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• Voice of the Mirror: Alton Towers ride boss must be fired after horror Smiler smash

  26-09-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The chief executive of Merlin Attractions should have resigned after the Smiler crash changed the lives of four young thrill-seekers for ever and two women each lost a leg
  
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• Police officer shows incredible restraint as driver who blocked traffic attacks HIM

  26-09-2016 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clip shows the Fiat 500 driver complaining about being pulled over for a dangerous manoeuvre in a London road. He challenges the officer (pictured) after looking up the Highway Code.
  
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• Blow for Birmingham pub bombing families: Home Office won't pay fees... but backs their legal bid 

  26-09-2016 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  They had asked for a Hillsborough-stylefunding arrangement , where the state paid the bills. Julie Hambleton (pictured), whose sister died in the blast, has expressed her disappointment.
  
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• Mum left in agony after suspected false widow spider bite at cemetery - and here's how you spot one

  26-09-2016 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  She was bitten visiting grandfather's grave but they're just as likely to be scuttling around your home at this time - because they want to find a mate
  
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• Turner Prize entries include an enormous pair of golden buttocks and £20,000 in pennies

  26-09-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The winner of the controversial prize will be announced in December. Work by the four shortlisted artists competing for the £25,000 award is on show at Tate Britain.
  
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• Theresa May is grammar scammer as schools plan revealed to be a sham that will divide, not unite

  26-09-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Only 45 children on free meals attend ten top grmmar schools in England that teach over 8,600 students as critics say selection means 'chosen few succeeding'
  
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• Brexit Britain 'MUST accept free movement if it wants access to single market'

  26-09-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two EU leaders have said they "can't imagine" their citizens would not receive equal treatment after Britain quits the EU
  
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• Is this Donald Trump's biggest UK fan? Radio caller backs billionaire Republican on eve of US presidential debate

  26-09-2016 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paula took to the airwaves to claim Trump was not a liar and had been subject to a campaign from "elitist media"
  
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• Alton Towers owners found solely to blame for horror Smiler crash - but £1.4million boss will keep job

  26-09-2016 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ride was kept open despite unsafe winds and two young girls had their legs amputated in the resulting 90mph smash but Nick Varney is still in line for his bonus
  
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• Pervert school caretaker jailed despite wife telling court she was in his sick videos

  26-09-2016 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gayle Ryal initially told detectives she was shocked to see the short film and said the sleeping female did not look like her
  
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• Pervert school caretaker jailed despite lying wife telling court she was woman in his sick videos

  26-09-2016 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gayle Ryal initially told detectives she was shocked to see the short film and said the sleeping female did not look like her
  
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• Cressida Bonas split up from Prince Harry 'because she could not take public scrutiny'

  26-09-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Royal commentators said Cressida Bonas could not stand the public scrutiny she endured while dating Prince Harry. The couple were together for two years before splitting in 2014.
  
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• Gritty side of American dream snapped by ex-con who taught himself photography behind bars

  26-09-2016 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Serial offender Donato Di Camillo was sometimes confined to a 120-foot parameter - but he'd capture whatever insects, birds and plants he came across
  
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• Car owner looks out of his window to find his Peugeot on fire outside

  26-09-2016 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When Kezz Furber's sister started screaming about a fire outside, he couldn't believe the sight of his vehicle up in flames
  
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• Prince William and Kate Middleton arrive at Great Bear Rainforest amid torrential downpours

  26-09-2016 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The royal couple's itinerary had to be changed at the last minute because of torrential winds and rain
  
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• Headteacher who downed eight glasses of wine on school trip admits she then had 'improper contact with pupils'

  26-09-2016 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A disciplinary hearing which Gillian Rew fought unsuccessfully to be heard in private was told children were left feeling 'shocked', 'uncomfortable' and 'awkward' by her behaviour
  
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• Visa con artists are charging holidaymakers up to 18 TIMES what they should be paying

  26-09-2016 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rip-off websites are fleecing Brits, with some sites charging up to £64.19 for travel authorisation to the US, which is sold on the US government site for £9
  
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• British holidaymaker Paul Shekleton dies while swimming off the coast of Trinidad

  26-09-2016 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tributes have poured in for Paul Shekleton (pictured), who died while swimming off the coast of Mayara, Trinidad. The 71-year-old had been in the resort with his wife, who is from the island, and her family.
  
