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• Shocking footage 'shows postman SPITTING on two Muslim mothers in hijabs calling them terrorists'

  25-11-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dainton Coley, 34, faces hate crime charges after he launched a racist tirade at the two women wearing  hijabs on a street in Brooklyn, New York
  
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• 'Slasher George Osborne has got his sums horribly wrong again in this Autumn Statement'

  25-11-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There is no sound economic reason to cut public spending a raise taxes, says Prof David Blanchflower, former Bank of England rate setter
  
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• Law graduate beaten by thug in brutal random attack…because he didn't like her OUTFIT

  25-11-2015 23:45
  
  A LAW graduate has been left with a fractured eye socket after a thug punched her in an unprovoked attack…because he didn't like her OUTFIT.
  
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• John McDonnell sparks House of Commons storm by quoting Chairman Mao

  25-11-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In what was supposed to be a theatrical twist the Shadow Chancellor brandished a copy of the Mao’s famous ‘Little Red Book’
  
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• Brave pensioner, 79, chases down and catches thief after wife's purse is stolen

  25-11-2015 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eftimka Stancheva had distracted the 86-year-old woman at a café in Hounslow High Street while an accomplice stole her purse
  
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• Was Russia jet shot down in REVENGE for bombings on ethnic Turkish villages?

  25-11-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Last week the Turkish foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to warn him there would be very serious consequences if the Russian air force did not stop the bombing of Turkmen villages
  
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• Autumn Statement victory after Osborne tax credit U-turn - but he hasn't abandoned war on the poor

  25-11-2015 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Autumn Statement will still clobber families when they move to Universal Credit in 2020 and be up to £3,000 worse off
  
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• Homeless man hopes for reunion with family this Christmas after kindhearted workers chip in to get him home

  25-11-2015 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When asked the question if you could have anything what would it be, John replied by saying all he wanted was to go back home
  
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• 'Endless miscarriages destroyed our marriage then a one-night stand after we split gave us a baby'

  25-11-2015 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Beautiful baby girl Poppy is her parents' pride and joy - but her unexpected arrival came too late to prevent them splitting up
  
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• Russia Turkey crisis tensions increase as David Cameron prepares to make case for bombing Syria

  25-11-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mr Cameron insisted Britain could not afford to wait for a political deal in Syriabefore bombing Islamic State extremists there.
  
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• 'George Osborne would have been insane to continue with plans for big police cuts'

  25-11-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The threat to our national security has never been greater in 60 years, say the Mirror's Alison Phillips
  
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• Tim Yeo could face police inquiry over 'dishonest' High Court evidence

  25-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In a formal complaint to the Metropolitan Police, the former MP is accused of 'misconduct in public office and... perjury'
  
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• Tim Yeo: A former Tory MP with 'an addiction to politics'

  25-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As the ex-minister is accused of providing 'unreliable and untruthful' evidence in a libel claim, we look back at his political career
  
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• Doubts over watchdog who cleared Tim Yeo, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind

  25-11-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former sleaze watchdog questions whether Kathryn Hudson "applied sufficient rigour and detailed analysis" when she cleared the ex-minister
  
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• Key Ukip figure in Oldham by-election helped mastermind campaign that broke electoral laws

  25-11-2015 22:59 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Exclusive: Joe Fitzpatrick, chairman of Ukip's Oldham branch helping with by-election campaign, was involved in leaflet scandal that triggered resignation
  
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• Police launch manhunt for fugitive prisoners who went on the run after escaping jail

  25-11-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Barry John Henry Lynn, 35, from the Scotswood area of Newcastle , and Michael Forster, 41, from the Gateshead area, escaped from Hatfield Prison, near Doncaster
  
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• Autumn Statement 2015 summary: Key points of George Osborne's Spending Review

  25-11-2015 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In an astonishing U-turn the Chancellor has abandoned cuts to tax credit and police budgets
  
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• Holborn station tries to ban commuters from walking up the left side of the escalator

  25-11-2015 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The etiquette of standing on the right that dates back almost a century has been dropped at Holborn, one of London's busiest stations, in an attempt to reduce queues during rush hour.
  
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• Starlings are mysteriously drowning across the UK

  25-11-2015 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the Zoological Society London believe the birds may have flocked to the pool or bird bath together where waterlogged feathers and steep sides prevented their escape.
  
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• Executive guilty of date rape after slipping drug into drink of woman he met on MillionaireMatch

  25-11-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Businessman John Campbell has been found guilty of spiking the woman's drink with ecstasy in the back garden at his home before having sex with her
  
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• Ethiopian man told he was too short to be a pilot uses YouTube to build his own plane

  25-11-2015 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Asmelash Zeferu was told he was too short to be a pilot but he didn't let that stop him. The Ethiopian used YouTube tutorials to help build a plane which he wants to fly to his wedding.
  
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• Four charged after skulls of two 16-year-old boys were dug up from their graves

  25-11-2015 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Durham Police said the men were arrested in connection with the ongoing row but said the charges did not relate to the skull incident
  
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• Daughter of Maoist cult leader Comrade Bala 'could barely walk when she escaped' 

  25-11-2015 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, (pictured outside court on Wednesday) is accused of keeping the woman captive for thirty years as part of a collective who believed he was God.
  
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• Tube hero left in hospital by gang after stepping in to stop woman being sexually assaulted

  25-11-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The courageous commuter was cracked in the jaw by a gang harassing a woman on a Victoria line train
  
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• SNP is facing £500million black hole

  25-11-2015 22:27
  
  THE SNP administration is facing a £500million shortfall in its finances, with new taxes set to generate less than previously thought.
  
