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• Murder detectives investigating Canterbury double killing charge woman

  01-04-2016 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Naomi Toro, 35, was charged with helping murder suspect Foster Christian with the murder of Natasha Sadle (pictured), 40, and Simon Gorecki, 47, in Canterbury, Kent, on Tuesday night.
  
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• Caerphilly Police quizz man over sex offences dig up patio after claims baby was buried

  01-04-2016 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The patio at the semi-detached house in Caerphilly, Wales, pictured, has been dug up with officers examining soil from the garden as a man was quizzed in relation to a birth concealment.
  
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• How Britons aren't getting enough sleep

  01-04-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The lack of shut-eye – an average of almost an hour lost every night – could have far-reaching health consequences, with associated issues including cancer and high blood pressure.
  
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• Newbury nurse who smeared FAECES under dementia patient's nose is struck off

  01-04-2016 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Barbara Kowalska, 35, was later questioned by her boss at Donnington Nursing and Residential Home, Newbury, Berkshire, and admitted: 'I'm sorry, I have no compassion for that man'.
  
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• Could using SUNSCREEN render you infertile?

  01-04-2016 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly half of the ingredients commonly used to block harmful UV rays mimic the effects of the female hormone progesterone, which stops sperm functioning properly, say Danish scientists.
  
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• Six anti-tank rockets from World War Two are found at Coopersale bus stop in Essex

  01-04-2016 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Six Second World War anti-tank rockets have been found behind a bus stop on a busy road close to an airfield in the village of Coopersale in Essex. They were taken to a field to be detonated.
  
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• Sherlock actor Douglas Wilmer dies

  01-04-2016 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Actor Douglas Wilmer, who played Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s, dies aged 96.
  
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• David Cameron says ISIS use 'whatever materials they can get their hands on'

  01-04-2016 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cameron (pictured in Washington) issued a a strongly-worded warning about the threat to national security as he said terrorists want to 'kill as many people as they possibly could'.
  
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• Hello! sorry for fake Clooney interview

  01-04-2016 22:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hello! Magazine apologises for running an 'exclusive' interview with George Clooney the actor says was completely fabricated.
  
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• Children on Easter egg hunt form a human arrow to POINT to where suspected robbers are

  01-04-2016 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The quick-thinking children aid the hunt of two fleeing suspects near the village of Capel in Surrey. The helicopter camera shows them lying down in the field to point towards two men running...
  
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• Lab-grown skin sprouts hair and glands

  01-04-2016 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists create artificial skin, made from mouse stem cells, that integrates successfully and even sprouts hairs when transplanted into another mouse.
  
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• Thug whose girlfriend survived after he threw her from fourth-floor is jailed

  01-04-2016 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John McAleer, 24, was found guilty of attempted murder after throwing girlfriend Danielle Hammond, 21, 45ft to the ground from the balcony of a flat in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
  
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• Chemistry teacher who became female Walter White by turning house into drugs factory

  01-04-2016 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A former chemistry teacherwho turned her seven-bedroom house near Denbigh, Wales, into a cannabis factory has been ordered to pay more than £55,000, along with her husband, or face jail today.
  
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• Taxi driver appears in court charged with murder of Becky Godden

  01-04-2016 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Father of three Christopher Halliwell, 52, appeared at Bristol Crown Court via videolink today charged with murdering prostitute Becky Godden, 20, who was found dead eight years after disappearing.
  
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• Reopening of Brussels airport is delayed after terminal police go on strike

  01-04-2016 21:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Belgian police unions have demanded tighter screening of passengers and baggage before they are allowed into the terminal. The airport was expected to partially reopen on Friday evening.
  
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• Vladimir Putin linked to calender girl Alisa Kharcheva amid Wendi Deng 

  01-04-2016 21:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alisa Kharcheva - a 23-year-old who first achieved notoriety as a teen after starring in a sexy birthday calendar dedicated to the president - is currently living in one of Moscow's exclusive districts.
  
