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• Nazi pilots spared me to live to 100, says Spitfire hero

  05-04-2016 23:49
  
  A SPITFIRE pilot celebrating his 100th birthday has revealed how his life was spared by two chivalrous German airmen after they had shot up his plane.
  
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• Jade Lynch's sister makes tearful plea for schoolgirl to come home

  05-04-2016 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tearful sister of missing teenager Jade Lynch, who disappeared 10 days ago, has made a desperate plea for her to come home.
  
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• 2 teenage girls found guilty of murdering Angela Wrightson at her own home

  05-04-2016 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The girls, aged 13 and 14 at the time of the 'brutal and sustained attack', beat Angela Wrightson to death as she pleaded for her life at her home in Hartlepool, County Durham, in December 2014.
  
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• WATCH: Moment man is led off British Airways flight by police after passenger was 'BITTEN'

  05-04-2016 22:41
  
  THIS is the moment a man was escorted off a British Airways flight by detectives after a fellow passenger was allegedly BITTEN in-flight.
  
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• Joseph Spencer is accused of sexually abusing a schoolgirl with learning difficulties

  05-04-2016 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bradford Crown Court heard that Joseph Spencer, 35, filmed his 15-year-old alleged victim wearing bondage equipment he purchased after watching 50 Shades of Grey, pictured.
  
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• Huge rise in homeowners to be hit by inheritance tax

  05-04-2016 21:40
  
  ALMOST one in four homes sold last year was worth so much that it would make their owners’ heirs liable to an inheritance tax bill, it has emerged.
  
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• Shawforth grandfather lost his leg when his neighbour rammed his car at him after five year dispute

  05-04-2016 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vincent Simpson, right, was held indefinitely today after he was found guilty ofrepeatedly ramming his neighbour Norman Harrison, left, near his home in Shawforth, Greater Manchester.
  
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• FACE OF EVIL: Thug who bludgeoned pensioner to death with a CLAWHAMMER faces life in jail

  05-04-2016 21:30
  
  A THUG who bludgeoned a disabled pensioner to death with a clawhammer in his own home so that he could steal his bank card was tonight facing life in jail.
  
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• Palm oil fatbergs from the Caribbean are washing up on UK beaches after storms

  05-04-2016 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Deadly mounds of congealed palm oil have been found on beaches including in Sussex, Kent, Cornwall and Devon. They are covered in deadly germs and should be avoided at all cost.
  
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• Iceland Prime Minister RESIGNS after his family is caught up in offshore tax scandal

  05-04-2016 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It comes after thousands of Icelanders protested outside parliament in Reykjavik on Monday, calling on Prime Minister Sigmunder David Gunlaugsson to resign.
  
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• Widower who was conned by gardener Karl Alexander is now in jail

  05-04-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Karl Alexander, 49, of Deerwood Vale, Cheshire, yesterday pleaded guilty at Caernarfon Crown Court after defrauding Dennis Jezzard (pictured), a former executive with the Halifax bank in Wales.
  
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• John Norwood accused of almost hacking soldier's arm off says he wanted to 'put fear of God into the squaddie'

  05-04-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Norwood, pictured, allegedly spent several hours 'hunting' Lance Sergeant James Warnock at Moss Barracks in Aldershot, Hampshire, before attacking him with a machete.
  
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• Crocodile scales metal FENCE so it can dive into a lake in India

  05-04-2016 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The massive predator scaled the metal barrier with ease before plunging four metres down into the water below in the Boondi district of Rajasthan in India.
  
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• MyStudentHalls.com study finds undergraduates are swapping squalid rooms for 'Pinterest Pefect' digs

  05-04-2016 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Students are now focused on creating immaculate ‘Pinterest Perfect’ rooms to flaunt on social media as they move away from the squalid stereotype, according to a study by MyStudentHalls.com.
  
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• Manchester police admit there is a TWO HOUR window where they 'struggle to attend any job' 

  05-04-2016 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At the inquest of a young mother who commit suicide, it was revealed police patrols in parts of Greater Manchester are so stretched there is a two-hour hole where officers 'struggle to attend any job'.
  
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• Video shows attention-seeking twin polar bear cubs larking around with a zookeeper

  05-04-2016 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Adorable twin polar bear cubs lark around with their zookeeper in Russia, clinging on to his legs, chasing him, playing with a broom and being bottle-fed. As adults they will be highly dangerous.
  
