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• Green energy overtakes coal as more than a quarter of our electricity comes from renewables

  24-09-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Higher wind speeds, more solar panels and an increase in rainfall all boosted renewables
  
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• NHS chief: Top doctors to be sent to rural hospitals

  24-09-2015 23:48 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Simon Stevens, the head of the health service, wants experts at specialist centres to 'extend their reach more widely'
  
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• Four killed in horror duck boat crash with bus full of students

  24-09-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emergency crews in Seattle said 44 people were taken to hospital and 12 were said to be in a critical condition
  
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• Sturgeon admits GM crops ban not based on scientific advice

  24-09-2015 23:45
  
  NICOLA Sturgeon has finally admitted her government did not consult its chief scientific adviser for rural affairs before banning genetically modified crops.
  
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• Holyrood expenses claims are revealed

  24-09-2015 23:34
  
  MSPs charged taxpayers more than £34,000 a day last year on expenses.
  
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• Has Mona Lisa's body been found? Experts discover woman's bone fragments in hidden tomb

  24-09-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Historians believe they have found the remains of the noblewoman who sat for Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece
  
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• Shocking images show horrific cruelty of rabbits farmed for pet food

  24-09-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Undercover investigation into vile industry will horrify the owners of Britain’s nine million dogs and eight million cats
  
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• Most suicide bombers are sad and exploited individuals who masquerade as holy “martyrs” says expert

  24-09-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Harrowing footage shows young suicide bomber weeping "I'm just scared I won't succeed," before final mission in Syria. In reality, he's probably crying because he's scared and doesn't want to die says terror expert
  
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• Breastfeeding mum who made up story about Primark guard grabbing her baby facing jail

  24-09-2015 23:24
  
  A MOTHER who made up a fanciful lie about a Primark security guard snatching her baby from her while she was breastfeeding has been warned she could be sent to jail.
  
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• Laurel and Hardy's hometowns set to be twinned to celebrate "truly unique bond"

  24-09-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Councillors in Ulverston, Cumbria, voted unanimously to become a friendship town with Harlem, Georgia
  
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• 13,000 people chasing 100 train driver jobs

  24-09-2015 23:19
  
  NEARLY 13,000 people have applied for 100 train driver jobs on Scotland’s railways in one week.
  
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• Scientists reveal lessons in lying, helped by Sharon Stone, Mad Men and a full bladder

  24-09-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scientists have identified some of the key techniques to a successful porkie, from looking sharp to sexing it up
  
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• VW scandal: British cars face emissions retests as ministers launch own investigation

  24-09-2015 23:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announces inquiry which could see all new models of diesel cars on sale in Britain retested amid Volkswagen emissions data crisis
  
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• Channel 4 may be privatised according to Downing Street official's document

  24-09-2015 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An unknown official was pictured walking into Downing Street in central London today carrying a 'secret' document setting out options for a Channel 4 sell-off, which are being discussed at cabinet level.
  
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• Spanish children who want to play for their local UK team banned by FIFA

  24-09-2015 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alvaro, 13, and Ignacio Escolano, 11, moved from Malaga to Newark, Nottinghamshire, three months ago to join their father Jose, who works as a civil engineer, but cannot yet join RHP Colts.
  
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• Paul O’Grady’s For The Love of Dogs causes huge surge in donations to Battersea Dogs’ Home

  24-09-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The award-winning show was screened in 2012 and since then annual donations have surged from £3.1m in 2011 to last year’s record of £15.9m
  
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• Jason Conroy stalked and strangled Melissa Mathieson before having sex with body

  24-09-2015 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jason Conroy, 19, attacked Melissa Mathieson, 18, in her bedroom at the residential home in Bristol where they both lived, just hours after she had told staff he had been 'stalking' her.
  
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• Scientists reveal way to help prevent women going into premature labour

  24-09-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pre-eclampsia, when a pregnant woman develops high blood pressure and protein in the urine, is one of the most common medical complications
  
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• Developer fined £200,000 over death of bricklayer crushed by unsafe wall his boss ignored warning over

  24-09-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dad-of-one Gareth Jones, 28, was working in St Albans, Herts, when the tragedy happened in January 2013
  
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• BBC presenter admits some of its audiences are politically biased

  24-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jonathan Dimbleby said the Any Questions audience is not balanced and blamed government cost-cutting for leaving the BBC 'cash strapped'
  
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• BBC presenter admits some of its audiences are politically bias

  24-09-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jonathan Dimbleby said the Any Questions audience is not balanced and blamed government cost-cutting for leaving the BBC 'cash strapped'
  
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• Scots ‘geek’ says calculator helped him to £2.2m lotto win

  24-09-2015 22:58
  
  A self-confessed geek who scooped £2.2million on the lottery claims he came up with his winning numbers by using a scientific calculator.
  
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• NASA releases incredible image of the expanding remains of star that exploded 8,000 years ago

  24-09-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Veil Nebula is 110 light-years across, covering six full moons as seen from Earth and resides about 2,100 light-years away
  
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• BBC Earth Unplugged reveals how predators capture and devour their prey

  24-09-2015 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From crocodiles leaping out of riverbeds to the mantis ensnaring small insects, the fascinating video offers a glimpse into methods of hunting finely-tuned through generations of evolution.
  
