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• The 50 greatest Britons revealed: Wills and Kate are in but where are Bobby Moore and Oscar Wilde?

  22-09-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Margaret Thatcher and seven royals made the controversial list. Read on for what an outraged Paul Routledge thinks of it all...
  
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• School assistants 'bullied' into giving sick children morphine and diabetic injections

  22-09-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Workers for South Ayrshire Council say they are unqualified to carry out invasive treatments, but "would be moved from the school" if they refuse to give them
  
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• Kerber & Black on Volkswagen's 'diesel exhaust cheat' claims

  22-09-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brilliant duo Neil Kerber and David Black give their trademark satirical take on the news in the Daily Mirror
  
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• Midmore brothers hunted by police after acid attack and chilling Facebook post

  22-09-2015 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geoffrey Midmore (pictured) took to the social network in the early hours of the morning on Saturday - not long after a 37-year-old's face 'melted' in a brutal street acid attack in Southampton.
  
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• David Cameron intervened for pal who was arrested for fox-hunting, claims Lord Ashcroft

  22-09-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tory leader is said to have written to the Attorney General in 2008 after his friend Julian Barnfield was charged with three offences, which were later dropped
  
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• The proof that Moscow has delivered warplanes to Syria: Fighter jets are seen in satellite image as Assad's regime steps up its attacks on ISIS

  22-09-2015 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The picture shows 16 warplanes at a government airbase near the coastal city of Latakia, backing claims of Moscow support made by the Syrian military earlier on Tuesday.
  
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• Secret confessions of commuters displayed on massive board at busy train station

  22-09-2015 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  For one week only, Brighton Station is being transformed into a place where people can anonymously share their deepest fears and longings
  
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• Volkswagen 'diesel exhaust cheat' could affect MILLIONS of British cars

  22-09-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  US VW boss Michael Horn admitted the company had "totally screwed up" amid fears of an industry meltdown
  
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• EU refugee deal forces Eastern European countries to take their share

  22-09-2015 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eastern European countries have been told they will have to welcome thousands of refugees to relocate 160,000 people from Greece and Italy after they were out-voted at a Brussels summit.
  
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• Row as report says Scotland’s council tax freeze ‘overfunded’

  22-09-2015 23:43
  
  LABOUR and the SNP yesterday clashed over town hall funding after it emerged the council tax freeze has cost ministers £2.5billion.
  
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• I saw the horrors of war and then fell in love with a German girl

  22-09-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Legendary RAF veteran, writer and campaigner Harry Leslie Smith, 92, tells how he found love during the hell of war2
  
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• Family of teen who died after using tampons are inundated with messages of support following tragedy

  22-09-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jemma-Louise Roberts, 13, died after suffering suspected Toxic Shock Syndrome, a bacterial infection which can lead to organ failure and cause the body to shut down
  
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• Bay City Rollers will be back on stage for Christmas

  22-09-2015 23:34
  
  THE reunited Bay City Rollers ­yesterday ­announced a Christmas gig that will mark their comeback almost 40 years after they split up.
  
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• 'Whale' mum's weight halved after doctors told her she had the body of a pensioner

  22-09-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hali Jafari, 33, from Bristol once
  weighed a whopping 22st, but is now a svelte 11st and size 10 thanks to the gastric sleeve
  
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• Lazy Scots ruin hopes of Commonwealth Games legacy

  22-09-2015 23:25
  
  THERE has been no change in the number of Scots taking part in physical exercise since Glasgow’s?Commonwealth Games, despite organisers’ promise of a “lasting legacy”.
  
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• Twitter sent into HILARIOUS frenzy over David Cameron and the PigGate claims

  22-09-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hashtags #Hameron #Oink and #piggate started trending on social media minutes after the story broke with politicians, comedians and TV personalities posting gags
  
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• First of 20,000 Syrians arrive in UK

  22-09-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first Syrian refugees to be resettled in the UK since the government announced it was expanding its protection scheme have arrived.
  
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• "Did I kill my baby?" grieving mother asks coroner whether she contributed to child's death

  22-09-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A row erupted in the inquest as the baby’s father accused the mother Ashleigh Meager, saying there were drugs in the house where the baby died
  
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• Carol Vorderman says judging the Pride of Britain Awards is a tough but inspiring task

  22-09-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fellow judges Susanna Reid, Mark Austin and Jason Leonard say the incredible stories behind the nominations are moving and humbling
  
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• Watch 'poltergeist' terrorise woman in her own home by swinging lampshade and hurling saucepans onto the floor

  22-09-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eerie footage shows cupboards being slammed shut and a light fitting swinging wildly as the 'ghost' wreaks havoc
  
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• Josh Stevenson who turned to drugs after being bullied dies of heroin overdose

  22-09-2015 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Josh Stevenson, 18, suffered a breakdown and rarely left his home in Hull, East Yorkshire, after he was subjected to physical and emotional bullying throughout his school life.
  
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• Jockey Brendan McDonagh loses foot in horror motorbike accident on holiday in Thailand

  22-09-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  McDonagh, 23, also suffered a severely broken right arm and damaged shoulder in the smash
  
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• Scots have more words for snow than Eskimos

  22-09-2015 23:13
  
  IT IS often said that the Inuit have 50 different words for snow – but now it’s emerged the Scots have more than eight times as many.
  
