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• US justice department accuses Barclays over mortgage mis-selling

  22-12-2016 23:59
  
  Attorney general alleges ‘irresponsible and dishonest’ practices by UK bank in selling home-loan bonds before financial crisisThe US department of justice has accused Barclays of jeopardising the financial position of millions of American homeowners over a decade-old mortgage bond mis-selling scandal.The DoJ is now taking the bank to court, in what was thought to be the first time an institution had failed to reached a settlement with the US authorities over the sale of residential m
  
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• Chelsea cleared of breaking rules in handling of Gary Johnson abuse case

  22-12-2016 23:58
  
  • ‘No rules broken’ in not reporting allegations to Premier League in 2014
  • Chelsea agree to undergo independent safeguarding auditThe Premier League has ruled that Chelsea did not break any rules in failing to report allegations of historical sexual abuse made in 2014 by their former player Gary Johnson, but a safeguarding audit – agreed with the club – has been deemed an “appropriate course of action”. Related: Gary Johnson demands compensation fr
  
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• Stop the snowflake press that the cheats, charlatans and corrupt want you to read

  22-12-2016 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The press holds politicians, officials and corporations to account but Section 40 will change that
  
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• Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington separate after 16 years

  22-12-2016 23:45
  
  Actors who star in BBC’s Sherlock and will appear in forthcoming fourth series have two children togetherThe actors Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington have ended their relationship after 16 years together. The pair, who star together in BBC’s Sherlock and will appear in its forthcoming fourth series, have two children together.According to the Financial Times, Freeman said: “I’m not with Amanda any more. It’s very, very amicable – I’ll always love Amand
  
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• Swaleside prison 'riot': Live updates as video shows chaos in 'wing lost' to 60 inmates at Kent jail

  22-12-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Category B prison - which has a large number of 'lifers' was described as "dangerous" and "not safe" by inspectors as recent as this July
  
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• Lazio’s Senad Lulic receives 20-day suspension for racist insult

  22-12-2016 23:39
  
  • Bosnian said that two years ago Antonio Rüdiger was ‘selling socks and belts’
  • Lulic will miss only one game due to Italy’s winter breakThe Lazio midfielder Senad Lulic has been banned by the Italian FA for 20 days and fined £8,493 (€10,000) for a racist insult towards the Roma defender Antonio Rüdiger following the heated Rome derby this month.As the ban coincides with Serie A’s winter break, Lulic will miss only one game, at home to Cro
  
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• Three-year-old girl 'forced to sleep inside tiny wooden BOX infested with dead bugs'

  22-12-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The box contained just a dirty blanket and cushion, and was discovered by police after they received a tip
  
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• Sickening Islamic State video shows Turkish soldiers being BURNT ALIVE after they were captured in Syria

  22-12-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING - DISTURBING IMAGES: Turkey blocked its whole population from access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube within an hour of the video being released - for fear of unrest
  
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• Nine arrested after three-year-old girl 'was forced to sleep inside tiny wooden box infested with dead bugs'

  22-12-2016 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The box contained just a dirty blanket and cushion, and was discovered by police after they received a tip
  
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• Liverpool clean sheets and resilience a big plus, says Jordan Henderson

  22-12-2016 23:30
  
  • Captain pleased with defensive resolve against Everton and Middlesbrough
  • ‘I said at the start of the season I had belief we could be high up the table’It was the manner of victory at Everton, not only Ross Barkley’s dangerous challenge, that has left its mark on Jordan Henderson. For a Jürgen Klopp team to chase three points until the last is not uncommon but to come through at Goodison Park with a show of resilience, defensive organisation and strength in de
  
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• Australian police arrest seven suspects in 'plot to carry out terror attack on Christmas Day'

  22-12-2016 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A senior police official said it was believed that an 'explosive' event was being planned to cause mass casualties
  
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• Australian police arrest seven suspects in 'plot to carry out ISIS-inspired terror attack on Christmas Day'

