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• Horror of the Aberfan mining disaster revealed by journalist who covered tragedy

  20-10-2016 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A total of 116 children and 28 adults lost their lives on October 21, 1966
  
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• Aberfan mining disaster 50th anniversary: 'They brought out the deputy headteacher still clutching five dead children'

  20-10-2016 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A total of 116 children and 28 adults lost their lives on October 21, 1966
  
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• Queen-obsessed ex-soldier must wait to be sentenced for carrying knives near Buckingham Palace

  20-10-2016 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Bolton's clinician asked for 12 weeks to prepare a psychiatric report due to an existing report on the schizophrenic's mental condition being lost
  
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• Flasher spotted spinning manhood 'in a helicopter motion' near school said he stripped off 'because he was hot'

  20-10-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stuart Reynolds, 69, performed a sex act in his doorway and was completely nude in his front window on another, a court heard
  
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• The law must be changed to stop other spivs behaving like Philip Green

  20-10-2016 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MPs vote to strip the disgraced former BHS head of his knighthood, but have no pity on him for he brought it on himself
  
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• Mysterious WOBBLE in Earth's solar system 'proves existence of giant undiscovered 'Planet Nine'

  20-10-2016 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The theory is just one of many scientists have put forward to either prove or disprove that 'Planet Nine' sits on the edge of our solar system
  
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• Brutal Tory cuts lead to massive rise in A&E admissions for mental health problems

  20-10-2016 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Policies such as the benefits cap and Bedroom Tax have plunged needy families into poverty, sparking an epidemic of depression
  
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• Man makes gruesome discovery after finding 40 dead cats 'stacked' in freezers he won in auction

  20-10-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bargain hunter, who has not been named, paid $150 for the two pieces of kitchen equipment
  
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• Philip Green's reputation lies in tatters as MPs vote to strip him of knighthood after BHS scandal

  20-10-2016 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour MP Iain Wright said the collapse of the store chain was “one of the biggest corporate scandals of modern times”
  
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• 32 worst Starbucks name fails EVER revealed: Imagine these been yelled out across a busy coffee shop...

  20-10-2016 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The store's coffee baristas are world-famous for spelling customers names wrong - either causing hilarity or irritation - but some of these will make you think: "How on earth...?"
  
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• French scientists show eating cheese with wine boosts its aroma

  20-10-2016 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The researchers at the Centre for Taste and Feeding Behaviour, Dijon, France, said eating cheese had an impact on both the description and preference for different wines.
  
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• Exeter bomb attack plotter dies in prison

  20-10-2016 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The failed Muslim suicide bomber, radicalised Nicky Reilly, whose explosive device blew up in a restaurant toilet in Exeter injuring only himself, has died n prison at the age of 30.
  
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• EU leaders lay into Britain over Brexit as Theresa May attends her first summit

  20-10-2016 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  PM told in no uncertain terms that Britain can not end the free movement of people and maintain access to the single market
  
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• Donald Trump should probably read this letter before election night

  20-10-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The chances of the Donald being elected President are slim. The chances of him being a good loser are even slimmer
  
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• Panicking ISIS evacuates sex slaves from besieged Mosul as Jihadi group's grasp on battered city slips

  20-10-2016 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  ISIS militants are heading for the terror group's stronghold city of Raqqa amid reports a gunman dubbed the 'Sniper of Mosul' has sent top commanders fleeing for their lives
  
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• Prince Harry shares poignant moment with youngster at service to remember tragic police heroes

  20-10-2016 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 32-year-old chatted with the lad at a service at the Met Police’s training college in Hendon to honour the 650 officers killed on duty
  
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• Aberfan disaster 50 years on shows a village still in mourning for a precious lost generation

  20-10-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The whole nation will join a tiny Welsh village for a minute's silence at 9.15am - to remember the lives of the 144 people who died when a rock slide hit Pantglas Junior School
  
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• Aberfan 50th anniversary: Photos reveal full horror of disaster which left village in mourning for lost generation

