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• Adolf Hitler 'tried to arrange a marriage' between Germany and the British royal family

  19-07-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The German leader encouraged Nazi aristocrats, the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick, to marry their daughter to the future king, Edward VIII
  
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• The Queen vows to carry on as normal after footage of her making Nazi salute is leaked

  19-07-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He cousin Margaret Rhodes – who met the Queen at church in Windsor on Sunday – described the “fuss” over controversial footage of the royals as “absolute nonsense” and “ridiculous”
  
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• Police hunt for 'cowardly' yob who punched and robbed 91-year-old pensioner

  19-07-2015 23:40
  
  DETECTIVES are hunting a young woman who punched a pensioner aged 91 in the face and stole her purse.
  
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• Obesity and old age causes fall in donor organs

  19-07-2015 23:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Quarter of organs are now provided by patients classed as obese - compared with one in eight a decade ago - and on many occasions donors are not suitable because they are too old
  
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• World sees 10,000 illegal organ transplants a year as rising demand creates a £1bn racket

  19-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Our investigation found that people who sell a kidney to racketeers can get less than £2,000 and often die from infections during surgery
  
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• Woman awaiting a new kidney says illegal transplant trade could be ended if more people were donors

  19-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nicola Hawkins has already had one transplant but needs another and says she has had Facebook messages for people asking if she would like to buy one
  
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• Number of UK organ transplants drops by 5% prompting campaign to boost donor scheme

  19-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The NHS says the country needs a 'revolution in attitudes' to prevent patients from needless deaths, with thousands of people sitting on waiting lists
  
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• Bosley wood factory explosion: Rescue workers find body during desperate search for four missing people

  19-07-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  William Barks, Dorothy Bailey, Jason Shingler, and Derek Moore are all unaccounted for following the blaze
  
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• Dying Brits pay £75,000 for transplants on Facebook as criminal gangs cash in on terminally ill

  19-07-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some penniless people are so desperate for money just to survive they are willing to sell their organs on Facebook for as little as £1,200
  
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• Murdered Anthony Walker's mum condemns early release bid of Premier League star's killer brother

  19-07-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gee Walker says the pain of her son's death never leaves her and now she has spoken of her fury as Joey Barton's brother applies to have his sentence cut
  
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• Mum's heartache after botched bum operation left her looking like she been bitten by a shark

  19-07-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After losing half her body weight, young mum Heidi Faulkner was desperate to be rid of her "saggy skin" but it had horrific consequences
  
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• Queen 'Nazi salute' footage could have been inadvertently released by Palace

  19-07-2015 22:56 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A home movie which includes the Queen in an apparent Nazi salute may have been inadvertently released by Palace officials
  
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• Gang who risked motorists lives in £5.6million 'crash for cash' scam facing jail

  19-07-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The gang convinced people to let them use their cars to cause pre-planned road crashes with other road users' vehicles before making exaggerated or fraudulent claims
  
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• Husband who 'quit fags' caught having crafty one by wife who snooped on him through Google Streetview

  19-07-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Donny Ryding told her other half he'd smoked last ciggie following a heart attack, but the suspicious wife caught him having sly one on Google Streetview
  
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• The 'phallic' clam America sells to China

  19-07-2015 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The bizarre clam America sends to China
  
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• UW-158: Watch live as asteroid worth £3TRILLION passes close to Earth

  19-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Asteroid UW-158, thought to contain £3 trillion worth of platinum, will be 30 times closer than the nearest planet at around 10pm
  
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• UW-158: Watch live as asteroid worth £3 TRILLION passes close to Earth

  19-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Asteroid UW-158, thought to contain £3 trillion worth of platinum, will be 30 times closer than the nearest planet at around 10pm
  
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• Bus fares shoot up by a quarter as 2,000 routes axed during Tories five years in power

  19-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour has warned of a crisis hitting the old, the disabled, the young and isolated rural communities
  
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• Bus decked by low bridge as seven passengers injured in crash

  19-07-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The number 197 to Peckham ploughed into the 12ft-high crossing signs warning that there is no room for tall vehicles
  
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• Blunder by Barclays bank leaves unemployed man £200,000 overdrawn and locked out of his bank accounts

  19-07-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unemployed 30-year-old got the scare of his life, having been £50 in credit one day earlier
  
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• Schools spending thousands of pounds of public money trying to unfairly boost Ofsted results

  19-07-2015 22:14
  
  The education watchdog Ofsted is to launch a major crackdown on schools that spend thousands of pounds of public money attempting unfairly to boost their inspection results.
  
