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• Rubbish warden slaps woman with quackers fine for feeding the DUCKS

  30-09-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Over-zealous litter wardens have been suspended after a woman was fined for throwing breadcrumbs into a river
  
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• Nissan jobs warning shows the very real dangers of the Brexit vote

  30-09-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Car giant threatens to claim compensation if there are financial implications to Brexit
  
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• 'He spent six days and nights on that beach, covered in blood and saving lives': One of the last remaining survivors from the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation dies, aged 99

  30-09-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  War hero Vic Viner has died at the age of 99 having survived the infamous Operation Dynamo during which he marshalled comrades from the sand into tiny ships back in 1940.
  
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• Barack Obama leads tributes to former Israeli leader Shimon Peres as world leaders bid him farewell

  30-09-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Nobel Peace Prize winner died this week, aged 93, with his dream of peace unrealised
  
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• Oil price: Is OPEC back in charge?

  30-09-2016 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  OPEC has agreed a preliminary deal to reduce supply, to prop up prices. BBC economics correspondent Andrew Walker examines whether the deal will hold.
  
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• Terrorists and hackers to be targeted as Britain opens first center to combat cyber crime

  30-09-2016 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A team of around 700 people are expected to be advancing the Government's war against cyber crime
  
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• A wealthy aristocrat, an imposing mansion and a dispute over a vast inheritance. It's not a Downton Abbey plot-line, but a real-life fight between a viscount and his stepmother over his father's £11m will

  30-09-2016 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Kemp, the 3rd Viscount Rochdale, is embroiled in a legal dispute with his stepmother, after being cut out of an £11.3million inheritance, court documents reveal.
  
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• 'I was a nerd and got beaten up. There's no shame in that yet your attackers are gutless, the walking dead.' Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine pens an emotional letter to schoolboy victim of vicious attack which went viral

  30-09-2016 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine has written to the boy expressing his sympathy after he was filmed knocked out by thugs and has encouraged the victim to take up poetry and visit his studios.
  
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• Did evil cabbie Christopher Halliwell kill THREE women on the night he was once dumped by a girlfriend?  

  30-09-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Christopher Halliwell (pictured) is serving a life sentence for the murders ofBecky Godden and Sian O'Callaghan from Swindon. But, it is feared he killed at least three other women.
  
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• Supermarkets 'deliberately bake too much bread to lure in shoppers before binning it'

  30-09-2016 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Supermarkets are baking too much bread in-store despite knowing it will never sell, food waste charities claim, in a ploy tocreate aromas that feeds an atmosphere of fresh food on the shelves.
  
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• Teenager escapes police officers as they try to handcuff him in Dunbartonshire

  30-09-2016 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fiasco is believed to have been filmed outside a railway station in Clyebank, West Dunbartonshire, last Saturday. The 90-second untitled clip has been viewed 100,000 times.
  
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• Gymnastics coach jailed after abusing eight children to satisfy his bizarre fetish for licking and tickling feet

  30-09-2016 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Luke Griffin, 20, was sent to prison for six years after admitting 13 counts of sexual assault of children under 13 and one of false imprisonment
  
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• That's a turn up for the books - Strange facts about writers and their works

  30-09-2016 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Every book hides an abundance of adventure, romance and drama - but the world of the authors is also fertile ground for fascinating facts
  
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• Bed-bound former gymnast in agonising pain after breaking ankle 10 years ago is crowdfunding to have leg amputated

  30-09-2016 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jess Laughton has been told the NHS will not fund the amputation of her lower leg, which she hopes will give her back her independence and relieve the agonising pain
  
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• Wife of canoe conman John Darwin reveals she almost committed suicide as she thought she'd lost her boys

  30-09-2016 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anne's sons Anthony and Mark gave evidence against her during her trial
  
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• Wife of canoe conman Anne Darwin reveals she almost committed suicide as she thought she'd lost her boys

  30-09-2016 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anne's sons Anthony and Mark gave evidence against her during her trial
  
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• Horror as out of control VW Beetle hurtles towards man exiting parked car before he makes gobsmacking escape

  30-09-2016 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the hair-raising clip, the driver has parked up his white Mini by the side of the pavement - unaware of the danger
  
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• Former hospital where Britain's soldiers went to recover could be yours for £4million

  30-09-2016 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It once stood as a grand hotel and has a proud history, having housed injured soldiers during the First World War, but these photos show how The Rest in Porthcawl, South Wales, is now abandoned.
  
