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• Watch news anchor's extraordinary Ron Burgundy moment as he attributes Amazon's success to 'sex toys'

  25-07-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This hilarious footage shows a presenter going off script in a rather adult way during a live news broadcast
  
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• Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth to tell his real-life spy story

  25-07-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bestselling novelist and ex-BBC journalist spent time in Community East Germany at the height of the Cold War
  
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• If Labour elect Jeremy Corbyn it will be lurch to left that is far from right

  25-07-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Its voters don’t want a rabid left wing dinosaur who if he wins will consign the party to the political wilderness and render it irrelevant
  
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• Bullying victim aims to run 401 marathons in 401 days to raise cash for anti-bullying charity

  25-07-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ben Smith was targeted as a boy at boarding school for being gay and has now quit his job in preparation for his epic test
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: What do the public think about Labour's controversial leadership frontrunner?

  25-07-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From threat to a would-be saviour...here’s what the man and woman in the street thinks of Jeremy Corbyn
  
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• Shamed Rolf Harris offers secret pay-offs to victims of his alleged sex crimes

  25-07-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The disgraced entertainer has told lawyers to settle civil compensation claims that will eat into his £15million fortune
  
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• Cat lover told she can't have her dead pet back by council - because it's hazardous waste

  25-07-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Yasmine Khalid was devastated when her 11-year-old cat went missing - it was collected by council workers after apparently being hit by a car
  
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• Dying man who served 28 years for murder passes lie detector test - and pleads for justice

  25-07-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Frail Martin O'Halloran was jailed in 1975 for killing Thomas Walker has always denied involvement in the attack - he now hopes to clear his name
  
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• Josie Cunningham: Chancellor George Osborne has made me go back on the game

  25-07-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The NHS boob job scrounger has turned to escorting again after claiming her handouts aren't enough to fund her showbiz lifestyle
  
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• EU referendum 'within a year': David Cameron fast-tracks vote on Britain's membership of European Union to June 2016

  25-07-2015 23:10
  
  David Cameron is set to hold the in-or-out referendum on Britain’s future membership of the European Union in June next year and will announce the fast-tracked date as the centrepiece of his party’s annual conference in October.
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron fast-tracks vote on Britain's membership of European Union to June 2016

  25-07-2015 23:10
  
  David Cameron is set to hold the in-or-out referendum on Britain’s future membership of the European Union in June next year and will announce the fast-tracked date as the centrepiece of his party’s annual conference in October.
  
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• Ministers surrender in battle to eradicate Japanese knotweed

  25-07-2015 23:09 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Ministers have been forced to admit defeat in the fight against Japanese knotweed, conceding that it would be too expensive to eradicate.
  
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• John Prescott: Labour warfare over welfare could deny party leader it really needs - Andy Burnham

  25-07-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Deputy Prime Minister is furious with stand-in leader Harriet Harman for not opposing Chancellor George Osborne’s Welfare Reform Bill to cut tax credits
  
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• Bear Grylls tells kids to put their tablets away and explore outdoors

  25-07-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Adventurer and Chief Scout Bear Grylls urges children to get outdoors and create their own adventures
  
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• 'I was betrayed' says widow left 'only' £15 million

  25-07-2015 22:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A former beauty queen was stunned to discover that the estate she inherited from 'Black Jack' Dellal amounted to just £15.4 million, the rest of his fortune having seemingly vanished
  
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• Las Vegas hotel fire: Firefighters tackle huge blaze at The Cosmopolitan's roof top pool

  25-07-2015 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two people were injured after a fire broke out on the 'canyon themed' roof top, leaving huge pillars of black smoke towering over the city
  
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• Elderly woman dies in head-on car crash that leaves girl, 5, with ‘serious injuries’

  25-07-2015 22:34
  
  AN ELDERLY woman has died and four other people, including girls aged two and five, are in hospital after a head-on car crash.
  
