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• Mountains of festering festive waste dumped outside supermarkets by residents too impatient to wait for binmen

  28-12-2016 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fly-tippers caused outrage after piles of rotting food, nappies and discarded wrapping were blown into nearby estates - and even began attracting vermin
  
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• Mum whose home destroyed by giant gas blast back for first Christmas after bungalow rebuilt brick-by-brick

  28-12-2016 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michele Wright, 56, was on holiday when a huge gas blast blew her property to pieces leaving her homeless
  
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• Sex gets better with age as focus shifts to quality over quantity in the bedroom

  28-12-2016 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Older lovers put more ‘thought and effort’ into sex that counters a possible drop off in libido in our 60s and beyond
  
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• British holidaymakers stranded in Cape Verde over Christmas after dust cloud sees flights cancelled

  28-12-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Passengers due to fly back to Manchester from the African Island on Christmas Day were told they could not go home and don't yet know when they will be able to return
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's New Year vow to fight and beat UKIP in Labour's heartlands

  28-12-2016 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour leader says his party will be stepping up its campaign to counter the “extremely negative messages” from UKIP
  
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• Southampton 1-4 Tottenham Hotspur

  28-12-2016 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dele Alli scores twice as Tottenham maintain their challenge for a Champions League spot with victory over 10-man Southampton.
  
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• School had to cancel classes after computer technician pawned £23,000 of equipment to fund drug addiction

  28-12-2016 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Margaret Redjeb pawned 83 devices including laptops, computer tablets, games consoles and cameras belonging to Belgrave St Peter's C Of E Primary in Leicester
  
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• Ships collided after tanker skipper went for a pee in the sea

  28-12-2016 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Skipper was caught short while on lookout duty and left his station on the bridge to spend a penny over the stern
  
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• 'God only knows what you have in store for St Valentine's Day': Grumpy neighbour vows to MOVE over house's Christmas lights display in celeb-filled north London area 

  28-12-2016 23:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The anonymous note said the display 'has REALLY taken the biscuit'. The fallout happened in a plush estate in Highgate, north London, which is home to a number of A-list celebrities.
  
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• Dorset couple face every parent's nightmare as their train pulls away from platform with them on board but their three young crying children still on platform

  28-12-2016 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Claire and Paul Leighton from Dorset were terrified when the doors of the train they got on closed unexpectedly leaving their children weeping on the platform at Hinton Admiral station.
  
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• Two children 'assaulted by man on London Tube because they had their feet on seats'

  28-12-2016 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British Transport Police have released an image of a man they would like to speak to following the incident at Wembley Park, north-west London, on November 12
  
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• British girl kidnapped and held as sex slave for 13 years by rapist who SOLD her four babies

  28-12-2016 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anna Ruston was held for 13 years and brutally raped by a monster inside his own home, but is now bravely telling her story
  
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• Celtic 2-0 Ross County

  28-12-2016 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celtic beat Ross County to secure a 14th Scottish Premiership victory in a row and move 16 points clear of Rangers.
  
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• Dad charged with murder of six-month-old baby daughter who died on Christmas Day

  28-12-2016 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lee Parker, 33, was charged after the death of six-month-old Aya Parker in the village of Kingswood near Bristol
  
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• 'Cinnamon buns'

  28-12-2016 22:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Carrie Fisher's iconic Princess Leia hairstyle - and its feminist roots.
  
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• Rescuing seagull from curry and sheep from a traffic cone - RSPCA officers' top 2016 callouts

  28-12-2016 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The charity had more than one million calls last year, so it's no wonder the team find themselves in numerous weird and wonderful situations
  
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• Lotto chief fooled into handing £2.5million to rapist 'scammer' is still getting millions in bonuses

  28-12-2016 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dame Dianne Thompson signed off the payment to convicted rapist Edward Putman in 2009 - but could still be handed up to £1million a year until 2019
  
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• Female passenger 'is called "white trash" by three racist Asian thugs on packed commuter train' 

  28-12-2016 22:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The woman was branded 'white trash' by three men on a train in Glasgow - and three thugs made sexual gestures at her.
  
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• Rhea still at large in Cambridgeshire

  28-12-2016 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 6ft rhea that was spotted on the loose on Christmas Day remains on the run, police admit.
  
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• UK weather: Health warning as freezing fog and sub-zero temperatures set to hit Britain

  28-12-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Elderly people and those with long-term illness have been urged to take precautions as some areas will see temperatures plummet to -6C
  
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• Cow abuse at dairy farm revealed by undercover filming

  28-12-2016 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Animal rights group releases covert footage that shows a worker at a dairy farm punching calves and kicking cows in the face.
  
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• Royal Mail leave Christmas parcels in mother-of-one's bin shed only for the binmen to throw them away 

  28-12-2016 21:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alexandra Smart, 34, from Finsbury Park, London, was away visiting family over Christmas when two packages were delivered, and they had been taken away by the time she returned.
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto winning numbers for tonight's £22m jackpot on Wednesday, December 28

  28-12-2016 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's Lottery could make you a very rich person - but have you got a winning ticket?
  
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• The Big Freeze will stay until 2017! Frosty snap will last until the weekend as temperatures plummet to -7C

  28-12-2016 21:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Big Freeze that has gripped much of the country this week has prompted Public Health England to issue a severe weather warning, advising that conditions could endanger the elderly.
  
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• 'Enjoy your water bed': Debenhams security guard soaked a homeless man in WATER as he slept outside the department store entrance 

  28-12-2016 21:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Russell Allen said he woke in an alcove outside Debenhams in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on Boxing Day morning to find his clothes and bedding sodden with water.
  
