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• Snow in TEXAS: Footage shows rare sight of the white stuff on the ground in the Lone Star State

  28-12-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rescue operations are underway in Parker County, Texas, after storms hit the U.S. South, Southwest and Midwest over the Christmas holiday.
  
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• Homeless man 'set on fire' in horrifying city centre attack

  28-12-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark Durkan, a Northern Irish assembly member, said the flame "engulfed" the man's legs
  
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• Police officer critical after shooting dead three colleagues before being gunned down

  28-12-2015 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Guarionex Candelario Rivera is believed to have held his fellow officers hostage before being shot himself
  
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• Healthy food labels 'fuel obesity crisis' say Austin McCombs School of Business

  28-12-2015 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Texas at Austin experts revealed that health food labeling is contributing to the obesity epidemic, for people tend to eat too much 'healthy' food because they assume it's a better choice.
  
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• 'The flood-hit North deserves more than David Cameron's crocodile PR tears'

  28-12-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister isn’t to blame for storms and record rainfalls but he is certainly responsible for scrapped projects which might have saved homes
  
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• Kent teen charged after a fight in Intu shopping centre sparked ISIS style panic

  28-12-2015 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 16-year-old, who cannot be named, was arrested at the Intu shopping centre in Bromley, south-east London, on Saturday after a fight sparked fears of an ISIS-style attack.
  
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• Mum's arm torn open by Akita dog in terrifying two-hour mauling which left her with horrifying injuries

  28-12-2015 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING graphic images: Mum-of-three Olivia Donnelly faces another eight operations next year on her left arm after it was mauled by her father's dog
  
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• 'Drunk' young men filmed dangerously veering across lanes on bicycles in major road tunnel

  28-12-2015 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A video filmed from a car and shared more than a thousand times on Facebook shows one of the men veering briefly into the opposite lane
  
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• Flood chaos blamed on North-South divide, as economic cost of floods could hit £5bn

  28-12-2015 23:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  David Cameron heckled as he visits flood-hit northern communities, amid claims that southern communities would not have been left defenceless
  
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• Economic cost of floods could hit £1.5bn, as PM promises to spend more to avert future disasters

  28-12-2015 23:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Environment Agency defends decision to raise Foss barrier to save lives despite catastrophic flooding in York. Follow all the latest developments as the north of England struggles to cope with major floods
  
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• Ronald King shoots dead wife Rita in De La Mer House in Essex

  28-12-2015 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rita King, 81, was allegedly shot inside De La Mer House in Walton-on-the-Naze, in Essex, by her husband who was claimed to have mumbled 'she has had enough' when he pulled the trigger.
  
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• How Johnny Beattie launched Big Yin’s journey from shipyard to showbiz

  28-12-2015 23:01
  
  BILLY Connolly has paid tribute to legendary entertainer Johnny Beattie for giving him his first big break in comedy.
  
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• Twitter and others to face criminal offence if they tip off users about snooping requests

  28-12-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Ministers to make it a criminal offence to notify the subject of a surveillance operation that requests of their data have been made.
  
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• Britain spends more money on foreign floods than those at home

  28-12-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain has sent more cash to overseas countries recovering from flooding than it has made available at home, figures show
  
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• Sotheby's most expensive lots in 2015 revealed including £45m Picasso

  28-12-2015 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Cy Twombly painting (pictured) sold in New York for a staggering £47million last month, while Picasso's La Gommeuse - with a hidden piece of art on the back - cost a buyer £46m just days earlier.
  
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• Staffordshire bull terrier that ATE owner's dead body sparks legal battle amid calls for it to be destroyed

  28-12-2015 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An inquest into the man’s death in Liverpool was unable to determine if it was connected to any attack from the Staffy, which was seized by police
  
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• Video captures moment cops grab 'drunk' man teetering on the edge of a bridge

  28-12-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The astonishing footage was taken in Mianyang City of southwest China's Sichuan Province
  
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• Harrowing videos shows cops grabbing 'drunk suicidal' man teetering on the edge of a bridge

  28-12-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The astonishing footage was taken in Mianyang City of southwest China's Sichuan Province
  
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• Critically ill woman who feared she may not see 2016 gets ultimate Christmas gift with double lung transplant

  28-12-2015 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kimberly Chard tweeted just two days after the operation stating: “It’s me! I’m doing good, though in a lot pain, but I’m so happy.”
  
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• Commuters suffer as rail repairs hit the return to work

  28-12-2015 22:47 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Transport campaigners complain the public is paying the price for 'past neglect' of basic maintenance on railways
  
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• Police 'ignored dying beauty queen's cries for help after she was critically injured in shooting'

  28-12-2015 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Helen Lopez Roblero died when the car she was travelling in with two friends was targeted in what police believe was a targeted attack
  
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• Hi-tech crooks challenging hard-up Scots cops

  28-12-2015 22:30
  
  SCOTLAND’S most powerful criminals are evading justice by embracing modern technology and giving police their biggest ever challenge, a top officer has warned.
  
