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• Teenager branded ''kn**'' and ''w*****'' in startling email barrage from Northern Rail contractor after complaining about ticket fine

  30-11-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Another email, allegedly from a worker at contractors Carillion, said: "Do not insult me or I will cause serious discomfort in your life”
  
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• Gender parity among MPs at risk of stalling, say women's groups

  30-11-2016 23:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Women and equalities minister Justine Greening says there is a danger that female representation will flatline at current 30%Progress on the representation of women in Westminster is in danger of stalling, according to a group of MPs and campaigners.“I feel really strongly about us having a 50:50 parliament here and I think it’s long overdue,” said Justine Greening, the education secretary and women and equalities minister, at an event organised by 50:50 Parliament, which campa
  
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• Zinedine Zidane’s son Enzo scores on Real Madrid debut in Copa del Rey

  30-11-2016 23:40 via theguardian.com
  
  • Real Madrid 6-1 Cultural Leonesa (13-2 on aggregate)Enzo Zidane made his dad proud by scoring a goal on his Real Madrid debut in a crushing Copa del Rey victory.Zinedine Zidane gave his 21-year-old son a chance against third-division Cultural Leonesa and he took full advantage, finding the net with a nice right-foot shot from the edge of the area to help Madrid to a 6-1 win. Using mostly second-string teams in both matches, Real advanced to the last 16 of the competition 13-2 on aggregate
  
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• Ex Newcastle United player Derek Bell says he 'wanted to kill' paedophile football coach with 12 inch knife

  30-11-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Newcastle United player was abused from the ages of 12 to 16 by his former coach, George Ormond
  
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• EFL Cup: Man Utd and Liverpool kept apart in semi-finals

  30-11-2016 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United will play Hull, while Liverpool take on Southampton in the semi-finals of the EFL Cup.
  
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• The 10 factors which had to combine to give Bastian Schweinsteiger another Manchester United appearance

  30-11-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sometimes everything just comes together, and they did for the German on Wednesday night as he came in from the cold at Old Trafford
  
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• Newcastle’s Jonjo Shelvey finally gets a date for racial-abuse hearing

  30-11-2016 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  • St James’s Park midfielder in the FA dock pre-Christmas
  • Newcastle expect to lose coach Ian Cathro to HeartsJonjo Shelvey must wait until shortly before Christmas to appear in front of an independent Football Association disciplinary commission convened to examine claims that he racially abused an opponent.The Newcastle United midfielder is due to face the FA panel during the week starting Monday 19 December, when he will personally contest the misconduct charge imposed by the
  
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• Former Newcastle player David Eatock on being abused: ‘I wanted to cry but I couldn’t even cry’

  30-11-2016 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  David Eatock, who was signed by Kevin Keegan in September 1995, says he was sexually abused by George Ormond while at the club. ‘There was this awful feeling of guilt and shame,’ he saysA former Newcastle United player has waived his anonymity to say he was the victim of sexual abuse during his time at the club, and reveal the secret ordeal he suffered during the years when Kevin Keegan came close to turning the club into Premier League champions.David Eatock, one of Keegan’s s
  
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• UK Championship 2016: Ronnie O'Sullivan says pro tour should be cut

  30-11-2016 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan says snooker's professional tour should be cut after reaching the UK Championship quarter-finals.
  
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• Christmas card printing firm Schoolcardshop ceases trading

  30-11-2016 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A company that converts children's artwork into Christmas cards has gone out of business.
  
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• Bodies lie scattered in the streets of Aleppo after Syrian forces bombard rebel-held region, slaughtering at least 45 people

  30-11-2016 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The desperate bid for safety saw children and pensioners queuing in their droves for over-crowded buses, being piled onto the back of pick-up trucks and being carted around in trolleys out of Aleppo.
  
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• World Chess Championship tie-breaker: Magnus Carlsen v Sergey Karjakin – live!

