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• Has China silenced its bloggers?

  12-07-2015 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Has China silenced its bloggers?
  
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• T in the Park: Tragic festival-goer found dead in toilet has been named

  12-07-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 36-year-old's body was found on Saturday afternoon leading to a police investigation
  
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• Fire crews rescue 650 obese people a year using winches and cranes

  12-07-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Casualties weighing up to 60 stone have become trapped in sofas, in baths and between seats on a coach – with one having fallen over while drunk
  
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• Man handcuffed by cops after he gave rough sleeper £1 wins £5,000 payout from force

  12-07-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  George Wilson told police he was not drunk and disorderly but was stunned when the officer replied: "That’s not how I’ll write it up pal"
  
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• Man tries to sell baby in city centre

  12-07-2015 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is arrested after reports a person tried to sell a three-month-old baby in Manchester city centre, police say.
  
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• Colombia to reduce attacks on Farc

  12-07-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Colombian government issues a joint statement with Farc rebels agreeing to reduce the number of attacks.
  
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• Selfie queen Karen Danczuk's fury at ex-pal who exposed honeytrap plot on MP husband Simon Danczuk

  12-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 32-year-old sent Steve Bennett a ranting text in which she branded him “scum” and warned him not to be seen in their hometown of Rochdale
  
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• 'My partner learned I was living as a woman when my chicken fillets saved my life in crash'

  12-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Transgender Kirsty Gold, who used to dress as a woman in private, said: 'I knew if I was to die tomorrow I didn’t want to be in a coffin wearing men’s clothes.'
  
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• Former fox hunter exposes full scale of bloodsport's barbarity as David Cameron seeks its return

  12-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Clifford Pellow, who hunted professionally for 23 years, spoke of how a hunt master crushed three pups with his heel after hounds tore pregnant vixen apart
  
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• WSL attendances soar after World Cup

  12-07-2015 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Record crowds turn out to watch Women's Super League sides as England's World Cup medal-winners return to league action.
  
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• VIDEO: Malala at refugee school on 18th birthday

  12-07-2015 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Education campaigner Malala Yousafzai has turned 18, and marked the day by opening a school for Syrian girls in an informal refugee settlement in Lebanon's Beka'a Valley.
  
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• Iran nuclear talks 'in final phase'

  12-07-2015 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Talks to strike a provisional agreement on Iran's nuclear programme are in the "final phase", the French foreign minister believes.
  
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• Police hunt teenaged girl 'carrying a firearm' in Droitwich

  12-07-2015 23:16
  
  Armed police are hunting a teenage girl spotted carrying what appeared to be a firearm in the centre of a Worcestershire town.
  
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• Police hunt teenage girl 'carrying a firearm' in Droitwich

  12-07-2015 23:16
  Armed police are hunting a teenage girl spotted carrying what appeared to be a firearm in the centre of a Worcestershire town.
  
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• Meet the brave little girl who sees no colours - only grey - and is blinded by sunshine

  12-07-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mai Partridge Godfrey's family are forced to keep curtain's closed all day so the youngster can see in her own home
  
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• Britain's Special Forces will be increased ahead of fresh assault on Isil

  12-07-2015 23:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain's Special Forces will be increased and the Government will buy more spy planes and drones, David Cameron will announce on Monday
  
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• Falklands hero Simon Weston: "Let Jihadis go to Syria...just never let them back"

  12-07-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 53-year-old Falklands veteran compared twisted ISIS butchers to Hitler
  
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• Travel firms cut prices for holidays to Greece

  12-07-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Return flights to Greece this month now cost £181 on average, down from £335 this time last year
  
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• Hamilton misses Wimbledon final

  12-07-2015 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton is turned away from the Wimbledon Royal Box for not being appropriately dressed.
  
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• Wimbledon 2015 Champions' Dinner

  12-07-2015 22:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Tennis stars swap their whites for ball gowns and black ties at the traditional Wimbledon Champions' Dinner
  
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• Notorious British jihadi 'on the run from ISIS' and could be in Turkey

  12-07-2015 22:33
  
  A LONDON rapper-turned jihadist fighter is believed to have fled Islamic State to go on the run.
  
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• Man arrested after allegedly 'offering to sell a baby girl to strangers for £1,000'

  12-07-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 28-year-old is being held on suspicion of child neglect
  
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• Labour leadership contest turns ugly as candidates disagree over gender and future direction of party

  12-07-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt spoke out as the candidates and their camps traded blows and the battle for the party crown intensified
  
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• Shed of the year 2015: Old hen house with gin distillery and saloon bar crowned winner

  12-07-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Inshriach Distillery in the Scottish Highlands beat 2,520 other entries to win the prestigious competition
  
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• Art gallery seats for elderly used by teenagers on 'bloody phones', outgoing National Gallery chief says

  12-07-2015 22:13 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Nicholas Penny criticises youngsters who use gallery benches to look at their phones, leaving no space for older generations to rest
  
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• T in the Park: Festival 'descends into chaos with traffic mayhem, crowd crushes and violence'

  12-07-2015 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many thousands of music lovers were left marooned for in the midst of traffic anarchy and atrocious weather condidtions.
  
