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• Man who battered wife to death with hammer during row over Elvis tribute show found dead in prison

  13-12-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Abbott was jailed for life after admitting the brutal murder of estranged partner Jacqueline earlier this year
  
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• Let's run our railways for the people... by the people

  13-12-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British trains should be British owned and British run by British workers. Even my Tory railway dad never imagined that the industry could be destroyed like this
  
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• Everyone is laughing at Petr Cech's attempt at attacking at the end of Everton v Arsenal

  13-12-2016 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Gunners stopper sensed a chance to be a hero against Everton, but then he just got confused and ended up going in goal
  
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• Twin baby girls found 'covered in faeces and crawling with maggots suffered worst abuse nurses had ever seen'

  13-12-2016 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kevin Fowler and Aislyn Miller were taken into custody after their twins were found severely emaciated and living in conditions which shocked officers and police
  
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• Tara McKelvey: Does Trump need a daily briefing?

  13-12-2016 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President-elect Donald Trump says he does not need a daily briefing. So what's in it?
  
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• Suicide Squad director joins Margot Robbie for female DC villains movie

  13-12-2016 23:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Actor will reprise Harley Quinn role for film-maker David Ayer in Gotham City Sirens, inspired by recent comic about murderous women from Batman’s pastMargot Robbie is set to reprise her role of Harley Quinn for an all-female DC villains movie. Related: Batfleck to the rescue! DC desperately needs a super smash to stop the bad buzzContinue reading...
  
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• 30-stone grouper fish goes on sale in Manchester

  13-12-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was caught in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles on Saturday, where it took seven men to bring it aboard, and is the third largest fish of its kind on record and is now on sale in Manchester.
  
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• JD Sports is 'worse than prison' where workers are 'threatened with the sack if they sit down'

  13-12-2016 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Undercover Channel 4 News reporters also allege that workers at warehouse had to wait up to 30 minutes a day to enter site
  
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• Renationalise our railways NOW: Mirror backs fight to take service into public ownership as train strike sparks chaos

  13-12-2016 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As passengers face another day of disruption - with more than 300,000 commuters hit by a 48-hour Southern Railway drivers strike - we back calls to 'end the madness'
  
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• Police investigating death of Brit in Costa del Sol bar arrest man after siege and suicide threats

  13-12-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The suspect holed himself up in a property in Fuengirola for several hours and refused to give himself up, it has been reported
  
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• Afghanistan's dark secret: The 'dancing boys' who are little more than sex slaves for their 'shameful' owners

  13-12-2016 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Despite its strong religious core, Afghanistan's history of Bacha bazi or 'boy play' is, according to some experts, deeply disturbing
  
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• Named and shamed: The Arsenal fans who were made to regret their Ashley Williams tweets

  13-12-2016 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Everton defender started the the clash with the Gunners like Bambi on ice, but ended it as a hero
  
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• Convicted sex attacker found with 'rape kit' in his car after snatching student and bundling her into vehicle

  13-12-2016 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Gregory had been freed from prison just two years before he armed himself with handcuffs and other accessories and prowling the student heartland of Manchester
  
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• Biffa binmen narrowly avoid being hit by vehicles that mount pavement to get around them 

  13-12-2016 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Waste management company Biffa, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, have released a video showing dangerous drivers nearly knocking over binmen as they work.
  
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• Why 2016 is the year the public got things wrong

  13-12-2016 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  A new Ipsos Mori poll across 40 countries reveals many people are tolerant and happy – yet see a world full of fear and gloomIt would be hard to call 2016 a vintage year – but even with that in mind, many people are guilty of wildly exaggerating the threats, fears and social trends that have shaped our times.That is the message of a new Ipsos Mori international survey across 40 countries, which shows to what extent people around the world are getting it wrong on a range of key issues
  
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• Man confronts taxi driver on camera after 'finding him in back of car with "crying" young girl'

  13-12-2016 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The girl, whose age is not known, was taken safely back to her house, and the taxi driver was apparently sacked by his firm
  
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• Man confronts taxi driver on camera after 'finding him in back of car with "crying" teenager'

  13-12-2016 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The teenager, whose age is not known, was taken safely back to her house, and the taxi driver was apparently sacked by his firm
  
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• Dad dies of altitude sickness hours after he and his wife visited Machu Picchu on dream holiday

