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• What to do if your Sharm el-Sheikh flight has been cancelled or suspended

  05-11-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some tourists will start to be repatriated on UK flights as early as tomorrow, as Easyjet, Monarch and Thomson will be running the flights
  
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• Watch horror moment DIY electrician is zapped by 13,000 volts of electricity while fixing power supply

  05-11-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Doctors treating him said they were amazed he survived because usually anything over 11,000 volts is fatal
  
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• Pint-sized mum-of-six fells mugger with single punch as he tries to steal her shopping

  05-11-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bespectacled Lois Burrows is just 5ft 3in tall but she proved more than a match for the thug who threatened her as she wheeled her shopping trolley down Mossley Avenue in Poole, Dorset
  
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• Foetus is found in Tower Hamlets graveyard as police search for woman

  05-11-2015 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The foetus, which was between 10 and 12 weeks gestation, was discovered in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Bow, east London, at around yesterday lunchtime.
  
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• Construction worker worried about losing his job died after running himself over with digger

  05-11-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tragic David Poole, 48, died of head injuries after he was crushed under the wheels of the three-tonne JCB earth mover
  
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• Horrifying footage shows girl falls into gap between train and platform as mother's back is turned

  05-11-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The little girl's life was saved by a Good Samaritan who alerted her mother then stopped the train
  
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• Bungling council contractors paint series of short double yellow lines in gaps between parked cars

  05-11-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Instead of waiting until the vehicles were moved, bungling workers hand painted the road between the cars leaving a patchwork of yellow dashes
  
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• Blip halts renewable plant work

  05-11-2015 23:28
  
  BUILDING of a new renewable energy plant was suspended yesterday, leaving 700 workers “devastated”.
  
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• Sharm el-Sheikh flights: Brits will ONLY be allowed to bring hand luggage when they're flown home

  05-11-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tourists have been told suitcases will be sent separately due to a security clampdown
  
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• Neurosurgeon who 'misinterpreted' man's brain scan apologises to his family for not saving his life

  05-11-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Christos Gkolemis said if he had seen the bleed to the brain on the scan earlier he would have transferred Robert Hart immediately
  
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• Man who refused to leave roof revealed as fugitive wanted after vicious burglary saw victim stabbed

  05-11-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Paul McCoy was one of four men found guilty of an attack on Karl Allen, who suffered “life-changing” injuries when a gang broke into his house
  
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• Tragic toddler died after being hit by car outside his home

  05-11-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Much-loved two-year-old suffered fatal head injury in road accident after returning from a shopping trip
  
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• Nasa reveals solar winds stripped Mars' atmosphere

  05-11-2015 23:17 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Nasa announces new findings relating to the atmosphere of Mars which could give insight into the planet's past and the possibility of life on the red planet
  
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• Queen tells of family's painful search for missing body of war hero uncle killed in First World War

  05-11-2015 23:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Remains of Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother's brother, never recovered since death at the Battle of Loos in northern France in 1915
  
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• Pensioners conned out of more than £600,000 of their life savings

  05-11-2015 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Old Bailey heard the gang of five, who are all from London, are accused of tricking 18 pensioners with an average age of 83 into handing over a total of £600,000 by posing as police officers.
  
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• Watch heart-stopping moment cop saves suicidal man perched on scaffolding 60 metres above the ground

  05-11-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage of the dramatic rescue was caught on camera after the 25-year-old had a falling out with his employer
  
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• Kilburn stabbing: Man in early 20s knifed to death in north-west London

  05-11-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Metropolitan Police said they were called by the London Ambulance Service after reports of a man suffering a stab wound
  
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• British and Russians in top secret hunt for Flight 9268 plane bombers

  05-11-2015 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It is believed to be the largest East-West counter-terror coalition since the 9/11 atrocity in 2001
  
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• Brit family who spent £4k on Egypt holiday left gutted as flight cancelled at last minute

  05-11-2015 23:05
  
  A FAMILY of 14 bound for Egypt were gutted to find out their £4,000 dream holiday had been cancelled at the last minute.
  
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• Sharm el-Sheikh flights shutdown triggered when British spies uncovered Isil bomb plot after Russian air crash

  05-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Tourists returning from Egypt told to leave luggage behind as airport security is tightened in wake of disaster in Sinai
  
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• Male suicide now a national public health emergency, MPs warned

  05-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rising suicide rates among men driven 'crisis of masculinity', charities warn as MPs are urged to 'break the stigma'
  
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• Downing Street tells BBC that licence fee is safe

  05-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  BBC director-general told earlier this week that the licence fee will begin to rise by inflation, and that the corporation is safe from further cuts
  
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• Russian plane crash: Body of 10 month old passenger found 35km from crash site

  05-11-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After the crash this picture of Darina Gromova watching planes at the airport went around the world, a heart-rending symbol of the disaster which claimed the lives of 224 people
  
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• Millions Mask March: Protesters torch police car as scenes turn violent

  05-11-2015 22:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Shocking footage appears to show Anonymous demonstrator using metal railings to smash police car windscreen after it was torched, as hundreds are kettled outside Parliament Square
  
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• Lewes Bonfire: Naked David Cameron and Jeremy Clarkson effigies burned at the stake

  05-11-2015 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The huge models of the Prime Minister and the controversial ex-Top Gear presenter were torched at the Sussex town's annual Guy Fawkes extravaganza this evening
  
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• Huge blow for savers as interest rates will likely stay low into 2017

  05-11-2015 22:44
  SAVERS reacted with fury and dismay yesterday after the Bank of England signalled no rise in interest rates until 2017.
  
