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• Wondering how to spend your leap second? Comedian John Oliver has a few clever ideas

  30-06-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British telly star unveils new website dedicated to movies which last just one second
  
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• Bizarre moment man is left screaming in agony after sitting on a firework in bathroom

  30-06-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video shows the man placing the firework underneath a bowl, clearly not expecting it to explode like it did
  
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• Morrisons bouncing back as Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s sales fall

  30-06-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Morrisons increased its share of the grocery market for the first time since the end of 2011, retail researchers Kantar Worldpanel revealed
  
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• Venomous cobra found in kitchen bites family dog which may have to have tail amputated

  30-06-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The metre long false water cobra slithered through a mum's home attacking her pet dog
  
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• VIDEO: 'I feel like I can fly forever'

  30-06-2015 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A solar-powered plane that is attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean is encountering its first weather front.
  
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• Report 'to back Heathrow runway'

  30-06-2015 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Airports Commission report will back a new runway at Heathrow but still leave the door open for an alternative at its rival Gatwick, sources have told the BBC.
  
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• DUP block bid to censure Wilson

  30-06-2015 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The DUP have blocked a censure motion against Sammy Wilson in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
  
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• 'Reggie Kray proposed to me three times and Ronnie Kray tried to steal my toyboy'

  30-06-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Kray twins viewed Maureen Flanagan as the little sister they never had but she was also asked become "one of the family" for real
  
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• UK weather: Mum issues heatwave warning after child suffers severe burns from metal toy

  30-06-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Little Maddy was left with horrifying blisters on her feet after stepping on the boiling metal apparatus which overheated in soaring temperatures
  
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• Hull KR 34-28 Salford

  30-06-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Albert Kelly scores in the closing stages as Hull KR survive a second-half comeback from Salford Red Devils.
  
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• Desperate 999 call made while gran was being murdered by her own son was ignored

  30-06-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carol Ruddy tried to summon help as Martin Ruddy strangled her and bludgeoned father Eric to death for money in a brutal double murder in their own home
  
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• Affleck and Garner set for divorce

  30-06-2015 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hollywood couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner say they have made "the difficult decision to divorce" after 10 years of marriage.
  
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• Tories dodge the question over plans to hike £9,000 university tuition fees

  30-06-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tory Jo Johnson tried to dodge the question when asked if the Government was planning to hike the £9,000 cost of going to university
  
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• Airport report on expansion of Heathrow or Gatwick fails to settle debate after long delays

  30-06-2015 23:04
  
  A three-year inquiry into airport capacity in the South East, which reports on 1 July, will fail to settle the crucial issue of whether Heathrow or Gatwick should expand.
  
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• Liz Kendall: Labour should promise a budget surplus to regain voters' trust

  30-06-2015 23:02
  
  Labour should pledge that it would always run a government budget surplus in good times in order to regain voters’ trust on the economy, Liz Kendall has said.
  
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• Bedene & Ward give GB men four wins

  30-06-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aljaz Bedene and James Ward win to put four British men in the second round of Wimbledon for the first time since 2006.
  
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• Railway workers to strike at First Great Western in dispute over jobs, services and safety

  30-06-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union will hold a 24-hour strike with drivers and train crews among those walking out
  
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• Lee Rigby's fiancee has coped with his brutal death by taking up running in his memory

  30-06-2015 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aimee West said it had provided a “physical way to get my rage out” and often talks to Lee while she runs
  
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• Eurozone rejects Greek bailout appeal

  30-06-2015 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eurozone finance ministers reject a Greek government call to extend its bailout, just hours before it expires and a payment to the IMF falls due.
  
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• Manhunt after thug attacked Good Samaritan who woke him up on train in case he missed his stop

  30-06-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim thought he was doing the sleeping passenger a favour - but instead he was viciously punched and thrown off the train onto the platform
  
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• Scots Tunisia victims confirmed

  30-06-2015 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four Scots were among those killed in Friday's shootings in Tunisia, Police Scotland have confirmed.
  
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• Tunisia terror attack: ISIS killer Seifiddine Rezgui high on drugs when he carried out massacre

  30-06-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Post mortem results on the mass murderer revealed he had been pumped full of a stimulant - believed to be cocaine - prior to his killing spree
  
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• Pictured: Moment Cold War Vulcan photobombs wedding on one of its final flights

  30-06-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Vulcan XH558 was on an Armed Forces Day tour, when it roared over Emma Smith's' open-air wedding to groom Jonny in Scarborough
  
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• Karen Danczuk is deluded if she values flashing her boobs more than her marriage

  30-06-2015 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alison Phillips says busty Karen must have been an embarrassment to a serious and crusading politician like Simon Danczuk
  
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• Selfies, celebrities and 'marry me?'

  30-06-2015 22:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As social media widens Wimbledon's global reach, BBC Sport takes a look at what people at SW19 are sharing.
  
