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• Hoverboard explodes and sets fire to house nearly killing three children

  18-01-2016 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The children were saved thanks to the quick thinking of 13-year-old Jibril Muhammed Faris
  
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• Toddler struck down with rare illness which left her unable to move or even smile

  18-01-2016 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Felicity Watkins, aged two, was a fun-loving and active toddler before she was diagnosed with the devastating condition last month
  
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• Two men charged with Syria-related offences after being accused of 'funding terrorism'

  18-01-2016 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The duo will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court tomorrow
  
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• Bedroom Tax victory: Ex-footballer left brain damaged in 60ft fall beats hated Tory policy

  18-01-2016 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neil Carroll, 27, sleeps in a specially-modified hospital bed in a separate room from his girlfriend after falling 60 feet from a motorway flyover in July 2012
  
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• Woman claims 'psychological torture' over 'relationship with undercover officer'

  18-01-2016 23:42 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In 2015 Scotland Yard made an apology to seven women who were deceived into 'abusive, deceitful and manipulative' relationships with undercover police officers
  
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• Stressed policewoman who downed two bottles of wine before work STRUCK OFF for misconduct

  18-01-2016 23:28
  
  A POLICEWOMAN who got behind the wheel to drive to work after downing two bottles of wine has been struck off.
  
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• Watch moment speeding drug dealer slams car into lamp post during 110mph police chase

  18-01-2016 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ryan Cross raced for 14 miles from Wetherby to York with a police car on his tail, York Crown Court heard
  
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• Friends Reunited closes: The greatest loves, losses and tragedies

  18-01-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  AsFriends Reunited finally closes we look at some of the people it reunited          
  
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• Claims that food bills will rise if Britain leaves EU branded scaremongering

  18-01-2016 23:14
  
  CLAIMS that food bills will rise if Britain leaves the European Union have been branded as scaremongering.
  
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• Boy to be taken away from parents with learning difficulties because he’s ‘not getting cuddles’ 

  18-01-2016 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The landmark decision by Sir James Munby, President of the High Court Family Division, means the parents, both of whom have learning difficulties, have lost their fight to keep their son.
  
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• Firefighters attended tragic chip pan blaze that killed couple 'but left because they could not find flames'

  18-01-2016 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fire crews were called to neighbours of Keli and Joe Morgan and searched the home - unaware the fire was taking hold next door
  
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• Paramedic in Jasmine Lapsley grape tragedy probed by watchdog after ‘lying’ about lifesaving equipment

  18-01-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jasmine choked to death on a family holiday to Wales after it took 25 minutes for an ambulance to arrive
  
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• Unmask Lord Bramall's accuser 'Nick' says war veteran's son

  18-01-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Man who has accused former head of the Armed Forces of child abuse should not be allowed to 'hide in the shadows' his son says
  
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• Nine prisoners in same jail to have sex change operations on the NHS

  18-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Taxpayers will have to pay a £100,000 bill as a Government spokesman said inmates were entitled to the same NHS treatment as anybody else
  
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• 5,000 dementia sufferers 'discharged from hospital in the middle of the night'

  18-01-2016 22:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Charity says hospital care for dementia sufferers is like a game of 'Russian roulette' as they warn of 'shocking' failings
  
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• Helmshore murder: Second woman arrested over 'frenzied' stabbing death of businesswoman Sadie Hartley

  18-01-2016 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum of three Sadie, 60, was discovered dead on her hallway floor of her detached house in Helmshore, Lancashire, on Friday evening
  
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• Financial director found hanged 'after taking cocktail of drugs and fearing he was being hunted'

  18-01-2016 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An inquest heard a post mortem examination concluded Mr Roberts died from hypoxic brain injury caused by hanging
  
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• Filipino nurse 'KILLED 75-year-old by giving him WRONG type of blood in transfusion'

  18-01-2016 22:43
  
  A FILIPINO nurse allegedly killed a 75-year-old by giving him the wrong blood type in a botched transfusion.
  
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• Tory welfare cuts 'politically biased and will hammer Labour supporting areas'

  18-01-2016 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There are 400 families on average receiving Universal Credit in each Labour constituency - but only 140 in Tory areas
  
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• Watch mum's desperate appeal for blood donors after her baby boy is diagnosed with leukaemia

  18-01-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tiny Josiah Bullock, from Quinton, was diagnosed with leukaemia in June after his mother Jo noticed he had turned ‘very fat and very pale’
  
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• Sadie Hartley murder: Second woman arrested over knife attack on Lancashire businesswoman

  18-01-2016 22:37 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Police are investigating the 'ferocious' stabbing of a 'thoroughly decent' Helmshore company director
  
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• Scam artist who conned pals out of £100,000 in lottery scam jailed

  18-01-2016 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keith Kapri dragged friends into a “Spainish sweeptake Lottory” and has now been jailed
  
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• Asylum centre costs more than world's most exclusive hotels

  18-01-2016 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The accommodation for failed asylum seekers cost £6.4m to run last year but only housed 14 families for an average of three nights each
  
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• Astonishing video shows moment tissue paper mill was destroyed by floods

  18-01-2016 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The business was one of dozens affected when the nearby River Irwell burst its banks
  
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• 'Fire-prone' Vauxhall Zafira found ablaze near bodies of tragic fireworks display organisers who died in 'horror blast'

  18-01-2016 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Coates, 41, and his assistant, Polly Connor, 46, died following a mysterious suspected explosion at a wedding in Ecclerigg, Cumbria, last August
  
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• Benefit cheat doctor who claimed she struggled to walk was passed fit for Army COMBAT duties

  18-01-2016 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sandra Turnbull, 44, took part in a six-mile Army hike while carrying a 15-kilo rucksack and a rifle - despite claiming disability benefit
  
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• School bans pupils from wearing COATS as Britain freezes because they're a SECURITY THREAT

  18-01-2016 22:06
  
  BARMY school bosses have banned their pupils from wearing coats despite temperatures plummeting to below freezing because they pose a SECURITY THREAT, it emerged today.
  
