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• 'One-eyed' man shoots himself in head with flare gun for prank - and then immediately regrets it

  03-05-2016 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Surprisingly the fool survives his close encounter with the firearm, and seems to escape with just some singed hair
  
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• Footballer forced to apologise for tweeting homophobic slur while watching Tottenham vs Chelsea clash

  03-05-2016 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Coventry City defender Chris Stokes used the phrase "f****ing f***ots" while commenting on the Premier League encounter between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur
  
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• Terminally ill grandmother desperately pleads 'please help me' in shocking recording as she lay dying in hospital bed

  03-05-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Caroline Fellows, 77, suffered unexplained bruising as she lay dying in hospital of lung cancer
  
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• Preacher who 'told passengers there was a bomb on the tram' faces court

  03-05-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The court was told that Raphael told people at a tram stop in the city centre that: "There is a bomb on the tram going to Bury."
  
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• Leicester City's title triumph proves the beautiful game is still just that

  03-05-2016 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Voice of the Mirror says that the Foxes' unprecedented success is the green light for every player and fan to dream the impossible dream
  
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• Young dad shot dead in street was set to become father for the third time

  03-05-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark Hillman, 26, will tragically never meet his unborn child after he was gunned down in Liverpool last week
  
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• Masked men burst into garage and blast worker with shotgun in chilling 'targeted' attack

  03-05-2016 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 34-year-old victim has been taken to hospital where he is being treated for shotgun wounds to his arm and shoulder
  
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• 10 of the world's craziest court cases from a pineapple assault to being turned down for sex

  03-05-2016 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After a Frenchman sued his bosses due to his work being too dull, we take a look at 10 other ludicrous lawsuits
  
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• Teachers use Heimlich manoeuvre to save schoolgirl who choked on grape

  03-05-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bailee-Rae Parker, a pupil at Ysgol Gymraeg Coed Y Gof, in Pentrebane, Wales, was having lunch when the fruit she was eating lodged in her throat
  
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• 'Same senior police involved in Battle of Orgreave AND Hillsborough' claims shock report

  03-05-2016 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Un-redacted sections of Independent Police Complaints Commission report said to reveal same senior officers and solicitor involved in aftermaths of both scandals
  
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• Terminally ill Manchester United fan desperate for tickets to see his last ever FA Cup final

  03-05-2016 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Three weeks ago doctors William Moore diagnosed the 80-year-old from Newton Heath with an aggressive and terminal brain tumour
  
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• Hamas denies endorsing Jeremy Corbyn as right-wing smear campaign against Labour leader is rubbished

  03-05-2016 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Conservative news site Breitbart Jerusalem claimed a spokesman for the Palestinian terror group had supported Corbyn as Labour is embroiled in an anti-Semitism row
  
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• Poppy-Mai Barnard's devastated father writes beautiful poem for the toddler who captured hearts across the globe

  03-05-2016 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'Proud and broken' Andy Barnard paid moving tribute to the youngster - who caught the world's imagination by coming second in a poll which was won by 'Boaty McBoatface'
  
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• Telling my little girl who is only eight she has breast cancer is most horrifying thing I've ever done

  03-05-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chrissy Turner's parents knew what a struggle she faced ahead - because they had both had cancer themselves
  
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• Parents of Madeleine McCann vow 'there will always be hope'

  03-05-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Madeleine McCann's parents have led prayers at a vigil in their home town nine years to the day since she vanished during a family holiday in Portugal. They said there 'will always be hope'.
  
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• Kirsting MacRuary is jailed for two years after having sex with two 14-year-old boys

  03-05-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kristin MacRuary has been jailed for two years after having sex with two 14-year-old boys. MacRuary 39, had posted of her need for 'Jedcest' with the 'hot' singers on her Facebook page.
  
