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• Hospitals should 'test all pregnant women to find out if they smoke' in a bid to help them quit

  10-12-2016 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The advice has been given to NHS trust bosses by public health supremo Duncan Selbie as part of a new drive to help England’s seven million smokers quit
  
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• ISIS supporters encouraged to steal money from festive revellers and send it to the group

  10-12-2016 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a warped Christmas appeal, former Morrisons security guard Omar Hussain, originally from High Wycombe, Bucks., urged militants to steal money and mobile phones to fund global terrorism.
  
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• Workmen blunder as lamppost installed feet away from pavement in middle of lay-by

  10-12-2016 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shocking work has taken place as part of a major road improvement scheme
  
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• Nicky Morgan 'banned from Downing Street meeting after row with Theresa May aide over Prime Minister's £1,000 TROUSERS'

  10-12-2016 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fiona Hill branded the Ms Morgan "that woman" after she was publicly critical of the PM's decision to wear leather trousers during a newspaper photo shoot 
  
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• London's annual boozy 'Santacon' sees thousands of revellers don festive gear

  10-12-2016 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scores of St Nicks - complete with a Christmas pooch - were seen guzzling booze and singing and laughing as they set off from Hoxton Square in London this morning.
  
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• Teenage boy charged with the murder of two men in Ipswich

  10-12-2016 23:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The 17-year-old suspect was held by police following the deaths of Barry Street and Nathan OakleyA teenage boy has been charged with the murder of two men in Ipswich, Suffolk police said. The 17-year-old, who has not been named, is due to appear in court on Monday. He was held by police following the deaths of Barry Street, 32, and Nathan Oakley, 18, who died on Thursday from suspected stab wounds.Continue reading...
  
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• Sick girl supported by One Direction star Louis Tomlinson’s mother before she died left 'devastated' over tragedy

  10-12-2016 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Johannah Deakin became a firm friend of the family of Georgia Edwards, 6, from Wrexham, as they both battled serious illnesses
  
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• Homeowner shocks neighbours by widening driveway entrance so far that street sign now blocks access

  10-12-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neighbours assumed workmen had extended the driveway too far in error but were astonished when the homeowner claimed he did it on purpose
  
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• Dad dies after '90 minute wait' for ambulance to hospital just one mile from his home

  10-12-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Hale had collapsed and stopped breathing when his family called 999  for help
  
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• Inside Santa's sweatshop: China's 'Christmas Town' where 60 per cent of the world's festive decorations are made by low-paid migrants working 14-hour days

  10-12-2016 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Welcome to ‘Christmas Town’ in China’s Zhejiang province, a city which produces £3 million worth of tinsel, and everything else from Father Christmas hats to trees (pictured).
  
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• Underfunded and overstretched – the crisis in care for the elderly

  10-12-2016 23:21 via theguardian.com
  
  With life expectancy rising, tighter regulation and staff shortages, the care home model is unsustainable. What must be done?‘It’s like being at home,” was the verdict that one resident at West Hall, a care home in West Byfleet, relayed to inspectors. When you walk through the doors, you can see why. The first thing that strikes a visitor is its immaculate grounds and impressive architecture, which blends a beautifully converted old manor house with three eco-build residential
  
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• Given a jolt by the pacemaker... with a heart: Ground-breaking device is able to detect emotions 

  10-12-2016 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is estimated that 70 per cent of pacemaker patients struggle to respond to emotional events, such as the joy of seeing a favourite football team score a goal (pictured).
  
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• Theresa May's 'secret plot' to replace Boris Johnson with ex-Chancellor George Osborne

  10-12-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Is is claimed the PM launched 'black ops' against her Foreign Secretary, giving him a high-profile job in the hope he would mess up
  
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• Syrian regime 'used chlorine gas against civilians' as harrowing footage surfaces showing children being treated for breathing difficulties

  10-12-2016 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Twenty five people are reported to have become ill after chemical gas is suspected to have been used in Aleppo
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto winning numbers for tonight's £10m jackpot on Saturday, December 10

  10-12-2016 23:16 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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• The jihadi sleeper agent we can't deport – or even identify

  10-12-2016 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ‘sleeper agent’ jihadi – who The Mail on Sunday is banned from identifying – was about to be deported back to his native Jordan after his release from prison but Amber Rudd changed her mind.
  
