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• Tenant faces eviction from one of Britain's smallest properties after discovery it is 'illegal' SHED

  15-09-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Simon Rogers, 39, says he had "suspicions" about the flat when he moved in
  
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• Amir Khan sets off on aid mission to Greece to help Syrian refugee crisis

  15-09-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 28-year-old former world champion is travelling 2,000 miles to hand out vital supplies on the island of Lesbos
  
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• Desperate refugees vow to starve themselves to death in no-man's land between Hungary and Serbia

  15-09-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of migrants staged a mass sit-in, blocking a major crossing point, as Hungary declared a state of emergency after closing its border
  
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• Watch moment driver is nearly impaled by a CANOE after being distracted taking selfies

  15-09-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Let this be a lesson to all selfie-lovers... never selfie and drive
  
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• Obese man too embarrassed to leave his house sheds NINE STONE in dramatic transformation

  15-09-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matthew Gorry is unrecognisable after taking up exercise and switching to a healthy diet
  
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• British volunteer sees the human suffering of refugees on Greek island

  15-09-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kate Lincoln has heard horrific stories from survivors who have lost their children, wives and parents fleeing Syria
  
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• Autistic man in fancy dress is beaten unconscious in sickening attack while on way to comics convention

  15-09-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man was dressed as a character from the computer game Assassin’s Creed, when he was attacked by thug Dale James Finnigan
  
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• Here's the moment David Cameron made a promise not to cut tax credits - which he broke today

  15-09-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Cameron said he 'didn't want' to cut tax credits - but just three months later it was in George Osborne's budget
  
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• Suffolk teacher who used a meat cleaver in his lessons cleared

  15-09-2015 23:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Abbott, 35, who used a meat cleaver in classes to bring his subject to life for pupils endured '11 months of hell' after he was charged with bringing a bladed article to school.
  
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• Devastated mum told how murdered son's missing body was dumped in a DRAIN

  15-09-2015 23:19
  
  A DEVASTATED mother has told how her son who has been missing for two years was killed and dumped in a DRAIN.
  
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• Portuguese hospital refuses to let dying father return to Britain

  15-09-2015 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Raymond Walker, 82, from Derby, suffered a cardiac arrest on a cruise ship in the Med on August 2, causing his heart to stop for more than 20 minutes before he was resuscitated.
  
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• Why Jeremy Corbyn didn't sing national anthem: He stood in respectful silence to honour WW2 heroes

  15-09-2015 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader remained tight-lipped as dignitaries and veterans around him sang God Save the Queen at St Paul’s Cathedral
  
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• Watch moment hapless rat thinks it's bagged itself a tasty snack - but instead falls prey to sniggering pranksters

  15-09-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The clip shows the creature scavenging for food at the bottom of a concrete ditch before it falls for the tasteless trick
  
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• Reluctance to use military emboldens our enemies, says defence chief

  15-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Gen Sir Nicholas Houghton says he is worried about Parliament, legal challenges and society tying the hands of the forces
  
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• Meet man who gets drunk from eating POTATOES

  15-09-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nick Hess has auto-brewery syndrome, meaning carbohydrates ferment into alcohol inside him
  
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• 100 Labour MPs to defy Jeremy Corbyn and push to keep Britain in EU at all costs

  15-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Phil Wilson, who heads up pro-EU group, says changes to workers' rights shoud not trigger exit as rift grows over Europe in Labour
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Enemies confounded by Jeremy Corbyn's display of respect

  15-09-2015 22:53
  
  So he didn’t join in the national anthem. The top button of his shirt looked undone, a bit of a trademark reminder that he prefers going open-necked. The jacket and trousers may not have exactly matched. Was the new Labour leader revelling provocatively in unrespectability? There’s something, if not reckless, at least fearless, about his willingness to wind up the more hostile tabloids.
  
