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• This guy keeps asking politicians what their favourite fish is and it's oddly heartwarming

  08-08-2016 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bizarre fish obsessive Ross Orchard has made a hobby out of quizzing high profile politicos about their seafood for some reason
  
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• ISIS fighter was from Bradford was taken to Syria by his mother

  08-08-2016 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ibrahim Iqbal, who was taken to Syria by his mother aged 14 last year along with his four siblings, has posted his allegiance to ISIS on Facebook.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's 'great pals' compare Israel to ISIS terrorists

  08-08-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn is dealing with fresh accusations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party over comments made by the communities and justice spokesmen.
  
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• ISIS suicide bomber targeting mourners at Pakistan hospital in Quetta kills at least 70

  08-08-2016 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The powerful blast has killed at least 70 people and injured dozens more after an ISIS suicide bomber targeted mourners of a slain lawyer in the city of Quetta.
  
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• Pair accused of murdering Sadie Hartley carried out a 'test' run at her house

  08-08-2016 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sarah Williams (pictured) today told Preston Crown Court that her alleged accomplice Katrina Walsh suggested a 'creepy' trip to Ms Hartley's house where they delivered flowers a week before the murder.
  
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• 21 dead as violent storm rips through Macedonia capital Skopje

  08-08-2016 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In the storm's first two hours there were 800 lightning strikes as a month's rainfall dropped along with 70kph winds in the Macedonian capital of Skopje overnight on Saturday and into Sunday.
  
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• ISIS supporter video shows girl in a niqab behead a doll

  08-08-2016 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The terror group has released a sickening video showing a youngster dressed in a niqab brandishing a large knife in front of the camera before she uses it to behead a doll.
  
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• Turkey President Erdogan tells rally he WILL bring back death penalty

  08-08-2016 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Turkish president appeared in front of a giant flag-waving crowd in Istanbul, Turkey, as he appeared to back moves to reintroduce capital punishment.
  
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• Team GB wins bronze in Rio Olympics shooting as Taunton's Ed Ling comes third

  08-08-2016 23:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Taunton farmer Ed Ling (pictured) has won Britain's third medal of the Rio Olympics with bronze in trap shooting. The 33-year-old defeated Czech David Kostelecky 13-9 in the 15-shot contest.
  
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• Voice of the Mirror: Fresh hope for Stephen Lawrence justice

  08-08-2016 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Voice of the Mirror says Stephen’s parents Neville and Doreen deserve justice, no matter how long it takes
  
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• Man claims he dug up grave of former teacher and smashed skull as revenge for classroom abuse

  08-08-2016 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former pupil of a Christian Brothers school claimed he had been beaten with a leather strap in front of his classmates when he was a pupil in Ireland
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016 bosses' bid to bring back Pele to close the Games'

  08-08-2016 22:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  World-famous soccer player Pele is to be invited to appear at the Olympic Closing Ceremony after missing the curtain-raiser through poor health.
  
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• Two teens who went missing off the Welsh coast named as desperate coastguard search continues

  08-08-2016 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Waseem Al-Muflehi and Yahye Mohamed, both aged 15, were part of a large coach trip party from Birmingham, according to friends
  
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• San Bernardino National Forest wildfire prompts evacuations 

  08-08-2016 22:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Pilot Fire broke out around 12.10 on Sunday afternoon in the San Bernardino National Forest about 55 miles east of Los Angeles. 400 firefighters are tackling the blaze with 36 engines.
  
