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• Horrified mum discovers son in bed covered in blood after 10ft python bites his head

  23-02-2016 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT:  Tyler was sleeping in the top bunk bed when the monster woke him up with a painful bite
  
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• UK ticket holder wins EuroMillions jackpot: Camelot reveals tonight's £24.6m top prize was scooped in Britain

  23-02-2016 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's jackpot is a rollover after no-one claimed the main prize on Tuesday - you can check the results of tonight's draw here
  
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• Teacher who had images of students' bottoms and busts CAN continue working in profession

  23-02-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Married Sean Powell had memory sticks in his office full of images downloaded from Facebook but his actions were not deemed "sexually motivated"
  
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• Tragic new bride thought she pulled a muscle - but it turned out to be cancer

  23-02-2016 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Beauty manager Clare Daly was newly married and setting up home with husband Paul in Maghull when she began to feel unwell last summer
  
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• Didcot power station collapse: Residents warned to stay indoors after 50 people treated for dust inhalation

  23-02-2016 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The structure at the derelict Oxfordshire site came crashing down while it was being prepared for demolition today, killing one and injuring four
  
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• Heartbroken abandoned dog found 'crying' after puppies die at the roadside

  23-02-2016 23:43
  
  A 'CRYING' dog refused to part with her dead puppies after they were all dumped at the side of the road.
  
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• Women attracted to dark and brooding men because they want to find a mate

  23-02-2016 23:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Researchers say women like men with 'Dark Triad' features because of a primitive desire to find a mate who appears mentally strong, confident and physically attractive
  
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• MP to debate giving children under 11 meningitis jabs after 700,000-strong petition

  23-02-2016 23:37
  
  MPs will debate whether to give the meningitis B jab to all children under 11-years-old after a 770,000-strong petition demanding Government action gathered momentum.
  
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• Teacher Lisa Cannings's text to her neighbour after she won £32.5m Lotto jackpot

  23-02-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lisa Cannings, 48, of, Deeping St James, near Peterborough, and her retired teacher husband Gerry, 63, went public about their Lotto rollover win today - but not before telling their neighbour first.
  
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• Homes earning more than owners

  23-02-2016 23:36
  
  ONE in four homes is rising in value so quickly, it “earns” more than its owners.
  
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• Manchester woman forced to jump into the path of traffic to escape sex attacker 

  23-02-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The victim was crossing Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester earlier this month, when she noticed the man walking closely behind her
  
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• Police ran over dog in the road ON PURPOSE... because they couldn't catch it

  23-02-2016 23:28
  
  A DOG which had been running loose on a dual carriageway was run over by traffic police deliberately - because they couldn’t catch it.
  
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• Bernard Hogan-Howe 'regrets', but Met chief won't say sorry

  23-02-2016 23:27
  
  BRITAIN’S top policeman yesterday insisted he would not be bullied into apologising for hounding Lord Bramall over baseless child sex claims.
  
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• 'Not good enough' Tory activists lean away from Cameron and join Boris for Brexit

  23-02-2016 23:17
  
  CONSERVATIVE activists are lining up to defy David Cameron and support the campaign for Britain to leave Europe.
  
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• Martin Trenneborg jailed for abducting a woman and locking her up in home-made bunker

  23-02-2016 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a unanimous verdict, Stockholm District Court said Martin Trenneborg subjected the victim to serious risk by sedating her and locking her in a bunker at his home in Skåne for almost a week.
  
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• Maria Kiszczak boasts that she betrayed Lech Walesa for £12k to renovate her home

  23-02-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'black widow' of former Polish Prime Minister General Czeslaw Kiszczak sold papers exposing Walesa as a communist spy to do up the house in Warsaw where she has lived since the 1970s.
  
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• Egyptian judge admits jailing a four-year-old boy for life was 'a mistake'

  23-02-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ahmed Mansour Karni was convicted in a Cairo court of four counts of murder and eight of attempted murder - despite being just 19-months-old at the time of the crimes.
  
