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• Man arrested over 'abduction' of 6-year-old girl from her home

  08-08-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The girl was reported missing from the Barrowfield area of Glasgow on Friday and was returned later the same night
  
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• Missing Molly Ashworth found as cops continue search for two girls who disappeared in Greater Manchester on same day

  08-08-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Molly Ashworth, 12, has been found safe and well – but Greater Manchester Police are still hunting for Tyicha Bridge-Banks, 13, and Pippa Hodkinson, 14
  
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• Seeing your GP could be bad for your health due to poor state of surgeries

  08-08-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new study has found that one in 10 surgeries are so rundown they pose a health risk to their own patients with problems including asbestos and leaking roofs
  
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• Shamed UKIP candidate's Parliament bid funded by man who thought he was from Third Reich

  08-08-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  White supremacist John de Nugent - who believes he is reincarnated from the Third Reich - has been found to have bankrolled Jack Sen's bid for Parliament
  
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• Health Lottery results: Winning numbers for Saturday August 8 2015

  08-08-2015 23:45
  
  THESE are the winning Health Lottery numbers for the draw on Saturday August 8 2015.
  
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• Cutting size of House of Commons will thwart effort to increase female and ethnic minority MPs in Parliament, David Cameron told

  08-08-2015 23:43
  Moves to cut the size of the House of Commons will thwart the drive to increase the presence of female and ethnic minority MPs in Parliament, David Cameron has been warned.
  
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• Arise, Sir Vince: Ousted ex-minister Cable among Lib Dems in line for honours

  08-08-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The move is likely to spark a fresh row over the honors list after David Cameron's plan to pack the Lords with cronies caused outrage
  
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• Man, 24, jailed for sending naked pictures of 17-year-old girlfriend with his mates

  08-08-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Major, 24, also received a  concurrent sentence of 18 months after he was found guilty of sexual activity with a vulnerable 15-year-old girl at Nottingham Crown Court
  
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• Teenagers forced to study fewer A-levels in squeeze on public spending, says exam boss

  08-08-2015 23:34
  
  Teenagers are being forced to study fewer A-levels as a result of the Government’s squeeze on public spending, an exam-board boss has said.
  
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• Alton Towers Smiler victim Leah Washington says: 'Of all the people in park, why me?'

  08-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In her first interview since the horror smash, the teenager describes in dramatic detail the chilling moment the car she and her boyfriend were riding in ploughed into a stuck empty carriage on the giant Smiler
  
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• 'Jimmy Savile abused boy aged 10 taken to watch Top of the Pops as a treat by his grandad'

  08-08-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim said his relative, who quit the BBC as a handyman when it failed to act, never got over the incident
  
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• Spectacular Persied meteor shower to light up night skies over Britain

  08-08-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The incredible annual meteor shower will give stargazers the chance to see up to 100 meteors or 'shooting stars' an hour
  
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• Labour leadership contenders: Dear Sunday Mirror reader, why you should vote for me

  08-08-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andy Burnham, Jeremy Corbyn, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper set out their vision as the ballot papers go out to party members
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe 2015: Goodstock boasts 'most expensive seat'

  08-08-2015 23:16
  
  London’s West End is often criticised for its soaring ticket prices, but north of the border one show is proudly boasting the “most expensive seat” at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  
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• Yvette Cooper is Labour's best chance provided she can show the voters some passion

  08-08-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Corbyn is the only candidate to create any excitement and his leading female rival needs to do the same to become the leader her party needs, says Stephen Bush
  
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• 'You f****** little ginger b****': Girl, 8, abused for being redhead by thug in car

  08-08-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The distressed little girl went back inside and told her mum about the incident which is one of a number of shocking attacks on redheads recorded by cops over the past 12 months
  
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• Fears NHS data plan will expose patients to 'hard sell' tactics

  08-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Privacy campaigners fear plans to give Boots and Tesco access to NHS data could be used to push sales to the vulnerable
  
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• Employers need not be told know job applicant was previously detained under Mental Health Act, says new government guidance

  08-08-2015 23:00
  Employers need not always be told that a job applicant has been detained under the Mental Health Act, according to new government guidance aimed at combating the stigma around mental illness.
  