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• Pals who filmed brilliant boozy late-night duet to Adele hit are left stunned as video goes viral

  15-09-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John-Paul Hayes, 26, posted the video of him and his friend Nicola singing the pop star’s Make You Feel My Love on Saturday night
  
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• Inside the Birmingham primary school just yards from Benefits Street

  15-09-2015 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A primary school just yards from 'Benefits Street' in Birmingham has taken in pupils from the world's war zones, who speak more than forty languages between them.
  
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• They cheered, but unions have their doubts about Jeremy Corbyn

  15-09-2015 22:44
  
  Jeremy Corbyn managed the unusual achievement of turning up on the rostrum at the TUC conference so late that he missed his own standing ovation. Hundreds of delegates rose as one as he was announced. They clapped, they cheered, some chanted “Jez we can”. And they clapped and cheered. And clapped and cheered some more until the tumult peetered into disappointed silence.
  
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• World War 2 enthusiast Brad Pitt splashes out £250,000 on Nazi motorbike

  15-09-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fury and Inglourious Basterds star Brad Pitt is a big World War 2 enthusiast and has now splashed out on a Nazi bike
  
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• Prince Harry steps aside to help Battle of Britain hero take to the skies for 75th anniversary

  15-09-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The royal marked his 31st birthday by giving up his seat on a Spitfire so that wing commander Tom Neil, 95, could honour his pals
  
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• Kremlin DENIES Vladimir Putin personally called Elton John to discuss gay rights

  15-09-2015 22:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Elton said: 'Thank-you to President Vladimir Putin for reaching out and speaking via telephone with me today', but it was swiftly denied by the Kremlin.
  
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• Facebook users will soon be able to 'DISLIKE' friends' posts, says Mark Zuckerberg

  15-09-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The creator of the social networking site said people wanted to express empathy with their friends
  
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• Furious Scotland rugby fans hit out at bagpipes ban

  15-09-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Supporters will be stopped from taking their national instrument into grounds where the side is playing
  
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• City traders saw women as 'sex objects' in 'culture of discrimination', tribunal hears

  15-09-2015 22:30
  
  City traders at a leading investment bank saw women as sex objects and called “bid” for those they considered attractive and “offer only” for those they disliked, according to evidence submitted to an employment tribunal.  
  
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• Mum stabbed to death while her children slept an hour after 'cops spoke to suspect'

  15-09-2015 22:24
  
  A MOTHER-OF-TWO was stabbed to death by a burglar while her children were asleep in bed - an hour after police were called to a man acting suspiciously in her street.
  
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• Strangeways inmates are 'treated like animals', claims former prisoner as protest continues

  15-09-2015 22:22
  
  Inmates at Strangeways jail are being “treated like animals”, with some locked up for 23 hours a day and forced to beg for basic supplies such as toilet paper, a former inmate has said.
  
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• Judge orders businessman to tweet sentence every day for month after he posted insulting messages about rival online

  15-09-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rubén Sánchez, a spokesman for a consumer rights group, took Luis Pineda, who runs a rival organisation ,to court over hundreds of defamatory tweets
  
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• Police seize lorry carrying suspected illegal immigrants

  15-09-2015 22:19
  
  POLICE yesterday swooped on a lorry carrying nine suspected illegal immigrants.
  
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• Pictured: Inside the abandoned shopping centre left to the mercy of the elements

  15-09-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, was the jewel in the town's crown when it opened in 1975 but after it closed its doors for good in 2008, it decayed beyond recognition
  
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• Security guard ordered to give up drones after admitting to flying them over football matches

  15-09-2015 22:16
  
  A security guard has been banned from operating drone aircraft after admitting flying them over the Palace of Westminster, football stadiums and Buckingham Palace.
  
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• My tragic boy Oliver saved lives of 5 children after freak accident - he'll live on in them

  15-09-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Grieving mum Pippa Croker spoke of her pride in her 12-year-old donor son who was killed by a post while watching a football match
  
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• Women want sex just as much as men - but THIS is why it doesn't happen

  15-09-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new survey debunks the myth that men want more sex than women - but there's one main reason which gets in the way of more frequent action between the sheets
  
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• Welsh Assembly tea lady 'died when she fell 18ft through glass skylight'

  15-09-2015 22:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jane Wedlake, 54, fell from the 'communal' rooftop outside her one-bedroom flat in Cardiff city centre, which her partner Greg Capron claimed was 'not up to' safety standards.
  