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• Heartwarming moment student gives his favourite teacher pair of Air Jordan shoes he always wanted

  26-09-2016 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Student Hector Montez made the gesture after building a close relationship with his teacher and football coach Thomas Walser
  
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• EuroMillions backlash begins after price rises to £2.50 and odds lengthen

  26-09-2016 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EuroMillions players must now choose from an extra number under changes that decrease the odds of winning the jackpot, while the price is going up from £2 to £2.50 a line.
  
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• Groomer who wanted to take 13-year-old's virginity snared by paedophile hunters Dark Justice

  26-09-2016 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark Thornton thought he talked to two 13-year-old girls online to satisfy his 'sexual interest in children', a court heard
  
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• Glamour model, 24, is cleared of stealing £28,000 Hublot watch from Iraqi businessman after party at his flat

  26-09-2016 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Glamour model Gemma Boal, 24, was today cleared of stealing a £28,000 Hublot watch from an Iraqi businessman after attending a party at a luxurious apartment in Knightsbridge, London.
  
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• Ben Needham's mum: 'I’m nervous, the police are nervous. They don’t want to bring me that dreadful news'

  26-09-2016 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The distraught mother of the missing toddler praised the detective in charge of the search for his body as the team uncovered many bone fragments in the soil on day one of the search in Kos
  
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• Ofcom investigating Coronation Street over 'Kunta Kinte' comment

  26-09-2016 21:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eva Price made the 'racist comment' in Bank Holiday Monday's episode. The character said 'I have more roots than Kunta Kinte' in a visit to a hair salon. Ofcom received 472 complaints and is now investigating.
  
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• Mansions destined to belong to the super-rich lie abandoned in Bangkok

  26-09-2016 21:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The crumbling remains of deserted condominium housing and office towers can still be found throughout Thailand from the banking disaster nearly 20 years ago.
  
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• Crisis-hit NHS body in £19.3million of debt appoints 'turnaround director' on £33,000 a month

  26-09-2016 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bob Wiggins earned around £265,000 for eight months of work at the North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group
  
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• Hulking kickboxer is jailed after beating his girlfriend so badly she didn't recognise herself

  26-09-2016 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kickboxer Dominic McCluskey admitted assaulting his ex-girlfriend Brogan Sloan as she lay in bed
  
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• Labour's defence policy in chaos after Jeremy Corbyn deleted key Trident pledge

  26-09-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis was left fuming after his plan to announce support for Trident nuclear submarines was axed
  
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• ISIS are plotting wave of car bomb attacks across Europe, intelligence chiefs fear

  26-09-2016 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The EU's counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove (pictured) warned Europe needed to prepare for an 'exodus' of thousands of fighters returning from Iraq and Syria.
  
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• Ben Needham search teams find bone fragments in an olive grove

  26-09-2016 21:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Officers launched a fresh bid to discover what happened to the toddler after a new witness came forward to claim he may have been run over by a digger and buried.
  
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• When stag and hen parties go VERY wrong - and even result in the wedding being called off

  26-09-2016 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Avoid strip clubs, taxidermy animals, plaster casts and scissors if you want to have a happy and harmonious wedding day
  
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• Steel workers' fury as Jeremy Corbyn vows to ban fracking if Labour win election

  26-09-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The GMB and Community unions both hit out because the fledgling industry will need hundreds of thousands of tons of steel
  
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• Teenager banned from using internet so much ties mum to chair for week and starves her to death

  26-09-2016 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 16-year-old Chinese girl wanted revenge for being sent to a brutal boot camp to curb her online addiction - demanding a ransom from an aunt she mailed torture pics and videos
  
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• Teen 'starved mum to death after sending her to addiction boot camp for using internet too much'

  26-09-2016 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 16-year-old reportedly wanted revenge for being sent to the camp to curb her online addiction
  
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• Ex-headteacher Gillian Rew admits drinking and 'improper contact' on school trip

  26-09-2016 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former headteacher Gillian Rew was sacked from her £74,000-a-year post at Arbroath High School in Scotland after she 'made inappropriate comments' on a sixth year trip to Lockerbie Manor.
  
