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• Dramatic CCTV shows armed robber stealing Subway till before running straight into police waiting outside

  03-12-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As he fled the store the robber ran straight into the advancing officers’ path and threw the 20kg till drawer at an officer's head injuring his jaw
  
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• Transgender woman sent to all-male prison released after 40 days behind bars

  03-12-2015 23:45
  
  A TRANSGENDER WOMAN who was sent to an all an-male prison has been released after 40 days behind bars.
  
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• How the RAF are trying to prevent civilian casualties in the Syria ISIS airstrikes

  03-12-2015 23:45
  
  THE RAF have outlined plans to prevent civilian casualties in Syria after Parliament voted for extending Britain’s bombing campaign against Islamic State targets.
  
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• Cheated on wife humiliates love rat husband with open letter to mistress

  03-12-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The letter warns 'the woman dating my husband' that the man she is involved with is 'a selfish lover' and 'a spend-a-holic' who will "use her up"
  
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• Oldham West and Royton by-election: As polls close, Labour expected to cling on to seat with slashed majority after fierce fight with Ukip - live

  03-12-2015 23:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Latest updates as voters in Oldham West and Royton go to polls in closely fought by-election contest between Labour's Jim McMahon and Ukip's John Bickley
  
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• Tom Burgess could follow Jarryd Hayne from rugby league to NFL

  03-12-2015 23:34 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ESPN report Rabbitohs star has tried out with New York GiantsHayne has struggled as punt returner for San Francisco 49ersJarryd Hayne’s struggles to adapt to life in the NFL are well documented but another rugby league star appears to be trying his luck in the US. Tom Burgess, one of the three Burgess brothers at the South Sydney Rabbitohs, is reported to have tried out at tight end with the New York Giants. ESPN’s Adam Schefter first reported the news: Continue reading...
  
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• Mystery primary school prankster who hides sprouts in classmates' bags being hunted by teachers

  03-12-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Staff at a primary school in Cambridge were alerted to the mystery prankster in Year 3 and have sent out a letter to all parents in a bid to nip his or her antics in the bud
  
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• Ukip denies van driving round Oldham playing "White Christmas" was offensive

  03-12-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The party say there was no hidden message and the Bing Crosby classic was just one of a medley of Christmas hits
  
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• Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino targets striker signings in January

  03-12-2015 23:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Manager admits Spurs lack specialist forwards to support Harry Kane
  • Pochettino also anxious not to upset balance of Tottenham teamMauricio Pochettino has said Tottenham Hotspur are tracking strikers for a possible January move to provide support for Harry Kane. The manager maintained he had options to cover Kane in the event of an injury – namely Son Heung-min, Nacer Chadli and Clinton Njie – but he accepted that none of them are specialist strikers.Tottenham tried and
  
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• Paris bomber believed to have visited Britain sparking fears of UK terror cell

  03-12-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  ISIS thug is said to have visited UK jihadis while another member of gang made phone calls to Birmingham in run up to massacre
  
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• Manchester United are different but not boring, says Slaven Bilic

  03-12-2015 23:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • West Ham manager respects Louis van Gaal’s patient football
  • United ‘quicker and more electric’ under Sir Alex FergusonSlaven Bilic has rejected suggestions Manchester United are boring. “They’re different from the Alex Ferguson era where they were quicker, more electric and bombarding the box,” said Bilic, whose West Ham side visit Old Trafford on Saturday. But he denied that made Louis van Gaal’s team dull and pointed to the effectiveness
  
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• Heart donor saved our baby Scarlett’s life at just 20 weeks, say thankful parents

  03-12-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Melanie Coleman and Ian Johnson paid tribute to the family of the three-year-old donor and backed the Mirror’s campaign for a new law on the organ register
  
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• Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois may return against Bournemouth after knee lay-off

  03-12-2015 23:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Goalkeeper sidelined for nearly three months but now back in full training
  • Diego Costa expected to feature in Premier League gameChelsea are confident of welcoming their first-choice goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, back into the starting lineup against Bournemouth on Saturday after almost three months in rehabilitation following knee surgery. Related: Chelsea’s Gary Cahill signs a new four-year contractContinue reading...
  
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• Steve McClaren hopes for more time in bid to restore Newcastle’s confidence

  03-12-2015 23:29 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Manager has had no indications about job security from Mike Ashley
  • McClaren held discussion with key midfielder Moussa Sissoko this weekSteve McClaren does not know if he will be given time to try and put things right at St James’ Park with Mike Ashley, Newcastle United’s owner, in silent mode .“It’s football so you never know,” conceded the former England coach whose struggling side have won only two Premier League games all season, were beaten 5-1 at
  
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• San Bernardino shooting victims include father of six and man who slated radicalised Muslims on Facebook

  03-12-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mike Raymond Wetzel and Nicholas Thalasinos were among 14 people killed in a shooting spree at their work Christmas party in San Bernardino on Wednesday
  
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• House of Commons chef who falsely claimed she had slipped at work is caught out on CCTV

  03-12-2015 23:23
  
  THIS is the moment a House of Commons chef lowered herself on to a wet floor - despite pretending she had SLIPPED to claim £8,000 in compensation.
  
