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• Shoreham Airshow tragedy plane had 'faulty parts a year out of date'

  21-12-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said today that pyrotechnic pieces of the 1950s Hunter Hawker should have been changed before June 2014
  
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• Police release CCTV after teenage boys punched to the ground in 'unprovoked' attack while walking home from school

  21-12-2015 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two victims had stayed late to complete extra work for their Duke of Edinburgh Award when they were attacked in Derby city centre
  
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• Sky broadband will automatically block porn by default as of next year

  21-12-2015 23:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sky broadband users will start the New Year with the prospect red-faced conversation with customers services if they want filter removed
  
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• Why is Sangin important?

  21-12-2015 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sangin was once the centre of operations for international forces in Afghanistan - now it could fall to the Taliban.
  
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• 'Scandalous NHS hospital car parking charges are vile tax on kindness'

  21-12-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There might be some excuse if the money went to frontline services, but all too often it goes to greedy private contractors
  
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• Company director who subjected woman to 28-year campaign of stalking and violence finally facing jail

  21-12-2015 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kenneth Main, 62, began tormenting his victim in 1986 and only stopped when she reported to him to police for sexually assaulting her in 2014
  
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• Shopper ends up reversing ON TOP of another car in hilarious parking fail

  21-12-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Somehow the black Hyundai Sportage ended up completely wedged on the bonnet of a silver Renault that was parked behind it
  
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• Arsenal 2-1 Manchester City

  21-12-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal move within two points of leaders Leicester as Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud score in a nervy win.
  
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• BBC terminates F1 coverage three years early to allow Channel 4 to take over broadcast rights from next season... as part of £35m cut to sports budget

  21-12-2015 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The BBC announced on Monday that they were 'reluctantly' forced to end their Formula 1 coverage earlier than expected with the Corporation needing to cut £35million from their sports budget.
  
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• Star Wars in global box office record

  21-12-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Star Wars: The Force Awakens smashes the record for the biggest box office debut weekend globally with tickets sales of $529m (£355m).
  
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• Drug dealer ordered to sell his grandmother's house to help pay back criminal cash

  21-12-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Henry Dougan, 33, pleaded with a judge to re-consider as he made the financial order on the property he inherited from his gran
  
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• Police officer and PCSO convicted of misconduct after disabled man murdered

  21-12-2015 23:16
  
  A POLICE officer and a PCSO have been convicted of misconduct after they failed to protect a disabled man wrongly accused of being a paedophile.
  
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• International system has failed Syria

  21-12-2015 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fergal Keane considers whether the international structures of peacemaking could have saved Syria from disaster.
  
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• Gran wins damages after saving her toddler from falling IKEA wardrobe

  21-12-2015 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carol Ravenscroft, 57, put her arm out to stop the mirrored-wardrobe crashing on top of Dylan at an Ikea store and badly wrenched her arm and shoulder
  
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• 'Hospital car parking charges intolerable when loved ones are seriously ill or dying'

  21-12-2015 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It is intolerable that people’s trauma is made worse by the petty indignity of having to pay for parking, says Mirror political editor Jason Beattie
  
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• Watch prankster drag sleeping friend into a LAKE on an airbed and watch him float away

  21-12-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Elliot doesn't even stir as the mattress heads off for the middle of the lake
  
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• Cancer stricken Heidi Loughlin who lost her daughter reaches £14k of fundraising

  21-12-2015 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Heidi Loughlin, 32, pictured, from Portishead, near Bristol, was three months' pregnant when she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive inflammatory breast cancer earlier this year.
  
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• Apple worried by UK surveillance bill

  21-12-2015 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple tells politicians scrutinising the UK's draft Investigatory Powers Bill about its concerns regarding the proposed law.
  
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• Who will take care of China's elderly people?

  21-12-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Their families won't look after them - who will?
  
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• Top doctor calls for public's help to prevent an A&E crisis,

  21-12-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director, urges families to check on elderly relatives and neighbours in an attempt to help 'prevent a crisis' in heath services this winter
  
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• Heroic NHS doctors and nurses battle with Justin Bieber for Christmas number one single

  21-12-2015 23:00
  
  DOCTORS and nurses hoping to claim the Christmas number one title have begged Justin Bieber fans to stop listening to the pop star's latest single.
  
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• Scandal of hospital car parking charges costing Britain 'up to £200MILLION'

  21-12-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The criticism comes in response to figures showing the fees bring in around £200million a year in England
  
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• Driving home after a night shift 'could be as dangerous as drink-driving'

  21-12-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The study showed almost four-in-10 night shift workers were at risk of having an accident - with reactions slowed in a similar way to being over the limit
  
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• Football agent John Viola declared bankrupt after failing to pay £225,000 tax bill

  21-12-2015 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 55-year-old was hit with the demand from HMRC after he ploughed cash into a film investment scheme which was later ruled to be an illegal tax dodge
  
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• Tim Peake sends Christmas card video message from International Space Station

  21-12-2015 22:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  British astronaut Tim Peake has posted a Christmas video message online from the International Space Station
  
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• Student Elisa Bianco who faked terminal cancer is jailed for two years 

  21-12-2015 22:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sally Retallack was conned by Elisa Bianco, who moved in with the 49-year-old lecturer after pretending she had only three months to live and nowhere else to go, Truro Crown Court heard.
  
