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• Machine gun police guard Canterbury cathedral in wake of Berlin attack

  20-12-2016 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Crowds attending the nativity scene at Canterbury Cathedral were confronted by the fearful sight of armed police bearing assault rifles patrolling the mangerwhere Baby Jesus lay.
  
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• Man dies after being hit by scrambler bike in Kirkby

  20-12-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The managed wreckage of the bike could be seen lying in the road at the scene in Kirkyby, Merseyside
  
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• We must show solidarity with victims of Berlin terror attack and unite against bigotry

  20-12-2016 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  At least 9 people were killed and as many as 50 injured when an HGV ploughed through crowds at Breitscheidplatz market in Berlin, Germany
  
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• Shocking footage shows teenagers confronting takeaway workers as police seek girl 'who stabbed man in arm'

  20-12-2016 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The confrontation started after a group of teens was kicked out of the restaurant for allegedly causing a disturbance
  
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• Make your festive party a hit with our guide to the best alternative bubbly on offer

  20-12-2016 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We’ve teamed up with wine magazine Decanter to give you the ultimate guide to finding the best value alternatives
  
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• EuroMillion results: Winning numbers for tonight's £51m jackpot on Tuesday, December 20

  20-12-2016 23:08 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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• Can you give these 12 lovable pets of Christmas a new home for 2017?

  20-12-2016 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  These abandoned and abused animals have just one wish this Christmas – to start the New Year in their very own home... could it be yours?
  
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• Massive fireworks explosion in Mexican market leaves dozens injured including children

  20-12-2016 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blast left around 70 people injured and reduced stalls at the San Pablito market to piles of twisted and charred debris
  
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• Massive fireworks explosion in Mexican market leaves 31 dead and dozens injured including children

  20-12-2016 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blast left around 70 people injured and reduced stalls at the San Pablito market to piles of twisted and charred debris
  
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• Massive fireworks explosion in Mexican market leaves 27 dead and dozens injured including children

  20-12-2016 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blast left around 70 people injured and reduced stalls at the San Pablito market to piles of twisted and charred debris
  
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• Massive fireworks explosion in Mexican market leaves 12 dead and dozens injured including children

  20-12-2016 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blast left around 70 people injured and reduced stalls at the San Pablito market to piles of twisted and charred debris
  
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• Assassinated Russian ambassador's grief-stricken widow and mother weep over flag-draped coffin as body is flown back to Moscow

  20-12-2016 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot dead while giving a speech at an art gallery in Ankara
  
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• British man arrested as he lands in UK from the Costa del Sol over secret drug farms

  20-12-2016 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A British man was searched and arrested as he landed from Costa del Sol in the UK, one of 21 people arrested in a Spanish police crackdown on international drug trafficking gangs.
  
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• UK weather: White Christmas dreams fade as Britain looks set to be hotter than Rome

  20-12-2016 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Storm Barbara is due to hit UK shorelines on Friday, bringing rain and gales as many people travel home for the holidays, but leaving low pressure that will bring warm weather from the continent.
  
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• Manchester police release video of teens hurling abuse at fast food workers

  20-12-2016 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Officers put out the footage in attempt to track down a girl who stabbed a 29-year-old staff member of Rice restaurant at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre with scissors.
  
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• We must all work together to prevent Berlin terror attack happening on Britain's streets

  20-12-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  At least nine people have been killed and as many as 50 injured during the tragedy in Berlin
  
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• Cologne train station currently being evacuated due to bomb threat

  20-12-2016 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cologne's main train station was briefly evacuated after a telephone bomb threat today although police are claiming it is a false alarm.
  
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• Was John 'Goldfinger' Palmer killed over Hatton Garden heist?

  20-12-2016 22:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Palmer, believed to have turned informant, was gunned down in the only part of his £800,000 Essex estate not covered by CCTV, just two months after the £14million Hatton Garden raid.
  