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• I dug myself out of shallow grave after bodybuilder fiance throttled me then left me for dead

  03-12-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stacey Gwilliam managed to crawl out from under bushes after lover Keith Hughes tried to hide her body, thinking she was dead
  
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• Calls for cyclists to 'pay their way' and be charged ROAD TAX to use UK's shoddy roads

  03-12-2015 23:03
  
  A MOTORING campaigner is calling on the Government to charge cyclists road tax and force them to pay insurance.
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing is cleanest show on TV, insists former judge Alesha Dixon

  03-12-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Britain’s Got Talent panelist defended her old show from its accusers, saying 'there is no fixing on Strictly and there never has been'
  
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• Fifa in fresh turmoil after new arrests bring number indicted up to 27

  03-12-2015 23:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Ricardo Teixeira and Marco Polo Del Nero among those on corruption charges
  • Loretta Lynch: ‘The betrayal of trust set out here is outrageous’A day that began with a fresh round of dawn raids on the Baur Au Lac hotel in Zurich ended with 16 football officials being indicted on corruption charges in the US, including five current or former members of Fifa’s executive committee.They included the notorious former Brazilian federation chief Ricardo Teixeira and Marco Po
  
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• Alan Yentob forced out of BBC executive role by threat of independent inquiry

  03-12-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Ex-Kids Company chairman escapes possible censure after stepping down from his £180k-a-year role as creative director, days before the BBC Trust was set to launch a probe into allegations that he interfered with news coverage
  
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• Labour MP calls in police over Twitter 'death threat'

  03-12-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Twitter user sent the MP a chilling message with 'emoji' pictures of knives
  
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• Banker 'behaved like a football hooligan' as he attacked GP wife who said she was leaving

  03-12-2015 22:52
  
  A WEALTHY banker who behaved “like a football hooligan” and attacked his GP wife after she told him she was leaving was facing jail on Thursday.
  
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• Missing plane search teams find wreckage in sea after aircraft 'disappeared' off Blackpool coast

  03-12-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The light aircraft carrying one person was due to arrive in town's airport at 9.15am, but contact with air traffic control was lost three miles from land
  
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• Ministers say it could take two years to destroy Isis

  03-12-2015 22:35 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Military intervention will need to be supported by a diplomatic agreement for a new Syrian transitional government, say government sources
  Cabinet ministers have warned in the aftermath of the first RAF Tornado bombing raids in Syria that it may take as long as two years to destroy Islamic State, saying it will require patience and persistence.
  A military breakthrough may first require diplomatic agreement on the formation of a new transitional government capable of uniting warring forces to dri
  
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• RSPCA called every 3 hours about evil puppy trade and wants Government to put vile gangs out of business

  03-12-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cruel gangs are raking in up to £35,000 a week smuggling pups here from eastern Europe and Ireland and selling them to unsuspecting families
  
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• No early EU referendum as Angela Merkel turns against welfare curbs

  03-12-2015 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  German Chancellor believes David Cameron's plans will undermine single market and is unwilling to corral eastern Europe, as Prime Minister admits there will be no deal before Christmas
  
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• British Tornado jets in Syria 'wipe millions from ISIS war-chest' during first bombing raid on oil field

  03-12-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hours after getting the green light, four scrambled into action - obliterating essential parts of Omar oil field, near Iraq
  
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• Parents of boys suffering from muscular dystrophy appeal to NHS to supply drug

  03-12-2015 22:28 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Rob and Clare Baker say they will relocate from Colchester to France to ensure their sons have access to Translarna, currently unavailable on NHSA family from Colchester is considering moving to France to ensure their two young sons who suffer from muscular dystrophy can obtain the drug they need to combat the disease.Rob and Clare Baker said they would relocate if the drug Translarna, needed by their sons William, six, and Isaac, three, is not made available on the NHS. Continue reading...
  
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• Prince Harry says Nelson Mandela will "never be forgotten" as he ends South Africa tour

  03-12-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The prince also urged schoolchildren at the Siyabonga Secondary School in Braamfischer, Soweto, to follow the good things he does
  
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• Jessica Gerrard, the real-life Cruella de Vil who stole a Pomeranian puppy

  03-12-2015 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mother-of-three Jessica Gerrard grabbed the Pomeranian dog after Zsuzsanna Szilagyi refused her £300 offer, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
  
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• Christmas tree dubbed 'Queen of the Forest' lit up in Trafalgar Square after 700 mile trip

  03-12-2015 22:27
  
  TRAFALGAR Square’s Christmas Tree has been officially lit up for Christmas.
  
