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• Huskie in a hammock: Man and dog look relaxed as they doze together

  12-08-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man has his arm around the animal while in turn the pooch has put an affectionate paw across his sleep buddy's belly
  
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• Tributes pour in for superstar dog Uggie - star of The Artist - after he died aged 13

  12-08-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Jack Russell terrier was put down on Friday after suffering from a prostate tumour
  
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• British police stay in £200-a-night Magaluf hotel at YOUR expense

  12-08-2015 23:55
  
  BRITISH police officers sent to Spain to deal with drunken holidaymakers are staying in a plush £200-a-night hotel at taxpayers' expense.
  
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• Compensation for Lancashire residents as water ban hits ONE WEEK mark

  12-08-2015 23:49
  
  HUNDREDS of thousands of people will get compensation payouts after facing a week of not being able to drink water from their taps.
  
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• Two teenagers found dead at beauty spot after massive search by police and coastguard

  12-08-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The boy and girl were discovered by emergency services  following reports two people were missing in the water
  
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• Devastated family of landlord eaten by his killer pays tribute to 'gentle, honest and unfailing loyal' loved one

  12-08-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The sister of a landlord killed and eaten by his tenant has paid tribute to her 'gentle, honest and unfailing loyal' loved one.
  
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• Eating Britain's hottest ever chilli: 'Suddenly everything was burning, incinerating, my face was numb'

  12-08-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror Spice girl Jessica Boulton normally loves her food to have a bit of a kick - but she may have met her match with the Komodo dragon chilli
  
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• Watch woman attacking hair salon with SLEDGEHAMMER because she 'didn't like her new do'

  12-08-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  But instead of lying meekly to the hairdresser when she asks if you like your new look, this woman decided to show her true feelings - with a sledgehammer.
  
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• Three teenage sisters held in anti-terror police swoop along with their parents

  12-08-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers said the trio, aged 16, 17 and 19, and their mum and dad – aged 53 and 51 – were all suspected of having terrorism-related information
  
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• 'Why was this serial rapist let into Britain to sexually abuse children as young as three?'

  12-08-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eduard Peticky came to UK for 'better life' from Slovakia but the convicted rapist went on to sexually abuse girls aged three and five in Rotherham, South Yorks
  
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• Thousands of flyers join boarding-pass mutiny against VAT rip-off in airport stores

  12-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robert Peston and actress Frances Barber are among those taking to Twitter to support the backlash against the traders’ tax scheme
  
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• Roy Hodgson will be out if England flop at Euro 2016, FA chief executive says

  12-08-2015 23:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  • England manager would not expect new deal if team fail, says Martin Glenn
  • ‘We will have the discussion with Roy in the next nine months to a year’Roy Hodgson will lose his job as the England manager if the team fails in next year’s European Championship, the Football Association’s chief executive has said.Martin Glenn said Hodgson has accepted that, and would not expect to be given a new contract if England have a bad tournament, because he is “a proud man”. Continue reading.
  
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• People smugglers fuelling migrant crisis could be BRITISH as traffickers caught in UK cars

  12-08-2015 23:28
  
  BRITISH criminals are thought to be profiteering from the Calais migrant crisis as people smugglers were spotted using cars with UK number plates.
  
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• Former US President Jimmy Carter reveals he is suffering from cancer

  12-08-2015 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Doctors diagnosed the disease after the 90-year-old statesman underwent an operation
  
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• Drug dealing franchises target seaside resorts and spa towns

  12-08-2015 23:25 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Investigators identify at least 180 drug gangs which have diversified from urban centres into the countryside and seaside
  
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• Cute kitten and puppy share hug in adorable embrace that has gone viral

  12-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The black dog looks snug and asleep while the ginger kitten keeps a watchful eye out
  
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• Child traffickers preying on earthquake orphans left to fend for themselves in Nepal

  12-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charity workers are picking up the pieces in the stricken country in a bid to rescue kids as young as three from the vile exploitation trades
  
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• America's dirtiest cop: Amazing true story of the gangster with an NYPD badge

  12-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror US editor Christopher Bucktin meets Mike Dowd who ran an organised crime network within the NYPD and whose rise and fall is featured in a new documentary film
  
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• Two teenagers drowned in Norfolk nature reserve

  12-08-2015 23:14 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Fire crews called to Thorpe Marshes in Trowse after two people reported in difficulty, but arrive too late to save pair
  Two teenagers who got into difficulty in water at a nature reserve have been found dead, Norfolk police have said.Emergency services were called to Thorpe Marshes in Trowse at about 4.50pm on Wednesday following reports that two people were missing in the water. Norfolk police said the boy and girl were teenagers.Continue reading...
  