  13-12-2016 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Wainright's condition deteriorated rapidly when they sat down together for breakfast at their hotel
  
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• Lupe Fiasco quits music after accusations of antisemitism

  13-12-2016 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  The rapper’s latest freestyle caused upset with a line about ‘dirty Jewish execs’ which led to him tweeting that his album is cancelledLupe Fiasco has cancelled his album and quit music after being accused of antisemitism.The rapper released a freestyle earlier this week that included the line “Artists gettin’ robbed for their publishing / By dirty Jewish execs who think that it’s alms from the covenant”, which led to widespread upset on social media. Th
  
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• Met Police have received 106 allegations of sex abuse at 32 London football clubs

  13-12-2016 22:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scotland Yard has received 106 separate allegations of historical sex abuse connected with individuals at 32 London football clubs, including four in the Premier League and two in the Championship, the Metropolitan Police said.
  
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• NHS whistleblowing tsar hasn't investigated a SINGLE case and won't review any patient neglect claims until 2017

  13-12-2016 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dr Henrietta Hughes started her £105,000-a-year position as National Guardian in October
  
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• Crazed ex-lover hacked at former partner's dad with chainsaw after storming family home screaming "where is the b****?"

  13-12-2016 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  James MacDonald attacked 74-year-old John MacPherson as the pensioner tried to protect his family after the thug stormed his home in Fort William, Scotland
  
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• Italian priest scraps town's annual Nativity scene because it might offend Muslims

  13-12-2016 21:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Father Sante Braggie, a chaplain in Cremona, northern Italy, said the scene would have been set up near a section of the city's cemetery 'reserved for Muslim graves'.
  
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• Tunisian captain of Mediterranean migrant ship that sank killing 700 is jailed

  13-12-2016 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A judge in Sicily convicted Tunisian Mohammad Ali Malek on multiple manslaugther counts for the Mediterranean's worst-ever disaster in April 2015.
  
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• The case for despair is made. Now let’s start to get out of the mess we’re in | George Monbiot

  13-12-2016 21:43 via theguardian.com
  
  There is no going back, no comfort in old certainties. But reviving common ownership is one possible route to social transformationWith one breath, the friends of power told us that global capitalism was a dynamic, disruptive force, the source of constant innovation and change. With the next, they told us it had brought about the end of history: permanent stability and peace. There was no attempt to resolve this contradiction. Or any other.We were promised unending growth on a finite planet. We
  
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• Amazon driver sacked for kicking customer's door says he was trying to free his hand from dog

  13-12-2016 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Amazon delivery driver who was sacked for kicking a woman's door in Sussex claims he was only defending himself from her dog. Richard Jeffries, 46, tried to deliver a parcel to Claire Bewley's home.
  
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• Why Alexis Sanchez is the ultimate gamechanger in the Premier League this season

  13-12-2016 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Arsenal man has been the player to set the pace more times than any other in the 2016/17 Premier League campaign
  
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• EuroMillion results: Winning numbers for tonight's £31m jackpot on Tuesday, December 13

  13-12-2016 21:39 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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• News agency AFP releases its best photographs of the year 

  13-12-2016 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Every year AFP, which has photographers around the globe, chooses a selection of their most powerful, moving, shocking or fascinating images, offering a look back at the highlights of the year.
  
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• Rex Tillerson - the wild card diplomat

  13-12-2016 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rex Tillerson, nominated as the new US secretary of state, is an oil executive with ties to Russia.
  
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• Rebel groups announce ceasefire in Aleppo after Syrian forces 'massacre 82 civilians in their homes' during 'the century's worst humanitarian tragedy'

  13-12-2016 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The once proud Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo, also known as the 'Great Mosque' now lies in ruins in the middle of Aleppo following intense fighting.
  
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• Concrete barrier dubbed the 'Great Wall of Calais' is finally built in a bid to stop migrants getting to the UK

  13-12-2016 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 13ft wall, which cost £2.3million, comes just six weeks after The Jungle camp was demolished
  
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• 'Biblical' sex toys including one featuring BABY JESUS displayed in X-rated nativity scene spark outrage

  13-12-2016 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  While the display has proved popular with some people others are appalled at the twist on the typical festive scene
  
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• Husband who battered his wife to death with a hammer after she sold his ticket to an ELVIS tribute act is dead in a prison - exactly a year after the murder

  13-12-2016 21:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paul Abbott, 57, was jailed for life with a 15-year minimum term earlier this year after he admitted killing his wife Jacqueline Abbott but was found dead in HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire on Sunday.
  
