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• Poppy Appeal hopes to smash £41million fundraising target to set new record

  07-11-2015 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Royal British Legion mounted one its biggest ever fundraising drives to commemorate fallen troops who laid down their lives on the frontline
  
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• Watch young girl struggle to work out how to hang up an old-fashioned landline phone

  07-11-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If you can remember dial-ups and still occasionally marvel at smartphones, this video is highly likely to make you feel old
  
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• Acid attack victim Katie Piper: My dream wedding was second only to the birth of our daughter

  07-11-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The TV presenter and model has finally married Richard Sutton and said: "I am so happy to have shared it with my close friends and family"
  
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• Footballer Alan Smith trades in X-Factor wife for married car dealer just four months after wedding

  07-11-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kristina Macmillan is said to be 'devastated' at the split just four months after she married the ex-Leeds United and England star
  
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• Girl, aged 7, died 'after inexperienced out-of-hours doctor failed to diagnose appendicitis'

  07-11-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Schoolgirl Malaika Adam was taken by her mum to an out-of-hours clinic after she had been suffering with an upset stomach, an inquest heard
  
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• Watch the heartwarming moment nurses sing Frozen's 'Let It Go' to brave little girl going through chemotherapy

  07-11-2015 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Three-year-old Millie McColl was diagnosed in June with stage 4 Neuroblastom, a nerve cell cancer
  
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• Lucky man escapes without injury after firework inside pumpkin explodes in his face

  07-11-2015 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christian David thought it would be fun to set of a firework from inside a pumpkin - but it almost cost him dearly
  
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• Nick Timothy: end ban on new grammar schools

  07-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Head of the New Schools Network, which leads the government's flagship education reforms, calls for more academic selection in state schools
  
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• Migration crisis: EU gambles on sweeteners for Africa

  07-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  European Union offer of cash and visa deals to African countries who take back illegal migrants is described as "madness" as David Cameron prepares for Malta summit
  
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• Heathrow: Cameron 'preparing to drop opposition to third runway'

  07-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The government is preparing to announce the next phase for airport expansion within weeks, ahead of a new public consultation on increasing aviation capacity
  
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• Care system 'crumbling' after broken promise on fees cap - inquiry chair

  07-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Dame Kate Barker warns of public 'outcry' as reality of thousands facing 'miserable' end to their lives dawns
  
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• Ex Redcar steelworks boss admits Thai owners took £3m of pensions to get more Government cash

  07-11-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We travel to Thailand with sacked steelworker to get answers. Exec says they held back £3m pension cash to get £13m payout from Government
  
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• Terrorists 'boasted' to Isil leaders about bombing plane, stranded Brits 'could face ten day delays'- latest news

  07-11-2015 22:50 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph has learnt that an Isil bomb plot was uncovered by British spies, as Obama says a bomb "certainly possible" - yet Russia and Egypt insist it is too early to say
  
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• Watch 56-year-old man be interviewed by his 18-year-old self in first ever 'time travel talk show'

  07-11-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peter Emshwiller filmed himself asking a future self all sorts of questions back in 1977 - and now that teenager has got some answers
  
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• Dad raped me for 4 years but mum took him back and says God wants me to forgive him

  07-11-2015 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Becky Herbert, now 20, believes a hardline evangelical church persuaded mum Mandy to rekindle her relationship with twisted David Manning
  
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• Police called to non-league game as fan is 'punched by player' in brawl sparked by last-gasp equaliser

  07-11-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Approximately 10 police officers were eventually forced to intervene to bring the brawl under control
  
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• Pensioner beaten so badly in street attack paramedics thought he had been hit by car

  07-11-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 69-year-old widower remains in critical condition following the attack early this morning
  
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• Earliest Battle of Waterloo images secured for the nation by British Museum

  07-11-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  British Museum director Neil MacGregor to announce acquisition of earliest known Battle of Waterloo images
  
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• Sharm el-Sheikh Brits low on medication as 16,000 told they are stranded another 10 days

  07-11-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stranded Brits desperately low on cash, food and medication as they are told they won't leave for another 10 days
  
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• Store removes Remembrance Day display depicting dead soldier after complaints

  07-11-2015 22:20 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Supermarket's tribute to fallen soldiers removed after complaints over its use of a dead soldier
  
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• 50 Cent shares video of Angel of the North on Instagram - and stakes winning bet on Newcastle

  07-11-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Candy Shop rapper, real name Curtis Jackson, posted a video of himself driving past the Angel of the North ahead of his gig at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle
  
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• Queen leads Festival of Remembrance at Albert Hall

  07-11-2015 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The most powerful and influential men and women of Britain tonight gathered in the Royal Albert Hall in London for the annual Festival of Remembrance tonight.
  
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• Demure Kate Middleton joins William and the Queen at Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance

  07-11-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The smiling Duchess of Cambridge donned a lacy black dress, and poppy-style broach for the annual event at London's Royal Albert Hall
  
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• National minimum bedroom size could be implemented to stop overcrowding

  07-11-2015 22:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Government is looking at proposals to create a minimum bedroom size to stop rogue landlords forcing tenants to live in cramped conditions
  
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• This astonishing 'vertical village' has been named world building of the year

  07-11-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The eye-catching housing development has been recognised in the World Architecture Festival 2015
  
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• First picture of tragic teenager who died in horror road crash

  07-11-2015 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rebecca Ross, 17, was killed when the car she was a passenger in was involved in a crash on the A760 in North Ayrshire, Scotland
  
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• King Tutankhamun tomb's hidden chamber discovered through testing temperature

  07-11-2015 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using infrared thermography, scientists discovered this week that one area of the northern wall was a different temperature than other areas of King Tutankhamun's tomb.
  
