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• Glasgow bin lorry tragedy to prompt new rules on drivers with health problems

  17-08-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The DVLA wants to conduct a review of checks on motorists after the inquiry heard how crash driver Harry Clarke failed to reveal a history of dizzy spells
  
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• Sickening footage shows teen bully dragging her terrified victim around by the hair and beating her

  17-08-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The sickening film, shared thousands of times online, apparently taken shows the bully dragging the girl around by her hair and beating her
  
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• Newcastle Airport: Flybe stag do passenger describes being kicked off jet 'for going to the toilet'

  17-08-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Servais Louis, 30, was on his way home to London after spending the weekend on Tyneside for a friend's stag do
  
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• Bogus cop masterminded £265k scam on disabled pensioners

  17-08-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Abdul Mohib convinced 26 victims to withdraw large sums of money from their accounts or buy high-value goods then hand them to a “police courier”
  
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• Globetrotter Sebastian Coe makes final push for IAAF vote

  17-08-2015 23:51 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Briton is up against Sergey Bubka, the Ukrainian former pole vaulter, in the battle to lead world athleticsIn the shadow of the Bird’s Nest stadium, about to be pressed back into one of its rare bursts of meaningful sporting action in the seven years since the 2008 Olympics, a slow burning battle that could decide the future of athletics is about to explode.The winner will face the challenge of attempting to overhaul perceptions of a sport mired in doping allegations that threaten to consu
  
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• British Museum comes 15th in Lonely Planet list of world's must-see sites

  17-08-2015 23:50 via feeds.theguardian.com
  London attraction described as ‘greatest treasure house of Europe’ in list dominated by world heritage sites and topped by Cambodia’s Temples of AngkorLondon’s British Museum has been named as a global must-see spot, alongside some of the world’s most prestigious heritage sites.In an “ultimate travel list” drawn up by travel website Lonely Planet, and dominated by members of Unesco’s world heritage sites, the museum came in 15th place, behind Austr
  
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• Marks & Spencer advertising gaffe suggests they are putting something slightly unsavoury in their bread rolls

  17-08-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The high street chain's new campaign is intended to promote their line of bread products, which are said to be a good source of vitamin D
  
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• Burglars steal disabled man's swearing parrot - causing suspected heart attack

  17-08-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michael Burbridge, 49, was rushed to hospital after beloved bird Charlie taken in raid at West Heath home
  
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• North Carolina police trial: shooting consistent with training, expert testifies

  17-08-2015 23:43 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Jurors to hear closing arguments on Tuesday as officer Randall Kerrick stands trial over the death of former college athlete Jonathan Ferrell After two weeks of testimony, a jury will hear closing arguments on Tuesday in the case of a white Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of an unarmed black man.Defense attorneys for 29-year-old Randall Kerrick rested on Monday afternoon – but not before putting several people on the wit
  
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• Fly-tipping supermarket worker fined after spending SIX minutes dumping piles of rubbish onto street

  17-08-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hoshmand Latif Mahmood, 21, was caught on CCTV throwing piles of cardboard, plastic, wood and rusty nails out of a van
  
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• On-the-road schooling continues as UK teachers take their girls to Europe

  17-08-2015 23:41 via feeds.theguardian.com
  After 12 months and 13,000 miles in a caravan journeying around Britain, the Meek family now have a bigger target in sight for another year of learningWhen the Meek family set out for an adventure of a lifetime last year – switching the classroom for on-the-road schooling for their two daughters on a journey around Britain – they had rather expected to be back in the “normal world” after one academic year.
  Instead Ella, 10, and Amy, 12, are set for a second year learning
  
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• Bangkok bomb: Thai capital reeling after deadliest attack in years

  17-08-2015 23:39 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Military junta blames explosion at Erawan shrine which killed at least 19 people on forces aiming to destroy economy and tourismThailand’s military rulers are facing up to the deadliest attack in the capital in recent memory after at least 19 people were killed in a bomb blast that the government blamed on forces seeking to destroy its tourist economy.Body parts and mangled scooters were scattered across a busy intersection in central Bangkok after the improvised device went off at about 7
  
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• Rock group banned from festival following Facebook post of singer posing as someone with 'special needs'

