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• Voice of the Mirror: Conviction of Melanie Road's killer after 32 years shows justice will never rest

  09-05-2016 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Voice of the Mirror says that DNA science means the scales have finally tilted in favour of the law
  
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• Save The Children video shows what life would be like for a BRITISH girl fleeing civil war

  09-05-2016 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The upsetting video shows a second in each day of a year in the life of 13-year-old Lily-Rose, who lives in Harlow, Essex, as she is forced to leave a refugee camp to escape war in a fictional Britain.
  
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• Sadiq Khan gets Presidential seal of approval as White House proclaims 'historic' victory

  09-05-2016 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Barack Obama's press secretary sent his congratulations to the new Mayor, who was elected with the biggest individual mandate of anyone in UK history
  
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• An essential guide to pensioner mortgages - would YOU borrow until you're 85?

  09-05-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror Money's Tricia Phillips looks at the pros and cons as the mortgage market finally wises up to the realities of modern life
  
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• Minister knew BHS pension fund was in trouble in 2012 but watchdog delayed action

  09-05-2016 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sir Philip Green held a meeting over the protection levy with then Pensions Minister Steve Webb but the regulator let the tycoon drop a deal to fix the shortfall
  
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• Tottenham plot £20m Adam Lallana bid? Transfer news and gossip from Tuesday’s papers

  09-05-2016 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  PLUS: Theo Walcott lined up by Premier League club as Thierry Henry is offered a promotion within Arsenal's coaching set-up
  
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• Matthew Daley who 'stabbed retired solicitor 39 times has paranoid schizophrenia'

  09-05-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lewes Court heard that if Matthew Daley (shown) had been properly diagnosed he might have been on medication that would have prevented him from stabbing 79-year-old Donald Lock 39 times.
  
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• Prince Harry congratulates Micky Yule as he wins first British Invictus Games Gold medal

  09-05-2016 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paralympian Micky Yule, 37, from Musselburgh near Edinburgh, recorded a personal best by lifting 190 kilograms in front of a huge crowd - including Harry - at the Invictus stadium in Florida, US.
  
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• Samuel Watts who killed a 72-year-old pensioner is jailed for nine years

  09-05-2016 23:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samuel Watts, 23, was 'out looking for trouble' following a bar crawl in Derby when he brutally kicked and punched pensioner Melvyn Hargreaves, 72, on the outskirts of the city centre.
  
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• Little boy with one leg who got a week off school to go to the Invictus Games gets a hug from Prince Harry 

  09-05-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Schoolboy Rio Woolf, from Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, was given a week off school to fly to Orlando, Florida, to meet some of his heroes - and Prince Harry - at the Invictus Games.
  
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• Conman Joseph Birch who pretended to be a knight, lord and major is jailed

  09-05-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Racehorse owner Joseph Birch, 63, from Devon, pretended to be a knight, a lord and an Army major as he targeted more than a dozen victims in the US, Spain, Italy and Germany.
  
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• Oxford boy feared to have drowned in River Thames after late night swim

  09-05-2016 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ellis Downes, 16, disappeared on Saturday at 9pm after he went into the water with friends at Culham in Oxfordshire and apparently became tired while trying to swim back across the river.
  
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• Cornwall police remove scaffolding in St Ives to retrieve stuck campervan

  09-05-2016 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incident happened in the picturesque town of St Ives in Cornwall, with crowds gathering to watch - and laugh - as police attempted to free the motorhome.
  
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• Ex-Ukip MEP Ashley Mote who fleeced European Parliament of £500k to pay back just £200k

  09-05-2016 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ashley Mote, 80, of Alton, Hampshire, is serving a five year sentence for 'milking the cash cow to the limit' by making fraudulent claims for Parliamentary Assistance Allowance.
  
