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• France cracks down on Uber service

  25-06-2015 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  France's interior minister orders the closure of the low-cost car-sharing service UberPOP after a day of protests by taxi drivers.
  
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• Zack Davies: Tesco machete attack was an 'act of terrorism' says victim's family

  25-06-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Sarandev Bhambra's brother Tarlochan Singh Bhambra, who is also a doctor, criticised the lack of national media coverage of the shocking attack
  
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• Zack Davies: Tesco jihadi attack was an 'act of terrorism' says victim's family

  25-06-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Sarandev Bhambra's brother Tarlochan Singh Bhambra, who is also a doctor, criticised the lack of national media coverage of the shocking attack
  
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• Cherie Blair helps get bail for Rwandan spy chief fighting extradition to Spain over alleged war crimes

  25-06-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  General Karenzi Karake was detained at Heathrow Airport on behalf of Spain who accuse him of ordering massacres in the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide
  
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• Ofcom to take charge of BBC

  25-06-2015 23:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Corporation's trust to be axed as communications watchdog gets beefed-up role to rule on impartiality and value for money
  
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• VIDEO: Obama interviews Attenborough

  25-06-2015 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The distinguished broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, has been on a visit to the White House at the personal invitation of President Obama.
  
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• 'More remains' in Disappeared search

  25-06-2015 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than one body is discovered during a search for one of the Disappeared, Joe Lynskey, in the Republic of Ireland.
  
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• Pakistan pursues party funding claim

  25-06-2015 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pakistan says it will pursue more information from the British government over claims a major political party was funded by the Indian government.
  
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• Watchdog raises army reserve concern

  25-06-2015 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ministry of Defence plans to recruit more army reservists are assessed as "unachievable" by a watchdog.
  
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• Newborn baby found dumped in a bin tonight outside Tesco superstore

  25-06-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A young man spotted two people acting suspiciously by the bin and found the abandoned infant
  
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• Newborn baby found dumped in a bin outside Tesco superstore

  25-06-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A young man spotted two people acting suspiciously by the bin and found the abandoned infant
  
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• Victoria Halliday: Family of missing teenager issue emotional appeal as police release CCTV of last sighting

  25-06-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Victoria Halliday, 19, was spotted on CCTV taking a coach from Leicester to Cardiff on Tuesday but has not been heard from since
  
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• TV dumps Trump over Mexico remarks

  25-06-2015 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Spanish-language US television network cuts ties with businessman Donald Trump because of disparaging remarks he made about Mexicans.
  
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• Bees are good, bees are good: Why Winnie-the-Pooh is joining fight to save insects

  25-06-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  AA Milne’s characters building a bee box and planting a vegetable patch. Here’s why we need to save them...
  
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• London drug lord is suspect in execution-style murders of British timeshare millionaire couple in Tenerife

  25-06-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Mirror investigation into the 2006 slayings of Billy and Florence Robinson has uncovered the fact a Riomanian gangster living in London is a key suspect
  
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• Police hunt woman 'whose dog was filmed chasing terrified sheep off a cliff'

  25-06-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police believe she is the owner or the person in control of a dog that chased a sheep that fell from a cliff face  
  
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• 'One of two people killed my boy but I can't get justice': Dad wants justice for tragic toddler

  25-06-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A dad whose toddler was killed in the care of his ex and her new lover has been told neither face charges because they blame each other for the death
  
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• Family charged with flat fire murders

  25-06-2015 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A father and two sons are charged with murder after a fire that killed two teenagers and a baby in Derbyshire.
  
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• Decades of delays as major railway line upgrade shelved

  25-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The government had "paused" a five year, £38.5billion project to electrify major routes
  
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• Pension freedoms to yield £1.2bn tax windfall for Treasury

  25-06-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Savers cashing in pensions are generating almost four times more in tax revenue than the Treasury expected, experts say - and the funds could be used to cut income tax rates
  
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• EU referendum: 'No chance' of change before Britain's in/out vote, admits David Cameron

  25-06-2015 23:00
  
  David Cameron has admitted that the referendum on whether Britain should stay in the European Union is likely to take place before the UK's new membership terms have been implemented in a new EU treaty.
  
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• FA defends England U21 squad policy

  25-06-2015 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England Under-21s were right to leave out key men for the European Championship, says the FA's director of elite development.
  
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• Body found near Cardiff Asda: Man arrested after grim discovery close to superstore

  25-06-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The deceased, a 41-year-old man, was found at about 2.45pm this afternoon in the Coryton area of Cardiff
  
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• France Uber riots: Courtney Love flees on motorbike after her car and driver are attacked

  25-06-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The musician was left terrified as angry taxi drivers protesting about the app harming their livelihoods attacked her car and 'took her driver hostage'
  
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• Watch Big Mac being DEEP FRIED in video that will either make you feel hungry or disgusted

  25-06-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New video shows the secret to making new snack which is either the most mouth-watering or disgusting thing on the planet
  
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• Marikana deaths: SA police blamed

  25-06-2015 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A South African commission recommends a criminal investigation into police accused over the 2012 deaths of 34 striking workers at the Marikana mine.
  
