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• 'David Cameron must stop the MP gravy train as it undermines public confidence in democracy'

  10-01-2016 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  What happens isn’t illegal and restrictions are followed but should it be allowed?
  
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• Groom's nightmare comes true as traditional 'skirt' falls down at his own wedding

  10-01-2016 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man is filmed at his own wedding wearing a veshti skirt - a traditional men's garment, worn in South Asia 
  
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• Sian Blake murder: Arthur-Simpson Kent's belongings discovered in suspected hideout in Ghana

  10-01-2016 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, was arrested in Ghana after he was found hiding among rocks in the coastal town of Busua yesterday
  
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• Woman charged with murder of housemate whose body was found hidden under bags of turf

  10-01-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Monika Matracka, 34, was charged with murdering Michal Rejmer, 38, between December 30th and 31st
  
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• Man, 60, dies after being stabbed and suffering from head injuries in east London pub

  10-01-2016 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 60-year-old was found with a stab wound and head injuries, according to Scotland Yard
  
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• Truck driver creates his own Mad Max-style robot drum machine to beat rhythm as he drives

  10-01-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mad Max Fury Road's "Doof Wagon" set the adrenaline pumping for cinema-goers around the world - and this driver has made their own version
  
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• Legal high warning after seven people struck down ill after 'taking Exodus'

  10-01-2016 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police were called to four incidents in Newcastle where people are thought to have taken the legal high Exodus, also known as Red-X
  
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• Convicted paedophile John Collis forced out of his house after 20 years

  10-01-2016 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police escorted convicted paedophile John Collis, 67, from his home as a group of 20 protesting mums cheered - just a day after avoiding prison for his latest sex crime.
  
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• Junior doctors leading NHS strike enjoy luxury holidays worldwide

  10-01-2016 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It has emerged that some of the most vocal union representatives enjoy jet-set lives, embarking on lavish holidays and parties, while others are said to own homes worth half a million pounds.
  
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• Labour must end meltdown and step out of shadows to fight Tory injustices

  10-01-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Every self-important Shadow Minister who flounces off the frontbench damages the party they profess to love and betrays the people who rely on Labour
  
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• Hailo makes £11.5m loss due to North American closures

  10-01-2016 23:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The taxi-hailing app doubled its losses in the wake of US and Canadian shutdown, despite rising revenues
  
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• Westminster gravy train: Full list of ex-coalition ministers who are now cashing in with jobs for the boys

  10-01-2016 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  At least 25 former top government ministers are now raking in well over £1million between them
  
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• Man living on canal boat dies after vicious blaze swept through vessel while he slept

  10-01-2016 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fire crews are investigating what started the blaze but say early indications suggest it started accidentally
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Twitter account 'hacked': Expletive-laden tweets published in Labour leader's feed

  10-01-2016 23:03 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Twitter frenzy as rude tweets mocked
  
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• Ex-Consumer Affairs minister Jo Swinson takes up post with price comparison website

  10-01-2016 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As Consumer Affairs Minister, Lib Dem Jo Swinson’s job was to stick up for customers and help people get a better deal
  
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• Top public sector earners demanding even higher wages to compensate pension tax relief cuts

  10-01-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Trade unions representing hundreds of thousands of workers including doctors, police officers, head teachers and civil servants demanding loopholes that would spare them the tax.
  
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• Sian Williams: 'They don't call Huw Edwards "veteran", and he's older than me'

  10-01-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New face of Channel 5 News speaks out about the lack of older women on television, and reveals that a BBC chairman once mistook her for a secretary, 'prettying up the place'
  
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• Half of new secondary school places created in failing schools

  10-01-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Research finds 42,746 secondary school places set up in schools where results are getting worse rather than better
  
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• Doctors union is 'in the grip of advanced Corbynitis' says Boris

  10-01-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  On the eve of the first of a string of junior doctors' strikes, Boris Johnson accuses the BMA leadership of "being in the grip of advanced Corybnitis" as left-wing activists urge thousands to join picket lines
  
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• David Cameron's gravy train scandal as ex-ministers join payroll of industries they used to oversee

  10-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The PM faces calls for a tougher crackdown after a Mirror investigation revealed at least 25 former ministers are raking in over £1million between them
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter account hacked to say some very rude things indeed

  10-01-2016 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Whoever took over the account tonight made some four letter posts and a bizarre comment about David Cameron
  
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• Hero neighbour beat savage pit bull with golf clubs as woman had hand chewed off in crazed attack

  10-01-2016 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matthew McManus, 35, fought tirelessly with the vicious dog in his bid to save the 52-year-old woman who was attacked close to her home in Wythenshawe, Manchester
  
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• Hero neighbour beat savage pit bull with golf clubs as woman had hand chewed off

  10-01-2016 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matthew McManus fought tirelessly with the vicious dog in his bid to save the 52-year-old woman as she was being attacked
  
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• Sally Allan's family lay flowers at site she was last seen on CCTV two weeks ago

  10-01-2016 22:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The family of missing grandmother Sally Allan who disappeared from her Northumberland home on Boxing Day today laid flowers in her honour at Newcastle Quayside - where she was last seen.
  
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• Top Tory who quit politics over 'intolerable' expenses rules has bagged 10 jobs since leaving office

  10-01-2016 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark Simmonds became an adviser, chief executive, chief operating officer and managing director to a host of firms after quitting the Foreign Office in 2014
  
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• Former soldier who tried to smuggle Afghan girl into Britain will plead guilty

  10-01-2016 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Father-of-four Rob Lawrie, 49, from Leeds, says he will plead guilty when he appears before magistrates in Boulogne. He was stopped in Calais by border guards who found the girl in his van.
  