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• EU officials in Brussels demand to be called 'European civil servants'

  23-02-2016 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a bizarre outburst, Jean-Claude Juncker’s chief spokesman reacted furiously after a journalist used the term ‘euro-bureaucrat’ in a press conference.
  
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• David Cameron offers olive branch to Boris Johnson and grassroots Conservatives over EU

  23-02-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Prime Minister spoke highly of the Mayor of London, despite their row over the EU referendum after Mr Johnson backed Brexit
  
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• Didcot power station: Four feared dead and five injured after building collapse - live

  23-02-2016 22:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Latest updates as one person confirmed killed, three others missing and five in hospital amid 'major incident' after main turbine hall collapses
  
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• Woman smokes crack cocaine on a city centre bus in Edinburgh

  23-02-2016 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The brunette woman was spotted taking the highly-addictive Class A drug while crouching over a seat on the top deck of the Number 26 bus on Princes Street, Edinburgh, by a 17-year-old passenger.
  
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• Over 100,000 migrants have already reached Europe this year, official statistics show

  23-02-2016 22:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 110,000 mark - which last year was not reached until July- was mostly due to the unprecedented amounts of people arriving on the Greek islands in the past two months.
  
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• Tony Blair warns Brexit could break up UK in his first EU referendum intervention

  23-02-2016 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The former PM, on a visit to the US today, predicted that the SNP's demands for a second referendum would be impossible to ignore if Scottish voters are taken out of the EU against their will.
  
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• Batman fan spends 18 months turning spare room into a Batcave

  23-02-2016 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Darren Wilson, from Calne, Wiltshire, has been an avid Batman fan for more than 20 years and spent £100 creating a suitable room where he could keep his £15,000 haul of comic items.
  
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• Donald Trump gains official backing in Scotland - but it's from a far right National Front

  23-02-2016 22:34
  A FAR-RIGHT political organisation in Scotland has thrown their weight behind Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
  
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• Prisoners are using drones to smuggle drugs and phones into jail

  23-02-2016 22:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Authorities have described the new and growing problem as a 'serious concern' which is 'supporting criminality'. There were 33 incidents in 2015.
  
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• Saga louts on rampage in Lake District beauty spots

  23-02-2016 22:27
  
  THE quiet beauty of the Lake District is being disturbed by an unlikely new breed of criminals – pensioners dubbed “Saga louts” by police.
  
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• Rabbit doesn’t stand a chance as it tries to outrun a cheetah

  23-02-2016 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This dramatic photo sequence was shot on the Serengeti, Tanzania, and shows a hungry cheetah pouncing on a wild hare, after which a life-and-death chase follows.
  
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• Iraqi refugee 'who raped' boy, 10, at swimming pool kept in solitary confinement for his own safety

  23-02-2016 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The boy was dragged into the changing rooms and assaulted by a 20-year-old Iraqi migrant
  
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• 'Government should apologise to junior doctors to end strikes', expert warns

  23-02-2016 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Medics are planning three 48-hour strikes over the next two months as their bitter dispute with Jeremy Hunt continues
  
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• Belgium reintroduces border controls with France to halt arrivals of Calais migrants

  23-02-2016 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Around 1,000 residents face eviction from their homes in the southern half of the Calais shanty town unless a judge gives them a last-minute reprieve after refugee groups challenged the eviction.
  
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• Disgraced soldier who snorted cocaine in the army jailed after dealing ecstasy in nightclub

  23-02-2016 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Zach Jones, 21, was today jailed for two-and-a-half years after throwing away a "promising and bright career"
  
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• French National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen threatens to launch new party

  23-02-2016 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Since taking over from her father, Marine Le Pen has sought to sanitise the French far-right party's image, making it more mainstream and distancing it from his historic antisemitism.
  