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• Early ancestors of the Irish may have come to the Emerald Isle from the MIDDLE EAST

  28-12-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The startling discovery was made after the DNA of a woman who lived near Belfast 5,200 years ago and three Irish men dating back to the Bronze Age around 4,000 years ago was mapped
  
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• Flood victims storm of protest at David Cameron for defence cuts

  28-12-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The PM faced a deluge of criticism for cutting defences that could have prevented thousands of people being left homeless or without power
  
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• Sickening ISIS documents reveal how they handle SEX SLAVES and other 'spoils of war'

  28-12-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bizarre and cruel bureaucracy were discovered in documents seized by US special forces in a May raid in Syria that killed top IS financial official Abu Sayyaf
  
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• UK weather: Storm Frank next to ravage Britain, Met Office warns

  28-12-2015 22:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  England's flood-hit North East could get some respite from the stormy weather with the arrival of Storm Frank, which is due to batter western parts from Tuesday
  
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• Nature's battle to survive with the highs and lows of British wildlife

  28-12-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Weird weather and the destruction of habitats have hit many species, says the National Trust
  
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• UK weather: NASA satellite image shows awesome scale of Storm Frank as it hurtles towards flood-hit Britain

  28-12-2015 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Britain is set for the worst storm in a year as officials ramp up warnings for torrential rain, snow and floods
  
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• Furious locals round on Cameron as he is HECKLED during visit to flood-ravaged city

  28-12-2015 21:36
  
  FURIOUS flood victims heckled David Cameron over the budget cuts which may have cost them their homes as he made a photo-op visit to the devastated north of England today.
  
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• Kerber & Black take a look back on the year that was 2015

  28-12-2015 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brilliant duo Neil Kerber and David Black give their trademark satirical take on the news over the last 12 months in the Daily Mirror
  
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• What country does ISIS fear most? The answer may surprise you...

  28-12-2015 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Although a host of nations are pounding the militants from the air and covertly on the ground with elite soldiers, Islamic State fighters have one nation they truly fear
  
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• Leicester factory fire sees firefighters battle 200ft flames in Belgrave

  28-12-2015 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 30 firefighters in six engines fought the inferno (pictured), which sent huge plumes of thick, black smoke towering into the sky at around 2pm  in Belgrave, Leicester.
  
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• DNA sheds light on Irish origins

  28-12-2015 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have sequenced the first ancient human genomes from Ireland - throwing light on the genesis of Celtic populations.
  
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• TERROR WARNING: UK cities vulnerable to ISIS gun attacks because of lack of armed police

  28-12-2015 20:56
  
  BRITISH cities are vulnerable to terror attacks carried out by Islamic State gunmen because of a chronic shortage of armed police, Scotland Yard has warned.
  
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• Paris attacks killers hunted Eagles of Death Metal's Christian lead singer

  28-12-2015 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ISIS fighters inside the Bataclan theatre were heard shouting 'Where's the singer? Where are the Yanks?' just moments after the Eagles of Death Metal band had fled the stage, before the slaughter.
  
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• How a healthy diet makes us eat more and pile on the fat

  28-12-2015 20:48
  
  EATING lots of healthy food could be making Britain’s obesity epidemic worse, experts warned today.
  
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• Woman, 81, is shot dead by a 'relative who lived in a private care home with her' as other pensioners watched in horror

  28-12-2015 20:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police have arrested an 86-year-old man on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 80s was shot dead at a care home in Essex this morning, with officers confirming they were both residents.
  
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• Woman gunned down in Paris terror attacks awakes from coma and is talking again

  28-12-2015 20:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Laura Croix was blasted six times in the chest and stomach during the massacre at the Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan Theatre
  
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• Singer gunned down in Paris terror attacks awakes from coma and is talking again

  28-12-2015 20:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Laura Croix was blasted six times in the chest and stomach during the massacre at the Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan Theatre
  
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• Thousands of lives could be saved by finding best time to perform heart surgery

  28-12-2015 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than two million people in the UK have some form of cardiovasculardisease, which is linked to heart failure, strokes and heart attacks
  
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• Football-mad brothers born without toes given amazingly realistic prosthetic feet in time for Christmas

  28-12-2015 20:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kian Jarram, 11, and brother Callum, seven, both have an extremely rare condition called Adams-Oliver syndrome, which meant they were born with little more than stumps for feet
  
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• Record third day of winter sales - but did you spot the marketing tricks?

  28-12-2015 20:42 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Spending hit £1.75 billion on bank holiday Monday - but experts say fashion retailers, under severe pressure, are using marketing ploys to cash in
  
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• Cameron defends UK flood investment

  28-12-2015 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The prime minister defends the government's spending on flood defences following widespread devastation across areas of northern England.
  
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• Floods force mourners to take coffin to graveyard through rising water on back of TRACTOR

  28-12-2015 20:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The four foot-high flood water covered the only road to the cemetery meaning friends and relatives of Johnny Clarke had to rally together to find a way of transporting his remains
  
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• The loveable skeletons in the family closet

  28-12-2015 20:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  How we are secretly proud to find criminals and playboys among our ancestors
  
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• Michael Sheen sparks outrage after REJECTING calls to divert foreign aid to flood victims

  28-12-2015 20:35
  
  MICHAEL Sheen has sparked anger after rejecting calls to divert parts of Britain's generous foreign aid budget to help victims of the UK's devastating floods.
  
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• Could London be next? Calls for cars to be BANNED from capital’s streets to reduce smog

  28-12-2015 20:34
  
  LONDON could be the next major European city to ban cars from the roads in a bid to reduce rising pollution, campaigners have said.
  
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• Crocodiles have been dragging DOGS away as floods hit residential areas

  28-12-2015 20:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Saltwater crocs moved into residential areas as a state of emergency was declared in the Daly River region of Australia
  
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• George Osborne branded 'coin-toss Chancellor' as his spending targets take another hit

  28-12-2015 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Figures in last month’s Autumn Statement suggest the Chancellor now has little more than a 50/50 chance of getting the budget into surplus
  
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• Ed Balls says the "ups and downs" of football prepared him for life as a politician

  28-12-2015 20:11 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The former Labour MP and shadow chancellor has been appointed chairman of Norwich City FC, but says football prepared him for politics - not the other way round
  
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