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• Didcot power station collapse: Three missing men 'highly unlikely' to still be alive

  24-02-2016 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One person, named locally as Mick Collings, died when a concrete and steel building at the derelict Didcot A site in south Oxfordshire came down
  
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• Even MORE Brussels red tape: EU ready to enforce new anti-fraud measures

  24-02-2016 23:58
  
  MEDDLING EU bureaucrats are looking to change the way VAT is collected in Britain in a clampdown against multi-billion pound fraud.
  
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• Dashcam video shows near miss at 60mph in Yorkshire

  24-02-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The terrifying incident happened in Yorkshire earlier this month and shows the moment the unnamed driver and his passenger reacted after another car pulled out in front of them.
  
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• Shocking dashcam footage shows raging lorry driver attacking car after nearly cutting driver up at toll booth

  24-02-2016 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He then blocks off the road meaning the driver cannot escape, climbs out the cab of his lorry, puts on his shoes and then tries to break into the vehicle while shouting obscenities
  
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• Victim of Rotherham sex abusers tells how she was groomed from age 14 and thought she would be killed

  24-02-2016 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brothers Arshid and Basharat Hussain were found guilty of multiple rapes and indecent assaults of teenagers in the South Yorkshire town at Sheffield Crown Court today
  
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• Are YOU to blame for your child's ADHD? Adults' unreasonable expectations 'could be to blame for surge in diagnoses'

  24-02-2016 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists from University of Miami revealed ADHD diagnoses in children have doubled since the 1970s - because they are expected to spend more time on homework and reading than playing.
  
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• Video shows 4x4 drive straight up almost vertical hill

  24-02-2016 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This impressive footage was filmed near Beijing in China and shows the large 4x4 vehicle maneuvering itself into an almost completely upright position before attempting the daring feat.
  
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• Mars bars in choking alert STILL on sale in UK: Boxes of Celebrations that may contain plastic are bought at stores in London, Bristol and Leeds

  24-02-2016 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Major supermarkets have cleared their shelves of the chocolate bars, which may contain sharp pieces of plastic. But Daily Mail reporters have bought boxes of Celebrations in London, Bristol and Leeds.
  
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• The wives driven crazy by the sound of their husband chewing: Believe it or not, it’s a real medical condition

  24-02-2016 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These wives cannot stand the sound of their husbands eating, Jan Noble, 48,feels like attacking husband Murray, 47, when he eats. Emily Yarranton-Green says the noise of eating burns her.
  
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• BEL MOONEY accuses NHS of a grave deception over home births

  24-02-2016 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Writer Bel Mooney was left horrified by the Government's plans to encourage home births.She believes the move aims to save money and cover up maternity wards bot fit for purpose.
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto winning numbers for £2.2million jackpot on Wednesday, February 24 revealed

  24-02-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Someone could become a millionaire tonight - will it be you? Check your numbers here...
  
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• Croydon cat killer strikes AGAIN in 'sexually motivated' attack by beheading ANOTHER

  24-02-2016 23:40
  
  A FELINE decapitated in the latest slaying by the so-called Croydon cat killer could have been a “sexually motivated” attack.
  
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• CRAIG BROWN: Why Adolf had a big nose - but tiny lederhosen 

  24-02-2016 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new book by Emma Craigie and Jonathan Mayo suggests we were right about the well-known ditty about Hitler only having one ball.
  
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• Jayden Parkinson's sister claims tragic teen said she 'knew her boyfriend would kill her one day'

  24-02-2016 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A review found there were "absolute failings" in the way services dealt with the death of 17-year-old Jayden Parkinson
  
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• MINORITY REPORT? Police working on software that PREDICTS crime before it happens

  24-02-2016 23:32
  
  A NEW crime prediction system is being developed by police to try to get ahead of criminals in Britain - but watchdogs insist the scheme is "a long way from Minority Report".
  
