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• Furious voters say Tory MP who claims he's forced to 'watch the pennies' should experience real poverty

  17-07-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former Army captain Tobias Ellwood, who is set to enjoy a pay rise from £87,000 to £94,000, sparked outrage by claiming he must “watch the pennies”
  
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• Euromillions results: Winning numbers for Friday July 17 2015

  17-07-2015 23:58
  
  THESE are the winning Euromillions numbers for the draw on Friday July 17 2015.
  
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• Paralympic swimmer Lord Holmes urges Premier League clubs to provide more seats for disabled fans

  17-07-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'I think football really needs to discover its moral compass,' said disability rights champion who highlighted issue in a debate in House of Lords
  
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• Morrisons auditor who leaked personal details of 100,000 staff is jailed for eight years

  17-07-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Skelton leaked the data in revenge after being discplined for sending his personal eBay packages from the company's mail room
  
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• VW camper van catches fire and almost brings M62 to standstill

  17-07-2015 23:49
  
  A VW camper van nearly ground a major motorway near Leeds to a hault, after it caught alight.
  
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• Mum-to-be's bizarre attempt to track down father of her child using Craigslist

  17-07-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A woman who is pregnant after a one night stand with a stranger has used Craigslist to try and find the father
  
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• Rise in rates could lead to new leap in debt problems say worried experts

  17-07-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Evidence shows one in five homeowners will fall into arrears when interest rates go up
  
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• Raise the price of fizzy drinks and combat childhood obesity, says UK's health boss

  17-07-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  NHS England boss Simon Stevens said food retailers should raise the price of sugary drinks and “other nutritionally empty, health-destroying” items
  
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• Self-obsessed student blows her £58,000 college fund - and then blames her parents

  17-07-2015 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kim was given $90,000 (£58,000) by her grandparents to pay for college, but blew it with a year to go, meaning she needed to raise $20,000 to complete her studies
  
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• Amy Thomson: Teen fighting for life after collapsing at 'ecstasy party' emerges from coma

  17-07-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 16-year-old has regained consciousness after more than a month in a coma, her cousin revealed on Facebook
  
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• Space, Not Spikes campaigners launch fight to end anti-homeless spikes in London

  17-07-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Concerned residents are teaming up with artists in a campaign they feel will make something beautiful out of something ugly
  
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• Dad-of-three had near miss after picking up venomous false widow spider with his bare hand

  17-07-2015 23:12
  
  A FATHER-of-three had a near miss after he picked up Britain's most venomous spider with his bare hands.
  
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• RIP Buster: Hero RAF sniffer dog credited with saving 1,000 lives in warzones around the world dies

  17-07-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The springer spaniel had completed five tours of duty in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq, sniffing out bombs and booby traps before they could kill British service personnel
  
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• Fury at soft jail sentence for 'scumbag' who stole suicide leap gran's handbag

  17-07-2015 23:10
  
  A GRIEVING family criticised the soft sentence given to a heartless thief who stole a grandmother’s handbag seconds after watching her plummet to her death.
  
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• Disturbing video shows sacked Hollyoaks star Stephanie Davis necking multiple tequila shots in middle of the day

  17-07-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stephanie's friends and family are said to be concerned about the ex-soap star's drinking as video emerges showing the actress necking shots in a solo drinking game
  
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• New Lib Dem leader Tim Farron confident of comeback for party

  17-07-2015 23:02
  
  THE Liberal Democrats could take a generation to recover from their devastating election defeat, the party’s new leader admitted.
  
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• PPI payouts are a 'bit of a lottery'

  17-07-2015 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People who were mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) can receive widely differing compensation, a BBC investigation has found.
  
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• Free parking in town centres to save the high street

  17-07-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Shoppers in small town high streets should be allowed to park free, a minister has indicated after towns that scrapped fees saw shopping areas flourish
  
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• El Chapo escape: Inside the badlands at the frontline of the Mexican drugs war

  17-07-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tensions are rising in Mexico following Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman's prison break as rivals seek to tighten their grip on the drugs market
  
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• Drug trafficking costs Britain £10.7BILLION every year and prices are some of the highest in the world

  17-07-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The amount of cocaine estimated to be imported annually into the UK is between 25-30 tonnes
  
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• SNP 'launch secret plan' to meddle in England's issues that have NO impact on Scotland

  17-07-2015 22:58
  
  THE Scottish National Party have 'ordered' MPs to engage with England's communities in order to interfere with issues of NO relevance to Scotland, it has been claimed today.
  
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• Pluto pictured: New Horizons probe sends more incredible images of dwarf planet's icy plains

  17-07-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The stunning images are "not easy to explain," leading scientists have admitted - but more data is coming through
  
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• Druggie who beat two men to death with hammer before repeatedly stabbing them and burning flat is jailed

  17-07-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul O'Shea, 37, has been caged for life for carrying out the brutal double murder in King's Cross, London
  
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• I spent £70,000 on IVF but only had children when I found true love

  17-07-2015 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A happy ending for Joanne's 14 year battle to become a mum
  
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• The diet to beat diabetes: Ditch sugar and eat more fruit and veg

  17-07-2015 22:35
  
  A DIET loaded with wholegrains, fresh fruit and vegetables with as little sugar as possible is the simplest way to beat diabetes, say experts.
  