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• Elderly woman with dementia found dead days after police failed to follow up possible sighting

  24-09-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The force has apologised to the family of Janet McKay, 88, whose body was found today in Glasgow
  
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• Rebound sex and Netflix: Viral video reveals 5 stages every girl goes through after a breakup

  24-09-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Though it might seem like the world has ended, this viral video will show you there is life after love
  
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• Jeremy Kyle splits from his model wife Carla after moaning about his sex life

  24-09-2015 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ITV star, 49, is said to have separated amicably from wife Carla Germaine after 13 years, and three children, together. They are pictured together in January last year.
  
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• Family pay tribute to 'fantastic' lawyer shot dead outside Berlin nightclub by 'cowboy hat killer'

  24-09-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Oxford graduate Luke Holland was fatally wounded outside a nightclub in the German capital in the early hours of Sunday morning
  
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• Channel 4 sell-off plans revealed as cameras snap Downing Street aide with secret papers

  24-09-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Critics say privatisation of the state-owned broadcaster would mean ad revenue going to shareholders, not programme-making
  
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• Teenager who drank three cups of green tea a day develops hepatitis

  24-09-2015 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unnamed 16-year-old, arrived at a Birmingham hospital after suffering vomiting and jaundice. She was found to have hepatitis due to Chinese green tea she had bought online to lose weight.
  
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• Iranian 'Illegal' immigrant begs Manchester police to kick him out of the UK

  24-09-2015 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Arash Aria, 25, said he was desperate to leave because of the ‘rudeness and violence’ in the city. Handing himself in at a police station, he told officers he had been in the UK illegally for ten years.
  
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• Murder probe launched after beauty student Sarrah Garba found dead in flat

  24-09-2015 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 27-year-old, who was originally from France, was studying beauty and had been living in the North East for the last 18 months
  
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• “Jackie Collins kept her breast cancer secret but I don’t regret tweeting I had it”

  24-09-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sky news presenter Jacquie Beltrao said announcing her diagnosis meant she benefited from a huge amount of public support
  
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• Michael Gove wasting millions of pounds on upkeep of EMPTY court buildings the Tories shut down

  24-09-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Since 2010, more than 100 courts have been axed but the government is blowing nearly £500,000 a year on their upkeep
  
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• City trader posed as a multi-millionaire with links to the Vatican in £73m fraud, court hears

  24-09-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Gang of fraudsters posed as international financiers with links to Vatican in £73m fraud, jury hears
  
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• Pale thief caught on CCTV nicking fake tan from chemist

  24-09-2015 21:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  CCTV footage shows him cycling past the shop before heading inside and putting the items into an orange bag before walking away
  
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• Alzheimer's scandal: Government adviser Dame Sally Davies backtracks over claims she tried to discredit study

  24-09-2015 21:57 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  It is alleged that Dame Sally received confidential information under the strict embargo terms of the journal Nature
  
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• Second man arrested after 3 serious sexual assaults in Cardiff city centre spark warning to students

  24-09-2015 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Women are being advised to walk in pairs at night and to stick to well-lit areas
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn faces Labour Party Conference showdown on Syria air strikes

  24-09-2015 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The party leader is sceptical of David Cameron’s plan to extend strikes against ISIS from Iraq - but several members of his shadow cabinet support action
  
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• Teenage girl develops hepatitis after drinking too much green tea

  24-09-2015 21:47 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The 16-year-old drank three cups of green tea every day for three months to slim down, which doctors say caused her kidney infection
  
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• VW crisis: Volvo, Renault and Hyundai could all fail future EU tests

  24-09-2015 21:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The International Council on Clean Transportation said the three car makers "would very likely be unfit to pass" new rules
  
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• Man in wheelchair shot dead by police 'after refusing to put hands up'

  24-09-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disturbing footage captured the incident in Delaware which resulted in the death of 28-year-old Jeremy McDole
  
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• Black man in wheelchair shot dead by police 'after refusing to put hands up'

  24-09-2015 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disturbing footage captured the incident in Delaware which resulted in the death of 28-year-old Jeremy McDole
  
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• Black cab driver arrested after 4am 'hit and run' left graduate fighting for her life

  24-09-2015 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Melissa Lews was left for dead in the street with serious head injuries
  
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• Tourists' horror after man shot dead in broad daylight by 'hitman' in Costa del Sol

  24-09-2015 21:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Irishman, was shot on a gated estate in Miraflores at around 11.30am this morning
  
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• Germany's Giessen asylum centre rife in rape and child abuse as refugee crisis grows

  24-09-2015 21:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Physician and politician Klaus-Dieter Grothe said the abuses taking place among the 5,000 migrants crammed into an old US military base in the city of Giessen, Germany, were 'unacceptable'.
  
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• iPhone 6s hands-on video review: First impressions of Apple's latest smartphone

  24-09-2015 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Is the brand new mobile phone a must-have or should you spend your cash on something else?
  
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• Cardeff sex attacks see two arrested after warnings to women to walk in pairs

  24-09-2015 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Women in Cardiff have been warned to walk in pairs at night in the city centre after three sex attacks in just five days. Detectives have urged people to walk around at night in pairs or groups.
  
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• Scientists discover how human teeth evolved - and the answer is a bit fishy

  24-09-2015 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  For the first time researchers reveal our enamel evolved from the scales of ancient fish more than 400 million years old
  
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• Daily dose of vitamin C can slash your risk of heart attacks

  24-09-2015 21:08
  
  A DAILY dose of vitamin C could By Tony Brooks prevent strokes and heart attacks and provide protection against blindness and diabetes.
  
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