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• Meet the teenage actor who's become a Pot Noodle advert sensation thanks to his tiny green satin shorts

  07-09-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The story follows Michael Moran's character as he goes from gazing at a poster in his bedroom through a Rocky-style training regime and finally reaching the US big time
  
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• First picture of soldier who died following incident at Army barracks in Oxfordshire

  07-09-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It was confirmed by the Ministry of Defence on Friday that a soldier had died following an incident at the barracks just before midday on September 4.  He has been named locally as Darren Leslie, 29, from Northern Ireland
  
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• Shoreham Airshow crash: Two police officers facing sack after 'posing for selfies at scene of disaster'

  07-09-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Sussex Police officers, based in Brighton, sent the picture in a private message to a colleague who then reported it to the force's Professional Standards department
  
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• Watch angry dad accuse shopper of taking upskirt pictures of his daughter in supermarket

  07-09-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The furious father claims the man - who he says is 'shaking because he's been caught' - was taking secret pictures on his mobile phone
  
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• Parents of Britain's youngest sepsis survivor praise 'sharp judgement' of nurse who saved him

  07-09-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A community midwife recorded a 35.6C temperature and spotted the early signs of sepsis and the tot was rushed to intensive care
  
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• Mum claims bailiff broke her wrist as she tried to stop him clamping car over TV licence debt

  07-09-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Party-planner Naomi Forrest says she was 'rugby tackled' to the floor when she went out of her house on Tugford Close, Moss Side to challenge the bailiffs
  
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• The BNP faces oblivion as lost European election deposits batter its finances

  07-09-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The party’s latest accounts show it has just £45,756 in assets, with the Irish wing having no assets and the Welsh branch just £17
  
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• Disgust as bar 'boots out homeless man' after couple bought him a drink

  07-09-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Claire Carmichael said she was shocked by the Birmingham bar's actions but boss Paul Barr insists the man is a beggar and NOT homeless
  
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• Every medic to be given checklist on how to spot sepsis early to save thousands of lives

  07-09-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A credit card-sized guide is to be issued to doctors, nurses and paediatricians to help treat patients hit by the deadly type of blood poisoning sooner
  
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• Safe at last! Crying refugee dad pictured holding his child on Greek beach starts new life in Germany

  07-09-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The image of English teacher Laith Majid from Syria clutching one of his children to his chest as they arrived in Greece went around the world
  
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• Schoolgirl referee 'almost quit' after verbal abuse from touchline reduced her to tears

  07-09-2015 23:18
  
  Football referees endure all sorts of abuse from the fans when they officiate at tense premiership matches and have come to expect virtually every insult and four-lettered word possible to be hurled in their direction.
  
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• David Cameron's humiliating EU defeat after Tory rebels join forces with Labour

  07-09-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister wanted to water down “purdah” rules which restrict campaigning by government in the run-up to the in/out referendum
  
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• Woman 'used prosthetic penis and pretended to be a man' to have sex with fellow female

  07-09-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gayle Dawn Newland's alleged victim claims to have consented to sexual activity while blindfolded but says she did not realise her "male" partner was in fact a female
  
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• Refugees fleeing ISIS and Taliban reveal the meagre possessions they salvaged during desperate escape from danger

  07-09-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Now a charity has asked people who have made the arduous journey to show the contents of their backpacks as a heartbreaking reminder of what they have to endure - and the life they left behind.
  
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• Alistair Carmichael is on trial live on TV over the leaked Nicola Sturgeon memo – but it's less than riveting viewing

  07-09-2015 23:02
  At one point as the cameras rolled for the first time in Edinburgh’s Court of Session, former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael was mentioned in the same breath as Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
  
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• Rail rip-off: station staff in London suburbs 'fail to offer cheapest fares'

  07-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  People who travel within the suburbs of London are sold National rail tickets at some stations when Oyster fares should be available at a fraction of the price
  
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• 'Dirty' equity release loans may become normal, regulator says

  07-09-2015 22:39 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Predictions of a surge in older people tapping into property wealth to fund retirement as regulator hints at new rules to create bigger market
  