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• Fury as ski giant slaps a 'Brexit surcharge' on breaks: Travel company passes on rising costs caused by the falling pound to customers with £50 fee

  10-12-2016 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ski company Mark Warner has told customers to expect a £30 to £50 surcharge per person to some of their trips because of the falling value of the pound. It has been called 'necessary' by the director.
  
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• Shock figures show Tory plans are ‘making social care worse’

  10-12-2016 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Flagship scheme to keep elderly out of hospital missing targets and council tax rise ‘too small to alleviate cutbacks’The full extent of the crisis facing social care is revealed by an Observer investigation which demonstrates the government’s flagship policy to keep elderly people out of hospital is failing in most parts of the country.The findings – amid claims from senior NHS figures that “we are going backwards in many places” – come as ministers fac
  
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• Now that's a close family! Crammed on to one rural estate... A mother, her two girls AND their children

  10-12-2016 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For 20 years three strands of the same family – encompassing three generations – have lived in one cluster of buildings outside North Petherton, near Bridgwater in Somerset (pictured).
  
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• Jose Mourinho does NOT look happy on shopping trip to Victoria's Secret with daughter Matilde

  10-12-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Manchester United manager looked fed-up as he popped into London stores Victoria's Secret and Hermes
  
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• Barnsley’s slip suggests football’s child protection system still has holes

  10-12-2016 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The FA’s chairman has admitted clubs were ‘sleepwalking’ in the 1980s and 1990s but Barnsley’s confirmation they hired an academy physio in 2011 without full checks poses wider questions for the sportIt hasn’t been an easy few weeks, to say the least, for what we used to know as the good old days and no doubt there are plenty of us who desperately want to believe football has wised up and everything is different now. It just isn’t easy to be entirely sure when
  
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• Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobil set to be Trump secretary of state pick – reports

  10-12-2016 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Oil CEO has ties to Putin and criticized economic sanctions against RussiaFBI covered up Russian influence on Trump’s election win, Reid claimsOil executive Rex Tillerson is likely to be nominated by Donald Trump for secretary of state, lifting the Exxon Mobil chief executive who has ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin into consideration for the most senior US diplomat. Related: Russian involvement in US vote raises fears for European electionsContinue reading...
  
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• Tories rally around ‘free-thinking’ Johnson after May rebuke

  10-12-2016 22:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Theresa May and foreign secretary ‘an ideal double act’ to secure successful Brexit and redefine UK’s world position – senior ToriesSenior Tory MPs have rallied behind Boris Johnson, saying that he and Theresa May were an ideal double act who should use their “chalk and cheese” personalities to deliver a successful Brexit and redefine the UK’s position on the world stage.Amid fears in Whitehall that the relationship between the prime minister and foreign
  
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• Female pedestrian killed on man's doorstep when car mounts pavement after collision with another vehicle

  10-12-2016 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A woman in her 50s died after she was hit by a car which police said mounted the pavement following a collision with another vehicle
  
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• Istanbul's Besiktas Stadium bomb blast 'caught on camera' as sky lights up behind guitarist in park

  10-12-2016 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The men keep playing guitar and singing until they realise what's going on behind them
  
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• Brave wife of grandad who chose to die at Dignitas reveals their touching last few moment together

  10-12-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Barclay made the heartbreaking decision to end his own life after battling multiple sclerosis
  
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• Le Canard enchaîné celebrates 100 years of mischief-making

  10-12-2016 22:35 via theguardian.com
  
  The French satirical newspaper holds public figures to account – but doesn’t touch their private livesSince it was founded 100 years ago as an antidote to French government propaganda during the first world war, Le Canard enchaîné has remained a thorn in the side of France’s great but not-so-good. Related: Bad hair days for François Hollande over €10,000 coiffeur billContinue reading...
  
