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• Mystery as Uri Geller's bent spoon statue vanishes days after being unveiled

  15-10-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The controversial bright red spoon statue has vanished without any explanation from Sonning where the celebrity psychic once lived
  
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• Final 2 journalists cleared in £30m cash-for-stories police investigation

  15-10-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sun employees Chris Pharo and Jamie Pyatt were the last to face trial under the Met Police's Operation Elveden - which has seen just two journalists convicted
  
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• What's it like to answer angry tweets about trains?

  15-10-2015 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What's it like to answer angry tweets about train delays?
  
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• Friends of two men killed in car crash raise thousands to pay for their funerals

  15-10-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A GoFundMe page has been set up in memory of Rhys Jones and Ryan Gibbons who died when car hit a telegraph pole.
  
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• This grumpy cat looks like an Ewok and the internet is freaking out

  15-10-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  And the moggy - who looks like a bona fide Endor native - has created a something of a stir on social media site Reddit
  
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• Children's cancer charity boss featured on 'Secret Millionaire' arrested on suspicion of fraud

  15-10-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The founder of Little Heroes Cancer Trust was arrested and questioned before being released on police bail
  
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• Tragic cancer sufferer dies five years after disease claimed life of her baby daughter

  15-10-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charlene Campbell, 33, died after bravely battling breast cancer, five years after watching baby Myla lose her fight against brain cancer
  
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• Daughter of Coronation Street legend Johnny Briggs 'stalked by man who waited for her outside work'

  15-10-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A court heard that Edward Crawford, 40, began a campaign of harassment against 33-year-old actress Stephanie Briggs which lasted more than three months
  
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• Becky Watts' relatives weep as 'death kit' with circular saw and knife hidden is revealed

  15-10-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jurors were shown a stun gun which they were told was taken to Becky’s home by her step-brother Nathan Matthews and his girlfriend Shauna Hoare
  
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• Meet the 20-year-old whose feet have officially become the largest in the world

  15-10-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jeison Orlando Rodriguez Hernandez stepped into his new role wearing a size 59 shoe
  
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• Yellow and red card warnings for noisy Hampstead gardeners

  15-10-2015 23:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Gardeners who make too much noise in the exclusive London neighbourhood could be issued with yellow and red card notices
  
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• A Bridge too far as card games bid to become a sport is rejected

  15-10-2015 23:43
  
  BRIDGE players have lost a High Court battle to have the card game recognised as a sport.
  
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• The Russian shamans who can cure medical conditions by touching you with a bear claw 

  15-10-2015 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These stunning images show the work of shamans who claim to heal, predict the future and improve people's popularity in a remote area of the Siberian mountains.
  
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• Sundial discovered by accident in muddy field is rare 14th century device worth £80,000

  15-10-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ancient time-keeper is the oldest English scientific instrument to have been presented for sale at Christie’s
  
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• Georgian oligarch Kakha Bendukidze's widow in High Court battle for her inheritance

  15-10-2015 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anastasia Goncharova, 24, claims to be the heir to Kakha Bendukidze, a heavy industry mogul and political giant in the former Soviet state who died in London last year.
  
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• One Direction earn £202k a DAY - and have invested their money wisely

  15-10-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The group have already sold more than 45 million records and have been on mega tours four times since 2011
  
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• Vladimir Putin’s a genuinely lovely bloke, says Elton John’s hubby David Furnish

  15-10-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Russian leader phoned the singer to discuss gay rights – although presumably his niceness doesn’t include invading the Crime or backing Syrian tyrants
  
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• Care firm run by £1.5m-a-year Tory peer investigated for ''institutional abuse'' of elderly patients

  15-10-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One council tore up a contract with MiHomecare after a dementia patient was left in her chair for five hours with no food, drink or access to the toilet
  
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• Burntwood School scoops Britain’s most prestigious architecture prize 

  15-10-2015 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Burntwood School has won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize after the 1950s buildings of the large comprehensive in Wandsworth, south London, were transformed.
  
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• Italian navy lay wreath on the deck of where 800 migrants drowned

  15-10-2015 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 100 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a fishing boat believed to have been carrying up to 800 migrants and refugees when it sunk in the Mediterranean earlier this year.
  
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• Baroness Mone takes Lords seat

  15-10-2015 23:17
  
  SCOTS lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone was introduced to the House of Lords for the first time yesterday.
  
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• Sturgeon promises £3bn to tackle housing shortage

  15-10-2015 23:09
  
  NICOLA Sturgeon yesterday pledged £3billion to tackle Scotland’s housing crisis as she sought to play down the prospect of an immediate independence referendum.
  