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• Mystery as couple who had been together 29 years are found dead at home

  07-09-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bodies of Sharon and Kenneth Fielder were both discovered in the living room but are thought to have died several days earlier
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Nigel Farage gets anti-EU show back on the road… and hopes Jeremy Corbyn is a winner

  07-09-2015 22:31
  
  Outside the Pet Rescue Centre in Cliftonville, Nigel Farage hands Mick Solly his new “Say NO” EU referendum leaflet, asking: “What EU concessions will David Cameron win for Britain? Answer: Whatever Angela Merkel lets him have.” Solly, a man out of diamond-geezer central casting, stares for a moment at the unflattering portrait of the German Chancellor, before declaring: “I buried my gran three weeks ago and she looked better than that.”
  
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• Job Centre worker falsely claimed £27,000 in disability benefits but escapes jail sentence

  07-09-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Denise Kelly said she could hardly walk but was regularly seen in skyscraper heels, using stairs instead of the lift and carrying full bags of shopping
  
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• This is what the Circle Line would be like if trains were replaced with travelators

  07-09-2015 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Designers at NBBJ Architects say a system of high-speed travelators would be quicker than waiting in a queues for the Underground
  
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• Fury as David Cameron agrees Britain can take just 4,000 desperate refugees

  07-09-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There was fresh anger when the PM announced the 20,000 extra refugees brought to Britain will be split across the next five years
  
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• This is the paedophile banned from entering more than 300 parks in just one city

  07-09-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police have now released a mugshot of Christian John, 39, who admitted breaching a previous sexual offences order
  
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• Britain plotting secret death strikes on UK jihadis in the Middle East

  07-09-2015 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Cameron revealed he personally approved a “precision” UK drone attack on Cardiff-born Reyaad Khan in Syria last month
  
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• Kathy Bates' struggle with lymphoedema has shed light on a neglected illness

  07-09-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Now the Hollywood actress has spoken out about the life-changing condition, Caroline Jones looks at an often overlooked problem
  
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• Leo Sayer on the colonoscopy that gave him a lifesaving early warning for cancer

  07-09-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The singer tells Richard Webber he had the scan when he turned 65 after feeling run down and bloated – and reveals he would have been in trouble if he’d waited any longer
  
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• EU referendum: Government defeated over 'purdah' rules for poll

  07-09-2015 22:00
  
  David Cameron has been defeated in the House of Commons for the first time as a majority Conservative Prime Minister, losing a vote on the purdah rules for the EU referendum 312 to 285, majority 27.
  
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• Creditors still waiting for £850,000 from fitness guru Rosemary Conley after empire collapse

  07-09-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dancing on Ice star Rosemary owes money after promising 121 creditors she could cough up £850,00
  
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• Cyclist who smashed into woman on pavement claims he had no NAME when she confronted him

  07-09-2015 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man ran down Aurika Buzunaite  as she walked along the pavement in Barking, Essex, on August 27. When she asked the rider for his details, he bizarrely claimed he didn't have ID or a name.
  
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• Save money on medicine: Big-name drugs can cost 500% more than identical supermarket versions

  07-09-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When it comes to pharmaceuticals, are the branded ones worth the extra cash or can generic alternatives do the same job for less?
  
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• Elizabeth II vs Victoria: Who's the winner in this ultimate game of thrones?

  07-09-2015 21:45
  
  The Queen is tantalisingly close to claiming her place in the history books as Britain's longest reigning monarch. Tomorrow, on Wednesday 9 September, 63 years and 216 days will have passed since the death of her father, George VI. That is precisely the number of years and days between Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, on the death of her uncle, William IV in 1837, and her own death in January 1901. By Thursday, The Queen's reign will have been longer even than Victoria's.
  
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• School lessons that stand the test of time

  07-09-2015 21:36
  
  HOW to use a Bunsen burner, “i before e except after c” and forward rolls all make it into the top weird and wonderful things we remember from school lessons.
  
