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• Supercars worth millions are slapped with parking fines after being left on double yellow lines in city centre

  09-08-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Crowds flocked to grab snaps of the Bugatti Veyron – top speed 254mph - and two Lamborghini Aventadors - but that didn't deter the parking wardens
  
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• Is there anything George Osborne won't sell, like his idol Margaret Thatcher?

  09-08-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kevin Maguire says George Osborne is on a mission to sell off everything in Britain
  
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• Glorious Twelfth under fire due to drastic drop in grouse

  09-08-2015 23:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Scotland's wettest March in 20 years and a 'particularly wintry springtime' have been linked to the sharply depleted number of the wild birds
  
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• HMS Hood's bell recovered from seabed by Microsoft co-founder

  09-08-2015 23:51 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The bell from HMS Hood was recovered from a depth of more than 9,000 feet and will now go on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy
  
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• Reginald Perrin creator David Nobbs dies aged 80

  09-08-2015 23:47 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Nobbs was best known for writing the classic 1970s British sitcom The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin.
  
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• Farmers protest over milk prices by taking their COWS into Asda

  09-08-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Around 70 farmers took their cattle into a branch in Stafford to the amazement of shoppers as supermarket staff alike
  
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• David Nobbs, writer of Seventies classic Reginald Perrin, dies aged 80

  09-08-2015 23:47
  
  David Nobbs, the comedy writer who created the classic Seventies sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin has died at the age of 80.
  
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• BREAKING: David Nobbs, writer of Seventies classic Reginald Perrin, dies aged 80

  09-08-2015 23:47
  
  David Nobbs, the comedy writer who created the classic Seventies sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin has died at the age of 80.
  
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• Cecil the lion: Guide who helped US dentist Walter Palmer slaughter big cat may only get £260 fine

  09-08-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A lawyer acting for Theo Bronkhorst revealed he could face the paltry penalty or a year in prison after claiming to have evidence Cecil was lawfully shot
  
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• VIDEO: Cossacks riding Russia's patriotic wave

  09-08-2015 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russian Cossacks strive to keep their traditions alive
  
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• Watch bus driver push 'drunk passenger' off vehicle telling him 'get off and stay off'

  09-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footage, posted on Facebook by Dave Martin has been viewed over 18,000 times since Saturday evening
  
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• Boy, 9, in critical condition after being knocked down by TWO cars

  09-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than a dozen police cars were at the scene after the child was knocked down near McDonalds in the Walton area of Liverpool
  
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• Agony of the designer puppies: Cruel trade in animals snatched from mothers too early exposed

  09-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British pet lovers are being duped into buying dogs that are at risk of diseases such as rabies, worms and behavioural problems
  
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• Agony of the designer puppies: Cruel illegal trade in animals snatched from mothers too early exposed

  09-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British pet lovers are being duped into buying dogs that are at risk of diseases such as rabies, worms and behavioural problems
  
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• Birmingham street evacuated after man is arrested on suspicion of terror offences

  09-08-2015 23:29
  
  A 27-year-old man is being held on suspicion of terror offences after "suspicious items" were allegedly found at his home in Naseby Road, in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham.
  
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• Calais migrant crisis: Syrians boast of ''easy'' crossing by hiding under cars on Channel Tunnel trains

  09-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A group waiting to be processed by immigration officials insisted guards were too busy checking under the closed wagons to spot them
  
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• Cecil the Lion: Zimbabwe lifts ban on hunting introduced in wake of big cat's death after ONE WEEK

  09-08-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A ban on hunting lions, leopards and elephants around Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park introduced following Cecil the lion's death has been abandoned
  
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• Mirror reporter meets 'Dr Death' and is hooked up to assisted suicide machine

  09-08-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'My finger hovers over the button... my throat is dry, my eyes hot... I can’t press it. This is what it feels like to be hooked up to an assisted suicide machine'
  
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• Nuclear power plants 'could become more open to cyber attacks' as police consider cloud storage

  09-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The armed police force that guards Britain's nuclear material is considering storing information in "cloud" despite series of high-profile leaks
  
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• Boots, Tesco and Superdrug to get access to NHS medical records

  09-08-2015 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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• Scandal of Britain's £6bn arms deals with war-torn Middle Eastern countries which could fall to ISIS

  09-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It includes £15million in sales over the past five years to embattled Libya, large parts of which are already controlled by the vicious terror group
  
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• Are the Ashes becoming predictable?

  09-08-2015 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With only one away team winning the Ashes in 14 years, Tom Fordyce asks: is home advantage too important?
  
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• 'Ghost' filmed floating over baby's cot as shocked dad checks on his 8 week-old daughter

  09-08-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The recording, taken by a baby monitor, shows a misty white light appearing in the top left hand part of the screen before a distinctive white orb-shape begins to float over baby Rosie
  
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• How narrow Arsenal failed to adapt

  09-08-2015 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MOTD2 pundit Danny Murphy explains why Arsenal could not get through West Ham's defence in their opening-day defeat.
  
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• Police evacuate homes as they arrest Birmingham man in anti-terror swoop

  09-08-2015 22:47
  
  POLICE evacuated neighbours' homes today as they arrested a man from Birmingham in a counter-terror swoop.
  
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• BREAKING: Police evacuate homes as they arrest Birmingham man in anti-terror swoop

  09-08-2015 22:47
  
  POLICE evacuated neighbours' homes today as they arrested a man from Birmingham in a counter-terror swoop.
  