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• Michael Mansfield QC's most difficult case, his daughter's suicide

  08-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Michael Mansfield's experience with his daughter Anna, who was just 44, is testament to how swiftly and unexpectedly self-destructive urges can descend
  
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• Labour's biggest donors pledge to stop giving cash if 'economically illiterate' Jeremy Corbyn wins race

  08-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Five major Labour donors warn against 'disastrous' hard-Left candidate amid fears party could be out of power for decades
  
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• Bungling cops reveal gun victim's new address to violent underworld crooks following campaign of terror

  08-08-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Dunn's home was shot at during two-year campaign of violence which brought terror to Merseyside – but his claim for damages have now been dismissed
  
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• Cutting trainee GP pay subsidies will put patients at risk, doctors tell Jeremy Hunt

  08-08-2015 22:52
  
  The Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, has been told by family doctors that proposals to strip trainee GPs of thousands of pounds’ worth of salary supplements could have a “catastrophic” impact on the workforce and compromise safe patient care. The Government is considering plans to scrap pay subsidies worth between £14,300 and £16,200 a year to GPs in training, which were originally introduced to address pay discrepancies between GPs and hospital doctors. 
  
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• The girls of the UK's first transgender beauty pageant reveal their secrets

  08-08-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The girls of the UK's first transgender beauty pageant give the secrets to their looks including the secret "tape and tuck"
  
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• David Cameron poised to give peerages to string of Tory advisers

  08-08-2015 22:44
  
  David Cameron is poised to give peerages to a string of Conservative advisers as early as this week.
  
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• Reading improves relationships and reduces depression symptoms, says new study

  08-08-2015 22:44
  
  It’s official: reading is good for you, according to a new report from The Reading Agency which looked at the effects of reading for pleasure on adults and children. Benefits include increased empathy, better relationships with others, reduced symptoms of depression and risks of dementia and improved well-being throughout life.
  
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• Ale drinkers switch to quality over quantity - turning to half pints and brew ‘flights’

  08-08-2015 22:42
  
  When it comes to beer drinking, not all glasses are born equal. Take the half pint, for example. For years it has been the poor relation of the full pint, a slang name for someone of lowly stature.
  
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• Edward Heath child abuse claims: Former cop says Tory PM could never have sneaked children into mansion

  08-08-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Grade-II listed property was surrounded by tight security, including two armed officers who kept a constant guard
  
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• Creatures of the deep cry silently for help: Rocky reef habitat in grave danger

  08-08-2015 22:27
  
  So Utopia really does exist – but it might not be what you are looking for, unless your ideal society is deep under water and includes alien-looking creatures, dead man’s fingers and hungry little baby sharks.
  
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• £6m yacht owned by murdered conman Goldfinger is found in a rundown dock on Tenerife

  08-08-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Palmer bought the Brave Goose out of his £30m fortune but the high life ended when he was gunned down ahead of his crime-racket trial
  
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• Christian Taylor: Tweets of black teenager gunned down and killed by police reveal fears of dying young

  08-08-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Taylor, 19, who died this morning, tweeted, "Our police system is a joke, when will we ever be protected?" and said he didn't want to die young just days before his death
  
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• How Namibian charcoal workers pay a high price for the cheap British barbecue

  08-08-2015 22:20
  
  Britain moves into peak barbecue season this weekend, and the smell of slightly charred burgers, ribs, halloumi and salmon will fill the nation’s gardens, parks and balconies.
  
