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• Cat put down after 'callous' owners let infected ear eat away at her face

  02-12-2015 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Deborah Burns, 48 and husband David, 54, were banned from keeping animals for two years after Dizzy was found with the horrific infection
  
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• Sudanese migrant suffered fatal head injuries while travelling through Channel Tunnel

  02-12-2015 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Husham Osman Alzubair was found dead from head injuries on the rear wagon of a freight train as it arrived through the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone, Kent in July.
  
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• Man arrested for allegedly pushing a Kentish Town commuter under a Tube train

  02-12-2015 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incident was said to have happened at Kentish Town station this morning in front of shocked commuters, including a group of school children. The injured commuter is in a serious condition.
  
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• Real Madrid face Copa del Rey expulsion for fielding ineligible player

  02-12-2015 23:51 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Denis Cheryshev was banned but scored against Cadiz
  • Midfielder was substituted at half-time by Rafa BenítezReal Madrid could face disqualification from the Copa del Rey after appearing to field an ineligible player in their 3-1 fourth-round victory over Cadiz on Wednesday night. Related: Barcelona’s Sandro Ramírez hits treble in cup rout of VillanovenseContinue reading...
  
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• Woman who refused treatment after ‘losing her sparkle’ dies

  02-12-2015 23:50 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  50-year-old was at centre of court dispute after declining life-saving dialysis
  A woman who refused life-saving kidney treatment after saying she had lost her “sparkle” and did not want to grow old has died, lawyers say.The woman, 50, had been at the centre of litigation in the court of protection, where issues relating to sick and vulnerable people are considered. A solicitor who represents one of the woman’s daughters said on Wednesday that she had died on Saturday. Continue
  
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• RAF poised to launch raids on ISIS after MPs supported calls to join allies in aerial attacks

  02-12-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MPs back bombing with majority of 174 and RAF jets target ISIS killers in Raqqa base   
  
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• Who backs whom in the Syrian conflict

  02-12-2015 23:47 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Russia’s intervention has made the complex pattern of alliances and enmities in Syria still more intricate. The Assad regime and its local opponents are backed to differing degrees and in different configurations by military powers from near and far Continue reading...
  
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• Why the Oldham West by-election is a battle that Labour HAS to win

  02-12-2015 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Routledge visited the previously safe Labour seat where Nigel Farage and UKIP are waging a dirty war which could deal a devastating blow to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership
  
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• RAF pilot vows to "make difference" as MPs give go ahead for Syria bombing

  02-12-2015 23:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  But one senior RAF commander warns the mission to uproot Isil will take time and was something that would "endure".
  
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• Britain enters the Syria conflict with fire and Brimstone

  02-12-2015 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Extra Tornado and Typhoon jets join the fight as missiles ready to strike ISIS with pinpoint accuracy
  
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• Voice of the Mirror: David Cameron got his way but he may live to regret it

  02-12-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The PM’s nasty smearing of opponents as “terrorist sympathisers” was shameful. It was gutter politics and an insult that demeaned the holder of the greatest office of state.
  
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• When will Syria bombing begin? How airstrikes on ISIS could start within hours of late-night Commons vote

  02-12-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MPshave approved airstrikes on Syria in a late-night Commons vote - and the bombardment could start very soon         
  
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• Pictured: Inside drug lab where suspected Class A drugs were being cooked up

  02-12-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Forensic officers have spent the past four days combing the filthy and dilapidated building where chemicals were discovered and confiscated for tests
  
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• Syria vote was not David Cameron's finest hour but it was one battle he won

  02-12-2015 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kevin Maguire says David Cameron was painfully unconvincing in what was far from a finest hour
  
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• Home Office IT blunders leave UK vulnerable to attack

  02-12-2015 23:32
  
  POTENTIAL terrorists are reaching Britain’s shores because a £1billion IT system is still not up and running – four years after its original completion date.
  
