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• Every living prime minister backs Remain as Brown, Blair, Cameron and Major all vote for EU

  22-06-2016 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour's Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, and Conservatives David Cameron and Sir John Major have all backed Remain
  
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• Roy Hodgson misses scouting chance but England face familiar packed defence

  22-06-2016 23:51
  
  England manager chose to go sightseeing in Paris rather than watch Iceland as his players take on largely unknown opponents at Euro 2016The strange thing, perhaps, is that Roy Hodgson spent the day in Paris but chose not to make a personal check on the team that will be trying to inflict ignominy upon England in Nice next Monday. Hodgson had caught the train from Chantilly into Gare de Nord and, according to the Football Association, went sightseeing with his assistant, Ray Lewington. Yet the En
  
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• 66 million dead trees in California could fuel 'catastrophic' wildfires, officials say

  22-06-2016 23:50
  
  Trees are dying at an ‘unprecedented’ rate due to drought, warmer weather and a bark beetle epidemic, prompting the US agriculture secretary’s warning
  The number of trees in California’s Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears that they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people’s lives, officials said on Wednesday. Related: Wildfires raging near LA ar
  
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• Gary Cahill confident England can make their mark on ‘wide open’ tournament

  22-06-2016 23:45
  
  • Defender says England’s only problem has been failure to take chances
  • Cahill says team will benefit from seven-day break before Iceland gameEngland’s players refuse to be daunted by life in the bottom half of the draw for the knockout stages at the European Championship, with the vice-captain Gary Cahill insisting that no team have stamped their authority on a tournament that remains “wide open”.The goalless draw against Slovakia in Saint-Étienne mean
  
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• Why the Mirror believes that the UK remaining within EU guarantees a better future

  22-06-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Voice of the Mirror says voting Leave would be our children, grandchildren and all the generations to come who would pay the highest, heaviest price for our mistake
  
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• Ban Ki-moon meets Saudi Arabia prince to discuss report on children

  22-06-2016 23:41
  
  The two met in New York on Wednesday to discuss improving civilian protection in Yemen after a UN report blacklisted a Saudi-led coalition for killing childrenThe United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has met Saudi Arabia’s powerful deputy crown prince to discuss improving civilian protection in Yemen after a UN report briefly blacklisted a Saudi-led coalition for killing children. Ban removed the coalition from the blacklist earlier this month pending review after Riyadh, a major
  
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• Notorious gangster Domenyk Noonan writes to former pal from prison demanding £4,700 for 'lost clothing'

  22-06-2016 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Domenyk Noonan penned a note to his former friend demanding the cash 'for the loss of my personal property'
  
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• Drug smuggler Melissa Reid arrives back in UK

  22-06-2016 23:37
  
  The 22-year-old Scot has arrived back on home soil after spending nearly three years in jail in PeruDrug smuggler Melissa Reid has arrived back on home soil after spending nearly three years in jail in Peru.The 22-year-old Scot arrived at Glasgow airport at 9.44pm on Wednesday after completing the last leg of her journey to the UK from Lima. Continue reading...
  
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• Gordon Brown: We've taken Europe from fascism to freedom - don't throw throw away what took decades to build

  22-06-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Labour prime minster says Britain should be leading in Europe, not leaving it
  
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• England fears for Raheem Sterling after mounting criticism in France

  22-06-2016 23:33
  
  • Winger has taken abuse in stadiums and on social media
  • Player not expected to start England’s last-16 tie in NiceConcerns have been raised among the England management staff over Raheem Sterling’s state of mind after the Manchester City winger’s confidence was apparently dented by criticism of his form from the stands and on social media.Sterling, who endured a difficult first campaign at the Etihad Stadium after joining from Liverpool for £49m last summer,
  
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• Peru drugs mule Melissa Reid lands back in Britain after three years in jail for smuggling cocaine

  22-06-2016 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 22-year-old from Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, landed in Glasgow at 9.50pm – a free woman after spending three years behind bars in Lima
  
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• When can I watch the EU Referendum coverage on TV and online?

