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• Is your workplace making you sick? Millions of Brits report greasy floors, filthy toilets and unhygienic kitchens

  23-08-2016 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than a third of working Brits have picked up an illness from their place of work - with 18% claiming to have been struck down with food poisoning or a stomach bug
  
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• UK weather: Struggling to cope with the heatwave? This child has the PERFECT solution

  23-08-2016 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As temperatures soar in Britain this week, we are having to look abroad for inspiration on how to cope
  
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• North Korea fires submarine-launched ballistic missile off coast of South

  23-08-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The incident comes as Pyongyang ramps up military tensions with a series of armed provocations over the past 12 months
  
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• BREAKING: North Korea fires submarine-launched ballistic missile off coast of South

  23-08-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The incident comes as Pyongyang ramps up military tensions with a series of armed provocations over the past 12 months
  
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• Sizzling summer and Olympics boost supermarket sales to strongest in three years

  23-08-2016 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The hot weather has triggered an 18.5% surge in mineral water sales and a 41% jump in demand for ice cream
  
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• Prisoners should be allowed to use Facebook and Skype to keep in touch with loved ones behind bars

  23-08-2016 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A jail watchdog has recommended lags are allowed "supervised" used of social media
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Branson go to war as Virgin says Corbyn sat on floor after passing empty seats

  23-08-2016 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Train boss Richard Branson tweeted pictuees of the Labour leader, as Virgin Trains released CCTV stills and footage which appeared to contradict his  story
  
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• Driver swept out to sea while retrieving valuables from his car after it got trapped in rising tide

  23-08-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man allegedly "ignored the warning signs" about the area being cut off from the mainland twice a day and returned in gale force winds and rising water
  
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• Oldest needle found in cave is 500,000 years old - and you can still use it

  23-08-2016 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The discovery was made at a site that has already dramatically changed our understanding of man's origins
  
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• Get 'em off! Armed police order Muslim woman to remove her burkini on packed Nice beach - as mother, 34, wearing Islamic headscarf is threatened with pepper spray and fined in Cannes 

  23-08-2016 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A woman is forced to strip off in Nice by French police officers armed with pepper spray and batons. In nearby Cannes three armed officers pointed a pepper spray canister in a woman's face.
  
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• Exeter man who made threats to Labour MP the day before Jo Cox was killed is spared jail

  23-08-2016 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 37-year-old man, from Exeter, has been spared jail after threatening a Labour MP the day before MP Jo Cox was killed. Geoffrey Farquharson, left a racist and homophobic phone message.
  
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• Sir Antony Jay dead aged 86

  23-08-2016 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sir Antony Jay, co-writer of political comedies Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister,died on Sunday at the age of 86 after a long illness. He was educated at St Paul's School and Cambridge.
  
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• Scientists 'discover second Earth which could have the perfect conditions for life'

  23-08-2016 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The European Southern Observatory is set to make an announcement tomorrow, believed to be revealing a newly-spotted planet orbiting the star Proxima Centauri
  
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• The Corbyn train video that sparked a row

  23-08-2016 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Virgin Trains has questioned footage showing Jeremy Corbyn sitting on the floor of a "ram-packed" service.
  
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• Cricket player takes the catch of the day when an OWL lands on batsman's stumps

  23-08-2016 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The barn owl had escaped its owner and landed on the stumps in the middle of a cricket match
  
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• Thailand car bomb leaves one dead and 29 injured

  23-08-2016 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The explosion happened outside a hotel in the province of Pattani, an area popular with Western tourists in southern Thailand.
  
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• UK weather: Britain hotter than Turkey as country continues to swelter in heatwave

  23-08-2016 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Huge swathes of the country were placed on high alert as the warm weather prompted health warnings for young children and the elderly
  
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• Hapoel Beer Sheva 2-0 Celtic (agg 4-5)

  23-08-2016 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celtic reach the Champions League group stage for the first time in three years despite losing at Hapoel Beer Sheva.
  
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• Officer who sued police force over Bin Laden jibe is sacked for threatening witness

  23-08-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Birmingham-based officer PC Tariq Dost was dismissed without notice this morning at a special case misconduct hearing
  
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• BREAKING: Trafford Centre evacuated after fire alert leaves thousands of shoppers spilling out into streets

  23-08-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage posted online shows people leaving the Orient area where the centre's restaurants are based
  
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• Security expert warns China has 'worrying' hold over Britain's North Sea oil

  23-08-2016 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The communist-controlled China National Offshore Oil Corporation, runs two of our biggest oilfields
  
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• North Korea accused of laying landmines on its side of the border with South Korea

  23-08-2016 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The American-led UN Command in South Korea said Pyongyang had planted the explosives devices near a truce village inside the Demilitarised Zone that divides the two countries.
  
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• Armed police on French Riviera order Muslim woman to remove burkini on packed Nice beach - as mother, 34, wearing Islamic headscarf is threatened with pepper spray and fined in Cannes 

  23-08-2016 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A woman is forced to strip off in Nice by French police officers armed with pepper spray and batons. In nearby Cannes three armed officers pointed a pepper spray canister in a woman's face.
  
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• Angler catches more than he bargains for after hooking nudist swimmer's penis on the end of his line

  23-08-2016 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Herbert Fendt thought he was stuck in some plants but soon realised the pain was far too much to be caused by weeds
  
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• How to keep babies and young children cool during 34C heatwave - and help them get to sleep

  23-08-2016 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's heating up in the UK, which can be worrying for parents - here are 14 tips to help make summer easier
  
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• How to keep cool in bed during Britain's 34C heatwave if you don't have air conditioning

  23-08-2016 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Government officials have issued health warnings with the hot and humid weather set to last until late on Wednesday
  
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• Quiz: So are YOU a psychopath? Take our test to find out!