  20-10-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The whole nation will join a tiny Welsh village for a minute's silence at 9.15am - to remember the lives of the 144 people who died when a rock slide hit Pantglas Junior School
  
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• Dame Sian Phillips reveals the devastating impact Aberfan disaster had on her childhood

  20-10-2016 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dame Sian, 83, vividly recalls the impact of the disaster on the South Wales community she knew so well
  
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• Bloodthirsty inmates behead fellow prisoner then play football with his HEAD in sickening jail horror show

  20-10-2016 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: Disturbing images. Stomach-churning footage shows lags kick the head about a prison yard in the latest eruption of gruesome violence between Brazil's rival gangs
  
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• Tourists warned after Thailand 'noodle poisoner paralysed travellers with muscle relaxant then stole cash'

  20-10-2016 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many Thais consider poisonings on buses in order to steal from travellers a real threat but it is considered an urban myth by others
  
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• Tourist warning after food seller 'paralyses bus passengers with muscle relaxant hidden in noodles' and steals their cash

  20-10-2016 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many Thais consider poisonings on buses in order to steal from travellers a real threat but it is considered an urban myth by others
  
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• Shoreditch baking company launches 'bring your own semen' cookery classes

  20-10-2016 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bring Your Own Semen (BYOS) cookery classes will be held in London where chefs will discuss the health benefits and teach to cook with semen including a so-called Victoria 'spooge' cake.
  
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• Shamed footballer Adam Johnson slashes price of his mansion by £150,000

  20-10-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fallen star put the stunning five bed house on the market for £1.85m in July
  
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• Revealed: The area of England where people are most likely to have weight loss surgery

  20-10-2016 21:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  NHS England last year carried out some 6,000 fat-fighting operations to help people shed the pounds
  
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• 13-day-old baby suffered catastrophic brain damage after being 'shaken, squeezed and twisted by his father', court hears

  20-10-2016 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Little Joshua Millinson was also found - after he died - to have fractures to both knees and ankles caused by "twisting" of his limbs, the court was told
  
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• Half-naked woman pictured with children's dinosaur sculpture now being treated as 'hacking victim' by police

  20-10-2016 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police now say the woman in the video was not performing "a sexual act" and that "no contact" had taken place between the woman and dinosaur sculpture
  
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• Hundreds of chemists face closure as Tories plan £321million in cuts to local pharmacies

  20-10-2016 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Opponents warn as many as 3,000 pharmacies are at risk due to the 7% loss in funding, which will pile pressure on the NHS
  
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• Syrian doctor who says he would rather be in war-ravaged Aleppo than stay in UK is ARRESTED after ranting at a immigration centre about being 'forced' to stay in 'five-star hotels'

  20-10-2016 21:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Six police officers arrested Syrian plastic surgeon Dr Abdulkader Majed Al-Zuebi on suspicion of a public order offence from the Home Office immigration centre in Croydon, South London.
  
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• Humans can fight off colds and flu because ancestors had sex with Neanderthals

  20-10-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New research shows that Europeans owe much of their ability to fight off many infections due to the interbreeding that took place many thousands of years ago
  
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• Britain's first gorilla born by C-section meets her mother-to-be at Bristol Zoo

  20-10-2016 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Afia (pictured), an eight-month-old western lowland gorilla, was introduced to Romina, a 36-year-old female, at Bristol Zoo last Wednesday.
  
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• Aleppo wakes to a dawn chorus of gunshots where people only share killing and grief

  20-10-2016 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dan Rivers is the ITV News correspondent in Syria and has seen the hardships first hand
  
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• Bizarre footage shows astronauts taking silkworm for 'space walk' in zero gravity on board orbital laboratory

  20-10-2016 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video shows Jing Haipeng, commander of the space mission, releasing the insect while in zero gravity on board the Tiangong-2 space laboratory
  
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• Sickening video shows young mum and boyfriend unconscious in car surrounded by needles after 'heroin overdose'

  20-10-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Taylor Swartzlander, 24, and Haley Kirkendall, 22, were found by witnesses who saw their vehicle 'drift diagonally through traffic before jumping the curb'
  
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• 'Snake-tongued' groom licks juice from bride's legs and eats popcorn off her crotch in bizarre wedding ritual

  20-10-2016 20:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman is shown lying on her back wearing a denim dress in the clip, as the man goes about his work with friends and relatives watching on
  
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• Could you work at Dyson? Company scraps traditional application process in place of cryptic puzzle

  20-10-2016 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dyson have released a fiendishly difficult brainteaser in a bid to hire talented new staff - can you crack it?
  
