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• Dad targeted by vigilante group hunting paedophiles found dead at home after arrest

  02-07-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michael Duff, 67, is believed to have taken his life after becoming the target of a sting allegedly carried out by group calling themselves 'True Justice'
  
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• Trucks move as strikers lift four-day siege of Calais in response to migrant crisis

  02-07-2015 23:54
  
  TRUCKERS were finally on the move last night after the “siege” of Calais was lifted following a strike which has cost Britain at least £1billion.
  
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• Britain could launch Isil air strikes in Syria within months as Labour signals backing for Conservatives

  02-07-2015 23:50 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron has said that Isil must be "crushed" in its Syrian heartland, adding that a "full spectrum" response is needed
  
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• English votes for English laws: Scottish MPs to be BARRED from meddling in English matters

  02-07-2015 23:42
  
  SCOTTISH nationalists will be barred from meddling in laws which only affect England under sweeping new powers proposed by the Government.
  
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• ‘Blair to blame’ as one in five new Europeans now has a UK passport

  02-07-2015 23:42
  
  MORE than a fifth of foreigners granted citizenship in a European country two years ago got British passports, figures showed today.
  
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• Medals awarded to British spy Violette Szabo set to sell for £300k at auction

  02-07-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The secret agent won the George Cross, Croix de Guerre and other posthumous honours after being tortured by the SS and executed in a concentration camp
  
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• John 'Goldfinger' Palmer: Police watchdog to probe why it took days to realise gangster was shot dead

  02-07-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers initially put the 64-year-old's death down to complications from recent heart surgery, but a post-mortem on Tuesday confirmed he had been blasted several times
  
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• Is this a DEMON captured on camera? Spooky picture taken in 'haunted house' shows 'disgusting' face

  02-07-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A 42-year-old teacher from London was visiting relatives in Jamaica and captured this bizarre image after taking a picture
  
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• Almost 10,000 criminals given at least 10 community sentences before being jailed

  02-07-2015 23:32
  
  NEARLY 10,000 criminals were given at least 10 community sentences before they were finally jailed last year.
  
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• Wimbledon 2015: Heather Watson undaunted by double Williams challenge

  02-07-2015 23:30
  
  • British No1 faces top seed Serena but could then play Venus
  • Watson had posters of sisters on wall when she was growing upFor Heather Watson the prospect of facing her childhood idol Serena Williams for the first time in the third round at Wimbledon on Friday would appear to be no more daunting than the likely consequences of an unlikely victory there: a fourth-round match against her sister, Venus. Related: How Heather Watson can beat Serena Williams – according to Alizé CornetC
  
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• 'ISIS Grenoble beheading': Terror suspect accused of radicalising driver who decapitated boss traced to UK

  02-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Frederic Jean Salvi, who was interviewed by British police this week, lives in a modest semi-detached home with his family in Leicester
  
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• Man fined for swallowing goldfish he won at a funfair

  02-07-2015 23:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Callum Clatworthy-Robins then posted a video of himself eating the helpless fish onto Facebook - shocking his friends
  
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• Go Set a Watchman: mystery of Harper Lee manuscript discovery deepens

  02-07-2015 23:26
  
  Lee’s lawyer claims she found the To Kill a Mockingbird ‘prequel’ last August, but new report reveals a Sotheby’s books expert unearthed it three years agoWith less than two weeks remaining before the literary sensation of the decade – the publication of Go Set a Watchman, the sister book to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird – the manner in which the manuscript came to light has become shrouded in yet more mystery, with seemingly conflicting accounts from people directly involved
  
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• Smell test helps detect autism in children

  02-07-2015 23:19 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Youngsters' reactions to different smells may help test for autism, according to new research
  
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• Prison guard close to death after attack by inmate chillingly predicted a warden 'would get killed'

  02-07-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lorraine Barwell, 54, was brutally beaten while taking an inmate to court for security firm, Serco, on Monday
  
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• Anguish of a loving husband who killed Alzheimer’s wife

  02-07-2015 23:17
  
  A DEVOTED husband admitted ­killing his wife by giving her drugged cocoa and suffocating her as he ­struggled to cope with her ­Alzheimer’s disease.
  
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• Andy Murray and James Ward advance at Wimbledon to fuel feelgood factor

  02-07-2015 23:15
  
  • No3 seed praises GB team-mate for seizing his opportunity
  • Ward: ‘It’s nice to have that support from such a great player’Andy Murray and James Ward are through to the third round at Wimbledon, a resurgence of sorts for British tennis given the last time two of its men advanced this far was 13 years ago when Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski were contenders, although it is hardly an occasion to get out the bunting and brass bands just yet.Still, there ought to be no downplaying of their
  
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• French ferry strike costs UK £250m a day

  02-07-2015 23:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  French ferry workers' strike is costing UK £250 million pounds a day due to huge backlogs of freight trade
  
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• Angry scenes as more than 150 protesters gather to stop police evicting cancer patient

  02-07-2015 23:11
  
  HUNDREDS of police formed a 'ring of steel' around a cancer patient's bungalow so bailiffs could finally evict him following an EIGHT-YEAR legal battle.
  