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• Alan Yentob under fire for alarmist Kids Company claims

  15-10-2015 23:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and former chairman Alan Yentob are grilled by MPs over claims parts of London would 'descend into savagery' without the charity's support
  
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• Middle-aged depression connected to Alzheimer’s

  15-10-2015 22:50
  
  MIDDLE-AGED people who have depressive thoughts are three times more likely to develop dementia later in life, new research has found.
  
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• Turkey starts building a wall along border with Syriato halt jihadis joining ISIS

  15-10-2015 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Turkey has begun construction on a 500-mile concrete wall along its border with Syria, including barbed wire and surveillance drones. But critics claim the drastic move is too little, too late.
  
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• Pluto mission's first journal paper

  15-10-2015 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first scientific paper to come out of the New Horizons probe's historic flyby of Pluto is published and raises questions about its formation.
  
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• Scots police to question Lockerbie ‘most wanted’

  15-10-2015 22:21
  
  SCOTS prosecutors have identified two prime suspects they believe were key ­conspirators in the Lockerbie bomb plot.
  
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• 'Save our steel industry' workers and unions plead as Redcar plant closes

  15-10-2015 22:21
  
  A CALL for urgent action to save Britain’s steel industry will be made today.
  
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• 'Calais migrant' killed after walking along motorway slip road

  15-10-2015 22:06
  
  A 'CALAIS MIGRANT' was killed walking along a high-speed motorway slip road. The M20 was closed for seven hours after the man died following a collision at around 7am yesterday.
  
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• Catalonia leader Artur Mas summoned to answer charges of civil disobedience

  15-10-2015 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Catalan regional presidentArtur Mas, pictured, told a massive rally today in Barcelona that court proceedings against him for calling an independence referendum last year were 'political'.
  
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• Murder and rape on the rise with violent crimes up by a QUARTER in London

  15-10-2015 22:00
  
  THE number of violent sex offences being carried in England and Wales has hit a record high, new figures show.
  
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• Robot hand can sense touch thanks to revolutionary “plastic” skin that can feel

  15-10-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Doctors hope the technology could lead to a new wave of prosthetic devices which allow the user to detect temperature and pressure
  
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• Parents' devastation after young daughter wakes up unable to move OR talk

  15-10-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Isabel Brookshaw, nine, was just healthy girl in June 2013, just about to take her SATs, when disaster suddenly struck
  
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• Tory minister Amber Rudd criticised for failing to drive down household energy bills

  15-10-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Energy Secretary has been accused of focusing on handing over UK cash to foreign firms to build a new nuclear power station
  
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• Prince William pays tribute to mum Diana: ''Grief is the most painful experience a child or parent can endure''

  15-10-2015 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wills, who was 15 when his mother was killed in a car accident in Paris in 1997, was addressing guests at the 21st birthday for Child Bereavement UK
  
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• Size 6 model in Facebook "f**k you" after agency 'said she was too big' and 'needed to lose weight'

  15-10-2015 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charli Howard, 23, said she was no longer prepared to meet "ridiculous, unobtainable beauty standards"
  
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• Family of British holidaymaker killed by hit-and-run driver in Miami Beach remember ‘amazing family guy’

  15-10-2015 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Hamilton, 27, from Chester, died at the scene after being struck by convertible BMW in Miami Beach, Florida, in the early hours of Tuesday morning
  
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• Winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2015 announced: in pictures

  15-10-2015 21:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain's best new building announced by the Royal Institute of British Architects
  
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• Volkswagen ordered to recall 8.5million cars in Europe over “cheat-switch” scandal

  15-10-2015 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  All the vehicles affected by the controversy, including nearly 1.2m in the UK, will have to return to garages to be put right
  
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• Single mum who shamed David Cameron in PMQs ''feels terrified'' by tax credits assault

  15-10-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nursery manager Kelly Ward, 39, will lose £1,800 a year and said of the Prime Minister: "He says they’re a party for the working people. Rubbish"
  
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• ‘My dead husband would be glad his best friend is looking after me and his children’

  15-10-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michelle Nicklin lost Jamie, 24, to cancer when she was pregnant with their twins but found happiness again by marrying his pal Kevin and having another child
  
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• British teen who got obsessed with ISIS and downloaded bomb manual walks FREE from court

  15-10-2015 21:20
  
  A BRITISH schoolgirl who downloaded bomb-making guides and plotted to hack the White House after becoming obsessed with Islamic State has WALKED FREE after a judge spared her jail.
  
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• Cameron reveals he will lay out long-awaited demands for EU reform in a FORTNIGHT

  15-10-2015 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister this afternoon said he would accelerate the discussions as he bowed to pressure to set out a timetable for laying out his proposed reforms.
  
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