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• Top cop wrongly sacked in 'sex pest' row to be reinstated at a cost of £300,000

  22-09-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chief Inspector Mark Anastasi was fired from Northumbria Police last year but didn’t get the chance to contest the claims – and has now won his High Court appeal
  
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• Volkswagen scandal: now millions of petrol cars could be affected

  22-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Campaigners warned that petrol cars could also be drawn into the Volkswagen diesel scandal
  
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• Volkswagen scandal: nearly 12,000 deaths could be avoided if industry met emissions targets

  22-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Health experts levels of nitrogen oxides should have fallen by half if car manufacturers were meeting agreed emissions levels
  
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• Volkswagen scandal: how two campaigners exposed the world's biggest car company

  22-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Peter Mock and John German never intended to spark a huge crisis in the motor industry
  
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• Northern Ireland terrorist amnesty axed after outrage paramilitaries could walk free

  22-09-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Civil servants are believed to be hurriedly redrafting legislation that would have allowed paramilitaries to confess in secret and walk free
  
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• Mandarin lessons to get £10m boost

  22-09-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mandarin in English schools will receive a £10m boost, and 5,000 more pupils will learn it, George Osborne has announced on a visit to China.
  
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• George Osborne wants British children to learn Chinese in school

  22-09-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chancellor George Osborne, who announced the cash during a five-day visit to China, said his aim was that more than 5,000 additional pupils will study the language by 2020
  
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• George Osborne defends David Cameron over Lord Ashcroft PigGate book allegations

  22-09-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor said: “I think the British people had their verdict on David Cameron’s premiership just a couple of months ago"
  
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• Schizophrenic carer killed his mother whose life was living hell

  22-09-2015 22:58
  
  A SON bludgeoned his 95-year-old mother to death with a wrench after she repeatedly pleaded with him to end her life, a court heard.
  
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• Ministers 'allowed' Addenbrooke's Hospital to fail thousands of patients

  22-09-2015 22:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge has been put in special measures after watchdogs rated it inadequate and unsafe. In the maternity unit inspectors found high levels of laughing gas.
  
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• World Architecture Festival reveals the world's most amazing places to pray

  22-09-2015 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The religious buildings, located as far apart as the U.S., Asia and the Middle East, are all due to feature in the upcoming World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
  
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• Watch 'superpod' of thousands of dolphins leaping out the water in joyous natural phenomenon

  22-09-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sometimes dolphins just feel the need to get together in HUGE numbers
  
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• VIDEO: Pope Francis lands to cheers in US

  22-09-2015 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Obama and his Family have greeted Pope Francis upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
  
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• Polish court to rule on Roman Polanski's US extradition request over child sex

  22-09-2015 22:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  America requested the extradition from Poland of the 82-year-old film director, who has Polish and French nationality, after he made a high-profile appearance in Warsaw in October 2014.
  
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• How the over-50s make up one third of UK workforce

  22-09-2015 22:28
  
  THE number of over-50s still at work has hit record levels, official figures have revealed.
  
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• Commonwealth Games in Glasgow fail to inspire more people to exercise

  22-09-2015 22:12
  
  Last year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has had virtually no impact on the amount of physical activity undertaken by people in Scotland, according to newly-published figures published.
  
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• Swedish porn star jumps into Spanish bullring before being dragged away by matador

  22-09-2015 22:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amina Axelsson (pictured), who lives in Spain, clambered into the ring in Marbella and unveiled a banner which read 'Stop Bullfighting', provided by the charity PETA UK.
  
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• Four men arrested after Eaton Square break in

  22-09-2015 22:07 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The incident happened on a residential street which features in Downton Abbey
  
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• Cornish grandmother has managed to grow a PINEAPPLE on her windowsill

  22-09-2015 22:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kath Paciuszko, pictured, 66, from Truro, planted the top of a shop-bought pineapple in soil to see if it would grow and fruit. Her wish was granted – eventually – after a six-year wait.
  
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• Revolt over 'draconian' public school head

  22-09-2015 22:04 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An online petition has been set up to remove Richard Pleming
  
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• 'Pleming Out': Revolt over 'draconian' Charterhouse head

  22-09-2015 22:04 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  An online petition has been set up to remove Richard Pleming over his controversial leadership methods, described by one former pupil as "over the top" and "harsh"
  
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• Trident: Labour set for ideological showdown after officials agree to debate scrapping nuclear programme

  22-09-2015 21:43
  
  Labour is set for its first big ideological showdown of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership after officials agreed to give members a vote on scrapping Trident at the party’s annual conference next week.
  
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• Daughter of man who killed himself after being declared fit for work warns many more people will die

  22-09-2015 21:42
  
  The daughter of a man with severe depression who killed himself after having been  declared fit for work says more people will die unless the Government changes the way benefits are assessed.
  
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• Driverless lorry ploughs into house - leaving badly damaged building close to collapse

  22-09-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The driver of the lorry was not in it at the time and it is believed a problem with the breaks led the lorry to move
  
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• David Cameron swipes at Lord Ashcroft over his explosive biography

  22-09-2015 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Cameron had so far maintained a public silence on Lord Ashcroft's explosive biography, detailing the lurid allegations of drug-taking, lying and unsavoury activities with a dead pig.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: It won’t be the easiest day for Tim Farron...

  22-09-2015 21:38
  
  Only in the Liberal Democrats. Understandably, Norman Lamb went through “internal torture”, as he explained on 22 September, before finally deciding to run for the leadership of a party which lost all but eight of its 56 seats.  And then he lost. This is not a winning streak. Yet he  made the whole experience sound like one of the most life enhancing of his career. He was “so glad” he had taken part in an “energetic” and “upbeat” contest.
  
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• BT announces ultrafast broadband as it begins bid to avoid break-up by Ofcom

  22-09-2015 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The telecoms giant announced increased rural coverage and an investment of billions but rivals said the plan was a ploy to protect its interests
  
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