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• Vladimir Putin says he has been 'stabbed in the back' after Turkey downs Russian war plane

  24-11-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a tense escalation of the Middle East crisis, he warned Turkey – a key member of Nato and ally of Britain – of “significant consequences”
  
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• Watch Star Wars fans prank hundreds of shoppers by bringing the Force to life

  24-11-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shoppers seem visibly shocked and some are filmed running from the scene as actors are 'thrown to the floor by evil force'
  
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• Why a £15 dress from Amazon has gone down a storm with female weather presenters

  24-11-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A bizarre phenomenon is taking place among female weather presenters in America and it has nothing to do with any forecast
  
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• Autumn Statement prompts protests outside Downing Street as activists demand 'welfare not warfare'

  24-11-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Activists marched from London's Trafalgar Square to voice fury at a £12bn defence spending boost despite billions in cuts
  
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• 'Worst ever air rage passenger' jailed after causing £2,500 damage to plane and biting police officer

  24-11-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jasbir Singh Bharaj, 46, threatened to punch staff, smashed up his entertainment console and bit the police officer who arrested him
  
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• 'Acid House King' Tony Colston-Hayter ordered to repay £1 in £1.25m cyber-heist

  24-11-2015 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tony Colston-Hayter, 49, once organised some of Britain’s most infamous all-night raves where drugs were peddled to children as young as 12 - but later embarked on a life of crime instead.
  
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• New threat to elderly benefits: Pensioners face sleep walking into poverty

  24-11-2015 23:34
  
  A STAMPEDE to cash in retirement savings could leave pensioners facing poverty because of a littleknown welfare rule.
  
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• Watch moment 'Scotland's most wanted man' is cornered by armed police and forced to drop to his knees

  24-11-2015 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brian Martin, once dubbed Scotland’s most wanted man, and accomplice Christopher McMultan are swooped on by elite armed cops dressed all in black and wearing helmets
  
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• Tunisia declares state of emergency after bomb attack on presidential guards bus

  24-11-2015 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At least 12 people are dead after an explosion tore through a bus full of Tunisian presidential guards today in a suspected suicide bomb attack on the country's capital.
  
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• Pilot of helicopter that crashed in Vauxhall, London 'wasn't happy about fog'

  24-11-2015 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in Vauxhall had expressed concern about the level of freezing fog, a coroner's inquest into the death of Pete Barnes, 50, has been told.
  
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• Police arrest one terror suspect every day on the streets of Britain

  24-11-2015 23:03
  
  SUSPECTED jihadists in the UK have been arrested at a rate of one a day for the past year – twice the figure three years ago – Britain’s top anti-terror officer revealed yesterday.
  
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• Chorister snapped reading tablet as Queen opens Synod meeting 

  24-11-2015 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  During the service he was photographed reading a match report about Liverpool's recent thrashing of Manchester City on a tablet.
  
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• VIDEO: Who's at fault? You decide! Cyclist knocked off while passing taxi caught on camera

  24-11-2015 23:00
  
  A ROW has erupted over who is to blame for a collision between a cyclist and a taxi driver.
  
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• BBC's 'intensely competitive' scheduling damaging our dramas, ITV says

  24-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Broadcaster says BBC is putting popular dramas up against its own big-budget productions, threatening their commercial viability
  
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• Pakistani student jailed in US for 40 years over failed plot to bomb Manchester shopping centre

  24-11-2015 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Abid Naseer, 29, was handed the sentence after he was found guilty of plotting to drive a bomb into the Arndale shopping centre at the height of the Easter shopping season in 2009.
  
