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• Teenage football referee who's been headbutted and punched calls for nationwide officials strike

  30-12-2016 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ryan Hampson, 17, has issued a call-to-arms amongst his colleagues in the grass roots of the game to walk out in March
  
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• Policeman lover of Greek ambassador's Brazilian wife 'confesses to killing him on her orders after the diplomat discovered their affair' 

  30-12-2016 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, mysteriously vanished on Boxing Day night after leaving his wife's apartment in a poor suburb of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro.
  
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• Syria ceasefire holds as Russia and Turkey seek UN support

  30-12-2016 23:49
  
  Russia to ask security council to endorse bilateral pact with Turkey amid concerns over reports of fighting near DamascusA ceasefire across Syria appeared to be holding on Friday as its brokers, Russia and Turkey, sought support at the UN security council for the plan it hopes will trump failed peace proposals and end the six-year conflict.Despite violations blamed on both sides in parts of the country, there were no reported civilian casualties by Friday night and diplomats were hopeful that th
  
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• Baby dies after own mum accidentally reversed over tot in 4X4 while leaving funeral on Christmas Eve

  30-12-2016 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police in Queensland, Australia, are not treating the incident as suspicious and have described the child's death as a 'tragic accident'
  
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• Hunt for cruel thugs who wrapped cat in hazard tape in 'deliberate' attack

  30-12-2016 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The cat was found encased in the black and yellow tape with only his ears visible, the RSPCA said
  
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• World in crisis: New Cold War has us on the brink and Donald Trump could light the touchpaper

  30-12-2016 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former British Ambassador to Russia Sir Anthony Brenton fears Russia's relative weakness compared to the Cold War years makes situation even more dangerous
  
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• Number of norovirus victims at 5-year high as reports of vomiting bug hits 2,435 so far this winter

  30-12-2016 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The figure is 71% higher than the same period last year, and in the week up to Christmas Day, vomiting and diarrhoea outbreaks resulted in an average of 699 bed closures a day
  
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• The most satisfying domino rally you'll ever see is used by brickies to finish wall

  30-12-2016 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Workers in Teralba, New South Wales, filmed themselves carrying out the trick that has left people baffled
  
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• Edinburgh's Hogmanay events will attract 150,000 visitors from 80 nations 

  30-12-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A torchlight procession through the city kicked off the Hogmanay festivities, with around 150,000 people from 80 nations across the world expected to descend on Edinburgh.
  
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• Wasps top Premiership after Jimmy Gopperth has final say at Newcastle

  30-12-2016 23:34
  
  • Newcastle 30-34 Wasps
  • Wasps get bonus-point win despite leaking two tries in first four minutesThe former Newcastle player Jimmy Gopperth emerged from the replacements’ bench at Kingston Park to plunder the try bonus score in a 34-30 win that ensured Wasps would go into the new year on top of the Premiership table.In a pulsating see-saw contest played out in front of Newcastle’s biggest home gate of the season, 8,730, Wasps needed only a single point to overtake Saracen
  
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• Sam Quek: How I found out about NY honour

  30-12-2016 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British Hockey player and gold medallist for the Rio Olympic Games 2016 Sam Quek has been awarded an MBE as part of the Queen's New Year Honours.
  
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• There's a new Knight of Knotty Ash and it's about time too

  30-12-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sir Ken Dodd has brought joy and laughter to British audiences for an astonishing 62 years – firing off his one-liners at seven titters-per-minute
  
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• The unsung heroes who strive tirelessly in communities are recognised in New Year's Honours List

  30-12-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Among those to receive an honour is campaigner Marcia Shakespeare, whose 17-year- old daughter Letisha was shot dead 14 years ago
  
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• New Year's Honours 2017: Full list of great and good awarded for services to Britain

  30-12-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Queen is honouring comedian Ken Dodd alongside Olympian heroes Andy Murray, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill. Here is the list in full
  
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• New Year Honours list: Who's made the Queen's list in 2016?

  30-12-2016 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport looks at some of the stars who have made the New Year Honours list - including cyclists Laura and Jason Kenny.
  
