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• Girl gangs organise street battle to settle a 'beef' over video app Periscope

  04-04-2016 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fight at Seven Sisters tube station in Tottenham was set up through the live video app Periscope. Groups of youths congregated at the scene at about 10pm last night.
  
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• 'Classy cast points to vintage Masters'

  04-04-2016 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  English debutant Andy Sullivan is not the only one "buzzing" in the build-up to this year's Masters, writes Iain Carter.
  
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• North Korea vow to kill ‘more Americans than the 9/11 attacks’ in latest propaganda rant

  04-04-2016 22:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  State-run media claimed that planned North Korean nuclear strikes would kill more American citizens than the September 11 attacks and'wipe the U.S. from history'
  
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• Nick Blackwell awakes from coma after Chris Eubank Jnr fight

  04-04-2016 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nick Blackwell has been brought out of his induced coma and is talking with family and friends gathered at his hospital bedside.
  
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• Drunk passenger 'groped' air hostess on Gatwick-bound flight from Dublin

  04-04-2016 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Artur Niewolik, 37, of West London allegedly stroked the stewardess's waist as he tried to make his way to the toilet, and whispered 'nice legs' in her ear. He was arrested on arrival in Gatwick last year.
  
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• Al-Qaeda's Syrian group Al-Nusra hit by airstrikes killing spokesman and 20 others

  04-04-2016 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Abu Firas al-Suri was meeting with other leading Islamist fighters in a Nusra stronghold in Kafar Jales in the northeast of the country when the raid happened.
  
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• Sanctioned clients on Panama firm's books

  04-04-2016 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Panama legal firm at the heart of a massive data leak had client firms which were subject to international sanctions, documents show.
  
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• England's Marler denies being racist

  04-04-2016 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England's Joe Marler says he is not a racist, despite calling Wales prop Samson Lee "Gypsy boy".
  
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• Mother's fury after she is fined for exceeding car park time limit while she breast fed

  04-04-2016 21:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kelly Jobson, 27, was nursing seven-week-old Ella at the M&S feeding facilities in Kingston Court Retail Park, in Newcastle upon Tyne, when she went over the three-hour limit by 20 minutes.
  
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• Bizarre fossil 'kept babies on strings'

  04-04-2016 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A newly discovered 430 million-year-old creature appears to have dragged its offspring around on strings, like underwater kites.
  
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• Muslim students are exempted from Swiss tradition of shaking teachers' hands at school

  04-04-2016 21:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Education authorities in the northern Swiss municipality of Therwil (pictured) reached the controversial decision after two male students complained about the Swiss custom.
  
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• Russia's Vladimir Putin blames ‘Putinophobia’ over Panama Papers accusations

  04-04-2016 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President Putin is the 'main target' of the Panama Papers leak, the Kremlin claimed. It comes as the Olympic ice dancer wife of Putin's spokesman has been listed on Panama documents.
  
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• Woman arrested after 'pocketing £1,320 from collection for funeral of toddler'

  04-04-2016 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two-year-old Issac Brocklehurst (pictured with his mother) was killed by a tipper truck after his ride along toy accidentally rolled out on to a main road in Shipley, West Yorkshire, on February 23.
  
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• Boxer Blackwell wakes from coma

  04-04-2016 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boxer Nick Blackwell wakes from his induced coma, following his fight with Chris Eubank Jr nine days ago.
  
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• NHS pays £165,000 for just ONE GP home visit in 5 months through deal with private company

  04-04-2016 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Primecare was awarded the 'disgraceful' contract by NHS England in July last year to provide home visits to patients who are registered in practices outside of their area in the West Midlands.
  
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• Leicester City star Jamie Vardy sent sick messages by Twitter trolls about his daughter

  04-04-2016 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leicester City star Jamie Vardy has attacked Twitter trolls after they sent sickening messages about his young child. Sexual threats were made against the goalscorer's one-year-old daughter, Sofia.
  
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• Girl dies in hospital after horse-riding accident while out with Cotswold Hunt 

  04-04-2016 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tragic schoolgirl Bonnie Armitage - daughter of Nick and Polly Armitage (pictured) was fatally injured while riding with her family as part of the tri-weekly Cotswold Hunt in Miserden, Gloucestershire.
  
