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• Mystery surrounds bizarre Mars 'space crab' spotted in NASA photo of the Red Planet

  04-08-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The NASA image being passed around on social media had imaginations running wild
  
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• Finally! EU dishes out £33million to BRITAIN and France to sort Calais crisis

  04-08-2015 23:55
  
  EUROPEAN Union bureaucrats have put their hands in their pockets to give France and Britain £33million to resolve the Calais migrant fiasco as they insisted they have "full trust" in France to end the crisis.
  
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• Health Lottery results: Winning numbers for Tuesday August 4 2015

  04-08-2015 23:53
  
  THESE are the winning Health Lottery numbers for the draw on Tuesday August 4 2015.
  
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• Family's snake terror as discarded SKIN found on their bedroom radiator

  04-08-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tammy Davies is having sleepless nights because she fears she may be sharing her three bedroom terraced home with a reptile
  
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• Watch furious street performer giving parent a tongue lashing after unruly child nearly sends him flying

  04-08-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The busker is precariously balanced on a skateboard on top of an unsteady looking platform when the youngster approaches
  
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• Woman shot in the head with air rifle after argument over seagulls

  04-08-2015 23:39
  
  A WOMAN was shot in the head with an air rifle at point-blank range after an argument over seagulls.
  
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• Osama Bin Laden's relatives were 'incinerated' when private jet crash-landed in UK says coroner

  04-08-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Inquest opened into deaths of three members of the terror chief's family and pilot from Jordan who died in crash near Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire
  
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• Awkward moment Lamborghini owner crunches his supercar in busy city centre street caught on camera

  04-08-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An eyewitness filmed the red-faced driver looking ominously at the damage to his flash motor
  
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• Donald Trump out-trolls the entire world by tweeting his OWN phone number

  04-08-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Yesterday a website published The Donald's digits - today he's changed his voicemail to a campaign message
  
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• Sir Peter Fahy: Police searches for missing teens is 'unsustainable' burden - warns chief of one of Britain's biggest forces

  04-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sir Peter Fahy said cases of young people who constantly go missing was not a police issue but a social work issue
  
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• MP who tackled killer gunman says 'I did nothing compared to other Pride of Britain winners'

  04-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Royston Smith MP was a councillor visiting a Royal Navy submarine when he wrestled Ryan Donovan to the ground after he shot two officers, killing one
  
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• Cyclist who died after losing control at a speed bump was carrying 80 PHONE BOOKS

  04-08-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sheila Hyslop's bike was overloaded and she was travelling too fast when she crashed and hit her head
  
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• Bin lorry crash driver’s GP ‘not told of bus faint’

  04-08-2015 23:20
  
  THE driver of a bin lorry that crashed and killed six people days before Christmas was told he did not have to inform DVLA about a “five-second loss of consciousness”.
  
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• Francois Alexis: Tragic student plunged 100 feet to his death down chimney during rooftop BBQ

  04-08-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police think he was perched on a ledge enjoying a cigarette when he toppled backwards down the shaft
  
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• Sir Edward Heath child abuse claims: Four police forces have received allegations

  04-08-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Detectives in London, Kent, Jersey and Wiltshire have received allegations of child abuse linked to the former Prime Minister
  
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• Sammy-Jo Davies: Heartfelt tributes to 'beautiful' teenager who died in van crash

  04-08-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An online fundraising page has been set up to raise money to pay for the 17-year-old's funeral after her death in a crash in Aberdare
  
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• Craig Lister: Gangster nicknamed 'Bin Laden' because of his lust for violence is jailed for 22 years

  04-08-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 34-year-old was part of a gang who used machetes, meat cleavers and menace their victims
  
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• Pass rate for ‘too tough’ maths Higher slashed to 33.8 per cent

  04-08-2015 23:08
  
  A ROW over Scotland’s exams system reignited yesterday as it emerged the pass mark for a controversial Higher maths paper was lowered to just 33.8 per cent.
  
