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• David Cameron says Brits aren't quitters as he talks up Remain campaign in "waffling" TV speech

  02-06-2016 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister slammed the Leave campaign, claiming Brexit would leave Britain with its “nose pressed to Europe’s window”
  
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• easyJet passenger bursts into tears and becomes 'hysterical' after plane diverts when 'wheels get jammed' mid-air

  02-06-2016 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The passenger plane was on its way from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to Faro, Portugal, but began dumping fuel just minutes into the journey
  
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• First picture of dad who left missing son, 7, in bear infested woods as punishment

  02-06-2016 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The desperate hunt for Yamato Tanooka has now entered its fifth day as concerns grow for the boy's wellbeing
  
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• Euro 2016 fans face travel chaos after Ryanair cancels 75 flights

  02-06-2016 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The disruption for flights due to operate in French air space is set to continue with further walk-outs planned on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
  
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• Foxes blamed for motorists’ severed brake cables

  02-06-2016 23:41
  
  Kent police warn drivers in Tunbridge Wells to check brakes before travelling after six incidents since blamed on fox cubs chewing through cables
  Drivers in Tunbridge Wells have been left outraged after hungry foxes apparently chewed through the brake cables of several cars. Kent police have now warned drivers to check their brakes before setting off on journeys.Officers called on wildlife expert John Bryant to determine whether there was an explanation other than deliberate damage to six vehicl
  
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• BHS staff and shoppers devastated as news of firm’s closure announced in store

  02-06-2016 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the news broke in the chain’s flagship Oxford Street store, employees huddled in groups trying to work out what the future held for them
  
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• Turkey warns Germany it has made 'an historic mistake' over Armenian Genocide

  02-06-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the resolution 'will seriously affect relations' between Berlin and Turkey as Ankara recalled it envoy to Germany for talks.
  
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• Facebook down for some users as people struggle to sign in and turn to Twitter for help

  02-06-2016 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  People across the globe reported problems and turned to other social networks to search for the problem
  
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• Fifa: no action taken yet against president Gianni Infantino

  02-06-2016 23:36
  
  • Allegations centred on recordings of Fifa Mexico City meeting
  • German newspaper claims Infantino faces 90-day suspensionFifa has said formal proceedings are yet to be taken against Gianni Infantino despite reports in a German newspaper that the president is facing a 90-day suspension.According to Die Welt, Fifa is investigating claims that Infantino, elected the president of world football’s governing body only in February, acted to destroy recordings of a Fifa council meeting
  
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• RAF Reaper drone destroys ISIS supply truck with Hellfire missile as allied forces pound the jihadi war machine

  02-06-2016 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The strike, which was filmed as British forces join other nations in battling ISIS jihadis in Syria and Iraq
  
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• BHS to be axed after failure of final efforts to save the department store chain

  02-06-2016 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  11,000 staff now face losing their jobs as administrators revealed plans to close all 163 shops over the coming weeks
  
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• John McEnroe says Andy Murray has ‘best shot’ of winning French Open title

  02-06-2016 23:30
  
  • World No2 prepares to face champion Stan Wawrinka in semi-finals
  • McEnroe adds he can see Novak Djokovic being record grand slam winnerJohn McEnroe is adamant that Andy Murray has “his best shot ever” to win the French Open. Even allowing for the American’s penchant for theatricality, that is an encouraging endorsement on the eve of Murray’s semi-final against the defending champion, Stan Wawrinka, on Friday.He will find that match tough enough, let alone the
  
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• Lionel Messi tells tax fraud trial: I didn’t know anything

  02-06-2016 23:26
  
  Barcelona and Argentina footballer appears in court charged with a fraud involving image rights and earningsHe is best known for poetry on the pitch, but when footballer Lionel Messi appeared in court accused of multimillion-euro tax fraud, his performance was decidedly more prosaic. The Barcelona and Argentina forward denied any knowledge of the tax issues that led to the charges against him, saying that he signed documents without reading them because he trusted his father and the advisers res
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn urges Labour voters to snub Brexit as he slams Tories over "prophecies of doom"

  02-06-2016 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader branded the Remain campaign's project fear “histrionic debate” as he laid into David Cameron and George Osborne's tactics
  
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• EU referendum: our writers on David Cameron's TV questioning

  02-06-2016 23:25
  
  The prime minister faced questions from Sky News political editor Faisal Islam and a studio audience. Our columnists assess his performance Continue reading...
  