  17-08-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Covers band Fiery Biscuits prompted outrage after its drummer, Andy Davies, posted a picture of lead singer Vinny Harrison posing as someone with a disability
  
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• Bangkok explosion: More than 900,000 Brits visit Thailand even though it's regarded as dangerous

  17-08-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Last year backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were murdered on the Thai island of Koh Tao
  
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• Dad of six-year-old killed in car crash reveals heartbreak after he and his pregnant wife survived

  17-08-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ahmed cannot remember anything about the crash. All he remembers is waking up in a hospital bed and being told his daughter had been killed
  
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• Bangkok explosion: Devastating blast will hit Thailand's tourist economy hard

  17-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thailand has been under military rule for over a year since countrywide anti-regime unrest led to two bombs blasts
  
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• Lion slaughter: Now children of hunters are posing proudly next to dead animals

  17-08-2015 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seven year old among children posing with majestic animals in wake of Cecil the lion's slaying
  
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• These are the most (and least) attractive accents in the British Isles

  17-08-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British adults were asked to say whether they found each of 12 accents attractive or unattractive
  
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• Thug who left victim with a footprint on his face in 'life-changing' attack jailed for eight years

  17-08-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Casey Paul Lyons' victim had to learn to speak again following the sustained attack at his flat in Rhyl, North Wales
  
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• Fears as soft-touch GPs dish out antibiotics ‘needlessly’

  17-08-2015 22:53
  
  DOCTORS are to be given urgent new guidelines on prescribing antibiotics in a bid to stop the spread of bugs resistant to existing medications, it was announced today.
  
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• What about my burglary? Police blasted for launching appeal about a lost box of CHOCOLATES

  17-08-2015 22:52
  
  A POLICE force has been ridiculed for launching an appeal for information... to reunite a woman with a box of chocolates.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn hails Labour leadership race as crucial chance for party to 'change our ways'

  17-08-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Addressing more than 500 supporters at a noisy, colourful rally in West London, the contest frontrunner condemned "puerile" political attacks and repeated his message of hope
  
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• Bangkok explosion: Brit tourist describes the blast scene as 'like a massacre'

  17-08-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  At least 19 people have died and 120 have been injured as a blast tore through the crowded Erawan shrine in Bangkok
  
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• Bangkok explosion: Brit tourist describes the blast scene as 'a massacre'

  17-08-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  At least 19 people have died and 120 have been injured as a blast tore through the crowded Erawan shrine in Bangkok
  
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• Unemployed offered unpaid work experience at the JOB CENTRE

  17-08-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Department for Work and Pensions said the placements offered ‘invaluable’ office experience for claimants
  
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• Family disgusted after two-inch WORM 'slithered out of their drinking taps'

  17-08-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Katie Reed, 21, only noticed the worm in her bottle as she took a big gulp of water
  
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• Mum thought she'd asked for a 'blond girl' on top of her daughter's birthday cake - but received this instead

  17-08-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Unfortunately auto-correct had changed her texted order to 'blind girl' - which led to this bizarre creation
  
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• Ranvir Singh on the alopecia that began with the shock of her father’s death

  17-08-2015 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Good Morning host tells how she’s coped with the hair loss, which began with the loss of her father when she was only nine
  
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• Cancer breakthrough as study claims taking aspirin may help obese people avoid killer disease

  17-08-2015 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Professor Sir John Burn said: "Lots of people struggle with their weight and this suggests the extra cancer risk can be cancelled by taking an aspirin"
  
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• House of Lords: David Cameron warned new intake of peers will undermine effectiveness and cost taxpayer more than £1m

  17-08-2015 22:24
  The appointment of a new group of political donors, former MPs and party apparatchiks as peers will deal a fresh blow to the credibility and effectiveness of the House of Lords and leave the taxpayer more than £1m out of pocket, David Cameron has been warned.
  
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• Couple on first date help family escape from car minutes before it explodes into flames

  17-08-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emma Whitfield, 24, didn't know the danger she and her two young sons were in until a man started running towards the car screaming at her to get out
  
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• Gas price is at record low but will suppliers cut the bills?

