moment blind mum is given 3D portrait of daughter's face so she can see her all the time

  21-06-2015 20:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Faith Altheide, who was born blind and deaf, communicates by feeling faces and was upset daughter Denise was leaving for college so she went all out to get her a 3D-printed portrait of herself
  
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• Migrants legally living in UK being deprived of chance to go to university, says teachers' leader

  21-06-2015 20:02
  
  Migrants who have lived in the UK legally for years are being deprived of the chance to go to university, a teachers’ leader has revealed.
  
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• Police 'role in radicalising sisters'

  21-06-2015 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK police were "complicit" in the radicalisation of three sisters thought to be in Syria with their nine children, lawyers for the families say.
  
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• Pensioner in legal battle to be allowed to kiss his wife of 67 years during care home visits

  21-06-2015 19:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Thomas Middleton, 87, told to stop "constantly" kissing dementia suffering wife of 67 years during care home visits
  
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• Motorist becomes first convicted of hogging motorway middle lane

  21-06-2015 19:41 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Van driver handed five penalty points and fined almost £1000 for persistently refusing to move out of the central lane of the busy M62
  
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• Balcony victims' bodies brought back

  21-06-2015 19:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bodies of four students who died in a balcony collapse in Berkeley, California, are brought back to Ireland.
  
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• Swimmers treated after chemical leak

  21-06-2015 19:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some 30 people are treated by paramedics for breathing problems following a chemical leak at a holiday park swimming pool.
  
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• George Osborne: We'll push ahead with plans to slash £12bn a year from benefits bill

  21-06-2015 19:28
  
  George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith have insisted they will push ahead with plans to slash another £12bn a year from the benefits bill.
  
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• Afghans counter Taliban offensive

  21-06-2015 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Government forces in northern Afghanistan launch a counter-offensive against the Taliban after they took control of a key district.
  
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• Pope Francis pays his respects to the Turin Shroud, calling the holy relic an ''icon of love''

  21-06-2015 19:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The leader of the Catholic Church used the visit to talk about the plight of migrants being trafficked into Italy across the Mediterranean Sea
  
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• Four children and woman struck by car

  21-06-2015 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four children and a woman suffer life-threatening injuries when they are struck by a car in Birmingham.
  
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