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• Britain's war on drugs has failed as experts call for penalties to be scrapped

  14-11-2016 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The British Medical Journal says illegal drug use is increasing and alternative policies are needed urgently
  
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• Golden eagle becomes the star of the show in BBC's Planet Earth II

  14-11-2016 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Viewers were 'speechless' during Planet Earth II last night by bird's-eye footage of a golden eagle swooping through the mountains at 200mph - which turned out to be a tame young eagle.
  
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• Dementia is now the biggest killer so it must become top medical priority

  14-11-2016 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Research and treatment have not kept up with the toll inflicted by Alzheimer’s and other brain conditions
  
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• Jo Cox trial hears 'killer searched internet for fascist groups and how to kill a human'

  14-11-2016 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One witness claimed the alleged killer yelled “Keep Britain ­independent”, “Britain First, this is for Britain, Britain will always come first”  as 41-year-old Jo was attacked
  
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• Dad who left son to die in hot car for SEVEN hours while sexting women convicted of murder

  14-11-2016 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Justin Ross Harris, 35, is facing life in prison after jurors found him responsible for the death of his son Cooper
  
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• Theresa May BEGS Donald Trump for a meeting after Nigel Farage humiliation

  14-11-2016 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The UKIP leader was the first foreign politician to meet the President-elect after his shock victory at the polls
  
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• Probe into death of billionaire Russian whistleblower who dropped dead while jogging 'hushed up'

  14-11-2016 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It has emerged that in the months and weeks leading up to Alexander Perepilichny's death in 2012 he had received details of a fraud carried out by a gang with links to the Kremlin
  
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• Simon Ball ‘had sex with pupil he had groomed on top his WIFE’S wedding dress’

  14-11-2016 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Simon Ball (pictured), who taught at a school in Yorkshire, would also 'sneak' into one of his victim's homes at night and had sex with her while her parents slept in the same house, it was alleged.
  
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• British man aims to swim Atlantic: From Senegal to Brazil

  14-11-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former British police officer Ben Hooper hopes to make history by swimming every mile of the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to South America. He has been preparing for three years.
  
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• Middle-aged women who follow high-protein diets are at 'higher risk of heart failure'

  14-11-2016 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Meat-based diets, such as the Atkins diet - endorsed by Jennifer Aniston, increased the chance of heart failure 'significantly', researchers from Brown University, Rhode Island found.
  
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• Thug who boasted about smuggling Taser into Glasgow Airport after holiday in Bulgaria jailed for five years

  14-11-2016 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Henry Morton posted videos of himself on Facebook using the high-voltage weapon in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria
  
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• Germany spends on anti-terror cops in wake of Merkel’s open-door migrant policy 

  14-11-2016 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hamburg has spent £3.9 million equipping its anti-terror officers with new equipment over fears of jihadi-style attacks including a new Survivor One armoured personnel carrier.
  
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• 'Predatory' paedophile took young boys on trips to Alton Towers before filming himself carrying out 'awful' abuse

  14-11-2016 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Twisted Mark Rosiek, 35, was caught after footage of his horrific crimes was discovered on the computer of another man
  
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• London man is stabbed to death at kickboxing gym run by trainer who coached Idris Elba

  14-11-2016 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A man in his 20s was stabbed to death inside a boxing gym in Bexley, south London, where actor Idris Elba trained for a professional fight in Thailand last month. No arrests have been made.
  
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• Prince Philip opens London's new Design Museum 

  14-11-2016 22:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Duke of Edinburgh, 95, spoke with schoolchildren and guests including Sir Terence Conran at the opening of the £83million building in Kensington.
  