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• Moment sick paedophile meeting 'schoolgirl' is confronted by vigilante 'paedo hunters' instead

  03-12-2015 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The group gave officers a computer disc revealing graphic online conversations Michael Harper had with two fictional 14-year-olds
  
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• East Germany’s forgotten Olympic doping victims tell of illness, infertility and changing sex

  03-12-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The athletes say the terrible lifelong problems they suffered after being fed steroids by the communist state are a warning to any sportsman who is tempted to cheat
  
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• Watch moment 'drunk' driver loses control of £2.7m rare supercar smashing it into barrier

  03-12-2015 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Koenigsegg Argera R is one of only 100 made and can go up to 260mph but was wrecked in seconds 
  
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• Prince Harry ends South Africa tour by visiting Nelson Mandela's widow

  03-12-2015 22:13 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Prince Harry has paid a special visit to Nelson Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, as his tour of South Africa comes to an end
  
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• Liam Burke of Newcastle is jailed for life after stabbing mother's boyfriend to death

  03-12-2015 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Liam Burke (pictured), from Newbiggin Hall in Newcastle, did not approve of his mother's new partner Simon Ramel, 45, and knifed him during a row in October last year.
  
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• Wreckage found as light aircraft flying from Isle of Man to Blackpool vanishes

  03-12-2015 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A missing light aircraft may have ditched into the sea after disappearing from radar screens just three miles short of Blackpool Airport, the UK Coastguard has confirmed.
  
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• San Bernardino shooting: police detail gun battle as injured toll rises – live

  03-12-2015 21:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Police say 14 people dead and 21 injured in mass shootingTwo named suspects killed in gun battle with police Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik named as suspects Obama: Mass shootings are ‘too easy’Read the latest summary 8.59pm GMT 8.40pm GMTSan Bernardino police spokesman Kevin Lacy has tweeted that the department will soon release the names of the 14 people killed in the community center.All victims have been positively ID'd & we are notifying the last few families before t
  
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• ISIS hand out sweets to children in sickening celebration of Paris terror attacks

  03-12-2015 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ISIS fighters in Libya have been handing out tins of sweets to children and adults to celebrate the Paris terror attacks last month.
  
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• Mum fights to stop Iain Duncan Smith burying child poverty

  03-12-2015 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When Rebecca Stephens heard IDS had decided to scrap child poverty targets, she said it was "the final straw" and has launched a petition to House of Lords
  
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• Labour MP Neil Coyle who voted for Syria airstrikes calls police after Twitter death threat

  03-12-2015 21:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neil Coyle, who is on a 'traitor list' of 66 MPs threatened with deselection, has called in Scotland Yard after a troll sent him a sinister message with pictures of knives.
  
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• Identical twin defies the odds to give birth to her OWN set of twin girls 

  03-12-2015 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Identical twin Michelle Cooke, 33, from Cobham Surrey, was astonished to learn she was expecting twins and even more shocked to find out they were identical.
  
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• Michiel Van Der Klooster ‘attacked his GP wife at their £2.7million home’

  03-12-2015 21:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michiel Van Der Klooster, 44, was accused of attacking his partner Dr Victoria Owen three times over five months this year at their £2.7m home in Notting Hill, West London.
  
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• Lest we forget: the growing numbers of our outcast dead, destroyed by poverty | Loose canon

  03-12-2015 21:40 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The number of so-called paupers’ funerals has risen by 11% in the past four years, with their overall cost rising about 30%From the street up to the adjacent graveyard the ground rises more than a metre. And the reason for this sudden rise is the bodies – 15,000 of them in a mass grave going back centuries. There are no headstones, no specific names to remember. This was the prostitute’s graveyard, the place to take the foreign sailor who had met his end in the bear-pits or bro
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson seek to heal Labour split with united front

  03-12-2015 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader and his deputy released a joint statement pleading for unity after the party divided over air strikes on Syria
  
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• Islamic State child soldiers play twisted hide and seek game with prisoners before shooting them as a prize

  03-12-2015 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When they are found, the prisoners are forced to wait with their hands tied behind their backs as the children shoot them with a pistol at close range
  
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• Are scientists easy prey for jihadism? | Paul Vallely

  03-12-2015 21:37 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The terrorists’ black and white worldview appeals to an ‘engineering mindset’, a study suggests. A broader education would give vulnerable students the tools to question authorityWhat kind of person becomes a jihadi terrorist? Specifically, what kind of educated person? The overwhelming majority of graduates recruited into Islamist terrorism studied engineering, science and medicine. Almost none are social science or arts graduates, according to as yet unpublished research
  
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• Closing Northern Irish care homes could kill patients, families say

  03-12-2015 21:35 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Relatives of elderly residents in seven homes being axed by Four Seasons Health Care call on private equity owner Guy Hands to think again Families of elderly patients in seven Northern Ireland care homes being axed by Britain’s biggest provider say the closure could “kill” their relatives because of the distress of a move.They have called on the private equity investor, Guy Hands, who controls Four Seasons Health Care, to meet them face to face to see the human cost of the dec
  
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• Why December is NOT the most wonderful time of the year

  03-12-2015 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Gary Bainbridge laments his annual struggle with the common cold
  
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