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• Widower wins thousands in compensation after wife's cancer was misdiagnosed as swimmer's ear

  19-08-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kathleen Howe was given drops to treat what her NHS consultant said was 'swimmer's ear'
  
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• Angry cyclist jumps on taxi bonnet on The Mall after road rage row with cabbie

  19-08-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of passers-by watched the pair exchange a few harsh words today while a woman and child who had been travelling in the taxi made a sharp exit
  
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• Millionaire who used children's GRAVESTONES to decorate mansion now faces £750k bill to restore property

  19-08-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kim Davies may have to reconvert the listed building back to its original state before he could sell it, at a further £750k
  
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• Taxpayers pay nearly £600,000 for sexting police chief investigation - and costs may RISE

  19-08-2015 23:45
  
  A BILL for investigating a police chief found to have used a work iPhone to send and receive racy photos has reached almost £600,000 - and that figure is set to rise even further.
  
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• In pictures: Woman behind NAKED horse riding campaign speaks out after safety stunt goes global

  19-08-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lauren De Gruchy stripped off to launch Slow Down For My Horse earlier this month - and it has since made headlines around the world
  
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• Road rage cyclist jumps on taxi bonnet in front of BUCKINGHAM PALACE

  19-08-2015 23:27
  
  THIS is the outrageous moment when an enraged cyclist jumped on a TAXI in front of Buckingham Palace.
  
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• Digbeth siege ended: Police question man after two female hostages are freed from charity office

  19-08-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Armed cops surrounded the offices of a mental health charity after a man locked himself and two members of staff in
  
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• Screens used to stop motorists peering into crash sites deployed just 77 times in recent years - despite £2.2m being spent on them

  19-08-2015 23:25
  Screens used to stop motorists peering into crash sites have been deployed just 77 times on busy roads in recent years - despite Highways England spending £2.2m on thousands of the fences.
  
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• Watch wine lover make incredible leap to catch precious bottle of plonk

  19-08-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This guy could give Peter Schmeichel a run for his money
  
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• What is vaping? After calls for e-cigs to be on NHS we clear the air

  19-08-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  But how much do you know about vaping? Here is your e-asy guide to e-cigarettes
  
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• Dad diagnosed with terminal cancer marries love of his life just days before he dies

  19-08-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 32-year-old dad-of-three was desperate to wed his partner of 15 years before is was too late
  
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• Ashley Madison hack: 1.2million Brits in a panic as alleged love cheats' details are published

  19-08-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The FBI have been called in by the adultery site's publisher and they believe they are closing in on the culprit
  
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• Friends Forever Tampons: Introducing the sanitary product you can 'share' with your best mate

  19-08-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Because nothing says 'BFFs' like, er, sharing your flow
  
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• Furious man posts video showing marauding dogs mauling a defenceless cat to death

  19-08-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Ryder, who posted the video, is disgusted with the two dog owners for letting the dogs off their leads
  
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• Katelyn Parker: Pensioner arrested over body in the boot killing speaks out

  19-08-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ted Tunnicliffe, 70, has told of his ordeal after he was arrested - but later released without charge - on suspicion of murder of Katelyn Parker in Heywood
  
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• Police chief told to quit 'for the good of the force'

  19-08-2015 22:31
  
  A DISGRACED police chief who played a key role in the inquiry into Princess Diana’s death was told to quit today.
  
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• 'It's OK I can see him': Watch stand-off as man confronts mum who leaves BABY in hot car

  19-08-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carl Paz was walking past a mobile phone shop in Torrance, California, when he spotted a lone tot in the vehicle, which was in the sun and 'had no air conditioning'
  
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• Ashley Madison hack: Married SNP MP denies using site after email address is published

  19-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michelle Thompson, who was elected MP for Edinburgh West in May, says she has been the victim of a smear campaign
  
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• Ashley Madison: Millions fearful as hackers make adultery website data public

  19-08-2015 22:27 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Details of over a million Britons leaked online by hackers who published the entire database of the adultery website
  
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• Shocking footage looks inside sinkhole which has reopened TWO years after swallowing man as he slept in bed

  19-08-2015 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The hole, which is 20 feet wide - has struck on a vacant space where the home of Jeffrey Bush used to stand
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Claims I am racist and anti-Semite are 'deeply offensive'

  19-08-2015 22:25 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jeremy Cornyn has angrily denied that he was a racist and anti-semite as his alleged links to extremists threatened to engulf his Labour leadership campaign
  
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• New Tunisia shooting: Islamist militants gun down policeman in resort where 30 Brits died in terror attack

  19-08-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "Two young men on a motorbike opened fire on the police. At least one police officer is dead," a security source said
  
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• Islamist militants gun down a Tunisian policeman in resort where 30 Brits died in terror attack

  19-08-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "Two young men on a motorbike opened fire on the police. At least one police officer is dead," a security source said
  
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• Never before seen pics of Cilla Black's wedding in church where we will say goodbye

  19-08-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Never-seen-before images of her wedding - in the same church that she will be buried - show the TV legend’s joy as she ties the knot
  
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• Chilcot inquiry: Leading figures in British political Establishment accused of plotting to discredit investigation into Iraq war

  19-08-2015 22:14
  Leading figures in the British political Establishment are behind a plot to discredit the Chilcot inquiry by portraying the panel members as “bumbling incompetents” who cannot deliver their report on time, it has been claimed.
  