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• West Ham United 3-0 Lusitans | Europa League first qualifying round 1st leg report

  02-07-2015 23:10
  
  • West Ham United 3-0 Lusitans
  • Sakho 40 45, Tomkins 58It was five minutes before kick-off when the Upton Park crowd bellowed what would be the loudest roar of the evening. Out from the tunnel and to a prize fighter’s introduction came Slaven Bilic, the new West Ham United manager.The evening was not really about him. He was not even in charge of the team for this Europa League first round qualifying tie, having handed that responsibility to Terry Westley, the Academy manager. And yet his
  
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• UK weather: Sunshine returns tomorrow but another storm is on the way

  02-07-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Temperatures fell today following rain showers, but are set to hit 29C on Friday as blue skies spread across the country
  
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• The real land of opportunity: why it is best to be a migrant in Britain

  02-07-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain ranks high for employment, business creation, university education and school performance in new global league table of prospects for migrants
  
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• The Observer Ethical Awards 2015 winners

  02-07-2015 23:00
  
  The Observer Ethical Awards, in association with Ecover, have been running for ten years and are our biggest celebration of environmental and social justice yet. They celebrate the people, organisations and campaigners who are leading the way to ensure we have an ethical future. Related: Observer Ethical Awards 2015: shortlist Lifetime achievement award Continue reading...
  
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• Terminator: Genisys review – Arnie's back, in a cynical franchisebot

  02-07-2015 23:00
  
  Like a grumpy old retainer, Schwarzenegger lumbers through a witless, pointless, back-to-the-beginning exercise that’s entirely lacking in ingenuity or humourHere is the intensely unnecessary back-to-the-beginning-with-a-twist Terminator movie: it’s as if it has gone back in time to murder our memories of the ancestral first film and crush the series’ reputation. As well as many other fantastically irritating things, they have rebooted the spelling of “genesis”. The old spelling of “
  
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• England women will rally round Laura Bassett and ‘inspire girls to start playing’

  02-07-2015 23:00
  
  Karen Carney will ‘look after’ her best mate after her Women’s World Cup own goal, while Steph Houghton says being a role model to others is the aim Karen Carney was utterly dismayed yet intensely proud. Prominent amid the maelstrom of emotions was concern for Laura Bassett, her best friend and the scorer of the stoppage-time own goal on Wednesday that gave Japan a place in the World Cup final. Continue reading...
  
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• Forcing food companies to cut salt levels could save 4,500 lives in the next decade, scientists say

  02-07-2015 22:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New laws to enforce low salt content in food would be nine times more successful than improved nutrition labelling and health education
  
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• Wimbledon 2015: days three and four - in pictures

  02-07-2015 22:54
  
  Guardian photographers Tom Jenkins and Graeme Robertson are down in SW19 to bring you a selection of their best images from days three and fourContinue reading...
  
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• REVEALED: How PM Margaret Thatcher ducked gas ban on Saddam Hussein

  02-07-2015 22:52
  
  BRITAIN backed away from a chemical weapons ban on Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein in the 1980s after discovering a UK firm supplied him with equipment.
  
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• Mystery 'beast' spotted roaming Plymouth suburbs

  02-07-2015 22:51 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A 'big cat' has been spotted prowling the Plymouth suburbs with locals wondering what the 'mystery animal' could be
  
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• Ibiza boat fire: Six tourists and their dog saved from blazing vessel by quick-thinking Good Samaritan

  02-07-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sunbathers on Cala Jondal beach looked on in horror as black plumes of smoke pumped from the "La Belle Equipe"
  
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• 'Tinder for dog owners' app Tindog helps animal lovers get their paws on other singletons

  02-07-2015 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Are the hounds of love are calling you? TinDog will introduce you to others who feel the same
  
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• Civil servants wanted to move 5.5m Hong Kong citizens to Northern Ireland in bizarre plan

  02-07-2015 22:37
  
  CIVIL servants considered a bizarre plan to move 5.5million Hong Kong Chinese to Northern Ireland.
  
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• Prince Charles: rewire the global economy to stop climate change

  02-07-2015 22:30
  
  Heir to the throne calls for end to ‘business as usual’ approach that does nothing to avert catastrophic global warming – and praises Guardian’s climate campaignPrince Charles has said that “profound changes” to the global economic system are needed in order to avert environmental catastrophe, in an uncompromising speech delivered in front of an audience of senior business leaders and politicians.The heir to the throne – often criticised for his meddling in political affairs – ar
  
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• Iron Lady’s ‘oily’ apology to Saudi king in BBC row

  02-07-2015 22:29
  
  MARGARET Thatcher was branded “very oily to kings” by the Foreign Office after she tried to intervene in a row between the Saudi royals and the BBC.
  
