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• Yorkshireman finally enjoys pineapple EIGHT years after he planted it

  05-09-2016 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Edward Simpson, 84, from Huddersfield, may have grown the first pineapple in Yorkshire after he waited eight years to enjoy the fruits of his labour in spite of the non-tropical British weather.
  
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• London woman arrested after Jeremy Vine posted footage online of road rage incident

  05-09-2016 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Broadcaster Jeremy Vine filmed a woman (pictured) unleashing abuse after he cycled in front of her car on a narrow street in Kensington, west London, on August 26.
  
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• Keith Vaz transcript: The conversations that prove the sex shame MP was not set up

  05-09-2016 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As we release more details to refute suggestions Mr Vaz was not in control during the evening, these extracts from the tape prove he was NOT set up
  
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• City high-flier Anthony Constantinou 'groped women in series of sex attacks'

  05-09-2016 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Old Bailey heard how Anthony Constantinou, 34, head of financial group Capital World Markets (CWM) based in the City of London, allegedly assaulted a number of women in his office.
  
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• Keith Vaz tapes that prove he was NOT set up, NOT drugged and is NOT fit to chair vice review

  05-09-2016 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mr Vaz ordered the two escorts into sexual positions, dictated what they should do to each other, and said 'good' when told he'd got one drunk
  
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• Disgraced cop who used his police computer to contact sex workers LAUGHS as he walks out of court

  05-09-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neil Hempsall was allowed to keep his job with Northumbria Police even after he admitted contacting vice girls
  
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• Owner of pitbull-style dog that killed chihuahua puppy at water park fled with kids after horror attack

  05-09-2016 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michelle Keifer’s pet Nimh didn’t stand a chance against the huge animal, whose owner, she said, did little to stop him clamping his jaws round the tiny pup
  
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• Labour MP Keith Vaz 'loaned' £400k cash for luxury 'sex flat'

  05-09-2016 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The MP put down£387,500 in cash to buy the apartment, in north London, which is more than four times his salary but his lawyer confirmed it was purchased with the help of a 'personal loan'.
  
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• Royal Navy test unmanned drone on the River Thames

  05-09-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The impressive 32-ft Royal Navy reconnaissance vessel, which is equipped with 360 degree camera, radar and GPS, was seen cutting through the water in central London during an exercise earlier today.
  
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• Keith Vaz's charity to be investigated to see if money was used to pay for rent boy sex

  05-09-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two deposits of £150 were paid last month into an account by a man linked to Silver Star, a diabetes charity set up by Leicester East MP Vaz when he developed the illness.
  
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• Grandfather of British schoolboy fighting for ISIS says his 'nutter mum Sally Jones should be bombed'

  05-09-2016 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joe 'JoJo' Dixon's devastated grandfather admits the lad is a 'lost soul' - who 'can't come back' - after footage emerged of the schoolboy executing a prisoner
  
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• Man who paid £150 deposits for Keith Vaz claims to be a ‘parliamentary assistant for Labour Party’

  05-09-2016 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daniel Dimitru Dragusin said the cash came from his account but that it had nothing to do with Silver Star, the diabetes group he is connected to which was set up when Mr Vaz contracted the condition
  
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• The new Cold War: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin give each other an icy glare at G20

  05-09-2016 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The American and Russian presidents, who had talks on Syria, the Ukraine and cyber security, looked like they had forgotten the Cold War had ended
  
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• Diane Abbott tells Jeremy Hunt to remember 7/7 hero doctors saying: These are your 'villains'

  05-09-2016 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Shadow Health Secretary raised the powerful image as the top Tory launched a new attack on junior doctors' officials who voted to strike
  
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• Labour's Keith Vaz clings to power after paying male escorts for sex

  05-09-2016 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Labour politician, 59, left his north London home with his wife of 23 years Maria Fernandes, who appears to be standing by her husband despite the alleged sex scandal.
  
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• UK weather to see rain replaced by 30C sunshine later this week

  05-09-2016 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Red Cross workers helped those stranded at Festival No. 6 in Portmeirion, North Wales, after heavy rain flooded a huge field - and drivers even paid farmers with tractors £200 to tow them out with ropes.
  
