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• Watch dozens inhale 'hippy crack' outside Parliament in mass protest over 'legal highs'

  01-08-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dozens of people sat down in Parliament Square and filled balloons with nitrous oxide before erupting into fits of giggles
  
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• Kendal Calling: Three more festivalgoers 'seriously ill' after being sold rogue drugs day after teen died

  01-08-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Now a total of seven music fans from Kendal Calling have been treated in hospital after Christian Pay, 18, died  following "substance abuse"
  
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• Health chiefs slammed after baby girl died when doctors failed to offer whooping cough jab

  01-08-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Doncaster coroner said that 'on the balance of probabilities' little Isabella Drew would have lived if her mum had been offered the vaccine
  
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• Manchester United top league table for rip-off replica kit prices for children

  01-08-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The club's new kit was launched today but a full child's strip costs £103.95 - more than any other team in the country
  
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• New US rights march starts in Selma

  01-08-2015 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Civil rights campaigners in the US begin a 40-day march to highlight what they say is a fresh attack on equal rights for African Americans.
  
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• Flying ant swarms besieging Britain

  01-08-2015 23:45
  
  FLYING ants are terrorising Britons across the country - and celebrities are getting no reprieve either.
  
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• MH370 search: 'Plane seat' found on La Reunion island where wreckage of wing discovered

  01-08-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Man walking on beach reportedly claims he also found suitcases but set them alight after mistaking them for rubbish
  
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• Calais crisis: The French should pay damages for hauliers losing their livelihoods

  01-08-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The situation is an urgent humanitarian situation for the refugees, but it is also a major problem for truck drivers and holiday-makers, says Shadow Immigration Minister David Hanson
  
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• Bin Laden family plane crash could be due to pilot error or brake failure, aviation experts say

  01-08-2015 23:19
  
  Pilot error or brake failure are likely to have caused a private jet carrying three members of the Bin Laden family to crash land at an airport in Hampshire, killing everyone on board, aviation experts have said.
  
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• Bin Laden family plane crash could be due to pilot error

  01-08-2015 23:19
  
  Pilot error or brake failure are likely to have caused a private jet carrying three members of the Bin Laden family to crash land at an airport in Hampshire, killing everyone on board, aviation experts have said.
  
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• Migrants crisis: Calais accuses Cameron of provoking French and says send them all to Britain

  01-08-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Deputy mayor of Calais Emmanuel Agius accused David Cameron of 'provocation' on border
  
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• Calais crisis: Foreign lorry drivers charging £1,200 to bring migrants into Britain

  01-08-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Sunday Mirror investigation reveals one driver is now being investigated by police over allegations he accepted money to bring in three men from Calais last week
  
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• Queen portrait shows off best sides

  01-08-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Queen shows off her best sides in a quadruple portrait produced by photographer Hugo Rittson-Thomas.
  
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• Calais crisis: Shoeless orphans have risked everything for a chance at a better life

  01-08-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Desperate Rashed, 13, and his brother Hamid, eight, fled their home in Kabul, Afghanistan, after their mother died and the Taliban executed their father
  
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• Lord Sewell scandal is the tip of the iceberg in a House of Lords that reeks of corruption

  01-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We deserve better than an upper chamber marked by snobbery and deference and packed full of political cronies, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
  
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• National Lottery results: Winning numbers for Saturday August 1

  01-08-2015 23:00
  
  THESE are the winning National Lottery numbers for the draw on Saturday August 1.
  
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• Father dies 11 days after cancer diagnosis despite three desperate visits to hospital

  01-08-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Walker was suffering from agonising pain for weeks and told doctors something was seriously wrong with his body
  
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• Sex offenders BEGGING to be electronically tagged to stop them re-offending

  01-08-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Buddi Tag ankle bracelets track cons via satellite and are used by a growing number of police forces in England and Wales
  
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• Scandal-hit Mid-Staffs NHS Trust fails its first inspection

  01-08-2015 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Among problems were A&E patients left on trolleys in corridors and long waits for treatment
  
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• Buy a pet to keep loneliness at bay, peer tells pensioners

  01-08-2015 22:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lord Prior, a welfare minister, says local authorities could help older people to have more "interaction with pets" to help them feel less isolated
  
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• Karen Danczuk tells her MP ex Simon to move on by signing up for dates on Tinder

  01-08-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Simon Danczuk had been hoping for a reconciliation but shared the selfie queen's advice on Twitter
  
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• Andy Burnham launches Labour leadership manifesto

  01-08-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Shadow Health Secretary proposes to make the European Union pay local communities affected by high levels of EU migration, after holding talks with senior politicians in Brussels
  
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• No home is complete without a spa room, says Donna Karan

  01-08-2015 22:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Designer Donna Karan has paid for spas to be built in each of her three homes
  
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• CarFest air crash: Team had been forced to pull out of an event a week ago because of jet problems

  01-08-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Gnat team apologised on Twitter for cancelling an appearance at another air show in Scotland because one of their jets was “poorly”
  
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• How you can make an economic upturn and turn your home into a gold mine

  01-08-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the tax threshold has been increased in the last budget savvy homeowners are making a healthy profit on their homes
  
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• Recovery of UK economy slowest ever, say unions

  01-08-2015 22:13
  
  George Osborne's boast that Britain's recovery is "motoring ahead" fails to acknowledge that the rate at which the nation is recovering from recession is the slowest since records began, it is claimed.
  