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• David Cameron has caught the awkward Tory 'wide standing' bug

  02-06-2016 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It appears the Prime Minister has caught the dreadful disease. Symptoms include forgetting how legs work
  
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• Inside incredible life of world's youngest billionaire at just NINETEEN years-old

  02-06-2016 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alexandra Andresen shot into Forbes 2016 Billionaires list after inheriting 42% of her family business
  
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• Builders say uncertainty over EU referendum is behind drop in new business

  02-06-2016 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Construction firms saw the amount of work coming their way go into reverse last month and growth in output has slowed to a three-year low
  
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• British war hero abandons Mount Everest ascent 500m from top to save fellow climber's life

  02-06-2016 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-soldier Leslie Binns, 42, said he felt “immensely proud” after he turned back to help Sunita Hazra
  
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• US Navy Blue Angels crash: One dead after jet 'explodes into fireball' in Tennessee

  02-06-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The crash involving a F/A-18 Hornet happened at around 3pm local time in Tennessee
  
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• Euro 2016 England vs Wales fans warned they will only be served WATER

  02-06-2016 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In addition to a police-enforced 24-hour alcohol ban, several landlords in Lens, France, have said they will only serve Brits pints of water - and they must ask in French - during England vs. Wales.
  
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• UK should stop 'sitting back' in EU, says Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  02-06-2016 23:00
  
  Dutch finance minister and Eurogroup president wants UK to play a stronger role if Brexit is rejected on 23 JuneOne of the eurozone’s most senior figures has called on Britain to lead in Europe and go beyond defending the interests of the City of London.
  Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister and president of the Eurogroup, wants the UK to play a stronger role to make the European Union a success if Britain votes to stay in the 23 June referendum.Continue reading...
  
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• Peaky Blinders recap: series three, episode five – of course there was a candle-lit orgy

  02-06-2016 23:00
  
  An orgy between enemies – complete with copious vodka and Cossack soldiers – is probably the one thing that’s been missing from this seriesThis blog is for episode five of Peaky Blinders. Can those who have seen the entire series on Netflix please refrain from discussing the finale until it airs in the UK next week.
  Welcome back Tommy Shelby. After four weeks of being off his game, we saw him return to peak scheming as it transpired that he’d spent his three-month recuper
  
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• Listen to boy, 6, calling police to tell on his dad for running a red light

  02-06-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robbie Richardson warned his dad Michael he had broken the law and was going to phone 911 to report him
  
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• England holding fire on final selection for first Test in Australia

  02-06-2016 23:00
  
  • Eddie Jones waits on fitness of Saracens and Exeter players
  • Premiership will have taken mental and physical toll, says coachEddie Jones knows his team for next week’s first Test against Australia in Brisbane, but wants to check on the Saracens and Exeter players who took part in the Premiership final last week before making a definitive decision.England arrived in Australia with media coverage more intense than normal because of the presence of Jones, who coached the Wallabie
  
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• Mum-of-five flaunts incredible abs to prove you can get dream body after pregnancy

  02-06-2016 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Simone Gately and her husband encourage their children to keep fit by walking long distances from an early age
  
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• David Cameron on EU referendum: let's not roll the dice on our children's future

  02-06-2016 22:54
  
  Prime minister says voting for Brexit would be an act of economic ‘self-harm’ during grilling on live televisionDavid Cameron has issued a direct appeal to the British public not to commit an act of “economic self-harm” by voting to leave the European Union in an attempt to cut immigration into the UK. In a live television appearance on Sky News, Cameron said leaving the EU would be a “roll of the dice” on the future of “our children and grandchildren&rd
  
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• Chris Smalling swoops to give limp England victory over 10-man Portugal

