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• School bans straight-A 'Student of the Year' from graduating 'because he refused to shave off beard'

  22-05-2016 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Jones had his cap and gown confiscated by staff because he wouldn't remove his goatee
  
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• Britain faces DIY recession of its own making if it votes for Brexit, George Osborne warns

  22-05-2016 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor and David Cameron will urge Brits not to create a 'DIY recession' which could be as severe as the 2008 banking crash by voting to leave the EU in next month's referendum
  
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• Terrifying moment diners are hit as car ploughs into restaurant

  22-05-2016 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Four diners were thrown from their chairs but all of them escaped serious injury
  
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• 'Nato could be at nuclear war within year if Russia invades Baltics' senior general claims

  22-05-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  General Sir Richard Shirreff warns the West need to act now to avoid "potential catastrophe" with President Putin, who he claims "senses weakness"
  
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• ‘Reckless, intimidating and dangerous' scrambler bikers filmed pulling wheelies in front of police

  22-05-2016 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bikers have been slammed by local officials who claim they are bothering residents and putting safety at risk
  
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• British schools forced to hire eastern European teaching assistants to help pupils who don't speak English as a first language

  22-05-2016 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Millions of pounds are being spent by local authorities in a bid to provide support for those families of Polish, Slovakian and Lithuanian origin which have migrated to the UK to work.
  
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• Fears ISIS ‘want to carry out door-to-door massacre in UK countryside sparks new rural anti-terror plan'

  22-05-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Security experts say extremists favour "off the radar" areas – and could also be plotting a Tunisia-style attack on British holiday camps
  
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• Party in-fighting means the Tories are best ignored when it comes to the EU referendum

  22-05-2016 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kevin Maguire believes that the dishonest tactics from both sides of the party means the Tories cannot be trusted when it comes to the EU
  
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• Schoolgirl, 13, sexually assaulted by 16-year-olds who filmed attack and posted video on Facebook

  22-05-2016 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim told a court: 'I feel depressed and have depressing thoughts. I feel life is pointless and I stay in bed a lot'
  
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• Cat survives after being locked in car at airport for 11 days

  22-05-2016 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police said the cat ‘didn’t look well at all’ and was taken by airport staff
  
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• Far right set for historic win in Austrian presidential elections

  22-05-2016 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) is set to become the European Union’s first far-right head of state
  
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• Disturbing bodycam footage shows police high-fiving each other after fatally Tasering handcuffed man

  22-05-2016 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING DISTRESSING FOOTAGE Chase Sherman was "tortured to death" when he was shocked 15 times by officers after hallucinating from drugs, it's claimed
  
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• Yorkshire terrier jumps 30ft off cliff chasing seagull - and survives

  22-05-2016 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The local RNLI were called out and called the plucky mutt's survival as 'a miracle'
  
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• Police union official accused of refusing breath test as she drove home from colleague’s misconduct case

  22-05-2016 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sarah Stevens-Burns, of West Midlands Police Federation, has been charged with failing to supply a preliminary test for a breathalyser
  
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• War in paradise: How Acapulco resort city has been gripped by so much violence between police and gangsters that holidaymakers even take their pistols to the BEACH 

  22-05-2016 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Once a popular tourist destination, the city of Acapulco on Mexico's Pacific Coast has been gripped by such extreme violence that locals are forced to take guns to the beach.
  
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• Meet the miracle three-year-old who 'should not be alive' today due to his mystery illness

  22-05-2016 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Little Milo Browne has a condition which is so rare it has only ever affected eight other people in the world as is known simply as M3BHA
  
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• Teenager beats one-in-a-trillion odds to help someone beat the cancer that struck down his pals

  22-05-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  George Stafford watched as friends Aidan and Harry fought a rare blood cancer within months of each other – then became a marrow donor and found a match
  
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• World's largest cruise ship cost £700m - here's 5 surprises you'll find on board

  22-05-2016 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Royal Caribbean has really pushed the boat out with their huge new cruise ship Harmony of the Seas
  