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• Schools are spending thousands of pounds of public money trying to unfairly boost Ofsted results

  19-07-2015 22:14
  
  The education watchdog Ofsted is to launch a major crackdown on schools that spend thousands of pounds of public money attempting unfairly to boost their inspection results.
  
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• Schools are spending thousands of pounds of public money trying to unfairly boost Ofstead results

  19-07-2015 22:14
  
  The education watchdog Ofsted is to launch a major crackdown on schools that spend thousands of pounds of public money attempting unfairly to boost their inspection results.
  
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• Sea scouts save a sheep from a watery grave during an overnight canoeing trip

  19-07-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The four teenagers were paddling down the River Avon when they saw the stricken animal and jumped into action to push it onto dry land
  
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• NHS: Junior doctor’s open letter to David Cameron goes viral

  19-07-2015 22:05
  
  A junior doctor’s damning open letter to the Prime Minister highlighting NHS workers’ low pay and long hours has been shared online more than 100,000 times, after the Government announced plans to push for seven-day services.
  
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• The Open 2015: Paul Dunne dares to dream while thoroughbreds jostle

  19-07-2015 21:55
  
  • Amateur fires brilliant 66 to give himself chance of Claret Jug• Jordan Spieth has high hopes of third major after third round
  • I don’t see why I can’t win Claret Jug’ says Paul DunneWell, it was unarguably worth the wait. The only drawback to such a sensational, belated third round of the Open relates to what comes next. Is anticlimax inevitable?On Sunday, the delays that had beset the tournament and triggered a Monday finish for the first time since 1988 only appeared to have in
  
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• Andy Burnham: I’d serve in Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet if he becomes Labour leader

  19-07-2015 21:53
  
  Andy Burnham would be prepared to serve in a Shadow Cabinet led by Jeremy Corbyn if the firebrand left-winger pulled off a surprise Labour leadership election win, the shadow Health Secretary said yesterday.
  
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• Doctor brands NHS 'appalling' after her mother left mental health unit and burned herself to death

  19-07-2015 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Angela Rich was allowed to walk out of the centre despite telling staff she was planning to set herself ablaze, leaving her daughter demanding reform
  
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• Paul Dunne: the autograph that everyone suddenly wants at St Andrews

  19-07-2015 21:41
  
  The 22-year-old has gone from little-known amateur to become the focus of world golf after sharing the Open lead with Louis OosthuizenA few days ago Paul Dunne was asked for his autograph but only those coveting a treasured signature were to be disappointed. They had mistaken the amateur for Jordan Spieth yet, if they had waited until the early evening on Sunday, their apathy would have turned to delight.Quite remarkably, Dunne – a 22-year-old of similar build to Spieth who wears the same bran
  
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• Cheers as Aldi wine wins top-value award

  19-07-2015 21:34
  
  A WINE from supermarket Aldi has scooped the best-value bottle of the year award.
  
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• Watch: Divers hurtle into sea impossibly close to jagged cliffs as Brit Gary Hunt wins another World Series

  19-07-2015 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The British extreme sportsman shows how it is done, twisting and rolling into the water to win his fifth Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in a row
  
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• Karl Cosnett: Facebook picture shared by victim of prolific bicycle thief lands crook in jail after going viral

  19-07-2015 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cosnett pleaded guilty to charges of theft and attempted theft of the bicycles at Manchester Magistrates Court
  
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• Villagers turn to civil disobedience in battle against third runway at Heathrow

  19-07-2015 21:27
  
  Faced with destruction of Harmondsworth and other villages, residents began taking matters into their own hands – and things escalated sharplyWith its 11th century church, listed buildings and 15th century timber barn managed by English Heritage, Harmondsworth is a paean to reverence, tradition and antiquity.Faced with destruction of their village as they know it to make way for a third runway at Heathrow, however, some residents have begun to adopt irreverent tactics, such as civil disobedien
  
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• The Guardian view on global development goals: heed the good news, but more needs to be done | Editorial

  19-07-2015 21:26
  
  A UN report highlights that there is much less poverty, hunger and disease in the world than 20 years ago – but more must be done, especially in addressing global inequalityAt a time when good news seems so hard to come by on the global stage, try stepping back and looking at some of the larger, more positive trends that do exist. This is the data that says the planet isn’t doing so badly in some respects, and that people’s lives, if looked at on a big scale, have been continuously improvi
  