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• England’s Jos Buttler looks for normal service to resume with the bat | John Ashdown

  12-08-2015 23:12 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Wicketkeeper has been fine behind the stumps in the Ashes series but has struggled in front of themJos Buttler is getting better at being invisible. The England wicketkeeper came into the Test side little more than a year ago with few doubts about his batting ability but questions over his skill with the gloves. This summer has seen something of reversal in those issues but the keeping concerns have been resoundingly answered in a more or less faultless summer behind the stumps as England regain
  
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• Why your kettle could take longer to boil when the wind isn't blowing

  12-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Voltage of household electricity supplies could be routinely reduced to help manage intermittent renewable energy
  
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• Perseid meteor shower: Up to 100 meteors an hour will be visible tonight

  12-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stargazers are in for a treat this week as the annual Perseid meteor shower will be streaking across the sky
  
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• Humans have already used up 2015's supply of Earth's resources – analysis

  12-08-2015 23:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Earth ‘overshoot day’ – the day each year when our demands on the planet outstrip its ability to regenerate – comes six days earlier than 2014, with world’s population currently consuming the equivalent of 1.6 planets a yearHumans have exhausted a year’s supply of natural resources in less than eight months, according to an analysis of the demands the world’s population are placing on the planet.The Earth’s “overshoot day” for 2015, the point at which humanity goes into ecolo
  
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• Terrified mother's warning to everyone with a charger as family flees burning home

  12-08-2015 23:00
  
  A FAMILY had a lucky escape after an exploding e-cigarette set fire to their house.
  
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• Royal Navy's £10billion submarine project at risk due to delays and overspending

  12-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The subs have been plagued by a string of technical hitches and delays since the first vessel was ordered 18 years ago
  
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• Portsmouth 2-1 Derby County | Capital One Cup match report

  12-08-2015 22:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  It is said that any substitution is inspired when it works, so Paul Cook, the Portsmouth manager, was obviously doubly inspired last night. Conor Chaplin scored five minutes after taking the field from a pass by Enda Stevens, another substitute, to send League Two Portsmouth through to the second round at Derby County’s expense as another Championship side made a premature exit. Continue reading...
  
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• Explosions in Chinese city of Tianjin kill at least 17 and injure hundreds

  12-08-2015 22:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Homes on other side of port city shaken by blasts after shipment of explosives goes up in flames just before midnight local time
  Latest updates on the Tianjin explosionsHundreds of people have been injured and at least 17 killed after a series of devastating blasts sent a fireball hundreds of metres into the air at an industrial port in northern China.A shipment of “dangerous goods” in a warehouse went up in flames shortly before midnight local time (1600 GMT), state media reported, causing
  
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• Cilla Black's funeral to be held in Liverpool

  12-08-2015 22:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Singer and television star Cilla Black will be buried alongside her parents
  
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• Portsmouth 2-1 Derby: Capital One Cup first round – as it happened

  12-08-2015 22:50 via feeds.theguardian.com
  18-year-old Conor Chaplin came off the Portsmouth bench to score a fantastic winner against Derby, who become one of eight Championship sides to exit the Capital One Cup in the first round 9.50pm BST What a stinker of a start for Paul Clement at Derby. At the weekend, they couldn’t break down 10-man Bolton in a 0-0 draw, and now they’ve lost to a team two leagues below them. It’s way to early to make judgements on Clement’s tenure but they looked toothless going forward tonight against a
  
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• Former US president Jimmy Carter reveals he has cancer

  12-08-2015 22:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Carter, 90, says recent liver surgery revealed ‘cancer that is now in other parts of my body’ and promised more details ‘when facts are known’Former president Jimmy Carter says recent surgery has revealed that he has cancer.The 90-year-old Georgia Democrat underwent liver surgery last week at Emory University hospital in Atlanta, during which doctors discovered “cancer that is now in other parts of my body”, he said in a statement on Wednesday.Continue reading...
  
