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• Ultimo lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone told by David Cameron she will be made Tory peer

  31-07-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tory voter Michelle - who already holds the OBE - left school at 15 with no qualifications and built her global lingerie empire from scratch
  
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• Secret of living to 108: I've been too busy to be bored, says Annie

  31-07-2015 23:55
  
  ONE of Britain’s oldest women celebrated her 108th birthday and said the key to her long life is simply that she’s always been "too busy to be bored".
  
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• Dad 'kept toddler's rotting corpse hidden for more than a month using rubbish to disguise the smell'

  31-07-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eric Warfel was charged after one-year-old Ember Warfel’s corpse was found by a man installing cable
  
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• Dad 'kept baby's rotting corpse hidden for more than a month using rubbish to disguise the smell'

  31-07-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eric Warfel was charged after one-year-old Ember Warfel’s corpse was found by a man installing cable
  
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• Porsche gang in terrifying gun raid on luxury London home caught on CCTV

  31-07-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The black Porsche Boxster calmly reversed into the driveway of the luxury home before the passenger launches a frenzied attack
  
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• Fiona Phillips: They weren't elected - so why do we have the House of Lords?

  31-07-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In light of the Lord Sewel scandal, Fiona Phillips asks why we're still tolerating the House of Lords in a democratic country
  
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• Plane debris flown out of Reunion

  31-07-2015 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A piece of debris that experts believe could be from missing flight MH370 is flown from Reunion in the Indian Ocean to France for analysis.
  
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• Sex abuse victims see payouts cut if they go on to commit a crime themselves

  31-07-2015 23:45
  
  HUNDREDS of sex abuse victims have had compensation payments reduced after committing crime themselves, an investigation found.
  
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• Don't ward off Calais migrants from Britain - tell our holidaymakers to avoid France

  31-07-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brian Reade can understand the thinking behind telling the Calais migrants that Britain isn't so great, but maybe we should try a different route
  
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• Seahorses could be EXTINCT in just three decades unless drastic action is taken

  31-07-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Conservationists are calling for a ban on shops in Britain selling the dried fish as holiday souvenirs
  
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• Blackbushe plane crash: Bin Laden family owned private jet which smashed into car auction killing four

  31-07-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The jet, worth £7million, crashed just after 3pm today killing all four on board and leaving the plane completely destroyed
  
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• Bare-knuckle boxing champ's belt celebrating 39-round bout sells for £32k

  31-07-2015 23:28
  
  A BOXING belt awarded to a 19th century bare-knuckle fighter who went 39 rounds in epic David v Goliath bout has sold for more than £30,000.
  
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• Argentine in Fifa 'not guilty' plea

  31-07-2015 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Alejandro Burzaco, a former Argentine sporting executive, pleads not guilty in the corruption case involving football's world governing body Fifa.
  
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• 'World's saddest bears' rescued from misery by Mirror readers enjoying new lease of life in Britain

  31-07-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Milcho and Gosho had spent their entire lives in a cramped concrete pit in Bulgaria after being bred to be hunted by Commust party officials
  
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• Charleston gunman pleads not guilty

  31-07-2015 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Charleston gunman Dylann Roof pleads not guilty to federal charges including hate crimes
  
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• Leeds Rhinos 24-14 St Helens

  31-07-2015 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Challenge Cup holders Leeds Rhinos beat St Helens to reach the final at Wembley for a fifth time in six years.
  
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• Flybe flight BE-664 forced to make emergency landing in Dublin after 'smoke in cockpit' concerns

  31-07-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The plane was flying to Manchester when the pilot decided that he would have to divert the plane
  
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• Flybe flight BE-664 forced to make emergency landing after 'smoke in cockpit' concerns

  31-07-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The plane was flying to Manchester when the pilot decided that he would have to divert the plane
  
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• Extra fencing and dogs for Calais

  31-07-2015 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Extra fencing and sniffer dogs are to be offered to Calais to help deal with the migrant crisis, Prime Minister David Cameron says.
  
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• Facebook's Zuckerberg to have child

  31-07-2015 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl.
  
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• Bin lorry driver passed out at wheel of beer truck... 25 years earlier

  31-07-2015 23:10
  
  THE driver of the bin lorry that killed six people after he collapsed at the wheel had blacked out while driving a beer lorry 25 years before the tragedy, a Fatal Accident Inquiry has heard.
  
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• Why work isn't what it used to be

  31-07-2015 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why work isn't what it used to be
  
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• Medicines watchdog calls for whistleblowers

  31-07-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The authority which enforces the pharmaceutical industry's code of practice urges insiders to bring them evidence of wrongdoing following Telegraph investigation
  
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• Force peers to retire when they reach old age, Lord Speaker suggests

  31-07-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Baroness D'Souza says reforms of the House of Lords are urgently needed to keep it 'fit for purpose'
  
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• Ed Balls: Labour must back business

  31-07-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former shadow chancellor attacks his party in his first newspaper interview since losing his seat
  
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• Lib Dems prepare to release an avalanche of memoirs of the Coalitions history

  31-07-2015 22:59
  
  The chauffeured cars and cabinet pow-wows may already seem like ancient history to the Liberal Democrats turfed out of Parliament at the election. Now the party’s former MPs are fuelling a cottage industry in memoirs aimed at political obsessives whose idea of a light read is picking over every spit and cough of the Coalition.
  
