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• Migrants pay for uniforms to board cross-Channel boats from Belgium

  12-01-2016 23:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Migrants are forking out £6,000 to people-smugglers for uniforms so they can pose as crew on cross-Channel ferries in a bid not to be rumbled while travelling from Belgium to the UK.
  
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• Light Brigade Field Marshal's patchwork quilt set to be auctioned for £2k

  12-01-2016 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The quilt was made by injured soldiers during the war using fabrics from the uniforms of dead officers. It It was used by Lord Raglan who was commander of British troops in the Crimean war.
  
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• Child killer Robert Black dies in jail

  12-01-2016 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The child killer Robert Black, who was convicted of the murders of four children from across the UK in the 1980s, dies in prison aged 68.
  
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• Animal photobombs don't get much better than this little girl and a smiling horse

  12-01-2016 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Elise Frew, aged five, has become a viral sensation after her mum took this snap while on holiday in Florida
  
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• Newcastle United 3-3 Manchester United

  12-01-2016 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Paul Dummett's late strike rescues a point for Newcastle as Manchester United miss the chance to go level on points with fourth place.
  
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• Junior doctors' strike recap: Medics' historic walk-out as it happened

  12-01-2016 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Junior doctors have been on strike today for the first time since 1975. Here's how it happened
  
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• PM defends drone strike investigation

  12-01-2016 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister David Cameron clashes with a senior Conservative MP as he defends the investigation into a UK drone strike in Syria.
  
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• Rattled David Cameron admits many of 70,000 Syrian fighters supporting Britain are 'hardline islamists'

  12-01-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  And the Prime Minister said Parliament's oversight committee should be refused access to intelligence that would prove drone strikes were justified
  
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• Pregnant landlady sacked because 'bosses didn't want someone fat, wobbly and useless behind the bar'

  12-01-2016 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rachel Skeffington and her partner were forced out of the gastro-pub where they had lived and worked for almost half a year
  
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• Iran detains 10 US sailors in Gulf

  12-01-2016 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Iran has detained several US sailors after their vessels were stopped in the Gulf, a US official told the BBC.
  
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• RSPCA finds 25 horses dead, dying or in poor condition since November

  12-01-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The RSPCA has been called out to 21 incidents in Kent since last November where they found 25 horses which were either dead, dying or in poor condition.
  
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• Homes evacuated after 'stolen' Jaguar smashes into two houses and cuts through gas pipe

  12-01-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The street in the Walton area of Liverpool was evacuated and closed off after the car crashed into two terraced houses and drove off this afternoon
  
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• Junior doctors 'sorry' for strike but leader says Jeremy Hunt is simply not telling the truth

  12-01-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  BMA chairman Dr Mark Porter says there is no end in sight to the dispute and a mammoth 48-hour walkout will go ahead on January 26
  
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• VIDEO: How do you drink water in space?

  12-01-2016 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronaut Tim Peake demonstrates what happens to water in space for the Stargazing Live programme.
  
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• Iceland delivery driver left mum without food for her baby after spilling milk and refused to replace it

  12-01-2016 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paige Ashman, 21, was horrified to see the driver drop her 12 pints of milk on the floor in the street - and proceed to have a cigarette while he decided what to do
  
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• Mum-of-three cleared of having threesome with teenage boys at her home

  12-01-2016 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Woman denied affair and threesome with teen boys but was found guilty of allowing them to smoke cannabis at her home
  
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• Robert Black: Child murderer's reign of terror brought to end by wrong turning

  12-01-2016 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The serial killer's decision to double back on himself after snatching a little girl from the Scottish village of Stow saw him drive straight into the hands of police officers who had just been alerted to a suspected abduction
  
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• Burton-on-Trent toddler found wandering the streets alone leads police to her dead mother

  12-01-2016 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nicolla Rushton, 30, was found by a PCSO and his wife after they spotted three-year-old Phoebe wandering the streets alone and followed her back to her home in Burton-on-Trent.
  
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• Junior doctors did not pick this fight but patient safety is too important to ignore

  12-01-2016 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Warren Manger meets medics in Coventry as they walk out for the first time in 40 years
  
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• VIDEO: Is this world's most influential couple?

  12-01-2016 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC looks at how Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall measure up in the world of power couples.
  
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• Mayor of German town, Leipzig rocked by anti-migrant riots

  12-01-2016 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Burkhard Jung, mayor of Leipzig, Germany, has condemned the 'naked violence that took place' after doner kebab fast food stalls were destroyed, cars were set ablaze and shop windows were smashed.
  
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• Watch shocking moment chaotic brawl breaks out in Sikh temple

  12-01-2016 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It is not clear what started the melee but fists began flying shortly after a woman was seen pushing another man in the chest
  
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• Arts luminaries warn world-famous recording studio threatened by 'iceberg' basement plans

  12-01-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  George Michael, Brian May and Joanna Lumley are among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph, calling on planners to throw out proposals to excavate close to Air Studios, in Hampstead
  
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• Select committee chiefs land cushy jobs in industries they used to scrutinise

  12-01-2016 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  SelectCommittee MPs are on the gravy train of the very industries they used to monitor         
  
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• George Bush convicted for illegally selling monkey heads from Indonesia

  12-01-2016 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  George Bush, 63, of Erith, Kent, offered to sell bizarre objects such as leopard skulls, primate specimens, monkey heads, hands and a macaque skeleton - and admitted possessing 71 images of bestiality.
  