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• Ashley Madison data dump exposes hundreds of public servants in sensitive positions

  19-08-2015 22:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Details of British civil servants, Ministry of Defence staff and banking workers leaked in adultery website hack
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Joining a shrewd operator desperate for power as he visits the North East

  19-08-2015 22:06
  
  If you wanted to make a convincing case to renationalise the railways the 11am Virgin Train service from London to Newcastle would not be a bad place to start.
  
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• Dodgy diet pill is banned director George Andreetti’s follow-up to carbon credit scam

  19-08-2015 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The disgraced businessmen is flogging a slimming treatment called GC75 but an NHS dietician could find no evidence to back up his claims
  
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• Pub gutted after two men wearing 'Scream' masks burst in and torched it as drinkers were inside

  19-08-2015 21:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Drinkers fled in horror after the Bay Horse pub in Knottingley, West Yorkshire went up in flames
  
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• Burglars planned to raid Cilla Black's home - and hers isn't the only one

  19-08-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Investigative reporter Andrew Penman says bereaved widows are being targeted by scammers
  
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• Boy, 9, 'fought for his life' as older brother viciously stabbed his lungs, heart and neck

  19-08-2015 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Twins Paddy O'Driscoll and his brother Thomas were killed by their big brother Jonathan, 21, at their home on September 4 last year
  
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• Drug addict broke into ex-girlfriend’s house to steal TV and son’s piggy bank

  19-08-2015 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Howard McKay, 43, dropped the 40-inch flat screen after he was chased by the teenager and fell over.
  
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• Hotel owners tell war veteran to remove Help for Heroes t-shirt 'in case it offends other guests'

  19-08-2015 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The hotel has issued an unreserved apology and pledged to make a “substantial” donation to charity following the incident, involving former soldier Andrew Thomas
  
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• From Russia with love: Why Vladimir Putin would make the best ever James Bond villain

  19-08-2015 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Roll over Goldfinger and eat your heart out Blofeld, because the Kremlin hardman has pulled of a range of stunts that will have 007 quaking in his boots
  
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• Real-life 'Christian Grey' seduced woman with kinky sex and convinced her to acid attack her former lovers

  19-08-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alexander Boettcher, 30, a millionaire property broker, transformed Martina Levato, 23, into his sex slave
  
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• Real-life 'Christian Grey' seduced woman with kinky sex and convinced her acid attack her former lovers

  19-08-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alexander Boettcher, 30, a millionaire property broker, transformed Martina Levato, 23, into his sex slave
  
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• Prisoner who killed fellow inmate with fatal punch in jail attack gets gets 4 year sentence

  19-08-2015 21:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prisoner who killed fellow inmate with fatal punch in jail attack gets gets four year sentence
  
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• Goonies 'truffle-shuffle' house closed after owner gets fed up of 1,500 fans visiting every day

  19-08-2015 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The legendary building, in Astoria, Oregon, has seen a whopping 1,500 visitors daily since the city tried to increase the Goonies tourism trade
  
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• Victoria Derbyshire diagnosed with breast cancer

  19-08-2015 21:07 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Victoria Derbyshire, the broadcaster, has disclosed she has breast cancer
  
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• Nick Gargan: Chief constable who kept intimate phone images told to quit

  19-08-2015 21:06
  
  A police chief constable found guilty of a string of misconduct charges, including storing intimate images on his police mobile phone, has been ordered to quit.
  
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• Oscar Pistorius told he won't leave jail to be held at 'mansion' after all

  19-08-2015 21:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Paralympian was expected to be released on parole following his conviction for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
  
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• GCSE results day: 19 things anyone who has taken GCSEs can relate to

  19-08-2015 20:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Exam hall cough epidemics, Sparknotes saving the day and that bump on your finger from writing too fast - sound familiar?
  
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• Girl, 2, eats everything she can see - including TOILET BRUSHES - due to rare condition

  19-08-2015 20:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lily Mullins, two, has Pica, described as the persistent eating of nonfood items with no nutrition
  
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• Zoo goes into lockdown after baboon ESCAPES enclosure by breaking through electric fence

  19-08-2015 20:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Visitors to the park in Kent were left out on safari trucks in the reserve due to the break out - while others were stuck in the gift shop and cafes
  
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• Migrant workers' strike to show their contribution to UK economy could be cancelled as alternative protests are debated

  19-08-2015 20:49
  An unofficial strike by migrant workers to show their contribution to Britain looks set to be a damp squib after being condemned as “irresponsible”, but a rival mass blood-giving protest could be more successful.
  
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• Rare liliger cubs test their mother's patience with a sting in the tail

  19-08-2015 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The adorable felines' mother is a liger - a cross between a lion and tiger - and with a lion father the cubs are extermely rare liligers
  
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• Council bosses tell allotment owners to stop selling produce to local community

  19-08-2015 20:44
  
  A BATTLE has erupted between gardeners and the local council after they were ordered to stop selling produce on their allotments.
  
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• Police investigate after horse 'sexually violated' and stabbed twice in horrific attack

  19-08-2015 20:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 18-year-old pony had to be put down after the attack
  
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• Revealed: Jeremy Corbyn lobbied Home Office to get extremist who condoned killing British soldiers into UK

  19-08-2015 20:40 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Labour leadership front-runner wrote to Jacqui Smith, then home secretary, on 26 March 2009 asking for Dyab Abou Jahjah's visa to be approved
  
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• Mumsnet founder victim of 'swatting' attack as armed police called to her home

  19-08-2015 20:38
  
  ARMED police stormed the home of Mumsnet chief executive Justine Roberts after being sent by an internet troll.
  
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