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• Blind pensioner attacked in his own home by callous robber who jumped on top of him

  28-05-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 87-year-old man has been placed under 'medical review' following the shocking incident which took place in the Moston area of Manchester on Friday
  
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• Mice pictured scampering over McDonald's menu screens just feet ABOVE customers being served

  28-05-2016 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Louisa Murray claims that when staff were alerted to unwelcome visitor they continued to let people into the restaurant and serve food
  
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• Brexit will leave NHS and schools 'on their knees', warns Tory Michael Heseltine

  28-05-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former deputy Prime Minister produced figures showing that we would lose 200,000 doctors and nearly 400,000 teachers
  
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• Prince William throws some shapes as he limbers up for charity polo match

  28-05-2016 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The polo-loving prince stretched his legs before taking to the field with his brother Prince Harry at the fund-raiser
  
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• Biker gang filmed terrorising drivers by riding through red lights and racing wrong way around roundabout

  28-05-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video also shows a gang of riders pulling wheelies in the road and riding on the pavement in Shirley, West Midlands
  
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• Your pictures: share your photos on the theme of 'acrobatic'

  28-05-2016 23:30
  
  Wherever you are in the world, we’d like to see your pictures on the theme ‘acrobatic.’ Share your best photos via GuardianWitnessWe’re now running a regular weekly photography assignment in the Observer New Review and the next theme is ‘acrobatic.’ So if it’s a night at the circus, a gymnastics event or a moment of flexibility share your photos of what acrobatic means to you – and tell us about your image in the description box.The closing date is
  
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• Daughter of murdered millionaire Andrew Bush sobs as she reveals ordeal of getting justice

  28-05-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ellie Mason-Bush visited her father's grave as his jealous ex Mayka Kukucova was convicted of killing him
  
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• ISIS use 50,000 civilians as 'human shields' as Iraqi forces blitz Fallujah

  28-05-2016 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Iraq defence ministry claims to have isolated the city but the jihadis are holding the people hostage so they can hide behind them
  
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• Chris Evans admits he might DIE while filming daredevil stunts for Top Gear

  28-05-2016 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The presenter has insisted on doing his own high-speed moves to make the show as exciting as possible and says his life flashed before him twice
  
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• The good, the bad and the ugly of Channel 4's Bafta-winning Grand Designs

  28-05-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Not every project on the hit show has had a happy ending but others have been spectacular successes
  
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• Harry Styles tipped for Hollywood success over his performance in war epic Dunkirk

  28-05-2016 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The One Direction singer has cut short his pop star locks and put on a soldier’s uniform to wade through the mud for Christopher Nolan’s new film
  
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• Legal high dealers setting up websites abroad in bid to dodge UK ban

  28-05-2016 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anyone found making or supplying  psychoactive substances can be jailed for up to seven years from Thursday
  
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• My 20 years of fear living as a gangster ... and the fake wife lined up by my bosses

  28-05-2016 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-cop Joe Carter has lifted the lid on his undercover career which inspired hit BBC show Undercover
  
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• Britain's first pub czar blasted for 'doing nothing' despite earning almost as much as Prime Minister

  28-05-2016 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Newby makes £130,000 a year to implement a code to stop pub chains ripping off tenants, but Government blunders have delayed the measure
  
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• Alton Towers survivor Vicky Balch takes on new challenge as she adjusts to life with bionic leg

  28-05-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It is almost a year since the 20-year-old suffered life-changing injuries in The Smiler accident
  
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• Air rifles being turned into deadly weapons with £35 kits bought over the internet

  28-05-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  “These kits turn toys into killing machines. An urgent crackdown is needed on the sale of these weapons," said a source
  
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• Survivor of killer nurse Beverly Allitt FINALLY given benefits back after 18 months

  28-05-2016 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Government stopped Kayley Asher's payments, stating that the compensation she received meant she was no longer eligible
  
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• Ken Livingstone sacked from LBC radio show after saying Hitler supported Zionism

  28-05-2016 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  LBC’s owner, Global Radio, said the former Mayor of London would not be returning to his Saturday morning slot after his controversial comments last month
  
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• Rolf Harris plans to buy island holiday cottage as hideaway after release from prison

  28-05-2016 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The convicted sex offender is said to be fearful that his money will be taken by the taxman unless he puts it into property
  
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• Flames light up the night sky after massive gas mains explosion shook houses

  28-05-2016 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One man was taken to hospital and another was treated at the scene by paramedics after blaze at Estuary Business Park, Whitstable, Kent
  
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• Meet the man so obsessed with his dog he has HER picture on his mobile ... not his wife's

  28-05-2016 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tracy Busfield has to compete with Great Dane Indie for her husband Alan's affections
  
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• Scandal of the websites fleecing fans with sky-high gig and sport event ticket prices

  28-05-2016 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Online touts are making millions of pounds from tens of thousands of fans being fleeced on a daily basis
  
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• Anti-Islam protest erupts into riot as far right groups fight running battles with anti-fascists

  28-05-2016 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ugly scenes were caught on camera as heated exchanges over Muslim immigration got out of hand
  
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• Muslim convert mum who told terror cops ISIS-fighter husband was 'on holiday' was 'wrongly jailed' - claims father

  28-05-2016 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lorna Moore was jailed for two-and-a-half years after being found guilty of failing to tell security services her husband Sajid Aslam was intending to travel to Syria
  
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• Mum falls for toyboy who looks EXACTLY like her 18-year-old son

  28-05-2016 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Caroline Betteridge couldn't help falling in love with the office geek 20 years her junior
  