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• Riyad Mahrez finds perfect opportunity to show off all his creative beauty | Barney Ronay

  10-12-2016 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Leicester’s midfield mastermind dawdled one way, drifted the other and all the time produced an artful display that took Manchester City apartJamie Vardy scored a brilliant hat-trick at the King Power Stadium, but of all the old steamrollering Leicester City title tropes to return on a sodden night it was the sight of Riyad Mahrez in regal, unimpeded form that will linger in the memory.It is not often a football match is decided by a pair of near-identical cushioned backspun half-voll
  
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• Well that sign's not going to last long! Bungling homeowner widens his driveway so far he cannot use it because street sign is in the way 

  10-12-2016 22:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The man who owns the property in Wake Green Road, Moseley, Birmingham, said theextension was done as a 'pedestrian entrance' to be used by the postman.
  
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• Sport picture of the day: Skaters speeding by in Shanghai

  10-12-2016 22:23 via theguardian.com
  
  This colourful multiple-exposure photograph shows speed skaters competing in the men’s 500m short-track semi-final at the ISU World Cup in Shanghai Continue reading...
  
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• Being a Grinch could put you in an early grave so lighten up to live longer

  10-12-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sunday People columnist Rachael Bletchly decides to take a page out of her positive pal's book after study suggest being optimistic is the secret to a long life
  
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• Crown Princess Victoria dazzles in glittering ballgown at Nobel Prize ceremony

  10-12-2016 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Swedish Royals looked on as this year's Nobel Prize laureates in medicine, economics, physics and chemistry accepted their prizes at a glittering gala ceremony in Stockholm.
  
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• Patti Smith FORGETS the words to Bob Dylan song at Nobel Prize evening

  10-12-2016 22:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The veteran singer songwriter asked the orchestra to stop when she became struck by amnesia at the Stockholm ceremony on Saturday.
  
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• Opening Post Office branches in Bargain Booze off licences 'will tempt customers to drink', MP fears

  10-12-2016 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour admits 'serious misgivings' about 30 post offices franchised within Bargain Booze shops
  
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• New ‘secure schools’ launched in bid to cut youth reoffending

  10-12-2016 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Core education and work skills at heart of radical change of approach to young lawbreakersThe government is to launch two “secure schools”, and introduce measures to monitor progress in English, maths, health and behaviour among young offenders, in a radical change to youth custody.The number of frontline staff dealing with young offenders will be increased by 20% and a new head of operations will be appointed with responsibility for driving up standards. Continue reading...
  
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• Brave domestic violence sufferers launch fight back - determined it won't happen to anyone else

  10-12-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  All three women have suffered at the hands of violent partners but now they are determined to help others
  
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• Brexit must be fair to working people – or there will be a backlash | Ed Miliband

  10-12-2016 21:57 via theguardian.com
  
  No one will tolerate a deal that leads to Britain’s poor being worse off – even leave votersThe phoney war is over. Parliament has signalled that it supports article 50 being triggered. We are leaving the European Union. The pretence that this was at risk was used by some to argue that those questioning the government are somehow unpatriotic Brexit-deniers. This illusion can now end and the real debate over what Brexit means can begin.Polling of Brexit voters by the Open Britain camp
  
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• Aleppo’s terrified residents flee rebel districts, death and hunger

  10-12-2016 21:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Syrians at a way station describe the attacks that swept them from their homesTwo-year-old Yasser, his woolly hat pulled down to his eyes, stared, silent and unsmiling, in his pram. His 20-day-old sister, Sana, slept beside him, unaware that the entirety of her short life has been spent amid the worst fighting her neighbourhood in east Aleppo has ever seen. Related: Syria: Assad loyalists take Aleppo's Old City as rebels plead for ceasefireContinue reading...
  
