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• 'Wallace and Gromit' home with hidden bath, disappearing walls and secret library wins house of the year

  15-12-2016 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The house in Edinburgh's New Town boasts a folding corner wall, sliding bookshelf ladders that glide around a secret library as well as a roof terrace
  
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• Defence Secretary slapped down after claiming probe into alleged abuse by British troops might end early

  15-12-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sir Michael Fallon has an 'open mind' about scrapping the Iraq Historical Allegations Team - but the PM's spokesman says investigation will continue
  
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• White supremacist Dylann Roof guilty of killing nine black churchgoers and now faces death penalty

  15-12-2016 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Roof, 22, remained emotionless as the verdicts were read out
  
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• Child sex abuse victims could be due millions in compensation after Mirror probe unmasks paedophiles

  15-12-2016 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Offer comes as 27 men were named as alleged paedophiles, in a report by former residents of children’s home
  
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• This is why a half-naked woman was spotted lying on a plate in Liverpool city centre

  15-12-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shoppers got an eyeful while browsing for Christmas presents
  
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• Transport Secretary knocked a rider off his bike just days after complaining about cycle lanes

  15-12-2016 23:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chris Grayling is caught up in embarrassing gaffe in which a cyclist was sent flying when the minister opened his car door
  
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• Elvis impersonator accused of abusing young girls 'filmed women in toilets then kept footage in shrine to his idol'

  15-12-2016 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Derrel Weaver, 62, is on trial accused of sexually abusing two girls as young as four and jurors have been told of eight separate charges to which he pleaded guilty earlier this year
  
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• 'World's most overcrowded jail' where prisoners sleep dozens to a cell amid Philippine president's merciless drugs war

  15-12-2016 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cells built for 30 people are crammed with up to 130 as criminals sleep side-by-side
  
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• Ian Katz: Hacking - Truth or treason?

  15-12-2016 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Newsnight Editor Ian Katz asks if truth trumps all in a world of hacking
  
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• Ruthless people smugglers 'using Lidl lorries to sneak migrants into Britain from France'

  15-12-2016 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Traffickers who used to operate in Calais before the closure of the so-called Jungle migrant camp are being paid thousands of pounds to conceal people in trucks destined for England
  
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• Bookies gives all money staked on Jo Cox Christmas single to charity

  15-12-2016 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MPs encourage other bookmakers to do likewise for parliamentary rock group's release in memory of murdered MP
  
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• The pensioner pimps: Married couple raked in £1.3million from running brothel in London mansion

  15-12-2016 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mario Seu, 69, and Maria Teresa Vittoriano, 65, pocketed most of the cash from prostitutes working in the £5.5m house
  
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• Got any leftovers for our lions? Zoo appeals for unwanted Christmas meat to feed hungry pride

  15-12-2016 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bosses at the Chessington World of Adventures in Surrey are asking visitors not to bin their dinners
  
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• Rolf Harris will not have to attend his sex attack trial in person because of age and health

  15-12-2016 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Harris is accused of indecently assaulting young girls over a period of more than 30 years
  
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• Teenager is left paralysed for life after falling out of basket swing

  15-12-2016 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doctors have told Lincoln college student Georgia Rawlings (pictured), who has been in hospital since the fall in September, she will never walk again and will be wheelchair-bound for life.
  
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• From Syria with Love - the 'Putin-funded propaganda calendar' showing 'Syrian girls eulogising Russian forces' 

  15-12-2016 22:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The calendar appears to have been funded by a grant from the Kremlin, and published by an organisation thought to be part of Vladimir Putin's alleged propaganda offensive.
  
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• Baby-faced sex beast whipped woman and bit off her hair before raping her in savage attack

  15-12-2016 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matthew Mazzie kicked his victim between her legs and spat on her and told the woman to touch herself intimately
  
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• Fiery lava, snow-covered New York and racing reindeer among stunning Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 winners

  15-12-2016 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Entrants from 20 countries have taken home cash, prizes and awards – with the winning images going on show at exhibitions for the UK City of Culture celebrations
  
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• School forces children to repeat year to reduce class sizes can't afford to replace teacher 

  15-12-2016 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Parents have blasted a Long Melford Primary School in Sudbury, Suffolk after they were told their children must resit a year so class sizes can be reduced.
  