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• Lord Sugar ambushes Boris Johnson over Britain's disgraceful roads and traffic

  02-12-2015 23:30
  
  LORD Alan Sugar has ambushed Boris Johnson live on a radio phone-in over roadworks that blight every city, town and village.
  
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• Watch Hilary Benn's extraordinary speech on Syria which moved MPs to tears and applause

  02-12-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shadow foreign secretary delivered "one of the great speeches" in Commons history
  
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• Youngest ever organ donor Hope's mum backs our compulsory opt-out campaign to save more lives

  02-12-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emma and Drew Lee want a change in the law after their daughter donated organs following her death just 74 minutes after being born
  
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• UK braced for heavy flooding as wet weather looks set to continue until Christmas

  02-12-2015 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This week's bad weather has already seen around 20 cars submerged during a fair in Wales
  
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• Watch child's balloon EXPLODE in underground station causing travel chaos

  02-12-2015 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bizarre incident happened caused major delays for commuters for more than an hour
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after Kentish Town Tube passenger 'deliberately pushed under train'

  02-12-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 29-year-old voluntarily attended a London police station. He is currently in police custody helping officers with their inquiries
  
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• Pope Francis says 'Fundamentalism is 'a disease of all religions'

  02-12-2015 22:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pope Francis today said fundamentalism is not just an Islamic problem and is something which exists in all religions, including the Catholic church. The Argentine pontiff returned from his African tour today.
  
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• Cancer breakthrough: Scientists discover how to 'switch off' key disease-causing protein

  02-12-2015 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Ras protein is known to be directly responsible for 30 per cent of all cancer cases, and is indirectly involved in almost all forms of the disease, scientists at the University of Toronto say.
  
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• Family 'felt like prisoners' after 'neighbour from hell' filmed them and posted footage to YouTube

  02-12-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wayne Howard has breached an injunction that banned him from filming and shining security lights into neighbours' homes
  
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• Man with unhealthy obsession with guns jailed after keeping weapons in his bedroom

  02-12-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A police raid found a trove of guns and shotgun canisters, as well as police and military clothing at the home of Mark Freeman, 46
  
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• EXPRESS ROADS CRUSADE: Let's Get Britain Moving

  02-12-2015 22:44
  
  BRITAIN'S roads are a national disgrace. The country has ground to a halt and the gridlock is costing the economy billions.
  
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• Body of Brit who vanished after going for walk is found in Amsterdam canal

  02-12-2015 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chris Nelson, 24, vanished after failing to return from an early morning stroll in the Nieuwmarkt area of the city
  
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• Foreign criminals to lose 'right-to-stay' family defence used to avoid deportation

  02-12-2015 22:37
  
  FOREIGN criminals and terrorists will find it more difficult to use the “right to family life” defence to avoid deportation when the human rights law is overhauled, it was revealed yesterday.
  
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• DJ Neil Fox tells sex assault trial he slapped women's bottoms but nobody ever complained

  02-12-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-Pop Idol judge Fox denies claims he repeatedly groped a colleague, sexually attacked two other women at various radio stations and preyed on teenage girls
  
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• The Crystal Maze is making a come back and is so popular the website crashed

  02-12-2015 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Following a crowdfunding campaign that raised £900,000 in just four weeks, a pay-per-play Crystal Maze is to open in London, pitting teams head-to-head in the same testing environment.
  
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• Man arrested for allegedly pushing a commuter under a Tube train

  02-12-2015 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incident was said to have happened at Kentish Town station this morning in front of shocked commuters, including a group of school children. The injured commuter is in a serious condition.
  
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• Woman wrapped Asda bag around hair and ended up with logo on her locks

  02-12-2015 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rebecca Richardson, from Bolton, was left with the supermarket chain's famous green logo emblazoned across the her hair after using one of the shop's bags to dry her freshly coloured locks.
  