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• Teenager dies after being banished to shed for MENSTRUATING to ward off bad luck

  20-12-2016 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Roshani Tiruwa's father discovered her body in a mud and stone hut, where police believe she suffocated after lighting a fire
  
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• Kevin Hicks who vanished 30 years ago in Croydon was 'murdered', say police

  20-12-2016 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kevin Hicks, 16, of Croydon, went out to buy some eggs for a school project on March 2, 1986, but was never heard from again. Police have said they now believe he was murdered.
  
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• 'Bath lotion' death toll rises to 52 in Siberian city of Irkutsk

  20-12-2016 22:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Investigators have seized dozens of bottles of counterfeit bath lotion which were sold as cheap alcohol to drinkers in a Siberian city as the death toll from the scandal rose to 52.
  
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• Brit family saved from Berlin terror attack as they stopped for something to eat

  20-12-2016 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Thompson, his wife Nicola and 11-year-old daughter Annabelle were almost caught up in the tragedy and were forced to “run for our lives"
  
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• Wife of assassinated Russian ambassador had 'nervous breakdown' after he was shot dead in front of her

  20-12-2016 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Andrei Karlov's wife Marina collapsed on his flag-draped coffin before his body was flown back to Russia
  
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• Aishah Al Barwani who was abducted by her father calls her mother before Christmas

  20-12-2016 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Aishah Al Barwani and her brother Faris are believed to be with their father's sister in Oman and her mother, Lacey Plato, told a family court judge about the message in a bid to get her children returned to Britain.
  
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• Overweight staffie cross Lloyd has been taken in by an animal charity to help him

  20-12-2016 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lloyd the brindle and white staffie-cross was not getting enough exercise and being over fed, as well as receiving human food as treats but has now been taken into a re-homing centre in Glasgow.
  
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• The Queen is starting to step down from her role just when we need her the most

  20-12-2016 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tragically, I think today we’re seeing the beginning of the end of the second Elizabethan reign
  
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• Experts claim North Korea is about to unleash its nuclear submarine on the world

  20-12-2016 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The images, taken from above North Korea’s Sinpo South Shipyard, have prompted suggestions that the weapon is preparing to go to sea.
  
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• Berlin terror attack 'nightmare for truckers' admit British hauliers as drivers warned to be extra vigilant

  20-12-2016 21:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Security services fear the lorry used as a murder weapon was hi-jacked by a terrorist
  
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• World pie eating competition champion eats meat and potato snack in 45.5 seconds

  20-12-2016 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Martin Appleton-Clare has retained his pie-eating champion status, munching his way through a 12cm beef and potato pie in just 45.5 seconds. He also won the trophy in Wigan in 2015.
  
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• Germany has been rocked by seven terror attacks in 2016 leaving 22 dead

  20-12-2016 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Germany has been subjected to a year of terror with 22 innocent people killed in seven different attacks since January, with killers using trucks, knives, axes, guns and even bombs.
  
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• Syrian government forces tell final 3,000 civilians and fighters to leave Aleppo

  20-12-2016 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is thought that 25,000 people have been evacuated from the city in the past week, and soldiers using megaphones have called on those remaining to leave.
  
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• Banned driver filmed pulling small child from wreckage of crashed car after smashing into wall is jailed

  20-12-2016 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ryan Walkden, 28, was caught on camera recklessly swerving through traffic in video which launched a police appeal to find him
  
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• New Buckingham Palace security measures for Changing of the Guard in direct response to Berlin terror attack

  20-12-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Various roads will be shut for almost two hours around the Queen’s London residence for the event - held three to four mornings a week - as police reassess its vulnerability to attack
  
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• Buckingham Palace reacts to Berlin terror attack by blocking nearby roads to traffic during 'Changing of the Guard'

  20-12-2016 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Various roads will be shut for almost two hours around the Queen’s London residence for the event - held three to four mornings a week - as police reassess its vulnerability to attack
  
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• Stunning snaps reveal the extraordinary lives of animals in the wild

  20-12-2016 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Incredible photographs make up entries to the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest which exhibits the wonders of the natural world
  
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• Turkey's government orders media BLACKOUT on Russian ambassador assassination 

  20-12-2016 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The pro-government daily newspaper Daily Sabah claims the 22-year-old riot police officer who shot Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov had links to the Gülen movement.
  