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• The Belgian police chief sent home 'in disgrace' after being DRUNK at terror meeting

  01-04-2016 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the Brussels police commissioner who was caught drunk at a crisis meeting in the immediate aftermath of last week's terror attacks and sent home in shame, MailOnline can reveal.
  
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• Sajid Javid faces steel workers wrath as he spoke in FAVOUR of cheap Chinese imports

  01-04-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Business Secretary (pictured talking to steel workers in Port Talbot) said he was confident a buyer will come forward to buy the under-threat plant but gave no guarantees it will be saved.
  
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• Can England's blitzer eclipse the Universe Boss?

  01-04-2016 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What are the battles that will decide Sunday's World Twenty20 final between England and West Indies?
  
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• Two joyriders broke into depot to steal a BUS and lead police cars on 30-mile chase 

  01-04-2016 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Peter Loveland, 39, and John Burton, 38, were pursued by five police cars after they stole the single-decker vehicle from the depot in Dudley, West Midlands, on Wednesday evening.
  
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• Man 'blocked toilet trying to flush away his wife Judith Nibbs’ head'

  01-04-2016 20:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jurors at the Old Bailey have heard how Dempsey Nibbs, 69, decapitated his wife Judith, 60, at their east London home before attempting to flush her body parts down the toilet.
  
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• Living wage ‘to drive up nursery fees’

  01-04-2016 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Most nursery staff are paid the minimum wage, which rises today from £6.70 an hour to £7.20 for those aged over 25. The 50p rise will be passed on to parents.
  
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• Video shows motorists REVERSING off motorway slip road into path of oncoming traffic

  01-04-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A string of cars were seen driving backwards off the M11 at Cambridgeshire before a white van driver had the nerve to complete three-point turn to get back on to a busy roundabout.
  
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• Fish and chip shop hits back at negative TripAdvisor review with hilarious put-down 

  01-04-2016 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pinnacles Fish and Chip Restaurant in Seahouses, Northumberland, responds to all its negative feedback in a hilariously brutal fashion - despite having an overall four star rating.
  
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• British explorer Tim Oakley conquers Northwest passage last completed in 1905

  01-04-2016 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Londoner Tim Oakley led the four-man team powered by 22 huskies that reached the town of Eagle, Alaska, on Monday.
  
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• Have North Korea resorted to using old photographs of Kim Jong-Un?

  01-04-2016 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pictures of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Un show he has gained weight in recent years, though 'new' images suggest propaganda officials are conscious of how this might be perceived.
  
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• Russian oligarch's son Egor Sosin who strangled mother while on drugs won't go to prison

  01-04-2016 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Egor Sosin murdered his mother Anastasia Novikova-Sosina  in a hotel room in the Korston Hotel in the city of Kazan, in the Tatarstan Republic that is located in central Russia in December.
  
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• Sylvester the lion who fled from South African national park is recaptured

  01-04-2016 19:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sylvester the escape artist lion, was shot with a tranquilizer dart and repatriated to Karoo National Park, near Beaufor West, South Africa, where a decision is soon be made on his fate.
  
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• Paid maternity leave slashes a newborn baby's risk of death

  01-04-2016 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For every month a mother gets paid to stay at home and look after her child, the chance of their baby dying falls by 13 per cent, say researchers from McGill University and UCLA.
  
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• Does violence on screen make society more violent?

  01-04-2016 18:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The dangers of simulating murder
  
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• New state pension forecasts are now available online with online tool

  01-04-2016 17:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new web option, which offers state pension forecasts to people of all ages, hasn't been fully publicised yet - but you can test out the early 'beta' version and provide feedback.
  
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• Comet 67P presented in silhouette

  01-04-2016 17:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Perfectly backlit by our star, Comet 67P was photographed in dramatic fashion this week by the Rosetta spacecraft - 260 million km from Earth.
  
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• Shanique Vickerman living in hotel for five months as taxpayers pay £8,500

  01-04-2016 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shanique Vickerman, 26, and her four-year-old son Tafari Bromfield have been staying at a Travelodge in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, for the last 20 weeks, with all her food bills met.
  