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• Cambridge University students banned from May Ball after 'refusing to apologise for rape chant'

  03-05-2016 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'Rape jokes' were allegedly made by the posh members of a raucous university drinking club, who have refused to apologise
  
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• Hapless thief taunted on Twitter by cop after leaving Wotsits, soft drink and a balaclava at crime scene

  03-05-2016 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Essex Police senior crime scene investigator Ryan Howell tweeted a photo of the abandoned snacks and a message directed at the suspect
  
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• Sir Philip Green faces Insolvency Service probe into BHS collapse

  03-05-2016 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Business Secretary Sajid Javid has ordered emergency investigation to look at extent to which conduct of BHS directors led to its downfall
  
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• Missing Madeleine McCann's parents hold prayer meeting on anniversary of daughter's disappearance

  03-05-2016 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kate and Gerry McCann have thanked supporters for keeping Madeleine in their heart as they mark nine years since the she disappeared during a family holiday
  
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• Cheating wife wanted husband killed in fake ISIS execution

  03-05-2016 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A cheating wife tried to recruit a hitman for £5,000 to murder her husband and make it look like an ISIS execution so she could be with her lover. Nurten Taycur will be sentenced next week.
  
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• Police dig up garden of married paedophiles who boasted of being pals with serial killers Fred and Rose West

  03-05-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Evil David Williams, 57, was jailed for life while his wife Pauline, 52, was sentenced to 12 years for subjecting girls and boys to horrific rapes, sexual assaults and beatings
  
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• Two Avon and Somerset police officers are sacked after disabled man was kicked to death

  03-05-2016 22:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pcs Helen Harris, 40, and Leanne Winter, 38, were dismissed from their roles at Avon and Somerset Police by an independent panel for their actions before the death of Bijan Ebrahimi (pictured).
  
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• Muslim police officer Amar Tasaddiq Hussain faces prison for hoax 999 call

  03-05-2016 22:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pc Amar Tasaddiq Hussain (pictured), 29, from Birmingham, appeared unmoved in the dock as a jury convicted him of two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
  
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• UAE 'to build massive man-made mountain in bid to solve rainfall crisis'

  03-05-2016 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Over the last several decades sky-rocketing temperatures have blighted the Middle Eastern country, causing rivers to dry, crops to wilt and food prices to soar
  
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• Ellie Butler suffered two previous skull fractures before she died

  03-05-2016 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ellie Butler suffered two previous skull fractures before she died at her home in Sutton, London, including one dating back to when her father was first accused of assaulting her, the Old Bailey heard.
  
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• Lord Patten slams proposal BBC could be banned from broadcasting hit shows at peak times

  03-05-2016 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tory peer and former chairman of the BBC Trust slammed the proposal, which is reportedly under consideration as part of the BBC charter review being conducted by the Culture Secretary.
  
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• Paedophile 'Justin Bieber wannabe' who pressured girls as young as 13 into sex is jailed

  03-05-2016 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nicholas Faithfull, who modelled himself on the US pop star, was today jailed for three years
  
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• Lesbian Tuesday Nathan is struck off after starting a sexual relationship with a girl

  03-05-2016 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tuesday Nathan, 29, formed a 'secretive' relationship with the Year 11 student at Leventhorpe Business and Enterprise Academy, in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.
  
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• Google given access to 1.6million records of NHS patients to create new medical app

  03-05-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The aim is to alert doctors to patients at risk from kidney injuries, but the idea has been met with some concern from privacy campaigners
  
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• Rape lawsuit against Donald Trump thrown out because complainant 'filled in wrong form'

  03-05-2016 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Katie Johnson, who was 13 at the time of the alleged rape, claims the Republican candidate was furious that he was not satisfied
  
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• Mystery aircraft stuns onlookers after bizarre vapour trail leaves people stumped over what it was

  03-05-2016 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some say the aircraft, which was spotted flying over the A55 this morning could be a commercial flight waiting to land - but evidence suggests otherwise
  
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• Islamic militants in Philippines release video of beheading of Canadian John Ridsdel

  03-05-2016 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The grainy footage purports to show the moment 68-year-old Canadian John Ridsdel was thrown to the ground and killed while being held captive deep in the Philippine jungle.
  
