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• Singing to policemen and other fine efforts to be let off by the law

  09-12-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man dodged a traffic fine by singing a Joe Cocker tune to three astonished cops - but he isn't the first to hatch a novel plan to get himself out of trouble
  
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• Cumbria floods: Glenridding river bursts its banks

  09-12-2015 23:48 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Floodwater pours through the Cumbrian village of Glenridding as the river once again bursts its banks
  
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• Bride-to-be Alisha Barnett who has NEVER smoked diagnosed with lung cancer

  09-12-2015 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alisha Barnett, 28, from Borough, south London, had just completed a 100-mile bike ride when she developed a cough. When it wouldn't go, further tests revealed she had stage 4 lung cancer.
  
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• Zahir Hussain who modelled himself on Elba’s The Wire character is jailed

  09-12-2015 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zahir Hussain, 40, ran a sophisticated crack and heroin supply network in Birmingham, while taking a small business course at college to improve his understanding of the drugs trade.
  
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• Christian gran, 68, sentenced to community service for calling Muslims satanic

  09-12-2015 23:40
  
  A CHRISTIAN has been convicted for writing to an Islamic school claiming Muslims “worship Satan”.
  
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• Top ten things you didn't know about Ada Lovelace

  09-12-2015 23:29
  
  Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and regarded by many as the first computer programmer.
  
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• Storm Desmond: Residents warned to stay indoors as river floods for second time

  09-12-2015 23:17
  
  RESIDENTS are being warned to stay indoors after a river breached flood defences.
  
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• River Thames speedboat capsizes leaving woman dead near Wandsworth Bridge

  09-12-2015 23:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emergency services were called to the scene near Wandsworth Bridge after cries for help were heard coming from the river just before midnight.
  
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• Drunk yob who killed Good Samaritan mum with broken bottle jailed for life

  09-12-2015 23:16
  
  A DRUNKEN yob who stabbed a good Samaritan mother in the neck with a broken bottle was jailed for her murder.
  
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• Want to be a spy? Try to solve GCHQ's head-scratching Christmas card puzzle

  09-12-2015 23:12
  
  DO you think you are clever enough to be a British spy? If so then you should test your grey matter with this fiendish GCHQ puzzle.
  
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• Cumbria floods: Glenridding defences fail as rain continues to batter village - live

  09-12-2015 23:08 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Government agrees to pledge £50 million for Storm Desmond victims as river overtops in Cumbrian village
  
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• Warning over donating to bogus charities after men selling wristbands 'in aid of veterans' found to be unregistered

  09-12-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Charity Commission issued the warning after two men were found to be selling wristbands in aid of an unregistered charity
  
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• Midwife 'secretly drugged pregnant mums leaving them needing emergency caesareans'

  09-12-2015 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kirsteen Stewart is accused of drugging the mothers and leaving their unborn babies with dangerously slow heartbeats
  
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• Is Kate Middleton turning Princess Diana fashion clone? How Duchess is copying Di's style

  09-12-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge’s fashion choices have often echoed those of her late mother-in-law – and insiders have noted their similar personalities too
  
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• Vladimir Putin threatens to go NUCLEAR on ISIS

  09-12-2015 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President Vladimir Putin said the Caliber cruise missiles launched from the Russian submarine located in the Caspian Sea could be equipped with nuclear warheads.
  
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• Hatton Garden trial: Wads of cash, jewels, walkie-talkies and Forensics For Dummies recovered by police

  09-12-2015 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  These images were released today by the Metropolitan Police alongside photographs of a bag of wristwatches, cut stones, facemasks and three Churchill white metal coins
  
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• Builder finds touching long-lost Christmas list in chimney asking Santa for 'any little toys you have to spare'

  09-12-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Workman Lewis Shaw uncovered the magical letter written by a boy named David while he was demolishing a chimney in a 1930s semi-detached home
  
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• BOUND FOR BRITAIN: The depraved Calais migrant muggers who targeted teenage schoolgirls

  09-12-2015 22:38
  
  CALAIS migrants waiting to smuggle themselves into Britain have targeted teenage girls walking home from school and tried to mug them for their cash and mobile phones, it can be revealed today.
  