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• Berlin police arrest Christmas market attacker's alleged accomplice

  28-12-2016 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Six days after jihadi Anis Amri was shot dead by police in Italy, security services raided the home and business premises of a fellow Tunisian living in Berlin
  
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• Fisherman dies in hospital and search for missing colleague is called off after trawler capsizes in rough seas in middle of the English Channel

  28-12-2016 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A fisherman has died after being rescued from the English Channel where his trawler capsized. One survivor was found but the remaining crewman is unaccounted for and the search is called off.
  
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• Superstars' superstitions - wet towels, lucky pants and magic magpies

  28-12-2016 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After Olympic champ Laura Trott admitted her odd ritual, we reveal who are the most superstitious celebs
  
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• Teen girls filmed in mass brawl on bus - months after youth convicted following 'stabbing' on same service

  28-12-2016 21:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Passengers cowered in terror when fighting broke out on the Number 14 service in Birmingham on Tuesday
  
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• Boy raider who robbed two shops and a man at knifepoint when he was aged just 12 weeps as he is locked up for six months

  28-12-2016 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The pint-sized thug pulled a three-inch flick-knife on a man in Dagenham, Essex and terrorised his victims with his gang of older feral pals for five months. Barkingside Magistrate's court sentenced him.
  
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• Police dashcam footage shows officer shoot black man in back as he 'walks away posing no threat'

  28-12-2016 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A lawyer for David Collie released the footage showing his client being confronted by two officers in Texas who believed he had committed a robbery
  
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• Channel fishing boat capsize: Rescued crewman dies

  28-12-2016 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of two fishermen who disappeared when their boat capsized dies in hospital after being pulled from the English Channel.
  
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• A saline solution to Canadian photographer David Burdeny's picture puzzle

  28-12-2016 20:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  They may look like the work of an abstract artist, instead these perplexing pictures show salt fields as viewed from a helicopter
  
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• Cheese thieves and terrorists: 1800s mugshots reveal some of Britain's most notorious and unusual criminals

  28-12-2016 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Among the outlaws were cheese stealers, fraudsters and, terrorists - and even a corrupt American politician on the run, with a $10,000 reward up for grabs
  
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• Autopilot' feature in supercar predicts motorway smash and stops car before driver even sees the accident

  28-12-2016 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage from a dashcam in the Tesla Model X shows off the motor's high-tech feature in dramatic fashion on a motorway in Holland
  
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• John Kerry warns Israel over peace deal with Palestinians

  28-12-2016 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US says Israel is putting the prospect of a peace deal with the Palestinians in grave jeopardy.
  
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• Mystery behind the death of aviator Amy Johnson may finally have been solved

  28-12-2016 20:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Witnesses say that after pilot Amy ditched in the Thames Estuary the boat sent to save her accidentally reversed into her and the propellor chopped her to pieces
  
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• Hundreds arrested since 'legal high' ban six months ago

  28-12-2016 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Almost 500 people have been arrested since a ban on 'legal highs' came into force six months ago.
  
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• Sir Bradley Wiggins: Tour de France winner & five-time Olympic champion retires

  28-12-2016 20:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Bradley Wiggins, Britain's five-time Olympic champion and first Tour de France winner, says "2016 is the end of the road for this chapter".
  
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• Cot firm finally apologises to family of seven week old baby who died in her £300 Bednest after suggesting her older sister, four, had accidentally killed her

  28-12-2016 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seven-week-old Grace Roseman died when her head became stuck over the raised edge of a Bednest crib at her home in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, on April 9 last year.
  
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• Secret filming shows calves at Somerset farm being punched and kicked

  28-12-2016 20:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An investigation is launched after undercover filming at a dairy farm shows cows and calves being punched and kicked.
  
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• Ana Ivanovic: Former French Open winner retires from tennis aged 29

  28-12-2016 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former world number one and 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic says she can no longer play to her "own high standards" so "it is time to move on".
  
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• Spurned lover tipped bucket of concrete over ex-girlfriend's car on Christmas Day after festive break-up

  28-12-2016 20:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Darren Manson text Danielle Black, "You've messed with the wrong man" and was later spotted hiding behind a wall in her garden
  
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• Israel's Attorney General 'orders criminal investigation' against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

  28-12-2016 20:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It comes after US Secretary of State John Kerry launched a blistering attack on Israel tonight 
  
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• Fisherman found clinging to hull of capsized trawler after North Sea accident

  28-12-2016 20:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Man survives freezing conditions for nine hours after an accident that left one man dead and a second feared drowned
  
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• Abused woman who killed husband pardoned

  28-12-2016 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  French woman Jacqueline Sauvage, who murdered her husband, is freed after a presidential pardon.
  
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• Tragic teenager dies on Christmas Eve after collapsing following night out

  28-12-2016 19:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dearbhla Harbinson, 18, died after falling ill following a night out in Belfast as she returned home from university for the festive period
  
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• Dark history of Victorian-era jail where Britain's most notorious murderers and rapists were put to death

  28-12-2016 19:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shepton Mallet prison has a dark history particularly surrounding those who were sentenced to death behind its walls
  
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• Woman discovers she's adopted after Facebook photo shows mum wasn't pregnant before 'due date'

  28-12-2016 19:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Silvina Martinez Pintos spotted the revealing detail when browsing family photos on social media
  
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• Bradley Wiggins: British cycling great retires after winning five Olympic titles

  28-12-2016 19:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From Wiggomania to knighthood, Tour de France win to Olympic golds - Sir Bradley Wiggins calls it a day.
  
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