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• Shocking film that shows refugees fleeing from war-torn BRITAIN

  09-05-2016 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Harrowing scenes in a film by charity Save the Children show a young girl living in a bombed British city
  
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• Growing concern for missing mum, daughter, 7, and son, 3, who were last seen six days ago

  09-05-2016 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Survoi Costa, 25, her seven-year-old daughter, Scarlett, and her three-year-old son, Scarleon, were last seen at their London home on Tuesday
  
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• Llama on the loose! Police chase escaped animal through the streets of Surrey

  09-05-2016 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The south American pack animal was spotted galloping through the roads of Reigate on Saturday afternoon
  
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• Former top cop "flipped" after ex-boss's affair was betrayed by legal chief, tribunal hears

  09-05-2016 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-Northumbria Police Chief Constable Sue Sim demanded force legal chief Denise Aubrey "be sacked immediately" after letting slip about her predecessor's alleged affair
  
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• Watch brave mum and daughter confront racists with megaphone in Bath and send them fleeing

  09-05-2016 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sharon Forbes and her 15-year-old daughter Savannah were appalled when they saw a group with a megaphone launching a racist tirade       
  
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• Dad-of-two 'beaten, mugged and left to die outside fish and chip shop' was due to become grandfather

  09-05-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Edward Wood, 50, was mugged as he lay dying on the ground outside Oceans 11 chip shop in Greater Manchester, police said
  
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• Labour's weekly meeting: what Sadiq Khan said, and what Jeremy Corbyn didn't

  09-05-2016 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The new London Mayor was given a hero's welcome at the Parliamentary Labour Party
  
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• Afghan woman executed after being accused of killing her husband

  09-05-2016 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The woman, dressed in a blue burka, was dragged before a Taliban court in northern Afghanistan's Khanaqa district before being sentenced to death.
  
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• Key Islamic State leader Abu Wahib 'killed in US-led Iraq airstrike'

  09-05-2016 20:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The high profile military figure was killed in Iraq’s Anbar province alongside three other militants, the Pentagon has confirmed
  
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• If Donald Trump was President when wife Melania came to America she wouldn’t have been allowed in

  09-05-2016 20:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If the controversial anti-immigration businessman makes it to the White House the job of First Lady will, for the very first time, go to a foreigner
  
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• Doctors remove mammoth tumour weighing 15 STONE that sat in woman's stomach for 5 years

  09-05-2016 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT - Kamlesh Devi left her ovarian tumour for years because her late husband feared treatment would be too expensive
  
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• Horrified pilot has near miss with a KITE being flown at 1,000 feet

  09-05-2016 20:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police helicopter was scrambled to Durdham Downs in Bristol where they found a man flying kite four times the height limit
  
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• Osama bin Laden’s son 'urges jihadists to travel to Syria to fight' in chilling new audio message

  09-05-2016 20:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the newly-released audio recording, Hamza bin Laden appears to encourage terrorists across the world to flock to the war-torn nation to fight
  
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• Headteacher pens heartwarming letter to students about to face their SAT tests

  09-05-2016 20:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jennie King from Willesborough Junior School in Ashford, Kent told children aged 10 and 11 that the standardised tests 'do not assess all of what makes each of you special and unique'.
  
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• Woman forced to her knees and blasted in the head with an AK-47 as 'punishment'

  09-05-2016 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The woman, dressed in a blue burka, was dragged before a Taliban court in northern Afghanistan's Khanaqa district before being sentenced to death.
  
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• Teacher who set up cameras in school to film children as they changed is jailed

  09-05-2016 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 45-year-old man set up a video recorder and left it running while girls as young as nine were getting changed at a school in West London.
  
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• Birmingham boy suspended from school because over Peaky Blinders-style haircut 

  09-05-2016 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Joshua Reape has been suspended for one week from Abbey Catholic Primary School in Erdington, Birmingham, for having the same haircut made popular in the Peaky Blinders television series.
  
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• Japanese religious festival where it is deemed a great honour to die claims first victim

  09-05-2016 20:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yukihiro Kusakabe, 41, lost his grip on the tree which was being raised in the grounds of Nagano Prefecture, northern Japan. He was not wearing a safety harness despite new rules.
  