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• Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill lead Olympics and Paralympics-dominated New Year Honours

  30-12-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  About 10% of all 1,197 gongs awarded go to the stars of Rio 2016
  
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• Jürgen Klopp finally gets a chance to face Pep Guardiola on level playing field | Andy Hunter

  30-12-2016 23:30
  
  Liverpool’s manager insists his focus is on Manchester City’s players not the man in the dugout as the old foes rekindle their Bundesliga rivalryAllianz Arena, April 2015, and at the end of their last competitive encounter Jürgen Klopp sprinted past Pep Guardiola to join the celebrations rather than offer commiserations or a handshake. It was nothing personal, simply a release in a draining final season at Borussia Dortmund and one last shot across the bows of Bayern Munich. Klo
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn accuses Tories of 'making a mockery of the honours system' after wealthy donor receives knighthood

  30-12-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Ord, who's put nearly £1m into the Tories, is one of 10 Conservatives, 2 Labour politicians and 2 Lib Dems honoured for "political service"
  
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• Entertainer Ken Dodd reacts to receiving a New Year Honour

  30-12-2016 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Comedian Ken Dodd has been made a knight in the Queen's New Year Honours.
  
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• Arise, Sir Ken Dodd! Comedian tickled to receive knighthood in New Year's Honours List

  30-12-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Scouser, 89, said he was "very, very happy and full of plumptiousness" after he was recognised for his services to arts, entertainment and charity
  
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• Arise, Sir Andy! Wimbledon champion Murray handed knighthood in New Year's Honours list

  30-12-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Brit enjoyed the finest season of his career in 2016, landing a second Wimbledon title, Olympic gold and the year-end world No 1 ranking for the first time
  
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• Family friendly

  30-12-2016 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parents in Denmark enjoy an enviable standard of childcare, but it costs the state a lot of money. Can the system survive cuts and a potential move towards lower taxes?
  
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• Chief executive of drinks company feared dead along with wife and two sons after private plane vanishes

  30-12-2016 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Superior Beverage Company executive John T Fleming is understood to have been flying a plane which lost altitude shortly after take-off in Ohio, US
  
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• Shopkeeper shed 10st after she ballooned to 21st and had to leave shop to make room for customers

  30-12-2016 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As we launch our January Slimming World special, Clare Smith tells how she has shed a huge 10st 4lbs to go from a size 26 to a size 10
  
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• Everton’s Ross Barkley denies Hull rare win after Robert Snodgrass magic

  30-12-2016 23:01
  
  Hull’s formal coronation as the UK’s City of Culture for 2017 takes place on Sunday as the hangovers wear off. On this evidence Robert Snodgrass’s left foot should be among the primary exhibits.For the threadbare hopes of its football club’s top-flight future appear to hang on the Scotland international’s use of it. Snodgrass has now converted or created exactly half of Hull’s 16 Premier League goals, and for 20 minutes his sixth of the season, an exquisite fr
  
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• Team GB Paralympian born without legs now plans to battle able-bodied athletes

  30-12-2016 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This year Ali Jawad, who moved to London when he was six months old, overcame huge adversity to pick up a silver medal at the Paralympic games, briefly holding the competition's powerlifting record.
  
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• 'From age 15 Boko Haram thugs forced me to wed three 3 men - I had a child by each'

  30-12-2016 22:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Amina tells story of her desperate bid to escape Islamic terror group Boko Haram after five years of captivity
  
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• Senator John McCain brands Russia's US election 'hack' 'an act of war'

  30-12-2016 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Republican said Russia must be made to pay the price for cyber attacks on the United States
  
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• Warning is issued of ‘immediate and severe’ risk of terror attacks on tourist targets in India with New Year beach parties feared most at-risk 

  30-12-2016 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Israel has issued severe travel warnings for India, citing an 'immediate and severe' risk to Western tourists, especially in the south-west of the country, which includes Goa.
  
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• Norwich mother who received devastating cancer news at Christmas is proposed to the next day

  30-12-2016 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amy Smith could not hide her emotion as partner Gareth Innes proposed to her in front of their two children. Family and friends have already raised more than £10,000 to fund their wedding day.
  