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• Children swim in a crater caused by an airstrike in Aleppo 

  30-09-2016 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The young boys were seen enjoying brief moments of respite amid a bombing campaign estimated to have claimed 338 people in the past week, including 106 children.
  
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• Someone's got a country to run! President Obama gets impatient as chatty Bill Clinton delays their departure from Israel by dawdling on the tarmac

  30-09-2016 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Video shows the moment President Obama hurried Bill Clinton to board Air Force One, after flying to Israel on Friday to attend the funeral of Shimon Peres.
  
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• Driver who crashed head-on into Mini killing two is jailed for five years 

  30-09-2016 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mitchell Butler-Eldridge (pictured) was dangerously overtaking on the A10 near Littleport, Cambridgeshire before smashing into Tim Wildbore and Andrew Thornewell's car.
  
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• Crisis-hit Monarch Airlines given 12 days to secure multi-million pound lifeline

  30-09-2016 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Civil Aviation Authority agreed to extend the firm’s Air Travel Organiser’s Licence until October 12
  
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• Burglar scrawled initials in his own BLOOD on wall of home he raided as a bizarre calling card

  30-09-2016 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  George Roberts, 35, cut himself when he broke into the intent on helping himself to whatever he could find - and 'GR' was found smeared in blood on the walls which matched his DNA
  
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• Pete Wicks 'sent home from Marbella after Megan McKenna discovers X-rated messages to his ex'

  30-09-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pair came to blows today after Megan discovered the alleged messages
  
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• Most children prefer their grandmothers to their mums - and here's the reason why

  30-09-2016 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Research involving 1,600 British mothers talking about their busy lives found the older generation was having a bigger influence than ever before on family life
  
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• Mother hits out at Tesco after spotting a spa toy for children to make their own 'labial moisturiser'

  30-09-2016 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kat Shaw, who has a two-year-old daughter, wrote a message on Tesco's Facebook page after she read the product description for My First Spa on the supermarket's website.
  
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• Sam Allardyce hires a chauffeur to drive him round on Spanish holiday

  30-09-2016 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shamed ex-Three Lions boss has a burly driver at his beck and call to make sure he gets VIP treatment
  
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• Iceland raises flight alert after Katla volcano was rocked by two earthquakes

  30-09-2016 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Icelandic Met Office said two quakes had shaken the Katla volcano in southern Iceland and that "an intense seismic swarm" had been experienced since Thursday morning
  
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• Africa's top shots: 23-29 September 2016

  30-09-2016 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.
  
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• False widow spider bite leaves lorry driver with gaping hole in his wrist

  30-09-2016 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Christopher Whittock, 57, from Bath has been left with a gaping wound after he suffered an allergic reaction when he was bitten by a false widow spider.
  
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• Canada royal tour 2016: Kate and William taken to remote island by rowers protesting against gas plant

  30-09-2016 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Locals wearing blue T-shirts with the words 'No LNG' on them took the royals to a remote island
  
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• Disgusting moment New Zealand bushman kills giant octopus 'humanely' by CHEWING its head off

  30-09-2016 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Octopus tentacles flay wildly around as the Kiwi Bear Grylls in a camouflage wetsuit holds it up to the camera and sinks in his teeth in between its eyes
  
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• US election 2016: Donald Trump's unwise battles - or were they?

  30-09-2016 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump appears to be digging himself into another hole with his attack on Alicia Machado - what is in it for him?
  
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• Ben Needham's family beg landowner not to stop dig for a second time

  30-09-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kerry Needham had to be comforted by her mum Christine, 64, and dad Eddy, 68, after hearing the dig had been halted
  
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• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers for tonight's £112million jackpot on Friday, September 30

  30-09-2016 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's jackpot - the biggest of 2016 and the first since the price of a ticket went up 50p to £2.50 - would make you a very rich person... but have you got a winning ticket?
  
