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• Minute’s silence at Capital One matches for Shoreham air crash victims

  24-08-2015 23:57 via feeds.theguardian.com
  • Two players for non-league Worthing United died in airshow disaster
  • Both supported Brighton, who play at Walsall on TuesdayThe Football League has announced that a minute’s silence will be held before all Capital One Cup matches on Tuesday and Wednesday as a mark of respect to those who lost their lives in the Shoreham air disaster.Two Worthing United players, Matthew Grimstone and Jacob Schilt, both 23, were among the victims of Saturday’s crash. Continue reading...
  
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• Catholic priest sentenced to six months in prison for groping woman on flight

  24-08-2015 23:55 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Marcelo De Jesumaria, 46, also faces six months’ home confinementIncident occurred on flight from Philadelphia to Los AngelesA Catholic priest convicted of groping a woman on a US airline flight was sentenced to six months in federal prison on Monday after the victim testified that she was still traumatized by the ordeal, prosecutors said. Marcelo De Jesumaria, 46, was also sentenced to six months of home confinement by a federal judge who ordered him to register as a sex offender, said Th
  
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• Stock up on canned food after stock market crash, warns Gordon Brown's former adviser

  24-08-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Damian McBride tweeted: "Advice on the looming crash, No.1: get hard cash in a safe place now; don't assume banks & cashpoints will be open, or bank cards will work."
  
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• Jilted woman bombarded ex with thousands of calls and broke into his house 'to instil fear'

  24-08-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Judge tells her: "Your deliberate invasion of his property was calculated to cause upset"
  
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• The best and worst places to live in Britain revealed - and they're not where you'd think

  24-08-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The analysis also took into account the cost of living and health of the area’s job market - but residents of the top-scoring town were astonished
  
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• Drinking eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy 'is unnecessary'

  24-08-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Drinking eight glasses a day does not make you healthier - it just makes you need the loo more
  
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• Mum with psoriasis goes into hiding after shop visit leads to shocking Facebook abuse about her appearance

  24-08-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ciara Moore, 28, had visited the store to buy an outfit for a pal's wedding, but returned home to find she had been joked about on social media
  
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• Glasgow bin lorry gran 'to sue over injuries from horror crash that killed six'

  24-08-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marie Weatherall was in hospital for a month after suffering a broken arm and leg
  
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• Glasgow bin lorry crash gran 'to sue over injuries from horror smash that killed six'

  24-08-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marie Weatherall was in hospital for a month after suffering a broken arm and leg
  
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• Shoreham air crash: who are the victims?

  24-08-2015 23:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Up to 20 people are feared to have died in the Shoreham Airshow crash, when a Hawker Hunter jet ploughed into the A27 at Shoreham in West Sussex, exploding in a huge fireball
  
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• Huge chunk of ice breaks off glacier in Greenland - so large it can be seen from SPACE

  24-08-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The sheet - which is 12.4km sq - is believed to be one of the largest ever to break away from the Jakobshavn glacier
  
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• Former Tory MP Harvey Proctor quizzed for second time in VIP child abuse probe

  24-08-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers investigating allegations of a VIP child sex ring in the 1970s and 80s confirmed they quizzed a man in his 60s from Grantham, Lincs
  
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• Vincent Kompany relishes challenge as Man City build their title bid on strong backline

  24-08-2015 23:29 via feeds.theguardian.com
  • City have won all three games, with no goals against
  • ‘It is so important to have quality players all over’Vincent Kompany believes Manchester City’s extra competition in central defence will prove pivotal throughout the Premier League campaign following the signing of Nicolas Otamendi.Kompany, the City captain, has played 90 minutes in each of his side’s three league games this season. The 2013-14 champions have won every match, scoring eight times and have
  
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• Gordon Brown backs Yvette Cooper for Labour leader

  24-08-2015 23:26 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Former PM makes his endorsement public a week after delivering a speech heavy with veiled warnings against frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn
  Gordon Brown has endorsed Yvette Cooper as the next Labour leader, a week after delivering a coded warning against the party choosing Jeremy Corbyn.The former prime minister will speak about his endorsement at the Edinburgh book festival at the weekend, revealing that he picked Andy Burnham as his second preference and Liz Kendall as his third. Continue reading...
  