  17-08-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Despite prices falling just one of the Big Six – British Gas – has announced a price cut since last winter
  
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• Labour leadership: Liz Kendall calls for probe into effect of change to voting rules

  17-08-2015 22:10
  
  The Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall has called for the publication of a full breakdown of election results so members could see the extent to which new election rules boosted Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign.
  
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• Car-hacking scandal: How a security loophole left thousands of vehicles vulnerable to thieves

  17-08-2015 22:09
  
  Tens of thousands of cars are vulnerable to thieves using electronic hacking, according to researchers whose findings were suppressed by a major manufacturer for two years.
  
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• Car-hacking scandal: The models affected

  17-08-2015 22:08
  
  Volkswagen’s vehemence in defending the security of its vehicles appears to be paying off.
  
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• Ryanair issues grovelling apology after customer had to sit beside pool of vomit for entire flight

  17-08-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The budget airline apologised after the man was left sitting beside the puke on a flight from Gatwick to Dublin
  
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• Who backs Jeremy Corbyn? And who doesn't want him to secure Labour's top job?

  17-08-2015 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn is the bookies' favourite to win the Labour leadership election but who backs him and who doesn't?
  
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• Labour leadership contest: 7 questions Jeremy Corbyn's critics say he needs to answer

  17-08-2015 22:03
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has made a career out championing unfashionable causes.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: 7 questions Jeremy Corbyn's critics say he must answer

  17-08-2015 22:03
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has made a career out championing unfashionable causes.
  
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• British Museum named among world's great heritage sites alongside Taj Mahal and Great Wall of China

  17-08-2015 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The museum was 15th on an ultimate travel list drawn up by travel website Lonely Planet and dominated by members of Unesco's World Heritage Sites
  
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• Miscarried baby left in a BAG at the end of devastated mum's hospital bed

  17-08-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sarah Howard, who had suffered a miscarriage, was devastated to find the tiny foetus in a plastic bag at the end of her bed in a recovery ward
  
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• If you’ve got acne in your 40s we could have the answer to your problem

  17-08-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stress, hormones, diet and pollution are among the factors that can cause spots but there are ways to make your skin better
  
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• Businessman makes £6k a MONTH launching firm which sends POTATOES in the post

  17-08-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  His girlfriend called it "the stupidest idea" she'd ever heard of, but this young Texas entrepreneur claims demand is soaring for potatoes scribbled on
  
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• Police launch bizarre Facebook appeal to reunited woman with her lost Belgian CHOCOLATES

  17-08-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The post on the Nottinghamshire Police web page says a holidaymaker had lost the confectionery following a trip to the Continent
  
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• BBC among broadcasters to repeatedly breach Ofcom impartiality code over funded content

  17-08-2015 21:44
  
  International broadcasters including the BBC repeatedly broke the Ofcom code by screening programmes funded by foreign governments, charities and NGOs, an investigation has revealed.
  
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• BBC among broadcasters to repeatedly breach Ofcom code over propaganda content

  17-08-2015 21:44
  
  International broadcasters including the BBC repeatedly broke the Ofcom code by screening programmes funded by foreign governments, charities and NGOs, an investigation has revealed.
  
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• BBC among broadcasters to repeatedly breach Ofcom broadcasting code over funded content

  17-08-2015 21:44
  
  International broadcasters including the BBC repeatedly broke the Ofcom code by screening programmes funded by foreign governments, charities and NGOs, an investigation has revealed.
  
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• Fury as Sheffield Wednesday charges parents up to £21 for tickets for a seven-month-old baby

  17-08-2015 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fans Nicky and Scott Rowlinson are season ticket holders and wanted to take their little girl Charley to experience the atmosphere at Hillsborough
  
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• Labour leadership race: Liz Kendall misquoted as saying disabled people are not ordinary

  17-08-2015 21:34
  
  As the Labour leadership race enters the final furlong, followers are alert for any gaffes that will mark candidates out from their rivals, so much so that Liz Kendall has been widely misquoted online as saying that disabled people are not ordinary.
  
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• Teenage son saw dad desperately try to rescue him and his brother before he drowned in surf tragedy

  17-08-2015 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brave knee surgeon Stuart Calder, aged 52, was swept out to sea by a powerful rip current after he tried to save sons Hugo, 18, and Milo, 15
  
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