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• Treatment of hens will only get worse unless we ALL take action

  26-03-2016 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Sunday Mirror investigation has revealed the appalling conditions some hens, classed as free range, are forced to live in
  
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• Poverty-stricken children struggling to concentrate at school because parents can't afford food

  26-03-2016 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Teachers union NASUWT revealed their concerns about the effects of austerity ahead of their annual conference on Sunday
  
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• Lambing season brings new worries for the little ones on a Yorkshire farm

  26-03-2016 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Amanda Owen's juggling eight kids with 700 sheep - and a few new lamb additions have made their way to her place, too
  
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• The Queen at 90: Globe-trotting monarch really is a Queen for the world

  26-03-2016 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  During her 64 years on the throne, she has visited 116 countries on 265 official visits
  
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• Thief caught when he ran head-first into a glass door as he 'thought it would open'

  26-03-2016 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Timothy Read, 30, saw stars and was grabbed after banging into the door after snatching a drill from a building site at Yeovil District Hospital
  
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• Care home boss convicted after pensioner killed by falling wardrobe

  26-03-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thomasina Bennett died after being hit by the furniture, but staff should have been alerted by an alarm when she got out of bed, a court heard
  
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• Two FA Cup teens charged following flare incident at Carlisle United v Everton game

  26-03-2016 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The duo have charged in connection with setting off the flares at Brunton Park on January 31
  
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• Labour need to stop complaining and start campaigning behind Jeremy Corbyn

  26-03-2016 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Prescott has called on Labour to ditch the infighting and start battling to bring down the Tories
  
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• Kids use cannabis to come down off 'high' from energy drinks in schools, warns charity

  26-03-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charity Swanswell is worried that young people are getting into a cycle of using high-sugar drinks and the Class B drug
  
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• Learner driver takes 40 tests before finally passing on attempt number 41

  26-03-2016 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unnamed learner was out of pocket with the repeated lessons and tests, but he's finally been able to rip up his L-plates
  
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• Poachers kill two rare white rhinos and butcher horn off third in South Africa

  26-03-2016 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES An official at Sibuya Game Reserve revealed that two months old calves have been left orphaned in the callous attack
  
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• Navy captain jailed over sex scandal where he passed on classified information in return for prostitutes

  26-03-2016 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Dusek, was swapping secrets for sex and has been fined £70,000 and sent to jail for four years
  
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• The Queen at 90: Picture special paying tribute to the woman behind the crown

  26-03-2016 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  She is a wife, a mother, an auntie, a grandma, a great grandma and the Queen of our hearts
  
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• Two arrested after child dies in funfair bouncy castle horror accident

  26-03-2016 23:09
  
  TWO people have been arrested after a child died when the bouncy castle they were playing on blew away.
  
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• Letter addressed to Australia is delivered TWICE to wrong address 10,000 miles away

  26-03-2016 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sheila Harris in Australia may have been waiting for the letter, but two Brits have had it instead
  
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• Harlow bouncy castle death: Two arrested after girl is killed when inflatable is blown 150 metres

  26-03-2016 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Horrified witnesses dashed to the girl’s aid after the castle finally crashed to the ground
  
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• Senior Tories attack 'disastrous plan' to station 1,000 UK troops in Libya

  26-03-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Government says no decisions have been made about where to base the training mission, but top MPs say Tripoli is under consideration
  
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• Iain Duncan Smith becomes emotional over his former role, new documentary reveals

  26-03-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New BBC documentary made before the former Work and Pensions Secretary resigned, shows Iain Duncan Smith becoming emotional after taking about how his job has personally affected him
  
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• David Petraeus: Brexit would weaken the West's war on terror

  26-03-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In an exclusive article for The Telegraph, the top US general and former CIA chief David Petraeus urges voters to stay in the European Union in the referendum
  
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• Britain is at greater risk from terrorists inside the EU, Andrea Leadsom warns

  26-03-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  In an interview with the Telegraph, Andrea Leadsom, the Energy Minister, dismisses Remain campaign claims that power bills will rise after Brexit and warns that Europe's migration crisis poses a "huge" threat to national security
  
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• Borders 'virtually defenceless' against small boats and planes

  26-03-2016 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Chief Inspector of Borders, David Bolt, reveals failings which could give back-door entry to jihadists
  
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• Great British Fake Off! Organisers of small community cake event are told by TV bosses to change its name 

  26-03-2016 22:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Roath Bake Off in Cardiff, which raises money for local charities, was contacted by programme bosses and later made a public statement distancing itself from the BBC show.
  
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• Girls aged just 10 forced to have brutal 'breast ironing' - in BRITAIN

  26-03-2016 22:27
  
  GIRLS as young as 10 years old are at risk of the “abhorrent practice” of breast ironing in Britain, campaigners warned.
  
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• Battle for Palmyra rages between ISIS and Assad's Syrian army

  26-03-2016 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Syrian government forces have today seized three neighbourhoods inside Palmyra after days of raging battles with the jihadi militant group. They were aided by Russian airstrikes.
  