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• Tunisia attack: CCTV of gunman Seifeddine Rezgui being dropped off by car shows mass killer had help

  12-07-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footage showing him hiding a rifle under a parasol and strolling towards the Sousse beach casts doubt on authorities’ original claims he acted as a “lone wolf”
  
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• Twitter trolls should remain anonymous to protect them from vigilantes, charity chief says

  12-07-2015 21:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Revealing identities of online abusers would 'entice hatred', National Bullying Helpline's founder admits
  
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• Man ‘tries to sell newborn baby girl to strangers’

  12-07-2015 21:55
  
  A MAN reportedly tried to sell a baby to strangers in a shopping centre.
  
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• Hundreds of Brits still in Tunisia despite fresh terrorist attack 'highly likely'

  12-07-2015 21:47 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  At least 250 Britons are believed to remain in the country, despite Foreign Office warning against all but essential travel
  
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• Foreign gangs jetting into UK on budget airlines for crime holiday

  12-07-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The disturbing trend of crime lords sending in teams of crooks for two-week sprees has been spotted by Europol
  
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• Disgusting footage shows laughing man demand beggar couple perform sex act in return for £4.50

  12-07-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The beggars are given two McDonald's burgers then made to dance, do press-ups, strip and perform the act in front of the man and his friends
  
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• Mexico drug lord fled through tunnel

  12-07-2015 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison through long tunnel, officials say.
  
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• The bad guy who has done nothing wrong

  12-07-2015 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Novak Djokovic may have been the cold-hearted killer of the Roger Federer fairytale but the Wimbledon champion deserves more acclaim says Tom Fordyce.
  
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• Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary: British jihadist 'deserts Isis in Syria and goes on the run in Turkey'

  12-07-2015 21:22
  
  A prominent British jihadist who was once suspected of being Jihadi John has reportedly deserted Isis and gone on the run in Turkey – after apparently becoming disillusioned with life in Syria.
  
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• Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary: British jihadist deserted Isis in Syria and is on the run in Turkey

  12-07-2015 21:22
  
  A prominent British jihadist who was once suspected of being Jihadi John has reportedly deserted Isis and gone on the run in Turkey – after apparently becoming disillusioned with life in Syria.
  
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• Five hundred soldiers booted out of Army for failing drug tests every year

  12-07-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Most were sacked for smoking cannabis but hundreds were also caught taking ecstasy, cocaine and  horse tranquilliser ketamine
  
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• Wimbledon 2015: Lewis Hamilton turned away from Royal Box after falling foul of dress code

  12-07-2015 21:15
  
  A week after winning the British Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was turned away from the Royal Box at Wimbledon after falling foul of the dress code.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton 'BANNED' from the Royal Box at Wimbledon - because he did not wear a tie

  12-07-2015 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Formula One ace posted a moody picture of himself indoors silhouetted against the grass courts
  
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• Harriet Harman faces dissent from Labour leadership contenders after backing Tory cuts

  12-07-2015 21:06
  
  Harriet Harman faces a Labour backlash after she argued that it should accept some of the Conservative Government’s welfare cuts, including George Osborne’s decision to pare back child tax credits.
  
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• New Christchurch is slowly emerging

  12-07-2015 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How Christchurch is rebuilding its foundations
  
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• The motivational mountaineer

  12-07-2015 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The adventurer who has climbed Mount Everest three times
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson could be heading to the US for new car show

  12-07-2015 20:55
  
  JEREMY Clarkson could swerve a contract clause banning him from starring in a rival Top Gear-style show – by making one for a US broadcaster to be sold back to the UK.
  
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• Teenager who spent £500 on prom dress banned from school bash for poor attendance

  12-07-2015 20:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rhianna Richards, 16, bought leopard-print gown for end of year party but school barred her for 101 unauthorised absences
  
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• Shocking moment thugs try to storm family's home - but police take a DAY to respond

  12-07-2015 20:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Terrified mum reveals: "If they had come into my house with my kids god knows what they could have done"
  
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• M9 crash: "I know of other cases, if the public knew they would be horrified" warns politician

  12-07-2015 20:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said police delays, like the one following the horror smash, are far more common than people think.
  
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• Fury as Network Rail chiefs are handed millions in bonuses despite disappointing customers

  12-07-2015 20:42
  
  RAIL bosses have rewarded themselves with “outrageous” pay increases despite passengers facing a decade of delays, it was revealed last night.
  
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• Andy Murray's smelly sweatband to fetch over £2k after thrifty Duchess sticks it on eBay

  12-07-2015 20:40
  
  THE Duchess of Cornwall is set to make a Royal mint for charity when bidding ends for Andy Murray’s Wimbledon sweatband.
  
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• NHS boss warns billions of pounds are being wasted 'over treating' patients

  12-07-2015 20:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  NHS Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh estimated that 10 to 15 per cent of medical and surgical treatments should not have been carried out
  
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• Rotten teeth in kids crisis as dentists demand graphic health warnings on fizzy drinks and sweets

  12-07-2015 20:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Almost a third of five-year-olds now have tooth decay and some children are waiting up to a year to have their rotten teeth removed because there is such a backlog
  
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