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• Road safety advert ‘blames CYCLISTS for being run over by lorries’

  26-09-2016 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Department for Transport's Think! campaign advert was criticised on social media after warning cyclists to 'hang back' while showing a lorry overtaking a bike at a junction (pictured).
  
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• Concentrix whistleblower says firm used to slash tax credits received calls from 'suicidal' clients

  26-09-2016 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A source at the company, which has recently been stripped of contract to cut tax credit fraud and overpayment, said staff 'weren't even trained' to deal with the calls
  
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• Concentrix whistleblower says firm used to slash tax credits receieved calls from 'suicidal' clients

  26-09-2016 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A source at the company, which has recently been stripped of contract to cut tax credit fraud and overpayment, said staff 'weren't even trained' to deal with the calls
  
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• Tony Blair’s former protection officer killed during Duo Normand cycle race

  26-09-2016 20:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A retired British policeman died when he was hit by a car just 200 metres from the finish line of a cycle race in France. Police are investigating the death of former Police Constable Ian Bashford, 61.
  
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• Dad branded 'cannibal' after filming himself eating wife's placenta as part of full English breakfast

  26-09-2016 20:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Ross Watson was digging into the afterbirth of his newborn son
  
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• Scotland Yard 'may never know' what files from secret unit targeting corrupt cops were destroyed

  26-09-2016 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The destruction of the files was highlighted in the 2014 review of the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation
  
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• Brogan Sloan who was beaten by martial arts ex Dominic McCluskey slams his jail sentence 

  26-09-2016 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former doorman Dominic McCluskey, 21, from Gateshead, was jailed after repeatedly kicking and punching his girlfriend Brogan Sloan, 21, in a savage attack lasting an hour.
  
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• Disney 'looking into buying Twitter' as multiple companies eye up social media giant

  26-09-2016 20:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The House of Mouse is working with a financial adviser to consider a potential bid, according to reports
  
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• Canada royal tour 2016 live: Rain-soaked Prince William and Kate Middleton arrive at Great Bear Rainforest

  26-09-2016 20:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The royals will visit the world's largest temperate rainforest, home to the Kermode (Spirit) bear as well as marine life including whales, sea otters and dolphins
  
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• Canada royal tour 2016 live: Prince William and Kate Middleton visit Great Bear Rainforest on day 3

  26-09-2016 20:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The royals will visit the world's largest temperate rainforest, home to the Kermode (Spirit) bear as well as marine life including whales, sea otters and dolphins
  
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• Union leaders praise £10 minimum wage pledge by Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell

  26-09-2016 20:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Unite's Len McCluskey came out in support of McDonnell and called the Consevratives' national living wage a 'con'
  
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• Man who 'tried to sell 3,000 private photos from Pippa Middleton's iCloud account' released on bail

  26-09-2016 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nathan Wyatt, 35, was questioned by detectives following claims 3,000 images were stolen from the Duchess of Cambridge's sister
  
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• UK weather: Snow could hit Britain within six weeks with cold temperatures 'to last until February'

  26-09-2016 20:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One weather forecaster has floated the possibility of a white Christmas - but the Met Office says this winter will be 'fairly normal'
  
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• Massive hornet DEVOURS a wasp outside a Bristol pub

  26-09-2016 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Giant Asian hornets, which feast on bees, were spotted in Tetbury, Gloucestershire last week. Days later, this huge insect was pictured eating a wasp just 30 miles away in Long Ashton, Bristol.
  
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• Mother 'raped by gang of migrants from Iraq, Syria and Bahrain after drink was spiked'

  26-09-2016 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 26-year-old said she woke up in a strange house with cuts and bruises, and believes her drink had been spiked on a night out in Sunderland before she was abducted and sexually assaulted.
  
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