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• Dodgy dentist who sparked HIV scare with dirty equipment admits falsifying documents to the NHS

  12-01-2016 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alan Morrison claimed he had bought new equipment when he used old supplies and forged invoices
  
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• Angela Rippon sparks outrage after 'ignorant and biased' comments on Junior Doctors crisis

  12-01-2016 22:47
  
  BROADCASTER Angela Rippon sparked outrage as she said Junior Doctors should be negotiating themselves a better deal rather than protesting on the picket line.
  
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• Oxford University's Vice Chancellor Louise Richardson speaks amid Cecil Rhodes controversy

  12-01-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Louise Richardson, Oxford's new Vice Chancellor, said yesterday that students must learn the value of engaging with ‘objectionable’ ideas and understand the true nature of freedom of inquiry.
  
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• Birthing DOLLS train doctors to cope with pregnancy complications

  12-01-2016 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hospitals worldwide are using birthing simulators - full-body, interactive dolls- to train doctors to handle life-threatening delivery complications, such as postpartum hemorrhage and cord prolapse.
  
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• UK's first official RED LIGHT DISTRICT? Leeds scheme allows sex workers to operate freely

  12-01-2016 22:30
  
  LEEDS-BASED entrepreneur Ian Staines was working in the office one weekend when he looked out of the window and spotted a prostitute having sex with a client in a car in his car park.
  
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• Child killer Robert Black died weeks before being charged with FIFTH murder

  12-01-2016 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Detectives believed they had finally gathered enough evidence to nail him for the abduction and murder of Genette Tate in 1978 but he died in prison today 
  
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• Two US Navy boats and 10 crew members 'taken into custody' by Iran

  12-01-2016 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The sailors are said to have been detained by Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces after the vessels drifted into Iranian waters
  
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• Mobile phone and drug seizures in prisons reach new high

  12-01-2016 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mobile phones can mean that criminals can contact sources on the outside or even harass victims and members of the public
  
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• Distressing footage shows newborn baby recovered from drain after being left for dead in -16C temperatures

  12-01-2016 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The child was minutes from death when it was snatched from a pool of excrement by a brave policeman and wrapped in a blanket to keep warm
  
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• Sylvester Stallone 'an old dog learning new tricks' in new Rocky Balboa film 'Creed'

  12-01-2016 21:56 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As Sylvester Stallone returns to play Rocky Balboa in the new film Creed he has labelled himself ''an old dog learning new tricks''
  
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• Patient who filmed himself raping hospital employee caught after dropping his wallet at the scene

  12-01-2016 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sick Liam McCarthy, 25, pounced on the worker when she came out of a toilet cubicle at Birmingham City Hospital but gave officers a helping hand in tracking him down
  
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• Obama to give upbeat State of the Union

  12-01-2016 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Barack Obama is set to strike an optimistic and hopeful tone in his final State of the Union address.
  
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• 'IS bomber' kills tourists in Istanbul

  12-01-2016 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A suicide bomber suspected to be a member of so-called Islamic State kills 10 people, at least eight of them German tourists, in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
  
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• Church of England's crisis of faith as attendance falls below 1million for the first time

  12-01-2016 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Archbishop of Canterbury insists the church is as relevant as ever in today's society through its schools and charitable work
  
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• Vulnerable man with learning difficulties 'sedated then stamped, kicked and punched to death' by housemates

  12-01-2016 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors claim Lee Irving, 25, as killed by James Wheatley and Barry Imray in a campaign of violence
  
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• The Tory grandee who says David Cameron's EU migrant deal 'will make no difference at all'

  12-01-2016 21:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  POLITICAL SKETCH: Lord Lawson, Mrs Thatcher's Chancellor, gives a speech arguing Brexit is vital - and wouldn't prompt the break-up of the UK
  
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• Jones to name first England squad

  12-01-2016 21:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England head coach Eddie Jones will name his first 33-man elite player squad on Wednesday before the Six Nations next month.
  
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• Britain's first RED LIGHT DISTRICT allows prostitutes and punters to fraternise without fear of arrest

  12-01-2016 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pilot scheme launched in Leeds allows punters and sex workers to rendezvous without fear of prosecution for the first time in UK history 
  
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• BP job cuts 'prove Scotland would have been in a financial mess if it had gone independent'

  12-01-2016 21:41 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Oil giant BP's move to cut 600 jobs in the North Sea 'is further proof that Scotland would be in a "financial mess" if it had voted for independence'
  
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• Government aide tries to stop questions about Hunt's whereabouts during Jnr Doc strikes

  12-01-2016 21:39
  
  AS Junior Doctors walkout in a row over pay and contracts, much has been made about the whereabouts of Jeremy Hunt.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt blasts Junior Doctors for ‘wholly unnecessary’ strike action

  12-01-2016 21:38
  
  JEREMY Hunt has blasted Junior Doctors across the country for what he described as "wholly unnecessary” strike action.
  
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• Euromillions results: Winning numbers for massive £51million jackpot

  12-01-2016 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's huge jackpot is the result of six consecutive rollovers since the jackpot was last claimed on December 22.
  
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• Mayoral rivals clash over housing plans

  12-01-2016 21:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  London's Labour and Conservative mayoral candidates clash over the government's plans to extend the right-to-buy homes scheme.
  
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• David Attenborough to reveal remains of largest dinosaur ever to walk the planet

  12-01-2016 21:32 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Renowned naturalist will unveil a full-size model of the 37-metre titanosaur, which weighed 70 tonnes, in a new BBC show
  
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• Syrian dad carries the body of his ten-year-old daughter killed in air strike

  12-01-2016 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A ten-year-old child was killed when Syrian military air strikes hit a school in Damascus. Up to 26 civilians were killed after rockets were fired onto the Eastern Ghouta town of Douma earlier in the day.
  
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