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• MoS man chillingly tells how he narrowly avoided death when a tree trunk was hurled at his car by migrant gangs in Calais 

  03-09-2016 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tree trunk hurled at our car which caused the near-fatal swerve could have been thrown at any family travelling back to the UK, writes reporter Ben Ellery.
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson causes a flap after being spotted filming The Grand Tour drone stunt on Beachy Head

  03-09-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jeremy, 56, was spotted filming at Beachy Head with a team from his new Amazon Prime series The Grand Tour and council officials are understood to have complained
  
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• British woman's dad, ex-husband and uncle arrested after she was 'raped and murdered' in brutal 'honour killing'

  03-09-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Samia Shahid's grieving husband believes she was killed because her family opposed her decision to divorce her ex and marry him
  
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• The day I came face to face after 30 years with the feckless, abusive father who left me without a word, writes ALAN JOHNSON MP

  03-09-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Shadow Chancellor and Labour MP for West Hull and Hessle, Alan Johnson shares the personal trauma of being forced to confront the father who was dead to him.
  
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• Benefits cheat who claimed to be a single mother was exposed by husband’s pants

  03-09-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lancashire mother, Carol Pounder, 48, scrounged thousands of pounds in benefits by claiming she was living alone. But after a tip off she was living and holidaying with 'estranged' husband she was caught.
  
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• John Prescott: Ex-BHS staff join the dole while Sir Philip Green suns himself - who's protecting our workers?

  03-09-2016 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One of them, single mum Hannah Cullen, was flown out by the Mirror to confront him in a dinghy with a loudhailer - she's right to be angry
  
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• Teen left fighting for life after being stabbed in chest in 'targeted' attack amid 30-man brawl

  03-09-2016 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 19-year-old staggered into A&E in a critical condition after the stabbing in inner-city Birmingham
  
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• Is this the most sacrilegious depiction of the Pope ever? Jude Law is cast as a chain-smoking megalomaniac pontiff in controversial new HBO mini-series

  03-09-2016 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jude Law, pictured, said it 'hit him like a tonne of bricks' when he was asked to play the chain smoking megalomaniac pontiff Pope Pius XIII in HBO's ten-part series The Young Pope.
  
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• Class goes wild after student WINS them an A-grade by sinking impressive long shot

  03-09-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Student scores a hole in one by canning a paper ball in a bin across the other end of the lecture hall
  
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• Shakespeare portrait to be cleaned and it may cost the playwright his facial hair

  03-09-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The National Portrait Gallery is mulling over doing the works on the Chandos image (pictured left) for the first time in its almost 400-year history and it could take up to a year to complete.
  
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• I knew I was fighting for my life, says RAF jogger who fought off 'jihadi kidnappers' in suspected terror attack outside Norfolk base 

  03-09-2016 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A married British servicemen who was the victim of an attempted abduction outside a RAF base in Norfolk in July has revealed he felt he was 'fighting for my life' during the attack.
  
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• Bangladesh hangs Islamist leader for murder and torture during 1971 war

  03-09-2016 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mir Quasem Ali, 63, of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was killed at Kashimpur Central Jail, Dhaka, for murder, confinement, torture and incitement to religious hatred during the war.
  
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• One is very much amused! Queen is tickled pink as she attends Highland Games where kilt-wearing Prince Charles shows off his knobbly knees 

  03-09-2016 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Braemar Highland Games are known worldwide due to its stately connections and long history of honouring the rich heritage of Royal Deeside.
  
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• Carole Malone: Junior doctors are gambling with patients' lives with BMA's five-day strikes

  03-09-2016 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sunday Mirror columnist Carole Malone believes BMA militants are playing Russian roulette with patients lives with a series of five-day strikes
  
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• Health bosses climb down over plan to ban fat patients and smokers

  03-09-2016 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Vale of York clinical commissioning group (CCG) in North Yorkshire has backed away from plans to ban operations for obese patients or smokers following criticism of the proposal.
  
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• Thomas Cohen and his children lead the arrivals at Fifi Geldof's wedding

  03-09-2016 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Carrying his first born Phaedra, 4, and escorting his youngest Astala, 3, by the hand, the bereavedfamily were the first to head in to the St Mary Magdalene & St Lawrence Church in Kent.
  
