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• England crowd warm to Chris Robshaw as he never stops trying | Andy Bull

  27-11-2016 23:58 via theguardian.com
  
  A year after the then captain and his team were booed at the Rugby World Cup there is respect for his doggedness and not only because of their winning runOdd little memories stand out crystal clear from the great mêlée of Saturday’s match, which was otherwise one long blur of flying bodies, boots and balls, reset scrums, rolling substitutions, red and yellow cards. One is from 25 minutes in, when Facundo Isa leapt to catch Ben Youngs’ box kick. Isa spilled the ball forwa
  
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• Bizarre footage shows man leading woman along street by DOG LEASH

  27-11-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video has been viewed more than 700,000 times on Facebook since it was posted earlier today
  
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• New Orleans shooting on Bourbon Street leaves one dead and nine injured

  27-11-2016 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One man is dead and nine others are in hospital after a shooting on a busy New Orleans street.
  
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• Lions' spirit should fill us with pride as striking teaching assistants shame Labour council that's lost moral compass

  27-11-2016 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mirror columnist Kevin Maguire says lowly paid, dedicated grafters are being forced to swallow pay cuts of up to 23%
  
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• Fire-breather accidentally burns down nightclub after performance goes badly wrong, leaving two clubbers in intensive care - but some decided to pose for pictures in front of the flames instead of fleeing

  27-11-2016 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Video footage shows the entertainer accidentally set fire to the ceiling before trying and failing to put it out. Twenty two people were injured, of which 14 needed hospital treatment.
  
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• Bull repeatedly head-butts 4-wheel-drive car full of people in terrifying attack caught on film

  27-11-2016 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The video has emerged a day after a clip emerged of a raging hippo repeatedly charging at a truck in a South African national park
  
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• Labour faces a major threat from UKIP's 'ordinary bloke' Paul Nuttall

  27-11-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn must heed the warning of MP Dan Jarvis or face losing traditional supporters
  
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• Mauricio Pochettino says Moussa Sissoko is falling short of expectations

  27-11-2016 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  • Tottenham manager left club-record signing out of squad to play Chelsea
  • Pochettino suggests Sissoko is yet to do enough in training or gamesMauricio Pochettino has expressed disappointment with the impact made by Moussa Sissoko since the midfielder’s club‑record arrival at Tottenham Hotspur in the summer, and suggested the France international had yet to demonstrate in training or in his appearances in the first team the quality the management anticipated.Sissoko cost &
  
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• The 10 questions the FA MUST answer about the football child abuse scandal

  27-11-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror has asked 10 key questions about the historical sex abuse of boys in football because the victims and public deserve answers
  
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• Ex-England star Paul Stewart says 'lessons must be learned' as he urges FA to answer questions about sex abuse

  27-11-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stewart, one of the most high-profile victims to speak out said he fully endorsed calls by the Mirror for the FA to be open and honest about its handling of the scandal
  
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• FIFA urged to "see sense" and drop controversial disciplinary action over Remembrance poppies

  27-11-2016 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Football's governing body has charged English and Scottish FAs over fans wearing poppies to games
  
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• English nationalism is a growling dog with no bite and no bark | Editorial

  27-11-2016 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Ministers’ messy devolution plans might be less provocative than critics feared. However, England’s role will have to be reassessed and arguments about nationalism may become sharper as Brexit loomsIn the June referendum, majorities in England and Wales voted to leave the European Union, while majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain. English people account for around 85% of the population of the UK. So one way of reading the result is that England (and Wales) is f
  
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• Concern over MoD's plans to cut battle tanks by a third and put Britain behind Serbia

  27-11-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British Army will have their Challenger 2s replaced with Ajax fighting vehicles
  
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• 'Today, we don’t talk about baseball': Cubans react to Castro's death

  27-11-2016 22:58 via theguardian.com
  
  In Havana there is a rare mood of quiet and reflection as locals adjust to the loss of a man who had once seemed indestructibleEven before the official decree, the sombre mood had begun. Within half an hour of the news that Fidel Castro was no more, the Fabrica de Arte nightclub had closed its doors.“It happened very quickly,” said one of those present who would only give her first name, Daniella.Continue reading...
  