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• Glasgow bin lorry crash: Driver Harry Clarke misled officials over his medical history SEVEN times, inquiry hears

  04-08-2015 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mr Clarke's GP has been giving evidence at the fatal accident inquiry into the Glasgow bin lorry crash that killed six people in December
  
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• Mother of British soldier killed in Iraq prompts Cameron's anger over Chilcot delays

  04-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Prime Minister tells Iraq war report author Sir John Chilcot to produce timetable "for the sake of the families", after encounter with bereaved mother at war memorial
  
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• Warren Gatland: Ross Moriarty will give Wales nasty side that fits rugby mould

  04-08-2015 23:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Gloucester flanker in line for first cap in World Cup warm-up against Ireland
  • ‘He has an edge about him, is very explosive and has fitted in well’In a week when there have been, in the words of Warren Gatland, niggles and fights in training before Saturday’s World Cup warm-up against Ireland in Cardiff, the Wales head coach is giving a first cap to an England junior world championship winner who brings with him a “nasty edge.”The 21-year old Gloucester flanker Ross Moriarty, wh
  
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• England’s Stuart Lancaster most impressed by Gloucester’s Jonny May

  04-08-2015 23:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Time for tough calls over World Cup squad arrives
  • England head coach says May has been ‘standout performer’England may have relocated from the harsh altitude of Colorado to the gentler climes of stockbroker-belt Surrey but the heat is intensifying on those seeking fringe places in Stuart Lancaster’s 31-man World Cup squad. As many as nine players are set to be released by the end of this week and some talented individuals will be packing their bags on Friday.Lancaster will try his
  
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• Iraq inquiry: Cameron to demand Chilcot names a publication date

  04-08-2015 23:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The prime minister, who is losing patience with report delays, will tell Sir John Chilcot he must set out a timetable for its completionAn impatient David Cameron will demand Sir John Chilcot names the date by which his report into the British invasion of Iraq will be ready for publication.The prime minister is expected to tell Chilcot he wants to see the report as soon as possible. “Right now I want a timetable,” he told journalists.Continue reading...
  
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• Man who suffered horrific burns in kettle accident as baby bravely reveals scars to world

  04-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joseph Nash was only nine months old when he was seriously injured by boiling water - but now aged 24 he has the confidence to bare all
  
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• Andy Burnham promises to re-nationalise the railways again if he takes power

  04-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mr Burnham will say: “We need a new approach to our railways, one that puts passengers before profit. I will work to bring the railways back under public control and public ownership"
  
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• Legendary yachtsman dies after being dragged out to sea in last major voyage

  04-08-2015 22:58
  
  A YACHTSMAN attempting his 17th and final transatlantic crossing has died after being swept out to sea off the Cornish coast.
  
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• All you need is glove... if you want to have a road dug up again

  04-08-2015 22:58
  
  A CASH-strapped local authority faces having to dig up a freshly laid road surface – after a workman’s glove got stuck in the tarmac and caused a pothole.
  
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• Homophobe picks wrong fight when he assaults military-trained gay couple in the street

  04-08-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Larry Lennox-Choate said he left his husband's attacker "covered in his own blood with his tail between his legs"
  
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• Girl, 17, recalls horrifying moment boyfriend, 38, left fighting for life after being stabbed SIX times

  04-08-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Abigail Hollowood was standing in the street in Salford when she heard her lover Bobby Amerson screaming in agony
  
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• Bankers told: We're watching you as Libor fraud detectives threaten more prosecutions

  04-08-2015 22:44
  
  BRITAIN'S top bankers were tonight warned their cards are marked as fraud detectives probing the Libor rate rigging scandal threatened a wave of high-profile prosecutions.
  
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• Kentucky sheriff 'steadfastly' defends officer who handcuffed 8-year-old

  04-08-2015 22:42 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Sheriff says officer Kevin Sumner did ‘what he is sworn to do’ACLU says officer Sumner violated federal and state laws in lawsuitThe sheriff’s office in Kenton County, Kentucky, has issued an unapologetic defense of a police officer who was caught on camera handcuffing an eight-year-old boy for 15 minutes in an attempt to restrain the child.
  Charles Korzenborn, the sheriff in Covington, Kentucky, a small city bordering Ohio, robustly defended the officer who is seen in the video applying t
  
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• NHS is facing ‘round-the-clock pressure’ as out-of-hours consultations nudge one million

  04-08-2015 22:41
  
  SCOTLAND’S creaking NHS is under “round-the-clock pressure”, nursing leaders warned yesterday as it emerged GPs carried almost one million out-of-hours consultations last year.
  
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• Restaurant customer caught on camera telling woman to 'speak English or get out of America'

  04-08-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The rant was captured on camera as Carlos Vasquez and his mother - who moved from El Salvador to the US 30 years ago - waited for a table
  
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• Andy Burnham says MPs should retire after 25 years to 'let new thinking in'

  04-08-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leadership contender also revealed his love for Armani suits - but he only buys them in the sales
  
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• The London: After 350 years, the riddle of Britain's exploding fleet is finally solved

  04-08-2015 22:33
  
  Bristling with cannon and packed with gunpowder, the English warship the London sailed through the Thames estuary in 1665 as she prepared to fight the Dutch in the English Channel. But she never made her destination, instead succumbing to a fate all too familiar in 17th century navies - "spontaneous combustion", explosion, and a watery grave for 300 of her crew.
  