  22-06-2016 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  All the main TV stations are covering the EU Referendum- here's how you can watch
  
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• Hallgrimsson: ‘Iceland are not afraid. We know all there is about English football’

  22-06-2016 23:11
  
  • Iceland manager believes his players are ready to produce more shocks
  • Dramatic win over Austria takes underdogs to last-16 tie against EnglandA delighted Heimir Hallgrimsson warned England that Iceland are not afraid of facing them in the last 16 of Euro 2016 on Monday after his side’s rollercoaster 2-1 victory over Austria at Stade de France.Hallgrimsson said Iceland may have to move their national holiday from 17 June to the date of this win given the importance to his nati
  
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• Kate Middleton dazzles in Jenny Packham gown as William cracks joke that wife's cooking 'makes him skinny'

  22-06-2016 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge told staff William has to "put up" with her cooking most of the time
  
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• Horrifying moment mum with pram takes shortcut across busy dual carriageway as cars speed by

  22-06-2016 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Unbelievable dashcam footage captures mother attempting to cross a city centre stretch - squeezing past crash barriers to get to the other side of the road
  
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• Robbie Brady’s header earns Ireland win over Italy and last-16 spot

  22-06-2016 23:03
  
  It was an occasion that called for quality, cohesion and courage, and the Republic of Ireland were not found wanting. It was also one that demanded a decisive moment in front of goal, something to spark a result for the ages and, to the unconfined joy of those in green, Robbie Brady provided it.The stadium clock showed 85 minutes in a match that Ireland had to win to progress into the last 16 of Euro 2016 and, at that point, it looked as if Martin O’Neill would get the performance he wante
  
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• Terrifying footage shows drink-driving CRIMINOLOGY student hit 123mph during high speed motorway police chase

  22-06-2016 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ravi Semic, 20, was uninsured as he sped along the M6 motorway near Birmingham in February
  
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• Demand for abortions soars in countries hit by Zika outbreak, study finds

  22-06-2016 23:00
  
  Women in Latin America, where abortion is often illegal, are seeking online help in unprecedented numbers in response to the virus linked to birth defectsDemand for abortions has soared among women living in countries hit by the spread of the Zika virus who fear having a baby with severe birth defects, new data shows.
  In unprecedented numbers, women in Latin America are accessing the website Women on Web, which has a long history of helping those in countries where abortion is illegal to obtain
  
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• Eastenders and Coronation Street stars reveal who they're backing in EU referendum

  22-06-2016 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the country gets set to go to the polls, Ross Kemp and Julie Hesmondhalgh reveal who they will vote for and explain their reasons
  
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• Screaming woman attacked by gang of rampaging youths in shocking footage from Paris despite Euro 2016 security clampdown

  22-06-2016 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman could be heard screaming as she was battered to the ground just yards from some of France's most popular tourist attractions
  
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• David Bailey prints of The Beatles and Mick Jagger go for sale

  22-06-2016 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Photographer David Bailey's iconic 'Box of Pin Ups', that memorialised the celebrity culture of the Swinging Sixties, is expected to fetch up to £3,000 when it goes under the hammer in Newbury.
  
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• Exorcist banishes demonic possession from screaming, vomiting, woman in shocking full footage of 'beast' being 'expelled'

  22-06-2016 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Diana - suffering from being attacked by hexes or curses - is cured of the 'beast' within by Addy, a psychic and clairvoyant
  
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• Brits hit as striking air traffic controllers cause flight cancelations

  22-06-2016 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British Airways, easyJet, Monarch and Ryanair are among the major airlines cancelling dozens of routes to and from France tomorrow as air traffic controllers strike across the country.
  
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• Tamils stranded in Indonesia face 'probable torture' if returned to Sri Lanka

  22-06-2016 22:24
  
  Asylum seekers among the group of 44 who arrived in Aceh by boat were tortured in Sri Lanka and face persecution if returned, a compatriot says Several of the Tamil asylum seekers stranded after arriving by boat on the Indonesian island of Aceh have been tortured in Sri Lanka and face certain persecution if they are returned, a compatriot living in Australia has claimed.Karikalan, who has agreed only to be identified by a nickname, came to Australia as an asylum seeker by boat in 2010. He was re
  
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• Raging viking enthusiast headbutts student who 'smirked' when accused of stealing reenactment battle axe

  22-06-2016 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aiden Devlin, 21, lost his temper after the weapon, belonging to his university's Viking society, went missing from the college armoury
  
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• Bosses of online investment firm arrested amid web 'grand fraud' probe

  22-06-2016 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bonofa was billed as a new web platform that would conquer the world but investors have been left feeling "stupid and cheated"
  
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• EU Referendum: The view of foreign correspondents across Europe

  22-06-2016 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The whole of Europe is waiting with bated breath for the result. Here, three foreign correspondents reveal why ...
  