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• Last surviving WWII Dunkirk evacuation 'beach master' dies, at 99

  30-09-2016 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hero veteran recently met with Inception and Interstellar movie director Christopher Nolan who is making a film based on rescue - starring ex-One Direction member Harry Styles
  
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• Last surviving WWII Dunkirk evacuation 'beach master' dies, aged 99, after meeting Hollywood filmmaker

  30-09-2016 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hero veteran recently met with Inception and Interstellar movie director Christopher Nolan who is making a film based on rescue - starring ex-One Direction member Harry Styles
  
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• Hilarious moment freaked-out police officer crashes around the office as he gets spooked by a haunted house during his first go at virtual reality 

  30-09-2016 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Plymouth PC Steve Puckering tried out virtual reality for the first time. The off-duty officer stumbled around the room spooked out by the scene, so much so he smashed a desk in the room.
  
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• Angry drag queen knocks man unconscious with ferocious single right hook punch after 'row over t-shirt'

  30-09-2016 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In the extraordinary assault, the drag queen rocks back and flattens the man with a punch that leaves him spread out on his back on the road
  
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• Nissan to demand Brexit compensation from Theresa May and warned firm may not remain in UK

  30-09-2016 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Japanese firm employs almost 7,000 people at its factory in Sunderland and supports an estimated 20,000 jobs
  
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• Right-wing thug claimed his 'Sieg Heil' chant was just him 'chewing gum'

  30-09-2016 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lee Robinson insisted he hadn't used Nazi slur - but judge didn't believe him and he was jailed for violent disorder
  
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• ‘We’ve been ignored for too long’: Thousands of British terrorism victims launch campaign to make it easier to bring their attackers to justice

  30-09-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An umbrella organisation is representing 11,500 UK terror victims with relatives and politicians including MP Khalid Mahmood (pictured) wanting to see a change in the law to reduce obstacles.
  
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• Anorexic student, 20, killed herself after fearing her illness would mean she could never achieve her dreams of being a doctor 

  30-09-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lucy Murrell, 20, from Gloucestershire, was told by specialists at an eating disorder clinic that they had 'very real concerns' about her returning to university to continue her medical degree.
  
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• Severely anorexic student eating only 200 calories a day told she was not thin enough for treatment

  30-09-2016 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lorna Beattie, then 18, felt like a "failed anorexic" after being told by the doctor she was not thin enough and she dropped to a dangerous 5st 10lb
  
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• Disabled great grandmother's mobility scooter stolen while she was in Bible class

  30-09-2016 21:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The thief, who used a walking stick, was helped by a middle aged man who disabled the lock before pushing the woman away
  
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• ‘Someone died and he’s after free food. What a world we live in’: Eurostar passenger apologises after causing outrage for demanding free food when fatality caused his train to be delayed

  30-09-2016 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mathew Read demanded free food and compensation for a delayed train after it's understood a person was killed on the line in Hondeghem in France this afternoon.
  
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• Snake dies from silicon poisoning after sinking its teeth into glamour model's fake breasts

  30-09-2016 20:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The scantily clad, cosmetically enhanced model was being filmed holding the large snake as it wraps around her leg and a man comments something about being "sexy"
  
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• Emotional Kate Silverton weeps after BBC News report shows rescuers pulling miracle baby girl from rubble of Aleppo

  30-09-2016 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: DISTRESSING VIDEO. The newsreader was watching Abu Kifah's team finding the survivor in the destroyed building
  
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• Canada royal tour 2016 live: Kate and William taken to remote island by rowers protesting against gas plant

  30-09-2016 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The royal couple will travel in by boat to the beach and fish the waters of the Hecate Strait
  
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• Woman wanted by police mocked mercilessly for 'crime against eyebrows' on Twitter over state of her mugshot

  30-09-2016 20:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Commentators have been quick to quip that she should also be wanted for crimes against make-up - in a series of hilarious tweets, emojis and GIFS which have been posted online
  
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