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• Britain's biggest warship HMS Ocean to be scrapped just four years after £65million facelift

  24-11-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tory ministers were blasted after the move to retire HMS Ocean slipped out without one mention in David Cameron's 96-page defence review
  
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• Hero uncle saves schoolboy's life by using body as a human shield against oncoming car

  24-11-2015 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Quick-thinking Jordan Reynolds, 24, stepped into action to save nephew Ashton while the pair crossed the road to see Christmas lights switch-on
  
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• Town's Christmas lights are branded 'pants' - because they look like a string of UNDIES

  24-11-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some residents in Tiverton, Devon, think their festive display looks more like like underwear hanging on a washing line
  
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• Teenager obsessed with selfies killed herself after striving for 'magazine body'

  24-11-2015 22:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Hannah Carpenter, 18, was found dead in the woods near her home
  
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• Plane of Tenerife-bound Britons returns to UK after 'WINDSCREEN SMASHED' mid-flight

  24-11-2015 22:36
  
  A PASSENGER plane carrying hundreds of British tourists to the sunshine island of Tenerife had to make a dramatic emergency landing after the windscreen apparently SMASHED mid-flight.
  
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• Helicopter pilot who crashed in central London felt 'pressure' to fly despite bad weather

  24-11-2015 22:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Captain Peter Barnes's aircraft clipped the crane on top of a skyscraper in fog before crashing to the ground
  
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• Cyprus deports six Frenchmen detained at airport on suspicion of extremist links

  24-11-2015 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police in France said all six men were known to the authorities there and that three of them were subject to an ‘S File’, meaning they were suspected of links to a terrorist group.
  
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• Helicopter pilot told of fear of flying in freezing fog before falling to his death

  24-11-2015 22:30
  
  A helicopter pilot sent a text message on his mobile phone minutes before he clipped a crane in freezing fog and plummeted to his death, an inquest heard today.
  
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• Russia and Turkey in war of words after releasing conflicting flight paths of destroyed jet

  24-11-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Turkish forces shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying the jet had violated its air space - a claim backed up by the image it released
  
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• Music video sparks bogus terror alert as locals mistake 'Aladdin' costumes for Islamic State invasion

  24-11-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Singer apologised and said the video shoot had nothing to do with the terror cell and urged people to calm down
  
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• Redruth teen Hannah Carpenter killed herself after becoming obsessed with body image

  24-11-2015 22:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 18-year-old was found dead in the woods at a beauty spot near her home in Redruth, Cornwall, on May 31.
  
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• ‘BBC shouldn’t hire Willie Thorne’ says ex-pal who claims snooker star cheated him

  24-11-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former promoter Mike Watterson accused gambling addict Thorne of borrowing £6,500 before going bankrupt without settling his debts
  
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• Terror attacks threaten world economy as uncertainty hits confidence, says top adman

  24-11-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sir Martin Sorrell says consumers and businesses are become risk averse and questioned the strength of Europe’s recovery
  
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• Pally picture of Grant Shapp's aide and disgraced Tatler Tory Mark Clarke

  24-11-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shot is deeply embarrassing for aide Paul Abbott, who has tried to distance himself from Clarke after being accused of covering up for him
  
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• KATIE HOPKINS on Cheryl Fernandez-Versini's 'cocaine photo'

  24-11-2015 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A photo of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has been taken down, thanks to her lawyers, writes KATIE HOPKINS. But she should just have followed these six simple rules for social media.
  
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• Josephine Williamson had been pushed down the stairs and strangled in Berkshire

  24-11-2015 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Josephine Williamson, 83, was pushed down the stairs and strangled at her Berkshire home, a pathologist has revealed, while husband Philip, 88, has been detained in hospital in police custody.
  
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• Slovakian gipsy gang who trafficked vulnerable women to Britain jailed for 22 years

  24-11-2015 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ‘family business’ headed by Tibor Suchy, of Gravesend, Kent, promised their victims a better life only to offer them as brides to non-European Union nationals desperate to stay in the UK.
  