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• April Fools Day pranks sees father give his children by an empty Apple iPad box

  01-04-2016 16:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Comedian Joe Heenan tweeted a picture of his children on April Fools' Day, opening what they thought was an iPad. His post has now gone viral, having amassed thousands of views.
  
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• Newfoundland settlement suggests Vikings set foot in America 500 years before Columbus

  01-04-2016 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a Viking settlement on Point Rosee in southern Newfoundland that dates to between 800AD and 1300AD.
  
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• Jimmy Tarbuck on how Ronnie Corbett shied away from meeting up before he died

  01-04-2016 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The star died yesterday aged 85, as it emerged that officials wereconsidering knighting him. Tarbuck, 76, said he was aware of Corbett's illness, but had not seen him in the final weeks of his life.
  
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• Paul Daniels is laid to rest with heartfelt note from his wife and a silver wand

  01-04-2016 16:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dozens of friends and relatives gathered outside the Milton Chapel at Chilterns Crematorium, which is nestled in the serene valleys of rural Buckinghamshire, to pay tribute to the magician.
  
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• George Osborne's minimum wage policy will tempt more EU workers to Britain

  01-04-2016 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, pictured, said the higher minimum wage, which comes into force today, will encourage more workers from the continent to come to Britain.
  
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• Michaella McCollum is released from Peru prison after she was jailed for trying to smuggle cocaine

  01-04-2016 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michaella McCollum Connolly, one of the 'Peru Two', was released effectively on parole on Thursday night and was waiting to hear the terms of her release.
  
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• Denise Robertson dies aged 83 after 'short but determined' battle with cancer

  01-04-2016 15:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Denise Robertson has died of cancer aged 83. ThIs Morning tweeted 'Such sad news- our friend and colleague Denise Robertson has lost her short but determined battle against cancer.
  
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• Oil slumps on oversupply fears

  01-04-2016 15:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Oil prices fall sharply after Saudi Arabia says it will freeze production only if Iran and other major producers do the same.
  
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• Living Wage 'could boost migration'

  01-04-2016 15:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ministers campaigning to leave the EU say the new National Living Wage will increase immigration - a claim rejected by the Treasury.
  
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• 'Subway masochists' are suspending themselves from hooks on underground trains in worrying new trend

  01-04-2016 14:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fad for body suspension has spread to public places and police are keen to stop its upsetting practice
  
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• Tory minister insists Jobcentre's 'dehumanising' Space Invaders poster didn't target disability claimants

  01-04-2016 14:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The DWP insist there are no targets for getting people off disability benefits - but this poster has caused outrage
  
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• Bachelor party organiser seeks 'Stag Do Test Pilot' to try out activities - 'alcohol tolerance beneficial'

  01-04-2016 14:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If you like rafting and paintballing for a laugh then you might be the ideal stag do test pilot - and you don't even have to get married
  
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• Savage attack on Tommy Ward is now being treated as a murder case say cops

  01-04-2016 14:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 80-year-old veteran died in hospital after he was brutally beaten by robbers at his Rotherham home and detectives have appealed for help in catching his killers
  
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• Ever wondered how Viennetta is made? This behind-the-scenes footage at ice cream factory reveals all

  01-04-2016 13:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The layered ice cream dessert cake has graced thousands - probably millions - of British dinner tables
  
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• Luton delivery driver Junead Khan guilty of planning Lee Rigby-style terror attack on US military personnel in UK

  01-04-2016 13:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Delivery driver Junead Khan has been found guilty of planning a terror attack on US troops in the UK
  
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• Acid attack trial halted because accused was wearing same clothes for SEVEN days

  01-04-2016 13:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mortified Judge Peter Ralls QC told jurors he could only 'hold his hands up in horror' after discovering that prison officers in Winchester had not washed Billy Midmore's clothes
  
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• 'Spirit of Pope John Paul II' spotted riding in empty seat of popemobile behind current Pontiff

  01-04-2016 13:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some viewers believed they'd seen the current Pope's predecessor in the vehicle - but is there another explanation?
  
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