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• Several people feared dead in huge fire at Manchester mill

  15-12-2016 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Up to 80 firefighters have so far spent more than 12 hours tackling the fire in Oldham, Greater Manchester, which is still burning at the four-storey industrial building.
  
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• Mysterious pools of frozen water found in craters on dwarf planet spark hopes of alien life

  15-12-2016 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "This detection strengthens the evidence that permanently shadowed areas have preserved water ice on airless planetary bodies"
  
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• Desperate woman with bowel disease left humiliated after petrol station staff 'refused to let her use toilet'

  15-12-2016 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Suzie Ryan claims she begged a staff member at a Londis petrol station to let her use the toilet 
  
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• Wave of BHS workers retire with slashed pension pots as Green fails to deliver on promise - six months on

  15-12-2016 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MP Frank Field calls on billionaire Sir Philip to give ex-BHS staff "Christmas gift" as retiring staff find themselves £80 a month worse off through no fault of their own
  
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• Thousands evacuated from war-torn Aleppo in convoy of green buses as injured and children escape from Syrian city

  15-12-2016 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An operation by the International Committee of the Red Cross hopes to move 2,000 people to safety by the end of the day
  
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• Children as young as SEVEN toiling their lives away in slavery and misery in North Korea's coal mines

  15-12-2016 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  These scenes of tiny hands toiling on a filthy coal site should be from a bygone age, but child labour is rife in the notorious, repressive state
  
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• Girl, 18, is paralysed for life after snapping her neck when she fell off a SWING

  15-12-2016 21:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Georgina Rawlings fell backwards off the swing and has been in hospital ever since
  
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• Workers cover boss' entire office in Christmas wrapping paper including computer, mouse and pictures on walls

  15-12-2016 21:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pranksters proved the expression: while the cat's away the mice will play, rings true
  
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• North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un "threatened to kill traitors personally by putting a bullet through their head"

  15-12-2016 21:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A former military advisor has told how Jong-un once “ordered home all his ambassadors and threatened to kill them all by personally putting a bullet through their head”
  
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• Italian winemakers demand Aldi stop selling their 'Prosecco Infusion' tea bags 

  15-12-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Prosecco makers said the British supermarket has no right to use its name to sell the herbal tea across the UK and have vowed to launch legal action against the budget High Street chain.
  
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• Police reveal horrific haul of weapons owned by man who planted a bomb on a bus in Dublin during the Queen’s visit to Ireland

  15-12-2016 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Donal Billings, 66, has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after placing a bomb on a bus bound for Dublin during a state visit to Ireland by the Queen in May 2011.
  
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• Dramatic footage shows Royal Marines being put through their paces at new 'kill house' training site

  15-12-2016 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The dramatic video shows Marines trying out the new 'kill house' on Salisbury Plain
  
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• Six new animal species found deep under the sea at Dragon's Breath - including a hairy-chested Hoff crab

  15-12-2016 20:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Creatures found around 2,000 km south east of Madagascar
  
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• MPs undertake ancient meditation classes INSIDE Parliament

  15-12-2016 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 140 MPs and peers have taken ancient meditation courses inside Parliament – to help them ‘find peace in a frantic world’.
  
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• Fears rough-sleepers may have burned to death in massive blaze which destroyed historic mill

  15-12-2016 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Local residents have told crews that some people had been sleeping inside Oldham's Maple Mill which was destroyed in an enormous inferno that was sparked in the early hours of Thursday morning
  
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• Amazing 5ft Christmas gingerbread castle featuring cookie trees and candy glass windows created by artist - and it's edible!