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• Volkswagen now faces tax evasion probe after emissions scandal

  24-11-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A case centres on whether VW gave incorrect carbon dioxide information on its cars – resulting in owners paying a lower rate of road tax
  
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• Justice for Cecil? Government looks to ban lion trophy hunting imports from entering UK

  24-11-2015 21:48
  
  Four months after the brutal killing of Cecil the lion by an American trophy hunter at a nature reserve in Zimbabwe, the British government is considering a total ban on lion trophy hunting imports.
  
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• Paris police release photo of Mohamed Abrini seen with Salah Abdeslam before attacks

  24-11-2015 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mohamed Abrini (pictured) was filmed along with Abdeslam at a petrol station in Ressons, France on the motorway to Paris, in a Renault Clio which was later used in the attacks.
  
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• Baby dies after 'brother told mum he accidentally fell on him'

  24-11-2015 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Micah McPherson, who was in a rocker chair at his home when the tragedy happened, died five days later in hospital
  
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• ISIS terrorists slaughter 7 in suicide bomb attack on hotel in Egypt's war-torn Sinai region

  24-11-2015 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A report by the MENA news agency said four policemen and a civilian were also among the seven killed, and that at least 10 people were wounded
  
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• Mother says authorities failed 'rape victim' daughter who killed self

  24-11-2015 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tracy Shelvey, 41, was certain Patrick Hall would be convicted after testifying against him, an inquest heard - and killed herself in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, when he was cleared.
  
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• Footage shows furious driver throw punches at traffic wardens over parking row

  24-11-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The scrap goes on for a long time - at one stage the man's shirt is ripped off  - and by the end of the action he and a warden are wrestling on the tarmac
  
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• Why tolerance is a British value we must defend more than ever in wartime

  24-11-2015 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We’ve let our best qualities fade in recent decades but it’s time to demonstrate what makes us better than those black-swathed ISIS warriors
  
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• CCTV shows 'teen killer pushing his maths teacher's body' in wheelie bin out of school

  24-11-2015 21:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Philip Chism, 16, was filmed allegedly dumping his teacher's body in the woods before returning back to school covered in blood
  
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• Aldi snubs Black Friday as budget retailer joins Asda in refusing to join sales scramble

  24-11-2015 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The company insisted 'We don’t wait for one special day of the year to give customers the best prices' while Tesco will also only open at 5am
  
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• Iain Duncan Smith's welfare cuts chief flies out on £3,000 taxpayer-funded jaunt

  24-11-2015 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robert Devereux, permanent secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, flew business class to a conference in Vancouver
  
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• MPs demand Ofgem investigation over power market abuse fears

  24-11-2015 21:02 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Energy select committee writes to regulator asking it to investigate whether generators are "manipulating power prices" when supplies run low
  
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• Hatton Garden heist: CCTV footage shows suspects carrying out raid

  24-11-2015 21:02 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  CCTV footage released by police shows suspects at Hatton Garden on Thursday 2nd April 2015
  
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• 'Rarest' medieval panel painting saved by recycling

  24-11-2015 20:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A rare medieval panel painting could have been saved from destruction by a quick-thinking worshipper turned it into a noticeboard
  
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• Serial mistress who has affairs with married men claims she's doing their wives a FAVOUR

  24-11-2015 20:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gweneth Lee has had several affairs and claims she has helped kept husbands and wives together
  
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• The Queen's 90th birthday celebration tickets sell out within five hours

  24-11-2015 20:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Her Majesty's 90th Birthday Celebration is taking place from May 12-15 in Windsor Castle and will feature the likes of Katherine Jenkins
  
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• Teenage gang set dog on fire, broke his neck and fed him drugs

  24-11-2015 20:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Chunky the Chihuahua was attacked for hours in one of the most disturbing cases an RSPCA officer had ever seen
  
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• Merseyside man's fury at getting a £60 litter fine for dropping his BOOKMARK on the floor

  24-11-2015 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Ellis, 62, had just finished work in Birkenhead, on the Wirral, Merseyside, when he was approached by an enforcement officer who handed him a £60 fine for dropping his bookmark.
  
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