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• Driver left red-faced after reversing car through front window of picturesque £500,000 thatched cottage

  02-07-2015 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The accident happened in Milton, Cambridgeshire, this morning and resulted in half of the vehicle resting inside the home
  
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• Tories 'could cut housing benefit' in £12bn welfare crackdown by making everyone pay towards rent

  02-07-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The move would hit thousands of families who have their full rent paid by the taxpayer if it's included in the Budget
  
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• Chris Grayling is an advertising asset for a future Scottish No vote

  02-07-2015 22:15
  
  The SNP’s core message at the general election was that more nationalist MPs would mean a “strong voice” for Scotland at Westminster. Chris Grayling’s planned demotion of all 56 nationalist MPs to second-class citizens in the mother of parliaments, coupled with this week’s overwhelming defeat in the Commons on any move toward full fiscal autonomy, suggests the word “strong” is massively overplaying the reality of Scotland’s influence at Westminster.
  
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• The Real Stories of Migrant Britain: Clive fled from Zimbabwe - now it won't have him back

  02-07-2015 22:00
  
  Clive has wanted to go home to Zimbabwe for more than four years now. It's a cold morning in Glasgow and Harare seems a long way away as he tries to stay warm beneath a clattering fan heater in a night shelter kitchen. This is at Anderston Kelvingrove church, the only reliable place for destitute male asylum seekers to sleep indoors in the city.
  
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• Taiwan TransAsia plane crash: Pilot shouted 'Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle'

  02-07-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Captain Liao Jian-zong shut down the wrong engine before the ATR 72-600 plunged into a river killing 43 people, including himself
  
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• Member of Luton family feared to have travelled to Syria stopped by police at airport and let go

  02-07-2015 21:50
  
  A member of the family of 12 from Luton believed to have travelled to Syria was stopped by police and their home was searched the day before they left the UK.
  
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• Luton family member feared to have travelled to Syria stopped by police at airport and let go

  02-07-2015 21:50
  
  A member of the family of 12 from Luton believed to have travelled to Syria was stopped by police and their home was searched the day before they left the UK.
  
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• F1 race reforms hand drivers more responsibilities in bid to revive appeal

  02-07-2015 21:34
  
  • F1 strategy group plans aimed at making drivers less like robots
  • Drivers must take control of brakes, tyres and fuel under reformsFormula One drivers are to be told to take more responsibility for the performance of their cars as the sport transforms itself this summer in the wake of unprecedented criticism. Drivers will no longer be coached by their engineers and will have to take control of their own brakes, tyres, clutch calibration and fuel via their steering wheels and through their
  
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• Osborne’s first budget without Lib Dems likely to hit welfare state hard

  02-07-2015 21:33
  
  Chancellor expected to blame Gordon Brown’s tax credit policy for making workers dependent on the stateCuts to housing benefit, a further lowering of the overall welfare cap and reductions to in-work tax credits are all being considered by George Osborne in next week’s budget, as he seeks to roll back what he regards as a bloated welfare state expanded by Gordon Brown during his tenure of the Treasury.Osborne is preparing to say that Brown’s policy decision to increase tax credits distorte
  
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• Carolina shark attack: Sea beast rips 'baseball sized chunk of flesh' from man's knee in shallows

  02-07-2015 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Costello, 68, who was in waist-high water, was the person to be attacked by a shark in the region since the weekend and the tenth in the past seven weeks
  
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• Thunder, lightning and hail follow British heatwave - video

  02-07-2015 21:32
  
  Spectacular lightning sweeps across northern England and Scotland after the hottest July day on record in many places. The thunderstorm left 40,000 homes without electricity in parts of North Yorkshire, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. Elsewhere, huge hailstones caused damage to roofs and cars Continue reading...
  
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• Tom Crawford: Angry protesters clash with police over eviction of cancer patient from his home

  02-07-2015 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than 150 people turned up to help Tom Crawford, 64, after he lost his court battle to remain at his home
  
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• Tsipras can turn away, or help Europe reinvent itself | Natalie Nougayrède

  02-07-2015 21:30
  
  The Greek leader’s headache echoes that of his predecessor Andreas Papandreou. He is leading a country at a crossroads between west and east, past and futureA freshly elected Greek radical leftwing prime minister takes on Europe’s institutions. He wants to change the way things are done. He is astutely aware of the proud nationalism that runs through Greece’s history. He appeals to those who have felt downtrodden. He has misgivings about the west in general, liberal economics in particular
  
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• Calais crisis: Government holds emergency Cobra meeting over French strikers and migrants

  02-07-2015 21:24
  
  The Government held an emergency Cobra meeting as the Calais ferry strike entered its fourth day, putting a labour dispute by French workers on a par with terrorist attacks and foot-and-mouth disease as threats to the nation.
  
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• Calais crisis: Breakthrough in strike talks allows some ferries to resume service

  02-07-2015 21:24
  
  Huge queues of lorries on both sides of the English Channel begun to move after just over half the usual number of ferries started sailing between Dover and Calais.
  
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• How to get poor pupils into the best state schools? Smash the glass floor | Gaby Hinsliff

  02-07-2015 21:19
  
  Heads of selective schools, like Adams’ Grammar in Shropshire, know that professional parents often raise their kids higher than their talents deserve – so keeping other kids outEvery year, at the beginning of July, hundreds of boys converge on Gary Hickey’s school to sit an exam that only about one in six will pass. And every year the headmaster gets a somewhat disturbing insight into the things some parents will do to ensure their child gets the golden ticket.It’s not at all unusual, a
  
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