  22-12-2016 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A senior police official said it was believed that an 'explosive' event was being planned to cause mass casualties
  
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• Five in custody over alleged Melbourne Christmas terrorism plot

  22-12-2016 23:26
  
  Victoria police commissioner says alleged plot included the use of explosives in attacks on Federation Square, Flinders Street Station and St Paul’s cathedralVictoria police say they have foiled an alleged plot by terrorists to attack landmark locations in Melbourne’s CBD including St Paul’s Cathedral, Flinders Street station and Federation Square with explosives and other weapons, possibly on Christmas Day.The chief police commissioner, Graham Ashton, told reporters on Friday
  
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• Aquascutum whose trenchcoats were loved by Margaret Thatcher is for sale for £100m

  22-12-2016 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fashion giant Aquascutum has been put on the market by Hong Kong-listed YGM Trading, who took over the ailing label in 2012, with the deal set to be completed by the end of March next year.
  
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• Photographer captures images of uncontacted Amazon tribe

  22-12-2016 23:21
  
  Brazilian Ricardo Stuckert accidentally stumbled on to the tribe after his helicopter was divertedA photographer has captured images of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe after his helicopter flight took a detour to avoid a rainstorm and happened to fly over their longhouse.Related: Sighting of uncontacted Amazonian tribe – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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• Riot officers called in following 'ongoing disturbance' at Kent prison

  22-12-2016 23:15
  
  Prison Officers Association says 60 inmates have taken control of wing in 1,100-capacity HMP Swaleside on Isle of SheppeySpecially trained prison riot officers have been sent in to quell the latest disturbance in a British prison.About 60 prisoners have taken control of part of HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey in what was decribed as an “ongoing disturbance” on Thursday evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Gang beat man to ground on driveway before stealing his car in shocking CCTV footage

  22-12-2016 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man had parked outside his home when he was approached by one of the suspects who asked him if he was okay, then demanded the keys to his Audi
  
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• Food banks have no place in 21st century Britain - they belong in the Victoria era

  22-12-2016 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former actress and now MP for Jo Cox's former seat, Batley and Spen, Tracy Brabin wants to stamp out the need for food banks
  
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• Birmingham gang of thugs launch a vicious attack on a man on his own driveway

  22-12-2016 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The violent incident was captured on CCTV and West Midlands Police are hunting the four men involved after the innocent victim was attacked in Livingstone Road, Birmingham.
  
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• Jonjo Shelvey: Newcastle midfielder will not appeal against racial abuse ban

  22-12-2016 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Newcastle midfielder Jonjo Shelvey will not contest a five-game ban imposed for using racially abusive language.
  
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• Alex Lewis defies odds to return to work

  22-12-2016 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three years ago Alex Lewis went from having a cold to losing his limbs - now he's going back to work as an interior designer.
  
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• Jim Best: ‘All the fun I’ve had over the years has been taken out of me’

  22-12-2016 23:00
  
  Jim Best says he has been left demoralised and disillusioned by the BHA’s case against him and maintains his innocence despite last week’s guilty verdictLenient is a word that some have used to describe the punishment meted out to the racehorse trainer Jim Best following a decision last week that he had probably told a jockey to lose on two horses, for which his licence will be suspended until June. But the 36-year-old, who maintains his innocence, could hardly look less like a man w
  
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• Donnie Darko review – pop classic of paranoia matures with age

  22-12-2016 23:00
  
  Richard Kelly’s rereleased tale of suburban angst, starring a tremendous Jake Gyllenhaal, is a captivating triumphIn 2001, 27-year-old writer-director Richard Kelly created a pop classic of American suburban paranoia in Donnie Darko, now on rerelease – a movie with something of Back to the Future, Twin Peaks, American Beauty and of course Harvey. This film made Tears for Fears hip (kind of) and had a tremendous discovery in the young Jake Gyllenhaal, playing Donnie, a high-school kid
  