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• Texan woman speaks like Mary Poppins after operation to fix her overbite

  22-06-2016 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When Lisa Alamia woke from her anaesthetic she found her native drawl had been replaced with the cut-glass tones of Julie Andrews
  
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• House Democrats stage sit-in protest to demand vote on gun control

  22-06-2016 22:05
  
  Civil rights leader John Lewis, 76, says: ‘We have been too quiet for too long’Speaker suspends session as Obama and Clinton signal their supportDozens of Democrats are staging an extraordinary sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives to demand a vote on gun control measures that they insist will save lives.The occupation is being led by veteran congressman John Lewis, who half a century ago took part in sit-ins and acts of disobedience during the struggle for civil rights
  
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• World remembers Jo Cox, who fought against politics of division, with moving birthday tributes

  22-06-2016 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the life of the MP as her husband Brendan descreibed her fears for a divided Europe
  
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• If we vote Leave: Economic chaos and years of arguing over terms of exit

  22-06-2016 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror Online looks at the ramifications of Remain and Leave - what will it mean for Cameron, the Tories, Labour, Immigration and the stock market?
  
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• Inside Michael Jackson's sick porn collection after home is raided: Shocking moment 'naked pictures, chilling dolls and more discovered'

  22-06-2016 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A previously unseen police report claimed the star had a huge collection of images showing porn, animal torture and S&M sex
  
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• Ellie Butler had begged not to be sent back to her parents, says aunt

  22-06-2016 21:42
  
  Social workers speeded up the return of the murdered six-year-old to her parents after finding out that she did not want to move back in with them, emails showEllie Butler, the six-year-old who was beaten to death by her father, had begged social workers not to force her to move home and live with him a few months before her death, according to her aunt.Emails from Julie Gray to the court-appointed social workers reveal Ellie had said she wanted to stay living with her grandparents “for on
  
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• Nazi propagandists v Avengers Assemble, with Gordon Brown as Hulk

  22-06-2016 21:39
  
  After eight weeks of Faragese and cross-party crack teams, campaigners made their final speeches with the PM being outclassed by his former enemyAt the end of the perennially horrifying movie Deliverance, one of the survivors turns to another and says shakily: “I don’t think I’ll see you for a while.” There is no such option for the British public, who have endured – at the hands of both referendum campaigns – eight weeks of what we’ll have to euphemise
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto winning numbers for £5.9 million rollover jackpot on Wednesday, June 22

  22-06-2016 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The winning numbers are now in for tonight's rollover Lotto draw
  
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• Hillary Clinton lays out major jobs plan for first 100 days in office – campaign live

  22-06-2016 21:37
  
  Marco Rubio to seek re-election to Florida Senate seatHillary Clinton to speak about the economy in North CarolinaCash woes to digital #fails, Trump campaign is ‘worst of all possible worlds’ 8.37pm BSTBrent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Republican presidents Ford and HW Bush, has endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton:So much for Trump as the candidate of foreign policy realists https://t.co/kV5el7h0bTBrent Scowcroft endorses Hillary Clinton pic.twitter.co
  
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• If we vote Remain: Will soaring shares and new investment be enough to save David Cameron?

  22-06-2016 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror Online looks at the ramifications of Remain and Leave - what will it mean for Cameron, the Tories, Labour, Immigration and the stock market?
  
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• Video shows woman fall in front of train at Lincoln High Street level crossing

  22-06-2016 21:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CCTV footage shows her and dozens of others run across the road in Lincoln, despite the warning light flashing at the infamous crossing, then falling on the floor as they train comes towards her.
  
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• My wife dumped me and our five children ... for a teenage girl lodger

  22-06-2016 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When Wayne Gardiner took in a homeless 17-year-old girl, he never thought his act of kindness would be biggest mistake of his life
  
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• David Cameron and Boris Johnson: the friends who fell out | Michael Cockerell

  22-06-2016 21:25
  
  Eton, Oxford, the race for the premiership, the EU referendum – but what next for these two men whose lives have been intertwined for 40 years?David Cameron wishes he had Boris Johnson’s charisma and desperately wanted Bojo on his side in the referendum campaign. Had that happened, Thursday’s vote might have been rather different. But Johnson refused to commit himself until Cameron called the referendum in late February.When the prime minister returned from Brussels claiming vi
  
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• Brexit campaigner films himself 'illegally' crossing the Channel to reveal how easy it is

  22-06-2016 21:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unnamed sailor takes three people he claims are migrants on a small rubber rib boat from Gravelines in northern France to Folkestone Harbour without being challenged once.
  
