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• 'Goodyear workers who swap Wolverhampton for Mexico could go completely Potosi about this city'

  16-07-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  US tyre giant has offered laid off Wolverhampton workers new jobs in Mexico. Our US editor checks out what life could be like for Wulfrunians
  
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• Jordan Lockett: Homeless man whose CV went viral after being posted on Twitter is given bed for night

  16-07-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A social media appeal to help get Jordan Lockett, 20, off the streets and into employment went viral with offers of support from kind-hearted business owners
  
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• It only takes a minute: What can you pack into 60 seconds?

  16-07-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After a study revealed Brits down an amazing 14,841 pints of beer and 13,923 glasses of wine every minute, we look at what else you can do in 60 seconds
  
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• China explosion: Incredible footage shows massive fireball engulf petrochemical plant

  16-07-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bystanders recorded the raging fire, capturing the moment the explosion roared over the city of Rizhao
  
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• Two teenage victims at centre of bullying video offered pamper days by kind-hearted singer

  16-07-2015 23:31
  
  TWO teenage victims of a bullying attack which was filmed and later viewed six million times online are to be treated to a day of pampering following an appeal by a singer.
  
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• Police called out TWICE after boy, 11, kicks ball over fence - and neighbour refuses to give it back

  16-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 11-year-old was playing in the back garden of his Blackley home on Tuesday when his ball flew over the fence and hit a neighbour's car
  
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• First Hogweed hell, now cactus chaos: Pensioner hospitalised for a week by house plant

  16-07-2015 23:20
  
  A PENSIONER was left "in agony" when a rare cactus pierced her gloves during a summer house clean.
  
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• Troubled tycoon's final words: I'm going to jump out of window, stay on the phone

  16-07-2015 23:18
  
  PROPERTY tycoon Scot Young phoned his girlfriend and sent her a chilling text message minutes before he was impaled on railings after plunging 60ft from a flat, an inquest heard.
  
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• Boy aged 15 arrested on suspicion of TWEETING a bomb threat to school

  16-07-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Saints Peter & Paul Catholic College in Widnes was forced to close and cancel special mass at Liverpool Cathedral
  
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• Barking mad? Would you spend £60,000 pampering your pooches?

  16-07-2015 23:07
  
  TALK about being barking mad! This dog lover has spent £60,000 over the past seven years on pampering her pack of pooches.
  
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• Health and safety is no laughing matter when teenagers are being killed in the workplace

  16-07-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Paul Routledge says the tragic and avoidable death of Cameron Minshull should silence right wingers who deride 'elf and safety'
  
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• Hero air ambulance pilot Prince William and Kate lookalike doctor save man after heart attack

  16-07-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duke of Cambridge was flying the East of England Air Ambulance on what would become his first completed rescue mission since starting his new job this week
  
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• April Jones: Mark Bridger claims murdered schoolgirl's ghost is haunting his prison cell

  16-07-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bridger's fellow inmate said in witness statement: 'He believes this ghost to be that of April Jones, who is brought to him by another male ghost'
  
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• Kevin Syms: Roofer who murdered love rival after victim and girlfriend kicked him out of bed is jailed

  16-07-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kevin Syms, 53, was today jailed for life for murdering Nicholas Tame, 46, in what a judge called a 'spontaneous eruption of violence'
  
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• Anger as Tories block £2 cap on 'crack cocaine' gambling machines despite plea from 93 councils

  16-07-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  93 councils begged the 'out of touch' government to lower the cap from £100 to stop addicts draining their savings. But ministers said No Deal
  
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• Woman downed bottle of wine before driving 160 miles and finishing another half bottle on the way

  16-07-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ruth Brown, 55, nearly ran over a pedestrian as she weaved along the road during her boozy expedition from Exeter to Dunsfold
  
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• Angela Merkel: German Chancellor makes Lebanese girl, 10, facing deportation CRY by telling her "politics is hard"