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• Schoolboy stabbed in face and neck with pair of scissors 'by classmate'

  25-06-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The year 10 student was left with stab wounds to his face, neck and ear, and had a broken nose and two black eyes
  
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• UK weather: Britain set to be hotter than Barbados

  25-06-2015 22:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Temperatures set to soar making the UK warmer than Barbados as heatwave hits next week
  
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• Muddy Glastonbury goers could be banned from trains

  25-06-2015 22:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  First Great Western has advised customers not to be "excessively muddy" if they want to board their trains
  
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• Two brothers and their father charged with murder over house fire

  25-06-2015 22:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Mother and her daughter and another male all died in the house fire in Langley Mill, Derbyshire
  
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• This suitcase turns into a set of shelves to save you unpacking on holiday

  25-06-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  Is ShelfPack a useful piece of travel kit or a pointless product?
  
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• Langley Mill fire: Dad and two sons charged with triple murder after horror blaze kills mum and baby

  25-06-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peter Eyre, 43, and brothers Simon, 24, and Anthon, 21 were due to appear before magistrates this morning
  
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• Porn star jailed after her dog savaged two women has sentence reduced on appeal

  25-06-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charlotte Anson, aka Lottie Lovelace has jail term reduced from 32 to 20 weeks
  
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• Charlotte Anson: Porn star jailed after her dog savaged two women has sentence reduced on appeal

  25-06-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charlotte Anson, aka Lottie Lovelace has jail term reduced from 32 to 20 weeks
  
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• Further EU integration could plunge Europe into war, says new Tory chair of defence committee

  25-06-2015 22:29
  
  Further European Union integration could plunge the EU’s member states into war with each other, the new chair of the parliamentary committee that scrutinises the armed forces has said.
  
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• Avengers star Patrick Macnee dies

  25-06-2015 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Actor Patrick Macnee, star of The Avengers TV series, has died in California at the age of 93.
  
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• Grandmother scoops £4m on first ever lottery lucky dip and buys new pair of slippers

  25-06-2015 22:19 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jane Lewis broke a two-decades-old habit of playing the same two lines in the game and bought a Lucky Dip ticket for the first time
  
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• Super rare two-headed lizard is born on the WIRRAL - one of only 4 of its kind worldwide

  25-06-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Owner Stephen Evans, 34 has bred bearded dragon lizards for 17 years and made the discovery this morning after checking a clutch of eggs
  
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• War hero who came face-to-face with Churchill, Himmler and Goering to meet the Queen

  25-06-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One of the liberators of the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen death camp, heroic test pilot Captain Eric Brown helped interrogate Himmler and Goering, witnessed the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and had Neil Armstrong as a friend...
  
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• Andy Tsege: Foreign secretary warns Ethiopia over treatment of Briton languishing on death row in the country

  25-06-2015 22:17
  
  Ethiopia has been warned by the foreign secretary over its detention of British death-row inmate Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, as Philip Hammond attacked Addis Ababa's behaviour as "not acceptable".
  
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• Barack Obama granted an audience with Sir David Attenborough to discuss climate change for BBC special

  25-06-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The legendary naturalist and broadcaster was invited to interview the US President on his 89th birthday last month with the film to be broadcast on BBC1 on Sunday
  
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• More parents taking children out of school for cheaper holidays than ever before

  25-06-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Families taking their break in term time rose from three in ten to four in ten, while fines for hooky holidays rose from 6% to 25% last year
  
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• German museum apologises for execution of British spy Violette Szabo in Nazi concentration camp

  25-06-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Director of museum Dr Ensa Eschenbach writes letter expressing Germany's 'deep regret' for 'all cruelties and crimes'
  
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• Prince Philip cracks jokes and teases guests during good-humoured garden party with Queen in Berlin

  25-06-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 94-year-old royal made jokes about his age and commented on a guest's tie at the garden bash
  
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• A summer of love: two proposals at Glastonbury Festival

  25-06-2015 22:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Two men surprised their partners with proposals on the first day of the music festival at Worthy Farm
  
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• Workman saves life of baby after it falls three floors and lands on his back

  25-06-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The baby was crying and bleeding after falling and was rushed to hospital
  
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• HMRC: 7.2 million phone calls last year went straight to a busy tone

  25-06-2015 21:48 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  HM Revenue and Customs is setting £45 million aside to improve customer service after revealing more than one in 10 got a busy tone
  
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• Obesity – the ticking time bomb which starts young

  25-06-2015 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Figures on obesity levels of children in England underline again the scale of the challenge facing policymakers.
  
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• Stunning Northern Lights show to continue across UK into the weekend - here's how to watch it

  25-06-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Another massive solar flare could mean the Aurora Borealis continues to be visible across the UK
  
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• Stunning Northern Lights show continue across UK into the weekend - here's how to watch it

  25-06-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Another massive solar flare could mean the Aurora Borealis continues to be visible across the UK
  
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