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• Sick schoolgirl betrayed by David Cameron and NHS after botched review into life-saving wonder drug

  25-07-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  12-year old Abi Longfellow  suffers from a rare kidney disease not ­covered by drug-funding policy but after hopes were raised by the PM, an error means she is no closer to treatment
  
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• Yvette Cooper: Labour must get serious about challenging Tories - not just shout from sidelines

  25-07-2015 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The party leadership contender reveals that she believes in a radical plan for the future - but using heads as well as hearts
  
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• ISIS terrorists are sneaking into Europe by mingling with boatloads of desperate refugees

  25-07-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Colonel Richard Kemp, who has worked for the Government’s Joint Intelligence Committee, said: 'This is an ­extremely attractive route for the IS to move people from Syria into Europe'
  
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• 'Come Dine With Me was recipe for disaster': Couple who tasted victory on show split up over teasing pals

  25-07-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Things got heated between Ashley Wheeler and Sophie Elisabeth after his rugby-playing mates made a video mocking them for sounding 'posh'
  
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• Police canteens fuelling Britain's 'blobby bobby' crisis by serving fatty foods

  25-07-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One force serves up FIVE different pies while another offers battered sausages as a snack
  
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• Man who was accused of sex assault after threesome: 'They destroyed my life, how can I trust anyone again?'

  25-07-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emma Riche-Webber and pal Zinzile Ademuni-Odeke lied to cops following romp with Colin Palin and have been jailed
  
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• Calais migrant crisis 'could impact on British economy' amid summer of travel chaos

  25-07-2015 22:05
  
  The British economy could be hit by a summer of travel chaos stemming from the Calais migrant crisis, warn Eurotunnel and the UK freight industry, as holidaymakers faced a weekend of gridlock on the South-east’s roads.
  
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• Rail staffing cuts blamed for 'shocking' increase in passengers being attacked on Britain's trains

  25-07-2015 22:04
  
  It’s a crime wave that has shocked safety campaigners and spurred British Transport Police (BTP) to start a major trial of body cameras, as the number of passengers attacked on Britain’s trains hits its highest figure in a decade.
  
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• Rail staffing cuts blamed for 'shocking' increase in attacks on passengers on Britain's trains

  25-07-2015 22:04
  
  It’s a crime wave that has shocked safety campaigners and spurred British Transport Police (BTP) to start a major trial of body cameras, as the number of passengers attacked on Britain’s trains hits its highest figure in a decade.
  
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• Supersonic flight: Concorde's successors are in the works 15 years on from the Paris crash

  25-07-2015 22:03
  
  Shortly before 4pm on 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 began to roll down the runway with all the majesty and decibels that had become the signature of a Concorde take-off. Within 120 seconds, the plane had returned to earth in a sheet of flame, killing 113 people as it sliced into the hinterland of Charles de Gaulle airport.
  
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• Labour leadership election: Vote for the candidate who doesn't fear honesty

  25-07-2015 22:00
  
  I know we’re not supposed to believe a word that opinion pollsters say these days, but one fact from YouGov last week struck a chord. Buried beneath the sensational finding about the apparent frontrunner in the Labour leadership race was the news that a driving force behind Jeremy Corbyn’s surge is that a third of Labour’s 55,000 new members since the election are under 30, and that most of them are no more than 18.
  
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• Labour leadership election: Ed Miliband's era of magical fabulism is over

  25-07-2015 22:00
  
  Having lost an election that was there to be won, the scale and scope of the defeat inflicted by Ed Miliband upon the Labour Party – and, more importantly, those for whom the party exists to serve – continues to be revealed in excruciating detail.
  
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• Police investigating animal cruelty as sickening footage shows thug kicking tiny cat like football

  25-07-2015 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: The horrendous video shows the cruel thug run up and boot the tiny cat several feet into the air
  
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• Give us a poo: New dog mess DNA database that could spell trouble for selfish pet owners

  25-07-2015 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The so-called 'poo prints' scheme would see DNA collected from dogs via a painless swab and placed onto an online database.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: If I don’t win Labour leadership I can always go back to my allotment

  25-07-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In an exclusive interview with Sunday People political editor Nigel Nelson, the surprise frontrunner opens up about his colourful past and his plans for the future
  
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• David Blunkett on Jeremy Corbyn: Left-wing Labour leader hopeful won't have answers needed in 2020

  25-07-2015 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Labour Home Secretary believes the solutions Andy Burnham will provide will be more relevant to voters come the next general election
  
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• Anyone But Corbyn: Veteran Labour MPs unite against left-wing candidate amid 'electoral oblivion' fears

  25-07-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Civil war has broken out inside the party as grassroots support for Jeremy Corbyn grows, with heavyweights warning it risks a repeat of its 1981 split
  
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• Now will Bercow walk (instead of taking taxis)?