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• Victorian cottage on sale in same village as George Clooney and Amal's rural hideaway

  23-02-2016 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The stunning riverside property is in Sonning - the same Berkshire village as the Hollywood actor and high flying lawyer's cosy country pile, which they bought in October 2014 for £10million.
  
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• Jealous tycoon’s online war with lover’s dinner date

  23-02-2016 22:16
  
  A MILLIONAIRE waged an online war against a property developer who he thought was seeing his girlfriend behind his back, a court heard.
  
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• David Cameron struggles to secure business backing for campaign to stay in EU

  23-02-2016 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seven of the PM’s business advisers have snubbed a call to back the In campaign – and only 36 of the country’s 100 biggest companies signed a letter of support
  
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• Brexit Cabinet rebels banned from accessing government material under David Cameron's new gagging rules

  23-02-2016 22:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood has sent a letter to all civil servants telling them that government resources must only be used in the referendum campaign if it supports Britain staying in the EU.
  
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• Veilstone and Gatooma care home staff accused of false imprisonment of patients

  23-02-2016 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Five staff members from Veilstone Care Home, near Bideford, and Gatooma Care Home in Holsworthy, are accused of falsely imprisoning seven adults with learning disabilities.
  
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• Family slam Tunisia's Club Omar Khayam after they contract salmonella at resort

  23-02-2016 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Keith Knight was staying at Club Omar Khayam in Hammenet, with 12 others when he and several members of the group were struck down with symptoms of gastric illness, days into their trip.
  
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• A lottery win can be a dream come true or a real life nightmare

  23-02-2016 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  For some a win on the lottery makes all their dreams come true but for others it's nothing but a road to misery
  
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• Winning EuroMillions results: Numbers for huge £23 million jackpot on Tuesday, February 23

  23-02-2016 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's jackpot is a rollover after no-one claimed the main prize on Tuesday - you can check the results of tonight's draw here
  
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• Brave mum dying from skin cancer writes heartbreaking letter warning loved ones not to use sun beds

  23-02-2016 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mother-of-three Kellie Wheeler, 35, also told her friends and family to live life to the fullest
  
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• Cleansed: Dozens faint and walk out of National Theatre over gruesome torture

  23-02-2016 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Five people fainted during graphic scenes in Cleansed, with another 40 walking out in just its first week of previews
  
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• Civil service chief bans rebel Tory ministers from seeing secret papers on Europe

  23-02-2016 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sir Jeremy Heywood has been accused of a 'stitch up' after telling staff not to help Conservative frontbenchers who are campaigning for Brexit
  
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• Concert pianist 'strangled and beaten to death' by husband who was jealous of her success, court hears

  23-02-2016 21:48 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Natalia Strelchenko, who played worldwide as a professional musician, was found with head and neck injuries at the home she shared with her husband
  
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• What could £32.5 million lottery jackpot winners spend their windfall on?

  23-02-2016 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gerry Cannings, 63, and his wife Lisa, 48, scooped their big win after they bought a ticket on the way to a fish and chip shop
  
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• Men should grab the supermarket trolley, women should fill it say Australian researchers

  23-02-2016 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The secret of a speedy supermarket shop has been revealed by scientists.To waste as little time as possible, men should find the trolley and queue up while women do the actual shopping.
  
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• Masked protestors hurl SMOKE BOMBS at London club over Jungle migrant camp eviction

  23-02-2016 21:28
  
  MASKED anarchists have stormed a London member's club hurling smoke bombs to protest against the closure of the sprawling Jungle migrant camp in Calais.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon to overhaul council tax to charge wealthy more

  23-02-2016 21:26 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The First Minister announces plans to make council tax 'more progressive' and allow local authorities to keep a proportion of income tax receipts in their areas.
  
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• Brit woman bed-bound 11 years would 'rather have cancer' than her devastating condition

  23-02-2016 21:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kirsty Keep has begged her family to take her to Switzerland so she can end her life as she no longer has the strength to carry on
  
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