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• John Lewis Christmas advert singer Aurora Aksnes says she hates sound of her own voice

  07-11-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aurora Aksnes said she never wanted to be a pop star as a child  and was content to just be a songwriter
  
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• Convicted perverts commit child sex attack and rape while out on bail

  07-11-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The sick cons had been judged ­suitable for release from prison – and were apparently under strict ­supervision in halfway houses
  
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• Kate Middleton joins Wills and the Queen for remembrance festival

  07-11-2015 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kate arrived at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the ceremony tonight with her husband and was greeted by the venue's president Anthony Travis and the president of the Royal British Legion.
  
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• North Korea shopkeepers selling goods at black market rates so punters don't pay £265 for a lightbulb

  07-11-2015 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Businesses are defying the notoriously controlling government of Kim Jong-un by selling every day items for dollars to avoid eye-watering prices
  
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• Doctor Who fans left stunned after episode shows plane shot down - just a week after Russian jet tragedy

  07-11-2015 21:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fans of the show are not impressed with bosses after the recap footage was shown tonight
  
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• George Osborne must stop holding gun to heads of low-paid by cutting their incomes sneakily

  07-11-2015 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Black Death helped the 14th Century poor by doubling their wages - but what will help them today?
  
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• Stunning time lapse of workers assembling Liverpool's 'Weeping Window' poppy installation

  07-11-2015 21:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A photographer captures the installation of ceramic poppies at St George's Hall in Liverpool ahead of Remembrance Sunday
  
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• Chugging boss's businesses go bust (but she'll keep the Aston Martin)

  07-11-2015 21:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The 'chugging' business is thrown into a new crisis after the collapse of one of the biggest charity fundraising firms, used by the likes of the RSPCA and Battersea Dogs and Cats Home
  
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• Tory MP apologises over 'ignorant' and 'very offensive' claims that diabetes is 'completely avoidable'

  07-11-2015 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Derek Thomas said sorry after wrongly asserting that all diabetes could be avoided "through good diet and excercise"
  
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• Debate within the Labour Party is fine, division is not

  07-11-2015 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Prescott says in-fighting within Labour risks deflecting from the real cause of defeating Tory attacks on families and the poor
  
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• Youths celebrate as BBC takes £100m blow over students’ TV

  07-11-2015 21:14
  
  THE BBC could be facing a £100million black hole in licence fee cash over a loophole that allows students to watch TV for free.
  
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• Cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic cancer-causing chemicals, say experts

  07-11-2015 21:13 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Scientists warn against the dangers of frying food in sunflower oil and corn oil over claims they release toxic chemicals linked to cancer
  
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• Marathon runner collapses three miles from finish line but still COMPLETES race – this is how

  07-11-2015 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pete Vokes is trying to find the stranger who held his cast-off vest number aloft as he crossed the line in the New York marathon
  
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• Jon Snow: Privatising Channel 4 would destroy 'Maggie's baby'

  07-11-2015 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Presenter says Margaret Thatcher would not want the channel sold, and tells Huw Edwards and Tom Bradby 'no-one gives a tinker's cuss' about their ratings feud
  
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• Jackie magazine inspires new musical

  07-11-2015 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jackie magazine has inspired its own musical, bringing the innocent days of 1970s girlhood to a new generation
  
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• Is this scrotum-inspired satchel the most offensive rucksack EVER made?

  07-11-2015 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The demand for the rucksacks shaped like male genitals has been high ever since creator Daniel Bittons had the balls to walk out in public wearing one
  
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• Prostate cancer dad whose three sons also developed the disease backs Movember campaign

  07-11-2015 20:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Harvey Powell, 90, has lived with the disease for 25 years and the deadly cancer has also struck three of his sons, killing one
  
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• Cash-strapped police force sent two officers in patrol car to hunt a missing WHEELIE BIN

  07-11-2015 20:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two officers in a patrol car swooped on Brian Henry's house in search of an elusive wheelie bin
  
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• 'Missile' dodged by British jet carrying tourists to Sharm el-Sheikh was 'probably a flare'

  07-11-2015 20:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The near-miss involving a Thomson jet carrying 189 passengers happened on August 23, about two months before a Russian plane crashed in Sinai,
  
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• Former ITV newsreader quit high-profile job to have sex change

  07-11-2015 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  India Willoughby, formerly Jonathan, completed her sex change transformation last month at an NHS clinic
  
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• Former ITV newsreader quit high-profile job to become a woman after deciding to ''cling to life''

  07-11-2015 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  India Willoughby, formerly Jonathan, completed her sex change transformation last month at an NHS clinic
  
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• Girl's allergy to water is so extreme even a tear rolling down her cheek leaves her in agony

  07-11-2015 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Just a drop of water on her skin causes agony for student Niah Selway as she is one of only 35 people in the world with the fierce allergy
  
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• 'I married the paramedic who brought my dad back from the dead after heart attack'

  07-11-2015 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sam Billett fell for Mike Horton after the heroic emergency servoces worker saved her father Colin when he collapsed in the street
  
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