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• Cyclist left lying 'motionless' in the road for an HOUR after dramatic bike crash during Velothon race

  22-05-2016 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Spectators heard a loud bang as the pair crashed leaving one of the cyclists unconscious
  
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• The Queen does NOT need knee replacement surgery, insist Palace insiders

  22-05-2016 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Last week the Queen avoided the 26 steps to the Palace of Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament and instead used a lift
  
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• This is how long we spend on Facebook – and the figure might shock you

  22-05-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brits spend an entire day each week flicking through the net has experts warn: “We have a fear of logging off and missing out with what’s going on”
  
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• 'Angel of Woolwich' who confronted Lee Rigby's killers 'regrets bravery' claiming heroics ruined her life

  22-05-2016 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ingrid Loyau-Kennett says she has been left jobless and suffers from PTSD after stepping in to stop crazed murderers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale
  
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• Austria's Norbert Hofer neck-and-neck with Alexander can der Bellen in election poll

  22-05-2016 21:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With initial polls counted, the race remains too close to call with Norbert Hofer facing a wait to find out if he will be the first elected Far-Right leader of Europe since the Second World War.
  
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• How vile paedophile Fred West fooled the prison service and cheated justice

  22-05-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Secrets prison records reveal how the sick child killer smuggled in materials he later used to commit suicide
  
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• Campaigners call for tougher measures to clamp down on nuisance calls

  22-05-2016 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A report found the calls make up 40% of all traffic over phone lines, with one in 10 receiving more than 60 cold calls per MONTH
  
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• Britain's Got Talent drag queen flees India after 'military police threaten jail over "indecent" show'

  22-05-2016 20:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum-of-two Andrea Smith was scared enough to come home after performing wearing only knickers and nipple covers
  
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• Scotland Yard urged to launch inquiry into allegations of election 'fraud' by Conservative party

  22-05-2016 20:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The SNP wrote to the Met Police demanding an investigation into whether the Tories broke strict rules over how much cash can be spent during the 2015 general election
  
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• Natalie Hemming murder: Woman's body found in hunt for missing mum

  22-05-2016 20:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The body was found in woodlands by a member of the public this morning and while the woman is yet to be formally identified police have informed Natalie's family
  
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• Nottingham mother feels her daughter's donated lungs breathing in body of another woman

  22-05-2016 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jane Moffat, 55, from Edinburgh, tragically lost her daughter Rhona, who died from a brain haemorrhage in 2014 but her lungs saved the life of mother-of-two Lisa Shrive, 47, from Nottingham.
  
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• Isle of Wight walkers' lucky escape after 4k TONS of rock from collapsed cliff misses them

  22-05-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The dramatic cliff fall at Culver Down on the Isle of Wight this morning sparked a frantic search for the walkers who had been spotted on the beach moments beforehand.
  
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• EgyptAir MS804 jet search deploys submarine capable of diving 10k ft

  22-05-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The news came as heartbroken men, women and children were photographed at a service in Cairo today praying and paying tribute to the 66 people killed on board the doomed EgyptAir flight.
  
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• Fearsome vampire fish take over UK rivers with record numbers of the metre-long monsters

  22-05-2016 19:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Numbers of lampreys, blood-suckers with rows of razor-sharp teeth, have soared after conservation efforts to restore the quality of Britain’s waters
  
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• Portsmouth lorry detained as suspected illegal immigrants ride in back

  22-05-2016 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group of 28 suspected illegal immigrants were detained after being found in a refrigerated lorry in Portsmouth, Hampshire. The driver was arrested on suspicion of people trafficking.
  
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• Essex woman priest Sandra Sykes launches range of tailored clothes for female clergy

  22-05-2016 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tired of squeezing her curves into a poorly fitted black shirt, reverend Sandra Sykes, alongside a friend with a background in retail, decided to create 'clergy couture'.
  
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• Boxing champion takes out injunction to prevent him being named in hotel sex with prostitute

  22-05-2016 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The legal ruling is the latest attempt to shackle press freedom in England and Wales following similar moves in recent weeks by two different married celebrities over their sordid liaisons.
  