  30-11-2016 23:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Carlsen and Karjakin to settle title with quickfire tie-breakerRead Leonard Barden’s weekly chess column hereTweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 10.14pm GMTWith Karjakin under pressure here in Game 3, the moment feels decisive for Carlsen. Should he convert these advantages for a win, he will play with white for the last of the four rapid tie-breakers only needing a draw to retain the championship. 10.10pm GMTAnother tight spot for Karjakin, who is down to 6min compared to 16min for
  
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• Fans who queued for TWO days for new Adidas trainers fuming after they appear on eBay early

  30-11-2016 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Oi Polloi Adidas Manchester Marine trainer sold out after eBay listed them before official release date 
  
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• Manchester United sink West Ham with Ibrahimovic and Martial doubles

  30-11-2016 23:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Manchester United swept into the EFL Cup semi-finals with the kind of buccaneering display missing from their recent history. This was fast and ruthless and surely had José Mourinho beaming from his office, where he served his one-match touchline ban. The Portuguese’s side were unstoppable and the hope will be this proves the moment it all clicked for him and his players on an evening when the tone was set from the opening moment.At last United had the kind of flying start they had
  
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• The Missing: so stressful it became almost impossible to watch

  30-11-2016 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After eight tense and twisting weeks, the brilliantly risk-taking crime drama has ended. From Baptiste to the Swiss bolthole, here’s why it was such a hitSpoiler alert: this article assumes you’ve seen the finale of The Missing, which aired on 30 November. Please don’t read on if you haven’t. That was as close to a happy ending as we were likely to get from The Missing, which has finished after eight weeks of unbearably tense, unimaginably grim action. The death count was
  
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• Football abuse hotline receives 'staggering surge' in calls

  30-11-2016 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A dedicated football sex abuse hotline has received a "staggering surge" in calls, the NSPCC says.
  
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• England focus on full house of autumn wins and revenge against Australia

  30-11-2016 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  • ‘It is about being ruthless and being able to back it up week on week’
  • Chris Robshaw hints at payback after reception in Australia this summerNo England player wants to discuss the prospect of an unbeaten calendar year before Saturday’s final fixture but there is one other milestone they would love to achieve. Never has an England team secured a full house of four consecutive autumn Test victories, and beating Australia for a fourth time inside six months would be
  
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• The 5 different types of Arsenal fan reactions to being dumped out of the EFL Cup

  30-11-2016 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Gunners are out, and their fans are going to take it in very different ways
  
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• Eastern Aleppo becoming 'one giant graveyard' says UN humanitarian chief

  30-11-2016 22:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Stephen O’Brien says 25,000 forced to flee homes since SaturdayRussia dismisses ‘pointless’ resolutions in security council emergency sessionThe UN’s humanitarian chief has warned that eastern Aleppo was being turned into “one giant graveyard” as the rebel-held area was being overrun by Syrian regime and Russian forces.
  Stephen O’Brien told an emergency session of the UN security council that since Saturday 25,000 people had been forced from their homes
  
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• Bank of England searching for 'potential solutions' over animal fat in new £5 notes after thousands sign petition

  30-11-2016 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Bank said it was "aware of some people's concerns" about traces of tallow in the note since being introduced into circulation in September
  
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• Yorkshire rock musician killed himself in the bar days after vowing to cut drinking

  30-11-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A rock musician who died after vowing to cut down on drinking and win back his girlfriend committed suicide, a coroner ruled. Luke Lavelle (pictured left and right) was found dead in Hull in June.
  
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• Jordy Clasie allows Southampton to swagger past Arsenal into semi-finals

  30-11-2016 22:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Southampton have stumbled too often at this hurdle in the recent past but, for the first time in three decades, they have a League Cup semi-final to savour in the new year. In inflicting Arsenal’s first defeat since the opening weekend of the season, curtailing a 19-match unbeaten run in the process, the visitors claimed a notable scalp here en route to the competition’s last four. Theirs was a mature and, in truth, dominant performance played out as the vociferous away support bello
  
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• Aspirin a day could dramatically cut cancer and heart disease risk

  30-11-2016 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The findings by USC contradict FDA fears that older Americans face an increased risk of stroke and bleeding in the brain and stomach if they take aspirin daily.
  