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• Terminally-ill boy, 6, finally finishes opening his extraordinary haul of 28,941 birthday cards

  07-09-2015 21:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bubbles’ World of Play threw a surprise birthday party for William Magee who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – one of the biggest genetic killers in children
  
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• Police sniff out £300,000 cannabis farm in outbuildings next to a Conservative Club

  07-09-2015 21:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thanh Le, 22, and Tom Wang, 41, were jailed after PCSO Steve Taylor picked up the scent of the plants from their drug farm near Abderdare, South Wales
  
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• Tax credit cuts to cost Britain's five million poorest children £750 each a year

  07-09-2015 21:05
  
  Five million of Britain’s poorest children will lose an average of £750 each a year because of the Government’s cuts to tax credits, The Independent has learnt.
  
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• Will the world end on September 28? Blood Moon and asteroid impact 'are heralds of Apocalypse'

  07-09-2015 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's said to be the day of reckoning - but will the Blood Moon prophecy and an asteroid strike end the world as predicted?
  
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• Desperate refugees forced into camps next to million pound super-yachts

  07-09-2015 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wealthy couples walk to board their beautiful motorboat two desperately thin men are in the gutter on the promenade
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Two-thirds of people think Jeremy Corbyn would be unlikely to win next general election

  07-09-2015 21:00
  
  Two out of three people believe that Jeremy Corbyn would be unlikely to lead Labour to victory at the next general election, according to a poll for The Independent.
  
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• Anger as elderly patient left on trolley in hospital emergency department for FIVE days

  07-09-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The cancer patient was one of 40 people in need of a bed in the severely overcrowded A&E unit
  
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• NHS patients to be sent to FRANCE for surgery to help struggling hospitals

  07-09-2015 20:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Unions said it came after problems at local hospitals, which have struggled following Government cuts
  
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• War against Isis: David Cameron links British jihadist Reyyad Khan killed in Syria drone strike with series of UK terror plots

  07-09-2015 20:53
  
  Two British jihadists have been killed in the first air strike carried out by the RAF in Syria in a significant escalation of the UK’s role in the war against Isis.
  
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• David Cameron links British jihadist killed in Syria drone strike with series of UK terror plots

  07-09-2015 20:53
  
  Two British jihadists have been killed in the first air strike carried out by the RAF in Syria in a significant escalation of the UK’s role in the war against Isis.
  
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• Pictured: Stabbed London rapper J Hus sparks fury after making 'gang signs' from his hospital bed

  07-09-2015 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The musician, who has appeared on BBC 1Xtra and has 30,000 followers on Instagram, has been accused of promoting gang culture
  
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• Thuggish mum-of-three who hurled DRAIN COVER at friend's face opening large wound is jailed

  07-09-2015 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim suffered a 5cm cut to her forehead when she was attacked following a drunken row in Bootle, Merseyside
  
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• Refugee crisis: How should homeowners go about helping to provide shelter?

  07-09-2015 20:37
  
  I have a spare room. Where do I start?
  
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• Seriously ill refugee boy forced to sleep rough after his family fled Syrian war

  07-09-2015 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disabled Mohammed Al Kasem, who is just one year and three months old, suffers from hydrocephalus
  
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• Sex beast told victim, 14, 'I'll stop when I've finished' as she begged him to stop raping her

  07-09-2015 20:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Depraved Gregg Smith, 27, plied his victims with cigarettes and alcohol and even boasted to one of his victims: 'I've raped 13-year-olds before'
  
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• British Legion treasurer stole from Poppy Appeal tins and wrote himself cheques from charity account

  07-09-2015 20:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joseph Allen, 70, was jailed after a court heard he took £26,000 from the organisation to pay off his credit cards and take his wife on holiday
  
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• George Osborne’s Living Wage means firms are ditching plans to hire staff, report claims

  07-09-2015 20:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Recruitment firm Manpower says the new £7.20 an hour minimum salary has sent “shock waves” through the job market
  
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• Watch incredible moment furious shopkeepers try to stop motorbike smash and grab raiders

  07-09-2015 20:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The clip shows the men grab anything they can in a bid to bring the motorbike crooks down
  
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