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• British Horseracing Authority’s secrecy in Jim Best case proved costly | Chris Cook

  22-12-2016 23:00
  
  Had the BHA got its way none of us would have any idea that a deal had been done in a case of one man’s word against anotherAs the Jim Best case breathes its last after a year of legal debate and as racing’s ruling body admits it has blown a six-figure sum through its failure to provide a demonstrably fair hearing at the first attempt, it is instructive to see the first concern for some people is the penalty given to the trainer. The British Horseracing Authority has lost a significa
  
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• Cornbread Mafia boss Johnny Boone caught after eight years on the run and faces life in prison

  22-12-2016 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Robert Boone - AKA Johnny Boone - was the leader of the Cornbread Mafia, an organised crime gang operating out of Kentucky in the late 80s.
  
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• Italy's banking system may need £50BILLION from country's government

  22-12-2016 22:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ministers in Italy have already lined up a £17billion bailout package to keep the financial system afloat – but fears are growing this may not be enough.
  
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• Crocodiles skinned alive at Vietnamese farms preparing skins for handbags

  22-12-2016 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: VERY DISTRESSING CONTENT. Disturbing footage of crocodiles being skinned alive at several farms in Vietnam has been released by animal right group PETA.
  
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• Aleppo battle: Syrian city 'back under government control'

  22-12-2016 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Syrian city of Aleppo is back fully under government control, the military says.
  
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• Teenager charged with murder of celebrity bodyguard in London

  22-12-2016 22:46
  
  Tarrel Hinds, 19, faces the charge after Ricky Hayden was stabbed last September trying to stop a a moped being stolenTwo teenagers have been charged in relation to the death of a celebrity bodyguard who was attacked as he tried to stop a moped being stolen.Ricky Hayden, 27, was stabbed outside his home in Chadwell Heath, east London, on 13 September . He died early the following day. His father, Paul Hayden, 54, was also injured in the incident. Continue reading...
  
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• British trucker raises more than £50k for family of Polish driver killed in Berlin attack

  22-12-2016 22:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dave Duncan, of Otley, West Yorkshire, said he was shocked by what happened to 37-year-old Lukasz Urban and decide to raise money from 'the truckers of the UK and beyond'.
  
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• World’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence

  22-12-2016 22:44
  
  Bridgewater Associates has a team of engineers working on a project to automate decision-making to save time and eliminate human emotional volatilityThe world’s largest hedge fund is building a piece of software to automate the day-to-day management of the firm, including hiring, firing and other strategic decision-making.
  Bridgewater Associates has a team of software engineers working on the project at the request of billionaire founder Ray Dalio, who wants to ensure the company can run a
  
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• What Shackleton's men dreamed of for Antarctic Christmas dinner 108 years ago

  22-12-2016 22:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The document was printed with equipment Ernest Shackleton took with him on the Nimrod expedition while the men endured bone-chilling temperatures and a lack of food during the winter of 1908.
  
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• Stalin's grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvil is found dead in the street aged 80 

  22-12-2016 22:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, 80, son of the tyrant's eldest child Yakov, was found close to his Moscow home.Dzhugashvili, who took Stalin's real surname, accused Putin of being 'a show off'.
  
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• Police don't know if attempted kidnap of airman was terrorism, road rage or robbery 

  22-12-2016 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The married airman in his late twenties was out running in the village of Marham, in Norfolk, at around 3.10pm on July 20 when he was ambushed by two men.
  
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• Hip joint retrieved from cottage in grounds of Blenheim Palace where elderly couple died

  22-12-2016 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The elderly couple's bodies could not be recovered after the massive fire engulfed their Grade II listed cottage in the grounds of the historic Oxfordshire estate.
  
