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• Woman rescued by homeless man after missing late-night train raises £10,000 for him

  14-03-2016 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nicole Sedgebeer missed the last train to Milton Keynes and was stood outside Euston station in central London at around 3am
  
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• Mum found dead by nine-year-old daughter was domestic violence victim 'failed by authorities'

  14-03-2016 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The child called 999 and told operators blood was coming out of her dad's mouth
  
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• Irish gang led by 'Mr Big' makes chilling threat to exhume body of murdered IRA boss

  14-03-2016 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Dublin gang are prime suspects in the murder of Alan Ryan and his younger brother Vinnie
  
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• Ice-scream vans banned from staying in the same spot for longer than 15 minutes

  14-03-2016 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Worcester City Council has introduced the strict time limit as part of a crackdown on mobile traders ahead of the busy summer months. Seller Jeff Bright said: 'Hasn't the council got better things to do?'
  
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• Benefits cheat pensioner gambles away £68,000 while wife had 'hundreds of thousands' in bank

  14-03-2016 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chung Fong, 75, was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months after illegally claiming pension credit and council tax benefit
  
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• Schoolboy scarred for life by neighbour's out-of-control dog awarded £70,000 compensation

  14-03-2016 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Erfan Ali, then aged six, needed skin grafts and more than 170 stitches to his hand, knee, lip, eyebrow and both cheeks
  
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• Dramatic CCTV shows gang attack cash-in-transit workers in broad daylight to steal £100,000

  14-03-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The group trawled the streets of London in stolen cars and motorbikes looking for victims before spotting an opportunity to rob cash boxes
  
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• Royal Navy trainee chef left cyclist with smashed skull, spine and face after running over him while driving bus

  14-03-2016 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ashley McKechnie has had his sentencing adjourned after he failed to co-operate with the probation service
  
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• Is mysterious UFO seen in Apollo moon mission photo a super secret US 'Black Manta' spacecraft?

  14-03-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The image, taken on the 1969 Apollo 12 mission, purportedly shows three mysterious lights in a triangular pattern hovering over the surface of the moon
  
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• Smokers more likely to kick the habit if they go cold turkey say experts

  14-03-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scientists looked at two groups, one who quit tobacco in stages and one who gave up outright, and found a 25% difference in success rates
  
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• Sleaze watchdogs back calls to stop MPs 'marking own homework'

  14-03-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sir Philip Mawer and John Lyon warn that "lay" members of the Commons standards committee should be allowed to vote on decisions
  
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• Over 500 people were arrested on suspicion of child neglect last year

  14-03-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The shocking figures were revealed after a Freedom of Information request by the BBC, but they could be higher as only 28 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales responded to the inquiry. (file photo)
  
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• Lost penguin tries to hitch a ride after becoming separated from its colony

  14-03-2016 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The king penguin was found wandering alone trying to make its way back to the nearby settlement in Teal Inlet, East Falklands
  
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• MPs vote for £1 billion tax credits cut - despite George Osborne's pledge not to slash the benefit

  14-03-2016 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The little-known catch hitting hundreds of thousands of people, which Labour opposed, was approved in a brief late-night vote with no debate
  
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• What next for Syria? Six questions on the war-torn country's future following Vladimir Putin's withdrawal

  14-03-2016 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neil Quilliam, the acting head of the Middle East and North Africa programme at international affairs think tank Chatham House, explains what could happen next
  
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• German Shepherd with a sloped back wins Crufts' 2016 best of breed award

  14-03-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cruaghaire Catoria won best of breed at the dog show in Birmingham. But outraged viewers took to social media, saying her abnormally sloped back and painful gait was 'cruelty'.
  
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• Fears grow for missing teen after handbag found close to spot where a young woman 'jumped into river'

  14-03-2016 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sarah Golie has not been seen since Friday and police are now pleading with people to come forward with information
  
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• Head of a scandal-hit ambulance trust resigns

  14-03-2016 22:39 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Chairman of South East Coast Ambulance service stands down ahead of publication of a damning report
  
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• Couple stunned after finding out 'neighbour from hell' wanted by INTERPOL for drug crimes

  14-03-2016 22:38
  
  A COUPLE were shocked to find out their 'neighbour from hell' was in fact wanted by Interpol for a string of drug crimes.
  
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• 'Road rage' van driver 'threw milkshake at woman and threatened to rip her head off'

  14-03-2016 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman victim claims she was left shaking after a man behind the wheel of a black Ford Transit unleashed a tirade of abuse at her
  
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• Motorists will suffer if Osborne’s Budget has another insurance tax hike, says industry boss

  14-03-2016 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Reports suggest the Chancellor will increase the insurance premium tax for the second time in six months as he struggles to balance the books
  
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• Top uni lecturer who led double life as a PORN STAR for a decade quits professor job

  14-03-2016 22:29
  
  A UNIVERSITY professor who taught students by day and moonlighted as a porn star by night has quit his job.
  
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• CON AIR: Couple who flew migrants into UK for a DAY to claim £1.6m in benefits facing jail

  14-03-2016 22:09
  
  A COUPLE who flew migrants into Britain for ONE DAY to claim £1.6million in benefits are facing jail after their bogus scam was exposed.
  
