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• Brighton's Whitehawk estate transformed for John Lewis’ Christmas advert 2015

  10-11-2015 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It has been revealed the festive scenes in the John Lewis advert were actually filmed in August in Brighton's Whitehawk estate, which was once named as one of Britain's most rundown areas.
  
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• Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dies aged 96

  10-11-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Social Democrat led West Germany from 1974 to 1982 and was a driving force behind the modern European Union and the creation of the single currency
  
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• McDonald's sacks cruel worker who threw water over homeless man in humiliating prank

  10-11-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The worker was caught on camera offering the elderly man a hamburger before chucking water in his face
  
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• Grieving mum-of-two faces spending Christmas homeless just six weeks after father of her kids died

  10-11-2015 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Clare Malone moved in with her former partner, Michael Gallagher, in September to look after him when he fell ill with pneumonia
  
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• Two former members of 1960s band The Tremeloes to appear in court on indecent assault charge

  10-11-2015 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Leonard Hawkes, 70, and Richard Westwood, 72, are due before magistrates next month charged with indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 16 in 1968
  
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• BBC news' George Alagiah returns to 6pm bulletin after battling bowel cancer

  10-11-2015 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geroge Alagiah (pictured) was diagnosed with bowel cancer, which spread to his liver and lymph nodes, last April, but tonight he made a triumphant return to BBC One's News at Six.
  
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• Café where 'children are not welcome' sparks Facebook storm with parents voicing anger over 'rude treatment'

  10-11-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eileen Potter who owns Treacles Tea Shop in Winchmore Hill has received complaints from customers angry after staff allegedly told children off for touching objects
  
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• Adults who try to spoil kids' fun are robbing them of their future

  10-11-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alison Phillips on Michael and Kathryn Mitchell who bought an  Ultrasonic Teen Deterrent device to ward off their neighbours' children
  
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• Couple claim they lost unborn daughter after medics failed to spot baby was in trouble

  10-11-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Amy and Paul Belton are taking legal action against South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust after their daughter Maddison was delivered stillborn by Caesarian section at just over 30 weeks
  
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• Black Friday 2015: Police warn shops to have enough security to deal with chaotic deal day

  10-11-2015 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  On November 27 many retailers will hold a day of serious discounts, in a trend copied from the US
  
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• Black Friday 2015: Retailers warned to have enough staff on hand to deal with chaos

  10-11-2015 23:26
  
  RETAILERS have been warned to have enough staff and security on hand for when Black Friday shopping chaos erupts across the country.
  
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• Hero cop pops in for cup of tea with elderly couple who called 999 because they were 'lonely'

  10-11-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  PC Stu Ockwell has been praised after going to the home of the 95-year-old couple and enjoying a brew over old war stories while keeping the pair company
  
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• The 5 freedoms David Cameron must get back from Europe by KATIE HOPKINS

  10-11-2015 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dave, don’t tell us the things you know you’ve already got, writes KATIE HOPKINS. We don't want this list of waffle and piffle, we want our borders, our economy, our law and our rights.
  
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• Vulnerable white schoolgirl gang raped and sexually abused by 14 Asian men, court told

  10-11-2015 23:11
  A VULNERABLE white schoolgirl was gang raped and sexually abused by 14 Asian men, a court has heard.
  
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• Footage of underwear models parading in tight briefs and vests goes VIRAL after being posted online

  10-11-2015 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One section of this shopping channel show attracted a flurry of attention which did not go unnoticed by student lads' website
  
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• Police will struggle to tackle terrorism after brutal Tory cuts, top cop warns

  10-11-2015 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scotland Yard chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe says officers will also struggle to deal with child abuse and gang crime
  
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• TfL unveil first map showing how long it'll take to walk between stations

  10-11-2015 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The map, which covers Zones 1 and 2, replicates the standard Tube plan but adding a number between each pair of stations which are next to each other on the same line.
  
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• Tax credit cuts 'unfair, unnecessary, unjust and once again it's poor that are being punished'

  10-11-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The impact of George Osborne's tax credit cuts will be horrendous for millions of families - here two people say what it will mean for them
  
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• Police probe into Salford shootings names 13 people hit with banning orders in wake of gang violence

  10-11-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Greater Manchester Police gave have been granted more than a dozen injunctions to keep people from different parts of the city associating with each other
  
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• Baby died after dad tried to change her nappy while 'horribly drunk'

  10-11-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Skylar Cowan Gallagher was just 14-weeks-old when she was left in the care of her father, Stephen Gallagher, who got so drunk while looking after her that he urinated under a fish tank
  
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• Mayor says violent burglars should be punished with BEATINGS adding 'jail is not good enough for these people'

  10-11-2015 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  James Breen believes offenders get it too easy once convicted and thinks court-sanctioned beatings would make potential criminals think twice
  
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• Boris Johnson vows to do 'everything' to stop Jeremy Corbyn from becoming Prime Minister

  10-11-2015 22:54
  
  MAYOR of London Boris Johnson has declared he will do “everything” in his power to stop Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister.
  
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• Francois Hollande and Iran president Hassan Rouhani’s meeting is cancelled

  10-11-2015 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  French president Francois Hollande and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani had been due to dine together during an Iranian state visit to Paris next week.
  
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• Jorg Dusterwald uses paint to blend naked model into the background

  10-11-2015 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bodypaint artist Jörg Düsterwald created theillusion with photographer Tschiponnique Skupin and a model in a forest in Lower Saxony, Germany.
  
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• David Dunn 'texted friend after battering Darran Almond to death'

  10-11-2015 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Darran Almond, pictured was beaten to death inside a bail hostel in Pontypridd, South Wales in February after he was accused of sleeping with David Dunn's girlfriend after she had cooked him a meal.
  