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• Illegal immigrants at holding centre locked in row over how spicy their food should be

  28-05-2016 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Caterers at the Gatwick Airport facility have to cook for 60 different nationalities – some of whom find the grub too hot while others want more chilli
  
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• Bank Holiday motorists face being ripped off at the motorway fuel pumps

  28-05-2016 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Government have tried to cut forecourt prices and motorists are being advised to make sure they have enough fuel to complete their journeys
  
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• Stars share their memories of the glorious moment England won the World Cup in 1966

  28-05-2016 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A fascinating archive of celebrities recalling the historic match has been released – including a moving letter from captain Bobby Moore’s widow Tina
  
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• Sex Pistols rocker John Lydon claims BBC banned him after he tried to expose paedophile Jimmy Savile

  28-05-2016 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Sex Pistols star claims he spoke to girls who worked on Top of the Pops who he says told him Savile was 'touchy, feely and creepy'
  
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• David Cameron is on borrowed time - even his backbenchers want him out

  28-05-2016 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Prescott says the Tory Party is tearing itself apart over the EU referendum, and isn't ruling out a snap election
  
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• Tony Blair brands Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister 'a very dangerous experiment'

  28-05-2016 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former PM also said that the centre ground needs to 'work out how to get its mojo back'
  
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• Down's Syndrome testing could be the end of amazing children like my boy Ted

  28-05-2016 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Angie Emrys-Jones, 40, has a nine-year-old son with Down's and fears the new screening could lead to mums making choices they will later regret
  
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• Lemon shortage forces up price of citrus fruit across Britain

  28-05-2016 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Unusually warm springs in Spain and an outbreak of a fungal disease affecting citrus fruits in South Africa have contributed to crop yields falling by more than 35 per cent.
  
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• Enraged husband beats naked man in street after 'catching him having sex with his wife'

  28-05-2016 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footage shows the man without any clothes on cowering in the road as the husband kicks and punches him
  
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• Mum went into hospital to have her baby and woke up five days later with no legs

  28-05-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ella Clarke's routine caesarean section went horribly wrong and doctors had to remove both her legs after blood clotted in them
  
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• Record numbers of prescriptions for anti-depressants handed out by GPs

  28-05-2016 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire has the highest level of prescriptions with more than 7million issued
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto winning numbers for rollover £9.6 million jackpot on Saturday, May 28

  28-05-2016 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Here are the winning numbers which could make you a millionaire tonight
  
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• Nigel Farage's key aide in IRA outrage as he's revealed as hardline Irish Republican

  28-05-2016 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hermann Kelly was pictured sitting among a 10-strong party in the Ketje pub just minutes from the European Parliament while people sang pro-IRA songs
  
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• BMW driver blocks police speed camera after he stops to fill up his windscreen fluid

  28-05-2016 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The driver's boot and bonnet doors were left wide open, accidentally blocking the view of a police camera set-up to catch speeding motorists
  
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• 'Gay sex causes earthquakes' says conservative Muslim cleric who claims 'Allah gets annoyed' by such 'disgusting encounters"

  28-05-2016 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a bizarre rant, Mallam Abass Mahmud  said homosexuals cause devastating tremors whenever they engage in 'sexual encounters'
  
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• Brexit could end Britain's hopes of hosting another World Cup or Olympics

  28-05-2016 20:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alan Johnson is set to warn that Britain would have a black mark against its name when considered as a host of major sporting events
  
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• Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam 'flew into rage' over 24-hour surveillance in his 11 sq m cell

  28-05-2016 20:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Abdeslam - who fled the scene of last November's attacks - is being watched by four supervisors around the clock in his cell in which all furniture is nailed to the floor
  
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• Pensioner airlifted to hospital after being stung on the hand by a weever fish

  28-05-2016 19:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 70-year-old picked up the poisonous fish while on the pier in Trefor on the Lleyn Peninsula in Wales at around 8.25am on Saturday morning
  
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• Princes William and Harry team up for polo

  28-05-2016 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Duke of Cambridge prepared himself for the cut and thrust of the physically demanding sport at Cowarth Park Polo club in Berkshire.
  
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• 123 people rescued 30 miles off Libyan coast by Irish navy

  28-05-2016 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Irish Navy rescued 123 migrants and recovered one body off the Tripoli coast as Pope Francis criticised the response of European nations who stop the migrants from moving north.
  
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• The Duke of Wellington's daughter prepares for her wedding to her Colombian billionaire fiancé

  28-05-2016 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lady Charlotte Wellesley, 25, and New York-based financier Alejandro Santo Domingo, 39, are marrying today in Granada, Spain.
  
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• Ten children struck by lightning in Paris' Parc Monceau

  28-05-2016 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The children, aged between seven and 14, were struck while attending a birthday party in Parc Monceau, just to the north of the city centre, at around 3pm local time.
  
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• Shocking pictures reveal filthy conditions inside Chinese and Indian takeaway restaurants

  28-05-2016 19:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two eateries were fined thousands of pounds after environmental inspectors found filthy conditions and vermin in food preparation areas
  
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• Vladimir Putin warns Poland and Romania could be caught in Russian rockets

  28-05-2016 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Russian president said Moscow would be 'forced to carry out certain measures' against Poland and Romania, at an Athens conference on Friday.
  
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• Thirty-five people including referee injured after lightning strikes football pitch in Germany

  28-05-2016 19:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It comes on the same day as four children were left fighting for life after being struck by lightning at a birthday party in a park in Paris
  
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