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• Mum regains custody of children after 'attempting to take them to Syria to live under ISIS'

  21-12-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The mum was arrested and her four children taken into care after they were stopped boarding a flight to Turkey and the kids were taken into care
  
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• Couple fined by one school but not the other for term-time holiday

  21-12-2015 22:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michelle Parrish, 40, pictured, and husband Robert, 46, took their children, who attend two different schools less than a mile apart, in Staffordshire, out of lessons for a holiday.
  
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• French Alps family murder twist as mystery DNA found on al-Hilli family car

  21-12-2015 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Detectives now hope the mystery traces will lead to a break through in the search for the killers
  
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• Marriage proposal flops after man's girlfriend says diamond is TOO SMALL

  21-12-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One eyewitness told local TV: "Her eyes went wide as she put her hand over her mouth, and then she turned around and walked away without saying anything."
  
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• Taliban 'close to taking' Helmand town

  21-12-2015 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reports from the southern Afghan province of Helmand suggest Taliban militants are close to overrunning the strategic town of Sangin.
  
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• Kenneth Main facing jail for 28-year campaign of abuse against woman

  21-12-2015 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kenneth Main, 62, of Larkhall, Lanarkshire, stalked his victim, punched and kicked her during one attack, and at one point left her cowering terrified in her home as she desperately tried to hide.
  
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• Man who blew £600k on drink, drugs and escort girls wants 50-50 share with ex as they wed ''for better or worse''

  21-12-2015 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Rapp, 56, says Francoise should honour her vows as his addictive behaviour is an illness deserving sympathy
  
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• Care home workers jailed after altering medical records in 'panic' after patient's death

  21-12-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lily Campbell, 89, was left dying in severe pain because of the staff members' failure to carry out regular checks at Laburnum Court care home in Salford, Greater Manchester
  
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• Cops launch hate crime probe after two pigs' heads dumped outside Islamic school

  21-12-2015 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The severed heads were left at the gates of the Markazul Aloom School in Park Lee Road, Blackburn
  
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• Lidl clementine riddled with MAGGOTS makes woman suffer food poisoning

  21-12-2015 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A woman was struck down with severe food poisoning after eating a maggot-filled clementine. Louise Evans, of Somerset, was horrified when. half-way through eating the fruit. maggots spilled into her hand.
  
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• Tories order spy planes that don't work with RAF's in-flight refuelling system

  21-12-2015 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The jets could be forced to turn back during missions to track lurking Russian submarines as they need a top-up every four hours.
  
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• IAAF planned to delay naming cheats

  21-12-2015 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC uncovers a plan within athletics' world governing body to delay naming Russian drug cheats before Moscow 2013.
  
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• Black Friday a flop as 25,000 stores in distress

  21-12-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "Retailers know 2015 was tough and they’re expecting 2016 to start in much the same vein"
  
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• ISIS jihadists 'steal thousands of Syrian passports to get terrorists into Europe'

  21-12-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The documents were raided from government buildings during the brutal civil war and have now fallen into the hands of IS gangs
  
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• City broker Tom Hayes jailed for Libor interest rates rigging scandal has sentence slashed

  21-12-2015 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 36-year-old was convicted of eight counts of conspiracy to defraud after a court heard he was a ringleader in a four-year scam
  
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• Secret of why birds never grey revealed raising prospect of clothes that never fade

  21-12-2015 21:52 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Scientists have disclosed for the first time why birds' plumage never fades leading to hopes that 'fade-proof' clothes could be on the horizon
  
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• Woman left with suspected food poisoning after biting into Lidl clementine 'filled with maggots'

  21-12-2015 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Louise Evans from Ilchester, Somerset, claims the second half of the orange was teeming with so many maggots that they spilled out onto her hand.
  
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• Miracle baby who was so small her dad's wedding ring fit on her wrist celebrates first Christmas

  21-12-2015 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mollie Perrin's parents Stephanie, 34, and James, 38, were told to expect the worst when their daughter was born three months premature
  
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• 50 year engagement: Happy couple get married half a century after first getting engaged

  21-12-2015 21:43
  
  TWO pensioners will finally get married next year – a staggering 50 years after they first became engaged.
  
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• We feel joy more than any other emotion - 468 times a year to be exact

  21-12-2015 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new study looked into five key human emotions of joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust - how frequently we feel them and what triggers them
  
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• Sexwale questioned by US grand jury

  21-12-2015 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fifa presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale appears before a US grand jury as part of an on-going investigation into World Cup bribes.
  
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• Someone has decided to put mistletoe on the London Underground

  21-12-2015 21:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A journey on the tube entails physical contact with too many strangers already, and one person has decided to add to the experience
  
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• Watch heroic man save little boy from certain death after he falls from a roof

  21-12-2015 21:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man was captured by a CCTV camera as he walked back to where he had been standing and grabbing the child in the nick of time
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn says he would pick Bolivia if he had to live outside Britain

  21-12-2015 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Labour leader picks socialist South American nation when asked where he would live outside Britain, calling Bolivia 'absolutely fascinating'
  
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