  16-07-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The political heavyweight drew mockery online for stroking the back of the girl while telling the 10-year-old that Germany can't handle all the refugees that want to live there
  
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• Charlie Sheen tried to catch Loch Ness Monster with leg of lamb, says Nessie hunter who says it's a catfish

  16-07-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve Feltham has spent 24 years looking for the most infamous monster in history, giving up his job, home and girlfriend in his quest
  
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• Benefits cheat owned a yacht and foreign property: Now he must pay back £35k

  16-07-2015 22:33
  
  A BENEFITS cheat has been ordered to repay £35,000 in housing handouts he claimed despite owning a yacht, and properties in Wales, France and the US.
  
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• GRAPHIC CONTENT: Toxic Giant Hogweed plant causes mother horrific third degree burns

  16-07-2015 22:32
  
  A MOTHER-OF-THREE suffered horrific third degree burns which caused the "worst pain of her life" after brushing against a Giant Hogweed plant while walking her dogs.
  
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• Angry backlash as MPs get a £7,000 per year pay rise

  16-07-2015 22:32
  
  MPs faced the wrath of taxpayers today after they were handed a bumper 10 per cent pay rise worth £7,000 a year.
  
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• Suicidal woman left in A&E for 19 hours as no mental health beds available

  16-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The patient was eventually found a bed in a facility more than 120 miles away
  
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• Inside El Chapo's cell: Fugitive drug lord fled through hole punched in shower floor

  16-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The leader of the feared Sinaloa cartel made a clean getaway from the one small area of his cell not covered by round-the-clock CCTV surveiilance
  
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• Bank of England could raise interest rates within next six months

  16-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Governor Mark Carney expects rates to rise over next three years as economists expect inflation to increase thanks to higher pay packets
  
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• Watch chilling CCTV footage recorded by mum after she fitted camera to discover what caused scratches on back door

  16-07-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The spooky video of the would-be burglar has gone viral, clocking up almost 25,000 views since it was posted on Facebook by terrified mum-of-two Lisa Mackenzie
  
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• Sky Broadband customers receive legal letter asking for payment over alleged piracy of an obscure Robert Redford film

  16-07-2015 22:27
  A number of Sky Broadband customers have received legal letters from a American firm, which accuse them of pirating an obscure Robert Redford film and asking them to pay a fine.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Senior party figures forecast doom after Jeremy Corbyn surge

  16-07-2015 22:22
  
  Labour is tearing itself apart with a fractious and divisive leadership campaign that risks consigning the party to electoral irrelevance for years to come, senior figures in the party have warned.
  
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• 'Bloated' BBC could be forced to scrap show like The Voice under Tory plans

  16-07-2015 22:22
  
  THE BBC may have to stop putting out top TV shows like The Voice under new government plans to shrink the bloated corporation.
  
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• A message to Tim Farron: Unite, inspire and enthuse

  16-07-2015 22:19
  
  Our Liberal Democrat constitution is clear. Liberal Democrats exist “to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity”.
  
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• Chattanooga shootings: Gunman named after shooting dead four Marines during rampage at military bases

  16-07-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez reportedly opened fire at two naval bases and military recruitment centres in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an attack described as an act of 'domestic terrorism
  
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• 'Prince Philip accusing people of sponging is a crime against self awareness'

  16-07-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  For the Queen’s hubby to accuse people of sponging is a crime against self-awareness as he's lived off his wife for more than 50 years
  
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• Gardener sells TOENAILS on Ebay after growing them for three weeks until he attracted a winning bid

  16-07-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  James Smith has already had some interest in his unusual offer
  
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• Watchdog criticises DWP for 'unacceptable' fraud and error in benefits payments

  16-07-2015 22:10
  
  A SPENDING watchdog has severely criticised the Department for Work and Pensions for an “unacceptably high level of fraud and error” in welfare payments.
  