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• Cash-in-transit driver throws money box at robbers on bike in terrifying CCTV footage

  08-08-2016 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police are appealing for any witnesses to the incident to come forward
  
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• Terrified man's reaction to 'nuclear attack TV news bulletin' is absolutely priceless

  08-08-2016 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footage, captured on a phone, shows Billy Fraser getting increasingly agitated as an 'emergency announcement' plays on the television
  
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• How the Tory plan to redraw Britain's political map could make them virtually unbeatable

  08-08-2016 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shock new research suggests the Tories are on course for a 90 seat majority. Here's how that could happen
  
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• Mum injured trying to stop cocaine-fuelled son from stabbing brother in head on their sister's wedding day

  08-08-2016 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gary Wallace lost control after being criticised by his brother, Tony Igoe, for ditching their sister’s wedding in favour of a drink and drugs binge, a court heard
  
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• Woman 'accused of being mistress violently beaten by gang who try to strangle her with shoelaces'

  08-08-2016 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING DISTRESSING FOOTAGE The female group attempted to strip her and said they were punishing her for being a "home wrecker"
  
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• Elite SAS troops pictured on Syrian front line fighting ISIS jihadis for first time

  08-08-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pictures - believed to be the first to show the British highly-trained special forces in Syria - show around a dozen of the soldiers on four 4x4s bristling with weapons
  
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• How Adam Peaty's barber helped inspire Olympics golden boy to be a cut above the rest

  08-08-2016 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Single dad Al Harvey has given the world record-breaking swimmer free haircuts for years - along with the occasional word of encouragement
  
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• Scotland's most expensive estate in goes on sale for £10.5M including salmon fishing farm

  08-08-2016 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With a stunning outlook across the Dee Valley, plus shooting and fishing, Tillypronie Estate is a dream rural retreat with sweeping staircases, billiard room and a very interesting history
  
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• Paedo who pleasured himself in sex shop is back in court after failing to sign offenders register

  08-08-2016 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The court also heard Benjamin John Berry failed to tell probation officers that he had entered into a relationship with another sex offender
  
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• Paedo who pleasured himself in sex shop is back in court after failing sign offenders register

  08-08-2016 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The court also heard Benjamin John Berry failed to tell probation officers that he had entered into a relationship with another sex offender
  
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• Terrified mum 'finds false widow spider’ in bunch of Aldi grapes she had been feeding her children

  08-08-2016 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bosses at Aldi are investigating how the spider might have got into the produce, which was kept in a fridge for days before Jennifer Perks' children started eating them
  
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• Police apologise for joke 'Nazi' tweet warning men wearing SS uniforms were "trying to invade"

  08-08-2016 21:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Jewish Twitter user saw the "insensitive" post and flagged it up to the force
  
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• Sergeant John Mizen remanded in custody after ‘coercive behaviour’ charge

  08-08-2016 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sergeant John Mizen, based at Trinity Road police station in Bristol, was arrested and charged earlier this summer and has been remanded before a trial due to take place in November.
  
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• Hull pensioner left bleeding after being attacked by a drug addict in his home

  08-08-2016 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Harold Hunter, 82, from Hull, was beaten up by Louise Arro (pictured), 35, hours after he paid his last respects to his wife Betty, who died aged 80 in April.
  
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• Relics from the Great Fire of London go on display to mark 350th anniversary

  08-08-2016 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As terrified Londoners fled the flames they left behind precious belongings, from house keys to Bibles and sewing. Many such items are now on display for the first time ever at a newexhibition.
  
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• England rugby player denies raping Tinder date and claims he 'respects' women

  08-08-2016 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  England under-20 winger Zach Kibirige said the midnight encounter he had with a woman he had been messaging for a fortnight after they matched on the dating app was consensual
  
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• Plants 'colonised soil on Earth 20m years earlier than thought' as scientists make incredible new fossil discovery

  08-08-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The discovery appears to show deep rooting systems from a primitive form of plant life in Early Devonian rocks
  
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• Philip Green told to 'get his chequebook out' and plug BHS’s £571million pensions black hole

  08-08-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Business Select Committee chairman Iain Wright piled pressure on the retail tycoon
  
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• Incredible NASA video shows fiery comet travelling at 373 miles per second being 'EATEN' by the sun

  08-08-2016 20:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Captured by NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, it shows the burning space rock hurtling into the star and disappearing as it is 'devoured'
  
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• Woman killed and man seriously injured by generator which fell from the back of moving lorry

  08-08-2016 20:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman aged 40 and a man of 44 were struck by the generator near the railway station in Etchingham, East Sussex, this morning
  
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• Tumble dryer model which killed Rubery mother has been linked to 20 fires

  08-08-2016 20:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mishell Moloney, 49, was found dead in her home in Rubery, Birmingham, by her daughter Jodie and sister Tracey on February 7. An inquest heard she died because of a faulty Beko tumble dryer.
  
