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• David Bowie has been secretly cremated without any of his family and friends present

  13-01-2016 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The iconic singer told his loved ones he wanted to “go without any fuss” and not have a funeral service or public memorial
  
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• Marieke Voorsluijs from Amsterdam knitted replica of her son to hug

  13-01-2016 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Marieke Voorsluijs from Amsterdam spent two months knitting the life-size replica of her son after the youngster said he no longer wanted to hug her since he began going through puberty.
  
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• Frances Cappuccini left to die by foreign NHS doctors who weren't fully qualified

  13-01-2016 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Frances Cappuccini suffered heavy bleeding after her son was born by Caesarean section at Tunbridge Wells hospital in Pembury, Kent in October 2012
  
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• 'Jimmy Savile hospital' consultant Michael Salmon charged with child sex offences

  13-01-2016 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Retired consultant Michael Salmon, 80, of Salisbury, Wiltshire, was a consultant paediatrician at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, where disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile abused 60 people.
  
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• Virtual reality tour that shows you what it is like to have dementia

  13-01-2016 23:46
  
  PEOPLE now have a chance to walk in the shoes of dementia sufferers thanks to a “tour” that mimics their everyday experience.
  
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• Second Ice Age HALTED due to man made climate change, scientists claim

  13-01-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Climate change could have caused the next Ice Age to melt before it began as experts say humans are responsible for delaying catastrophe
  
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• Brave mum shares heartbreaking video of the cough that killed her newborn baby

  13-01-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Catherine Hughes has shared a video of her son's last days to raise awareness of whooping cough so  the other children do not die like he did
  
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• Ditch God Save the Queen and find a new national anthem - the contenders

  13-01-2016 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A bill has been raised for God Save the Queen to be axed as national anthem - here our columnists suggest a replacement
  
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• Voice of the Mirror: It’s time to turn up the heat on energy fat cats

  13-01-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The massive bonuses trousered by power bosses while poor people struggle to keep their homes warm are a disgrace
  
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• US ambassador warns scrapping nuclear arms unilaterally could 'destabilise' world

  13-01-2016 23:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Matthew Barzun tells The Telegraph that disarmament should be 'slow' and 'synced up' and praises importance of Nato
  
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• Lee Irving murder trial: Accused 'stopped ambulance being called so defendants could get story straight'

  13-01-2016 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  James Wheatley allegedly said: “We are all going down for this, we need to get our story straight” as he stopped his then-girlfriend calling 999, a jury was told
  
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• Plaistow bomb scare: Panic as homes evacuated following discovery of unexploded Second World War device

  13-01-2016 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police rapidly dealt with the fall-out after an unexploded bomb from WWII was found in a London street
  
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• We salute you: WW2 hero who spent last years honouring fallen soldiers laid to rest

  13-01-2016 23:16
  
  A SECOND World War veteran who spent his later years attending the funerals of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq was himself given the final salute yesterday.
  
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• Average house prices set to top £300,000 as cost soars £1,600 in December alone

  13-01-2016 23:16
  
  THE average price of a house is likely to break through the £300,000 barrier this year, new figures revealed today.
  
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• Archbishops 'treated like children' in church gay crisis talks

  13-01-2016 23:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Primates take 'time out' from summit called to avoid schism in global Anglican Church over sexuality but avoid public walkout
  
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• Frances Cappuccini died after giving birth 'due to doctors' failings'

  13-01-2016 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Frances Cappuccini suffered heavy bleeding after her son was born by Caesarean section at Tunbridge Wells hospital in Pembury, Kent in October 2012
  
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• Close call as five-year-old boy fires arrow at father's head during target practice

  13-01-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unnamed man, who goes by Reddit username 5yrOldAlmostKilledMe, was grazed by the arrow but not hurt
  
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• Robert Black may have killed 16 children in his evil spree, says ex-cop

  13-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New evidence links the monster to a dozen more murders across the UK and Europe – but he took his secrets with him when he died this week
  
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• Junior doctors' strike: up to 150,000 operations and appointments at risk

  13-01-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As doctors' unions and health officials go back into talks, fears that up to 150,000 patients could suffer if further action is not called offf
  
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• Fury after taxpayers could have to foot the bill for child killer Rober Black's funeral

  13-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Under prison rules the state has a duty to pay the burial costs of every convict who dies behind bars
  
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• British troops in mortar firing ban as health and safety rules say it is 'too loud'

  13-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Soldiers are given ear defenders but health and safety staff say even these do not guarantee protection against the bombs’ boom
  
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• Car fanatic posts hilarious advert selling beloved VW Golf because he's about to become a father

  13-01-2016 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Love, 34, turned to eBay to advertise the 'stunning one off beauty' replica Volkswagen Golf R400 because it is not suitable for a family
  
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• Backlash as Charlie Hebdo cartoon suggests drowned Syrian toddler would have grown up to be SEX PEST

  13-01-2016 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The cartoon links Alan, who was a Muslim, with the gangs of migrants who allegedly carried out coordinated sexual assaults in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve
  
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• David Cameron blasted over 2m women ‘robbed and cheated’ over pensions

  13-01-2016 22:51
  
  OLDER women feeling “robbed and cheated” by plans to equalise the state pension age were dealt a further blow today when the Prime Minister refused to help them.
  