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• Drug dealer who supplied ecstasy that killed teen is jailed for 'vicious' bottle attack

  25-11-2015 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Barry Rainey, 26, had only been freed for five months after serving about half of his three-year sentence for supplying Demi Campbell with drugs when he smashed a bottle over Michael Harrington's head
  
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• How Turkey shooting down a Russian fighter could yet change the course of history

  25-11-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror defence and security editor Chris Hughes analyses what might happen next as tensions mount on the Turkey-Syria border
  
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• George Osborne's Autumn Statement ushers in the end of austerity but increases taxes

  25-11-2015 22:23 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Chancellor uses his Autumn Statement to slow the Government's austerity programme by reversing welfare cuts and protecting police budgets, but increases taxes on property and businesses.
  
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• SSPCA warning over puppy farms

  25-11-2015 22:20
  
  PET lovers have been warned to thoroughly check the credentials of anyone selling them a puppy for Christmas.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: MPs want 'more disabled and LGBT refugees' from Syria to come to UK

  25-11-2015 22:17
  
  MPS have expressed concerns "not enough" of the thousands of refugees heading for the UK will be Christians, disabled, or from the Syrian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
  
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• Good Samaritan stopped ghouls taking pictures of a dead driver at road smash

  25-11-2015 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Army Cadet instructor Alex Mountain was first on scene of crash involving a car and a coach full of school children as bystanders stood and watched
  
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• Shocking video shows security guard SLAPPING homeless war veteran and telling him: 'Go get a job'

  25-11-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The vagrant is left in tears following a cruel exchange with the uniformed female, who walks away proudly after abusing him
  
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• Tower of London ice rink opens for Christmas on 1,000-year-old moat

  25-11-2015 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tower of London Ice Rink will host 43 days of skating and is being operated by Cousins Entertainment, a firm founded by Dancing on Ice judge Robin Cousins.
  
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• George Osborne branded 'disgraceful' over plan to make graduates pay back more of their loans

  25-11-2015 22:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Chancellor has scrapped a pledge to increase the threshold for graduates to pay back the money they borrowed as part of the spending review
  
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• Wine drinkers urged to drop a glass size

  25-11-2015 22:09
  
  MIDDLE-CLASS wine drinkers are being targeted in the latest attempt to reduce alcohol consumption.
  
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• Watch furious billionaire sacking two workers who swore at him for interrupting their cigarettes

  25-11-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Terry Gou - boss of approximately 1 million people at electronics giant Foxconn - gave no quarter when two of his minions didn't recognise him
  
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• Autumn Statement will mean soaring council tax bills for MILLIONS of families

  25-11-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  George Osborne will chop £7billion in local authority grants for cuts in his Spending Review
  
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• My baby died because of weekend shortage of NHS staff

  25-11-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Amy Belton and husband Paul are convinced they are victims of the “weekend effect” and are taking legal action against South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  
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• Prince Harry pays touching tribute to Princess Diana and former nanny with children's centre

  25-11-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The prince has named the dining hall at his centre for AIDS orphans the Diana, Princess of Wales Hall
  
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• John Cleese: I won't work for the BBC again

  25-11-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Monty Python star and creator of Fawlty Towers says the corporation's bosses 'have no idea what they're doing'
  
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• Commuters 'sniggered' as 'sick pervert' groped woman on packed Tube train

  25-11-2015 22:00
  
  A SEX assault victim has told how fellow commuters laughed at her as a male attacker violently groped her on a Tube train.
  
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• Boxer Frankie Gavin threw bottle at man and smashed bar stool over another's head during family holiday rampage

  25-11-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Frankie Gavin, nicknamed 'Funtime Frankie', got embroiled in violence in a bar in Somerset while out with his wife Emma, two young children and two other male friends with their families
  
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• Badger cull branded 'waste of time' as none of victims tested for bovine TB

  25-11-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "The public will be horrified to learn the government has wasted £20million killing badgers without testing any for TB," said Badger Trust chief ­executive Dominic Dyer
  
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• Global warming to make 2015 hottest on record

  25-11-2015 21:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Human-induced global warming and a strong El Nino mean the average surface temperature of the earth in 2015 is likely to be the warmest ever according to the World Meteorological Organisation
  
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• First-time buyers to get 20 per cent discount on starter homes

  25-11-2015 21:53 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In his Autumn Statement, George Osborne promises to double housing budget and create 400,000 new homes, declaring: 'We are the builders'
  
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• Paris attack terrorists were named on 'watchlist' of jihadi suspects a month earlier

  25-11-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The architect of the Paris plot, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, along with suicide bomber Ibrahmi Abdeslam and fugitive gunman Salah Abdeslam were named in the document
  
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• Facebook killer faces life in prison after being found guilty of murdering his wife

  25-11-2015 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Derek Medina claimed he acted in self-defence when he fatally shot Jennifer Alfonso before later posting a graphic photo of her dead body on the social media site
  
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• Britain will be spending more on overseas aid than Home Office within four years

  25-11-2015 21:44 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  UK government will be spending £16.3 billion on foreign aid in 2020 as development budget booms despite deep cuts elsewhere
  
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• Dad kicked out of glamour model event 'after ditching toddler at entrance to ogle at half-naked women'

  25-11-2015 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The parent was at the 'glamour zone' of sci-fi convention MCM Comicon at Birmingham's NEC - which features page three models, webcam girls and adult film stars - when he  allegedly left the child on its own
  
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• Robert Kilroy-Silk's daughter asked judge not to fine her heavily for driving without an MOT

  25-11-2015 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Natasha Kilroy-Silk told Lavender Hill Magistrates Court (pictured) she survives off 'limited financial means' - despite living Fulham, London, where two bedroom flats cost £775,000.
  
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