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• Danny Cipriani are 'throwing everything' at prosecutors in bid to clear him of crashing Mercedes

  04-04-2016 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Sale Sharks fly-half allegedly ploughed his £60,000 car into a Toyota in Chelsea, West London, following a man-of-the-match performance for England at Twickenham.
  
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• VIDEO: Panama papers: Brink's Mat robbery link

  04-04-2016 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leaked documents from a Panama-based law firm have led to an examination of the tax affairs of several wealthy people in the UK.
  
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• Rathkeale Rovers gang plotted to steal rhino horn and Chinese trinkets from museums

  04-04-2016 20:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The gang, dubbed the Rathkeale Rovers because of links to the Irish town, targeted high-value objects in a string of smash-and-grab raids, including at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum.
  
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• Sheffield man lives in fear after receiving string of mystery poison pen letters

  04-04-2016 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lee Dean, pictured, says the threatening letters are ruining his family's life. The 33-year-old, from Sheffield, has received nine anonymous letters demanding that he leave his job as a barman.
  
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• Crackdown on offshore tax havens urged

  04-04-2016 20:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK PM David Cameron is urged to crack down on offshore tax havens, after a huge data leak exposed efforts by the rich and powerful to hide assets abroad.
  
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• Spain announces plans to axe its famous three-hour siestas

  04-04-2016 20:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The country's Prime Minister said he wanted the working day to end at 6pm, bringing an end to the traditional three-hour midday break.
  
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• Hassocks firefighters go through the wall after cat Phoebe got stuck in two-inch gap

  04-04-2016 20:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Poor pet Phoebe had to be rescued by firefighters after she found herself stuck in a two-inch gap between a house and garage in Hassocks, West Sussex. She looked visibly in pain as she struggled.
  
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• Panama Papers reveal how TWELVE world leaders hide their millions in tax havens

  04-04-2016 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The so-called Panama Papers, part of a leak of 11 million files, implicate those in Vladimir Putin's inner circle, along with families and associates of other current and former heads of state.
  
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• Sajid Javid FINALLY meets Tata bosses as the Government hits 'full crisis mode' over the steel crisis amid fears EU rules could wreck a £400MILLION deal to save industry

  04-04-2016 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Business Secretary Sajid Javid was said to have placed his department on a 'crisis' footing today. The PM will continue emergency talks tomorrow at summit with Welsh First Minster Carwyn Jones.
  
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• Muslim in a veil posts footage of furious row with shopper who called her Batman' 

  04-04-2016 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Throughout the row, in a grocery store inShepherd's Bush, the man swears at Ahlam Saed, 25,and repeatedly asks 'why do you wear that?' referring to her Niqab, a traditional Muslim dress.
  
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• Mossack Fonseca's Ramon Fonseca Mora is a novelist in his spare time

  04-04-2016 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ramon Fonseca Mora, 63, a native of Panama is more used to grabbing the headlines for his award-winning prose than the secret underworld his company helps conceal.
  
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• Dark Justice catch David Hanson as he collapses on camera after grooming 'girl'

  04-04-2016 19:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Hanson, 45, from Benwell, Newcastle, passed out when he realised that the girl he believed he had been communicating with was in fact online paedophile hunters Dark Justice.
  
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• Panama Papers see Icelandic PM storm out of interview over hiding millions

  04-04-2016 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, who came to power on a wave of anti-bank anger in the aftermath of the Icelandic financial meltdown, is facing a no-confidence vote over the claims.
  
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• Panama Papers reveal how billionaire husbands hide their fortunes from their wives

  04-04-2016 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The British tycoon (pictured with girlfriend Noelle Reno) used Mossack Fonseca and other offshore businesses to conceal his estimated£500million fortune.
  
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• Murdered Paige Doherty died from ‘sharp force injury’ to the neck

  04-04-2016 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 15-year-old (pictured), from Clydebank, Glasgow, was reported missing on March 19 after she failed to arrive at her Saturday job at a hair salon. Her body was found in bushes two days later.
  