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• Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told they’re nuts'

  30-11-2016 22:37 via theguardian.com
  
  The Thylacine Awareness Group is ‘dedicated to the research, recognition and conservation of our most elusive apex predator’ – officially extinct since 1936Six years ago Neil Waters moved to Tasmania. There, he says, he had a “brief encounter” with a thylacine, the carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger, declared extinct in 1986.Two years later, in January 2014, he was doing work on his house when a smaller animal walked up a dirt track leading out of a
  
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• Shopkeeper 'dragged by his neck and forced to open till at knifepoint' during second raid in four days

  30-11-2016 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The dramatic CCTV footage shows the allegedly armed man grab the shopkeeper who 'feared for his life' before making off with cash
  
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• Derbyshire mother appeals her murder conviction after killing her daughter

  30-11-2016 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A drug addict who stamped her 21-month-old daughter to death in Staffordshire is appealing against her conviction for murder.
  
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• Stephen Hawking issues chilling warning over one of world's biggest killers

  30-11-2016 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a minute-long video, he warns that our battle with obesity is one of the most serious issues humans have ever faced
  
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• Breitbart declares war on Kellogg's after cereal brand pulls advertising from site

  30-11-2016 22:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The right-wing news organization is calling for a boycott on Kellogg’s products after company says Breitbart is not ‘aligned with our values’The right-wing news site Breitbart has declared “#WAR” on Kellogg’s, calling for a boycott of the cereal company’s products after they decided to cease advertising on the site.On Tuesday, the Kellogg Company pulled their adverts from the site, saying that it wasn’t “aligned with our values”. Recent
  
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• Colombia Chapecoense plane crash: What we know

  30-11-2016 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What we know about the Colombian air disaster involving Brazil's Chapecoense football club.
  
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• Police probe 'suspicious' death of mum whose badly decomposed corpse was found in 'House of Horrors'

  30-11-2016 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sharon Greenop may have been dead in her bed for months while her daughter and sister lived under the same roof
  
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• Transgender white witch piled on pounds during hormone treatment but sheds 10 STONE and casts spells to help others

  30-11-2016 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Skye Valuntino saw her once-svelte figure balloon while taking hormones and decided she needed to do something about it
  
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• 7 ways Gareth Southgate will celebrate being named England's new full-time manager

  30-11-2016 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gareth the Lionheart has taken over the reins on a full-time basis, and we reckon he's going to have a great time celebrating
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto winning numbers for tonight's £2m jackpot on Wednesday, November 30

  30-11-2016 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's jackpot could make you a very rich person - but have you got a winning ticket?
  
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• New fiver: Bank of England looking to make note meat-free

  30-11-2016 22:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The maker of the new fiver says it is working on "potential solutions" to the issue of animal fat.
  
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• Huge backlog as EU citizens rush to secure British residency

  30-11-2016 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Home Office under pressure as Labour calls on PM to guarantee residency for more than 3 million peopleEU citizens worried about their right to remain in Britain have inundated the Home Office with applications to secure their UK residency, leading to an official backlog that has trebled since the summer of 2015.The figures emerged on a day that Labour demanded Theresa May guaranteed the rights of the more than 3 million EU citizens to remain in the UK before Brexit negotiations begin, with MP Ke
  
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• What is 'walking corpse syndrome' as soldier reveals he believed he was dead for 18 months

  30-11-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Warren McKinlay was starving himself to death as he was a victim of Cotard’s syndrome and thought he no longer had to eat
  
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• Soldier was 'walking corpse' after rare medical condition convinced him he was dead

  30-11-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Warren McKinlay, from Braintree, Essex, was slowly starving himself to death because he could see no point eating as he was not ‘alive’
  
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• Police 'opted against action' over ex-Chelsea player's sex abuse claim