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• Peter Roy Everall spared prison to spend Christmas with his son for first time

  20-12-2016 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Peter Roy Everall, 43, of Haslingden, Lancashire, who has spent 14 Christmases in prison has been spared jail for stealing so he can spend the holidays with his son for the first time.
  
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• Britain in lockdown amid fears of Berlin terror attack copycat strike in the UK

  20-12-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police and MI5 are reviewing intelligence tip-offs, lists of new suspects and contingency plans for how to prevent a mass casualty attack here.
  
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• Did Berlin Christmas market terror attacker target Polish lorry for hijacking 'after spotting driver in kebab shop'?

  20-12-2016 20:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lukasz Urban went to a €2.50-a-time kebab shop on Monday to kill the time after being told the cargo of steel he had hauled from Italy to Berlin was 24 hours early
  
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• Italian woman is feared dead in Berlin Christmas market attack

  20-12-2016 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fabrizia Lorenzo, 30, is a transport specialist working in Berlin but her cousin said they had not heard from her since last night and revealed her personal belongings had been found.
  
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• Berlin terror attack: Live updates as Islamic State claims responsibility for 'lone wolf soldier' Christmas market massacre

  20-12-2016 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A total of 12 people were killed and 50 injured after a truck was driven into crowds of revellers at a Christmas market in Berlin last night
  
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• Berlin terror attack: Islamic State claims responsibility for Christmas market massacre which left 12 people dead

  20-12-2016 20:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The claim was made on the jihadi group's Amaq News agency and comes after German authorities released a suspect arrested over the attack because of insufficient evidence
  
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• Zurich mosque gunman who shot three worshippers identified as 24-year-old Swiss man with 'interest in the occult'

  20-12-2016 20:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man with Ghanaian roots is thought to have killed another person before the mosque attack
  
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• Korean tourists risk their lives by posing for shocking Instagram photos

  20-12-2016 20:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group of daredevil tourists were today slammed by the coastguard after risking their lives by posing for photos on the edge of a crumbling 500ft cliff in Seven Sisters.
  
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• Villagers stunned as snow falls in the Sahara for the first time in 37 YEARS 

  20-12-2016 20:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is just the second time in living memory that snow has fallen, with the last occasion being in February 1979.
  
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• Tory home care cuts leads to massive rise in bed-blocking hospital patients

  20-12-2016 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An analysis of official figures has shown the number of acutely ill patients kept in hospital because of a lack of home care provision has risen from 232 in 2010 to 941 this year
  
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• Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova tells of moment she was stabbed

  20-12-2016 20:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A manhunt is on for a knife-wielding attacker who stabbed two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the hand at her home in Prostejov in the Czech Republic during a burglary.
  
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• Multimillionaire behind Jax coconut water must pay £8,000 to gay housekeeper

  20-12-2016 20:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  International banker Max Gottschalk and his wife Jane (pictured), from Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, must pay £8,131 to their former live-in housekeeper Robin Pyke.
  
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• Widow of wealthy French hermit Marcel Amphoux LOSES battle for his inheritance

  20-12-2016 20:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Estate agent Sandrine Devillard, who was 25 years younger than husband Marcel Amphoux,challenged a 'will' written on the back of an envelope which cut her from his inheritance.
  
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• Brit on lads' holiday takes over plane's intercom and demands a 'f***ing drink' from shocked pilot

  20-12-2016 20:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The captain had to leave the controls after passenger Matthew Worrall asked: 'What does it take to get a f***ing drink in this place?'
  
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