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• Police hunt man after woman is raped during 'horrific' attack in north London

  03-09-2016 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The victim, in her 50s, was subjected to the assault in an alleyway off Essex Road in Islington at midnight on Thursday. The man is described as dark skinned, 5ft4ins and between 30 to 40.
  
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• Girl dies in hospital after being found lying unconscious in Tyneside

  03-09-2016 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The teenager was found unconscious in George Road in the Wallsend area of North Tyneside and was taken to hospital but did not recover from her injuries. Police are treating her death as unexplained.
  
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• Fears Chinese spies will seduce British officials with 'honey trap'

  03-09-2016 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister's team have been warned to be on their guard and issued with temporary phones in fear of Chinese spies as they travel to the conference in Hangzhou, China.
  
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• Modern life is giving our kids cancer and we are losing the battle

  03-09-2016 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts warn of a cancer “epidemic” and identify fast food, computer tablets, mobile phones, car emissions and cleaning agents as contributing factors
  
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• Body found in rubble of collapsed Didcot power station is identified as 34-year-old father-of-one

  03-09-2016 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A body recovered from the collapsed boiler house at Didcot power station has been identified as 34-year-old Christopher Huxtable (pictured with partner Jade) more than six months after the tragedy.
  
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• Angela Merkel defends her open door migrants policy and says she'd do it again

  03-09-2016 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The German Chancellor rejected accusations from critics that her government is spending less on Germans because of a large influx of refugees. Her party is tipped for defeat in her home state.
  
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• George Osborne lumbers Theresa May with housing crisis set to cause more misery than Bedroom Tax

  03-09-2016 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nearly 1.3 million people on low incomes could struggle to keep a roof their homes as the former Chancellor’s housing benefit freeze for tenants renting privately bites
  
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• Staffordhsire mother's desperate pleas as her schizophrenic partner butchered her

  03-09-2016 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Schizophrenic boyfriend Barry Knapper, 31, from Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent, has been sentenced to life after stabbing his partner Lisa Reynolds 17 times in front of her two sons in February this year.
  
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• MP Jo Cox's family in tears at tribute event in Batley

  03-09-2016 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sister Kim: "This is the type of day Jo would have loved – the community she loved coming together”
  
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• IS conflict: Turkey sends more tanks into Syria

  03-09-2016 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More Turkish tanks have entered northern Syria in an operation targeting positions held by the Islamic State group, Turkish media reports say.
  
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• Angry scenes as police separate Leave and Remain protesters at anti-Brexit rallies across Britain (and Eddie Izzard has his pink beret knocked off) 

  03-09-2016 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Simultaneous protests rallying support for keeping close economic, cultural and social links to Europe are taking place in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Oxford, and Cambridge.
  
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• US storm Hermine: Eastern states brace for heavy rain

  03-09-2016 22:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US east coast states are put on alert as storm Hermine pushes north on the long Labor Day holiday weekend.
  
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• Leaders of town dubbed 'Britain's child sex capital' accused of whitewashing own inquiry

  03-09-2016 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A damning council report reveals evidence from desperate parents in Telford claiming their concerns for their children’s safety were ignored
  
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• Four-vehicle pile-up leaves two dead and eight injured on A69 in Northumberland

  03-09-2016 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two people have died and eight others are in hospital after a pile up on the A69 in Northumberland which was closed for over eight hours whilst a police collision team investigated.
  
