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• Man caught filming IN COURT on mobile phone jailed for three months for contempt

  23-09-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jack Towes pleaded guilty to a single count of contempt, in which he even filmed the sign that tells people not to film
  
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• Dalai Lama suggests his successor should be 'a very attractive woman'

  23-09-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tibetan spiritual leader said there was no reason a woman could not replace him, adding that she would be more biologically suited to show affection and compassion
  
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• Blonde teaching assistant who admitted having sex with teenage schoolboy avoids jail

  23-09-2015 23:52
  
  A BLONDE teaching assistant who had sex with a teenage schoolboy nearly half her age has walked free from court despite owning up to the fling.
  
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• Missing 12-year-old Joshua Oxley found 'safe and well' in Leeds city centre

  23-09-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police thanked members of the public for their help after the schoolboy disappeared
  
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• Pensioner caught drink-driving claims she finished off bottle of wine because RECYCLING collection was due

  23-09-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sylvia Minicking, 67, was pulled over by police who saw her driving erratically on her morning shopping trip to Lidl, a court heard.
  
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• CCTV police officers refuse to help security guard grappling with shoplifter

  23-09-2015 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pc Jonathan Webb (pictured) has been fired for telling a shop manager in Liverpool city centre that he and his colleagues couldn't help because they didn't have the correct equipment.
  
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• Prince William and Prince Harry gave DIY SOS "a real boost" says host Nick Knowles

  23-09-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  William and Harry got their hands dirty as part of a mission to turn one street’s rundown properties into homes for ex-service personnel
  
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• Grotesque mutilation of girls and women cannot be tolerated whatever their culture

  23-09-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prosecuting the perpetrators, including parents who send daughters abroad to be maimed, would send out a powerful signal
  
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• PC sacked for ignoring security guard's SOS

  23-09-2015 23:31
  
  A POLICE officer who failed to help a security guard grappling in the street with a shoplifter was sacked for gross misconduct yesterday.
  
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• New GPs are being paid £1,080 a day to work weekends and evenings

  23-09-2015 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The doctors in Manchester are being paid £90 a hour for weekend work, as part of a Government scheme to encourage surgeries to stay open out of hours, Pulse magazine found.
  
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• Anti-terrorism cops arrested me in Sainsbury's a day after my exams - medical student tells court

  23-09-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Yousif Badri is charged with being involved in conduct “with the intention of committing acts of terrorism”
  
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• Police Minister plans to boost cops in Tory towns while Labour areas face cuts

  23-09-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Police Minister Jack Dromey said: “Penning’s proposals to give his own force a 31% rise while slashing funding for forces like Merseyside reeks of characteristic Tory unfairness.”
  
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• Kerber & Black on Coronation Street's shocking live episode

  23-09-2015 23:10 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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• Labour must be more patriotic to win next election, says Corbyn frontbencher

  23-09-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander warns the party has a broken brand and is losing older voters to the Conservative Party
  
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• Ukip offers cut price conference entry after poor ticket sales

  23-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Nigel Farage's party has cut the price of tickets for its Doncaster conference after sources confirmed 'significantly lower' sales than last year
  
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• British man shot dead outside Berlin nightclub by cowboy hat killer following suspected row over noise

  23-09-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Luke Holland, 31, an entrepreneur and part-time DJ, was blasted in the stomach as he left the Del Rex club soon after it closed at 6am
  
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• Aspiring model fears her career may be in tatters after she was jumped during night out

  23-09-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Siobhan Carter was with her boyfriend on Friday after a meal with family and friends when she said the pair were chased down an alleyway and beaten
  
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• Newly qualified GPs being paid £180 for a two-hour overtime shift

  23-09-2015 22:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Ivan Bennet of NHS Central Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group said “It is reasonable to pay extra for working unsocial hours"
  
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• Doctors diagnosing miscarriage 'too early'

  23-09-2015 22:52 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New study by Imperial College London reveald doctors should wait a further two weeks to carry out a second scan to confirm whether a pregnancy is viable rather than a week
  
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• Alexei Stolyarov who tricked Elton John with fake 'Putin' call gets TV show

  23-09-2015 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vladimir 'Vova' Krasnov and his partner Alexei 'Lexus' Stolyarov, tricked Sir Elton into a ten-minute-chat about gay rights, with the singer believing he was talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Woman who killed disabled partner by smothering him with pillow and sitting on him faces life in jail

  23-09-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lynn Stallard, 67, suffocated Louis Spires, 68, as he lay on a settee in their home on May 15 this year
  
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• Rare dutch tiles worth £50k hidden behind the fireplace saved by demolition man

  23-09-2015 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stephen Malton, who was contracted to destroy the one-time home of Victorian artist Arthur Bell, found the treasure trove in the wreckage of a grand resident in Southbourne, Dorset.
  
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• Lazy Brits keep running late for work – and it costs businesses £9bn a year

  23-09-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nearly four in 10 of us run late at least once a week and when we do actually arrive we’ll invent a reason why, a new survey reveals
  
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• The end of the 24-hour Tesco? Supermarket giant to close poorly used stores at midnight

  23-09-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Boss Dave Lewis has told management that stores will open at 6am and close at midnight in areas with low numbers of night-time shoppers
  
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• Cambridge don made up bogus archaeological projects to steal £220,000

  23-09-2015 22:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Cambridge don David Barrowclough doctored paperwork to make up fake archaeological projects to steal thousands in Lottery grants
  
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• Paul Smith goes on trial for murder after victim Ivan Barrs dies 11 years later

  23-09-2015 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paul Smith, 29, was sentenced to seven years in prison for a drunken and frenzied attack on Ivan Barrs in Leicester in 2003, but is now on trial for murder after Mr Barrs died last year.
  