  25-07-2015 21:28
  
  JOHN Bercow yesterday vowed to use chauffeur-driven cars only when “absolutely necessary” after being attacked over his expenses.
  
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• Motorcyclist suffers fractured skull and broken collarbone in 'wall of death' carnival show accident

  25-07-2015 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man aged in his 30s was badly injured after the accident on an attraction that sees bikes riding along a wall inside a cylinder
  
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• This is why you should never cook around cats - they have nine lives but your dinner doesn't

  25-07-2015 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In this hilarious clip, a man is busying himself in the kitchen with a black cat hovering ominously overhead on his kitchen cupboards - disaster inevitably follows
  
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• Fury as legal high dealers slash prices of 'party drugs' linked to scores of deaths before ban

  25-07-2015 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Firms are selling cocaine-like drugs with names such as Schniff, Pablo and Charles in cut-price deals online before Psychoactive Substances Bill comes into force
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's team think he will win Labour leadership

  25-07-2015 20:52 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Left winger's team warns opponents they would be foolish to "rule out" his challenge, and predict he will win the election or finish second at worst
  
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• MPs' 10% pay rise undermines trust in politcs, watchdog says

  25-07-2015 20:48 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lord Bew, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, warns decision to pay MPs £74,000 will not have helped restore faith in politics as he calls for a new debate about party funding
  
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• Baseball legend Reggie Jackson's four-letter tirade during scrap with autograph hunting fan

  25-07-2015 20:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Yankees star was meant to be enjoying a quiet meal with friends, but become agitated after being besieged by fans looking for his signature
  
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• Council rapped for ‘insufficient action’ over Aylesbury child sex ring that raped girls

  25-07-2015 20:38
  
  A GANG of child sex abusers who raped a girl under 13 were tipped off to authorities SEVEN YEARS agoit has been claimed today.
  
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• MH370: Liverpool stars surprise daughter of chief steward from missing Malaysian Airlines flight

  25-07-2015 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Maira Elizabeth's dad Andrew Nari was working as a chief steward on the fateful Malaysian Airlines flight, which mysteriously disappeared last year on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
  
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• Conn to cut costs as British Gas profits soar

  25-07-2015 20:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Centrica chief executive unveils results of five month strategic review
  
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• Ian Brady's hospital probed after dangerous patient on round-the-clock watch tried to kill himself

  25-07-2015 20:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bosses at Ashworth Hospital, Liverpool, want to know how Zack Davies, 26, was able to make the attempt when guarded 24 hours a day
  
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• Labour's shadowy plan to use George Osborne's ruthless leadership ambitions to their advantage

  25-07-2015 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Sunday People political editor believes a Labour idea of bringing elected mayors into the Shadow Cabinet could undermine the Chancellor's plan to be PM
  
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• North south divide in how divorces are heard forces wives to seek justice in London

  25-07-2015 20:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An unofficial north-south divide in how divorces are arranged is driving growing numbers of wives to have their cases heard in London in the hope of obtaining more favourable settlements
  
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• Murder and multiple rape suspect wanted by Brit police pictured on a casual stroll in India

  25-07-2015 20:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aman Vyas, 31, has resisted all attempts to extradite him back to Britain to face trial for the killing of Michelle Samaraweera in Walthamstow, East London, in 2009
  
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• Murder and multiple rape suspect strolling around free in India as he fights extradition

  25-07-2015 20:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aman Vyas, 31,  has resisted all attempts to extradite him back to Britain to face trial for the killing of Michelle Samaraweera in Walthamstow, East London, in 2009
  
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• Government refuses £11 NHS test which could prevent a newborn from dying every week

  25-07-2015 20:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to bring in routine screening for Group B Streptococcus
  
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