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• Millions still plagued by nuisance calls despite efforts to crack down on claims management cowboys

  08-09-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nearly half of people surveyed towards the end of August said they had been contacted by a claims management company within the last week
  
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• Two boys aged 5 tunnel under nursery and escape to buy a Jaguar 'grown-up car'

  08-09-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Having used their sand spades over several days to dig their "tunnel", the lads escaped from under their teacher's nose during an afternoon walk
  
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• MPs will debate legalising cannabis, selling it in shops and taxing it to fund the NHS

  08-09-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Campaigners are joyous after Parliament was pushed into the move by a 210,000-strong petition on its own website
  
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• Calais mayor blasts 'contemptuous' Cameron and says Britain must house ALL 3,500 migrants

  08-09-2015 23:49
  
  DAVID CAMERON should begin his pledge for Britain to take in 20,000 refugees by offering homes to the 3,500 migrants camped out in Calais, the town's furious mayor has said.
  
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• Bizarre footage shows naked passenger hunted by cops after calmly riding metro train without any clothes on

  08-09-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eyewitnesses believed the man might have lost a bet with a friend
  
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• Smiling Anjem Choudary released from prison on bail

  08-09-2015 23:45
  
  RADICAL preacher Anjem Choudary smiled to the cameras as he left top security Belmarsh Prison on bail today.
  
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• Two twisted Shoreham cops face sack after they took sick 'human barbecue' selfie

  08-09-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two rookie officers took a video selfie on a mobile phone while guarding the crash site in West Sussex, where 11 people died when a vintage jet crashed on the A27
  
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• Mile high couple cheered after PILOT sends them his best wishes over plane intercom

  08-09-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Travellers on the Norwegian Airlines flight to Stockholm erupted in laughter when the captain revealed that two people had joined the mile high club
  
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• After Aylan Al-Kurdi's tragedy we must let the refugees in and learn from them

  08-09-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many other children have died trying to escape Syria but these vivid images of the drowned boy remind us of our own children, says Alison Phillips
  
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• 'Victim' of woman 'who pretended to be man using prosthetic penis' admits she was 'a bit stupid'

  08-09-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gayle Newland's alleged victim told a Chester Crown Court jury that alarm bells did not ring about the relationship - which she believed was with a half-Asian, half-Filipino man called Kye Fortune
  
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• Alleged victim of woman 'who pretended to be man using prosthetic penis' admits she was "a bit stupid"

  08-09-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gayle Newland's alleged victim told a Chester Crown Court jury that alarm bells did not ring about the relationship - which she believed was with a half-Asian, half-Filipino man called Kye Fortune
  
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• Tory minister expelled from Labour

  08-09-2015 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tory minister Baroness Altmann is expelled from the Labour Party after it was found she had been a member for 18 months.
  
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• Drone camera filming Michael Portillo spins out of control and smashes into historic ship

  08-09-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The drone suddenly went AWOL when the former Tory defence secretary positioned himself on the stern of the MV Balmoral
  
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• Singapore's elections explained in memes

  08-09-2015 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Singapore's elections explained in memes
  
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• We are lucky to live in the New Elizabethan Age

  08-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Telegraph View: A fixed point in an ever-changing world, Queen Elizabeth II has anchored and sustained her subjects
  
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• Terror Brits killed in RAF drone 'got what was coming to them', says former friend

  08-09-2015 23:00
  
  THE Cardiff-born terrorist killed in an RAF drone strike last month got exactly what he deserved, according to former friends of the young jihadi and a senior Tory MP.
  
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• Labour will go out of business unless it sheds its 'cloth cap' image, report warns

  08-09-2015 23:00
  
  Labour could go out of business unless it sheds its backward-looking “cloth cap” image as a party which champions a disappearing working class, according to a new report.
  
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• Yanis Varoufakis: Jeremy Corbyn and I used to protest against Margaret Thatcher together

  08-09-2015 22:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former Greek finance minister and leading Syriza figure suggests he protested alongside Mr Corbyn in the 1970s and 1980s
  
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• Is Rooney England's greatest striker?

  08-09-2015 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is Wayne Rooney England's greatest striker?
  
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• City's plan to 'cull stray cats' to prevent 'damage' they do to other wildlife causes outrage

  08-09-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The authorities described the feral felines as 'non-native predators' which damage bird, mammal and reptile populations
  
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• Battling brides stand for DAYS in shop window modelling dresses to win their dream wedding day

  08-09-2015 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Determined Kate Holder, 27, of Holsworthy, Devon, stood for 58.5 hours, finally beating Tara Attis, 32, of St Austell, Cornwall to win her dream
  
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• Tragic toddler finally buried two YEARS after his death following jailed mum's battle with gran

  08-09-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two and a half years after 22-month-old Levi-Blu Cassin was killed by his cruel parents his grandmother has won the right to bury him
  
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• Family of British ISIS fighters killed in drone strike 'could sue UK government for millions'

  08-09-2015 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This week Prime Minister David Cameron revealed that Reyaad Khan, who was 21 years old, had been killed in an air strike in Syria
  
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• Space scientists stunned by 'impossible' discovery of most distant galaxy almost as old as the universe

  08-09-2015 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The discovery of the 13.2 billion year old EGS8p7 galaxy has baffled the astrophysicists as current theories mean they should not have been able to see it
  
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• Jose Mourinho shows softer side as he takes daughter Matilde to GQ Men of the Year Awards

  08-09-2015 22:42
  
  CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho stole the limelight with daughter Matilde as the pair hit the red carpet in London tonight.
  
