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• Care for the elderly has been "cut to the bare bones", a charity has warned

  06-10-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Almost a third of the near 1.85 million requests for social care support for the elderly or disabled in 2014-15 were denied, figures show
  
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• ISIS rely on Twitter to pump out Islamic jihad propaganda

  06-10-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Facebook has succeeded in ejecting jihadist propaganda but Twitter struggles to police the extremists
  
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• Shocking CCTV footage shows thug punching man to the ground in front of his young child

  06-10-2015 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police have released CCTV of the incident which appears to show the boy, believed to be about 12-years-old, in the care of the suspect
  
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• Dear Coleen: I've been left 'washed-up' by my on-off boyfriend

  06-10-2015 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  I have tried ending things with him countless times, but then he texts me and I reply, and so it starts again
  
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• Norwich man Alexander Kerry is jailed for battering Pauline King to death

  06-10-2015 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alexander Kerry, 23, of Norwich, broke into the dilapidated home of ‘reclusive spinster’ Pauline King, 84, and beat her to death with two hammers.
  
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• Huge python nearly crushes pet shop worker to death as he was feeding him

  06-10-2015 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police officers found Terry Wilkens unresponsive on the ground as the python continued to squeeze his body and saved him by grabbing the snake's head
  
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• Lord Sugar thinks he knows all about the poor - but he should try Walking the Breadline

  06-10-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  I wish he had met Marianne Phillips, a grandmother who had walked 160 miles to be at the demonstration against Tory cuts in Manchester
  
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• Dear Coleen: I want to cheat on my chronically ill wife

  06-10-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We have discussed my frustrations and she has said she understands, but would be disappointed if I went elsewhere
  
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• Viral video charting 100 years of wedding dress fashion gets more than THREE MILLION views

  06-10-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video charts 100 years of wedding dress fashion from elegant lace to puffball meringues and back again
  
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• Dear Coleen: I'm so sad as my daughter has cut me off from my grandchild

  06-10-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  I don’t know where my daughter is living and the only contact I have is through Facebook
  
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• WATCH: Incredible moment it starts RAINING at supermarket checkout aisles

  06-10-2015 23:26
  
  THIS is the incredible moment it started raining in a supermarket aisle in front of shocked shoppers.
  
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• The Wellington barmaid sprays chanting Stoke City supporters with fire extinguisher

  06-10-2015 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The supporters were in the beer garden of The Wellington pub in Birmingham ahead of their away clash with Aston Villa on Saturday when the barmaid hosed them down.
  
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• Top Tory claims HALF of NHS beds are facing the axe fuelling fears of health privatisation

  06-10-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lord Prior – now NHS Productivity Minister – emailed a consultancy firm after it paid for him to tour private health facilities in the US
  
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• Ordinary people will suffer as a result of brutal Tory cuts to our heroic police

  06-10-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  They are happy for officers to give their lives, as PC David Phillips did, when necessary - just so long as it doesn’t cost too much money
  
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• 'Facebook has ruined my life': Man called Something Long and Complicated 'loses' precious photos in row over name

  06-10-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wedding pics are among the thousands which cannot be accessed after Facebook administrators allegedly blocked the account
  
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• Doctor Foster is about to get her revenge but here's how some real cheated partners got their own back

  06-10-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The BBC1 show, which is attracting 7.5 million viewers, tells the story of GP Gemma Foster who discovers her husband Simon is having an affair
  
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• Hatton Garden robbery hearing told millions of pounds of cash and diamonds remains missing

  06-10-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A pre-trial hearing at Woolwich crown court today was told that the amount recovered was 'very significantly less than the amount taken'
  
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• Hatton Garden heist hearing told millions of pounds of cash and diamonds remains missing

  06-10-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A pre-trial hearing at Woolwich crown court today was told that the amount recovered was 'very significantly less than the amount taken'
  
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• What is the junior doctors contract row about?

  06-10-2015 22:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Government plans to impose a new contract on doctors next year. We look at the changes that have angered junior doctors
  
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• Boris Johnson demands Britain gets tough on EU

  06-10-2015 22:59
  
  BORIS Johnson last night made an impassioned plea for Britain’s immigration controls to be wrested back from the EU.
  
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• Student becomes Britain’s youngest magistrate at the age of 18

  06-10-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alex Hyne will rule on low-level criminal cases including theft and assault in Chatham and Dartford, Kent
  
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• NASA releases stunning pictures of real-life locations from Matt Damon Hollywood blockbuster The Martian

  06-10-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two landing sites for the Ares 3 and Ares 4 missions depicted in the movie can be seen in the images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft
  
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• NASA releases pictures of real-life locations from Matt Damon Hollywood blockbuster The Martian

  06-10-2015 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two landing sites for the Ares 3 and Ares 4 missions depicted in the movie can be seen in the images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft
  
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• Group of 15 suspected illegal immigrants found hiding in back of lorry

  06-10-2015 22:49
  
  A GROUP of suspected illegal migrants have been arrested after they were found hiding in a lorry.
  
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• Tesco plea bargain talks with Serious Fraud Office over accounts scandal

  06-10-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Serious Fraud Office launched a probe after a £263million hole in its profits was exposed, later revised up to £326m
  
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• Bodybuilder 'killed transgender escort wife in jealous rage after discovering her having sex with a client'

  06-10-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joaquin Gomez-Hernandez, 24, burst into tears after witnessing 33 year-old Vanessa Santillan frolicking with the man at their Fulham flat
  
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• WATCH: Huge fight breaks out at Walthamstow station in London

  06-10-2015 22:40
  
  POLICE had to break up a huge fight between teenagers outside Walthamstow Central station in London.
  