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• Police wind up investigation into murder of Genette Tate

  05-04-2016 20:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A file of evidence against Black - who died in January - was handed to the CPS after police found new witnesses in the case of missing Exeter schoolgirl Genette Tate (pictured).
  
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• Manhattan arts professor accused of sexual harassment and racial bias

  05-04-2016 20:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A lawsuit claims Wade Schuman, 53, who has taught at the New York Academy of Art for more than 20 years, made offensive comments and sexually harassed students at the university.
  
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• Man is escorted off BA flight after ‘BITING passenger who tried to stop attack’ 

  05-04-2016 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Officers escort a man off a BA flight to Heathrow after he bit a passenger following an altercation with an air hostess. Christopher McNerlin came to her aid but was attacked in the process.
  
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• Scale of historical child abuse will be examined for the first time

  05-04-2016 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As part of new questions included in the Crime Survey for England and Wales, potential victims (file photo) were asked if they had experienced emotional, physical or sexual abuse as children.
  
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• McDonald's customer rings 999 demanding a police officer after she is turned away for being drunk

  05-04-2016 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unidentified woman was told by 999 operators that being turned away from a fast food restaurant was not a police matter after being refused entry to the McDonalds store in Leeds city centre.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn could LOSE 150 seats in May despite declaring the local elections would be the ‘turning point’

  05-04-2016 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Election experts Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher today forecast Labour would score 30 per cent of the vote in town hall elections - nine points worse than when the same seats were last contested.
  
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• Dog is dragged along the tarmac in Chile after being tied by its neck to a moving truck

  05-04-2016 19:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clip was filmed by Janet Noseda, a psychologist who was travelling in the car behind with a male companion near the village of Alhue in Chile.
  
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• Suspected criminals should not be deported from Britain to other European states

  05-04-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In two cases relating to Hungarian and Romanian national, the European Court of Justice said European Arrest Warrants did not mean suspects should be automatically surrendered.
  
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• Five ex-Barclays bankers accused of rigging key interest rate

  05-04-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The traders - including New York based Jay Merchant (pictured outside Southwark Crown Court) -allegedly tweaked the complex Libor interest rate to substantially increase their profits.
  
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• Mallard stream train engineer Sir Nigel Gresley statue is unveiled at King's Cross

  05-04-2016 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A statue of railway engineer Sir Nigel Gresley at London King's Cross station has ruffled a few feathers - because it did not include a duck at the designer's feet.
  
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• Radioactive wild boar contaminated by the Fukushima disaster are breeding unhindered in the exclusion zone

  05-04-2016 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Radioactive wild boars have caused £620,000of damage to agriculture in Fukushima prefecture, having increased by more than 330 per cent in recent years, as hunters cannot cull them fast enough.
  
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• David Cameron claims Brexit would cut British tourists off from budget flights to European hotspots

  05-04-2016 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister insisted full membership of the EU single market was crucial for firms like easyJet to operate routes across Europe.
  
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• Snapshot of a very sandy pet after a day at the beach wins the top prize in a contest

  05-04-2016 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The adorable sandy snap (pictured), taken by Kelly Roberts, from Wales, is one of over 600 breathtaking images of cats and dogs entered for the annual contest run by the charity PetSavers.
  
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• Mother claims Kwik Fit tried to charge her £360 for an £11.65 puncture repair

  05-04-2016 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Disgusted teacher Susie Henderson (pictured), 32, took her Renault Clio to a garage in Milngavie, Glasgow, to get a front tyre repaired - but the firm said they would need to replace all four tyres.
  
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• ISIS announces 'forensics' division and appeals for foreign fighters with fingerprinting skills

  05-04-2016 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Propaganda photos released by the jihadi group's media branch shows several ISIS members using magnifying glasses and microscopes to investigate crimes in Iraq.
  
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• Somali protesters bring Sardinian port of Cagliari to a standstill as they demand to be allowed to leave

  05-04-2016 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Eritrean and Somali migrants, who are living on the island after having been rescued off the Libyan coast last month, want to be allowed to leave to travel further into Europe.
  
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• Serbian migrant 'involved in gang-rape of German schoolgirl' goes on the run 

  05-04-2016 19:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dennis Masser, 14, is one of the five alleged attackers accused of being involved in the attack on thegirl, also aged 14, in the Harburg area of Hamburg, Germany.
  
