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• Heart attack pilot dies in cockpit, leaving girlfriend no option but to try to land plane

  25-08-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  She eventually crash landed the plane, but incredibly managed to survive a fireball blast and is now recovering in hospital
  
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• Stunned rock band find migrant hiding in GUITAR CASE on tour bus at Calais

  25-08-2015 23:44
  
  A BRITISH rock band has described their shock at finding migrants trying to sneak into their tour bus - including one who hid in their guitar case.
  
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• Extreme flash flooding sees dead RATS wash into the street in posh Kent town

  25-08-2015 23:44
  
  DEAD rats have been flushed into the street in an upmarket town after flash flooding.
  
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• Paul Massey funeral: Armed police on stand-by as underworld figures gather to watch 'Mr Big' laid to rest

  25-08-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mourners attending the Mr Massey's funeral have been asked to wear blue jeans and white shirts as a tribute to him
  
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• Man calls police to report UFO after seeing strange 'pulsing' blue light in sky

  25-08-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bizarre call was revealed by officers from GMP Manchester North on their Facebook page along with details of his description
  
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• Guide mauled to death by lion in Cecil safari park was killed while saving tourists

  25-08-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Quinn Swales died after being attacked by a lion while on a walking safari at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe
  
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• Perverted teen flasher stalked girl and exposed himself while wearing a woman's green THONG

  25-08-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kyron Surtees admitted exposure at Macclesfield magistrates’ court and was sentenced to a community order with supervision and 100 hours unpaid work
  
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• Benefits couple who MARRIED on TV and broadcaster Channel 5 under fire from viewers - ''it's a disgrace''

  25-08-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Great Big Benefits Wedding: Live wasn't hated by all though, many fans took to Twitter to congratulate the project
  
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• Top dog: Labrador retriever beats German shepherd as Britain's best dog breed

  25-08-2015 23:29
  THE Labrador retriever has topped a poll as the nation's favourite dog, receiving almost double the votes of second-placed German Shepherds.
  
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• Tories challenge SNP to roll out the red carpet for the rich

  25-08-2015 23:23
  
  CUTTING taxes would attract wealth creators and boost the economy, Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson said last night.
  
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• Pilots reveal how flights regularly come close to disaster - and how their passengers don't even know

  25-08-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A discussion on the website Reddit asked airline pilots to weigh in on times they've flirted with disaster, and passengers had no idea
  
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• Snooker fan given signed cue after playing with Ronnie O'Sullivan was mugged of it just minutes later

  25-08-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Craig Stuart was selected to play doubles with Rocket Ronnie in an exhibition frame between Jimmy White and another member of the audience
  
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• Survivor gives harrowing account of Glasgow bin lorry tragedy

  25-08-2015 23:13
  
  A TEENAGE girl hit by the bin lorry which killed six other Christmas shoppers thought: “Please don’t let me die” as she was dragged under the vehicle’s wheels, her father has revealed.
  
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• SNP under fire over ‘health’ of the NHS

  25-08-2015 23:08
  
  PATIENTS are suffering across the NHS, it was claimed yesterday as a string of key targets were missed.
  
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• Abused dog beaten with baseball bats and left to die gets new chance at life thanks to wheelchair

  25-08-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lulis was tortured by the gang of youths who broke her back, and then was left for days without food and water. But thanks to her wheelchair, she is back dancing
  
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• Geoffrey Boycott convinces George Osborne to spend £1 million on Yorkshire air ambulance

  25-08-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The cricket legend asked the chancellor for cash to spend on a new chopper - but why aren't they funded by Government anyway?
  
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• Cat snuggles with dog inside protective cone in adorable picture viewed 2.5m times online

  25-08-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The happy-looking feline cuddles into the cone the pooch has been fitting with to stop him bitting a recently treated injury
  
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• Perth admits paying Peter Andre £20,000 for Christmas switch-on

  25-08-2015 23:03
  
  A local authority facing tens of millions in spending cuts paid reality TV and pop star Peter Andre £20,000 to switch on their Christmas lights.
  
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• Shoreham Airshow tragedy: Wedding chauffeur 'died a hero' after his act saved a family

  25-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Maurice Abrahams, 76, was killed when his Daimler was hit by the Hawker Hunter plane as he drove to pick up a bride
  
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• Movie fantasy world of brothers shut in New York apartment for FOURTEEN years

  25-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Everything they learned came from their super-strict dad's collection of 5,000 films
  
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• Katie Piper may adopt a child with burns as acid attack complications cause conception problems

  25-08-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The TV presenter and acid attack victim had no problem with first child Belle but new difficulties with her throat mean she can't maintain enough weight to conceive again
  
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• Trade union leader Mark Serwotka banned from voting in Labour leadership election

  25-08-2015 22:53
  
  The leader of one of Britain’s major trade unions has been banned from voting in the Labour Party’s leadership election.
  
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• Is YOUR make-up safe? Deadly bacteria including MENINGITIS found in cosmetics

  25-08-2015 22:53
  
  YOUR makeup could be harbouring killer diseases including MENINGITIS and septicaemia, scientists have discovered.
  
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• Young dad tries to strangle himself in court after being jailed for beating stranger with an exhaust pipe

  25-08-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brierley had just been handed five years and seven months in prison for a brutal attack on a pedestrian who'd made a jokey remark about his noisy exhaust
  
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• Fish oil is no brain food

  25-08-2015 22:50
  
  FISH oil supplements taken by millions to protect their brains from the ravages of age do nothing to slow natural mental decline, new research suggests.
  
