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• Russian plane downed by 'Lockerbie bomb' is now the most likely cause

  04-11-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aviation expert Julian Bray believes a bomb was hidden in luggage, the same way terrorists brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland
  
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• Russian plane crash: ISIS bomb 'likely' brought down airliner over Egypt

  04-11-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Evidence points at the terror cell having a role to play in bringing down the doomed jet as the UK suspends flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh
  
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• Prince Charles and Camilla get caught in the rain on visit to New Zealand

  04-11-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The royal couple’s official welcome was hastily rearranged as the predicted let up in the bad weather failed to materialise and they met waiting dignitaries
  
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• Sharm el-Sheikh: UK holidaymakers stranded in Egypt as Downing Street cancels flights amid terror fears

  04-11-2015 23:40 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  Up to 20,000 British tourists awaiting evacuation from Sharm el-Sheikh after David Cameron suspended all flights to and from the Egyptian resort over fears a bomb brought down a Russian passenger jet
  
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• Sharm el-Sheikh flights suspended: Thousands of Brits left stranded amid terror threat fears

  04-11-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Growing fears that the doomed Russian passenger jet was bombed led to the unprecedented Downing Street order
  
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• Two pals who fled Frankie and Benny's without paying snared with DNA left on their drinking straws

  04-11-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nathan Burgess and Jordan O’Neill enjoyed a meal and drinks at Frankie and Benny’s at Salford Quays, but fled after a waiter gave them their £57 bill
  
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• Sharm el-Sheikh flight suspended: Newlyweds facing anxious wait to see if they can go on their honeymoon

  04-11-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stephen and Maria Wilson, from Howden in East Yorkshire, are due to fly out for an 11-night stay in the resort on Thursday next week
  
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• ITV unveils Christmas ratings weapon – a tearjerking tribute to Cilla Black

  04-11-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tributes from pals Sir Cliff Richard, Paul O’Grady and Christopher Biggins will be shown alongside archive film and previously unseen footage
  
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• Dying bride fulfills final wish of marrying her husband then dies after cancer was mistaken for menopause

  04-11-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Janet Kane was told she was going through the change - but she had womb cancer
  
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• Edward Burnett: Designer of Queen's Jubilee barge Gloriana found dead at 43

  04-11-2015 23:26
  
  THE naval architect who designed the elaborate Royal barge for the Queen’s 60th Jubilee celebrations on the Thames killed himself at his home, an inquest has heard.
  
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• Tributes flood in for teenager Patrick Woosey after police find body in search

  04-11-2015 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Although the body had not been formally identified police asked that the public respect the family’s privacy as they “come to terms with this tragic news”
  
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• Manchester City star Raheem Sterling targeted by racist trolls after sharing family photo

  04-11-2015 23:22
  
  MANCHESTER CITY'S Raheem Sterling has been subjected to vile racist abuse after posting a photo of himself with his young daughter and niece on social media.
  
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• Sharm el-Sheikh shut to British tourists as flights from UK 'suspended for foreseeable future'

  04-11-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The UK government is advising against all but essential travel to Sharm el-Sheikh due to 'significant' concerns about security
  
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• This £150 chipped vase was sold at auction - and THIS is what it went for

  04-11-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The vase was sold by Carmarthen-based auction house Peter Francis to an online bidder from mainland China
  
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• Ed Miliband named best Labour MP of the last 5 years

  04-11-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  And Nick Clegg scooped the same award for the Lib Dems. The choice of winners has raised a few eyebrows
  
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• ITV in row with 'arrogant' BBC

  04-11-2015 23:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rival broadcasters in public spat over their 10pm news slots
  
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• BBC spent £500,000 of licence fee payers' cash defending John Linwood's sacking

  04-11-2015 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former BBC Chief Technology Officer John Linwood, pictured, who was paid £240,000-a-year, was dismissedin July 2013 after a major IT project he managed was scrapped.
  