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• Shoreham crash: The list of casualties grows

  24-08-2015 23:22
  
  Missing: Daniele Polito
  
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• Greece overwhelmed by 160,000 fleeing Syrians

  24-08-2015 23:22
  
  THOUSANDS of Syrians are clambering aboard ferries bound for Athens from the Greek island of Lesbos after risking their lives crossing the Aegean from Turkey.
  
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• China stock market panic: Wall Street suffers biggest fall since 2011 - live

  24-08-2015 23:22 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Hundreds of billions wiped off world’s financial markets today, as Chinese rout sends shares tumbling in Europe, Asia and the USDow Jones index sheds 588 pointsS&P and Nasdaq now in correction territoryFTSE 100 sheds £74bnVIX ‘fear index’ jumps
  Photos: Markets fall around the worldChinese stock market tumbled 8.5%; biggest fall since 200710.22pm BSTToday’s drama dominates the front pages of Tuesday’s UK newspapers:Tuesday's Guardian front page: China urged
  
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• Youth filmed 'snatching an iPad out of a 4-YEAR-OLD's hands in beauty salon'

  24-08-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The robbery happened as the boy was watching cartoons on the iPad while he waited for his mother to finish her treatment, said police
  
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• Mo Farah will be back training with me soon, says Alberto Salazar

  24-08-2015 23:17 via feeds.theguardian.com
  • Coach adamant he will be cleared of doping allegations by Usada
  • Salazar says he masterminded Farah’s 10,000m gold from afarMo Farah’s coach, Alberto Salazar, has told the Guardian he is increasingly confident the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s investigation into him will find no evidence of any wrongdoing and insisted the two-time Olympic champion would be staying with his Nike Oregon Project training group despite recent rumours to the contrary.Salazar has bi
  
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• Andy Burnham is backed by Labour big hitters and one Loose Woman

  24-08-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leadership candidate is backed by former Deputy PM Lord Prescott, who said he was the candidate to “unify our party"
  
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• Watch shocking moment burly thug spits on and slaps elderly woman in beach towel row

  24-08-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man was later identified as the son of a local mobster who was upset about where the couple were sitting on a beach
  
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• Adnan Syed: document casts doubt on case against Serial convict, lawyer says

  24-08-2015 23:14 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Rediscovered material from AT&T indicates phone location data cited by prosecution should not be considered ‘reliable information’A rediscovered document could undermine key cellphone evidence in the case against Adnan Syed, an attorney has claimed. Syed’s conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee was the subject of the popular podcast Serial. In 2000, prosecutors used cellphone tower evidence to bolster testimony against Syed, arguing that call records put him near the park
  
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• Arsenal lose centre-back pillars and rely on new tower of strength

  24-08-2015 23:11 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Arsène Wenger was without Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny from the outset and was grateful to his new goalkeeper, Petr CechArsène Wenger started with his regular midfield and attack but an unfamiliar centre-back pairing due to the absence of both Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker. Therefore, their priority should have been about protecting the inexperienced duo of Gabriel and Calum Chambers against the physical threat of Christian Benteke.But this is Wenger and, while oth
  
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• Anti-euro, pro-drachma party told: form a government if you can

  24-08-2015 23:10 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Popular Unity, formed after split from Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza, unlikely to succeed
  An explicitly anti-euro, pro-drachma party has assumed the process of attempting to form a government in Greece, four days after prime minister Alexis Tsipras resigned to pave the way for snap elections. Panagiotis Lafazanis, the Marxist former energy minister who on Friday formed his own movement of rebels after breaking ranks with Tsipras’s far-left Syriza party, was given a mandate to try to forge
  
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• Labour leadership battle: Jeremy Corbyn races ahead as bookies make left-winger hot favourite

  24-08-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mr Corbyn, MP for Islington, has odds of 3/10 with William Hill while Liz Kendall is the rank outsider at 100/1
  
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• French train shooting: Facebook employee pays tribute to 'heroes' who saved his life by tackling gunman