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• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers for £42 million jackpot on Tuesday, May 3

  03-05-2016 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Here's the winning numbers that could make you a millionaire
  
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• Disabled boy whose operations were halted by NHS cuts is snubbed by David Cameron again

  03-05-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ben Baddeley, 11, is visiting Downing Street tomorrow to deliver a letter asking the Prime Minister to 'fix the NHS'
  
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• Teenage Yazidi sex slave Nihad Barakat who escaped from ISIS

  03-05-2016 21:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nihad Barakat, 17, has revealed that British father-of-four Siddhartha Dhar was one of the key player in the Yazidi sex trade in ISIS's self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
  
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• Hope for thousands of steel jobs as rival firms launch bids for giant Tata

  03-05-2016 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Metals company Liberty House has confirmed interest in Port Talbot in South Wales while Exacilbur says it has launched a rival bid
  
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• The moment brave Tess Asplund stands up to more than 300 Swedish Nazis in Borlange

  03-05-2016 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As hundreds of right-wing extremists marched through Borlange, Sweden, 42-year-old Tess Asplund stood in their way and faced the group's leaders with her arm in the air.
  
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• Chinese military releases slick RAP video to tempt new recruits to join up and fight

  03-05-2016 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The People's Liberation Army recruitment ad is a mixture of high-tempo rap and action movie trailer
  
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• Islamic extremists who embarked on ‘Sharia Law patrols’ will be prosecuted in Germany 

  03-05-2016 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Germany convert Sven Lau, was also indicted by federal prosecutors last month on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group.
  
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• Police officer ignored pleas of man beaten to death by vigilantes because she was eating a POT NOODLE

  03-05-2016 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  PC Leanne Winter, 38, said she was 'busy' to avoid speaking to disabled Bijan Ebrahimi, 44, who had been falsely branded a paedophile
  
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• Islamic militants in Philippines release video of the beheading of Canadian John Ridsdel

  03-05-2016 21:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The grainy footage purports to show the moment 68-year-old Canadian John Ridsdel was thrown to the ground and killed while being held captive deep in the Philippine jungle.
  
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• Mum of Paul Gascoigne's tragic nephew pays tribute to 'beautiful' son who spent his life 'fighting'

  03-05-2016 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Grieving mum Anna Kerrigan has broken her silence to reveal her son's lifelong struggle with mental health
  
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• Broken-hearted teen texted ex-girlfriend saying he was 'so close to doing something silly' then hanged himself

  03-05-2016 21:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The teen, who lived in a homeless shelter for young people, left a note for his room-mate saying "sorry I had to do this
  
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• Tories try to block all 13 changes that were forced on their 'outrageous' Housing Bill

  03-05-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ministers are fighting every House of Lords defeat to the Housing Bill - which experts say will destroy social housing as we know it
  
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• Student's rude prank backfires badly as teen is arrested for flashing PENIS in yearbook picture

  03-05-2016 21:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hunter Osborn's flash for the camera was not uncovered until after the Red Mountain High School Yearbook was printed
  
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• Girl shares brother's brutal break-up text to his ex and leaves Twitter in stitches

  03-05-2016 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Breaking up with a partner can be brutal - but sometimes honestly is not always the best policy
  
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• Danniella Westbrook’s ex Tom Richards is banned from seeing his mother

  03-05-2016 20:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Toyboy Tom Richards, 26, from Hafod, Swanseamoved home after a bitter split with former soap star Daniella, 42, after she confessed people mistook her for his mum.
  
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• Allied blitz against ISIS kills 25,000 terrorists in Iraq and Syria

  03-05-2016 20:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some 600 fighters have been killed in the past month - bringing the total number of terrorists killed to 25,000 since the campaign began. RAF Tornadoes, pictured, have led strikes.
  
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• Leicester fans bring city to standstill as players pop out for pizza

  03-05-2016 20:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Many of the club's players left Vardy's late last night before heading to Club Republic in Leicester city centre. There they were greeted and congratulated by jubilant supporters (pictured).
  
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