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• Rolling Stone Mick Jagger says Brexit might be good for us

  05-04-2016 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The singer said a vote to quit in the referendum on June 23 could be beneficial in the long-term despite an initial period of turbulence.
  
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• David Cameron denies he gets any income from his late father’s tax haven company after Jeremy Corbyn demands an inquiry into the PM’s family finances 

  05-04-2016 19:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an extraordinary statement at an EU referendum campaign event, the Prime Minister spelt out his own income from his salary, savings interest and rent on the family home.
  
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• Rumour claiming North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is dead sweeps Twitter

  05-04-2016 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rumours appeared to have been sparked by a fake Twitter account - which has since been suspended - under the name of South Korea's defence minister Han Min-goo.
  
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• Poor children receiving free school dinners 'are going hungry' over summer holidays

  05-04-2016 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Deprived pupils are returning to school in the autumn less healthy because they have gone without food, a survey found. Over half of polled teachers said their mental health had suffered too.
  
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• Amy Murray to go on cruise despite launching GoFundMe page for gastric band surgery

  05-04-2016 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amy Murray, from Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, weighs more than 27 stone and launched a fundraising page two days ago. She will go abroad next month with her husband.
  
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• The cat that has sat on the same spot in Russia for a year after owners abandoned it

  05-04-2016 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The lonely pet was first photographed in 2015 on a manhole cover in Belgorod, in south-western Russia's Belgorod Oblast region.
  
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• Delta Endeavor passengers forced to wear oxygen masks following drop in cabin pressure

  05-04-2016 19:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Terrified passengers on a flight to New York were forced to wear emergency oxygen masks when the jet lost cabin pressure and was redirected to an airport in North Carolina.
  
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• African-born mother 'beat her son because he asked to make KKK hat for school project'

  05-04-2016 19:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mother is accused of beating her son regularly over a two-year period with belts, an electric cable, a wooden spoon and a broom handle, Exeter Crown Court heard.
  
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• Stephen Beadman admits rape and murder of Kayleigh Haywood

  05-04-2016 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stephen Beadman admitted the crime at Leicester Crown Court today. Kayleigh sparked a huge police search when she disappeared in November in Ibstock, Leicestershire
  
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• Murder probe launched after Norma Bell was found to be dead before house fire 

  05-04-2016 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Norma Bell (pictured) was found dead in her torched Hartlepool home on Sunday morning. Police have yet to establish a motive behind the killing of the pensioner, who was set to turn 80 in May.
  
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• Simon Dutton to stand trial over assault of his partner Ruth Kelleher

  05-04-2016 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mr Dutton, who lived in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire at the time of the alleged offence but now lives in nearby Stroud, was bailed until a trial in June
  
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• Solicitor 'conned victims into investing thousands in wine scam'

  05-04-2016 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Wilson is accused of duping at least ten people into ploughing thousands of pounds of their savings into his firm, which was based in the City of London
  
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• Pink balloon given to newborn baby by her proud older sister is still full of air nearly 21 years later 

  05-04-2016 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lowri Maxwell Hughes, 20 (pictured), of Llanberis, Wales, was given the teddy-adorned gift by her auntie Karen Roberts when she was born in July 1995.
  
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• Northern Irish woman gets suspended jail sentence for taking abortion pills

  05-04-2016 18:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Northern Irish woman has been given a suspended sentence for taking abortion pills. Pictured is anti-abortion activist Bernardette Smyth, who said the sentence was too lenient.
  
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• Police liaison officer 'told grieving family they had a week to move their belongings out of mother-of-three's home'

  05-04-2016 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Relatives of Jodie Betteridge, 30, including her three children aged under ten, believed they had just a week to remove her items from the home in Redcar, North Yorkshire.
  
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• Trolls target family of Bonnie Armitage kicked to death by horse during Cotswold Hunt

  05-04-2016 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bonnie Armitage fell from the saddle of her Shetland pony after she was struck in the chest during the Cotswold Hunt at Miserden, Gloucestershire on Saturday
  
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• Butlin's in 'race hate' row after holidaymakers told to boo 'Muslim wrestler'

  05-04-2016 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Guests complained after they were encouraged to boo and hiss the fighter named 'Hakeem' in an wrestling night bout against a Union Flag bearing wrestler called 'Tony Spitfire'
  
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