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• Brits: Adele wins four awards

  24-02-2016 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Adele dominates the 2016 Brit Awards, taking home four trophies including best British female solo artist and album of the year.
  
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• Tony Blackburn sacked in BBC sex abuse probe: Devastated Radio Two DJ plans to sue bosses

  24-02-2016 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Radio 2 star has been named as a DJ who it is claimed seduced a 15-year-old girl in 1971
  
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• Jeffrey Archer's novel goes to number one in the USA

  24-02-2016 23:26 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The new book is the sixth in a series that was only supposed to run to five instalments
  
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• Man takes woman hostage at Bella Italia restaurant in Leicester Square

  24-02-2016 23:24 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Metropolitan Police said the incident was not terrorist related
  
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• Deepcut soldier Cheryl James 'was ordered to have sex with squaddie', inquest told

  24-02-2016 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Colleague Mark Beards claimed she confided in him the night before she died from a gunshot wound but then refused to let him help her
  
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• Gang member who 'murdered carer' is entitled to damages under HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS

  24-02-2016 23:19
  
  A VICIOUS gang member who was detained indefinitely for murder is entitled to damages for a breach of his human rights, the High Court has ruled.
  
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• Waterfall Cafe to pay compensation to the waitress who stole from their till

  24-02-2016 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Simon and Jan Hargreaves fired Anne Read from the Waterfall Cafe, in the Scottish Highlands, because she was convicted of theft after stealing cash from the business.
  
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• Leicester Square: 'Man holding woman hostage with knife at Bella Italia restaurant'

  24-02-2016 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man was believed to be holding the woman against her will while two other people were trapped inside the restaurant
  
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• Rotherham child abuse victim 'feels free' of her abuser after he is found guilty

  24-02-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum-of-two Jessica, now 30, says she is amazed to have survived her ordeal at the hands of Arshid Hussain, who has been convicted of a range of sex offences
  
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• Failing broadband companies should compensate customers like utility companies, says Which?

  24-02-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Which? said that broadband companies like BT should be subject to the same penalties as major utility providers of gas and electricity to homes across the UK if they fail to provide good service
  
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• Broadcasters offer to flood shows with healthy foods to stave off ban on junk food adverts before watershed

  24-02-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Commercial broadcasters have told ministers they will sneak vegetables into dramas and cut scenes showing characters eating unhealthy food, to avoid a ban on advertising junk food to children
  
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• Bogof deals are immoral and a waste of money because they encourage shoppers to buy products they don't need warns expert

  24-02-2016 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Janet Godsell, a professor of supply chain strategy at Warwick University, also warned the offers cause havoc for suppliers who have to ramp up production temporarily and then reduce it again once deals end.
  
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• BBC to pledge end to 'culture of deference' that allowed Jimmy Savile's sex abuse

  24-02-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A report into how Savile got away with decades of abuse at the BBC will condemn a deferential culture in which staff are too scared to blow the whistle on stars
  
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• Kellie Wheeler warns ANYONE can get skin cancer

  24-02-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kellie Wheeler, 35, from Solihull, was given the devastating news her melanoma had returned in November and is 'petrified and heartbroken' at the prospect of leaving her children and husband.
  
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• Another ONE MILLION migrants will head to Europe in 2016, says Fabrice Leggeri

  24-02-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fabrice Leggeri, head of the EU border agency Frontex, warned that walls and wire were no match for determined people and added; 'Fences will stop no-one.'
  
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• David McCallum gets so drunk on night out in Glasgow that he wakes up in Amsterdam

  24-02-2016 22:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professional wrestler David McCallum, 22, went out in Glasgow with friends on Thursday, heading for the Box Bar where wrestlers were drinking ahead of the Insane Championship Wrestling competition last weekend.
  
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• Damien Hirst wins right to install swimming pool and yoga room in mega-basement

  24-02-2016 22:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When completed, Damien Hirst's £40million home in Regents Park, north west London (pictured), could be worth approaching the £100million mark, making it one of the most valuable in the area.
  