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• The Guardian view on free time: too valuable not to share fairly | Editorial

  19-07-2015 21:25
  
  Parts of the government would like to browbeat employees into working on weekends, but the need to take time off should be respectedWhat are holidays for, as Philip Larkin almost asked? Solving that question will occupy parents all over the country as the school holidays start in England and Wales. Parts of this government act as if the purpose of holidays is to provide a bank of unused hours which employers can draw on at will. Jeremy Hunt’s attempt to browbeat senior doctors into workin
  
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• We must defeat ISIS on the ground says former Chief of Defence

  19-07-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lord Richards said: "I want Britain to do more. We know we have to defeat Isil, we have to destroy this caliphate"
  
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• Andy Burnham 'open' to offering Labour leadership rival Jeremy Corbyn a Shadow Cabinet place

  19-07-2015 21:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The frontrunner says the left-winger has said 'things that are important', adding that the party will have to come together once the contest is over
  
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• Beatrix Potter and Fashion designer Alexander McQueen nominated to appear on new £20 note

  19-07-2015 21:15
  
  Fashion designer Alexander McQueen and author Beatrix Potter are among the names nominated by the public to appear on the new £20 note.
  
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• Oar-some! Incredible video shows dolphins race young rowers in Dorset

  19-07-2015 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the young rowers trained, the dolphins can be seen leaping next to their boat
  
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• A Ugandan political journalist's week in Westminster: ‘The British may be cynical about politics, but it’s a strong system’

  19-07-2015 21:08
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• UK Monopoly champion says key to winning is to be kind

  19-07-2015 21:05
  
  Keep your opponents favourable, says Natalie Fitzsimons, 24; mortgage everything, stick with three or four houses – and stay in jail for as long as possibleMonopoly, the cause of countless family arguments, is often said to be a game that rewards the most ruthless – but the latest UK and Ireland champion believes the key to winning is to sometimes treat your opponents kindly.Natalie Fitzsimons, who had entered with and beat her husband in the heats, won the championship after a tense hour an
  
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• Man, 21, dies at Demi Moore's home in Los Angeles

  19-07-2015 21:01
  
  Police say actor was not home when the man accidentally drowned, but that Moore’s children had been having pool parties at the houseCoroner’s officials said on Sunday a 21-year-old man accidentally drowned in the backyard pool of a Los Angeles home owned by the actor Demi Moore.Lieutenant Fred Corral said the man was found dead at 5.30am on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Bosley Wood explosion: Probe launched two weeks before blast ripped though mill

  19-07-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The plant, near Macclesfield, in Cheshire, was cleared up on the orders of council enforcement officers who visited a fortnight before a fireball ripped through it on Friday
  
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• Student camps in stranger's back garden for a YEAR to save money on living costs

  19-07-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Evan met his girlfriend on his course and she sometimes stayed with him in the tent
  
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• The beach is a melting pot – the perfect place to examine what has shattered our confidence in Europe

  19-07-2015 20:59
  
  Beaches work because everyone understands the rules, and the Greeks are being kicked off the sand for flouting themThey are coming: flooding airport lounges with tattoos and leggings, battered straw hats and extended families. On arrival, in Magaluf or Mytilene, they will mix with streams of holidaymakers from a place called Europe.On the beach, they will mix again. Sixth-form girls from Surrey will hobnob with Corsican fisher-boys. Continue reading...
  
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• Martin Rowson on the Sun's Queen Nazi salute story – cartoon

  19-07-2015 20:58
  
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• RAF aims to stop menace of terrorist missile strikes on airliners

  19-07-2015 20:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Anti-aircraft missiles plundered during the Libyan revolution have become an unprecedented menace to aviation, experts fear
  
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• Homeless man due to face trial for the attempted murder of two schoolboys found dead in prison cell

  19-07-2015 20:45
  
  A homeless man who was due to face trial for the attempted murder of two schoolboys has been found dead in his prison cell.
  
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• David Cameron set to spend most of August chillaxing on holiday

  19-07-2015 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The prime minister is off to Cornwall and Portugal and reportedly considering a third holiday to Scotland
  
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• Karen Bradley: ‘All communities in the UK need to know forced marriages are never acceptable’

  19-07-2015 20:42
  
  More perpetrators of forced marriage must be brought to justice, the Home Office minister in charge of preventing it has demanded.
  
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