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• Speeding drink driver in Birmingham is jailed for causing fatal car crash

  10-01-2016 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stephanie Oakenfull (pictured), 28, was nearly twice the alcohol limit four hours after the head-on crash which killed Kay Smith, 53, in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.
  
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• Taliya Dawkins born without a hand can now do handstands and cartwheels

  10-01-2016 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An eight-year-old girl from Hants, who was born without her left hand, can now do cartwheels and handstands thanks to a new device. The energetic gymnast was recently fitted with a new prosthetic.
  
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• Bored with your gym's treadmill? New invention lets you run in more directions than one

  10-01-2016 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The prototype of the 'omni-directional' running machine was exhibited at a technology show in Las Vegas last week.
  
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• Uber's easy ride will get bumpier: so should we be hailing China?

  10-01-2016 22:09 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The UK could learn a thing or two from the cab market in China, where the real threat facing Uber is solid competition from within the market, not a set of rules imposed from above
  
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• MI5 tried to recruit 'new Jihadi John' before he fled to Syria after skipping bail

  10-01-2016 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British intelligence officers are believed to have given Siddhartha Dhar the chance to work as a double agent in September shortly before he was arrested
  
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• MI5 'tried to recruit new Jihadi John' before he fled Britain to travel to Syria

  10-01-2016 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British intelligence officers are believed to have given Siddhartha Dhar the chance to work as a double agent in September shortly before he was arrested
  
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• Arthur Simpson-Kent accused of murdering EastEnders’ Sian Blake is arrested

  10-01-2016 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Arthur Simpson-Kent, the suspected killer of ex-EastEnders actress Sian Blake, was paraded in front of the media today (pictured) before a press conference at the Ghanaian CID HQ.
  
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• Brave domestic violence victim reveals injuries which left her unable to walk for four months

  10-01-2016 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ellese Cassidy was in hospital for nearly three weeks after a vicious attack which she says has 'destroyed her life'
  
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• 'Tories killing off communities like the one I grew up in and it won't help people get onto housing ladder'

  10-01-2016 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sadiq Khan, Labour's candidate for London Mayor, grew up on a council estate and says this is why he was able to fulfil his potential
  
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• David Cameron squirms as pop group Squeeze launch scathing attack on cruel Tory housing policy

  10-01-2016 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than 10,000 council tenants will be hit by David Cameron's cruel decision to abolish lifetime tenancies
  
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• Trains swamped by Muslim worshippers during huge Bangladeshi religious event

  10-01-2016 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The devotees were among millions who had flocked to the opening phase of the World Muslim Congregation
  
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• Asylum seeker and brother-in-law jailed for roles in £25m internet fraud

  10-01-2016 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emmanuel Adanemhen, 50, and Eduwu Obasuyi, 40, pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to their part in fraud and money laundering scams, involving victims from 55 countries.
  
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• Major emergency response at Liverpool Lime Street station after man hit by train

  10-01-2016 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paramedics were called to the station after a man was struck at around 6.15pm this evening - the incident has caused travel chaos in the area
  
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• Major emergency response at Liverpool Lime Street station after man hit by a train

  10-01-2016 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paramedics were called to the station after a man survived the impact at around 6.15pm this evening but the incident has caused travel chaos in the area
  
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• Teenager stabbed to death at friend's 16th birthday party after 'row over a tracksuit'

  10-01-2016 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The teenager, named locally as Charlie Kutuyampo, 16, was knifed after a youngster allegedly accused him of stealing of tracksuit in North East London
  
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• Rarely-seen Cecil Beaton photos celebrate life of Duchess of Devonshire, the last Mitford sister

  10-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The life of Deborah, the late Duchess of Devonshire and Mitford sister, is to be celebrated with exhibition of Cecil Beaton photographs
  
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• Councils responding to Britain's housing crisis by telling tenants to stay put in buy-to-let properties when landlords ask them to leave

  10-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Tenants have been advised to sit tight until they are evicted leaving landlords with hundreds of pounds of legal costs
  
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• Prince George to inherit miniature 'James Bond' Aston Martin driven by father Prince William as a child

  10-01-2016 20:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two-year-old will be given he half-size V8 Volante - which boasts leather seats and a Honda engine - which Prince William played with as a child
  
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• Mum praises bin men who help find daughter's Christmas money she accidentally threw away

  10-01-2016 20:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The mistake happened when Lisa Towey was cleaning her 15-year-old daughter Beth Webster's room
  
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• These are not the droids you're looking for: Five things we learned at CES 2016

  10-01-2016 20:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas can teach you a lot. Here are some of our highlights
  
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• Nurses and midwives march on Downing Street to protest Tory plan to scrap training bursaries

  10-01-2016 20:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander and Unite general secretary Len McCluskey were among the thousands attending the demonstration
  
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• Inside the shelter under Clapham Common built to protect people from Nazi bombs

  10-01-2016 20:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A secret underground air raid shelter buried 100ft beneath Clapham Common has been turned into an exhibition run by Transport for London and the London Transport Museum.
  
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• Trains 'more expensive and slower than going by road', survey reveals

  10-01-2016 20:40
  
  RAIL passengers are paying through the nose for trips compared to going by car, a survey claimed yesterday.
  
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• Touts are STILL cashing on in Adele’s UK’s performance despite crackdown

  10-01-2016 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Hello singer's fans in London are being asked to fork out eye-watering sums of money to see the Grammy award winner's 2016 tour - even though they might not be able to get in.
  
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