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• The futuristic hotel that's like a robotic version of Fawlty Towers

  15-09-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Senior feature writer Tom Parris is in the first hotel in the world to be staffed almost entirely by robots, in Huis Ten Bosch, in Nagasaki, Japan
  
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• Stroud gardener stabbed to death 82-year-old customer in his own home

  15-09-2015 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Hall, 48, knifed 82-year-old widower Dennis Plater more than 40 times before leaving him in a pool of blood on the floor of his kitchen at his detached bungalow in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
  
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• Leicestershire drunk driver who ran over and killed her mother is jailed

  15-09-2015 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Debra Jenkins, 57, reversed over 86-year-old Joan Donisthorpe in her green Peugeot 306 (pictured) as she went to pick her up from a hairdressers appointment in Syston, Leicestershire.
  
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• Liverpool police officers drove away while couple tried to detain thief

  15-09-2015 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A police car with four officers on board - driven by a PC Webb - was stopped on Dale Street. Liverpool, by a panicked man whose friend was holding down a thief - but the officers refused to help.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's vow to fight Tory 'poverty deniers' undermined by symbolic blunders

  15-09-2015 22:08
  
  The challenges facing Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership have been illustrated after his first major speech setting out the party’s new anti-austerity agenda was overshadowed by a series of small but symbolic blunders.
  
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• Children as young as FIVE compete in traditional Indonesian horse race 

  15-09-2015 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Young boys are taught how to ride from an early age on Sumbawa Island in Indonesia. During racing season they can saddle up 15 times a day to compete in the races for between £3-£6 winnings.
  
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• Royal Navy to build laser cannon by end of the decade

  15-09-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The "directed energy weapon" will be able to fire high energy beams to damage and burn up targets at the cost of only pence per shot.
  
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• Vladimir Putin to continue providing Syria's Bashar al-Assad with military aid

  15-09-2015 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Russian leader urged other countries to send military assistance to the Syrian government fight 'terrorist aggression'. He claims the migrant crisis would be 'even bigger' without Moscow's aid.
  
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• Could this new way of living SOLVE the housing crisis and make homelessness a thing of the past?

  15-09-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The innovative 'modular housing' could temporarily give hundreds of  homeless families shelter
  
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• Online dating's number one turnoff in men is revealed

  15-09-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The secrets to dating success have been revealed - make sure your profile picture doesn’t show you with an ex-lover ‘obviously cropped out’ - and, for men, don’t have a ponytail
  
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• Labour confirms Jeremy Corbyn DIDN'T sing national anthem at Battle of Britain service

  15-09-2015 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new Labour leader, who has questioned the role of the Armed Forces and has campaigned to scrap the UK's nuclear arsenal, also met David Cameron for the first time since his victory.
  
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• Gallery 'sold artist's paint spattered carpet' as her own work

  15-09-2015 21:52 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An artist has claimed that the studio at which she plied her trade sold her paint-spattered carpets as original works
  
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• Nicola Cross stabbed to death in her home as her children lay sleeping

  15-09-2015 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 37-year-old, named locally as Nicola Cross, was killed around 11pm Monday at her house in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, where she lived with her IT worker husband and two children.
  
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• FA urged to investigate death of 12-year-old Oliver Croker following freak accident with crowd barrier

  15-09-2015 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Oliver was watching an amateur game when two players crashed off the pitch into a rope holding back spectators and he was "speared" in the head by a post
  
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• Lesbian who wore fake penis GUILTY of tricking friend into sex by pretending to be a man

  15-09-2015 21:41
  
  A LESBIAN who posed as a man to trick her best friend into having sex has been found guilty of three counts of sexual assault.
  
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