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• Libyan migrant 'forced young Austrian woman into a basement and tried to rape her' 

  14-03-2016 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Libyan teenager, who is registered as living in an asylum centre Vienna, Austria, is being held by police after an 18-year-old woman was rescued from a basement. He allegedly forced her into a basement
  
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• University professor whose double life as a porn star was exposed has quit his teaching post

  14-03-2016 21:29 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Nicholas Goddard, educated at Oxford University, has taught chemical engineering at the University of Manchester for almost 25 years
  
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• Councils could snoop on elderly residents with sensors in their bins to see if they put out the rubbish

  14-03-2016 21:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A report has set out how everything from reporting missed rubbish collections to ordering parking permits could be digitised to save councils money
  
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• Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather 'romances' British shop worker Raemarni Ball with luxury beach holiday

  14-03-2016 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The teenager, from Dudley, caught the eye of the sporting legend after paying £600 for a meet and greet
  
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• Lag jailed for carrying out string of robberies while on day release from prison

  14-03-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charles Durkin, 25, helped execute a number of cash-in-transit raids around London and Bournemouth while allowed out of a category D prison in West Sussex
  
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• Teenager who killed PC Dave Phillips with truck had been 'out of jail for just three weeks'

  14-03-2016 21:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Clayton Williams, 19, revealed in court he had served time for another police car chase and he was ‘scared to go back behind the door’
  
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• Fresh hope in hunt for Ben Needham as police given funding to follow new leads

  14-03-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  South Yorkshire Police's Team Ben have successfully applied for an extension to their £700,000 Home Office grant
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn criticised for not suspending Labour activist who said Jews have 'big noses'

  14-03-2016 20:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Labour leader criticised over failure to act as controversial tweets resurface for new vice chair of Labour Party's Woking branch
  
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• Burnham: Don't call Tory spy laws a Snooper's Charter

  14-03-2016 20:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Home Secretary says Labour will not oppose snooping laws in crunch Commons vote on Tuesday
  
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• King of Belgravia's ex-wife Caroline de Havillande 'had to have £7k repairs to painting'

  14-03-2016 20:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gillian Kings, 51, of Earls Court, London, had been storing a Harry Bilson oil painting at her home for friend Caroline de Havillande while she considered whether or not to sell it.
  
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• Infants at the end of 5,000-mile journey celebrate arrival in Athens with games

  14-03-2016 20:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Charities handed out cuddly toys and balls for the infants to play with in the port of Piraeus in Athens, Greece, but some instead pushed each other around in old crates.
  
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• Boris Johnson launches extraordinary attack on Barack Obama - and gets slapped down by White House

  14-03-2016 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tory Mayor of London slammed the US President amid reports Obama plans to publicly call for Britain to remain in the European Union
  
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• Student hacked to death in 'honour killing ordered by wife's parents because he was lower caste than her'

  14-03-2016 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING DISTURBING FOOTAGE Engineering student V. Shankar and his wife Kousalya were attacked by three men armed with sickles as they waited at a bus stop in broad daylight
  
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• Heartbroken family of Luke Jeffrey reveal horror at stab death of "devoted" teen about to become personal trainer

  14-03-2016 20:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Luke Jeffrey was on his way to becoming a fitness instructor when he was killed
  
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• Two boys, aged 15, arrested after pupil is hospitalised following 'stabbing' at school

  14-03-2016 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police stressed it was an isolated incident and there was no ongoing risk to pupils or the public
  
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• Sarah Palin's husband hurt in 'bad snow machine accident' in Alaska

  14-03-2016 20:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate is returning home to be with her husband
  
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• Judge sues Ministry of Justice after receiving warning for claiming decision to bar Lutfur Rahman was 'racist'

  14-03-2016 20:39 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lutfur Rahman was ousted from office last year after being found guilty of corrupt and illegal practises
  
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• Antiques dealer found battered to death in front garden as police arrest 52-year-old man for murder

  14-03-2016 20:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The body of 50-year-old Robyn Mercer, a respected antiques dealer, was so severely beaten 'police initially thought she had been shot'
  
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• Are teenagers' junk food diets creating a generation of moody low achievers?

  14-03-2016 20:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New research says too many burgers and fizzy drinks and not enough fruit, veg and oily fish is having a damaging effect on secondary schoolkids' brains and behaviour
  
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• Top Gear crisis: Met Police helped BBC plot filming for six months before Cenotaph stunt

  14-03-2016 20:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Revelations surrounding police involvement come as Westminster Council complain to the show's producers over film agreement breaches
  
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• Father and son admit owning animated images of child abuse and video game where player rapes children

  14-03-2016 20:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The father was also found to possess bestiality videos in which women are having sex with dogs, following a police raid
  
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• Spain could demand joint sovereignty of Gibraltar if Britain exited EU

  14-03-2016 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo says Gibraltar could still remain in the EU, even if Britain doesn't as his country would push for joint sovereignty of the peninsula.
  
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• Could a baby's murder change India's 'lost tribe' forever?

  14-03-2016 20:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The five month old boy was found drowned on the tribe’s remote South Andaman Island home, which lies in the Bay of Bengal between India and Thailand.
  
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• Artists appeal for people with six months to live to donate their bones - for an ART project

  14-03-2016 20:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joseph and Alicia Sparda are trying to find 33 people who know they are going to die  - and have already approached someone on death row
  
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• Seriously ill teen with diabetes died 'hours after doctor failed to diagnose condition'

  14-03-2016 20:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  GP Michelle Watts failed to recognise evidence 17-year-old Claire Taylor was suffering from a life threatening form of Type One Diabetes, a tribunal heard
  
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• Divorce judge awards Peter Morris' ex-wife Jane ALL of their £500,000 fortune

  14-03-2016 20:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Peter and Jane Morris lived beyond their means during their 25-year marriage, buying a £1.2million cottage in the Chilterns and sending their children to an expensive public school.
  
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• Tories raise under-25s minimum wage by 4% after being warned gap with older workers has 'legal risks'

  14-03-2016 20:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 25p rise from October will be the biggest since David Cameron took power and bring the minimum wage to £6.95 an hour
  
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