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• Tunisia terror attack: More families told their loved ones killed in the beach bloodbath

  30-06-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Among those confirmed to be among the 30 dead Brits was John Stollery, 58, a veteran social worker from Worksop, Nottingham
  
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• Tunisia attacker trained in Libya at the same time as Bardo Museum terrorists

  30-06-2015 22:31 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  It was confirmed that Seifeddine Rezgui trained in camp in western Libya as it emerges Isil extremists had warned Christians to avoid Tunisia
  
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• NHS call centre investigation: 'One way or another everyone in this room has killed someone indirectly'

  30-06-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An undercover Telegraph reporter secretly records inside a call centre for the NHS 111 helpline as part of an investigation into the service
  
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• Tunisia terror attack: Massacre plot hatched by Seifiddine Rezgui in tiny flat in dusty back street

  30-06-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neighbours say Rezgui and his five flat mates kept a low profile in the £100-a-month former family home at No 56, Sidi Belkassem, in the university town of Kairouan
  
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• NHS 111 investigation: Handling life-or-death calls at the National Health's non-emergency call centre

  30-06-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Our reporter worked undercover at the NHS 111 and found that the organisation fails sick Britons
  
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• How NHS 111 helpline refuses to send out ambulances

  30-06-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive special report: Having a heart attack? Don't call NHS 111. Our reporter went undercover
  
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• Seifeddine Rezgui: What motivated a shy student to kill 38 holidaymakers in Tunisia

  30-06-2015 22:27
  
  At 11.53 on Friday morning, Seifeddine Rezgui stood on the beach at Port El Kantoui in Sousse and made a 10-second telephone call on his white Samsung Galaxy mobile phone. The tall, handsome young man knelt down, produced a Kalashnikov AK-47 from within a rolled-up beach umbrella and test-fired a couple of rounds into the sand. Then he began the task of killing Western tourists.
  
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• Couple dubbed 'Britain's fattest scroungers' expecting their FOURTEENTH child after losing 13 stone between them

  30-06-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve and Michelle Beer weighed 55 stone between them but they have now had a big weight loss
  
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• Prisoners at one of UK's toughest jails go stir-crazy after prankster puts shoe in custard

  30-06-2015 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An inmate put the footwear in a vat of the liquid as it was cooking - and it wasn't discovered until after several remand prisoners had eaten their dessert
  
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• Virgin Atlantic to cut 500 jobs

  30-06-2015 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Virgin Atlantic sheds about 500 managerial and support jobs just months after the airline announced a return to profit.
  
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• Leicester sack manager Pearson

  30-06-2015 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leicester City sack boss Nigel Pearson, with the club saying that the "working relationship was no longer viable".
  
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• Murray through in Wimbledon heat

  30-06-2015 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's Andy Murray begins his Wimbledon campaign with a win over Mikhail Kukushkin as the Centre Court temperature reaches 41C.
  
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• Blatter to miss World Cup final

  30-06-2015 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fifa president Sepp Blatter will not travel to Canada for the final of the Women's World Cup for "personal reasons".
  
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• Magistrate courts and police stations could face 'absolute chaos' amid boycott of legal aid work

  30-06-2015 22:05
  
  Magistrates courts and police stations across England and Wales could face “absolute chaos” as the effects of a widespread boycott of new legal aid work kicks in.
  
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• UK Heatwave: Temperatures on the tube are going to exceed the legal limit for transporting cattle

  30-06-2015 22:05
  
  It's good news for cattle, but bad news for commuters, as the heatwave currently hitting London will mean the temperatures on some tube trains tomorrow will exceed the legal limit for transporting cattle.
  
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• Want to bag the best bargains? Then leave the children at home

  30-06-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If you use this approach when you hit the shops you can achieve considerably better savings a new study has found
  
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• Lionesses call for nation's backing

  30-06-2015 21:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England ask for the backing of the nation as they prepare to face holders Japan in the semi-finals of the Women's World Cup.
  
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• Soham Hoaxer who pretended to have taken school girls has now impersonated policeman

  30-06-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Howard Youd was convicted of wasting police time in 2002 when he pretended to have taken Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and now he has been found guilty of impersonating a police officer
  
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• 'Mass jailbreak' from Yemen prison

  30-06-2015 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  About 1,200 prisoners, including al-Qaeda suspects, escape from jail in central Yemen following clashes, officials say.
  
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• Heatwave warnings as Britain will be hotter than the SAHARA this week

  30-06-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Today was the hottest day of the year so far but forecasters say tomorrow’s sweltering heat up to 36C could see the warmest day for a decade
  
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• Fancy watching Andy Murray from your balcony? Luxury Wimbledon apartment goes on the market at £915,000

  30-06-2015 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two-bedroom apartment has four acres of communal grounds adjoining it to the All England Lawn Tennis Club and directly overlooks the famous No.1 Court
  
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• British brothers feared to be heading to Isil

  30-06-2015 21:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Two members of a family from Leicester are understood to have disappeared from their university in Sudan to reach Syria
  
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• Q&A: Why Greece is in trouble, what happens next and what it means for us

  30-06-2015 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the deadline looms for the debt-stricken country to repay its loans, the Mirror's political editor Jason Beattie looks at the implications of the crisis
  
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• Greece asks for another bailout as deadline looms for repayment of £1.1bn to the IMF

  30-06-2015 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made the last-ditch bid as the stricken country queues for food, prepares to re-open its banks for a day and faces exit from the eurozone
  
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• Karen Danczuk has ended her marriage just as sleazy Twitter antics afford her a C list celebrity profile

  30-06-2015 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former local councillor and 'selfie-queen' has split with her husband of two years, Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk
  
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