  02-06-2016 22:54
  
  As sendoffs go, it is probably fair to say Roy Hodgson hoped for better in England’s final match before Euro 2016 than seeing his team look so leaden, the crowd so bored they resorted to making their own entertainment and a tetchy press conference when the questions centred around whether his team were heading into another tournament without any clarity about their best way of playing.England had looked devoid of spark or spontaneity until the point, late on, when Chris Smalling spared the
  
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• Prince Harry scolded by D-Day veteran for dressing too casually to meet war heroes

  02-06-2016 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former Army captain Harry, 31, got a telling off from wheelchair-bound 91-year-old Ivor Anderson
  
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• Paul Ryan endorses Donald Trump, ending will-they-won't-they soap opera

  02-06-2016 22:47
  
  House speaker announces formal support for presumptive Republican nominee after weeks of coy refusal, saying threat of Clinton White House trumps disunityPaul Ryan, after weeks of declining to endorse Donald Trump, has finally offered his formal support for the presumptive Republican nominee.Ryan, the highest-ranking Republican in the nation, took the unprecedented step last month of refusing to back the candidate after the businessman all but secured the party’s presidential nomination. A
  
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• Anguished father who left his son, seven, in Japanese forest as punishment for behaving badly as search enters FIFTH day with no reported sightings of the boy 

  02-06-2016 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yamato Tanooka has been missing since Saturday, when his parents made him get out of the car for misbehaving and left him in mountains on the island of Hokkaido, northern Japan.
  
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• Ben Affleck's Batman film will be 'original story' independent of comics

  02-06-2016 22:40
  
  The current Dark Knight reveals his own project will ‘borrow certain things from the great comic books’ but will ultimately set its own course Related: Ben Affleck confirmed to direct and star in solo Batman movie Ben Affleck has revealed that his upcoming Batman film will probably tell a completely “original story”, and not be based on an existing comic.Continue reading...
  
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• Slapped down: David Cameron faces hostility in TV interrogation

  02-06-2016 22:39
  
  ‘You’ve basically failed at almost everything,’ prime minister told by Sky News political editor Despite the heavy coating of slap, Dave looked knackered. And that was before his grilling had even started. It was that feeling of deja vu. Last year’s TV general election TV debates were meant to have been his last. Come 2020, he would be putting his feet up while someone else took the hit. But now here he was, barely a year later, back in front of a hostile interviewer and
  
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• Hillary Clinton: Trump is too dangerous and unstable to have the nuclear codes

  02-06-2016 22:37
  
  Democratic frontrunner attacks Trump’s ‘personal feuds and outright lies’ in blistering speech that questions GOP candidate’s suitability for the White House Hillary Clinton has lacerated Donald Trump’s fitness to lead the United States in a tour-de-force assault on his record and temperament, branding him too dangerous and unstable to be entrusted with nuclear codes and warning of economic crisis if he were to reach the White House.The Democratic frontrunner and fo
  
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• Briton abandons Everest ascent to save fellow climber

  02-06-2016 22:25
  
  Former soldier Leslie Binns turned around less than 500 metres from summit to help save Indian mountaineer Sunita HazraA British climber gave up the chance to reach the top of Mount Everest less than 500 metres from the summit to save the life of a fellow mountaineer.Leslie Binns, who served in the British army for 13 years, turned around to save Indian climber Sunita Hazra in the early hours of 21 May. He was about 12 hours from the summit of the world’s highest mountain when he came acro
  
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• Bodies of migrants who died when boats sank wash ashore in Libya

  02-06-2016 22:23
  
  At least 85 bodies found on beaches in Libya a week after hundreds of migrants drowned trying to cross the MediterraneanThe bodies of at least 85 migrants who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean were found washed up on beaches in western Libya near the city of Zuwara on Thursday, a Red Crescent official said.Hundreds of migrants died in boat accidents last week as departures from the North African coast towards Italy surged. Many of the boats are believed to have left from the shore around
  
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• Largest-ever haul of weapons seized in Britain 'could have brought Paris-style carnage to our streets' 

  02-06-2016 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mastermind Harry Shilling, 26, (pictured) from Swanley, Kent, and his accomplices smuggled 31 automatic rifles and sub-machine guns into Britain in a specially-adapted boat last August.
  