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• Effie, 6, is battling a rare form of dementia as she celebrates what could be her last Christmas

  22-12-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Effie Hadman has lost her sight, speech, movement and even the ability to eat because of the devastating condition
  
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• Pogues and Thin Lizzy tour manager Frank Murray dies of suspected heart attack

  22-12-2016 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Murray was credited by some with bringing together Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues, and the late Kirsty MacColl for the hugely successful ballad Fairytale Of New York.
  
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• Christmas shoppers will blow £191 EACH this week making last-minute festive buys

  22-12-2016 22:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some 22.6 million people say they expect to be shopping on Christmas Eve, by which time they will have spent around £191 each in one week alone - or £313 for those living in London.
  
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• British Airways cabin crews suspend strikes over Christmas

  22-12-2016 22:18
  
  Members of Unite union call off planned walkout on Christmas Day and Boxing Day after receiving revised pay offerPlanned strikes by British Airways cabin crew on Christmas Day and Boxing Day have been suspended.Members of Unite were due to walk out over Christmas in a dispute over pay. The union said workers employed in the so-called mixed crew – who have joined since 2010 – were on lower pay than other staff. Continue reading...
  
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• Couple who moved from US to Inverness told they have a month to leave

  22-12-2016 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Americans Russell and Ellen Felber, who run the popular Torridon Guest House in Inverness, have been told they have just one month to leave the UK.
  
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• Savvy shoppers get their Christmas turkeys direct from poultry auction

  22-12-2016 22:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Buyers and sellers from across the country flocked to York Auction Centre's Dressed Poultry Christmas Sale to pick up their oven-ready meat just in time for Christmas Day.
  
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• Aleppo laid bare: UN map shows areas of Syrian city suffered '100 per cent destruction'

  22-12-2016 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A UN map created from satellite imagery shows, in red, areas of '100 per cent destruction' in Aleppo. Most of these areas are in the formerly rebel-held east.
  
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• Dany Cotton becomes London Fire Brigade's first ever female commissioner

  22-12-2016 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dany Cotton, 47, who will officially take over the London Fire Brigade role on January 1, has said part of her job is 'myth-busting' to show women are just as capable of being firefighters as men.
  
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• CCTV shows Berlin terror attack suspect 'visiting mosque' hours after lorry smashed into Christmas market

  22-12-2016 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Images show a man in a wool cap standing outside a mosque in Berlin's Moabit district
  
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• Russian student who bought lace lingerie to 'impress' her jihadist lover is jailed

  22-12-2016 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A military judge in Moscow, Russia, jailed Varvara Karaulova, 21, for four and a half years after saying she was a potential 'suicide bomber'.
  
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• Theresa May seeks help with a thorny problem - the roses in her garden

  22-12-2016 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gardeners' Question Time tell Prime Minister to move her roses after they failed to produce many flowers
  
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• British Airways cabin crew strikes for Christmas Day and Boxing Day are suspended

  22-12-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Members of Unite were due to walk out over Christmas in a dispute over pay but lengthy talks at conciliation service Acas have led to a revised offer
  
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• Syrian evacuees fleeing Aleppo could suffer same fate in refuge city, UN envoy warns

  22-12-2016 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Staffan de Mistura said city thousands have been taken to could be "the next Aleppo"
  
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• Biggles the cocaine smuggling pilot has his plane seized after drugs bust

  22-12-2016 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrew Wright, who was nicknamed Biggles, has been jailed for 19 years after trying to sneak drug into airfield into Yorkshire
  
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• Newcastle’s Jonjo Shelvey decides not to contest ban for racial abuse

  22-12-2016 21:45
  
  • Jonjo Shelvey maintains innocence after being found guilty
  • We think an appeal is unlikely to change the panel’s decision, he said
  The Newcastle United midfielder Jonjo Shelvey has decided not to appeal against his five-match ban after being found guilty of a Football Association misconduct charge.The 24-year-old continues to deny using racially aggravated language towards an opponent, but after considering the independent regulatory commission’s written reason for its d
  
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