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• Farmers in more supermarket protests

  03-08-2015 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Farmers with a dozen tractors held protests at three supermarkets in Coleraine on Monday night.
  
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• Benefits Street star Julie Young's house FIREBOMBED by drug addict

  03-08-2015 23:53
  
  A STAR of TV show Benefits Street was forced to grab her severely disabled teenage son and flee their burning house in terror after a callous drug addict firebombed their home.
  
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• Bobbi Brown buried alongside mother

  03-08-2015 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The body of Bobbi Kristina Brown is taken to a New Jersey cemetery for burial alongside her late mother, Whitney Houston.
  
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• Sir Edward Heath child abuse allegations: This time we MUST know the truth

  03-08-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The list of politicians who are alleged to have gotten away with child abuse and this time there can be no more whitewash, says Mirror columnist Paul Routledge
  
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• Man beat dad to death with lamp stand in 'appalling' drink and drug-fuelled murder

  03-08-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Daiken, 28, is facing a lengthy jail sentence after admitting carrying out the "humiliating" murder of Roy Heyes
  
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• Relieved mum posts touching Facebook message thanking public for helping find her missing 3-year-old son

  03-08-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emma Rooney put the message on Facebook and shared it via The Four Squares community organisation after her son Leon went missing and was later found safe and well
  
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• Andy Burnham: Labour should offer more to help Britain's army of part-time workers

  03-08-2015 23:40
  
  Labour should offer more policies to help Britain’s army of part-time workers, the leadership candidate Andy Burnham will say on 4 August.
  
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• Gunmen wound key Burundi activist

  03-08-2015 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prominent Burundi human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is shot and seriously injured by gunmen on motorbikes, his family says.
  
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• You've been milked: Dairy farmers strip Britain's supermakets of milk in prices protest

  03-08-2015 23:36
  
  DAIRY farmers have cleared milk from supermarket shelves across Britain in a protest over rock-bottom prices which have dropped 25 per cent in ONE YEAR.
  
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• Sir Edward Heath child abuse claims: String of politicians accused of child sex abuse

  03-08-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The names include late former Cabinet Minister Leon Brittan and Lib Dem Sir Cyril Smith as well as one of Tony Blair's ministers
  
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• EU pays jobless migrants to come to Britain

  03-08-2015 23:24 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The UK has taken a third of the young migrants involved in the 'Your First EURES Job' programme, it has emerged
  
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• Cranes collapse on Dutch buildings

  03-08-2015 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two cranes restoring a bridge in the central Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn collapse on to buildings, with rescuers searching for victims.
  
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• Brian Eno backs Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leadership frontrunner gets rockstar reception at packed rally

  03-08-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Supporters packed three halls and spilled out onto the streets to hear Corbyn speak
  
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• Heartless gang made a fortune selling sick puppies that often died within weeks

  03-08-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Three men have been jailed after the RSPCA investigated the cruel scam and discovered the 'organised crime'
  
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• VIDEO: Island volcano's spectacular lava show

  03-08-2015 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Milton Nkosi takes a helicopter ride to witness the latest volcanic eruption by the Piton de la Fournaise, or 'Peak of the Furnace' on Reunion Island.
  
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• Sir Edward Heath child abuse claims: The brothel, the former PM and police cover-up at centre of probe

  03-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The madam told detectives she would stand up in court and reveal lurid details of the Tory politician’s perverted sex life if she was ever charged with any offence
  
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• Sir Edward Heath child abuse claims: Former Prime Minister had friends in some very high places

  03-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  People inside Westminster believed that there was a sinister side to his sexuality - a weakness to find boys willing to sell their bodies to wealthy professional men
  
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• Sir Edward Heath child abuse claims emerged after judge vowed to uncover truth about politicians

  03-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lowell Goddard launched Britain’s largest public inquiry into historical abuse from the “corridors of power” to the poorest parts of the country
  
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• Sir Edward Heath child abuse claims: Alleged victim 'was raped by ex PM when he was just 12'

  03-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The alleged victim, now 64, says the sexual assault took place in an exclusive Mayfair flat in 1961 when Heath was a Tory MP
  
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• Passenger jet makes emergency landing after 'running out of fuel' before reaching London Heathrow

  03-08-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The flight was heading for the UK from China but was diverted to Amsterdam where it landed safely
  
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• MP: use anti-terror powers on Christian teachers who say gay marriage is 'wrong'

  03-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New Extremism Disruption Orders should be applied on those who "teach" traditionalist Christian views about marriage in the classroom
  
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• RBS: George Osborne begins sale of taxpayer stake in bank

  03-08-2015 23:00
  
  Eight years after the dawn of the global financial crisis the sale of the British state’s 80 per cent stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland has begun, the Treasury have announced.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn dismissed as 'starry-eyed' and 'hard left' by Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie

  03-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour frontbencher says a Corbyn leadership victory would lead to another decade of Tory rule
  
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• Aurora gunman nears death sentence

  03-08-2015 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Convicted mass killer James Holmes has moved one step closer to the death penalty as jurors rejected leniency in deaths of 12 people at Colorado cinema.
  