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• Forced marriage: 'I just thought it was a normal family holiday'

  16-07-2015 22:09
  
  More than a year after a new law criminalising the practice, there has been just one prosecution for forced marriage, despite more than 1,200 potential cases being discovered every year. As part of The Independent's series of articles on the subject here is the story of one schoolgirl who fell victim to the tradition.
  
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• Half of all crimes are never solved, figures show

  16-07-2015 22:02
  
  POLICE are failing to solve half of all crimes, leaving offenders to get away scot-free.
  
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• 'I'm an ordinary mum of three who enjoys watching PORN ... what's so shocking about that?'

  16-07-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michaela Dixon is happy to admits she's spent most of her adult life watching X-rated films
  
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• Chelsea fans racism trial: Four men accused of racist chants oppose football banning orders

  16-07-2015 21:56
  
  Four Chelsea fans have appeared in court after being accused of singing racist chants on the Paris Metro and allegedly pushing a black man off the train as he tried to board.
  
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• Forced marriage: The warning signs

  16-07-2015 21:54
  
  Unlike an arranged marriage, where both future spouses agree to a union which has been set up between their families, forced marriage happens when one or both people do not consent.
  
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• Prince Philip makes a SECOND gaffe when he asks fundraiser if he 'has any friends left?'

  16-07-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 94-year-old Duke of Edinburgh also asked one of the women: “Who do you sponge off?”
  
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• Forced marriage: How hundreds of terrified British victims of the tradition are being failed every year by the services they need most

  16-07-2015 21:48
  As millions of schoolchildren across England and Wales break up for the summer over the coming days, a few hundred, the vast majority girls, are full of dread. These are the victims of forced marriage, a tradition that is spreading across the country, and spreading fear in its wake.
  
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• German expat banker tells countrymen: don't send your kids to 'disappointing' British private schools

  16-07-2015 21:25 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Arnold Holle, who moved to London from Dusseldorf, says standard has left him with impression expensive boarding schools here are little better than German state schools
  
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• John 'Goldfinger' Palmer: IPCC 'will not investigate' how police failed to notice dead fraudster had been shot six times by hitman

  16-07-2015 21:21
  The police watchdog will not directly investigate how officers failed to notice that a notorious gangland figure found dead in his garden had been shot six times by a professional hitman.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: More than six in ten people were bullied at school according to shock new poll

  16-07-2015 21:15
  
  MORE than six in ten people were bullied whilst at school, a shock Express.co.uk poll has suggested tonight.
  
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• Five things we learned about the future of the BBC

  16-07-2015 21:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Culture secretary John Whittingdale unveils the biggest overhaul of the corporation for a decade - so what did we find out?
  
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• Church refuses to allow exhumation request from pensioner unable to attend mother's grave

  16-07-2015 21:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Church of England's Consistory Court turns down request from wheelchair-bound Queenie Ivy Gooch, 81
  
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• Daughters forced to cancel Dignitas party for mother over fears of prosecution

  16-07-2015 21:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Daughters of terminally ill Jackie Baker, who suffers from motor neurone disease, forced to cancel party to raise funds to send her to Dignitas clinic after police warn they could be prosecuted for assisted suicide
  
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• How not to park: Grandmother has narrow escape as car crashes into her kitchen

  16-07-2015 21:01
  
  A GRANDMOTHER had a lucky escape when a car smashed into her kitchen seconds after she made a cup of tea.
  
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• Daughters scrap fundraiser to help send mother to die at Dignitas after police warning

  16-07-2015 20:58
  
  TWO sisters who were planning a party to help their seriously ill mother attend Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas - after police warned them not to.
  
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• Canoe man who faked death and fled to Panama must hand over pension pot

  16-07-2015 20:58
  
  A FRAUDSTER who faked his own death when he abandoned his canoe in the North Sea has been left broke after his £40,000 pension pot was seized.
  
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• End of the line for giant carp Two Tone after body 'rejected' by Natural History Museum

  16-07-2015 20:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  It appears there may be no glory in death for Two Tone the carp, after calls to see him displayed at the Natural History Museum went unheeded
  
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