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• Edward Heath 'had male prostitutes delivered to Westminster hotels' claims former madam

  15-08-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brothel madam Myra 'Ling Ling' Forde said the former Tory PM used the name 'John' to make telephone bookings on Wednesday and Thursday nights
  
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• ISIS terrorists targeting 'Shirley Valentines' who want holiday romances

  15-08-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Islamic fanatics are preying on unattached females who are off to Turkey in the hope of a holiday fling
  
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• Watch teenagers make DIY braces to straighten wonky teeth - but don't try this at home

  15-08-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dentists have warned that the trend could actually cause teeth to fall out and lead to gum damage - which is not good
  
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• Police raids to crackdown on ISIS stronghold in Europe as extremists secretly buy up land

  15-08-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The swoops follow an exclusive Sunday Mirror investigation which revealed that IS had developed new training grounds in Balkan countries
  
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• Edward Heath brothel madam: EastEnders legend could be exposed as client after police raid

  15-08-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Myra “Ling Ling” Forde says the name of the star - who would only romp with prostitutes in the back of a van - was in a book seized by detectives
  
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• David Beckham's sister quizzed by cops after her ex boyfriend accused of fraud

  15-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joanne, 32, sister of England soccer legend David, is co-operating with detectives after Adrian Taylor and three others were charged with trying to defraud American banks based in the UK
  
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• VJ Day: In pictures

  15-08-2015 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  70th anniversary commemorations
  
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• Ex-police inspector CLEARED over claims he acted 'on behalf' of Jimmy Savile

  15-08-2015 23:29
  
  A FORMER inspector has been cleared by the police watchdog over claims he "acted on behalf" of Jimmy Savile.
  
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• Disturbing footage shows migrants in violent brawl over food and water on Kos as tensions reaching breaking point

  15-08-2015 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Young men battling to get off the island fought each other on Saturday while a passenger ship chartered to house and process refugees lay empty 24 hours after it had arrived
  
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• Anonymous urge protesters to 'bring tents and masks' as up to 70,000 are expected for Manchester Tory conference

  15-08-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The underground activist movement is are among those rallying supporters against the presence of the Conservatives in the city in October
  
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• Number of cancelled NHS operations soars to highest level for 13 years

  15-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A total of 16,180 operations were scrapped in three months to June, up from 15,650 for same period last year
             
  
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• Brave young woman who has battled eating disorder strips off in public to convey powerful message

  15-08-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jae West's social experiment was intended to encourage others to love themselves and their body
  
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• Broadmoor attacks fuel fears that cuts to mental health staff are putting employees and the public at risk

  15-08-2015 23:07
  The biggest mental health trust in the UK has denied suggestions that reduced staffing levels are putting the safety of employees and the public at risk, as two police forces investigate separate attacks on staff which left a hostel worker dead and two nurses injured.
  
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• National Lottery results: Winning numbers for Friday August 15 2015

  15-08-2015 23:05
  
  THESE are the winning National Lottery numbers for the draw on Friday August 15 2015.
  
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• Severed leg found in river thought to belong to violent gangster with links to far-right football hooligans

  15-08-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police have launched a murder investigation after the left leg - which has the words 'Today is a good day to die' tattooed on it - was found by a fisherman
  
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• SAS mount anti-terror op: Police joined by troops after IS threat to Queen

  15-08-2015 23:02
  
  AN UNDERCOVER SAS team and ­hundreds of police led a huge security operation as thousands of people joined the Queen in defying terrorist threats to today’s VJ Day commemorations.
  
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• McDonald's worker told she couldn't have any more hours because she's BLACK

  15-08-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shocked Divine Tenn, 18, says Asian boss Jaskaran Singh Khela insisted it was “store policy” and would apply to all 20 black workers
  
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• 'We waited 13 years for NHS to admit blame for our son's brain damage'

  15-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ben Harman's parents win £20million negligence payout - one of biggest in medical history - after he was sent home with low blood sugar levels when he was born
  
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• Sex shame teacher Jeremy Forrest freed and given free flat with 'all mod cons'

  15-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former maths master, released from jail last month, has been spotted exercising in a large park next to his new home
  
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• Oscar Pistorius freed next week but will only be able to leave house to attend church

  15-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The devout Christian, whose faith is said to have deepened over recent months, must be accompanied on trips to attend mass
  
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• Jimmy Greaves back home three months after suffering a devastating stroke

  15-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former England football legend starts extensive ­physiotherapy on Monday and experts hope he will eventually be able to walk unaided again
  
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• Cilla Black's death just months after Anne Kirkbride's has left Bill Roache heartbroken

  15-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Coronation Street star Bill had been friends with TV legend Cilla for more than 30 years and her death has come as a devastating blow
  
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• Oliver Letwin denies pledging £20m to Kids Company

  15-08-2015 22:58
  
  The Government considered giving £20m a year to Kids Company as recently as March this year as the now defunct charity was struggling to survive. But the Cabinet Office minister, Oliver Letwin, has denied Camila Batmanghelidjh’s claim yesterday that he verbally promised to find her the money, saying there had been some kind of “misunderstanding on her part”.
  
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• British values fit well with Islam says head of Muslim Council

  15-08-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Shuja Shafi, general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain says David Cameron should not worry and genuine British values sit well with Islam
  
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• Nicky Morgan orders immigration review to examine 'education tourism'

  15-08-2015 22:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, has ordered officials to investigate how much of a "pull factor" state schools are for immigrants with families who decide to move to the UK
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn would reduce Labour's chances of winning the next election, poll reveals

  15-08-2015 22:45
  
  A victory for Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership race will reduce the party's chances of winning the next election, a poll for The Independent on Sunday reveals.
  