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• Lawyer cautioned over claims he left baby daughter locked in car to go shopping in Tesco

  09-12-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alex Keenan, of New Leake, Lincolnshire, was not formally charged over the alleged incident, with police claiming the little girl was left for an hour
  
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• Horrifying CCTV footage shows moment building COLLAPSES onto street as two pedestrians walk by

  09-12-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The CCTV footage shows people casually walking along Uxbridge Road in London blissfully unaware of the impending danger
  
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• Stoke-on-Trent mother killed her two daughters because she thought eldest had cancer 

  09-12-2015 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Marta Galikowska, 27, stabbed to death her five-year-old daughter Maja and baby, Olga, at their home in Stoke-on-Trent because she wrongly believed that Maja had cancer, an inquest heard.
  
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• Dramatic footage shows car engulfed in flames after arsonists set it ablaze

  09-12-2015 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Arsonists torched and completely destroyed the silver Ford Fiesta on a narrow alleyway in Greater Manchester on Tuesday night
  
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• Top cop sacked after lying about car crash injuries in order to take early retirement

  09-12-2015 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Inspector Zoe Hallam claimed she could not drive for more than 15 minutes following injuries sustained in a crash in 2011 in a bid to attempt to retire from Nottinghamshire Police on medical grounds
  
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• Storm Desmond: salmon found swimming in golf bunker after flooding in Scotland

  09-12-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Video shows salmon swimming in a bunker at Peterculter Golf Club in Aberdeen after heavy flooding
  
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• How to give the best directions, no matter where you are

  09-12-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Start with a prominent landmark and end with an object of interest to make sure your directions are understood
  
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• BBC to extend News at Ten running time by ten minutes

  09-12-2015 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Corporation to announce that the nightly bulletin - presented by Huw Edwards - will have its running order extended to 10.45pm in the New Year
  
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• Alexander Economou charged with harassing father of girl who accused him of rape

  09-12-2015 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alexander Economou, 36, from Chelsea, south west London, allegedly bombarded David de Freitas with letters, email and YouTube videos following the death of his daughter Eleanor.
  
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• Watch moment armed robber pulls out shotgun in Burger King drive-thru

  09-12-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The culprit pulled up to the window in a stolen Honda, police said, and pointed the shotgun at the unsuspecting server who had leaned across to take his order
  
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• Monkey magic! Orangutan tricked by zoo visitor in hilarious video

  09-12-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ape rolls around in hysterics after the man makes nut 'disappear' in hit clip
  
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• Katie Hopkins writes 'Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban is never going to happen'

  09-12-2015 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  You may want to carry on navel gazing. But for many Americans, Europe is rapidly becoming an example of everything they never want to be, writes KATIE HOPKINS.
  
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• Brothel madam Cynthia 'Cyn' Payne is laid to rest in outrageous funeral

  09-12-2015 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dozens of mourners dressed in brightly-coloured clothing turned out at the South London cemetery to mark the 'rich and colourful life' of the 82-year-old, who died last month.
  
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• Lord Janner's legal fight against child sex abuse allegations being funded by taxpayer

  09-12-2015 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour peer, 87, was granted a team of lawyers paid for by the public purse after a judge ruled this week that he is too sick to stand trial
  
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• Wu-Tang Clan sell one-off LP to ''morally bankrupt'' investment banker who hiked AIDS drug price 5,000%

  09-12-2015 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Shkreli is thought to have paid £1.3m ($2m) for 31-track record Once Upon a Time in Shaolin in May yet he has still not listened to it
  
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• True horror of EastEnders Christmas storyline: Mum was sectioned suffering from postpartum psychosis

  09-12-2015 21:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Viewers will see character Stacey Branning battle her own experience of the condition, which is triggered by childbirth and causes hallucinations
  
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• Alexander Wood ran up hotel bills pretending to be Duke of Marlborough

  09-12-2015 21:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alexander Wood (pictured), 34, used the name of Jamie Spencer at The Great Northern Hotel, near Kings Cross in London and managed to get away without paying his £2,278 bill.
  