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• Family's fury after young father bled to death while waiting for an ambulance after slicing artery

  04-11-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dualtagh Donnelly waited nearly 40 minutes for an ambulance after he cut his arm on a glass door and severed an artery
  
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• BMA tried to gag regulator from issuing strike advice

  04-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: British Medical Association went to the High Court in bid to stop General Medical Council from issuing advice to doctors about how to maintain their duties to patients, if they were contemplating strike action
  
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• Drug dealer who was Tasered and beaten unconscious after witnessing murder is locked up

  04-11-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Karl Scurry had nearly seven grams of benzocaine, caffeine and phenacetin and six grams of paracetamol - commonly used for cutting drugs
  
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• Student tuition fee protest turns violent after Labour MP John McDonnell's speech

  04-11-2015 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thousands of students in Central London were calling for the end of fees, the return of maintenance grants and an end to student debt.
  
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• Quality of NHS care is 'poor to medicore' compared to other developed nations, OECD warns

  04-11-2015 22:56 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Experts say the UK needs 25,000 more doctors and 50,000 more nurses to match standards in the rest of the developed world
  
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• Stafford Hospital NHS Trust faces £1m fine after admitting safety breaches over patient deaths

  04-11-2015 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Patrick Daly, 89, Edith Bourne, 83, Ivy Bunn, 90, and Lillian Tucker, 77, died at Stafford Hospital between 2005 and 2014
  
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• Architect who designed £1million Gloriana barge that led the Queen’s diamond jubilee flotilla on the Thames killed himself 

  04-11-2015 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Edward Burnett, 43, was found dead at his home in Totnes, Devon, in May of this year. He designed the Gloriana barge, which led the 1,000 string flotilla down the river to mark the Queen's jubilee in 2012.
  
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• Pensioners tied up and tortured for three hours by gang of burglars, court is told

  04-11-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The terrified couple, in their 70s, were allegedly attacked with a hammer and pins in a £20,000 raid in Cambridge
  
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• Watch heart-stopping moment angry man jumps in front of MOVING car and unleashes foul-mouthed rant at driver

  04-11-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man seemed to have a death wish as he leaps into the road and starts banging on the bonnet
  
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• Devon’s first tea plantation means you could dunk your biscuit in a home-grown cuppa

  04-11-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The beverage, grown near Plymouth, is something of a luxury as the leaves will set you back a whopping £2,500 a kilo
  
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• Gumtree faith healer who conned "vulnerable" woman out of £3,000 is jailed

  04-11-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mohamed Diaby told the unnamed woman to bring the cash to his home so he could bewitch her married lover into marrying her
  
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• Drink TEA for strong bones: Just THREE cups a day slashes fracture risk by a third

  04-11-2015 22:30
  
  THREE cups of tea a day could cut the risk of bone fractures in the elderly by almost a third, says research.
  
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• Man lied to dying wife for years about being an SAS hero when he was just a lorry driver

  04-11-2015 22:25
  
  A MAN who lied to his dying wife for 15 years and told her he was an SAS hero actually was just a lorry driver.
  
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• Stunned archaeologists find 22 ancient shipwrecks in 17-mile stretch of sea in just TWO weeks

  04-11-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Centuries old sunken ships might hold the key to answering how ancient maritime trade networks worked
  
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• Polar bear plays with a pair of shorts after finding them near Eskimo enclave

  04-11-2015 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After spying the clothing in the frozen wastelands, near a native village inside the Arctic Circle, the curious bear picked them up, and made a spirited, though unsuccessful, attempt to put them on.
  
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• Thousands of Brits stranded over Egypt plane crash terror fears

  04-11-2015 22:11
  
  THOUSANDS of British holidaymakers were stranded in Egypt last night after flights home were cancelled amid suspicion that terrorists caused the Russian passenger jet crash.
  
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• Uber driver Samson Haile who sexually assaulted woman in his taxi is jailed

  04-11-2015 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samson Haile, 32, pictured, touched the woman's legs and said he wanted to have sex with her while driving her home from a pub in west London. She screamed to be let out of the taxi.
  