  30-11-2016 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Former youth team player is understood to have taken allegations involving chief scout Eddie Heath to Metropolitan policeThe former Chelsea youth team player who says he was sexually assaulted by the chief scout during the 1970s is understood to have approached the police prior to seeking and securing compensation from the club.The current Premier League leaders have appointed independent lawyers to carry out an investigation into Eddie Heath, who worked at the club between 1968 and 1979 and die
  
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• Committee calls for firing of judge who told woman 'keep your knees together'

  30-11-2016 21:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Committee recommends Robin Camp be removed from bench after he asked during trial why complainant hadn’t done more to prevent alleged rapeA judge who asked a complainant in a sexual assault trial why she couldn’t just keep her knees together should be removed from the bench, an inquiry tasked with probing the matter has concluded.In a unanimous recommendation released on Wednesday, the five-person inquiry committee of the Canadian Judicial Council said Robin Camp “committed mis
  
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• Heartless thieves use bolt-cutters to steal family-of-nine's Christmas lights as they slept - leaving children in tears

  30-11-2016 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The callous crooks took every item, including illuminated Santas, a reindeer, trees, signs and doves
  
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• Labour faces a meltdown in its Northern heartlands unless it backs major immigration clampdown

  30-11-2016 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow cabinet minister John Healey said Labour “can’t ignore the UKIP threat” following the election as leader of working-class Scouser Paul Nuttall
  
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• Eight months pregnant woman and unborn daughter killed in three car horror smash on motorway

  30-11-2016 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A toddler boy was also injured in the crash and raced to hospital
  
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• IAAF to be told Russia making little progress on anti-doping reforms

  30-11-2016 21:42 via theguardian.com
  
  • Taskforce head Rune Andersen will brief federation on Thursday on Russia
  • Time running out for Russia to meet criteria for 2017 world championshipsWorld athletics chiefs will be told Russia has made almost no progress with the reforms needed before its athletes can compete internationally again when the head of the IAAF taskforce gives an update on Thursday.Rune Andersen’s report is the highlight of the two-day meeting of the International Association of Athletics Federations
  
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• Hooded thugs threaten petrol station worker with meat cleaver before escaping with cash, scratch cards and cigarettes

  30-11-2016 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pair, who are still at large, are being hunted by police after waving a meat cleaver at a petrol station worker before escaping the scene
  
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• Teenage hooligans are caught on camera JUMPING up and down on a car

  30-11-2016 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three bored teenage hooligans were prosecuted after local residents filmed them jumping up and down on a car bonnet in a quiet town.
  
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• Ireland compensates woman forced to travel to Britain for an abortion

  30-11-2016 21:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Government agreed to pay compensation for trauma to Amanda Mellet after she was forced to obtain a termination of her pregnancy in England Ireland has for the first time in its history compensated a woman for the trauma caused by forcing her to travel to Britain for an abortion.Pro-choice campaigners in the Republic said the Fine Gael-led minority government’s agreement on Wednesday to pay compensation to Amanda Mellet was highly significant.Continue reading...
  
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• Colombia plane crash: leaked audio shows pilot said he ran out of fuel

  30-11-2016 21:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Pilot can be heard requesting permission to land due to a ‘total electric failure’ and lack of fuel in a recording from the crash that killed 71 people‘The Brazil that worked’: Chapecoense tragedy a blow to nation in crisis
  The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the flight. Related: Investigators return to s
  
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• Steve Bell on Donald Trump's promise to drop his business interests – cartoon

  30-11-2016 21:24 via theguardian.com
  
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• British investor who predicted Brexit says the euro has 'between 1 and 5 years of life'

  30-11-2016 21:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jim Mellon, chairman of the Burnbrae Group, said the rise of populism throughout the world, and the possibility of more political upsets, has brought the currency's future into question.
  
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• Shocking moment 15 football hooligans were caught on CCTV rioting

  30-11-2016 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Port Vale fans clashed with Barnsley supporters outside two pubs before a League One match. Footage from security cameras shows dozens of fans fighting in the street and blocking traffic.
  
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