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• Dancer Jonathan Ollivier killed hours before final Sadler's Wells performance

  09-08-2015 22:44 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jonathan Ollivier who was starring in The Car Man at Sadler's Wells was killed in a road accident just hours before the final performance
  
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• Watch heartwarming moment Good Samaritan helps blind woman cross road as she struggles at broken pedestrian crossing

  09-08-2015 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Coronation Street extra Annie Giles-Quinn was stranded in Manchester when Gavin Hall came to her rescue before she stepped in front of traffic
  
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• How Facebook is fuelling the growth of the super start-up

  09-08-2015 22:25 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A Facebook executive tells the Telegraph how the social network's digital ecosystem helps app developers build billion-dollar companies from their basements - and why those sky-high valuations are justified
  
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• Alton Towers crash victim Leah Washington's family move from home of 21 years to accommodate her amputation

  09-08-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In their first newspaper interview, the teenager's family reveal they are "heartbroken" about moving from their beloved home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, following the horror smash
  
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• Alton Towers crash victim Leah Washington family's move from home of 21 years to accommodate her amputation

  09-08-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In their first newspaper interview, the teenager's family reveal they are "heartbroken" about moving from their beloved home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, following the horror smash
  
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• Paramedic 'sacked for restraining violent drunk' who terrified elderly lady in hospital A&E

  09-08-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Adrian Penfold-Ivany, 45, who worked for the North West Ambulance Service, claims his actions were justified in order to defend the woman whose safety was at risk
  
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• Coldplay's Kids Company lifeline: Chris Martin and co to save part of failed children's charity

  09-08-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The band is considering rescuing Treehouse, which provided education and therapeutic help to vulnerable children
  
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• Miracle boy with same rare condition as Fabrice Muamba brought back to life after collapsing and 'dying'

  09-08-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seven-year-old Cole Taylor's heart stopped and he collapsed in a paddling pool before being brought back to life by his dad Wayne
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe 2015: Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard struggles to get noticed

  09-08-2015 21:54
  
  Matthew Lillard has been recognised every day since arriving in Scotland earlier this month by fans of his star turn in the horror film Scream and others who recognise him from the movie Scooby-Doo.
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe 2015: Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard brings debut shows to 'insane' Edinburgh Fringe

  09-08-2015 21:54
  
  Matthew Lillard has been recognised every day since arriving in Scotland earlier this month by fans of his star turn in the horror film Scream and others who recognise him from the movie Scooby-Doo.
  
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• Tears as Tom, 19, becomes ‘youngest to cycle the globe’

  09-08-2015 21:45
  
  A BRITISH teenager finished the final leg of a gruelling 18,000-mile cycle ride round the world yesterday — and hopes to have pedalled his way into the record books.
  
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• Panic rush for university places: Grant scrap set for 2016 pushes numbers higher as students try to avoid extra debt

  09-08-2015 21:43
  Universities are bracing themselves for a record-breaking scramble on 13 August as thousands of teenagers seek to find themselves a place through the Clearing system.
  
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• Millions of Britons avoid 'excessive' cigarette taxes costing treasury £2.6 BILLION a year

  09-08-2015 21:35
  
  MILLIONS of Britons are now buying their cigarettes from abroad to dodge "excessive" tobacco taxes - costing the treasury £2.6 BILLION a year in lost revenues.
  
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• Spain 'violates Gibraltar's waters': British Government slams Madrid for boat and helicopter incursions around the Rock

  09-08-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Government of Gibraltar said they are “astonished and appalled” after Spanish police chasing criminals made several incursions into British waters in the past two days
  
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• Increased risk to elderly and frail from carers thanks to Government cuts of £4.6bn, says watchdog

  09-08-2015 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrea Sutcliffe, the chief inspector of Adult Social Care, said the cutbacks were putting carers under “stress and strain”
  
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• High street retailers face backlash at airport shops after revelations that they pocket VAT discounts for passengers from outside EU

  09-08-2015 21:22
  High street retailers were facing a backlash at their airport shops over the weekend, following revelations in the Independent that they were pocketing the VAT discounts for passengers for outside the EU.
  
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• Sir Nicholas Macpherson: Civil servant implementing public-sector pay freeze wants to end pay restraint in his own department

  09-08-2015 21:16
  The Treasury’s most senior civil servant, charged with implementing Chancellor George Osborne’s public-sector pay freeze, has called for an end to pay restraints within his own department.
  
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• Bear Grylls slammed by RNLI for leaving 10-year-old son on rocks during training exercise

  09-08-2015 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Grylls, who is an ambassador for the RNLI, was criticised by the manager of the local rescue unit in Wales for leaving Jesse on 'Half Tide Rocks'
  
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• Green campaigners rage as ministers plan to fast track fracking applications

  09-08-2015 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Energy Secretary to fast-track applications for shale gas projects and give ministers the power to overrule local councils
  
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• Liz Kendall's open letter to Labour voters says 2020 election is what really matters

  09-08-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The leadership contender's missive has been released alongside a video of her writing to backers in her campaign offices
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's rivals try to stall leadership bid over Clause Four concern

  09-08-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The veteran left-winger said he was willing to look at taking back some sectors into public ownership
  
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• Andy Burnham set to block Commons vote for more military action in Iraq and Syria

  09-08-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leadership contender said he had doubts about the legality of extending the UK’s role in the fight with ISIS
  
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• Andy Burnham sends personal video message to Labour voters promising not to forget his roots if elected leader

  09-08-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footage features snaps of the contender in his student days and interviews with his wife and parents
  
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• 'Cracknell A-Team’ save drowning pair

  09-08-2015 20:56
  
  OLYMPIC rower James Cracknell and his son were heroes yesterday after saving a boy and his grandfather from drowning on holiday.
  
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