  23-08-2016 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new study has claimed Donald Trump has more psychotic tendencies than Hitler - but what about you
  
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• Mum got pregnant when she was a nun... It took 19 years for her to tell me Dad was a guitarist in a mariachi band

  23-08-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Miriam Aragon-Hay was finally reunited with her father Victor, who lives in the US, thanks to Davina McCall's show Long Lost Family
  
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• Northampton mother repeatedly beat her children with a tv cable

  23-08-2016 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Northampton Crown Court (pictured) heard the woman, who is in her 40s, hit the youngsters all over the bodies including their arms, legs, backs and hips, with a television cable.
  
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• ISIS counter-extremism programme sees nearly half of those deemed be vulnerable reject help 

  23-08-2016 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A government scheme to prevent radicalisation by ISIS of young people is in crisis as nearly half of people reject help from the voluntary scheme. Channel help has been turned down by 117 people this year.
  
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• Dad 'stabs 12-year-old schoolboy son to death because he didn't do homework'

  23-08-2016 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ryota Satake, 12, was reportedly stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife in Japan's Aichi prefecture
  
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• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers for tonight's £12 million jackpot on Tuesday, August 23

  23-08-2016 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's jackpot is an estimated £12 million - but have you got a winning ticket?
  
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• Euromillions jackpot winner becomes the sponsor of Eccentric Party of Great Britain

  23-08-2016 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Adrian Bayford (pictured left), 44, who scooped the jackpot in 2012, will use his music shop, called Black Barn Records, in Cambridge, as the party's headquarters for the city.
  
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• Man who sent vile death threat to Labour MP the day before Jo Cox was killed avoids jail

  23-08-2016 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Geoffrey Farquharson, 37, yelled down the phone, repeatedly swore and threatened the former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw in the two minute-long rant
  
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• Terror in Thai tourist hotspot as hotel bombing kills one and leaves at least 29 people injured

  23-08-2016 21:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blast took place in Pattani, an area popular with Western tourists, although it is unclear whether any tourists are among the casualties
  
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• Prince William lands in Germany for first royal engagement in almost a month

  23-08-2016 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  William joined Chancellor Angela Merkel in Dusseldorf  after attending at the request of the government
  
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• Lake Como residents express outrage over refugee influx

  23-08-2016 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Local officials in Lake Como havefast-tracked a new camp located at a municipal car park with a health centre to deal with the grown number of migrants congregating in the town.
  
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• Horrified young woman claims she's going bald after using dry shampoo

  23-08-2016 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emily Roberts, 25, says she started using the product every other day because she was "too busy" to wash her hair properly
  
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• Mum left heartbroken after NHS refuses to fund four-your-old's brain tumour surgery

  23-08-2016 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Finley Ingles' tumour can never be removed as it is too deep - so a £200,000 procedure only performed in the USA could be his only hope
  
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• Mum left heartbroken after NHS refuses to fund boy's brain tumour surgery

  23-08-2016 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Finley Ingles' tumour can never be removed as it is too deep - so a £200,000 procedure only performed in the USA could be his only hope
  
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• Facebook and Skype should be used by prisoners claims watchdog

  23-08-2016 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The HM Inspectorate of Prisons has suggested that a pilot scheme be rolled out to allow prisoners to use social media and Skype to keep in touch with their family and friends.
  
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• Afghan migrant is caught clinging onto a lorry's axle after travelling through Italy 

  23-08-2016 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police believe the man attached himself to the lorry in Brindisi, in southern Italy, and he was removed from the truck after it was pulled over on the motorway between Naples and Rome.
  
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• Model left with TWO STONE leg after mystery swelling during pregnancy

  23-08-2016 20:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sarah Buller was stunned when her left peg grew to an enormous size at the end of her first trimester
  
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• Fully clothed Muslim mother, 34, wearing a HEADSCARF is threatened with pepper spray, ordered off Cannes beach and fined for breaching the Riviera's burkini ban 

  23-08-2016 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three armed officers pointed a pepper spray canister in the 34-year-old’s face and told her she was in breach of a new rule outlawing swimming costumes that cover the entire body in Cannes.
  
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• Prestigious girls' grammar school caught in A-level cheating scandal after 'exam shared on social media'

  23-08-2016 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pupils have been disqualified and results cancelled amid an investigation into alleged impropriety
  
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• Peer’s half sister ordered to pay back more than £500,000

  23-08-2016 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dawn Simon was jailed for three years in 2013 for her part in a scam which saw her living in a six-bedroom house with a swimming pool. Today she returned to Maidstone Crown Court for a confiscation hearing.
  
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• Paul Routledge: Jeremy Corbyn's 'ram packed' train publicity stunt has really backfired

  23-08-2016 20:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader was pictured sitting on the floor of a Virgin East Coast train for the cameras, when there were empty seats
  
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• Newborn left permanently brain damaged and unable to walk or talk after being shaken violently by thug

  23-08-2016 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Damien Menzies, 25, attacked the child at a dance show in Deans Community High School in Livingston, West Lothian
  
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• US Open: Andy Murray seeded second, Johanna Konta career-high 13th

  23-08-2016 20:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andy Murray is seeded second in the men's singles for the US Open, with fellow Briton Johanna Konta a career-high 13th in the women's.
  
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• Heartbreaking images of the harrowing war in Syria - drawn by children

  23-08-2016 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pictures reveal the horrors youngsters face every day as cities are bombed and rebels clash with troops
  
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