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• Theresa May warned by Tory MPs she does not have support for grammar schools

  08-08-2016 20:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mark Pritchard (pictured) said the rumoured move would lack political legitimacy as it was not in the Tories' 2015 General Election manifesto.
  
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• Jihadis hold summer camps to teach young children how to stab Israelis to death

  08-08-2016 20:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Children under 10-years-old are also given military training and taught how to handle and maintain assault rifles at the camps - held by terror group Hamas's military wing
  
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• Labour to fight High Court ruling that gives 130,000 new members right to vote in leadership election

  08-08-2016 20:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A top judge overturned the party’s controversial decision to stop anyone who joined after January 12 taking part
  
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• Wallasey student loses her EAR after a mole turns out to be a deadly skin cancer

  08-08-2016 20:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lauren McFerran, from Merseyside, was diagnosed with a deadly melanoma and needed six weeks of radiotherapy to stop the cancer spreading.
  
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• Angela Merkel enjoys a walking holiday in Italy with husband Joachim Bauer

  08-08-2016 20:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  German chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Bauer walked the hills of Solda in Northern Italy in matching outfits as her country continued to debate the ongoing immigration crisis.
  
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• Momentum-backed candidates sweep Labour ruling body elections in boost for Jeremy Corbyn

  08-08-2016 20:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The National Executive Committee has six new left-leaning members - and Eddie Izzard missed out on a seat at the table
  
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• Organiser of £36-a-ticket kids' party with crisp box play castle breaks silence after parents' fury

  08-08-2016 20:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tom Kembery said he is "really upset by the outcome" and is offering refunds to angry parents who attended the event in Essex
  
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• Astronaut captures stunning Northern Lights show and 214 million year old asteroid crater in one spellbinding photo

  08-08-2016 19:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The incredible NASA image was caught at night as the green veils of the aurora borealis spanned for miles over Canada
  
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• What Rio Olympics organisers don't want you to see - 'thief' has hand chopped off by 'machete-wielding shopkeeper'

  08-08-2016 19:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES: Some reports claim the man had his hand cut off as retribution by an incensed shop owner - while other reports say the man was attacked by a rival criminal
  
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• Jazz Carlin says Olympic 400m freestyle silver was all down to her dad's lucky shirt

  08-08-2016 19:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Team GB swimmer missed out on selection for London 2012 due to glandular fever but is delighted to have been give a second chance
  
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• Model of tumble dryer which sparked fire that killed mother-of-two had been involved in 20 previous reported blazes 

  08-08-2016 19:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mishell Moloney, 49, was found dead in her home in Rubery, Birmingham, by her daughter Jodie and sister Tracey on February 7. An inquest heard she died because of a faulty Beko tumble dryer.
  
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• Four ‘lucky to be alive’ off Isles of Scilly after being knocked overboard

  08-08-2016 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three of the group were found injured and desperately clinging to rocks after being knocked overboard by the giant swell, while the fourth was plucked from the water off the Isles of Scilly.
  
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• Belgian machete attacker Khaled Babouri known to police for petty crime

  08-08-2016 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Migration State Secretary Theo Francken said the man - identified by Belgian media as Khaled Babouri - who attacked two officers before being shot dead 'was not known for terrorist reasons'.
  
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• Wikileaks fugitive Edward Snowden 'alive and well' says Russian lawyer despite death rumours and mystery tweet

  08-08-2016 19:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A mysterious 64-character tweet appeared on Snowden's Twitter account and was then deleted, triggering speculation he had been kidnapped or even killed
  
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• Nurse almost killed by hit and run driver and told she would never walk again defies the odds with incredible recovery

  08-08-2016 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Haddie Borbély had the support of her boyfriend who stuck by her despite being told to leave shortly after the accident
  
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