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• This fan of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets is prepared to go to extreme lengths to get sauce for his snack

  31-08-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This oldie but goodie shows the desperate attempts of one fast food fan to get more than one little pot of relish for his 10 nuggets
  
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• The best excuses for calling in sick, according to your boss

  31-08-2015 23:57 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Phoning in sick for work? Flu, migranes and even recovering from surgery are not good enough reasons, employers say
  
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• The psychic detectives who claim they can help police find missing people

  31-08-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As police expert backs using psychics to help solve crimes, we ask are they are help or a hindrance?
  
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• David Cameron: Firms which do not pay minimum wage will be fined up to £20,000

  31-08-2015 23:34 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Prime Minister has announced a tough new regime of fines and penalities for firms which fail to pay the new national living
  
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• Want to monitor your own NHS health care? There's going to be an APP for that

  31-08-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The groundbreaking move comes as part of a "revolutionary" process aimed at making the health service fully digital by 2020
  
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• NHS buys patient a SUMMER HOUSE as doctors hit out at lavish spending on feel good treats

  31-08-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thousands of pounds are being splashed out on an array of gifts including holidays, video game consoles, new clothes, horse riding and art classes
  
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• Watch NASA deliberately CRASHING plane as part of research aimed at improving air safety

  31-08-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The small planes are packed with crash dummies and the latest technology before smashing into the ground
  
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• NASA are CRASHING airplanes from 100ft in an attempt to make air travel safer

  31-08-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The small planes are packed with crash dummies and the latest technology before smashing into the ground
  
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• Edinburgh Fridge round-up: Do these jokes from the festival make you laugh or barf?

  31-08-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the Edinburgh Fringe draws to a close, the Mirror has decided to test the nation's gag reflex by collecting the most disgusting jokes from the festival
  
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• Soggy summer was impossible to predict, says Met Office

  31-08-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Met Office admitted that long term forecasts are 'still in their infancy' after it emerged parts of the UK had faced the wettest summer ever despite predictions for a dry, hot season
  
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• Here's how to health proof your kids as they head back to school

  31-08-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The start of the new school year is a peak time for colds and tummy bugs - make sure you're prepared
  
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• Some kind of wicket joke? French say they invented cricket, while Scots claim rugby

  31-08-2015 22:38
  
  FANS of cricket and rugby may want to sit down for this one.
  
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• Murder investigation launched after man found stabbed to death in house

  31-08-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 46-year-old man died of a stab injury. No arrests have been made
  
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• Watch brilliant moment bus passengers belt out the Fresh Prince of Bel Air in night time sing-along

  31-08-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The entire bus joined in as the famous TV theme tune was sung
  
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• EU referendum: 'Brexit' would increase number of refugees entering UK, says ex-Tory minister

  31-08-2015 22:11
  
  Britain would face a mass influx of refugees from Calais if the country voted to pull out of the European Union, a former Conservative immigration minister has warned.
  
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• Puppy is thrown 60ft to its death from towerblock after being snatched from family's garden

  31-08-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Zeus, a 15-month-old American pitbull, was tossed from the seventh floor of Drews House in Netheravon Close in Druids Heath in Birmingham
  
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• Tory cuts force firefighters to use TRANSIT VANS instead of fire engines

  31-08-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two “targeted response vehicles” are already in service and four more of the adapted white Mercedes Sprinters are being phased in
  
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• Gaby Roslin: I think my dad's poor diet led to bowel cancer

  31-08-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The TV presenter reveals how her interest in healthy food was sparked by three life-changing moments
  
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• Films and video games storm classical music hall of fame

  31-08-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A total of 22 pieces in this year's Classic FM Hall of Fame began life as film soundtracks, compared with only two when the poll began 20 years ago
  
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• Death row prisoner Richard Glossip makes desperate plea to Barack Obama before it's too late

  31-08-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Richard Glossip, 52, launches his final desperate plea for his life 15 days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection
  
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• Vice News journalists detained in Turkey accused of 'aiding a terrorist organisation'

  31-08-2015 21:59
  
  Two Vice News journalists detained in Turkey have been charged with "aiding a terrorist organisation" while reporting on conflict in the country.
  
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• Vice News journalists arrested: Turkey charges British staff with 'aiding terrorist organisation'

  31-08-2015 21:59
  
  A Turkish court has charged two Vice News journalists and their assistant with “aiding a terrorist organization” and ordered them arrested pending trial. Their employer has called the charges “baseless and alarmingly false.”
  
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• Tunisia attack hero shot THREE times while protecting his wife - fulfils promise to take family on holiday

  31-08-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brave Matthew James has ignored wounds that are still healing in order to fulfil a promise he made to his beloved fiancée that they would go on holiday with their two children
  
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• Fire destroys 'location of Nazi Gold train' - but authorities insist it was NOT arson

  31-08-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blaze is the latest twist in the tale of the ghost train that is rumoured to be loaded with gold and gems from the Second World War
  
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• Manchester United slammed by hygiene bosses for failing to deal with MICE infestations at Old Trafford

  31-08-2015 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A food hygiene report obtained by the Mirror shows inspectors have accused the club of failing to take measures to prevent pests getting into the stadium's kitchens
  
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• 'What is that?' Watch hilarious moment TV reporter freaks out over flying bug live on air

  31-08-2015 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The perils of live television claimed another unsuspecting victim when Brad Willis met a big flying bug.
  