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• Gove: scrap laws on the BBC licence fee

  15-08-2015 22:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Justice Secretary says it should not be a criminal offence if you do not pay
  
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• Edward Heath 'was not a sexual being', says closest female friend

  15-08-2015 22:40
  
  One of former Prime Minister Sir TedEdward Heath's closest friends has come to his defence following the news that at least seven police forces are looking into claims that he was a paedophile. Sara Morrison, often described as his closest female friend, has endorsed the view of another friend, former Cabinet Secretary Lord Armstrong, and of Heath’s biographer Philip Ziegler, that Heath, who died in 2005, had no interest in sex.
  
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• Defence cuts ‘threaten future of Britain’s Paras’

  15-08-2015 22:38
  
  THE future of Britain’s Parachute Regiment was in doubt last night with a senior colonel criticising cuts.
  
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• Former police officer cleared over claims he "acted on behalf" of Jimmy Savile

  15-08-2015 22:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Police watchdog clears former inspector over claims he "acted on behalf" of Jimmy Savile
  
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• Paleo diet should include carbohydrates to be authentic, say scientists

  15-08-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Early humans would have needed a diet high in both meat and carbohdrates to fuel the rapid evolutionary expansion of the Pleistocene
  
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• Hunters are flying big game trophies into the UK

  15-08-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Official figures have shown the bizarre array of animal items that have been brought into the country in the past year
  
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• Former ministers walk through revolving door into lobbying

  15-08-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A number of ministers in the Coalition government have secured jobs with organisations with which they had official dealings in government, it can be revealed
  
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• Former ministers walk through revolving door into boardrooms

  15-08-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A number of ministers in the Coalition government have secured jobs with organisations with which they had official dealings in government, it can be revealed
  
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• A hippo's head, leopard skulls and elephant ears: the hunting trophies imported to the UK

  15-08-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Official records reveal the bizarre array of animal items that have been brought into the country in the past year
  
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• Grieving husband plants four miles of sunflowers in tribute to wife who died after nine year cancer battle

  15-08-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Don Jaquish said the sunflowers reflect his late wife's personality as "her smile would light up the room"
  
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• Sleeping pensioner left dangling from bedroom after lorry smashes into front of his farmhouse

  15-08-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Rowley, 70, was in bed when 44-tonne HGV ploughed into his house 16 months after a car did the exact same thing
  
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• Jimmy Savile: Ex-copper accused of contacting police 'on behalf of' paedophile DJ cleared following probe

  15-08-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former inspector, who has not been named, was accused of contacting Surrey Police before they quizzed the ex-BBC star in 2009 over allegations of sexual offences
  
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• One in four claiming disability benefits faces serious difficulties including delays, unfair dismissals and confusion over eligibility

  15-08-2015 22:16
  Almost a quarter of all people applying for disability benefits to help them live independently are encountering serious difficulties, including delays, unfair dismissal of claims and confusion over eligibility, The Independent on Sunday has learnt. The scale of the problem with personal independence payments (PIP) means that needing help with the benefit is now the most common reason for approaching the national charity Citizens Advice charity, new figures show.
  
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• Mancunian Way sinkhole: Public warned not cross safety cordon around 'dangerous' crater in main road

  15-08-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The warning comes after people began posting selfies right next to the collapsed section of the normally busy Mancunian Way, Manchester
  
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• Slave Labour: MPs accused of hypocrisy for employing interns to work for NOTHING for months

  15-08-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former leader Ed Miliband said he would end the scandal of unpaid internships - but his colleagues don't see to have been listening
  
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• Pictured: Inspirational mum's smiling selfie from her hospital bed - after being told she may never WALK again

  15-08-2015 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tough Amanda Newton broke her back in a freak cycling accident after she careened down a hill and smashed into a signpost - but despite being told she'll be in a wheelchair she is still remaining positive
  
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• Is Jeremy Corbyn, in the words of his favourite philosopher Karl Marx, a grotesque mediocrity?

  15-08-2015 22:00
  
  Nothing to lose but your fears
  
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• From the general election to the rise of Jeremy Corbyn – it’s been a bad year for political predictions

  15-08-2015 22:00
  
  He’ll come fourth. That’s what I said when Jeremy Corbyn scraped on to the ballot paper with one nomination and a minute or two to spare. He may yet, but I’m not quite as confident now as I was then. What is the point of political predictions, then? Especially mine. But the polls also got the general election wrong and no one saw the Scottish nationalist surge coming.
  
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• Countryside braced for renewed badger cull protests

  15-08-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  With the culling of badgers set to be extended to Dorset farmers are braced for further confrontations with animal rights activists
  
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• Queen Mary II: Search for missing crew member who went overboard

  15-08-2015 21:47
  
  A SEARCH operation was under way today after a crew member went overboard from a luxury cruise liner.
  
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• Samantha Agins: Young medic suffers fatal stroke after spending 30 minutes trying to resuscitate autistic woman

  15-08-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Samantha Agins, 22, was working on a holiday camp for the disabled when she suffered a torn artery last Friday while administering CPR to a woman who later died
  
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• Britain in the black in July as firms pay over more tax

  15-08-2015 21:29
  
  THE GOVERNMENT is set for a £2 billion budget surplus for July
  
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• Toddler's Minion fart gun seized after being deemed a security RISK by airport staff

  15-08-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The three-year-old boy's plastic toy was allegedly seen as a threat and taken away
  
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• Migrants crisis: 40 people die after they suffocate on cramped boat heading for Italy

  15-08-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The overcrowded fishing boat was carrying around 400 migrants as they attempted to cross the Med from Libya
  
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