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• Cilla Black's family anxious to bring her body home after police conclude investigation into her death

  04-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sons Robert, Ben and Jack said: 'The authorities have now told us we are able to bring Mum home, which we hope to do as quickly as possible'
  
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• London Tube strike: Everything you need to know to avoid the travel chaos

  04-08-2015 22:25
  
  RAIL users are set to face travel misery tomorrow as industrial strike action brings the entire London Underground network to a standstill.
  
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• RBS shares snapped up by speculators and hedge funds as taxpayer loses £1.1billion

  04-08-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hedge funds bought 60% of the 630million shares released by the Government at a cut-price 330p - and fewer than half the 150 big-money investors were UK-based
  
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• Jamaica to hold its first gay pride celebration in the island’s capital

  04-08-2015 22:22 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Weeklong event that was previously almost unthinkable in a Caribbean country long described as the one of the globe’s most hostile places to homosexualityJamaica’s LGBT community is holding its first gay pride celebration in the island’s capital, a weeklong event that was previously almost unthinkable in a Caribbean country long described as the one of the globe’s most hostile places to homosexuality.Events in Kingston have included a flash mob gathering in a park, an art exhibit and per
  
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• Top Gun take-off: Watch pilot and air steward making passengers laugh with musical start to flight

  04-08-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the Southwest Airlines flight barrels down the runway, the distinctive strains of Danger Zone, by Kenny Loggins, can be heard
  
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• Ted Heath child abuse claims being investigated by four police forces

  04-08-2015 22:18 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Detectives in Wiltshire, London, Jersey and Kent now known to be examining claims that former Tory leader was a paedophile Related: Ted Heath allegations: another public figure, yet more public unease The child abuse controversy surrounding Sir Edward Heath grew on Tuesday as it emerged that at least four police forces were running investigations into the late former prime minister. Continue reading...
  
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• Ucas refusing to release data it holds on students from poor backgrounds - while making £12m a year selling applicants' details

  04-08-2015 22:18
  The body that handles university applications has been accused of blocking efforts to improve social mobility by refusing to release important data it holds on students from poor backgrounds.
  
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• Youngest Atlantic rowers celebrate record with tea and bacon butties

  04-08-2015 22:16
  
  TWO British rowers are celebrating having become the youngest to cross the Atlantic after battling through a hurricane, capsizing twice and being surrounded by sharks.
  
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• Blackpool hit by suspended three-point deduction for pitch invasion

  04-08-2015 22:12 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Football League deduction suspended for two seasons
  • Punishment in addition to £50,000 FA fineBlackpool have been given a suspended three-point deduction for the pitch invasion that forced their Championship match with Huddersfield to be abandoned in May.Home supporters entered the field of play in the second half of the last game of the season in protest at the club’s owners, eventually forcing the game to be called off when they refused to move for over an hour. Continue reading...
  
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• Lorry driver discovers dozen migrants inside his vehicle - video

  04-08-2015 22:11 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  A lorry driver who suspects there are migrants inside his vehicle, calls the police who find around a dozen people. MoveCorp, a West Midlands haulage firm, was handed a £19,500 fine from the Border Force after the migrants, who say they are from Eritrea, were found inside the lorry. The director of MoveCorp has said the fines are an incentive for drivers not to inform the authorities if they find people stowed away in their vehicles Continue reading...
  
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• Thug launched 'sustained' revenge attack on man who killed his cousin by dangerous driving

  04-08-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gethin Huw Jones beat Jamie Wyn Williams so badly for his part in the death of his cousin that he left 'a footprint on his face'  
  
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• Natalia Molchanova: Freewater diving champion missing presumed dead following practice session in Ibiza

  04-08-2015 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 53-year-old, who holds 40 world records, failed to resurface during a dive with friends
  
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• Museum exhibit proves explosive: Bomb squad is called in to remove stick of dynamite

  04-08-2015 22:03
  
  BOMB disposal experts rushed to a museum when a 50-year-old “fake” stick of dynamite turned out to be real.
  
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• Murder victim Jimmy Mizen's parents say 'nothing has changed since our son died'

  04-08-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seven years on since the teenager was killed in London, knife crime and youth violence statistics remain depressingly high
  
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• Viewers lament soft focus Bloomsbury romance they can 'barely see'

  04-08-2015 21:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The romantic soft focus of Life in Squares has proved too much for some viewers
  
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