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• Two teenagers have died at a beauty spot

  12-08-2015 22:39 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Two youngsters are feared to have drowned at a beauty spot where police have found two bodies
  
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• Mayzi Price, four, will be able to walk after kind Mirror readers give cash for op

  12-08-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The little girl was left needing a wheelchair because of her cerebral palsy but a charity appeal has raised the £50,000 she needs for corrective surgery
  
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• Terry Waite: Mirror readers can help rebuild communities and lives ravaged by Ebola

  12-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The humanitarian and founder of Y Care International on how its Government-backed appeal is providing double the support and double the hope
  
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• 'I survived Ebola but NINE of my family died so I want to stop others suffering'

  12-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tom Parry visited Monrovia in Liberia to talk to a survivor of the deadly virus as the Daily Mirror backs a new campaign to combat its spread
  
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• Tories blasted for claiming employment triumph as numbers out of work rise

  12-08-2015 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ONS said there were 31 million people in work, 63,000 fewer than the three months to March
  
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• Norfolk Thorpe Marshes Reserve: Two teenagers found dead after getting into difficulty in water

  12-08-2015 22:24
  
  Two teenagers who got into difficulty at a water reserve in Norfolk have been found dead, according to police.
  
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• Norfolk Thorpe Marshes Reserve deaths: Two teenagers found dead after getting into difficulty in water

  12-08-2015 22:24
  
  Two teenagers who got into difficulty at a water reserve in Norfolk have been found dead, according to police.
  
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• Cat killer on the loose: Poisoning warning after heartbroken owner's FIVE pets die in seven months

  12-08-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Annalisa Torrence told how her three children were also grieving for the pets who have all died over the past seven months
  
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• Binman who made thousands selling 1.5 MILLION stolen waste bags on eBay was a convicted burglar

  12-08-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Convicted burglar Paul Strickland had been employed by the council despite not disclosing any of his 15 previous convictions
  
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• Pink Floyd will never reform again as guitarist David Gilmour insists he's 'done with it'

  12-08-2015 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The rock veteran spoke fondly of his time with ex-bandmates Nick Mason, Roger Waters and the late Rick Wright but says he wants to do his own thing
  
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• Couple guilty of 'revolting' oral sex act at BBC Paloma Faith concert in Hyde Park

  12-08-2015 22:07
  
  A COUPLE have been fined for their "particularly revolting behaviour" after carrying out a sex act during a crowded BBC Radio 2 concert in Hyde Park.
  
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• Bookies' favourite accused of being 'too professional' leaves Great British Bake Off

  12-08-2015 22:01 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Bookies' favourite Marie, 66, becomes the second person to leave the Great British Bake Off
  
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• Cops seconded to Magaluf find way to cope with the heat

  12-08-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  PC Martina Anderson and Sgt Brett Williams moaned Magaluf was too hot for police work but now they've found a way to cool down
  
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• Benefits Street star White Dee calls on UK to open borders and let Calais migrants in

  12-08-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dee, real name Deirdre Kelly, made the plea after visiting the infamous Jungle settlement where 5,000 people are battling to enter Britain
  
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• China explosion: Pictures reveal blast devastation as 7 confirmed dead, 300 injured and others still trapped in fire

  12-08-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Graphic pictures on Chinese social media site Weibo show wounded men and women covered in blood as the roads in Tianjin are littered with debris
  
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• Shameless mum who left baby to die for boozy sex session with someone she'd just me branded 'evil'

  12-08-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Yvonne Adkins left poorly three-month-old Shanelle lying in her baby rocker for nine hours while she bedded a lover she’d just met at a bus stop
  
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• St Giles House: One of UK's oldest stately homes being lived in again after decades of disrepair

  12-08-2015 21:55
  
  One of Britain’s oldest stately homes is being lived in again after decades of disrepair. A four and a half year restoration of St Giles House in Dorset, the family home of the Earls of Shaftesbury for hundreds of years, has seen the building returned to use.
  
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• Cilla Black's family and friends planning huge send-off at her hometown funeral

  12-08-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  TV icon and singer Cilla will be laid to rest next to her parents after a public funeral, which thousands are expected to attend in Liverpool
  
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• Shock figures show 10 per cent of all medicine is now prescribed for diabetes

  12-08-2015 21:51
  
  TEN pence in every pound of medicine prescribed is now spent treating diabetes, shocking new figures show.
  
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• Man stopped for traffic violation 'assaulted 7 officers' before saluting in his mugshot

  12-08-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When police stopped Joseph Parker, they say that he reacted erratically and he was eventually arrested for assault among other offences
  
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