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• Devastated mum who lost one of her unborn twins claims hospital staff 'didn't listen to her concerns'

  05-05-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Becky Hoff was dealt the devastating blow her unborn baby daughter Eliza had passed away - but it was really her son Ellis who had died
  
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• Family's heartbreak as two children both diagnosed with same incurable disease

  05-05-2016 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ollie Carroll, 5, and sister Amelia, 3, have Batten Disease which will eventually leave them blind, unable to walk or even eat
  
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• Fury at topless Trump protest as Free The Nipple campaigners branded "sluts" for stripping off

  05-05-2016 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Not surprisingly, the group of topless protesters got a less than warm reception from supporters of the Republican presidential frontrunner
  
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• Election results 2016 live: Updates as votes are counted in England, Wales and Scotland

  05-05-2016 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Polls have closed and English councils, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly will all announce overnight. Follow live updates and results here
  
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• Furious mum slapped with £120 school fine for taking sons to see dying grandmother in Egypt

  05-05-2016 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mandie Ibrahim filled in a permission form for her sons Solomon and Louis to take a week off school to make the emergency visit
  
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• Pakistani woman 'strangled for helping friend elope'

  05-05-2016 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pakistani police arrested 15 members of a tribal council in in Makol in northwest Pakistan accused of ordering the killing of the teenager - including her mother and brother.
  
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• Syrian refugee camp air strike 'kills or injures dozens of people'

  05-05-2016 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage and images posted online purport to show the scorched tents (pictured) and blackened earth where the bombs are said to have fallen on the encampment in Sarmada, Idlib.
  
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• 'Grim Sleeper' serial killer who killed 10 women over 22 years could face death sentence

  05-05-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 63-year-old was said by prosecutors to have raped his victims before shooting or strangling them and dumping their bodies
  
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• 'Grim Sleeper' serial killer who killed 10 women over 20 years could face death sentence

  05-05-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 63-year-old was said by prosecutors to have raped his victims before shooting or strangling them and dumping their bodies during a 22-year killing spree
  
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• Tragic boy with 1 in 50 million disorder Cloves Syndrome dies aged just four

  05-05-2016 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aidan Jackowiak Smith was born with lumps and growths covering large areas of his body and suffering from brain damage and epileptic fits
  
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• Andy Burnham considers running for Manchester mayor as Labour waits for local election results

  05-05-2016 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  The role would be a massive shake-up for the Shadow Home Secretary if he stands for it in 2017
  
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• Two Tories probed by police over claims they broke election spending laws

  05-05-2016 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Scott Mann and Alex Chalk, are being investigated over allegations they received from the controversial Tory party battlebus
  
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• South Yorkshire Police MUST face justice for the "Battle of Orgreave"

  05-05-2016 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Home Secretary Theresa May must listen to calls to expose police wrongdoing on that blistering summer's day in 1984
  
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• The 'big one' is on the way - massive earthquake looms for California

  05-05-2016 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts said the San Andreas Fault in California is 'locked, loaded and ready to go'
  
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• Pyramid 3D images show hidden tunnels inside mysterious structure

  05-05-2016 23:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists looked at theBent pyramid, 25 miles south of Cairo. The images show the internal chambers of the 4,600-year-old structure, as well as the shape of its second chamber.
  
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• Election results 2016 live: Updates as voters go to the polls in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

  05-05-2016 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Polls have closed and English councils, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly will all announce overnight. Follow live updates and results here
  
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• British gran fighting for life after horror balcony fall during Spanish holiday

  05-05-2016 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The mum-of-three and grandmother-of-six remains in a critical condition in a Spanish hospital - and her family is desperate to bring her back to Northern Ireland
  
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• SAS snatch Islamic State chiefs in Iraq during secret raid lightning raids

  05-05-2016 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Three mid-ranking warlords have been captured since the operation began three weeks ago and have been handed to Kurdish and Iraqi officials for interrogation
  
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• PR officer 'bit off part of waitress's ear then claimed he was just trying to kiss it'

  05-05-2016 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jack Camille allegedly sunk his teeth into Chanelle Field's ear as she served drinks
  
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• Local election results 2016: How the parties are doing in England, Scotland and Wales

  05-05-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Votes are now being counted. Here are the latest figures from English councils, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly
  
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• UK election results tracker 2016

  05-05-2016 23:01
  
  Full results from the Scottish parliament, London mayor, Welsh assembly, Northern Ireland assembly, Greater London assembly and English local council elections, as they come in Continue reading...
  
