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• Audrey Nethery: Heartwarming video of girl suffering from rare illness performing at Zumba convention goes viral

  23-08-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The six-year-old joined other dancers on stage at the Zumba Instructor Convention in the US
  
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• Are David Cameron and the Conservatives smugly celebrating the end of the United Kingdom?

  23-08-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour’s leadership woes and the shrunken state of the Lib Dems have the Tories smiling but they will be judged harshly for destroying the Union, says Jack Blanchard
  
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• Boy with heart defect 'forced to sleep on hotel floor' during Thomas Cook 27-hour flight delay

  23-08-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The holiday provider put up seven-year-old Sam Smith and his family up in what they claim was a 'hotel from hell'
  
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• One Direction split up, Twitter goes into meltdown - here's the best from social media

  23-08-2015 23:30
  
  THE One Direction split has social media awash with devastated and delighted music fans around the world all eager to share their views on the biggest boyband upset since Take That.
  
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• One Direction to split in March to pursue solo projects

  23-08-2015 23:24 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  1D will take a hiatus of at least a year, after they release their fifth album this Christmas
  
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• Armed robbers raid Real Housewives of Cheshire star's home escaping with £70k haul

  23-08-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Three men, wielding an axe, knife and hammer, forced their way into Ampika Pickston's home, leaving housekeeper Lesley Khan fearing for her life
  
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• Bride tells how Shoreham crash destroyed her wedding limousine

  23-08-2015 23:20
  
  A NEWLY married couple told last night how a limousine driver who was due to take the bride to her wedding was feared dead in the Shoreham air crash.
  
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• Rapists free to travel across continent because 22 EU states have no sex offender register

  23-08-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The case of Slovakian sex offender Eduard Peticky, jailed for abusing three UK children, has sparked calls for an European register
  
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• Jihadi John: 'Furious' David Cameron orders MI6 to step up work to kill or capture ISIS terrorist

  23-08-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister is reportedly not happy that efforts to track down the London-born executioner have so far failed
  
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• Jailhouse blues bad news for taxpayers

  23-08-2015 23:12
  
  SCOTTISH prison chiefs are ­ being inundated with thousands of futile complaints from whining inmates aggrieved with life behind bars.
  
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• Shoreham Air Show crash: display should not have been held so close to main road, says mother of victim

  23-08-2015 23:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Football teammates Matt Grimstone and Jacob Schilt are among at least 11 people who died in the Shoreham airshow disaster, but questions are now being asked to whether the event should have taken place
  
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• Tetraplegic student’s world-beating Tough Mudder feat captured in these amazing images

  23-08-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rob Camm, 21, was paralysed from the neck down in a crash but fulfilled his dream of tackling the course – and he’s the first person with his disability to do it
  
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• Tribute to ‘forgotten’ war dead

  23-08-2015 23:06
  
  PRINCE Charles paid a poignant tribute to soldiers from a remote Scottish community who lost their lives in the First World War.
  
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• SAS behind operation to free British hostage from al-Qaeda captors in Yemen

  23-08-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bob Semple, 64, was rescued by troops from the United Arab Emirates as the deadline for a ransom demand loomed
  
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• Shoreham Airshow tragedy: Aviation fanatic pilot Andy Hill built his own plane in back garden

  23-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  His wife Ellie is an airline captain and the couple posted shots of the Vans RV-8 G-HILZ at their home near Buntingford, Herts
  
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• Met Office 'lost BBC contract over dumbing down rows and weather app'

  23-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sources at the BBC say the Met Office failed to produce plans for a good enough weather app
  
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• Smaller measures scheme to tackle problem drinking

  23-08-2015 22:59
  
  PUBS and restaurants could be forced to serve smaller glasses of wine and spirits under a new crackdown on alcohol.
  
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• Shoreham Airshow Crash: Brighton star Lewis Dunk pays tribute to school friends who were killed on way to game

  23-08-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matthew Grimstone and Jacob Schilt have been named as victims and Dunk took to social media to pay his own tribute to the two
  
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• Woman brutally attacked with a hammer in her own home during burglary

  23-08-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One horrified neighbour said: "Her son is only about 12, and after it happened he came out into the street and went sick"
  
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• Schools must increase use of Scots language

  23-08-2015 22:51
  
  TEACHERS have been ordered to give the Scots language “equal” treatment in schools despite fears it could further undermine literacy standards in ­formal English.
  
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• One Direction to 'work on own projects for at least a year' but 'definitely haven't split up'

  23-08-2015 22:47
  
  One Direction (1D) are set to disband next spring, according to reports that will leave the band's fiercely devoted worldwide fan-base heartbroken.
  
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• One Direction to 'work on own projects for at least a year' but 'definitely haven't split'

  23-08-2015 22:47
  
  One Direction (1D) are set to disband next spring, according to reports that will leave the band's fiercely devoted worldwide fan-base heartbroken.
  
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• One Direction to take break to 'work on own projects' but 'definitely haven't split'

  23-08-2015 22:47
  
  One Direction (1D) are set to disband next spring, according to reports that will leave the band's fiercely devoted worldwide fan-base heartbroken.
  
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• One Direction to take a break, but 'definitely not split'

  23-08-2015 22:47
  
  One Direction (1D) are set to disband next spring, according to reports that will leave the band's fiercely devoted worldwide fan-base heartbroken.
  
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• Pension SHOCK for millions: Experts say we must all work longer

  23-08-2015 22:36
  
  MILLIONS of people face working longer for a less generous state pension.
  