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• Tragedy after rescued seal pup released into wild is shot in the head and killed

  17-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Animal welfare activists, who named the pup Kuiper, spent six weeks feeding him with a straw after he was found in 2012 with a dangerous eye ulcer
  
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• 'Just because someone has reached 90, it doesn't turn them from a mass murderer into righteous gentile'

  17-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the week when “Book­­keeper of Auschwitz” Oskar Groening was jailed, Nazi hunter Dr Efraim Zuroff explains why it is still vital to find all Nazi war criminals
  
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• Isis car bomb kills more than 100 including children during Eid celebrations in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad

  17-07-2015 22:28
  
  Isis militants claim to have killed at least 100 people, including children, with a car bomb in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad, where people had gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.
  
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• Isis car bomb kills at least 100 including children in Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad

  17-07-2015 22:28
  
  Isis militants claim to have killed at least 100 people, including children, with a car bomb in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad, where people had gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.
  
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• Car bomb kills at least 80 including children in Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad

  17-07-2015 22:28
  
  A car bomb killed at least 80 people including children in a busy market in an Iraqi town on Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks since Islamic State militants overran large parts of the country.
  
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• Bosley Wood factory explosion: Four people feared dead after huge blast rips through mill

  17-07-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A series of blasts just after 9am left three men and a woman unaccounted for among the charred rubble in the village of Bosley, near Macclesfield
  
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• Arthritis sufferers offered hoped with new drug research

  17-07-2015 22:07
  
  A DRUG used to treat bipolar disorder could offer hope to millions of arthritis sufferers.
  
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• 'Out of date and overcrowded' Victorian prisons could be sold off to fund upgrade says Michael Gove

  17-07-2015 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Justice Secretary says Government should consider closing “ageing and ineffective” city sites and replacing them with new buildings
  
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• New Magaluf sex video shows two Brits romping on busy Spanish party resort street

  17-07-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: This story contains graphic images. The video, which is just over one minute long, has emerged on porn websites earning more than 20,000 views
  
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• UK retailers braced for sales jump to rival Christmas, as 'Ramadan Rush' gets under way

  17-07-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Retail experts believe sales could more than treble at some department stores as wealthy shoppers from the Middle East flock to Britain
  
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• Teachers pocket £77million worth of gifts from their grateful pupils

  17-07-2015 21:58
  
  TEACHERS will receive £77million worth of gifts from pupils when schools break up this week.
  
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• MH17: One year on, why the victims' families are struggling to cope

  17-07-2015 21:51 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As memorial services are held throughout the world one year after Malaysia Airlines MH17 was shot down, the families of the 298 victims are still waiting for answers
  
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• Britain's weekend workers: Meet the men and women who show that the five-day working week could be an obsolete concept

  17-07-2015 21:51
  Who wants to work on weekends? Doctors certainly don’t. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, effectively declared war on the British Medical Association this week – warning them he was willing to impose a new contract on consultants that would see more of them working at the weekend to deliver the Government’s vision of a “seven-day NHS”.
  
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• Mhairi Black is right - we must give a voice to our young generation

  17-07-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brian Reade says our tired political system has nothing to lose by letting in young, fresh blood
  
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• Pictured: Moment VW camper van bursts into flames on busy motorway

  17-07-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Flames poured out of the windows and windscreens of the white wagon as traffic slowed to a crawl on the westbound carriageway of the M62 at junction 29, near Leeds
  
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• Guinness for breakfast has helped me reach 100 says grandmother

  17-07-2015 21:44
  
  A 100-YEAR-OLD grandmother believes she has found the secret of a long life – a pint of Guinness for breakfast.
  
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• Chattanooga shootings: US Marines killed in shootings named as claims emerge gunman visited Middle East

  17-07-2015 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, who the FBI identified as the attacker in Chattanooga, may have travelled to Yemen and Jordan
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: In search of the man threatening to wrench Labour to the left

  17-07-2015 21:29
  
  To see him cycling through the streets of London, bearded, trousers safely tucked into bicycle clips, jacket allegedly from circa 1983, is surely to wonder whether somewhere, a school might be missing its head of geography.
  
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• In search of the real Jeremy Corbyn – the man threatening to wrench Labour to the left

  17-07-2015 21:29
  
  To see him cycling through the streets of London, bearded, trousers safely tucked into bicycle clips, jacket allegedly from circa 1983, is surely to wonder whether somewhere, a school might be missing its head of geography.
  
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• Outraged family in court row after claiming 'disgusting' Spanish hotel left them with fever, vomiting and diarrhoea

  17-07-2015 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Quinn family say that rats ran rampant at the hotel, and that they were served food covered in flies
  
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• Breast-feeding row: Golfers suspended for comments about mum and baby

  17-07-2015 21:24
  
  THREE senior women golfers have been suspended by club bosses in a row over breast-feeding in the clubhouse.
  
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• Boy, six, suspended after threatening to 'chop his teacher's head off' with STEAK KNIFE

  17-07-2015 21:22
  
  A SIX-year-old boy who is "normally quiet" took two knives into school and threatened to "chop his teacher's head off".
  
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• Neighbour claims BONGO drums played at top CNN reporter's garden party sounded 'like cannons'

  17-07-2015 21:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Enforcement officers were called in after resident living next to the White House correspondent's house complained about the noise
  
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• School lets parents take children on holiday DURING term time by having five inset days in one week

  17-07-2015 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Head teacher Catherine Barnett came up with the back-to-back training days for staff at Eveswell Primary in Wales to help parents save up to £500
  
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• Forced marriage: Calls to helpline double in the past five years

  17-07-2015 21:09
  
  Calls to a helpline for victims of forced marriage and honour-based abuse have doubled in the past five years, The Independent has learnt.
  
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