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• Recovery of UK economy is the slowest since records began, say unions

  01-08-2015 22:13
  
  George Osborne's boast that Britain's recovery is "motoring ahead" fails to acknowledge that the rate at which the nation is recovering from recession is the slowest since records began, it is claimed.
  
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• Is Cecil the lion's brother Jericho still ALIVE? Expert tells Mirror beast still 'moving around park'

  01-08-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Researcher claims the beast is "alive and well" as GPS readings from 2 hours ago show him relaxing with a female
  
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• Labour leadership race: Supporting Jeremy Corbyn is therapy, not politics

  01-08-2015 22:00
  
  Oh, how I hate to be proved right – on this occasion, at any rate. I pointed out last month that Labour is having a nervous breakdown after its shattering general election defeat, and everything that’s happened since has just confirmed my thesis. Supporting Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign seems to have made quite a lot of people feel better, for the moment at least. But it’s therapy, not politics.
  
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• Met Office staff set to soak up £20.8m in bonuses – just for doing their job

  01-08-2015 21:59
  
  Staff in the Met Office have been showered with bonuses totalling £20.8m in the past five years for correctly forecasting the weather. 
  
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• UK hospital to offer proton beam therapy

  01-08-2015 21:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  First hospital in the UK to offer proton beam therapy to fight cancer to open within two years
  
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• Rapists and paedophiles ask to be electronically tagged to help them stay out of trouble

  01-08-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The £250 Buddi Tags alert cops if the sex fiends go into areas where there are large numbers of kids or to somewhere they have previously offended
  
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• 'I fear that politicians may never regain the trust of the public', says Lord Bew

  01-08-2015 21:47 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Lord Bew, fears the public may never trust politicians again after the Lord Sewel scandal
  
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• Children should teach families about obesity

  01-08-2015 21:36 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's Medical Director, says children have a role to play in "educating" their parents about obesity
  
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• Updates: Cecil the lion's brother Jericho 'still alive' after reports he had been killed

  01-08-2015 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jericho was reportedly killed at about 4pm local time today  - days after his brother was killed
  
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• Outburst mars Bobbi Brown memorial

  01-08-2015 21:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Georgia memorial service for Bobbi Kristina Brown, only child of late singer Whitney Houston, is marred by an outburst from her aunt.
  
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• Former crime boss Paul Massey 'wanted to make Salford a better place'

  01-08-2015 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former 'Mr Big' was told he was a target six weeks ago despite becoming a man of the people after leaving prison, says his partner
  
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• Landlord turfs bowls team off his green after they drank in another pub

  01-08-2015 21:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A landlord has told a bowls team they can no longer play on his green after they stopped drinking in his pub
  
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• Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall is no wannabe in the girl power stakes

  01-08-2015 20:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the last of Sunday People political editor Nigel Nelson's interviews with the Labour leadership contenders, Liz Kendall explains why she's the fresh start candidate
  
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• Police and fences hold them back, but Calais' migrants are determined to reach their British paradise

  01-08-2015 20:49 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Nine migrants have died so far in their desperate attempts to get through the channel tunnel to Britain
  
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• Cecil the lion's brother Jericho shot dead on SAME day Zimbabwe bans hunting

  01-08-2015 20:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Authorities in the country revealed they had put a stop to people tracking and killing lions, leopards and elephants in a part of the nation
  
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• Updates: Cecil the lion's brother Jericho shot dead in Zimbabwe park

  01-08-2015 20:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jericho was killed at about 4pm local time today  - days after  his brother was killed
  
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• Long-haul air passengers at risk from cosmic rays, government fears

  01-08-2015 20:33 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Public Health England is currently looking into whether solar storms could produce dangerous radiation and is due to report findings in the autumn
  
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• Parents' anger as five-year-old boy investigated in school sex assault probe

  01-08-2015 20:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The child is alleged to have locked a classmate in the toilet and forced her to simulate a sexual act – and the authorities have been slammed for their response
  
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• Cecil the lion's brother Jericho shot dead in Zimbabwe park

  01-08-2015 20:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jericho was killed at about 4pm local time today  - days after  his brother was killed
  
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• Benefit cuts deaths: Time for Iain Duncan Smith to reveal the true cost of Tory policies

  01-08-2015 20:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Sunday People has joined the campaign backed by more than 200,000 people for the DWP and IDS to come clean on how many people have been killed by their policies
  
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• OOPS! Sky News reporter Ian King accidentally drops F-BOMB during interview while live on air

  01-08-2015 20:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: BAD LANGUAGE: The senior journalist was interviewing an economist when his microphone lead fell out
  
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• Manchester United fans outrage over new 'sexist' women's kit

  01-08-2015 20:11
  
  OUTRAGED Manchester United fans have hit out at the new "sexist" plunging v-neck women's kit.
  
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• British Airways crack down on hand luggage

  01-08-2015 20:09 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The airline claims that cabin bags were getting so big that flights were regularly delayed
  
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• Workers face 14min wait to speak to the taxman as Government cuts hit revenue phone lines

  01-08-2015 20:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour says the delays will add to the worries of callers who are trying to deal with George Osborne's changes to the tax credit system
  
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