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• UB40 back Jeremy Corbyn in celebrity boost for Labour leadership frontrunner

  05-09-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 80s reggae stars - who suffered a high-profile split - will support his attempt to fend off Owen Smith’s leadership challenge
  
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• Man and woman injured in double street stabbing in upmarket London suburb

  05-09-2016 22:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Met believes the pair were attacked by a man who fled the scene, and believe all parties are known to each other
  
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• Miracle boy born missing a quarter of his brain defies the odds and starts school

  05-09-2016 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Noah Wall has left doctors shocked after they predicted he wouldn't survive birth and now his brain has grown to almost that of a typical four-year-old
  
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• Brazen MP Keith Vaz greeted by silence in Commons as pressure mounts over prostitutes scandal

  05-09-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A senior Tory fired off three letters asking for authorities to probe his behaviour while the PM stuck the knife in to Vaz, who asked two commons questions
  
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• Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers 'could face six months in jail after woman she bodyshamed in gym comes forward'

  05-09-2016 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The model had publicly mocked an elderly woman in a Snapchat picture but now it's claimed her victim wants her held to account
  
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• Three-year-old boy topples 12ft out of window trying to catch sight of fire engine - and miraculously survives

  05-09-2016 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Christopher Hay somehow escaped with just two small skull fractures, some scratches and a fat lip
  
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• Driver with two similar number plates is fined at toll for a car parked in his GARAGE

  05-09-2016 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bob Long (pictured) owns a fleet of vehicles that all have registrations relating to his surname. The Dartford Crossing's systems are getting them mixed up, and he is now relishing a court date.
  
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• ISIS 'has stepped up efforts to smuggle terrorists into UK to launch attacks on civilians'

  05-09-2016 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thousands of pages of intelligence from European investigations into the Paris terror attacks has also unveiled that the massacre in the French capital could have been far worse
  
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• Theresa May calls for a 'golden' era of trade as she sets the stage for deals

  05-09-2016 21:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China, Australia, India, Singapore, Mexico, and South Korea are among the states who had expressed an interest in trade deals with the UK, according to the PM.
  
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• Pokemon Go fan faces five years in JAIL for playing game in church under Russia's strict blasphemy laws

  05-09-2016 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ruslan Sokolovsky was arrested under laws introduced after a 2013 political performance by members of the Pussy Riot group in Moscow's central cathedral
  
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• Thousands of pharmacies saved from the axe after Tory health care U-turn

  05-09-2016 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Government had planned to slash funding for pharmacies by £170million, putting 3,000 high street chemists at risk of closure
  
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• Yorkshire dale reclassified as peak after it was found to be almost ONE INCH taller

  05-09-2016 21:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New technology used by the Ordnance Survey has calculated Calf Top in the Yorkshire Dales actually stands at 609.602m - making it the 317th mountain in England and Wales.
  
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• Theresa May FAILS to raise steel-dumping that has wrecked British industry at meeting with Chinese President

  05-09-2016 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mrs May’s officials said steel “wasn’t an issue that came up” during the new PM’s 30-minute meeting with President Xi at the G20 summit in China
  
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• Stafford lorry driver left mother and her baby with life-changing injuries in crash

  05-09-2016 21:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anthony Mitchell, 63, from Stafford, was captured on his own dash camera in his DAF truck careering down a motorway before crashing into braking vehicles.
  
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• Terrified victim of paedophile was forced to apologise to sex beast abuser after he claimed she lied

  05-09-2016 21:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pervert Frank Mills, 77, assaulted his victim as a child but maintained his innocence when she told her parents, who forced her to write a letter of apology
  
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• Prince Harry is heading to the Caribbean - but it's for work not fun

  05-09-2016 21:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Harry will travel to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines
  
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• Javea fire: British family on holiday narrowly escaped death as home near Benidorm is burned to a crisp

  05-09-2016 21:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joash Murra, Ester Garcia and their two-year-old son Asher were staying with her parents in their home in Javea when the fires broke out
  
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• Parents of little Ruby who waited 76 DAYS for a new heart back Mirror's organ donation campaign

  05-09-2016 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Her parents Jo-Ann and John were told to prepare for the worst but Ruby, now 14 months old, is thriving after her transplant
  
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• Cheshire grandmother wins compensation after 'humiliating' strip search by police

  05-09-2016 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kay Earle says she was thrown to the ground and had her clothes removed at the police station in Middlewich, Cheshire.
  