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• Noddy Car was used to teach children road safety before WW2

  23-09-2015 22:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The old vehicle was the brainchild of health and safety officials who thought teaching kids, as young as seven, the basic skills of driving would stem a rising toll of road casualties. It's now on sale in Sherborne.
  
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• Shocking dashcam footage shows cyclist being knocked flying by car then run over AGAIN by second vehicle

  23-09-2015 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The vehicle can be seen swerving to try to avoid him but instead smashes into him, sending him hurtling into the path of another vehicle which then ploughs into him
  
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• Pensioner Sylvia Minicking caught drink driving drank wine for bin collection

  23-09-2015 22:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sylvia Minicking, pictured, was caught driving erratically by police on Boldon Lane in South Shields. She was pulled over on her morning shop at Lidl and was breathalysed
  
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• Schoolgirl killed by train at 'high risk' crossing may not have heard it because she was wearing headphones

  23-09-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sacha Wheeler, 14, was listening to music on her iPhone and blew a kiss to her mum moments before she died, a court heard
  
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• Dalai Lama says he could be succeeded by a 'very attractive' woman

  23-09-2015 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 80-year-old Dalai Lama said that he would welcome a female successor to his role - but only if she has a 'very atractive face' otherwise she would not be 'much use'.
  
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• Ex-First Minister Peter Robinson denies corruption claims over £1.2m property deal

  23-09-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The leader of Northern Ireland’s DUP said the claims, made by loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson, were “scurrilous and unfounded”
  
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• Feeling dizzy a few minutes after standing up could signal increased death risk

  23-09-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New research suggests feeling dizzy at least three minutes after standing up could signal a future increased risk of death and dementia
  
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• Doctors escape punishment despite claims they told patients to F*** Off

  23-09-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The General Medical Council has issued advice to 62 doctors who were accused of being rude or verbally abusive to patients, with claims that medics made smutty jokes and swore
  
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• Family in Algarve burglary death may have to wait weeks to learn if they will be charged

  23-09-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Trevor Taylor and his son Scott, who are said to have held thief Paulo Brito in a chokehold, are awaiting the results of postmortem
  
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• Majority of men don't wash hands after using toilet study finds - as expert warns over spread of bugs

  23-09-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Professor Adam Hart also warned people to keep toothbrushes two metres from their toilet to avoid contamination
  
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• George Osborne blows £3million of taxpayers' cash on developing grassroots football - in CHINA

  23-09-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tory Chancellor has given the money to the world’s second-richest nation while sport for young people in the UK is devastated by cuts
  
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• Russia to exhume remains of Tsar Nicholas II for testing in bid to prove if they are genuine

  23-09-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bones of his controversial German-born empress Alexandra will also be removed from a tomb in St Petersburg for new tests
  
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• Brain cancer child Ashya King 'put at risk by his parents' when they took him abroad for treatment

  23-09-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brett and Naghmeh King sparked an international police hunt when they removed their son from Southampton General Hospital in August 2014 to take him to Prague for proton beam therapy
  
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• Channel 4 presenter sparks racism storm with 'smiling like a split watermelon' description of Barack Obama

  23-09-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matt Frei, Europe Editor, has apologised for using the term which many claim has racist undertones
  
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• Mum's horror after her severely disabled son, three, wanders out of nursery ON HIS OWN

  23-09-2015 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jade Hughes was walking towards Our Lady and St Philomena’s Catholic Primary School near Liverpool when she spotted her child, Elliot, walking near a busy main road
  
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• Mercedes drivers have stand-off under a single-lane bridge shutting down road

  23-09-2015 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ridiculous incident took place in Maidenhead and occurred when an elderly man failed to give way to the woman in his Mercedes Benz when driving into the narrow tunnel.
  
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• 'Rude' and 'violent' people in Manchester drive immigrant back to Iran

  23-09-2015 21:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Arash Aria, who walked into Manchester police station demanding to be deported, speaks of his loneliness and disillusionment in the city
  
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• 'I was sterilised at 25 but I couldn’t let strangers adopt my niece and nephew'

  23-09-2015 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sam Lawday didn't want any more children but when her sister-in-law’s babies needed a home, she and husband Mike just had to step in
  
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• Cancer patient Ashya King's parents 'put him at risk', report reveals

  23-09-2015 21:22 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Ashya King, who was removed from hospital by his parents while undergoing treatment for a brain tumour, was "put at risk" by his parents, according to safeguarding report
  
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• Lion cub snapped monkeying around after getting its paw stuck in prickly branch

  23-09-2015 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The little lion wasn't waving or impersonating a monkey but trying to free itself from the bramch of a Shepherd's tree
  
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• Euromillions winner misses out on £1m jackpot after failing to claim the prize

  23-09-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The deadline has run out for the dream ticket, bought in Devon in March, and lottery bosses have reminded players to check their tickets
  
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• Pensioner caught drink-driving tells police she finished bottle for recycling collection

  23-09-2015 21:16 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sylvia Minicking, 67, was more than three times over the limit
  
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• Watch moment police find THIRTEEN illegal immigrants - including children - hiding in back of lorry at service station

  23-09-2015 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stunned motorists watched as officers opened the articulated lorry at Gaydon Service Station off the M40 in Warwickshire and a large group climbed out
  
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• Muslim family outraged after school REFUSES to let daughter have day off to celebrate major religious holiday

  23-09-2015 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The school is closed the day after Eid and the head said pupils should celebrate the festival that day instead
  
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