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• Britain to be left with fewer tanks than Serbia as existing war machines are replaced by Ajax armoured vehicles – but could they stand up to a Russian attack?

  27-11-2016 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Army are planning to cut its number of front line tanks by up to a third, leaving Britain with fewer than Serbia, Russia and only a few more than Switzerland.
  
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• Brave Syrian girl, 7, in Aleppo tweets photo of herself shrouded by smoke after bomb destroys her home

  27-11-2016 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bana Alabed, 7, said: "Tonight we have no house, it's bombed & I got in rubble. I saw deaths and I almost died"
  
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• "It's soul-destroying": Son's heartbreaking tribute after missing mum-of-two found dead in woodland

  27-11-2016 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a touching post, Anita Stevenson's son, Jake, wrote: "I am the man I am today because of this beautiful woman"
  
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• Mother-of-five, 29, is devastated after her husband took the children to school and picked up a mistress at the school gates

  27-11-2016 22:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kelly Pritchard, 29, (right) has spoken of her heartache after husband Allen, also 29, met lover Finlay Doyle, 34, while picking up his children from Lakeside Primary School in Derby.
  
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• Jose Mourinho: Man Utd manager will get it right, says assistant Rui Faria

  27-11-2016 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jose Mourinho's successful record proves he will turn things around at Manchester United, says assistant manager Rui Faria.
  
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• Prince Harry's Caribbean tour hits snag after fleet ship BREAKS DOWN and gets held in port

  27-11-2016 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Royal Fleet Auxillary Wave Knight was scheduled to embark from St Vincent on Saturday night       
  
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• Online Christmas shoppers could be under cyber attack as experts warn of "Wild West" conditions

  27-11-2016 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bargain hunters should stay alert online during the Cyber Monday sales frenzy
  
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• François Fillon wins French primary to be candidate for the right

  27-11-2016 22:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Former prime minister – a fan of Margaret Thatcher – beats Bordeaux mayor Alain Juppé after tapping into ‘rightwing mood’François Fillon, the socially conservative former prime minister who plans to shrink the French state, has won the primary race to become the French right’s presidential candidate next spring.Fillon, 62, gained support in the final days of the primary race after writing a book on the dangers of “Islamic totalitarianism” i
  
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• Right-wing Margaret Thatcher fan with British wife on course to be next President of France

  27-11-2016 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Francois Fillon, 62, remained the hot favourite to win the run-off primary election to choose a Republican Party candidate to become head of state
  
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• Tata's £100m lifeline for British steel could save thousands of jobs and safeguard plants for 10 years

  27-11-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  However, the investment of £100million a year into UK sites hinges of a deal to ditch the £15billion steelworkers’ pension scheme
  
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• How double amputee found kindred spirit in rescue dog: 'We are two of a kind'

  27-11-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gill Dalley lost both her legs to a serious infection but when she met Cola, whose legs had been cruelly hacked off, she knew she'd met her 'kindred spirit'
  
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• Fidel Castro was a wicked tyrant who held Cubans in the grip of power for half a century

  27-11-2016 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daily Mirror Editor Peter Willis saw Castro give his final May Day speech as President in Havana, and it opened his eyes to the intriguing relationship between the revolutionary and his people
  
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• Russian Strictly Come Dancing pair perform as SS guard and terrified Jewish girl in another controversial routine

  27-11-2016 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  On April 10 this year on the Russian equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing -TV actor Alexander Petrov and his professional partner Anastasia Antelava performed a routine in which an SS guard dances with a terrified young Jewish girl
  
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• Big Brother contestant trolled sister of dead teenager in sick Facebook posts 'after row over Beyoncé tickets'

  27-11-2016 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In one of the posts, Lisa Huo, who appeared on the reality TV show in 2006, said Jennifer Smith was a 'coward like her brother’, a court heard
  
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• Manchester United’s José Mourinho faces fresh touchline ban after sending-off

  27-11-2016 21:42 via theguardian.com
  
  • Manager sent to Old Trafford stands by Jonathan Moss after kicking bottle
  • Mourinho may be banned for more than one game as repeat offenderJosé Mourinho is facing a third touchline ban in little more than a year after being sent to the stands for the third time in 20 Premier League matches during Manchester United’s 1-1 draw with West Ham United at Old Trafford on Sunday. Related: Manchester United draw at home with West Ham after José Mourinho sent offContinue r
  
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• 'Fire under the ice'

  27-11-2016 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Known for his quiet nature and love of motor-racing, who is Francois Fillon, tipped as France's next president?
  