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• Tory ministers blasted for failing to draw up Brexit plans two months after the referendum

  05-09-2016 21:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MPs piled into Brexit Secretary David Davis as he struggled to outline details for the UK’s new relationship with Brussels
  
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• The REAL Nessie? Fossil of giant 170 million-year-old sea monster with hundreds of teeth unveiled by scientists

  05-09-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The enormous fossilised skeleton has been dubbed the Storr Lochs monster after it was found by a power station manager on the Isle of Skye
  
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• Labour MPs vote on bringing back shadow cabinet elections letting them pick Jeremy Corbyn's top team

  05-09-2016 20:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sheffield MP Clive Betts told colleagues the move could help MPs put aside their differences because the party "can't carry on as we are"
  
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• Worcester residents claim to be in darkness after trees left to grow 30ft high

  05-09-2016 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pete Taysum (pictured), 51, says he has reported the overgrown laurel and silver birch trees on Dover Avenue in Wardon, Worcester, to his local authority six times since last December.
  
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• North Korea launches missiles the same as China's weapons, ex-US defense chief says

  05-09-2016 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Images of the Rogon missiles (pictured) launched into the sea near Japan today show that they look remarkably similar to Chinese JL-1 weapons, according to Dr Bruce Bechtol.
  
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• Commuter chaos as two out of five trains to be cancelled during Southern Railway strike

  05-09-2016 20:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will walk out on Wednesday and Thursday in a long-running dispute
  
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• London tower blocks that claim to offer them a taste of luxury to students

  05-09-2016 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wealthy undergraduates i London are paying £1,700 a month and more to live in luxury while they study, with rooms complete with underfloor heating, kitchenettes and towers including cinemas.
  
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• I went bald at 18: Brave woman's heartbreaking battle with hair loss and how she came up with a solution

  05-09-2016 20:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nicola Hanratty was just 18 when her hair started falling out and by the age of 24 60% of her hair had fallen out
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson films Amazon advert after 'crashing' Danny Dyer's wedding

  05-09-2016 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The former Top Gear presenter was spotted filming for his new show The Grand Tour at Beachy Head. His appearance provoked a reaction because the drone was flown in a key nesting site.
  
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• 'My daughter has a daddy because of you' - Father's heartfelt thanks to life-saving 999 heroes

  05-09-2016 19:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Adam Hawes was driving on the M61 when his vehicle left the road and went down an embankment – but emergency crews and a Good Samaritan saved him
  
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• Man accidentally insults mum in embarrassing text - sees life 'flash before his eyes'

  05-09-2016 19:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Not a word you want to be calling your mother...
  
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• Woman arrested after Jeremy Vine posts footage of driver shouting at him as he cycled home

  05-09-2016 19:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The clip, which has been viewed more than 500,000 times via the 51-year-old's Facebook page, showed a row in a street in Kensington, west London
  
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• Immingham siege over: Armed police locked down street in 'firearms stand-off with man in house with 13-year-old'

  05-09-2016 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After five hours of tension, police negotiators were able to talk the man out of the home peacefully.
  
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• Immingham siege over: Armed police locked down street in 'firearms stand-off with man in house'

  05-09-2016 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After five hours of tension, police negotiators were able to talk the man out of the home peacefully.
  
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• Immingham siege: Armed police lock down street in 'firearms stand-off with man in house with 13-year-old'

  05-09-2016 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steven Gray, 25, who lives on the street, said: "One of my neighbours told me someone has got a gun to his head. It's normally quiet down here. It's mad"
  
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