  15-12-2016 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 5ft-tall, 4-foot wide kingdom is blessed with incredible levels of detail and took 270 hours of love and labour across 22 days to create
  
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• Luxury five-bedroom mansion where Sadie Hartley was murdered by ‘bunny boiler’ goes sells for £500,000 after £35,000 is slashed off the asking price 

  15-12-2016 20:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It was the scene of what a court heard was 'barbaric savagery', but the home in Helmshore, Lancashire, has now been sold for half a million pounds less than a year after Sadie Hartley's death.
  
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• From Syria with Love - the 'Putin-funded propaganda calendar' showing 'Syrian girls praising Russian forces'

  15-12-2016 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "Each of the young Syrian ladies has their own story - but they all are united by a feeling of sincere gratitude to Russian military men"
  
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• 'There is a risk of a war’: Rome is on the verge of violence as deprived Italians react angrily to migrants moving into their neighbourhoods, warns mayor

  15-12-2016 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virginia Raggi, mayor of the Italian capital, has warned a battle between the two groups is imminent and that the city should be doing all it can to welcome refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
  
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• Personality test could help spot if your child will take drugs

  15-12-2016 20:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Most at-risk kids can be spotted early. For example, ADHD increases the risk of illegal drug use by a factor of three
  
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• Hospice angels gave my brain-damaged baby a better quality of life than we ever could have

  15-12-2016 20:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bringing up triplets is daunting for any first time parent - but Essie's family were struggling to cope with her catastrophic injuries before  hospice gave them hope
  
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• Winter crisis grips the NHS as 15 hospitals listed as having no spare beds on at least one day

  15-12-2016 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daily reports outline how sick patients face being ferried to other hospitals or stuck on trolleys in corridors
  
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• NHS gripped by winter crisis with 15 hospitals listed as having no spare beds on at least one day

  15-12-2016 20:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daily reports outline how sick patients face being ferried to other hospitals or stuck on trolleys in corridors
  
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• Customer calls POLICE after being offended by a Christmas tea mug

  15-12-2016 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Staff at Ginger Whites in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, were stunned when officers came in to investigate one of their products (pictured).
  
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• Drug addict beat elderly neighbour to death with a rolling pin and robbed her to feed habit

  15-12-2016 19:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  82-year-old Mary Logie, who was found with 31 injuries to her head and neck, was the victim of a 'prolonged period of bullying and intimidation'
  
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• Safe… for now: Little girl waves as the first families are evacuated from Aleppo – but local leader says ‘50,000 people are waiting for their own death’

  15-12-2016 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A convoy of ambulances and buses with nearly 1,000 people aboard - many of them injured - has driven out of the devastated rebel-held area of Aleppo towards the town of Idlib.
  
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• Venezuelan families giving their children away because they can’t afford to raise them

  15-12-2016 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With the average mother taking home $50 a month and amenities soaring higher than prices in the U.S. some Venezuelan parents are abandoning their children in bin bags and cardboard boxes.
  
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• Secret behind Margaret Thatcher's famous voice revealed after mystery objects found in jacket pocket

  15-12-2016 19:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two small pellets were found in a old Aquascutum suit
  
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• Dashcam shows lorry driver taking hands off wheel before killing pensioner couple 

  15-12-2016 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dashcam footage shows a lorry driver taking his hands off the wheel in Lincolnshire while steering a 7.5tonne vehicle so he can eat crisps and smoke - just moments before he killed an elderly couple.
  
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• Wayne Rooney camp hits back at 'tax dodge' statement by MP in probe over image rights

  15-12-2016 19:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Tory MP raised Rooney's name in Parliament as he described how tax investigators HMRC are probing the issue of image rights in English football
  
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• Two soldiers stole over £45,000 of state-of-the-art gear from the SAS including night vision goggles, body armour and distraction grenades

  15-12-2016 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former army sergeants Craig Davenport and Stephen Suffield stole SAS equipment worth more than £45,000 from a base in Hereford before passing it to a contact in Hampshire who sold it on.
  
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