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• Riot police storm Leicester Square after knife-wielding man holds woman hostage

  24-02-2016 22:54
  
  RIOT police stormed Leicester Square after a knife-wielding man took a woman hostage in a restaurant.
  
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• VIDEO: Apple CEO on why he won't work with FBI

  24-02-2016 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why he is refusing to build a system to break into the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino killers.
  
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• President Donald Trump would reopen Guantanamo Bay and 'load it up with bad dudes'

  24-02-2016 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The billionaire US election candidate made his bizarre pledge after the President vowed to shut the infamous jail once and for all
  
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• British holidaymakers fearing terrorist attacks opting for ‘safe’ Spain and Portugal

  24-02-2016 22:19
  
  SCARED Brits are abandoning adventurous holiday locations for Spain and Portugal in a bid to flee possible terrorist attacks.
  
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• DNP pills arrest: Man held on suspicion of supplying toxic tablets for use as fat burning aid

  24-02-2016 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The arrest comes after five people have died in the UK in separate cases from taking DNP pills in the last year alone, including student Eloise Parry, 21
  
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• Japan's 'suicide forest' where dozens choose to kill themselves every year

  24-02-2016 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  *WARNING: CONTAINS UPSETTING IMAGES* The beautiful and unspoilt Aokigahara Forest near Mount Fuji holds a darker secret which has inspired a new Hollywood horror film
  
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• Top Jeremy Hunt advisor admits he has no idea what 7-day NHS will cost

  24-02-2016 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charlie Massey told MPs it was still impossible to put a price on the top Tory's pet project - despite months of negotiation with medics
  
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• Lottery winner vows to keep digging his £35 a year council allotment

  24-02-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  “It’s hard work, tough soil, but I enjoy it and I’m getting ready for the next season"
  
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• Crosswords and brain games do not prevent Alzheimer's for most of population

  24-02-2016 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Crosswords and education can help people most at risk of Alzhimer's but are ineffective for the majority of the population
  
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• 'Absurd' that UK has hundreds of different recycling systems, says minister

  24-02-2016 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rory Stewart, the environment minister, attacks myriad of local recycling systems, saying a single national model would save money and boost recycling
  
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• Hope fades at Didcot Power Station for missing men as rescuers fear second collapse

  24-02-2016 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Teams using sniffer dogs, heat-seeking cameras and heat-seeking equipment say it could take weeks to find the remaining victims
  
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• Cab drivers fined after refusing fares because the destinations were too close

  24-02-2016 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The drivers have been prosecuted for breaching cabbie byelaws
  
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• Toddler saved by drug that could have killed him after heart rate shot off scale

  24-02-2016 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When Reuben Edwards was rushed to hospital his pulse had eclipsed 250 beats per minute – causing monitors to display an error message
  
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• British firm launches 'bullet-proof' sofas and chairs to dive behind in a terror attack

  24-02-2016 21:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  Glasgow-based furniture firm markets luxury 'ballistic protection furniture' at hotel lobbies and restaurants
  
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• 'Petrol bomb' attack on asylum seeker centre treated as 'racially motivated'

  24-02-2016 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A flaming object was flung at a front window of multi-occupancy flats in the early hours of Sunday morning
  
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• Watch as Gazza's homecoming night is ruined by yobs' offensive songs and chants

  24-02-2016 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Gascoigne's speaking event at the Magnum was spoiled by certain members of the audience  
  
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• Online shoppers urged to check dates before buying cut-price chocolates

  24-02-2016 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An FSA spokesman said: “Consumers buying these products online should check the best before dates with the seller first to make sure they are not the ones implicated in the recall”
  
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• Man collapses and dies after suffering cardiac arrest in gym

  24-02-2016 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paramedics rushed to Nuffield Health in the Canary Wharf Citi Bank building at lunchtime today but were unable to save him
  
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