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• Muslim MP quotes the Qur'an as she invites 'demagogue' Donald Trump for a peacemaking curry

  18-01-2016 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Naz Shah offered an olive branch to the billionaire "demagogue" in a powerful statement as MPs debated banning him from Britain
  
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• Leukaemia victim, 24, sparks one of the biggest ever global campaigns to find a bone marrow donor

  18-01-2016 21:57 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Cancer charity Anthony Nolan records 'unprecedented' five-fold increase in registrations since Lara Casalotti's campaign was launched
  
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• MPs debate whether to ban Donald Trump from UK - highlights

  18-01-2016 21:54 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  "Bonkers", a "wazzock" and a "demogogue" were just some of the things MPs had to say about Donald Trump when debating whether he should be banned from the UK
  
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• Penguin books no longer require a degree to work there

  18-01-2016 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Penguin has turned over a new leaf and no longer require employees to have a university degree
  
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• UK police chief who visited Calais Jungle criticised after revealing 'porous' borders

  18-01-2016 21:52
  
  THE boss of a UK police force who visited the Calais 'jungle' has been criticised after saying the UK border is 'porous'.
  
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• Doctor 'responsible for the avoidable death of teacher following caesarean' nearly killed another new mother

  18-01-2016 21:31 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Dr Nadeem Azeez is one of two anaesthetists accused of failing to take basic steps to save the life of Frances Cappuccini, 30
  
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• Royal Navy ice ship breaks 80-year Antarctica record

  18-01-2016 21:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  HMS Protector became the first Royal Navy vessel to the East Antarctic or sail below 77 degrees latitude since before the Second World War
  
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• NHS surgeon Ian Paterson is charged with maliciously wounding 11 patients 

  18-01-2016 21:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ian Paterson, of Altrincham in Cheshire, appeared at Birmingham Magistrates Court charged with 21 counts of unlawfully and maliciously wounding with the intention to do grievous bodily harm.
  
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• David Cameron says he'll back schools and courts which ban the veil

  18-01-2016 21:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The PM said generally people should be 'free to wear what they like'. But as he tackled segregated communities, he said he supported 'sensitive' policies requiring people to show their face.
  
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• Ban Donald Trump from Britain? We'd be better off banning online petitions

  18-01-2016 21:16 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  POLITICAL SKETCH: A great day for democracy, as MPs waste three hours debating a ban they couldn't enforce even if they wanted to
  
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• Minister warns Donald Trump to 'live up to his promises' on investments in UK as MPs dismiss calls to ban him

  18-01-2016 21:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The American Presidential hopeful threatened to withdraw his Scottish golf investments if he was banned, but a Minister said he must live up to his promises
  
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• Watch mum-of-12 Cheryl Prudham chase off reporter who knocked on her door

  18-01-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Her family chased the reporter and threw water at him after Cheryl accused The Sun of 'hounding' her
  
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• Family heartbroken after tragic baby son found dead in Moses basket following hospital discharge

  18-01-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tiny Ralphie Plant battled meningitis and other medical problems before he was found dead by his devastated parents last Saturday
  
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• More over 50s turning to booze to cope with stress

  18-01-2016 21:06
  
  THE over-50s are increasingly turning to alcohol to cope with stress, retirement, bereavement and isolation, a survey has found.
  
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• Exploding hoverboard nearly killed three children after it set fire to Bradford house

  18-01-2016 21:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A hoverboard nearly took the lives of three children after it exploded and set fire to the house in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Th children were saved by a quick-thinking 13-year-old friend.
  
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• Spider-Man would need SIZE 89 feet to be able to walk up walls, scientists say

  18-01-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Research by Cambridge University zoologists has found that geckos are the largest animals which that can scale vertical surfaces using sticky foot pads
  
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• Donald Trump branded a 'buffoon, demagogue and wazzock' by MPs - but Republican ignores UK ban debate

  18-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Home Office has said Donald Trump must live up to his promise of investing in Britain, after three-hour debate this afternoon
  
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• Cocaine can cause your brain to EAT itself, shocking new research has revealed

  18-01-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts found the drug can trigger out-of-control “autophagy” – a process by which cells literally digest themselves
  
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• Cocaine 'can cause brain to eat itself' say experts

  18-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Study on mice suggests that high doses of drug can trigger out-of-control autophagy - a process by which cells literally digest themselves
  
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• The 12 health secrets you hold in your hands and what they mean

  18-01-2016 20:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Your hands, and especially your fingernails, can reveal some surprising information about your health
  
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• Ministers must be stripped of veto over FOI requests, MP demands amid fears over government review

  18-01-2016 20:56 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Tom Brake calls for government to relinquish its power to block FOI releases as campaigners say rule being used to avoid 'political embarrassment'
  
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• Mother left outraged after teacher 'called her black son a "monkey" in front of his classmates'

  18-01-2016 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Raheem Addison, 13, was left 'humiliated' when one of his teachers allegedly used the racist slur at Twickenham Academy in London
  
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• Prolific car thief Errol Willis is banned from touching any vehicle inside the M25

  18-01-2016 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Errol Willis, from Newham, east London, was handed the unusual court order meaning he cannot lay his hands on any vehicle in the capital without express permission from the owner.
  
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