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• Transplant surgeon Nadey Hakim fights for job after getting sacked

  02-12-2015 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professor Nadey Hakim, 57, of Barnet, North London, claims his sacking by Imperial College has deprived very ill patients of a diabetes cure.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn stays away from Oldham West and Royton as voters go to the polls

  02-12-2015 22:19 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Labour leader will not visit the seat on polling day - unlike Nigel Farage - as his party and Ukip battle it out in two-horse race
  
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• Elderly couple bravely fight of knife-wielding thug who burst into their home demanding cash

  02-12-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jean Chambers, 68, was slashed with a six inch blade before husband Ian could force the intruder out of the house
  
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• Walking With The Wounded's courageous deeds can inspire YOU to do something special this Christmas

  02-12-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror has teamed up with the military charity for our Christmas appeal and you don't have to match their amazing feats to support their work
  
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• Gary Scott becomes 19th teenager to be murdered in London this year

  02-12-2015 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gary Scott, who was also known as GJ, was found with multiple stab wounds on a council estate in Finsbury Park, north London, last night and taken to hospital, where he died from his injuries.
  
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• Karen Buckley murderer Alexander Pacteau drops appeal against 23-year sentence for killing student

  02-12-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Court of Criminal Appeal was notified that the killer's bid to reduce his sentence had been abandoned days before his appeal was due to be heard
  
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• Abdul Raoof Al Shayeb ‘was caught with instructions on how to use a rifle’

  02-12-2015 22:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Abdul Raoof Al Shayeb, 51, from north west London, claims he has been a human rights activist in his native country of Bahrain since the age of 14.
  
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• Slow walking is early dementia warning sign in the elderly, say researchers

  02-12-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The risk of dementia could show itself early through problems with navigation and concentration, say experts
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn condemns 'bullying' of MPs who support bombing ISIS in Syria

  02-12-2015 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader says there is no place for this kind of behaviour in his party
  
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• Hatton Garden heist was an inside job, security guard tells court

  02-12-2015 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Security guard Kelvin Stockwell admitted that the gang, who used a lift (pictured) to get back into the vault in London, must have been told how to get around the alarm system.
  
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• Frog appears to have a Mohican haircut after butterfly lands on his head

  02-12-2015 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The green tree frog was perched on by a Common Jezebel butterfly during the unexpected photo opp in Jarkarta, Indonesia, and held the pose for some 15 minutes, making for a colourful combo.
  
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• Copenhagen Zoo polar bear is shot with rubber bullets after man jumps into enclosure

  02-12-2015 21:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Staff at Copenhagen Zoo at first yelled to distract the animal from his potential prey before others with firearms arrived, firing rubber bullets to get the huge animal to back off.
  
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• Watch horrifying moment cyclist is flung into the air after hitting a car

  02-12-2015 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES
  : The 21-year-old can be seen flying though the air after the horror crash
  
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• Estonian robbers who flew into Britain to commit audacious jewel raids are foiled TWICE

  02-12-2015 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Estonian robbers Alar Kajurand, 44, Taimar Uibopuu, 30 and Rainis Kilk, 26, have now been jailed for a combined total of 51 years following two armed raids on jewellers in London and Leeds.
  
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• Vienna subway station escalator reopening sees hundreds gather for a party

  02-12-2015 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of people turned out for a party to celebrate the opening of the escalator at the Schottentor U-bahn stationbut police were called after the party spilled into the street.
  
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• Father and daughter in INCESTUOUS relationship demand right to bring up baby girl

  02-12-2015 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The father Cris, 36, and daughter Sara, 18, from Mallorca, insist they are in a loving relationship and should be allowed to bring up the girl, who is also the man's granddaughter
  
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• Boyfriend of the Good Samaritan mother allegedly murdered when she tried stop another woman being attacked was also knocked out, court hears

  02-12-2015 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anthony Tomlinson, 43, said his first thought was for Alison Wilson, 36, after he said he lost consciousness from a blow to the head from what he thought was a bottle of wine in Widnes, Cheshire.
  
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• Boris Johnson receives snub from London pensioner as she asks 'who are you?'

  02-12-2015 21:40 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Mayor suffered a cringeworthy episode today after 104-year-old Ivy Hull enquired as to who he was
  
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