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• Trump and Putin vow to tackle ISIS together as they hold breakthrough talks after billionaire's election

  14-11-2016 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Kremlin said Putin called the president-elect yesterday to begin negotiations over how best to tackle to terrorism
  
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• Detectives launch investigation after two men suffer 'shocking' homophobic abuse for holding hands in London street

  14-11-2016 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police release footage of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the incident
  
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• Dangerous rapist who escaped jail recaptured after he was assaulted by unknown attackers

  14-11-2016 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Bromwich, fellow rapist Admi Headley and Wayne Maycock – in jail for robbery and GBH – sneaked out of prison between roll calls on Sunday
  
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• Children cower as rival jail gangs 'snatch prison guards' batons in visiting room brawl'

  14-11-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 15 visitors, including a baby, were trapped for 10 minutes when the fight broke out at HMP Aylesbury as visiting ended on Sunday
  
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• Calls for mega-rich Premier League football clubs to pay all staff the living wage

  14-11-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sports minister Tracey Crouch backed calls for all 20 clubs to pay the wage to contract as well as permanent staff
  
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• Lottery winner attacked wife and child after saying win would make 2016 'great year for his family'

  14-11-2016 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Balvinder Malhotra, 30, struck his partner three times in a “sustained attack” just months after winning £70,000 on a scratch card
  
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• Two arrested in Edward Heath child abuse probe which aims to 'bring living offenders to justice'

  14-11-2016 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wiltshire Police would give no further detail about the suspects, who are on bail
  
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• Lotto millionaire who issued boyfriend with hilarious list of Ibiza rules flashes fake boobs bought with her winnings

  14-11-2016 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jane Park, who has since split from her partner, Connor George, flashed her assets in a photobooth at a party to celebrate her 21st birthday
  
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• Joseph Henderson sent flirty messages to '13-year-old girl' he was trying to groom

  14-11-2016 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dark Justice set up a fake profile of a girl called Jessie and swapped messages with Joseph Henderson (pictured), of Wilkie Loan, North Lanarkshire, before setting up a sting in Newcastle.
  
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• Edward and Stephen Bennett face prison for shooting dead drugs baron Mark Jones

  14-11-2016 21:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cardiff Crown Court heard Edward Bennett, pictured, owed drug dealing taxman Mark Jones £60,000 and arranged to murder him along with his eldest brother Stephen in July 2015.
  
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• Duchess of Cambridge borrowed the Queen's diamond and pearl earrings for Remembrance Sunday service

  14-11-2016 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kate was wearing  the Bahrain Pearl Drop Earrings, given to Princess Elizabeth as a wedding present to in 1947
  
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• President Duterte vows to crush ISIS if they enter the Philippines

  14-11-2016 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Monday that Islamic State militants could set up in his country, and he would forego human rights obligations to keep his people safe.
  
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• Grooms who jilted their brides at the altar confess why they did it - and what really happened

  14-11-2016 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some brides also lifted the lid on why they dumped theirfuture husbands         
  
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• Heavy drinking as a teenager puts their future children's brain function at risk

  14-11-2016 21:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Heavy drinking sessions alter the activity of numerous genes in the brains of offspring, researchers from Loyola University in Chicago found.
  
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• WikiLeaks Julian Assange quizzed over sex claims at Ecuadorian Embassy in front of Swedish officials

  14-11-2016 21:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Questions supplied by Swedish officials were put by an Ecuador government representative to Mr Assange, who has always denied the allegation
  
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• Breaking Bad-obsessed cop killer Stefano Brizzi poses for selfie in front of show weeks before brutal murder

  14-11-2016 21:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The picture can be revealed after Brizzi, 50, has been convicted of strangling PC Gordon Semple, 59, before chopping up his body
  
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• Gales and snow send temperatures in the Scottish Highlands plunging

  14-11-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Temperatures could fall as low as -11C in the Scottish Highlands this week as the UK is set to endure a wintry blast of snow and storms following a wet but warmer-than-usual weekend in the UK.
  
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• Naked photographs emerge of Ukrainian minister Anastasia Deeva in charge of European integration

  14-11-2016 21:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ukraine's bid to join the EU took a new twist today when semi-naked pictures of the country's deputy interior minister in charge of European integration, Anastasia Deeva, were revealed (pictured).
  