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• Headteacher on £200k salary 'bought condoms and spa pool on Amazon using school credit card'

  10-11-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Richard Gilliland is accused of employing his son - who had convictions for heroin possession and flashing a 14-year-old girl - after concealing CRB check results
  
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• Care homes closures ‘to burden NHS with a bill for £3billion-a-year'

  10-11-2015 22:36
  
  ELDERLY residents forced out of doomed care homes and into hospitals because there is nowhere else for them to go will cost the NHS £3billion-a-year by 2020, a report warns.
  
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• Can you spot the naked woman in this photograph? It's not as easy as you might think

  10-11-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The body paint is so realistic the woman blends into the natural landscape
  
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• Woman faces battle to keep fingers after hand was 'ripped and mangled' in horrifying car crash

  10-11-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT - Aimmie Stewart, 20, suffered terrible injuries to her left hand when the vehicle she was in flipped over
  
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• Gordon Brown warns George Osborne tax credit cuts will 'plunge another million families into poverty'

  10-11-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former PM warns axing his flagship policy would leave Britain with “one of the biggest poverty problems in the western world"
  
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• Gordon Brown: 'You're betraying Britain with your tax credit cuts, Chancellor'

  10-11-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Prime Minister, who was architect of tax credits, breaks his silence exclusively to the Mirror ahead of his speech on the cuts tomorrow
  
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• The African Dassanech tribe turning Western rubbish into jewellery 

  10-11-2015 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At a time when we are all being encouraged to recycle more, one tribe in Ethiopia has been showing off their latest fashion accessories made entirely from old pieces of rubbish.
  
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• Russian motor show driver's rally car breaks in half in video

  10-11-2015 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the moment an experienced rally driver shocked spectators at a motorshow with a jaw-dropping trick. Crowds at the show gasped as the car suddenly accelerated and snapped in half.
  
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• Steel worker's family Christmas dream left in tatters after he lost his job

  10-11-2015 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Wilson and wife Nicola from Teesside had special plans for this festive season but now they lie in ruins
  
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• Shipwreck capital of the world containing 2,500 sunken vessels discovered

  10-11-2015 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Discovery was made in the middle of an ancient trade route from Egypt to Cyprus in the Fourni archipelago
  
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• Bloody Sunday: Paras 'betrayed' over arrest of former soldier

  10-11-2015 22:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Veterans, MPs and former military commanders demand to know why former soldiers are being investigated for murder when so many former terrorists were released under the Good Friday Agreement.
  
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• Twitter users delighted as George Alagiah returns to BBC News after cancer battle

  10-11-2015 22:04
  
  BBC JOURNALIST George Alagiah was welcomed back to television screens this evening with a swarm of delighted Twitter posts after receiving the all-clear for cancer.
  
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• This bus driver's kind gesture to a homeless man will warm your heart

  10-11-2015 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man's selfless actions were praised by a passenger who shared the story on Facebook
  
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• Christopher May 'strangled Tracey Woodford and dismembered her body'

  10-11-2015 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Christopher May, 50, pictured, strangled Tracey Woodford, 47, and police found parts of her body in his bathroom, his kitchen cupboard and a nearby drain, Cardiff Crown Court heard.
  
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• George Alagiah returns to TV screens after winning battle with cancer

  10-11-2015 22:02 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The veteran BBC newsreader has returned to TV screens after winning his battle against bowel cancer
  
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• What LAX looked like in the 1980s is revealed in John Brian King's new book

  10-11-2015 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Weary passengers, dated clothing and cigarette slims - one photographer has revealed a series of images of travellers captured between 1980 and 1984 at Los Angeles International Airport.
  
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• Mum of Down's boy killed by hospital blunders suffered broken heart when he missed wedding

  10-11-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jack, 6, should have been giggling when mum Nicky Adcock married his dad Vic - but when she walked down the aisle there was only a picture of her precious boy
  
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• Foxtons estate agents founder taken to the High Court over mega-basement plans

  10-11-2015 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jon Hunt (pictured) and his wife Lois have begun work at their Grade II listed mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens - the former Soviet Mission next to the French embassy - the High Court has heard.
  
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• Violent thug beat up two brothers 'who teased him for looking like Joey Essex'

  10-11-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nicky Weight punched the men after claiming someone in their group made a comment about his skinny jeans making him look like the former TOWIE star
  
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• Greedy cat gets head wedged in tin of food and left needing emergency surgery to remove it

  10-11-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Curious moggy Felix needed a general anaesthetic so the Whiskers food can could be removed from his head as vets feared he may suffocate inside the tin
  
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• Egypt puts British tourists on TV to hide Sharm El Sheikh’s emptying beaches

  10-11-2015 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cameraman crews have been spotted interviewing a few remaining British tourists in an attempt to show the popular holiday resorts have not been completely abandoned in Sharm el-Sheikh.
  
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• Jimmy Doran 'died after being found covered in thick clothing in summer'

  10-11-2015 21:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Margaret Anthoney, 53, has lodged a formal complaint against Craigie Nursing Home, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, following the death of her 85-year-old father Jimmy Doran.
  
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• Orangutan mum pictured desperately clutching baby after surviving forest fire then almost being STONED TO DEATH by villager

  10-11-2015 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The emaciated mother and baby managed to escape raging forest fires in Indonesia that were started by local people to clear land in the area
  
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• Thug jailed for manslaughter after killing restaurant worker with one 'poleaxe' punch

  10-11-2015 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peter Taylor, 31, was handed at six year prison sentence after being found guilty of manslaughter at Liverpool Crown Court
  
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• MEPs bid to stop Turkey from becoming an EU member state

  10-11-2015 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despite President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's efforts, Brussels MEPs have cited the new progress report on Turkey’s possible EU membership as a proof of why they should never be allowed to join.
  
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