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• Ricky Gervais slams huntress Sabrina Corgatelli after she poses with giraffe she killed

  03-08-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The comedian reacted to the images of Sabrina Corgatelli calling her 'scum'
  
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• I hired a special forces soldier to get back daughter kidnapped by my ex

  03-08-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Craig Michael's daughter was taken to Poland illegally and so he hired the services of an elite soldier to rescue her
  
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• Cecil the lion: Delta Air Lines issues ban on transportation of hunting trophies amid anger at animal killings

  03-08-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The airline had been targeted by animal rights activists as the only carrier to operate direct service between the US and Africa
  
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• Cops shut down wedding at posh country hotel after reception descends into mass brawl

  03-08-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police officers were injured trying to break up a fight between two men and two women - closing the wedding down before the newly weds had even performed their first dance
  
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• Libor scandal: Discovering what lay behind Tom Haye's decision to rig interest rates

  03-08-2015 22:47
  
  To his colleagues, Tom Hayes was Tommy Chocolate – so called because he preferred cocoa to alcohol when out drinking with City friends. In court, Hayes, 35, who has a wife and child, complained he was being portrayed as “the Jesse James of Libor, the Bobby Dazzler of Libor”. At the end of his trial, the former trader was confirmed not only to have been a “gambler” but the “ringmaster” of the “biggest banking crime in history”.
  
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• Libor scandal: Banks and regulators still blocking reform as first person is convicted of rigging benchmark interest rates

  03-08-2015 22:41
  The first person to be convicted by a jury of fixing Libor, the rate that sets the price of trillions of pounds in global loans, was beginning a 14-year prison sentence last night – with banks and regulators still blocking reforms of the system he rigged.
  
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• 'Harsh methods' for Israel militants

  03-08-2015 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Israel says it could use harsh interrogation techniques against Jewish militants, after the death of a Palestinian child in an arson attack.
  
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• How do you have sex when you're transgender? The answer is revealed in this candid new video

  03-08-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Filmmaker Lewis Hancox put together this clip after being asked about his sex life one too many times
  
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• Government 'has a grip' on Calais crisis, insists Philip Hammond

  03-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Foreign Secretary, who chaired a long COBRA meeting today, says the number of migrants has 'tailed off'
  
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• Air strikes defend US-trained Syrians

  03-08-2015 22:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US air power has been used for the first time to defend US-trained rebel fighters in Syria, the Pentagon confirms.
  
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• Watch horrifying moment huge truck ploughs into car before flipping over and sliding across junction towards waiting traffic

  03-08-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Driver walks away from terrifying four vehicle smash in Poland
  
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• Alphen aan den Rijn: Horror video captures giant cranes collapsing on homes injuring at least 20 people

  03-08-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The cranes were moving a section of bridge when they collapsed in the Dutch town
  
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• Cilla Black: Spanish police investigating whether entertainer may have died from a fall after suffering dizzy spell

  03-08-2015 22:13
  
  Police in Spain are investigating the theory that Cilla Black may have died from a fall  after suffering a dizzy spell caused by a sudden change in temperature.
  
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• Cilla Black: Spanish police investigating whether entertainer died from fall after dizzy spell caused by heat

  03-08-2015 22:13
  
  Police in Spain are investigating the theory that Cilla Black may have died from a fall after suffering a dizzy spell caused by a sudden change in temperature.
  
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• Conman can only pay back £330,000 after blowing £5million of other people's cash on luxury lifestyle

  03-08-2015 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stephen Evans was dubbed the 'Wolf of Old Hall Street' after he blew cash on supercars, holidays, jewellery and even a racehorse he named Fat Gary
  
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• Hero who gave up his hope of ever walking again to help a youngster says it was all worthwhile

  03-08-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dan Black had raised £22,000 for an operation to help him walk again - but his gave it all to little cerebral palsy suffered Brecon Vaughan
  
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• Council boss stole over £23,000 from needy children's funds to pay off credit card debts

  03-08-2015 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The senior manager raided the account used to provide help to families in need, with children at risk of going into care
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe 2015: 'Dumbest' show review to receive £200 Ham Fist prize

  03-08-2015 21:42
  
  A critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe once dismissed Steven Berkoff’s one-man performance of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic horror story The Tell-Tale Heart as not funny enough, while another’s one-star review of a misogynistic French stand-up failed to grasp that the comedian was in character. 
  
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• Obama unveils clean energy plan

  03-08-2015 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Barack Obama unveils what he calls "the biggest, most important step we have ever taken" in tackling climate change.
  
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• Emmerdale on-screen helicopter crash angers Clutha Vault disaster victims' families

  03-08-2015 21:34
  
  Families of those killed in the Glasgow Clutha Vaults pub helicopter crash have criticised the producers of Emmerdale for running a storyline they say bares too many similarities to the disaster.
  
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• Cops disarm knife-wielding boy, 14, after he took blade into school to face girl who was bullying him

  03-08-2015 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A few weeks before the incident he had been caught with the girl in a cupboard by teachers, which sparked rumours and the bullying began, the court heard
  
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• Woman who lured married church-goer to make secret sex tape then blackmail him jailed

  03-08-2015 21:25
  
  A WOMAN who lured a married church-goer to her home so her boyfriend could film them having sex has been jailed.
  
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• TOWIE tours could be BANNED from Essex town where show is set over visitors' rowdy antics

  03-08-2015 21:21
  
  THE Only Way Is Essex tours could be banned from the town where the reality show is based because of "rowdy" behaviour by visitors.
  
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• Tom Hayes: City trader becomes first to be jailed for fixing bank lending rates

  03-08-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tom Hayes, 35, is the first person to be jailed over the Libor scandal – although several banks have been fined billions
  
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• Peaty wins World breaststroke gold

  03-08-2015 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Adam Peaty wins World Swimming gold, while fellow Britons Ross Murdoch and Siobhan-Marie O'Connor win bronze medals.
  
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• Vladimir Putin's spokesman sparks outrage after flashing £400k luxury watch at wedding

  03-08-2015 21:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dmitry Peskov has been called out by the Russian opposition for wearing the watch that costs more than four times his declared annual income
  
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