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• Face of brothel madam who plagued neighbours' lives with noise from seedy activities at her flat is revealed

  08-09-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 33-year-old was sent to prison for three years after Liverpool Crown Court heard customers and prostitutes’ rowdiness made their lives a misery
  
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• Sajid Javid condemns 'dinner party anti-Semites'

  08-09-2015 22:39 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Respectable, middle class people are 'happy to repeat' modern takes on 'age-old slanders' about Jews, Business Secretary says
  
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• Doctor's break boy with cerebral palsy's FEET in last ditch surgery to help him walk again

  08-09-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brave Callum Brown, 11, and his family had to find £12,000 in order to fund the pioneering operation which aimed to lengthen the cords of his heels after they suddenly started collapsing
  
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• Tiger cub makes a roar-some debut with his fearsome grandma

  08-09-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Six-week-old Kai met his ‘grandma’ Sita who couldn't wait to give him a friendly nibble
  
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• Iraq refugee whose family were executed by ISIS wants to return because Lesbos life is 'living hell'

  08-09-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mohammed Qay Sulaiman, 27, a barber from Mosul is devastated at the squalor he is living in at a refugee camp on Lesbos
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Angelina Jolie thrives in select committee appearance

  08-09-2015 22:23
  
  George Osborne, knowing the journalists were not there for him but for someone much more famous, told them wryly as he passed: “I know my place.” One of the more improbable double acts in global politics, Angelina Jolie and William Hague were about to do their thing.
  
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• 'Star Wars Millennium Falcon' spotted by UFO hunters in cave on the face of the Moon

  08-09-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The image of the "craft" - like that piloted by Han Solo and Chewie in the Star Wars movies - was uncovered by space enthusiasts scouring the skies in search of alien life
  
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• BBC 'clearly biased' against older women, peers claim

  08-09-2015 22:20 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Dismissal of ex-Countryfile host Miriam O'Reilly raises 'disturbing questions' about the BBC's management, House of Lords told
  
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• Chaos at homeopathy convention after 29 people take LSD-style drug then start hallucinating and talking gibberish

  08-09-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police in the the German town of Handeloh, south of Hamburg, are investigating whether the extraordinary scenes were a failed drug experiment gone wrong or a malicious prank
  
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• Refugees in UK ‘go back home for holidays'

  08-09-2015 22:16
  
  REFUGEES in Britain are holidaying in the countries they have fled from, a Tory MP claimed yesterday.
  
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• Former bishop admits to sexually abusing 18 young men

  08-09-2015 22:16
  
  A former bishop and friend of the Prince of Wales has admitted sexually abusing 18 young men amid claims that the upper echelons of the Church colluded and conspired with the criminal justice system for decades to cover up his crimes.
  
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• Student who found out boyfriend was a WOMAN 'would rather have been molested by a man'

  08-09-2015 22:14
  
  A STUDENT who discovered that her boyfriend of two years was actually a WOMAN using a prosthetic penis for sex has told a court she would rather have been molested by a man.
  
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• Queen Victoria's diary tells of record-breaking day

  08-09-2015 22:14 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  She may have achieved a historic 63 years on the throne but the Queen is following Victoria's steps and has asked for no celebrations on 9 September
  
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• WhatsApp bug which tricked users into downloading malware could have affected 200 million people

  08-09-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Discovered last month, the flaw which affected the messaging service's web app allowed hackers to distribute ransomware, which demands victims pay a fee to regain access to files
  
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• Disabled mugging victim Alan Barnes sells house for less money for 'dream' move to Shetland Isles

  08-09-2015 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alan Barnes, who is just 4ft 6in tall, had been left with a broken collar bone after being attacked by Richard Gatiss at his old home
  
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• State of the Union: Europe in the last chance saloon, warns EU president Jean-Claude Juncker

  08-09-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In a Washington-style address, the European Union's president Jean-Claude Juncker will confront crises that threaten to tear the continent apart
  
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• I was George Best's first love but now I'm a shaven headed Buddhist nun

  08-09-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Buddhist nun Ani Rinchen used to be pretty blonde model called Jackie Glass who caught the eye of legendary footballer and lothario George Best
  
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• Jihadi John top of Britain's 'kill list' as RAF killer drones track UK terrorists

  08-09-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Security sources told the Mirror to expect “many more” deadly strikes across Syria and Iraq following the killing of Islamic State Brits Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin
  
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• Married headmaster filmed by students having sex with female teacher in his office

  08-09-2015 21:47 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Graham Daniels, 51, and chemistry teacher Bethan Thomas, 37, face being struck off after students post video online
  
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• Refugee crisis: Thousands of Syrians have UK visa requests rejected by Home Office

  08-09-2015 21:42
  
  Thousands of Syrians applying to legally visit the UK are having their applications rejected by the Home Office over fears they may claim asylum, official figures unearthed by The Independent reveal.
  
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• Huge surge in energy debts mean regulator set to probe arrears collection

  08-09-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ofgem said one unnamed major supplier had seen a “significant” rise in its customer debts
  
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• Barack Obama meets Bear Grylls and calls it 'one of the best days of my presidency'

  08-09-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Despite his unconventional meal, President Obama said his day spent in Alaska filming Running Wild was one of the best of his presidency
  
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• Our 5 point plan to keep University life as stress-free as possible

  08-09-2015 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  What you must know to keep costs under control as you get on course and on budget for university
  
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• Tory defends bizarre claim he couldn't get a haircut because refugee barber was on holiday

  08-09-2015 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Adam Holloway sparked bafflement with his outburst in the Commons - where he claimed refugees make pleasure trips to their war-torn homelands
  
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• IDS savaged for 'shocking' prejudice after saying people without disabilities are 'normal'

  08-09-2015 21:33
  
  IAIN Duncan Smith – the Tory minster charged with slashing financial support to British people with disabilities – today called people without disabilities ‘normal’.
  
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