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• Sir David Attenborough comes face-to-face with giant 'fish-lizard' in new documentary about Ichthyosaur fossil found on British beach

  20-10-2016 20:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The dinosaur-dolphin was discovered along Dorset's Jurassic coast earlier this year and will now feature in BBC documentary Attenborough and the Giant Sea Dragon
  
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• Mum 'tried to run over rival mother on school run after clashing over romance'

  20-10-2016 20:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Erica Burton, 34, forced 31-year old Jana Turner to jump out of the way after she revved up her Ford Focus before mounting the pavement, a court heard
  
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• Vile pervert who planned weekend of sex with 14-year-old at Saracens Rugby Club is caught by paedo hunters

  20-10-2016 20:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rugby player Richard Ganyata met who he thought was a 14-year-old girl for a weekend of sex in Hendon, north London - but he was talking to the vigilantes 'Internet Interceptors'
  
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• Prison officer 'besotted' with lag 'caught with syringe filled with his semen'

  20-10-2016 20:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alison Sharples was allegedly told by prisoner Marvin Berkeley that he wanted a baby with her
  
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• Arthritic pensioner steps in to stop grandson getting beaten by bullies in shocking clip

  20-10-2016 20:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Latoya Hudson shared the video online after her mum helped her save teen son Cantrell from his schoolmates
  
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• US firm behind tax credit blunders to have government contract axed early

  20-10-2016 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Work being done by US firm Concentrix will be brought back in-house immediately, staff have been told
  
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• Fireball Halloween costumes could be putting 100,000 children at risk

  20-10-2016 20:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Campaigners are attempting to overturn an EU law which classes the festive outfits as toys rather than clothing
  
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• Deadly 'Sniper of Mosul' guns down dozens of ISIS fighters as jihadis face end game in ruined city

  20-10-2016 20:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Reports in Iraq say the emergence of the figure - which is likely to be a number of snipers - has 'increased the pace of the popular resistance against the ISIS'
  
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• Help find Jeremy the 'lefty' snail a mate

  20-10-2016 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A rare garden snail with an anticlockwise shell has been discovered in London, but he must mate with similar.
  
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• 'World's sexiest street seller' helps bring 'phwoar and peace' to one of globe's most bitterly divided regions

  20-10-2016 20:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As word spread about good-looking chai waller Arshad Khan, 18, dozens of adoring fans flocked to see him in at work Islamabad
  
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• Teen assault victim invited to tour Jeremy Vine's studio was buying drugs at time of attack

  20-10-2016 20:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Youngster who was videoed being brutally attacked in a London park was there to purchase cannabis, it has been revealed
  
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• Asda told to "grow up" by parents over controversial T-shirts which "trivialise" mental health issues

  20-10-2016 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The T-shirts are aimed at young kids, but many angry parents have accused the supermarket of being insensitive
  
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• Made in Chelsea crew plane crashes in the Pacific en route to Costa Rica

  20-10-2016 19:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A flight carrying crew of television show Made in Chelsea has crashed in the Pacific ahead of a Costa Rica special episode after the private plane ran into ‘bad weather’.
  
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• Paul Gambaccini 'may sue Scotland Yard' after he was accused of sexually assaulting 2 boys 

  20-10-2016 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DJ Paul Gambacinni told the Gibraltar Literary Festival, how he may sue the Metropolitan police after he endured a year of suspicion when he was arrested and never charged for sexual assault.
  
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