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• WWII veteran George Evans 'sacked from Remembrance Day parade for pacifist poem'

  06-10-2015 22:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  George Evans, 92, who lives in Wellington, Shropshire, had read the town's traditional poem remembering the fallen at the memorial service for a staggering 25 years.
  
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• Gang filmed smashing their way into jewellers and escaping on scooters with £30k stash - are jailed

  06-10-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage has been released of the five men, and 17-year-old, who used sledgehammers, a pick axe handle and an axe in the heist
  
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• Great British Bake Off finalists were chosen to get a ‘representative mix’ of Britain

  06-10-2015 22:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Great British Bake Off's executive producer Anna Beattie has revealed that the 12 finalists were not solely chosen for their creative cakes, mouth-watering pastries and daring bread sculptures.
  
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• Party girl caught out over £95,000 benefit fraud

  06-10-2015 22:24
  
  A BENEFITS cheat pocketed £95,000 by claiming to be housebound after a car crash, but was found to be rocking and raving at music festivals across the UK.
  
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• Sainsbury's uses legal loophole to keep part of new 5p 'charity' charge for plastic bags

  06-10-2015 22:19 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Supermarket giant is giving less to charity than its rivals, it has been claimed
  
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• Great British Bake Off favourite poised to land book deal and TV career

  06-10-2015 22:16 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Nadya Hussain, originally from Luton, is riding the wave of success on the Great British Bake Off after the nation took her to its heart
  
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• Boris Johnson joins the revolt against brutal Tory cuts against the poor

  06-10-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mayor of London became the latest top Tory to hit out at the cruel plan to strip more than three million working families of around £1,200-a-year
  
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• United Airlines plane forced to make emergency landing after co-pilot falls unconscious during flight

  06-10-2015 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The United Airlines Boeing 787 jet was around halfway into its journey when the co-pilot fell ill in the cockpit and later lost consciousness
  
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• Brit stabbed by taxi driver in Ibiza THANKS him for helping turn his life around

  06-10-2015 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 24-year-old lawyer’s son said the near-death experience had made him decide to give up his job as a club promoter, quit alcohol and start doing more sport.
  
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• Care home workers got elderly residents up for breakfast at 4am inspectors found

  06-10-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Staff at Pink Panther Care Home in east Hull, even admitted to getting one resident out of bed at 3am
  
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• Tories will destroy universities as they don't appreciate them, warns Oxford's vice chancellor

  06-10-2015 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The academic blasted the threat of possible cuts to research funding and warned fees could hit poorer students
  
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• Man used JCB to cause £40,000 of damage to his OWN pub after being refused a drink

  06-10-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark Swistun, 45, was held after laying into the building in Swansea with the 28-ton digger during the night
  
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• Battle to raise cash to fly home teen footballer who suffered heart attack in Turkey

  06-10-2015 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jordan Burndred is on life support and needs specialist air ambulance to fly him back to the UK for treatment
  
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• Watch bubble football game go horribly wrong as player suffers horrific leg break

  06-10-2015 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unlucky player is said to have snapped his medial collateral ligament and cracked his fibula in the eye-watering collision
  
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• Having a quick temper can double the risk of dying early

  06-10-2015 21:43
  
  ROAD rage and other angry outbursts can drastically shorten your life, according to a study.
  
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• Oscar Pistorius's family claim killer athlete's rights are being "undermined" by delays over prison release

  06-10-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Speaking out for the first time over the drawn-out saga of Pistorius's release, his family said they are "disconcerted by the constant delays"
  
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• £1 home goes up for auction and could do with a lick of paint - (or maybe even a bulldozer)

  06-10-2015 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The building has extensive fire damage, practically no roof and almost everything needs doing - still interested?
  
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• Heart doctor fired for watching child porn can go back to work

  06-10-2015 21:13
  
  A HEART doctor who claimed the stress of NHS red tape made him look at child pornography will be allowed to continue working.
  
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• Man with no butt crack opens up about his bizarre - and painful - condition

  06-10-2015 21:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The user told reddit theabnormality is caused by severe pilonidal cysts on his tailbone
  
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• Ashford father’s fury after Leisure Trust bans son from wearing a swimming top

  06-10-2015 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mike Atkins, 44, and his son Ben were approached by a member of staff who took exception to the seven-year-old wearing a top while swimming at the Stour Centre in Ashford, Kent.
  
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• 'Ten seconds of carelessness' ended in death of British teenager on French Alps lift, court hears

  06-10-2015 21:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Ski lift operator apologises for cleaning tools in hut when Kieran Brookes, a British teenager on a school trip to the French Alps, was strangled by his backpack after failing to get off
  
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• Turkish officials defend dragging Kurdish protester's body along road

  06-10-2015 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: The man, named as actor Haci Lokman Birlik, was allegedly killed in Sirna province by Turkish security forces in unclear circumstances.
  
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• 'My kids have already lost their dad but if my cancer returns I know my sister will care for them'

  06-10-2015 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After losing her husband to Motor Neurone Disease Clare Coulston, who herself has battled cancer, is now having to make heartbreaking plans for the future
  
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