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• After Stanford, bill seeks prison for sexual assaults of unconscious victims

  22-06-2016 21:24
  
  The proposed bill, inspired by outrage at the light sentencing of Brock Turner, would require mandatory prison time for similar attacks in the futureThe prosecutor in the Stanford sexual assault case is pushing to make prison a mandatory punishment for people who attack unconscious victims, proposing legislation inspired by the global outrage at the light sentencing of former student Brock Turner. Related: Stanford sexual assault: records show judge's logic behind light sentenceContinue reading.
  
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• No skinny dipping please, I’m British | Peter Bradshaw

  22-06-2016 21:22
  
  Germans who uphold tradition by swimming nude in icy lakes have my admiration, but they won’t have my companyIn the depths of a German winter, and to the astonishment and alarm of all my friends, I went outdoor swimming this year in the icy Weissensee lake in east Berlin. I was there for the film festival, but bunked off to go swimming with my wildswimmer friend, Jessica Lee, who is about to publish a book entitled 52 Lakes about her gloriously Byronic mission to swim in all the lakes in a
  
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• Bungling soldiers flip 40-ton tank on its ROOF while trying to load it onto back of lorry

  22-06-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In footage that will make them the laughing stock of elite fighting forces worldwide, they completely roll over the war machine while trying to get it on a low-loader
  
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• HBO scratches Vinyl season two as 70s rock'n'roll drama is cancelled

  22-06-2016 21:14
  
  Despite star producers Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese and plenty of hype, the show about the 70s record industry won’t be moving forward HBO has changed its mind on a second season of the rock’n’roll drama about the 70s music industry, announcing that the show will not be returning for a sophomore series.The show, which boasted star executive producers in the form of Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, plus Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter as showrunner, had been moving to
  
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• Ten years on from the West Wing finale, the show's shadow still looms large

  22-06-2016 21:12
  
  It was a ratings hit that skewered politics and helped lay the foundation for ‘peak TV’ – now 10 years from its last episode, you could say it never really went awayIt’s strange to think that 10 years ago today The West Wing, one of the most legendary and highly praised shows in recent memory, aired its final episode. That oddness isn’t because it makes us all feel old or because we’ve slipped into some crazy wormhole where time speeds up, but because The West
  
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• Doctors to lobby for opt-out organ donor system

  22-06-2016 21:12
  
  British Medical Association aims for Welsh hospital plan that presumes patients do consent to organ retrieval upon deathDoctors will try to persuade ministers at Westminster, Holyrood and Stormont to introduce an opt-out system for organ donation to prevent 1,000 deaths a year because of organ shortages.The British Medical Association will lobby the three parliaments to follow the lead set by Wales, which in December introduced presumed consent for organ retrieval. Under this system people who d
  
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• Murderer Nicolle Earley moans she is suffering post-traumatic stress over killing

  22-06-2016 21:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nicolle Earley, 24, says she is suffering post traumatic stress disorder after murdering Ann Gray at her home in Fife by knocking her to the ground and repeatedly stamping on her.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn makes final referendum pitch to Labour voters

  22-06-2016 21:03
  
  Party leader says there should be no limits on numbers of EU workers who can come to Britain, calling for ‘rational discussion’Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said there should be no limits to the number of EU workers who can come to Britain, as he made his final pitch to Labour voters to back remain at Thursday’s referendum.Senior Labour figures, including Corbyn’s deputy, Tom Watson, and former minister Yvette Cooper have suggested in recent days that Labour should pledge t
  
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• The Guardian view on Jean-Pierre Bemba: no impunity for wartime rape | Editorial

  22-06-2016 20:50
  
  The international criminal court has handed an 18-year prison sentence to a Congolese warlord for widespread rapes committed by his soldiersRape has been used as a weapon of war in many parts of the world and throughout history – it is being used in Syria today, and it was used in Bosnia during the 1990s Balkans war. In Africa, rape and sexual enslavement have festered in innumerable conflicts. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, such crimes have been committed on a massive scale. Rape no
  
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