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• Istanbul's Besiktas Stadium bomb blast 'caught on camera during live football show broadcast as presenters run in fear'

  10-12-2016 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The presenter was doing a live broadcast on Turkish football show Top Sizde tonight following the game
  
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• Ed Miliband joins call for soft Brexit as conflict in Labour grows

  10-12-2016 21:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Tough choices must be made to safeguard economy, including scrapping of migration cuts, warns party’s former leaderThe UK should stay inside the EU’ssingle market and customs union even if this means there can only be limited cuts to immigration after Brexit, the former Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said.Spelling out his own Brexit strategy, and insisting that tough choices must now be made, Miliband argued that safeguarding the strength of the economy should be the number one priority
  
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• Far-right party still leading in Dutch polls, despite leader’s criminal guilt

  10-12-2016 21:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Geert Wilders has held on to his supporters in the Netherlands, despite a discrimination convictionVolendam is a village of clogs, canals, cheese – and anger. A former fishing village-turned-tourist-haven north-east of Amsterdam on the Markermeer lake, it offered one of the country’s strongest turnouts for far-right populist Geert Wilders the last time the country went to the polls.Wilders was found guilty of inciting discrimination at a rally where he called for “fewer Morocca
  
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• Home Office forced to defend anti-fracking groups from extremism claims

  10-12-2016 21:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Government steps in after council and school identify campaigners as key risks under controversial Prevent programmeThe Home Office has been forced to make it clear that anti-fracking campaigners should not be considered extremists after a council and a school in North Yorkshire used the government’s counter-terrorism programme to target environmental protesters.City of York council included anti-fracking activists in its Prevent programme, the controversial centrepiece of the government&r
  
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• Help make it a happy Christmas for Britain's 1million lonely elderly people

  10-12-2016 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Sunday People champions Britain’s army of selfless volunteers and backs their call for people to visit lonely neighbours, family and friends – so they too can share the festive cheer
  
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• 'Doctors missed my cancer 12 times - but we'll sell our home for my miracle cure if we have to'

  10-12-2016 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sally Major could now have to sell the home she shares with her husband and children to pay for the £300,000 treatment in a German hospital
  
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• Louis Vuitton store in Bond Street is forced to close after anti-fur protest

  10-12-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Festive shopping reached peak levels this afternoon as customers flocked to central London to buy their Christmas presents, but the designer clothes store has missed out on hours of trading.
  
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• Football chief under fire for ‘smear’ on Hillsborough supporters

  10-12-2016 21:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Victims’ family calls for review of evidence given by ex-chairman of Premier LeagueSerious doubts have been cast over the evidence about the Hillsborough disaster given in a statement by the former Premier League chairman, Sir Dave Richards, which included a notorious allegation against some Liverpool supporters.Trevor Hicks, whose two teenage daughters, Sarah and Vicki, were among the 96 people unlawfully killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, has ca
  
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• Istanbul car bomb: Live updates as '13 people killed' following 'terrorist' blast outside Besiktas stadium

  10-12-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blast came after the game between Besiktas and Bursaspor, two of Turkey's top teams
  
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• Istanbul 'car bomb' explosion: Live updates as 20 people injured following blast outside Besiktas stadium

  10-12-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ambulances and fire engines were called to the scene outside the stadium where a fire has broken out
  
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• 'Hotel boss spied on me naked - then offered me a free night's stay as compensation'

  10-12-2016 20:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Saleswoman Clare Day, 27, was naked in the ground floor room when she spotted the peeping Tom’s face “pressed against the glass”
  
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• Supreme Court judges 'heading for a split decision on Brexit appeal'

  10-12-2016 20:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Before the start of the four day hearing Brexiteers thought all judges would vote with the Remain side and grant power to Parliament to discuss Article 50.
  
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