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• Chandler's Ford toddler died hours after slipping on marble floor in the Algarve

  09-12-2015 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chloe Godding, from Hampshire, had been playing with her brother on the beach but shortly after the family returned to the apartment she fell forwardsand may have struck her head.
  
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• Storm Desmond: the before and after damage caused by flooding - in GIFs

  09-12-2015 21:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  See before and after GIFs and images of the flooding caused by Storm Desmond which brought heavy rain and gale-force winds
  
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• Soldier caught on camera removing his trousers and attempting to rape an unconscious drunk man

  09-12-2015 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michael Nobbs, 24, admitted carrying out the serious sexual offence in Chatham, Kent, in the early hours of October 2 this year
  
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• Twisted 4ft-tall hunchback paedophile jailed for 16 years for grooming and raping girls

  09-12-2015 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sick Luis Moreno, now 66, is just 4ft tall and has a ‘hunchback’ spinal deformity
  
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• Northerns Lights shine on lovers as they celebrate their relationship among beauty of nature

  09-12-2015 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Photographer Arnar Kristjansson and his girlfriend Simona Buratti spend painstaking hours capturing themselves against epic backdrops
  
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• Watch Christmas lights flash perfectly in time with Frozen's Let It Go

  09-12-2015 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The creators have somehow managed to time different parts of the light display to come on in time with the music
  
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• Angela Merkel is named Time Magazine's Person of the Year

  09-12-2015 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Trump, who came in third after Merkel and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, responded to losing out on the title by claiming Time magazine had 'picked the person who is ruining Germany'.
  
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• Bataclan Paris attack terrorist identified after ISIS send 'martyr text' to his mother

  09-12-2015 21:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Foued Mohamed-Aggad was one of three jihadis who stormed the concert hall on Friday November 13 before slaughtering 90 people
  
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• The rogue traders and dodgy salesmen who will be doing porridge this Christmas

  09-12-2015 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  These bullies are facing justice in jail after fleecing the old and vulnerable
  
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• UK weather sees Storm Desmond flood victim swim in his Cumbria kitchen

  09-12-2015 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A retired picture framer, Peter Clarkson, 72 of Parr Street, Kendal, is just one example of how defiant flood victims are trying to put a brave face on following a trying few days.
  
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• Man charged with harassing dad of woman who killed herself over false rape claim accusation

  09-12-2015 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alexander Economou is accused of harassing David de Freitas, whose daughter Eleanor killed herself three days before she was due to stand trial
  
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• Liverpool Bus driver who stopped to give a homeless man £5 is rewarded

  09-12-2015 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ex-serviceman Stephen Humphris, 33, stopped his number 86 bus in Liverpool city centre when he saw a homeless man struggling in the pouring rain and offered him a £5 note.
  
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• NHS 'failed to investigate more than 1,000 unexpected deaths' leaked report reveals

  09-12-2015 20:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An investigation found a "failure of leadership" at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust meant the deaths of mental health and learning-disability patients were not properly examined
  
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• Inside Carry On star Kenneth Williams' secret diary he used to 'ease his loneliness'

  09-12-2015 20:44
  
  HAD Sid, Hattie, Joan, Barbara, Bernard & Charlie around for dinner. They were all perfectly awful except for Barbara whom I love more than anything else in the world, & even she is a stupid cow.”
  
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• Scrawny man who hated his pale, untoned body now nicknamed 'the Hulk' after undergoing dramatic transformation

  09-12-2015 20:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In just four months Neal Maher, 29, turned into a muscular, greased-up bodybuilder
  
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