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• Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in 'fake news' crackdown on as he creates new executive job to lead purge

  13-12-2016 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  But hopefuls will need at least '20+years experience in news' to stand a chance
  
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• Win, lose or draw

  13-12-2016 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rail bosses have agreed to hold formal talks with unions in a bid to resolve the ongoing Southern rail dispute. But how have rail strikes in the past ended?
  
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• Planet Earth baby turtles will end up on menu of expensive restaurants in the Far East

  13-12-2016 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Despite the trade being illegal the creatures' meat and shells are sold to eat after hatchlings are plucked from their nests by callous smugglers
  
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• Yazidi women sexually assaulted hundreds of times by ISIS receive human rights prize 

  13-12-2016 21:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lamiya Aji Bashar, 18, and Nadia Murad, 23, are two of thousands of Yazidi women and girls who have been abused by the terror group.
  
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• Boy, 14, blows his family's entire life savings after becoming addicted to online 'hostess' shows

  13-12-2016 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The schoolboy has described how he considered the pretty women as his only friends but they convinced him to spend all his family's cash online
  
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• Nobody can believe that Chelsea could be getting £60m for selling Oscar to China

  13-12-2016 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Brazilian has fallen down the pecking order at Stamford Bridge, and former Blues boss AVB could be about to do his old club a huge favour
  
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• St Paul's School, London teacher faces being banned from the classroom over lewd meaasges

  13-12-2016 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Thomas Laessing, 40, a maths teacher and head of tennis at the prestigious St Paul's School (pictured), south west London, harassed a teenage girl by phone and two others on social media.
  
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• Irate Southern Railway passenger caught screaming "union scumbags!" at striking drivers live on Good Morning Britain

  13-12-2016 20:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tempers flared today in the midst of a bitter dispute which has fuelled renewed demands for Britain’s railways to be taken back into public ownership
  
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• We said never again, but let Aleppo happen | Letters

  13-12-2016 20:52 via theguardian.com
  
  I write to do something that too often does not come easy for politicians; offer an apology. Back in 2013 I backed the decision of the leader of my party, Ed Miliband, not to support the bombing of President Assad in response to his use of chemical weapons on rebel-held districts in Syria. I made this decision as a new councillor ambitious to stand for parliament, but also with memories of Iraq, which I had opposed.I now realise this was wrong. While the action proposed in 2013 was flawed and pe
  
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• Two men involved in orchestrating last year's Paris attacks are killed in coalition air strike in Syria

  13-12-2016 20:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A coalition air strike in Syria has killed three Islamic State leaders involved in plotting foreign attacks, including two men involved in facilitating last year's attacks in Paris, the Pentagon said today.
  
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• Teen in court for 'sending around songs praising ISIS and having a guide to getting through airport security'

  13-12-2016 20:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A court was told that one of the songs distributed by Iftikhar Ali included the line 'there is peace and security in the Islamic State'
  
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• Groom-to-be left with '1% chance' of walking again after being paralysed in stag do accident

  13-12-2016 20:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brett Greenhill was celebrating his forthcoming nuptials with friends with a trip to the beach when he hit his head while diving
  
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• Romantic boyfriend shows you don't need loads of cash to make your partner's birthday special

  13-12-2016 20:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jake Cureton, from Seaforth, Merseyside, wanted his partner Sophie Ellison's special day to be one she always remembered but knew he was going to have to be creative
  
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• Skydiver fell to death after backing out of previous attempt telling instructor 'my body doesn't want to jump'

  13-12-2016 20:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pamela Gower died after landing on a parked car when her parachute jump from 15,000 feet went tragically wrong
  
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• Prostate cancer could be treated with malaria drug after trial showed it could stop tumours growing

  13-12-2016 20:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Clinical trials on mice said the Ailanthone (AIL) compound could help patients with an aggressive form of the cancer
  
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• Shocked police open suitcases abandoned at train station to find two Afghan women stowed inside

  13-12-2016 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers became suspicious of the two suitcases after finding them apparently abandoned on board a train
  
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