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• Flooding in Germany and France continues as Paris closes the Louvre after the Seine bursts

  02-06-2016 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  French authorities said areas along the River Loing, a tributary of the Seine, had seen waters rise to levels unseen since 1910, when a massive flood swamped Paris.
  
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• The wounded elephant who was saved after pleading humans for help: Animal approached safari lodge after it was shot by poachers

  02-06-2016 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bull elephant, named Ben, surprised guests when he approached the Bumi Hills Safari Lodge in Zimbabwe.
  
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• Is the answer to the migration crisis a man-made ISLAND in the Mediterranean?

  02-06-2016 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Europe in Africa (EIA),built above the seabed between Tunisia and Italy, would have its own constitution, economic and social system, complete with a university, a football stadium and airport.
  
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• Steve Bell on John Major and George HW Bush's relationship – cartoon

  02-06-2016 21:46
  
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• Police officers 'seized a £200,000 Lamborghini and took it on a joyride'

  02-06-2016 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Erwyn Mackee says his Huracan was confiscated near London's Heathrow Airport after he was wrongly accused of not having insurance
  
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• 'Superhead' banned from teaching over IT contracts scandal

  02-06-2016 21:31
  
  DfE overrules recommendation that Greg Wallace should avoid ban because of his ‘inspirational example’ as an educatorA London “superhead” and Department for Education adviser praised by Michael Gove has been banned from teaching after a disciplinary panel upheld allegations of financial mismanagement and conflicts of interest involving £1m worth of IT contracts.Greg Wallace, the former executive headteacher of the Best Start Federation of schools in Hackney, was bar
  
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• Factory Records' Alan Wise dead 'of a broken heart' months after the death of daughter

  02-06-2016 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alan Wise, 63, had spent 18 months battling to get counselling for his daughter Natasha, who died in March after falling from a bridge near their home in Whalley Range, Manchester.
  
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• Chilean ex-lieutenant faces US trial in murder of singer and activist Víctor Jara

  02-06-2016 21:24
  
  US has not acted on Chile’s extradition request but human rights group has brought a civil suit against Pedro Pablo Barrientos Núñez, who lives in FloridaA former lieutenant in the Chilean army under Augusto Pinochet will face a civil trial in Florida this month for his involvement in the 1973 murder of Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, according to the US human rights group bringing the suit. Jara, also a poet and political activist, inspired generations of artists fro
  
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• Tests confirm Prince died of opioid overdose, medical examiner says

  02-06-2016 21:20
  
  Pop star was found dead on 21 April at Minneapolis-area estate
  Powerful opioid fentanyl found to be the drug responsibleCarver County sheriff’s office continues its investigationTests have shown that Prince died of an opioid overdose, the Midwest medical examiner’s office confirmed on Thursday.Related: Prince's final days: few clues pointed to secret behind star's untimely deathContinue reading...
  
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• Paedophile John Long jailed for sexually abusing babies and children is FREED

  02-06-2016 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Long, 20, from Maghull, Liverpool, had 5,000 indecent images on his computer - including one of him abusing a baby boy in a pram - but was set free after a judge reviewed his sentence
  
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• Police searching for people smugglers in Channel sold a specialist boat for just £80,000

  02-06-2016 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new owner is now selling the Princess Alexandra III £250,000 and has offered to sell it back to Kent Police as it emerged that just three Border Force boats patrol 7,700 miles of coastline.
  
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• Syria refugees kept behind fences amid Jordan security fears

  02-06-2016 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These images taken just 18 months apart shows how the Rukban refugee camp on the Syrian-Jordanian border has grown from a handful of tents in 2014, to a full-on shanty town in 2016.
  
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• We should look beyond economics and open our eyes to beauty | Fiona Reynolds

  02-06-2016 21:05
  
  We seem to have forgotten that the human spirit is not satisfied by material progress alone. It’s time for us to reconnect with natureBeauty. It’s a word we all use to describe our delight in the world around us: a landscape we love; a butterfly’s wings translucent in the sunshine; or a wondrous piece of architecture. We all love beauty; we have only to watch the numbers glued to TV’s Countryfile and Springwatch, and the way we head for the beach and the countryside as so
  
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