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• UK weather: Bank Holiday downpours set to make it wettest August on record

  31-08-2015 21:26
  
  Bank Holiday Monday has proved a complete washout for much of the country. On the last bank holiday until Christmas, nearly two weeks’ worth of rain fell in swathes of South-east England and East Anglia. The South-west of England also endured similarly miserable conditions; its beaches, rather than full of holidaying families, were more a picture of abandoned grey.
  
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• This 'bucket of beers' looks like it'll quench your thirst - but it's really only good to EAT

  31-08-2015 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Delighted users of Reddit flooded the site with compliments after being stunned at the creation
  
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• Disabled man left critically injured after being beaten in his bed by gang of thugs

  31-08-2015 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police said three men broke into the victim's house and attacked him while he was asleep in bed
  
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• Energy companies more reliant on 'dirty' coal to produce electricity than they were a decade ago

  31-08-2015 21:16
  
  Two of Britain’s largest energy suppliers are more reliant on coal to produce the electricity they sell to customers than they were 10 years ago.
  
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• Dan Hickey: Man and woman arrested after promising young rugby player dies in 'hit-and-run'

  31-08-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dan Hickey, 25, was knocked over and left for dead outside the Richmond Pub in Clifton, Bristol, in the early hours of Saturday
  
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• Depressed? Then have a holiday on the NHS

  31-08-2015 21:10
  
  MILLIONS of pounds of NHS cash is being spent on “treatments” for patients, including holidays, new clothes, computer games consoles and horse riding lessons.
  
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• Enfield shooting: Gun suspect shot dead by police after armed officers storm block of flats

  31-08-2015 21:03
  
  The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation after a man was shot dead by officers in North London.
  
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• Sleep is most important factor in catching a cold

  31-08-2015 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sleep was found to be a more important factor in catching a cold than stress, smoking, education, or income
  
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• Getting less than six hours sleep 'makes you four times more likely to get a cold'

  31-08-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Results were revealed after a study of 164 volunteers who were exposed to the common cold
  
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• Do you sleep for less than 6 hours a night? You're FOUR times more likely to get a cold

  31-08-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seven hours’ kip or more boosts the body’s ability to fight the virus, researchers have found
  
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• 50 is the new 42: technology is making brains of middle-aged younger

  31-08-2015 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The increasing mental demands of technology is making older people sharper than previous generations, scientists have shown
  
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• Divers discover body of first-time triathlete

  31-08-2015 20:59
  
  THE body of a man who went missing while swimming in his first triathlon was found yesterday.
  
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• Woman raped in John Lewis car park in broad daylight after being dragged from her car into bushes

  31-08-2015 20:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police are hunting a man with a "distinctive" pock-marked faced after the horrific attack
  
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• Tory apprenticeship target forces hundreds of thousands of youngsters into low-paid schemes

  31-08-2015 20:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Apprentices are paid just £2.73 an hour and their qualifications are worth little, say experts
  
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• Britain's Atlantis: Scientific study beneath North Sea could revolutionise how we see the past

  31-08-2015 20:51
  
  Archaeologists are searching for the lost tribes of prehistoric Britain – at the bottom of the North Sea.
  
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• Neil Armstrong: Truth behind Reddit image claiming to show astronaut's last breakfast before moon mission

  31-08-2015 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The image, showing the astronaut sitting alone at a table and eating what looks to be fried chicken and a peach 'cobbler', is on the front page of the social networking website
  
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• Death row prisoner Richard Glossip facing execution in days for murder he insists he did not commit

  31-08-2015 20:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many think Richard Glossip is innocent but in 16 days time he will be strapped to a chair and given the lethal injection
  
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• Watch this crazy bodybuilder squat 315lbs while standing on a hovering SEGWAY

  31-08-2015 20:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lifting more than 22 stone sounds hard enough - but not for bodybuilder Bradley Martyn.
  
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• Dare-devil breaks world record for longest female highline walk

  31-08-2015 20:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Photographer captures Laetitia Gonnon's breathtaking balancing act 100 metres above the French Prealps
  
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• China explosion: City of Shandong rocked as huge blast rips through chemical factory

  31-08-2015 20:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The massive blast was heard and seen from a great distance - just a fortnight after a different blast killed more than 100
  
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• Watch chef use power drill to peel five apples in less than 30 seconds

  31-08-2015 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peeling apples has never been so much fun
  
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• 9 things you never knew about the notorious Kray twins

  31-08-2015 20:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wreaths from Morrissey, Frank Sinatra's bodyguards from behind bars, a brush with a Tory Peer and the Sunday Mirror the Kray twins life was full of fascinating facts.
  
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• Watch as young daredevil risks his life to surf on top of a MOVING TRAIN

  31-08-2015 20:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video by Ukranian vlogger Pasha Bumchick shows the young daredevil jumping on  to the roof of a train and punching the air with delight as it speeds off
  
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• Churchill is greatest ever legend for Brits - ahead of David Beckham and 'my mum'

  31-08-2015 20:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  People aged between 16 and 25 chose some historic icons along with YouTube and sports stars
  
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