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• Edward Heath's secret Jersey hideaway at centre of child sex abuse probe

  08-08-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The late Tory leader spent six months in the early 70s living in this luxury top floor apartment
  
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• Ben Needham: Greek cops have EIGHT different theories about missing toddler

  08-08-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lines of inquiry range from serious crime to accidental death, according to documents released under Freedom of Information laws
  
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• Police find body in hunt for man who went missing in river

  08-08-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man, believed to be aged in his 20s, got into trouble after entering the Jubilee River at The Myrke in Datchet, Berkshire, at around 7pm las night
  
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• Cecil the lion's cub killed by rival big cat trying to mate with his mother

  08-08-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matthew Drake, Chief Reporter, in Hwange, Zimbabwe exclusively reports on the sad death of one of Cecil's cubs        
  
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• Labour deputy leadership candidates: We will serve under Jeremy Corbyn if he wins top job

  08-08-2015 21:54
  
  Labour’s deputy leadership candidates say they will serve under Jeremy Corbyn if he becomes leader, despite warnings from a number of senior MPs that they would quit the Shadow Cabinet.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn to 'bring back Clause Four': Contender pledges to bury New Labour with commitment to public ownership of industry

  08-08-2015 21:53
  Jeremy Corbyn has risked provoking a damaging row at the heart of the Labour Party by pledging to restore Clause Four if he is elected leader next month.
  
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• Labour sets 100 staff to root out ineligible supporters as hard-left groups deny infiltrating election to support Jeremy Corbyn

  08-08-2015 21:52
  Labour’s head office is reportedly in chaos, with up to 100 staff trying to root out ineligible supporters, amid accusations that the hard left is infiltrating the party’s leadership election to support Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Car cruise craze: Boy racers leave scene of carnage after illegal 'contest' involving 30 cars ends in pile-up

  08-08-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Incredibly, no one died in Thursday’s pile-up which involved over 30 cranked-up cars and was watched by up o 100 spectators
  
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• Sunday People backs Andy Burnham as Labour leader - if he makes Yvette Cooper his deputy

  08-08-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The duo and fellow contender Liz Kendall are frightened that if Left-winger Jeremy Corbyn triumphs he will condemn Labour to the political wilderness for a generation
  
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• Nuclear test veteran says his photos prove men were exposed to deadly radiation

  08-08-2015 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Roger Grace blames the terrifying H bomb tests, which he was ordered to watch as an 18-year-old National Serviceman, for his health problems in later life
  
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• Edward Heath fixed it for Jimmy Savile to receive OBE and attended Paedophile Information Exchange meetings

  08-08-2015 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Heath later appeared on Savile’s BBC TV show Jim’ll Fix It when it was one of the nation’s favourites
  
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• Closure of Kids Company undermines Government effort to speed up adoption for vulnerable children

  08-08-2015 21:17
  
  The Government’s commitment to speed up adoption for vulnerable children in Britain has suffered a blow with the sudden closure of a prominent charity amid a financial and leadership crisis.
  
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• Former Japanese POW: 'I heard guards making my coffin but I don't blame them ... I even kept in touch with jailer'

  08-08-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  “I have absolutely no resentment towards the Japanese today. I have moved on," insists 96-year-old on 70th anniversary of VJ Day
  
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• Pet food costs FIFTY per cent more than similar meals humans eat

  08-08-2015 21:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tins of our food also contain considerably more meat than fancy tins or packets sold as treats for dogs and cats
  
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• Urban Outfitters gives away cats when shoppers spend £16 on clothes to celebrate National Cat Day

  08-08-2015 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The high street chain has teamed up with animal sanctuary Best Friends Animal Society to launch the unique opportunity
  
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• Urban Outfitters gives away cats when shoppers spend £16 on clothes to celebrate International Cat Day

  08-08-2015 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The high street chain has teamed up with animal sanctuary Best Friends Animal Society to launch the unique opportunity – but not everyone thinks it's a purr-fect idea
  
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• Urban Outfitters gives away cats when shopper spend £16 on clothes from to celebrate National Cat Day

  08-08-2015 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The high street chain has teamed up with animal sanctuary Best Friends Animal Society to launch the unique opportunity
  
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• Prison assaults at record high as overcrowding and staff shortages hit breaking point

  08-08-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Figures show a shocking 46 violent crimes a day, with inmates suffering knife wounds, fractures, burns and permanent blindness
  
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• Britain's most notorious estate Broadwater Farm is pulling itself together 30 years after riots tore it apart

  08-08-2015 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sunday People political editor Nigel Nelson visits Britain most notorious housing estate - and finds inspirational people pulling it up by its bootstraps
  
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