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• Shaun Davis filmed himself driving luxury cars at speeds of up to 192MPH

  05-11-2015 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shaun Davis, 42, has been jailed for more than two years after police found incriminating videos on his phone showing him hitting terrifying speeds of up to 192mph as he raced around Northamptonshire.
  
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• Bonfire Night 2015: Why do we celebrate with firework displays? Who was Guy Fawkes?

  05-11-2015 22:40 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Every year on November 5th, the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, Catholic explosive expert Guy Fawkes is remembered and Britain celebrates the Houses of Parliament remaining intact
  
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• Tory councillor Robert Vaudry ‘swore at OAP before pushing him to the ground'

  05-11-2015 22:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robert Vaudry, 51, pictured, allegedly launched a foul-mouthed tirade at Paul Turner before attacking him on the village green in Dorsington, Warwickshire.
  
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• easyJet customers in Egypt pay 'up to £18' to get information on UK flights

  05-11-2015 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EasyJet passengers desperate for information in the wake of the Russian jet crash have vented their anger on Twitter over the time it has taken to get answers from the firm.
  
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• Boots Christmas video unveiled - and its director is used to working with Taylor Swift

  05-11-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Director Joseph Kahn is usually seen working with the likes of Britney Spears, Taylor Swift and Destiny Child
  
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• Olivia Cork with one leg is told she isn’t disabled enough to keep Motability car

  05-11-2015 22:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Olivia Cork, 19, from Stoke-on-Trent, has been driving to school in the specially-adapted Ford Fiesta for the past two years but has now been told by the DWP that she is no longer eligible for it.
  
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• Tragic death of 11-week-old baby left sleeping in car seat sparks safety warning

  05-11-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Couple Ali and Derek Dodd dropped their son Shepard off at his childminder’s who placed him in his car seat to sleep rather than a cot
  
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• Part-time Doctor Who as episodes HALVED so Peter Capaldi can take on other work

  05-11-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The BBC pushed for more than the regular 12 instalments but the Time Lord actor wants to do other projects too
  
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• ITV plan Christmas Cilla tribute ...and she could have a No1 hit

  05-11-2015 22:19
  
  AN UNSEEN film of TV star Cilla Black will be shown in a new prime-time Christmas documentary.
  
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• 'Abducted' boy found after 13 years went undetected for so long 'because father used alias'

  05-11-2015 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Julian Tiberius Hernandez went missing in 2002 aged five - now he has turned up alive and well as a grown man
  
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• Schoolgirl lucky to be alive after electric blanket burst into flames as she slept

  05-11-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seven-year-old Kate Wall woke her mother by screaming as she discovered her foot was burning
  
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• Becky Watts murder trial: Woman accused of killing teen compared to 'Lady Macbeth'

  05-11-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prosecutor claims Shauna Hoare was fully involved in Becky's murder, along with her boyfriend Nathan Matthews
  
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• Britain to start bringing 20,000 stranded tourists home from Egypt

  05-11-2015 22:11 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Up to 20,000 Britons in Sharm El-Sheikh who may have to be evacuated, as airport chief quits following No 10 announcement to cancel all flights
  
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• Anonymous Million Mask March: Protesters set police car on fire as activists clash with officers

  05-11-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thousands of anti-capitalist campaigners descended on Parliament Square wearing the trademark Guido masks
  
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• Bit slippery? Travel chaos after 24 tonnes of LARD spills onto motorway slip road

  05-11-2015 21:52
  
  DRIVERS were hit with a slippery situation after 24 tonnes of LARD falls onto a motorway sliproad.
  
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• Vauxhall to recall 220,000 Zafiras in the UK after investigation into spate of fires 

  05-11-2015 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The issue only relates to vehicles with manual or no air-conditioning built between 2005 and 2014, which includes the Mk2 Zafira, also known as Zafira B. The problem was highlighted last month.
  
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• Vauxhall writing to 220,000 Zafira owners after more than 130 cars burst into flames

  05-11-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The letter will request that owners arrange to visit their local dealer for an inspection of the vehicle's heating and ventilation system, paid for by the company
  
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• Pervert enticed schoolgirls into sex and child prostitution by grooming them over Facebook

  05-11-2015 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Warped Warren Bernard has been locked up for eight years after exploiting girls as young as 13
  
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• Climber’s prize snap nearly led to horror slide show

  05-11-2015 21:45
  
  A SCOT who won a prestigious photography competition has revealed he escaped death moments after taking his winning snap.
  
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• Council splashes out £180,000 to try to stop the Cornish language dying out

  05-11-2015 21:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Six-figure sum despite there being only 400 fluent Cornish speakers
  
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• AA Milne's real Winnie the Pooh in the only photograph of the cuddly toy

  05-11-2015 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world's only photograph of the toy bear that inspired AA Milne's creation of Winnie the Pooh has been uncovered in a family archive and is now on display in Kings Cross, London.
  
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• Gatecrasher nightclub closed for SECOND time after man stabbed in leg and 'brawl involving bouncers'

  05-11-2015 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 2,400 capacity Gatecrasher club was warned six weeks ago that it was in the “last chance saloon” after a customer was attacked by a bouncer in August.
  
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• Mum and FOUR kids forced to sleep in one bed thanks to the benefits cap

  05-11-2015 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stacey and her four children are all cramped into one double bed with her uncle in a second bedroom and her gran in a third
  
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• Watch moment Serena Williams plays superhero as she chases down thief who stole her phone

  05-11-2015 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  She might be a hero on the tennis court, but she proved no-one should mess with her off it too
  
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