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• Mum living in fear after arsonist ex-husband gets her initials tattooed on arm with RIP and a gun

  13-01-2016 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kerry Smith is living in fear of the father of her children after he had a menacing tattoo of her initials, RIP and a gun on his arm
  
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• This guy is waiting for his wife in his car - what he does next is truly disgusting

  13-01-2016 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man's blend of laziness and vulgarity is beyond belief, as this appalling video shows
  
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• Student whose iPhone was stolen in nightclub horrified after people start posting selfies on her Snapchat

  13-01-2016 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jade Davies, from Pontypool, south Wales was out with friends at Walkbout in Cardiff city centre when her new iPhone 6 went missing
  
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• Watch horrifying moment car FLIPS in to the air while trying to turn off M60 motorway

  13-01-2016 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dashcam footage shows the vehicle flying off the carriageway and overturning after trying to come off the M60 at junction 4
  
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• Missing grammar schoolgirl Ceilidh Monaghan found 'safe and well' after six hour search

  13-01-2016 22:09
  
  A MISSING grammar schoolgirl has been found "safe and well" after an almost six hour long search.
  
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• Young mum watched in horror as gunman shot gangster in head outside crèche

  13-01-2016 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An eyewitness has revealed how she heard dissident Declan 'Fat Deccy' Smith scream 'No' as an assassin blasted him in the face
  
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• WATCH: Footage shows shocking moment masked man torches mosque

  13-01-2016 22:01
  
  THIS is the moment an arsonist thug sets fire to a mosque in what police call a deliberate attack on Muslims
  
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• 'When Lotto lady said we'd won £33million all we could do was drink hot tea'

  13-01-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David and Carol Martin now have their hearts set on a trip to outer space following their mammoth win
  
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• Dentist surgery whistleblower who sparked an HIV scare for 6,000 patients was told: 'No-one has caught anything yet!'

  13-01-2016 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A woman who blew the whistle on a Dental Surgery office using dirty equipment, sparking an HIV scare for nearly 6,000 people, was told by the office they did things 'a bit differently'.
  
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• Homeless couple DESTROY hotel room causing £1k damage after stranger raises money for stay

  13-01-2016 21:53
  
  A GOOD Samaritan who raised money for a homeless couple to stay in a hotel over Christmas has been lumped with a £1,000 cleaning bill - after they TRASHED the room.
  
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• Pensioner's open letter to energy bosses who 'leave elderly with no choice but to eat or heat their homes'

  13-01-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It has been revealed Britain's fatcat energy bosses could have made as much as £12MILLION last year
  
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• Matthew Hamlen on trial for Georgina Edmonds's torture and murder

  13-01-2016 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A man has gone to trial for the second time for the murder of 77-year-old Georgina Edmonds. Mrs Edmonds was bludgeoned to death with a marble rolling pin before her body was found in her home.
  
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• Landmark case puts NHS Trust on trial alongside two doctors it is claimed were underqualified

  13-01-2016 21:51 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Court hears two underqualified doctors watched as a previously healthy young woman lay dying without taking the basic steps that could have saved her
  
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• Dad 'strangled 3-year-old son for getting in way of his relationship with teenage girlfriend'

  13-01-2016 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors allege that tiny Brendan Creato's body was dumped in the woods so his dad David could embark upon a relationship with his 17-year-old girlfriend
  
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• WW2 hero Harry Thrush is laid to rest at St Mary's Church in Leeds

  13-01-2016 21:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  World War Two hero Harry Thrush who spent his final years travelling the country to attend the funerals of fellow servicemen has been laid to rest in front of hundreds of mourners returning the favour.
  
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• Fatcat energy bosses made £12MILLION last year while you got ripped off

  13-01-2016 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The head of British Gas-owner Centrica, Iain Conn, could have pocketed as much as £6.3m alone
  
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• National Lottery results: Winning numbers for tonight's £2.4million jackpot

  13-01-2016 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's draw is the first since Saturday's record-breaking £66million prize which was shared between two winning ticket holders
  
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• UK weather: Britain set to be colder than South Pole with up to 10cm of snow falling

  13-01-2016 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some parts of the UK will be blasted by Arctic winds - making minus 13 temperatures in Antarctica seem relatively balmy
  
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• Horrified couple find wriggling MAGGOT inside pack of Sainsbury's 'Taste the Difference' biscuits

  13-01-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shopper Andrew Cao, 34, bought the own brand 'Taste The Difference' Italian almond biscuits for wife Alice, 34, on New Years Eve
  
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• If you choose a Montessori school like Prince George's nursery you may be shocked

  13-01-2016 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Few people know the name is not a trademark and anyone can call an educational establishment a Montessori school or nursery
  
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• The Holt School 'hushed up teacher Daniel Fisher's child sex offences'

  13-01-2016 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daniel Fisher, worked as Head of Biology at The Holt School in Wokingham, Berkshire, until his arrest on December 31 2013. He was eventually charged on October 29 2014.
  
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• Reavley's pharmacy in the Cotswold has been trading for 282 YEARS

  13-01-2016 21:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cedric Reavley is the third generation of his family to run Reavley's pharmacy in the Cotswold town of Burford. It first opened its doors in 1734 when it was a pub offering medical remedies on the side.
  
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• Central Queensland University expert reveals why YOUR New Year diet might be failing

  13-01-2016 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Corneel Vandelanotte, of Central Queensland University, says diet is more important than exercise for weight loss - but moderate activity like walking still triggers important health gains.
  
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• One in 12 criminals reoffends just 18 days after being freed from prison

  13-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Official figures disclose shocking rate of reoffending by thousands of freed inmates
  
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• Ceilidh Monaghan found 'safe and well' after school closed early during police search for 16-year-old

  13-01-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kent Police had said they were "extremely concerned" for her welfare and closed Maidstone Grammar School this afternoon
  
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