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• Panama leaks reveal Vladimir Putin’s ally Mikhail Lesin was linked to offshore company

  04-04-2016 18:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mikhail Lesin, the founder of Russia Today propaganda TV channel had links to an offshore company based in the British Virgin Islands that was used by allies of Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Panama papers leak shows connections to Russia president Vladimir Putin

  04-04-2016 18:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leaked documents reveal how the Russian president's best friend Sergei Roldugin and the man who heads up Putin's 'crony bank' are linked to the movement of money offshore.
  
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• How Mossack Fonseca in Panama relies on a global network to support its clients

  04-04-2016 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mossack Fonseca is based in Panama (head office pictured) but operates in more than 35 cities around the globe, offering clients the option of dealing with someone close to home.
  
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• Panama Papers leak sees David Cameron refuse to reveal if family has tax haven money

  04-04-2016 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister's late father Ian Cameron was named in a huge leak of millions of documents exposing the use of offshore tax regimes by the world’s richest people.
  
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• England's Kenny Sansom admits he is losing his battle with alcohol

  04-04-2016 18:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sansom, 57, had been hoping to watch his former club Arsenal on Saturday, but was allegedly spotted drinking from a bottle before collapsing in a nearby alley in Bromley, South-East London.
  
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• Brazil 'to buy tickets' for Rio Olympic Games 2016 and give them away to children

  04-04-2016 18:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brazil is facing the embarrassing prospect of empty seats when Rio de Janeiro hosts the sporting extravaganza this summer.
  
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• Taxpayer foots bill to clean carpets in John Bercow's grace-and-favour apartment

  04-04-2016 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Replacing 'flood-damaged' flooring in an en-suite bathroom at John Bercow's residence cost £872 and rehangingcurtains in the nursery was £120
  
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• X Factor soldier John Norwood 'attacked comrade with a machete'

  04-04-2016 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Colour Sergeant John Norwood, 38, had previously fought with his victim Lance Sergeant James Warnock, 24, in a pub near Mons Barracks in Aldershot, Hampshire.
  
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• Obese mother begs for public donations to fund £10,000 weight loss surgery

  04-04-2016 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amy Murray, 31, of Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, argues medical problems leave her she unable to lose weight alone and without surgery she won't live to see her daughter grow up.
  
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• Maythem al-Ansari gives himself up at Heathrow airport after he fled to SYRIA 5 years ago

  04-04-2016 18:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Iraqi-born Maythem al-Ansari, 47, who used to live in Hillingdon, West London, is now back in jail in Britain after deciding it was preferable to life in Syria, five years after he fled there.
  
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• New state pension: Millions 'worse off'

  04-04-2016 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 11 million workers now in their 20s and 30s will end up worse off as a result of reforms to the state pension, a think tank says.
  
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• Rhian Sugden insist she's still with her fiance after Vernon Kay scandal

  04-04-2016 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rhian Sugden insists she's still engaged to former Coronation Street actor Oliver Mellor, despite her having swapped hundreds of messages with Kay as he tried to arrange a meeting at a hotel
  
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• Falkland Island's governor's note read out to Argentinian soldiers up for sale

  04-04-2016 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Handwritten note captures the moment that Falklands governor Sir Rex Hunt demanded that Argentinian troops leave the remote Atlantic island of South Georgia in June 1982.
  
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• VIDEO: Strolling swan holds up city traffic

  04-04-2016 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Swan takes a casual stroll along a road in Manchester city centre bringing Monday morning traffic to standstill.
  
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• Tulisa Contostavlos's lawyer asked judge for mercy in drink driving case

  04-04-2016 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tulisa Contostavlos, shown arriving at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court this morning, broke down in tears during her hearing as she admitted to being over the limit when the crash occurred last year.
  
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• Teenage girl gives aunt a public dressing down on Twitter over homophobic abuse

  04-04-2016 17:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Charlie, 18, from the UK, posted an argument that she'd had with her aunt Marie who told her to find a man on Twitter where it was quickly favourited 30,000 times.
  
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• US Navy intercept Iranian weapons shipment heading to war-torn Yemen 

  04-04-2016 17:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US Navy says it has seized a weapons shipment in the Arabian Sea from Iran likely heading to war-torn Yemen.
  
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• Sunderland man Liam Newby left scarred for life after being slashed in the face

  04-04-2016 17:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Liam Newby, 27, was attacked by a gang of youths who approached him while he was walking his friend's dog in Sunderland on Saturday afternoon.
  
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