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• The treasures of unclaimed estates

  31-07-2015 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  'If this art isn't yours, it's ours'
  
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• Ed Balls says Labour must back big business as he lifts lid on clashes with Ed Miliband

  31-07-2015 22:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former shadow chancellor tells The Telegraph he was increasingly concerned about the Labour leader's stance before vote
  
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• Weekend opt-out is stumbling block as BMA and NHS negotiate new consultant and junior doctor contracts

  31-07-2015 22:54
  
  The BMA and NHS have been negotiating the new consultant and junior doctor contracts for two years.
  
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• People traffickers charging desperate migrants £5k to 'guarantee them a ticket to the UK'

  31-07-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The gangs promise they will then be guaranteed access to lorries and successfully get across the English Channel to the UK
  
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• Cobbler is crowned the world's best shoe repairer

  31-07-2015 22:48
  
  A YOUNG Briton has just said cobblers to the competition by being crowned the world's best shoe mender.
  
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• Pettersen leads at stormy Turnberry

  31-07-2015 22:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Norway's Suzann Pettersen shoots a 69 at a stormy Turnberry to take a two-stroke lead in the Women's British Open.
  
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• Calais crisis: Sniffer dogs? We’re doomed if that’s our best, says UK haulier facing ruin

  31-07-2015 22:43
  
  A HAULIER whose business is on the brink of collapse due to the Calais migrant crisis has blasted David Cameron’s plans for more sniffer dogs, saying they are virtually useless.
  
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• Happy Birthday Harry Potter! The boy wizard turns 35 today

  31-07-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Any Harry Potter fan worth his golden galleons will know he was born to James and Lily Potter on Thursday 31st July 1980
  
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• 'Shut your f**king mouth!' Watch furious driver's incredible expletive-filled tirade at cyclist - which ends in embarrassment

  31-07-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The motorist eventually gets out of the car and begins to chase the cyclist - but it didn't end well for him
  
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• HMS Victory: The mystery of Britain's worst naval disaster is finally solved - 271 years later

  31-07-2015 22:41
  
  One of Britain’s greatest maritime mysteries has finally been solved.
  
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• Cecil killer dentist bragged to barmaid 'I'm a record-breaker - Ive killed the world's biggest lion'

  31-07-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Walter Palmer has gone into hiding as Zimbabwe announced plans to begin extradition proceedings - and it emerged he also planned to kill an elephant next
  
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• Policeman's widow: I'll never forgive thugs who killed my husband with a single punch

  31-07-2015 22:39
  
  A WIDOW says she will never forgive two thugs who killed her off-duty policeman husband in a street brawl.
  
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• Paralysed man who walks again thanks to robot skeleton says his steps should give hope to others

  31-07-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rob Camm, 21, became the first ­tetraplegic on a ventilator to move the exoskeleton with the power of his thoughts
  
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• Who was Jack the Ripper? The suspects so far

  31-07-2015 22:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Francis Craig's name will be added to an ever-growing list of suspects in the alluring mystery of Jack the Ripper
  
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• Unmarried pregnant woman sacked by Christian employers because she was an 'embarrassment' posts their shocking letter online

  31-07-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The letter has since gone viral since being shared on Reddit, with furious social media users saying the company is "basically throwing her out into the streets"
  
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• Jack the Ripper identity: mystery 'solved' in new book

  31-07-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: New book introduces a brand new suspect, Francis Craig, after identifying the real name of the Ripper's final victim - his own wife
  
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• Five of the most bizarre Jack the Ripper suspects

  31-07-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The infamous Jack the Ripper has never been formally identified, but some have offered up some very unusual suspects for the Whitechapel serial killer, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
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• Jack the Ripper: Is this the only surviving depiction of the most famous serial killer in history?

  31-07-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Part Two: The new theory claims Jack the Ripper was a down-on-his-luck reporter named Francis Craig. It sets out evidence suggesting he is depicted in this sketch of an inquest into a Ripper murder - a crime he himself had committed
  
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• Jack the Ripper: How the new theory came to light

  31-07-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Part One: Exclusive extract from the new book The Real Mary Kelly details how the discovery of a 129-year-old document helped unlock the true identity of the Ripper's final victim, and therefore the serial killer himself
  
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• How Jack the Ripper's murders were motivated by love gone wrong

  31-07-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Part Four: Haunted by his heinous crimes, Francis Craig took his own life 15 years after the murders - slitting his own throat exactly as he had slaughtered his own victims
  
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• Francis Craig: Was Jack the Ripper a 51-year-old reporter?

  31-07-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A mild-mannered reporter living in the East End of London is unmasked as Jack the Ripper in a new book - and his close link to the killer's final victim could be proved once and for all with DNA evidence
  
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• Did Francis Craig write the famous Jack the Ripper letters?

  31-07-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Part Three: The new suspect is the perfect candidate to have written a series of letters long thought to have been penned by the serial killer, dubbed the 'Dear Boss' letters
  
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• How author uncovered Jack the Ripper's real identity

  31-07-2015 22:29 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph's David Barrett explains how the identity of Jack the Ripper was finally 'solved'
  
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• Rupert Murdoch's private meeting with George Osborne: The mogul always likes to back a winner

  31-07-2015 22:28
  
  Rupert Murdoch’s support was critical to the rise of David Cameron. But it is simplistic to see George Osborne as just the next-in-line: the Chancellor has been in the Murdoch crosshairs for just as long as the Prime Minister.
  
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