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• Martin Rowson on the supermoon – cartoon

  14-11-2016 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
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• Boarding school teacher 'had sex with pupil on his wife's wedding dress,' court hears

  14-11-2016 20:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Married Simon Ball, 42, is accused of abusing three schoolgirls aged between 13 and 16 when he worked at a private boarding school
  
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• Christian Holley wants 'justice' after Zamara Rodriguez left with injuries after scooter accident

  14-11-2016 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Christian Holley is trying to track down the driver who knocked wife Zamara Rodriguez off her scooter near Benalmadena, southern Spain.
  
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• Regionalism needed to bridge north-south divide | Letters

  14-11-2016 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Gordon Brown calls for a people’s convention to brainstorm ways of reducing the growing economic gap between the south-east and the rest of Britain (Any Brexit deal must seek to mend the north-south divide, 9 November). As he notes, recent governments – Labour and Tory – have exacerbated the problem by reducing regional aid and skewing both transport and R&D investment toward the south. However well northern schools and universities perform, the productivity and skills gap
  
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• Dagenham stabbing left Duran Williams Kajiama needing 40 bags of blood to save him

  14-11-2016 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Duran Williams Kajiama (pictured) was fatally stabbed in an alleyway a short walk from his house in Dagenham, east London on Saturday evening.
  
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• Murder probe launched after hero dad and his schoolgirl daughter killed in house fire

  14-11-2016 20:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Broadhead, 42, and eight-year-old Kiera were both killed in the blaze in Wakefield
  
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• Mayoress who wrongly claimed £13,000 in benefits walks free after repaying money

  14-11-2016 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Doris Kaus didn’t disclose that her husband Peter, former Mayor of Pembroke West in Wales, had a new job and claimed pension credits or four years.
  
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• Making a Murderer's Brendan Dassey 'to be RELEASED from jail' after judge issues ruling ahead of appeal

  14-11-2016 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A judge ruled for the release of the 26-year-old last month but the Wisconsin Attorney General appealed the case
  
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• Supermoon 2016: Live updates as the most spectacular full moon in nearly 70 YEARS happens around the world

  14-11-2016 20:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The spectacular 'supermoon', which can be viewed from the UK, will appear 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than usual.
  
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• Bob Evans from Birmingham is given one last Christmas party by daughter

  14-11-2016 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bob Evans (left), 63, from Birmingham, was told he had just six months to live after he was diagnosed with throat cancer in July.
  
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• Stunning images of the supermoon rising above the world's landmark sights

  14-11-2016 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The supermoon has already lit up the Sydney Opera House, today, last night it shone above London landmarks hours behind Australia, and appeared above the U.S. later still.
  
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• Obsessed stalker jailed for plot to kidnap woman he met online and keep her as 'sex slave'

  14-11-2016 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Robin Gomes was jailed for 10 years after breaking into victim's house in Wales, with a plan to "chain and cage her"
  
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• Young woman who skipped flu jab fighting for life in coma after catching the virus

  14-11-2016 19:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  NHS worker Laura Spacagna survives fight of her life and is now urging anyone offered the jab to take it
  
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• Liberland president says he has not been allowed to enter because of threats by CROATIA 

  14-11-2016 19:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Czech politician Vit Jedlicka declared himself president of the three-square-mile patch of land on the Serbia-Croatia border last year.
  
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• Dog saves Riley Gedge-Duffy who has Down's Syndrome after locking himself in a TUMBLE DRYER 

  14-11-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Warning - graphic content: Riley Gedge-Duffy, from Northern Ireland, suffered burns to his arms, back and head when the machine automatically started, but Cockapoo Teddy came to his aid.
  
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• GP spent six months in jail for 'groping' teenager's breasts cleared after 'terrible misunderstanding'

  14-11-2016 19:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Married Dr Unt Tun Maung, 45, always denied assaulting the 19-year-old during a medical examination four years ago
  
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• Ben Threlfall from Rhondda had to pull barbed wire from his own THROAT after he was almost beheaded

  14-11-2016 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mountain bike guide Ben Threlfall, 31, was taking a group of six clients along a forestry trail in Rhondda, in South Wales, when he was thrown off his bike and left with the wire wrapped around his throat.
  
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