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• Teenage girl sent home from hospital with suspected stomach bug dies days after cervical cancer jab

  09-05-2016 20:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The devastated family of Shazel Zaman, 13, are convinced her death is directly linked to the HPV vaccination she was given at school
  
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• Frenchman caused Gatwick terror alert after removing rifle from luggage hours after Paris attacks

  09-05-2016 19:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former soldier Jerome Chauris, 41, spent six months on remand but was cleared by a jury after unwittingly causing a security alert at the airport
  
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• Students wrongly accused of raping woman at college ball can pursue £221,000 costs

  09-05-2016 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thady Duff, Leo Mahon (pictured) and Patrick Foster, all 22, and James Martin, 20, were arrested after a group sex session at the ball at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester.
  
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• Vladimir Putin issues a warning to the West and Nato over their 'double standards'

  09-05-2016 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Russian president spoke out during an hour-long parade in which huge tanks and rocket launchers were driven through Red Square in Moscow.
  
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• Unseen Cologne sex attacks footage shows screaming woman confronted by crowds of migrant men

  09-05-2016 19:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The chaotic clip shows cops struggle to maintain control as up to 1,000 people mass outside the train station
  
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• The 13 everyday ways YOU could become an accidental law breaker 

  09-05-2016 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The list of common ways you may be inadvertently breaking the law has been compiled after a complaint from actor Tom Conti that leaf-blowers are ruining the peace at his £15m London mansion.
  
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• Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is favourite to win Philippine elections as millions vote 

  09-05-2016 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rodrigo Duterte (pictured), the long-time mayor of the southern city of Davao, has hypnotised millions with his vows of brutal but quick solutions to the nation's twin plagues of crime and poverty.
  
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• Iran 'successfully tested 2,000km-range missiles capable of hitting Israel'

  09-05-2016 19:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Iranian military chiefs hailed the accuracy of the weapon, claiming it can leave the Earth's atmosphere before hitting its target 'without error'.
  
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• MPs given 11th-hour chance to stop social housing being replaced by £450,000 'affordable' homes

  09-05-2016 19:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tory ministers will enter an 11th-hour battle with peers who are trying to block aspects of the government's Starter Homes
  
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• Brazilian football legend Rivaldo urges tourists to STAY AWAY from Rio Olympics

  09-05-2016 19:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ex-Barcelona star spoke out after a 17-year-old girl was shot dead in a robbery on a main road linking the city's airport with many Games venues
  
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• Cologne New Year sex attacks video shows woman screaming 'you mustn't touch me'

  09-05-2016 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New footage of the infamous Cologne New Year sex attacks show how police officers struggled to contain the large crowds as an alleged hundreds of assaults were committed.
  
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• Shocking footage shows thief stealing taxi from under its owner's nose

  09-05-2016 19:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said an investigation has been launched and inquiries are ongoing
  
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• Appeal as man caught on CCTV slashing life-saving boat 'with large blade'

  09-05-2016 19:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dover's Sea Sports club posted footage of the incident online after the vessel was damaged
  
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• Mother and daughter in Bath stood up to neo-Nazi protesters

  09-05-2016 19:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sharon Forbes and her daughter Savannah, challenged a man (shown) who was part of a group apparently making bigoted speeches using a megaphone on Saturday in Bath's city centre.
  
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• Samira Lupidi stabbed her daughters Jasmine, 1, and Evelyn, 3 to death

  09-05-2016 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samira Lupidi, 24, has admitted killing daughters Evelyn, three, and Jasmine, one, at a women's refuge in Bradford and had previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
  
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• Transit of Mercury 2016 RECAP: 'Winged messenger' planet passes in front of the Sun in rare celestial event

  09-05-2016 19:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Relive this celestial wonder in all its glory - without burning your eyes to a crisp
  
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• Woman fakes illness to get out of bad date but it gets worse when the police turn up

  09-05-2016 19:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  She's probably wishing she'd been more honest about not wanting to continue the liaison
  
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• Andrew Mogilyansky who had sex with a Russian orphan 'set up by Vladimir Putin'

  09-05-2016 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  American millionaire Andrew Mogilyansky was jailed for 'sex tourism' with three Russian orphans. Friends made wild claims that he was framed by the Russian leader after criticising him.
  
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