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• David Cameron treats China's Xi Jinping to a very British night at the pub

  22-10-2015 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The royal couple waved goodbye to the dignitaries outside Buckingham Palace, where President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan have been staying as their guests since Monday.
  
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• Schools issue warning to parents after man seen talking 'inappropriately' to children

  22-10-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Winifred Holtby Academy raised the alarm yesterday lunchtime and contacted primary schools which texted an alert and description to parents
  
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• Student told cops he couldn't have raped anyone as "I'm doing police sciences", court hears

  22-10-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The alleged victim said she woke up to find a man having sex with her
  
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• Samantha Cameron picks out Sophie Hulme bag for Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan

  22-10-2015 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister will give Xi Jinping and his wife a selection of parting gifts that best represent British design as the UK's high profile guests spend their last night at a private meal at Chequers.
  
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• Henry Hicks death: Cops could face charges over teenager's fatal moped crash

  22-10-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 18-year-old died after his scooter collided with vehicles in Islington, north London, on the evening of December 19 last year - he was being followed by two unmarked police cars at the time
  
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• Trojan Horse scandal schools 'employed teachers through secret clique and mosque'

  22-10-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It is alleged one teacher also attempted to convince pupils they were made of clay
  
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• James Beckett-Dunn ordered to pay man he punched £200 compensation 

  22-10-2015 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Beckett-Dunn, 29, admitted he was drunk on a cocktail of beer and shots when he attacked Ghali El Jalil Hamoudi leaving him with a bloody nose outside luxury flats in Sloane Square, London.
  
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• Experts reveal hi-tech extra-terrestrial cyberbattles to control surveillance satellites

  22-10-2015 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Satellites are becoming 'trophy attacks' for hackers, a a senior strategist at the European Space Agency has warned.
  
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• Solar power drags families out of fuel poverty but Government cutting subsidy while backing nuclear expansion

  22-10-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Solar panels are a success in Warrington, saving desperate people money and creating jobs - you'd think the “greenest government ever” would support them
  
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• Robert Mugabe is awarded China's version of the Nobel Peace Prize

  22-10-2015 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been awarded the Confucius Prize and praised his leadership in 'overcoming hardship.' Past winners include Vladimir Putin and Fidel Castro.
  
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• Deep-voiced monkeys 'may be all talk'

  22-10-2015 23:29 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Male howler monkeys with the most powerful voices - a trait that is useful for attracting females - also have the smallest testicles, study finds
  
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• TalkTalk customer data at risk following 'significant and sustained' cyber attack

  22-10-2015 23:25 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Police are investigating as the company says personal details including credit card details and bank details could be at risk
  
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• 'Shocking' statistics reveal animals endure 'severe' pain in 150,000 of two million experiments

  22-10-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tests on rabbits, horses, dogs and monkeys are ranked as mild, moderate or severe - and for the first time ever, the Government has revealed all
  
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• Driver who mowed into girl leaving her critically injured could face fresh charges following her death 9 years later

  22-10-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cerys Edwards was left needing round-the-clock care after driver Antonio Boparan’s Range Rover smashed into her family’s car in Streetly Lane, Sutton Coldfield
  
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• TalkTalk hacked: Cops probe "sustained and significant" cyber-attack on phone company

  22-10-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The phone and broadband provider, which has over four million customers in the UK, said credit cards, email addresses and bank details could have been accessed
  
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• Police chief says Tory cuts mean officers can't be expected to rush to all burglaries

  22-10-2015 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The next Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, who starts next week, said people would be better off changing locks before police arrive
  
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• George Osborne’s dad could be £50,000 better off thanks to his tax cuts

  22-10-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor’s father earned nearly £1.2million in the past two years as boss of wallpaper and fabric firm Osborne and Little
  
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• Clutha disaster report does little for bereaved

  22-10-2015 22:59
  
  THE RELATIVES of victims of the Clutha helicopter tragedy have demanded black box recorders are fitted in every aircraft.
  
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• Barratt offer golfers £20,000 each to buy Cambuslang course

  22-10-2015 22:52
  
  GOLF club members could be paid up to £20,000 each if they agree to sell their course to a property developer.
  
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• Emily Bronte beat up her dog and Charlotte was so spiteful children threw stones at her

  22-10-2015 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Although the Brontes have been written about more than any other literary family, it still comes as a shock to be reminded of just how weird they were.
  
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• Theresa May and Britain's top cop clash AGAIN as row over stop-and-search powers escalates

  22-10-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Home Secretary has accused Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe of a “knee-jerk reaction” after he linked a rise in knife crime to her stop-and-search crackdown
  
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• Drug dealer left wheelchair-bound and brain-damaged after being left for dead in brutal burglary

  22-10-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Karl Allen, 23, was left with "life-changing" injuries after a gang broke into his house and brutally beat him
  
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• David Cameron treats Chinese president to fish and chips and a pint of ale down the pub

  22-10-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pair dined at the The Plough in Buckinghamshire where they gobbled up their supper and Greene King IPA in just 20 minutes
  
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• Arsenal star David Ospina's £100k Mercedes stolen as burglar breaks in as his family slept

  22-10-2015 22:40
  
  ARSENAL star David Ospina's £100,000 Mercedes was stolen after burglars broke into his £16million home as his wife and children slept.
  