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• Prisoners were using THIS mouse to bring them cocaine and cannabis behind bars

  04-11-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jail bosses have seized about 30 packets of cannabis and more than 20 containing cocaine which the animal is believed to have taken to inmates
  
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• 'Doctors told me my baby wouldn't survive my cancer op - just look at her now'

  04-11-2015 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vicky Dickenson was told to say goodbye to her unborn baby when she underwent life-saving cancer surgery - but look at little Jessica now
  
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• The Force Awakens this Christmas as Santa's sack is full of Star Wars toys

  04-11-2015 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Force is strong with Star Wars toys which are being tipped as the best seller this Christmas
  
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• WW1 forgotten? Half of Brits admit to knowing NOTHING about the First World War

  04-11-2015 22:00
  
  MILLIONS of Britons have never heard of the First World War according to shocking new research that reveals the dearth of knowledge about our nation's fallen heroes.
  
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• Sir David Attenborough: Actors cannot properly narrate nature programmes

  04-11-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Veteran natural history broadcaster Sir David Attenborough suggests there are just three actors capable of doing a passable job of voicing TV nature shows
  
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• 'The hate is back' say German media as migrant crisis sparks the country's worst spate of political violence since the Nazi era

  04-11-2015 21:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police officers, politicians, journalists and refugees have all been the target of thugs protesting against Germany's open-door policy towards migrants which has sparked unprecedented violence.
  
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• Centenarian finally hits the bottle - after being teetotal for 100 years

  04-11-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gerry Morrison toasted his birthday milestone with a glass of brandy and said: "It is good, very good"
  
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• Junior doctors look set to strike as they reject Jeremy Hunt's last minute pay offer

  04-11-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Health Secretary tried to avert the industrial action - the first in 40 years by NHS medics - with a promise of an 11% pay rise
  
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• Childminder Kay Elson drink-drove 2 boys to nursery while 3 times over the limit

  04-11-2015 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kay Elson, 46, from Plymouth, Devon, had drunk half a bottle of wine the night before, and then 'topped up' with another glassbefore taking the children, both aged under seven, to pre-school.
  
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• Britons in the workplace: The figures that lay bare the life of an average British employee

  04-11-2015 21:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New survey finds that the average worker will miss out on £153,000 in unpaid overtime, get nine pay rises, have six jobs, one office romance and three fights with a co-worker
  
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• House prices rocket to 10 times average salary putting home ownership out of people’s reach

  04-11-2015 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Government says it has taken action to ease the crisis but campaigners say it will benefit the well-off and investment is needed in affordable housing
  
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• Drink-driver ploughed into three cars before colleague assaulted takeaway worker for taking photos

  04-11-2015 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stephen Jones and Jason Christopher Evans were working as sub-contractors on the railway when they began drinking heavily after finishing their shift
  
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• Revealed: letters Tom Watson exchanged with DPPs Alison Saunders and Sir Keir Starmer

  04-11-2015 21:29 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Mr Watson intervened on behalf of a friend, the wife of a Labour politician, demanding that "no further child protection cases" be given to a Crown Prosecution Service lawyer pending a review into his previous work
  
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• 'Unflattering' wedding photographs spurred takeaways eater to shed eight stone

  04-11-2015 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The culmination of years snacking on fast food and sugar-packed drinks were taking their toll on 19 stone Matt Bennett
  
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• Take a look inside 'filthy' cafe where owners were fined for breaching food hygiene laws

  04-11-2015 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  These are the pictures the cafe owners hoped you would never see after they pleaded guilty to four charges each of breaching The Food Safety and Hygiene Regulations
  
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• Vulcan plane crew investigated over film of an alleged illegal roll manouevre

  04-11-2015 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Civil Aviation Authority is looking into claims that the bomber, a veteran of the Cold War era and Falklands conflict, broke the terms of its flying licence
  
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