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• Polls close in 2016 local elections as Labour holds out hope for Sadiq Khan as London mayor

  05-05-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Voting is officially over after a bumper day for British democracy. Now Labour are hoping dire predictions have been wrong
  
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• Danny Simpson bids to get sentence cut after guilty verdict for trying to strangle ex-girlfriend

  05-05-2016 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 29-year-old Leicester City star was handed 300-hours unpaid work and around £1,000 in costs after he was found guilty of trying to strangle Stephanie Ward
  
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• Black and white bus passengers filmed brawling over 'racist' comment on London bus

  05-05-2016 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The brawlers are filmed crashing into terrified passengers as they wrestle and hurl insults
  
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• Sir Philip Green accuses Commons of 'leaping to conclusions' over BHS

  05-05-2016 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British high street tycoon Sir Philip faces accusationsthat he asset stripped BHS and then dumped it with a £571 million pension deficit and as a result should lose his knighthood.
  
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• Father and son questioned after British man, 53, was beaten to death in late-night fight outside tapas bar in Tenerife 

  05-05-2016 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 53-year-old was reportedly killed after being hit by two people during a fight in the early hours of Thursday morning in Adeje, near Playa de Las Americas in the south of Tenerife.
  
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• Leopard snatches 6-year-old boy as he plays with his brother in Kruger National Park

  05-05-2016 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Little Kellan Denny's father Justin ran out screaming "no, no, no this can't be happening" as the ferocious big cat seized upon the youngster at Kruger National Park
  
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• Murder victim washed up on beach wearing "concrete shoes" is debt-ridden gang member

  05-05-2016 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Investigators said the 28-year-old’s corpse was found wrapped in a black plastic bag with his hands tied behind his back
  
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• Gran finds out holiday toyboy duped her - but then goes back for his brother

  05-05-2016 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Deborah Winfield fell for a younger man while on holiday and he duped her. Yet she still ended up falling for his brother. What could possibly go wrong?
  
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• Catholic school headteacher Peter Allott is jailed for horrific stash of child porn

  05-05-2016 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Peter Allott, 37, deputy head of £15,000-a-year St Benedict's School in Ealing, London, became addicted to child sex images and Class A drugs after being introduced to both at 'chemsex' parties.
  
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• Triple-whammy of bad economic news sees Britain’s recovery grind to a halt

  05-05-2016 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britain's economic recovery is grinding to a halt as global uncertainty and the national living wage sap confidence, experts warned yesterday. The UKeconomy by just 0.1 per cent in April.
  
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• Carer who pretended to be the daughter of a 91-year-old woman with dementia is jailed

  05-05-2016 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Suzette Smith, 66, from Warwick, started looking after the elderly woman in 2011, and staff at her bank became suspicious when her annual withdrawals jumped from £500 to £55,000 in 2014.
  
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• Road rage killer told experts he was 'calm like Jesus Christ', court is told

  05-05-2016 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matthew Daley had suffered from voices in his head for more then 10 years before stabbing Don Lock, the trial heard
  
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• #VoteConservative was totally hijacked to illustrate the exact opposite

  05-05-2016 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Cameron was trying to rouse support for his party and London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith, but it backfired in spectacular fashion
  
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• Northumbria Police tribunal hears of 'SECOND affair involving nipple tassels and groin stroking'

  05-05-2016 22:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Assistant chief constable Greg Vant (pictured) was allegedly involved in a secret relationship with Juliet Bains, secretary to the chief constable, while they were both employed at Northumbria Police.
  