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• Bernie Sanders rally has an incredibly cute 'gate crasher' - and the internet goes wild

  26-03-2016 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Democrat hopeful's luck appears to be changing if recent polls are anything to go by - and this little bird has done his campaign no harm
  
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• Nearly 2000 children savaged by dogs every year as attacks soar to record high

  26-03-2016 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The rise comes despite tougher laws against owners of dangerous dogs
  
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• Labour must seize the day as the Tories struggle with infighting following Osborne's disastrous budget

  26-03-2016 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If George Osborne thought his Budget was going to show him the way to Number 10, he's mistaken, says John Prescott
  
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• Tory cuts will force council tax bills to more than £1,500 as local authorities try to plug funding gap

  26-03-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Office for Budget Responsibility forecast a typical rise of 3.4 per cent following the Budget
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto winning numbers for £28.2million jackpot on Saturday, March 26

  26-03-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  These are the number that could make you a multi-millionaire
  
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• Horrifying truth of the brutal life of free range hens laid bare

  26-03-2016 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Up to 16,000 hens are crammed onto shelves in sheds with the end of their beaks cut off and male chicks gassed at just a DAY old
  
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• EU Referendum vote to stay in with Labour is the strongest, safest option for the country

  26-03-2016 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lord Mandelson says that the danger of leaving the unity of Europe to the Tories is clear
  
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• Martin O'Neill's 'ugly WAG' slur shows football's problems in week of Adam Johnson trial

  26-03-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Republic of Ireland boss comes across as a nice man - but his comments on women this week should be condemned
  
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• Islamophobic tirade on London Tube captured on video as passenger rants

  26-03-2016 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A young woman has captured shocking video footage showing the moment a man burst into an Islamaphobic tirade on a busy commuter train on the London Underground.
  
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• Aston Villa football hooligan 'removed head from corpse' for sick BET, shocking new book reveals

  26-03-2016 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tracking The Hooligans reveals the brutal and occasionally deadly battles fought between rival football fans in the sport's darkest days 
  
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• No big businesses want Britain to quit EU as FTSE 100 firms shun Leave campaign

  26-03-2016 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Business Secretary Sajid Javid has said the evidence is clear - despite 250 firms backing a Brexit
  
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• Briton jailed in Malta for 10 years finally meets his daughter - who was conceived in prison

  26-03-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Holmes was sentenced for growing five marijuana plants at his home and given a 10-year stretch
  
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• Brussels attacks: British father injured in metro bombing tells of his dramatic escape

  26-03-2016 21:06 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  As British father tells of his lucky escape, questions remain as to how the Belgian intelligence services and police failed to pick up the terrorist cell behind the attacks
  
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• Marriage tax allowance is the Government's scheme to reward marriage so here's how to claim it

  26-03-2016 20:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Government's dangling a healthy financial carrot in front of married couples, so here's how you an claim yours
  
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• Politicians are attacking the BBC again – but we need licence fee to keep our Auntie strong

  26-03-2016 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tories want to cut its funding and tame it, the Eurosceptics are angry and even Sir Alex Ferguson waged a feud – but we'd miss the Beeb if it wasn't there
  
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• Brussels terror suspect Faycal Cheffou 'links to Paris attacks' probe launched

  26-03-2016 20:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The charges against Cheffou came as evidence mounted linking the Belgium attacks to last year’s assaults in the French capital
  
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• First picture of Belgian security guard gunned down in bathroom of home

  26-03-2016 20:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Belgium's Doel nuclear plant was reportedly a site which Islamic State militants wanted to attack
  
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• Firefighters called to M&D's theme park as rollercoaster halts 20ft above ground 

  26-03-2016 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Firefighters were called to the Tornado, which travels at up to 50mph, in M&D's theme park in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, around 2.50pm after eight people - including five teenagers - got stuck on the ride.
  
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• Terry Christian: I hated Easter growing up as a Catholic ... I never saw the end of Ben-Hur

  26-03-2016 20:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sunday People columnist Terry Christian explains why he was not a fan of the traditional religious festival
  
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• Terror raids launched across Britain following intelligence gathered after Brussels attacks

  26-03-2016 20:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Information obtained by spooks at GCHQ has raised the possibility that the Belgian terrorists had links with UK-based Islamic State networks
  
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• Inside Alcoholics Anonymous with the people who reveal how addiction nearly killed them

  26-03-2016 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The famously private organisation has allowed our writer in to share the stories of those who struggled with alcohol
  
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• Missing Sophie Coulson: Desperate police issue 'urgent' appeal to find 21-year-old who disappeared on night out

  26-03-2016 20:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sophie Coulson was last seen in Northampton town centre yesterday evening, and police have issued an urgent appeal for information on her current whereabouts
  
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• John Leathem appears in court accused of murdering Paige Doherty

  26-03-2016 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Leathem, 31, has appeared in court charged with the murder of 15-year-old Paige Doherty. He made no plea at a private hearing at Dumbarton Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody.
  
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• First pictures show Wythenshawe Hall's £2m damage after blaze rips through beautiful 16th century building

  26-03-2016 20:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Photographs show the devastation caused by the fire on March 15, and the destruction caused to the interior of the building
  
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• Rolling Stones rock Cuba on historic night when 700,000 fans celebrated a new dawn for the country

  26-03-2016 20:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From the moment the band stepped off the plane in Havana, their popularity was clear to those inside and outside the Communist nation
  
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• How Brit jihadist Tarik Hassane went from promising student to thug with a pistol

  26-03-2016 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fanatic has been jailed over a foiled drive-by shooting plot – but six years ago he was filmed praising his maths lessons at London’s Westminster School
  
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