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• Stella Creasy warns locals not to feed bread to ducks

  25-08-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour MP and deputy leadership candidate warned water fowl can suffer deformities from eating too much white bread
  
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• Drunken gunman kills six-month-old baby and three others in horror 'cold blood' rampage

  25-08-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emergency services at the scene say that four others are fighting for their lives in hospital after the shooting in Roye, northern France
  
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• Watch 'Black Knight satellite' UFO filmed hovering in the sky over town before vanishing

  25-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  UFO hunters claim the satellite is an object approximately 13,000 years old of extraterrestrial origin which  orbits Earth
  
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• Ashley Madison blackmailers target more than a million UK marriage-cheat hacking victims

  25-08-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Criminals are attempting to exploit customers of the Ashley Madison website whose details were leaked by hackers
  
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• This traditional semi-detached family home is evidence why you should never judge a book by its cover

  25-08-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If ever there was a lesson in how to transform a three-bedroom semi-detached home, then this is it
  
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• Kids Company: Leaked email warns of 'arson attacks on government buildings' if charity were to close

  25-08-2015 22:25
  
  The controversial charity Kids Company warned ministers that there was a “high risk of arson attacks on government buildings” if the charity were to close, an extraordinary leaked email has revealed.
  
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• Granddad's 89th blood donation saved his life after low iron levels identified he had bowel cancer

  25-08-2015 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Maynard was urged to contact his doctor who carried out tests and discovered that he was in the early stages of bowel cancer
  
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• Harvey Proctor: Former MP ends anonymity of the rest of alleged nine-strong paedophile gang

  25-08-2015 22:18
  
  Detectives working on Scotland Yard’s Establishment sex abuse inquiry have investigated an alleged nine-strong gang of paedophiles that included former heads of MI5, MI6, and the late ex-Prime Minister Edward Heath, Harvey Proctor claimed.
  
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• Harvey Proctor: Former MP ends anonymity of rest of alleged nine-strong paedophile gang

  25-08-2015 22:18
  
  Detectives working on Scotland Yard’s Establishment sex abuse inquiry have investigated an alleged nine-strong gang of paedophiles that included former heads of MI5, MI6, and the late ex-Prime Minister Edward Heath, Harvey Proctor claimed.
  
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• Samantha Cameron shows reluctant surfer husband how to enjoy a day at the beach

  25-08-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Unlike the wetsuit-clad Prime Minister, his wife actually appeared to be enjoying their holiday on the Cornish coast
  
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• Watch buskers go down a storm with their catchy ditty about life on the dole

  25-08-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Hendy, Daymo Moran, Robert Gunne, otherwise known as Martin's Party, have gone viral with their catchy ditty about being unemployed
  
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• Iain Duncan Smith was a naughty schoolboy - and was even out of touch as a teenager

  25-08-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Work and Pensions Secretary's old teacher said he didn't understand what it's like to be poor
  
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• Woman pushed off bike video: Man hands himself in to police after footage of incident goes viral

  25-08-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage shot on her helmet cam showed her being sworn at and chased after she politely asked a man not to cross a London road until she had passed
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival 2015: Journalists to stage boycott over £100 accreditation fee

  25-08-2015 21:59
  
  Photographers, reporters and camera crews will this weekend stage a de facto boycott of the prime locations at Notting Hill Carnival as news organisations fight back at the “creeping control” of media freedoms at major entertainment and sporting events.
  
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• Gatecrasher, Rainbow and Electric nightclubs all CLOSED by cops in Birmingham after 'urban and grime' event violence

  25-08-2015 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  West Midlands Police applied for the review of the licences after an event descended into violence in the early hours
  
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• Barclays rated worst for current account customer service for third year in a row

  25-08-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Royal Bank of ­Scotland was the second worst on the list of 13 providers
  
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• Quebec Plane Crash: Foreign Office confirms four British nationals among six killed in seaplane tragedy

  25-08-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pilot Romain Desrosiers and a French national also died when the Beaver single-engined sightseeing plane got into trouble on Sunday
  
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• Toddler rushed to hospital after eating CANNABIS found on ground outside his house

  25-08-2015 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shocked 25-year-old mum Stacey Cotterill has told of her horror after young Archie came across the drugs
  
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• Government issues damning response to 200,000-signature cannabis legalisation petition

  25-08-2015 21:26
  
  The Government has issued a firm response to a parliamentary petition calling for the legalisation of cannabis, that reached over 200,000 signatures and will be considered for debate in parliament.
  
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• Women will earn 40 per cent less than men in their lifetime

  25-08-2015 21:18 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest a huge disparity between the sexes
  
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• British oil worker held by al Qaeda terrorists thanks hero SAS soldiers who freed him

  25-08-2015 21:15
  
  A BRITISH oil worker who was held by al Qaeda militants in Yemen for 18 months has thanked the brave SAS soldiers who helped rescue him from the terrorists' clutches.
  
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• Labour leadership crisis talks after 60,000 voters purged amid fears of Tory infiltration

  25-08-2015 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The vast majority of the 56,000 names cut from voting lists were duplicates, fictional characters or people not registered on the electoral roll, Labour said
  
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• Watch moment 'ghost' is filmed MOVING CHAIR across floor of haunted house in front of stunned paranormal investigators

  25-08-2015 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ghosthunters - who captured the footage while probing unusual goings on at the property - said the sight left them 'gobsmacked'
  
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• Britain orders £46m air defence radar to protect Falklands from Argentina

  25-08-2015 21:02 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The new vehicle-mounted radar will be able to spot threats up to 75 miles away and the first systems will be delivered before the end of the year.
  
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• Safe seats should be abolished to modernise '19th century political system', says think tank

  25-08-2015 21:00
  
  Safe parliamentary seats would be abolished in order to boost voter turnout and modernise Britain’s creaking 19th century political system under a blueprint to be published on Wednesday.
  
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