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• Parents fight for truth in new 'Mid Staffs' scandal involving catalogue of failures

  05-05-2016 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Seven months after we told Angela Smith's story, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust is at the centre of a major scandal involving hundreds of unexpected deaths
  
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• Mourners turn out for funeral of young men killed in Manchester car crash

  05-05-2016 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a touching tribute a sea of mourners gathered to pray for Hamzaa Iqbal, Munib Afzal Karim and Hamza Gujjar, who died after the Audi S5 they were travelling in crashed in Manchester.
  
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• Dad-of-three jailed for attacking man he claimed performed a sex act on him

  05-05-2016 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lee Mitchell went into an uncontrolled frenzy and stabbed pensioner Patrick McLaughlin at least 20 times
  
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• Frieze art fair New York 2016 – in pictures

  05-05-2016 21:41
  
  Situated in an enormous tent stretching almost the length of Randall’s Island, the Frieze art fair sees the world’s galleries descend on New York to show everything from paintings to installations ... and even a beast of burden Continue reading...
  
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• Parents with two children fighting for their lives in DIFFERENT countries

  05-05-2016 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leah and Shaun Scott are being forced to spilt their time between their terminally ill daughter Paige, three, in Norwich, and critically ill twin son Oscar, who is being treated in hospital in Milan.
  
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• Muscle obsessed bodybuilder vows to 'reinvent himself' after decade long ban on touching men's biceps is lifted

  05-05-2016 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A judge said the restrictions placed on Akinwale Arobieke's ‘freedoms’ could ‘no longer be justified’, but ordered him to pursue his interest in an ‘appropriate venue’
  
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• Man cleared of raping ex-girlfriend because pair had history of sadomasochistic sex where 'no DIDN'T mean no'

  05-05-2016 21:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The couple had practised domination and submission games while together and often 'offered resistance' as part of their sex life
  
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• Moors Murderer Ian Brady refuses to mix with other prisoners because he he considers them 'maggots'

  05-05-2016 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The serial killer was sentenced to life in jail for the murder of three children 50 years ago tomorrow
  
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• Luigi Dalli took a £1k payday loan to hire two hitmen to kill man who had started dating his ex

  05-05-2016 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Father of three Luigi Dalli, 47, from Salford, paid two assassins £1,000 and ordered them to hack Kurt Crawford to death with an axe after finding out his former partner Joanna Beech wasdating him.
  
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• Glamorous mum turns down lucrative US modelling contract over fears it will trigger BULIMIA

  05-05-2016 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sarah Louise Bryan, 27, was offered a deal with a Los Angeles agency after posting a stunning snap of herself in a swimsuit on Twitter
  
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• Lidl customer overturns parking fine by drawing stick man CARTOON of his shopping trip

  05-05-2016 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Teacher Steve Crowley's sketch (pictured) features himself as a stick man saying: 'Hey kids! It's approximately 12.30pm on 01.04.16! Time to go shopping!' He had visited Lidl in Yate, near Bristol.
  
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• Unlucky apprentice strapped to ceiling and smeared with CAKE by builders in hilarious video

  05-05-2016 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unlucky youngster is seen firmly strapped to a ceiling with tension straps attached to pieces of wood hammered into the ceiling
  
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• Man shocked to learn he had air gun pellet stuck in his face for 35 years

  05-05-2016 21:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve Davies was flummoxed when a dentist revealed a lump in his mouth was a chunk of metal – until he remembered being hit by a ricochet in 1981
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn has used Snapchat to share his election day and it's amazing

  05-05-2016 21:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader has been chronicling his day on Snapchat. Yes, you read that right, Jeremy Corbyn is on Snapchat.
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about sinners

  05-05-2016 21:00
  
  Which songs do you think our reader should include on next week’s playlist? Make your nominations by Monday 9 MayThis week we want to hear about music about sinners – repentant or otherwise – taking into account song titles, lyrics or deeper meanings wither you have interpreted or musicians have spoken about.Nominate and tell us why in the comments. You can find a list of all songs previously picked and so ineligible here.Continue reading...
  
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