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• 'I am ashamed to live in Britain': Girl's tearful reaction to our story about Bedroom Tax victim

  23-08-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Yasmin Shelton, 22, was moved to tears after reading how Rob Tomlinson was forced to bathe in a front room
  
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• Newcastle new boy Chancel Mbemba in 'kidnap' fear after getting into wrong taxi wearing tuxedo

  23-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The £8.5million signing, who does not speak English, was taken to a supermarket rather than Newcastle's ground
  
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• Death row prisoner’s race against time to find woman who says her dad framed him

  23-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  O’Ryan Sneed has vanished after writing a letter claiming her father lied to police when he said Richard Glossip hired him to carry out the murder
  
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• Freight train stopped in the Channel Tunnel after migrants are spotted on board

  23-08-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The second incident in three days is a sign that illegal immigrants are looking for new methods to cross into the UK, warns Eurotunnel
  
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• Firms must do more to get the sick back to work, warns IDS

  23-08-2015 22:22
  
  EMPLOYERS must do more to haul Britain out of its sicknote culture, Iain Duncan Smith will warn today.
  
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• Shoreham Airshow crash: Safety questions raised while 'Red Arrows won't fly stunts at dangerous event'

  23-08-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There are calls for regulations around stunts at airshows to be tightened after as many as 11 people were killed in Saturday's disaster
  
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• Tetraplegic student completes Tough Mudder Challenge in a wheelchair he controls with his chin

  23-08-2015 22:17 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Tough Mudder, which some say is 'probably the toughest event on the planet', is a gruelling 12 mile assault course
  
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• Iain Duncan Smith calls for urgent ESA overhaul as part of drive to cut down welfare costs

  23-08-2015 22:16
  
  Disabled people and those too sick to work will be the next group feeling the impact of the Government’s drive to reduce the cost of welfare and the numbers out of work.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Jeremy Corbyn warned over threat to seize back assets

  23-08-2015 22:14
  
  Jeremy Corbyn would be breaking one of the “fundamental tenets of well-ordered states” if he carried out a threat to seize assets sold by the Conservative government without fully compensating their new owners, Labour’s shadow Chancellor has warned.
  
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• Newlyweds grab weapons to chase Viking horde who invaded their big day

  23-08-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bride and groom were surprised to find a large horde of hairy unwelcome guests
  
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• Police launch murder probe after man was beaten up and left to die in a fire

  23-08-2015 22:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Police initially thought the death was not suspicious but post-mortem results have led to the opening of a murder investigation
  
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• Australian Outback: UK tourist saved by message in the sand

  23-08-2015 22:10
  
  A BRITISH tourist lost in the Australian Outback for two days was rescued after writing “help” on a riverbed.
  
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• Eight Cabinet ministers boost No to EU camp

  23-08-2015 22:02
  
  AT LEAST eight Cabinet ministers and 1,000 business leaders could campaign to leave the EU, it emerged yesterday.
  
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• Dodgy booze laced with dangerous chemical used to commit murder and sexual assault seized by police

  23-08-2015 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some bottles, labelled as Russian Empire vodka but being peddled for less than half the price, could still be in the hands of shoppers
  
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• Man held over rape at V Festival in Essex

  23-08-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding and Scouting For Girls have played at the weekend event
  
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• Shoreham Airshow crash: Floral tributes mark the scene as a grim recovery mission begins

  23-08-2015 21:56
  
  As the painstaking recovery work began over a stretch of A27 trunk road, where the Hunter jet scorched the earth, the people of Shoreham were trying to come to terms with the devastation the air crash left in its wake.
  
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• OUTRAGE as UK OVERSPENDS on foreign aid

  23-08-2015 21:54
  
  MINISTERS were urged yesterday to get a grip on the foreign aid budget as figures revealed Britain is £9million over its target.
  
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• Young mother dies following year-long battle with cervical cancer because she was too young for a smear test

  23-08-2015 21:51 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Her family has described her death as "completely avoidable"
  
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• Mum too young for smear test dies of cervical cancer

  23-08-2015 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rachel Sarjantson, 24, battled the disease for a year before her death, which her family has described as "completely avoidable"
  
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• Shoreham plane crash: Airshows may face safety restrictions after regulator promises review

  23-08-2015 21:41
  
  Britain’s aviation regulator have pledged to review the rules governing airshows as police revealed that the death toll from the crash at a display in Shoreham is “highly likely” to reach at least 11 and may rise further.
  
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• Man held in murder probe after OAP is beaten at home and left to burn in fire

  23-08-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Detectives initially thought Albert Williams, 68, died from natural causes
  
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• Recap: American army base explosions in Japan

  23-08-2015 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A helicopter is circling the military area in Sagamihara city after a series of massive bangs were heard from a warehouse which stores ammunition
  
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• Reflection in window that snared gunman

  23-08-2015 21:31
  
  A MAN man has been jailed for 14 months for firing a weapon at a footballer – after he was trapped by his own CCTV camera.
  
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• Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees promised 2017 return but 'ineffective' clear-up may take 200 years

  23-08-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Radiation levels in the abandoned towns near the power plant in Japan are 19 times higher than that considered safe for humans
  
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• Met Office loses BBC contract: Broadcaster gives no reason for ending 100-year relationship

  23-08-2015 21:08
  
  A controversial BBC radio programme that questioned the scientific credentials of the Met Office is unlikely to have influenced the broadcaster’s decision to end its nearly 100-year relationship with Britain’s official weather service, it has been claimed.
  
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