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• Comfort food: New app will use face scanner to detect your mood and then suggest the perfect snack to lift your spirits 

  27-11-2016 21:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Developed by a team at Oxford University, the app uses face recognition to discern what mood a person is in and then, depending on their emotion, offers them a snack to lift their spirits.
  
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• Exploding cigars, poison pens and femme fatales: America's failed attempts to kill and smear Fidel Castro

  27-11-2016 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Castro died on Friday at the age of 90 having survived a staggering 638 attempts by the CIA and its allies to assassinate or undermine him
  
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• England will face its coldest November in almost 25 years as temperatures plunge below freezing this week

  27-11-2016 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People have been told to brace themselves for the big freeze as overnight temperatures are forecast to drop to -8C in southern England by Tuesday, making it the coldest November since 1993.
  
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• Russian chess prodigy-turned parkour fan dies after falling to his death while leaping between balconies in Moscow

  27-11-2016 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former world under 16 chess champ Yuri Eliseev, 20, died last night after plummeting from the from the 12th floor of his apartment building in Moscow, Russia
  
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• Ed Balls leaves Strictly Come Dancing after 'fabulous three months'

  27-11-2016 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-shadow chancellor had been rescued by the public week after week, but finally met his match in the cha-cha challengeHe channelled Laurel and Hardy in a slapstick-style quickstep, painted his face green for a Mask-themed samba and left audiences whooping in horror and delight after his rendition of Gangnam Style.But it was with the cha-cha challenge that Ed Balls finally met his match and on Sunday strutted his dad-dancing on the Strictly stage for the final time – 10 weeks after becomin
  
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• England’s Ben Stokes shows restraint as he has last laugh on Virat Kohli

  27-11-2016 20:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Privately seething after a reprimand his opponent escaped, the all-rounder holds it all in despite the fall of the India captain’s wicketBen Stokes has long had a reputation for being able to “make something happen” but on the second day in Mohali, when still smarting from the official reprimand that followed an industrial exchange with Virat Kohli 24 hours earlier, this often combustible all-rounder for once made damn sure it did not. Related: Woakes and Buttler raise England
  
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• Concentration camp ice dance by wife of Putin official causes uproar

  27-11-2016 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Tatiana Navka wears striped uniform with yellow six-pointed star for dance routine on Russian TV show Ice Age The wife of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has caused controversy by dressing in a concentration camp uniform for a televised ice dance routine that some have called the “Holocaust on ice”.
  Tatiana Navka, a former Olympic ice dancer and the wife of presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, and her dancing partner, actor Andrei Burkovsky, appeared in striped uniforms bearing yel
  
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• Six-year-old girl left blistered and swollen after pulling top of Santa lamp from budget store B&M

  27-11-2016 20:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum Teresa Ayre is now urging the firm to recall the Christmas decoration claiming daughter Laura pulled the stopper out of it easily
  
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• Living the dream: Carpet cleaner who quit job to travel the world now earns SIX-FIGURE salary blogging about it

  27-11-2016 20:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jack Morris, 26, gave up his job as a carpet cleaner and booked a one-way flight ticket to Bangkok in a bid to 'try something different'
  
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• Football child sex abuse claims widen to Leeds United and Blackpool

  27-11-2016 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Professional Footballers’ Association chief says former players have come forward as FA launches independent inquiryLeeds United and Blackpool are the latest football clubs to be engulfed by allegations of child sexual abuse within the sport, according to the chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association.Gordon Taylor said a number of former players had come forward to say they had been abused by staff at the two clubs as well as at Crewe, Manchester City, Stoke and Ne
  
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• Crystal Palace’s shambolic showings leave Alan Pardew on the brink