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• Video of spectacular moment 25-storey block of Glasgow flats are demolished

  22-05-2016 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dramatic footage capturedthe 25-storey block of flats in Rosytonhill tumbling to the ground in a plume of grey smoke as a controlled explosion ended its 48-year legacy.
  
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• Penny Mordaunt claims EU will expose Britain to terrorists and gangsters when Turkey join

  22-05-2016 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Penny Mordaunt (pictured) said thousands of criminals could flood to the UK when Turkey, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia join the EU but David Cameron hit back, saying she was 'wrong'.
  
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• Brexit would jeopardise of 30k cancer patients and mental health services warns NHS boss

  22-05-2016 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Simon Stevens (pictured) said a Brexit vote would be 'very dangerous' for the NHS because it would send the economy into a 'tailspin', which would subsequently starve the NHS of essential funding.
  
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• John le Carre attacks council officials and developers as 'enemies of the countryside'

  22-05-2016 19:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Night Manager author (pictured), 84, who has lived in Cornwall for more than four decades, warns that ‘the enemy is everywhere’, threatening the future of British greenery.
  
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• Is Europe about to elect its first Far-Right leader since the Second World War? Early projections place gun-toting Norbert Hofer on track to claim Austrian presidency

  22-05-2016 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With initial polls counted, the race remains too close to call with Norbert Hofer facing a wait to find out if he will be the first elected Far-Right leader of Europe since the Second World War.
  
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• Muirfield golf club in anti-Semitism row as Lord Grade claims he was banned for being JEWISH

  22-05-2016 19:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The East Lothian course has been removed from the Open rota after a vote against admitting women members last week and now Lord Grade claims he was not allowed to play due to his religion.
  
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• EgyptAir crash victim who died aged just 4 months next to her 2-year-old brother

  22-05-2016 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Smiling into the face of her father and wrapped up warmly in a pink baby-grow is Joumana – the youngest victim of the Egyptair crash - just days before her young life was cruelly snatched away.
  
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• EgyptAir 804 pilot 'tried to bring down plane as cockpit filled with smoke'

  22-05-2016 19:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Captain Mohamed Said Ali Shoukair reportedly spoke with air traffic control "for minutes" as he battled to bring the stricken plane under control
  
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• Five-year-old girl’s heart stops beating as horror fall from second floor window leaves her seriously injured

  22-05-2016 19:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police have launched a probe after the youngster fell from a building in south London
  
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• Woman sues Government after she was denied bereavement damages when partner died - because they weren't married

  22-05-2016 19:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  NHS worker launches landmark legal challenge after discovering she wasn't entitled to a £12,980 payout over the negligent death of partner
  
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• Weybridge murder: Woman killed at exclusive £2m home 'moved in with husband week before death'

  22-05-2016 19:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The couple have been named locally as 38-year-old care proprietor Sonita Nijhawan and her investment banker husband Sanjay
  
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• Weybridge murder: Couple moved into £2 million home on exclusive estate 'week before woman was stabbed to death'

  22-05-2016 19:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The couple have been named locally as 38-year-old care proprietor Sonita Nijhawan and her investment banker husband Sanjay
  
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• Slough rail commuter Rajveer Sandhu ‘slapped and racially abused security guard' over ticket

  22-05-2016 18:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rajveer Sandhu (pictured) persistently ignored requests from a conductor and security guard to show her ticket as she made her way home off a train at Slough railway station.
  
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• Barack Obama gave approval for air strike that 'killed Taliban chief' in Pakistan

  22-05-2016 18:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mullah Akhtar Mansour is thought to have died in the attack after the US ruled the terror group was a growing threat to its security
  
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• Swiss great-grandmother told she cannot marry 21-year-old Tunisian fiance who she met online

  22-05-2016 18:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The great-grandmother, from Switzerland, told the court she loved her Tunisian boyfriend, claiming they shared interests in 'rap music and country walks'.
  
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