  24-08-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marc Milowski was seated two seat behind Americans Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone, and Anthony Sadler when the shooting started
  
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• Shoreham Airshow tragedy: 'Traumatised' police officers receive counselling after horrifying scenes

  24-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sussex Police Federation chairman Matt Webb said: "Tragically, they were suddenly faced with the sort of devastation no one should have to witness"
  
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• Shoreham Airshow crash: Family's miracle escape from the tragedy

  24-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ashley and Angie Walker were driving 100 yards in front of their daughter – but miraculously all of them escaped unharmed
  
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• Jessica Ennis-Hill sets sights on crowning glory at Rio Olympics

  24-08-2015 23:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  After world championship gold, the athlete says retaining her Olympic title in 2016 as a mother would be her greatest achievement of allNo sooner had Jessica Ennis-Hill celebrated her world heptathlon triumph with a small beer than she set her mind on what she hopes will be the crowning glory of her career: becoming only the third track and field athlete to retain an Olympic title after giving birth.Only the Australian hurdler, Shirley Strickland, and the French-Cameroon triple jumper, Fran&cced
  
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• Fatcat Tory handed knighthood just six weeks after giving £160k to David Cameron's election fight

  24-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  City boss Michael Davis’s cash gift gave the party a major boost as the campaign entered its final days
  
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• Britain 'curmudgeonly and ungraceful' for abandoning Afghan interpreters

  24-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Law firm says it receives several calls a week from interpreters desperate to flee Afghanistan and escape death threats for being "infidel spies"
  
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• Murder probe after pensioner knifed to death and three children injured in attack at flat

  24-08-2015 22:59
  
  A PENSIONER has been knifed to death and two young children stabbed during a bloody attack at a flat in London.
  
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• Arsenal thank Petr Cech and Liverpool a linesman in goalless draw

  24-08-2015 22:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  This was Arsenal at their most bewildering. They were startlingly poor for so long Liverpool will have to consider this result a source of regret. Arsène Wenger’s men demonstrated some familiar flaws before shaking their heads clear and cannot expect to win the league by playing so chaotically. Yet they could also claim, legitimately, they would have won but for a trigger-happy linesman. It was a perplexing, error-strewn match, full of missed chances and misplaced passes, and neithe
  
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• Arsenal thank Petr Cech and Liverpool a linesman in goalless chaos

  24-08-2015 22:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  This was Arsenal at their most bewildering. They were startlingly poor for so long Liverpool will have to consider this result a source of regret. Arsène Wenger’s men demonstrated some familiar flaws before shaking their heads clear and cannot expect to win the league by playing so chaotically. Yet they could also claim, legitimately, they would have won but for a trigger-happy linesman. It was a perplexing, error-strewn match, full of missed chances and misplaced passes, and neithe
  
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• 'Vicious' male stripper, 34, stamped on man's face in club toilets in unprovoked attack

  24-08-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Danny Mytton, who runs male stripping agency Wild Ones XXX, was sentenced to nine years in jail for inflicting grievous bodily harm on Matthew Martin
  
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• Black Monday: Warning issued to pensioners trying to cash out

  24-08-2015 22:57
  
  Retirees planning on drawing cash from their pension pots have been warned of the effect the Chinese stock market crash will have on their financial plans.
  
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• Arsenal v Liverpool: Premier League – as it happened

  24-08-2015 22:56 via feeds.theguardian.com
  A lovely, free-flowing game dominated by Liverpool in the first half and Arsenal in the second. How did it stay goalless? Not sure! 9.52pm BSTAnd that’s the very last act of the game! As good a goalless draw as you’ll see all season. A deserved result, with Liverpool the better side in the first half, Arsenal on top in the second. Highly entertaining, and if it’s not quite up there with the aforementioned classic clashes of yesteryear, it’s a result that will give both te
  
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• Shoreham Airshow tragedy: Devastated loved ones leave messages for the missing and the dead

  24-08-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  People touched by the Shoreham Airshow tragedy have been leaving messages of flowers to lose who have lost their lives
  
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• Watch clever dog warn her owner that she's about to have an epileptic fit