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• Has Boris finally met his match? Bo Jo bumps into Finnish minister in Slovakia and he's even SCRUFFIER than our own foreign secretary 

  03-09-2016 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The meeting was described as informal - and it looks as if Finnish representative Timo Soini took this to heart - looking more disheveled than Britain's own Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
  
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• How to keep spiders out of your home as experts warn of eight-legged invasion this September

  03-09-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Spider season is upon us, but don't panic - here's how you can avoid the fright
  
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• Donald Trump's most glaring U-turns revealed as US presidential candidate's views appear to change with the wind

  03-09-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Blunt, unashamedly controversial and never politically correct - But listen carefully and you find Trump changes tune depending on which way the wind blows
  
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• Scheming nurse struck off after 'intimate' letters to vulnerable patient led him to self-harm

  03-09-2016 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vicki Adeseye, 27, penned notes to the man while working on a mental health ward – then tried to claim her husband wrote them, a medical panel heard
  
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• Jermain Defoe claims he's a Christian but it didn't stop him stealing my wife, says heartbroken husband

  03-09-2016 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jilted husband Tony Calvert to name Sunderland striker in divorce from lapdancer mum
  
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• Teen girl and dad seriously injured in horror crash with 'stolen' car being 'chased by police'

  03-09-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pair were reportedly driving along a road in Liverpool when they were struck by the 'speeding' Audi, pushing their car into a bus stop stand
  
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• Teen girl and dad hospitalised with serious injuries after speeding 'stolen' Audi 'chased by police' hit their car

  03-09-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pair were reportedly driving along a road in Liverpool when they were struck by the 'speeding' Audi, pushing their car into a bus stop stand
  
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• Gene Wilder was 'so gentle, kind and caring... he was a genius' says heartbroken Kelly Le Brock

  03-09-2016 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Following the Willy Wonka legend's death, his Woman in Red co-star told the Mirror why she believes he should posthumously be given the Oscar he never won
  
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• Yorkshire Ripper's brother: I'm sure he killed more women and got away with it

  03-09-2016 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Carl Sutcliffe thinks older sibling Peter, jailed for slaughtering 13 women and trying to kill seven more, is guilty of unsolved crimes up and down the country
  
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• Nelson's Column: How to download an airport in the Sahara from your laptop

  03-09-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fourth industrial revolution is just around the corner. Sunday People political editor Nigel Nelson hopes for less work and more play 
  
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• Traumatised family lay suicide dad to rest with wife and three children who he murdered

  03-09-2016 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The family were laid to rest together at the church's adjoining cemetery following the service
  
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• Patient's body was left so long in casualty he had rigor mortis when medics finally found him

  03-09-2016 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The disturbing allegation is one of many made by a consultant who was ­horrified by standards at North Middlesex University Hospital – which he described as “hell” and a “war zone”
  
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• Serena Williams powers into US Open fourth round

  03-09-2016 20:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Serena Williams notches a 307th career Grand Slam match win, surpassing Martina Navratilova's Open Era record.
  
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• RAF jogger: I knew I was fighting for my life with 'jihadi kidnappers'

  03-09-2016 20:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The serviceman who fought off knife-wielding attackers has spoken of his ordeal as TV plea recreates ambush
  
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• Young woman shamed over freckles has perfect response to trolls and bullies

  03-09-2016 20:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nail technician Kelsie Swygart covered half her face in makeup and half without to make a striking point about body image
  
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• 'A tragedy beyond our understanding': Hundreds gather at funeral Mass of Irish family butchered by teacher who then took his own life

  03-09-2016 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fr Felim Kelly told mourners at St Mary's Church in Castlerahan, Co Cavan that it was impossible to understand exactly happened at the home of Alan Hawe and his family last Monday.
  
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• Are You Being Served? saucy gags cut from BBC remake amid claims bosses were 'terrified about political correctness'

  03-09-2016 20:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It has been revealed more than 20 gags in the 46-page script were “blue pencilled”– even axing lines from favourites Mrs Slocombe and Mr Humphries
  
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• Primary school teacher and husband found dead on beach in 'murder-suicide' shooting after sex abuse allegations

  03-09-2016 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aric Babbitt, 40, and his spouse, Matthew Deyo, 36, were under investigation for allegedly having sexual contact with at least three boys, it is reported
  
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• Pro12: Connacht 5-41 Glasgow

  03-09-2016 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Glasgow start the Pro12 with a thumping 41-5 win away to champions Connacht, who beat them in last season's semi-finals.
  
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• Plastic microbeads to be banned from cosmetics and cleaning products

  03-09-2016 20:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Government predicts the ban will be the next big environmental success following the 5p plastic bag charge
   
  
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