  27-11-2016 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  With Saturday’s astonishing 5-4 defeat at Swansea the latest chaotic performance from Crystal Palace, their manager Alan Pardew’s job is in jeopardyThe signs were there in plain sight at the Liberty Stadium, the ones which suggest this is the end game. They reared with Gylfi Sigurdsson’s every intervention, a player whose influence as scorer and provider had been highlighted on posters pinned up on the walls back at Crystal Palace’s training ground. The pie-charted stats
  
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• Meet the sexy 'Ski Bunny' girls charging Brits up to £1,200 for 'companionship' in Europe's top ski resorts

  27-11-2016 20:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The venture is said to be targeting Val D'Isere, a French ski resort known as "Magaluf on Ice" for its popularity among party-loving tourists from the UK
  
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• 'Awkward moment' for Prince Harry in minute's silence for Fidel Castro

  27-11-2016 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Governor general of St Vincent asks guests to honour Cuban communist at royal reception in CaribbeanPrince Harry has taken part in observing a minute’s silence in remembrance of Fidel Castro.The potentially embarrassing episode took place during a trip to the Caribbean island of St Vincent. The prince joined local dignitaries at a reception in the capital, Kingstown, hosted by the Caribbean country’s governor general, Sir Frederick Ballantyne. Continue reading...
  
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• Horror hit-and-run crash between two 'speeding' Audis leaves man fighting for life

  27-11-2016 20:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The cars were travelling alongside each other when one struck the victim
  
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• England’s Billy Vunipola could miss Six Nations after knee ligament operation

  27-11-2016 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  • Eddie Jones must reshuffle pack
  • Elliot Daly facing disciplinary hearing after red cardBilly Vunipola is in danger of missing England’s entire Six Nations campaign after undergoing an operation to repair a torn knee cartilage he suffered during his team’s eventful 27-14 win against Argentina. The Saracens No8 faces three to four months on the sidelines and will be conspicuous by his absence against Australia this weekend. Related: Autumn internationals: five talking poin
  
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• Gordon Elliott saddles six-timer but Willie Mullins fires back warning

  27-11-2016 20:09 via theguardian.com
  
  • Empire Of Dirt heads Elliott’s super six at Navan
  • Min boosts Mullins on debut over fencesGordon Elliott firmly pressed home his status as Irish jump racing’s rising force by saddling the winners of six of the seven races at Navan on Sunday – but it could be the event that eluded him which has as much significance in the fight to be top dog in Ireland’s training ranks.Elliott took the day’s main prize, the Troytown Chase, with the 12-1 shot Empire Of Di
  
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• Mark Allen overcomes nerves to make first 147 break at UK Championships

  27-11-2016 20:05 via theguardian.com
  
  • World No10’s tournament maximum helps to see off Rod Lawler 6-4
  • Ronnie O’Sullivan beats Rhys Clark 6-0 in second roundMark Allen said he knew his 147 break was on from an early stage and has described how he held his nerve to make his first tournament maximum at the UK Championships in York.The Northern Irishman’s clearance came in the seventh frame of his second-round match against Rod Lawler, putting him 4-3 up. After leaving the arena to compose himself he went
  
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• As a gay officer I saw how homophobic the police are | Kevin Maxwell

  27-11-2016 19:53 via theguardian.com
  
  The bungled investigation into Stephen Port’s murders has shone a light on how LGBT victims are often brushed away, with prejudice in the force still remainingIn 2001, when I joined the police, homophobia was rife. In the Greater Manchester force I heard the word “queer” often, mainly from sergeants about prisoners. And when I came out to my senior officer, he told me he couldn’t condone what I did “as a homosexual”. In a secret document my chief superintenden
  
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• Nico Rosberg survives late Lewis Hamilton tricks to win first Formula One world championship despite Brit claiming Abu Dhabi Grand Prix victory

  27-11-2016 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JONATHAN McEVOY IN ABU DHABI: Lewis Hamilton played every trick he could to save the title he has owned for the past two years, but it was not enough here under the desert lights.
  
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• New Orleans shooting: One dead nine injured after huge 'gun battle' in historic French Quarter

  27-11-2016 19:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers arrested two people at the scene in Bourbon Street on weapons charges, including one who was wounded
  
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