  24-08-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footage also shows the dog licking her owner's mouth which prevents her from choking on excess saliva and helps her to regain consciousness quicker
  
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• Farmer who lost both arms in freak accident uses his feet and TOES to do the work instead

  24-08-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Friends had told Chen Xingyin, 48, to become a beggar at the local railway station saying it could earn him more
  
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• Yellow gets greener in summer

  24-08-2015 22:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Remember winter, when everything was cold and grey? Right now, when all around is lush and green, the contrast couldn’t be greater. But is everything really as it seems? New research shows that we see things differently in winter compared with summer.Our eyes perceive four pure, unmixed colours – blue, green, red and yellow. People often find it hard to agree exactly what shade pure blue, green and red are, but curiously we tend to see pure yellow the same way, despite having differe
  
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• Elvis the dancing bear cub has been saved from a living hell and is getting back to wild ways

  24-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bear cub watched his mum slaughtered by poachers, had his teeth smashed out and was forced to dance
  
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• Great Barrier Reef species more threatened by climate change than species elsewhere, says study

  24-08-2015 22:23 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Tropical species with narrower ranges are more likely to die out in a warming climate than marine life that can adapt by ‘invading’ new regionsSpecies native to the Great Barrier Reef are more likely to face extinction through climate change than marine life elsewhere that can adapt by “invading” new regions, according to new research.
  The largest study to date on the impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity found that many species would cope by finding new waters
  
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• Great Barrier Reef species more at risk from climate change, says study

  24-08-2015 22:23 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Tropical species with smaller geographical ranges are more likely to die out in a warming climate than those that can adapt by ‘invading’ new regionsSpecies native to the Great Barrier Reef are more likely to face extinction through climate change than marine life elsewhere that can adapt by “invading” new regions, according to new research.
  The largest study to date on the impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity found that many species would cope by finding new
  
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• Roommate of Louisiana man who shot state trooper found dead

  24-08-2015 22:19 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Man found dead amid signs of struggle as Kevin Daigle, who allegedly shot dead state trooper Steven Vincent, likely to face first-degree murder charges The roommate of a man arrested in a Louisiana state trooper’s death was found dead on Monday, and the suspect in the trooper’s slaying is also suspected in this case, a sheriff said.The man was found dead in a home he shared with Kevin Daigle, 54, in Moss Bluff, the Calcasieu Parish sheriff, Tony Mancuso, said at a news conference. He
  
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• Woman accused of range of sex crimes against children appears in court

  24-08-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Serena Marie Emily Ransomis has pleaded not guilty to seven offences she is accused of
  
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• Thomas Cook slammed by granddad for treating family 'like cattle' during 27-hour delay

  24-08-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dave Simpson slammed the holiday firm after reading about a little boy who suffered on the same holiday
  
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• Granddad slams Thomas Cook for treating family 'like cattle' during 27-hour flight delay

  24-08-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dave Simpson slammed the holiday firm after reading about a little boy who suffered on the same holiday
  
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• Palestinians ordered to pay $10m to terror victims while appealing lawsuit

  24-08-2015 22:12 via feeds.theguardian.com
  Authorities found liable in lawsuit over Americans killed in terrorist attacks must pay additional $1m monthly payment while case is on appealPalestinian authorities found liable in a high-profile lawsuit over Americans killed in terrorist attacks must pay $10m in cash – and an additional $1m monthly payment while the case is on appeal – to secure the hundreds of millions awarded by a jury, a US judge said on Monday.In ordering the security payment, Manhattan federal Judge George B
  
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• Bribery scandal grips Guatemala as former vice-president faces allegations

  24-08-2015 22:08 via feeds.theguardian.com
  President Otto Pérez Molina says his conscience was clear as prosecutors allege Roxana Baldetti accepted $3.7m in bribesProsecutors in Guatemala alleged on Monday that former vice-president Roxana Baldetti accepted $3.7m in bribes as part of a customs corruption scandal that forced her from office and has shaken the government of President Otto Pérez Molina.Baldetti’s appearance in court followed her arrest on Friday. Outside the courthouse, a crowd of dozens of people yelled
  
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