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• Thug caged for KICKING heavily pregnant girlfriend in stomach nine days before child was born

  22-10-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Grant Prince flew into a rage in front of stunned members of the public
  
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• Wannabe cop killer's Dale Cregan and Raoul Moat-inspired plan to lure cops to their death

  22-10-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Craig Michael Hughes, 33, wanted to model himself on Raoul Moat or Dale Cregan by massacring police
  
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• Amy Sundve slashed man across face with stiletto heel outside pub

  22-10-2015 22:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amy Sundve, pictured, scarred her victim for life, with a cut artery, in the unprovoked attack after being thrown out of the Elm Tree pub in Kirkdale, Liverpool. It let a 7cm scar across his forehead.
  
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• Swedish schoolchildren 'thought Samurai sword killer was dressed up for Halloween'

  22-10-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man, who looked like Darth Vader, was shot dead by police after stalking classrooms while playing sinister music on his phone
  
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• Two thirds of antibiotics are needlessly prescribed, a report warns

  22-10-2015 22:04 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Economist Jim O'Neill has published a report which calls for more diagnostic procedures to help GPs avoid unnecessary prescriptions
  
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• Eurotunnel workers share shocking images of refugees to highlight despair at rising death toll

  22-10-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Desperate migrants have been standing on the tracks to halt trains, leaving drivers in constant fear of accidentally killing someone
  
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• Amy Childs and Drew Barrymore also suffered make-up fail which embarrassed China's first lady

  22-10-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Ashley Judd have also been caught out by the powder that left Madam Peng Liyuan looking like the Joker from Batman
  
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• Ex-Chelsea coach accused of raping girl aged 12 sent semi-naked pictures to 'tens' of females, court hears

  22-10-2015 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shane Hughes, 31, faces 14 counts of rape in relation to a child under the age of 13 years
  
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• Note left by kind stranger who saved motorist from parking ticket by PRETENDING to own car goes viral

  22-10-2015 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ray Thorpe made the generous gesture after passing a private car park and seeing a warden preparing to write out a ticket
  
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• Watch owners dress Dachshund as teddy bear and film him running around the garden in WACKY video

  22-10-2015 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The dog, dubbed Doxiebear, is filmed running around the garden before going inside to collect a treat for his adorable antics
  
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• Poet on run after Facebook post claiming president's face is tattooed on his PENIS

  22-10-2015 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Maung Saungkha could face up to three years in jail for the contraversial post, if the Burma police manage to track him down
  
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• John Milton's lost paradise finally discovered

  22-10-2015 21:24
  
  These haunting images show that poet John Milton’s former home has truly become a Paradise Lost.
  
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• Just call me Sir! Teenager swaps classroom for staff room after just THREE months

  22-10-2015 21:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Morgan Hawke, 16, has landed job as a teaching assistant at his old school after sitting his GCSEs in July
  
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• Back to the Future Day star Michael J. Fox 'amazed and humbled' by cult movie's enduring success

  22-10-2015 21:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The actor, 54, was speaking at a screening to mark the date his character, Marty McFly, travels to in the sequel
  
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• Is Ivory Coast ready for elections?

  22-10-2015 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Five years after the world's largest cocoa producer descended into post-poll violence, BBC Monitoring looks at whether Ivory Coast is ready for fresh elections.
  
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• Dozens of pheasants beheaded in break-in at hunting estate run by David Cameron’s cousin

  22-10-2015 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The attackers placed the heads of the birds, which had been bred for this year’s shooting season, onto fence posts around the farm
  
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• Calls versus balls: Monkeys with smaller testicles roar the loudest to make up for their shortcomings when attracting females

  22-10-2015 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Cambridge researchers have revealed that male howler monkeys with larger throats tend to have more diminutive testes and produce less sperm than quieter monkeys.
  
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• Samantha Cameron picks out a Sophie Hulme bag for China's Peng Liyuan

  22-10-2015 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The royal couple waved goodbye to the dignitaries outside Buckingham Palace, where President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan have been staying as their guests since Monday.
  
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• Boffins get to the core of which apple is best for Halloween bobbing

  22-10-2015 21:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Science students put red Spartan, Gala and Cox's Orange Pippin to the test to answer the age old question
  
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• Astronomers reveal video showing eruptions on a red star OUTSIDE our solar system

  22-10-2015 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers from Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany made the film (still pictured) using data collected by the Stella robotic telescopes on Tenerife.
  
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• American commando killed by ISIS during rescue mission is first allied soldier to die on ground against militants

  22-10-2015 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He died during an operation to free dozens of hostages who faced imminent execution by ISIS in Iraq, the Pentagon said
  
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• Brian May to sell astronomer Sir Patrick Moore’s home after failed museum attempt

  22-10-2015 21:00
  
  SIR Patrick Moore’s former home is to be sold after a failed attempt to turn it into a museum by Queen guitarist Brian May.
  
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• Becky Watts murder trial: Girlfriend of killer 'heard him using power tool but thought he was fixing pipe'

  22-10-2015 20:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shauna Hoare, 21, denies helping Becky's stepbrother Nathan Matthews dismember her body with a circular saw
  
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• Woman pleads for help on Facebook to find long-lost sister taken from mum 70 YEARS ago

  22-10-2015 20:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daphne Maddison was stunned after being told by her mother that she had a long-lost sister
  
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• Neighbour from hell has music confiscated for blaring out R Kelly's 'I believe I can fly'

  22-10-2015 20:45
  
  A NEIGHBOUR from hell had his music equipment seized for blaring out R Kelly's hit 'I Believe I Can Fly' at ungodly hours.
  
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• Swedish killer stopped to pose with pupils and then continued his murder spree

  22-10-2015 20:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wearing a mask and holding a bloody sword, the attacker stands next to two young students at the school in Trollhättan, Sweden, seconds before stabbing another teacher, who later died.
  
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