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• Homeless man invited to Sweden for Christmas after giving two tourist sisters directions to pub

  30-12-2016 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jimmy Fraser was begging on a busy street when Swedish sisters Annis and Emma Lindqvist asked him for directions to a pub
  
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• Dramatic CCTV shows moment gunshots fired at police car outside nightclub on Christmas Day

  30-12-2016 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  West Yorkshire Police say two shots were fired at a police officer and a member of the public from inside a black Seat Leon outside Krizma nightclub in Bradford city centre
  
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• Facebook temporarily bans author after he calls Trump fans 'nasty fascistic lot'

  30-12-2016 22:22
  
  Temporary ban of Kevin Sessums, well known for celebrity profiles and memoirs, is latest example of social media platform’s censorship of journalistsA journalist was temporarily banned from Facebook after a post in which he called Trump supporters “a nasty fascistic lot”, in the latest example of the social media platform’s censorship of journalists.Facebook “reviewed and restored” the post by Kevin Sessums after being contacted by the Guardian and dropped the
  
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• Little girl told parents she didn't want presents this Christmas, asking for money to go to homeless instead

  30-12-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Selfless Bella Wiles, 5, was moved to tears last December when she saw a homeless man during a family holiday
  
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• Airplane heading from Spain to Poland 'diverted due to bomb threat'

  30-12-2016 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The flight to Warsaw was forced to make an emergency landing in Prague before all 160 passengers were escorted to safety
  
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• Airplane carrying 160 people forced to make emergency land in Prague after passenger declares bomb threat mid-air

  30-12-2016 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Enter Air flight was traveling from the Canary Islands to Poland when it was forced to land this evening
  
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• Tinder and Grindr dating apps linked to more than 500 crimes including murder, rape and child abuse

  30-12-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has warned the shocking figures could be "just the tip of the iceberg"
  
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• UK Government can record everything you click on online under new 'Snooper's Charter' 

  30-12-2016 21:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police are now officially able to hack into your phones and check your browsing history after the Snoopers' Charter came into force today.
  
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• Met Police spends £23,410 a year on fixing cars after officers put wrong fuel in tehm

  30-12-2016 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Every police car shows whether it takes diesel or petrol on the fuel flap. But still officers filled cars with the wrong fuel 60 times in 2015. These easily avoidable mistakes cost the Met £23,410.
  
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• Heartbreaking picture shows little Syrian girl for whom ceasefire came too late

  30-12-2016 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES tragic three-year-old Haya was killed in an air strike in the rebel-held town of Douma in one of the final clashes before the ceasefire
  
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• Story of homeless man who found stranger's £200 shopping takes wonderful new twist

  30-12-2016 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An appeal to take the kind-hearted homeless man, named as Gary, off the streets began a week ago
  
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• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers for tonight's £14m jackpot on Friday, December 30

  30-12-2016 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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• From Prince Harry's new girlfriend to Adam Johnson's journey to jail - Mirror photographers' pictures of the year

  30-12-2016 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It has been a year of unforgettable events and Mirror photographers were there to capture the moments that mattered most
  
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• Beggar who helped Swedish tourists with directions in Edinburgh rewarded with invites

  30-12-2016 21:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jimmy Fraser, 54, was treated to an ice hockey match, dined on Elk meatballs and even appeared on Swedish TV thanks to his hosts Annis Lindkvist and her younger sister Emma.
  
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• 'Bikini cop' quits job for new career as personal trainer 

  30-12-2016 21:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Swedish police officer who gave a pickpocket the shock of his life when she tackled him to the ground wearing only a bikini, has decided to quit her job to become a personal trainer.
  
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• EastEnders on suicide

  30-12-2016 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  EastEnders actor Danny-Boy Hatchard talks about his role as a young man whose depression has pushed him to the brink of suicide.
  
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• Suffolk mother is run over and killed while running in training to do a marathon 

  30-12-2016 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Claire Taylor, 41, was out jogging near Haverhill, Suffolk, to prepare for next year's Rome Marathon when she was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall Corsa at 10.10am on Tuesday.
  
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• Stunning drone footage gives you a birds eye view of £1million mansion

  30-12-2016 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The secluded 13-bed Victorian propertyoffers exclusive fishing rights and breathtaking views of surrounding mountains and woodland
  
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• Mother-of-two's Samsung phone 'sends sparks flying just inches from her baby'

  30-12-2016 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mother-of-two Victoria Seed, 39, said she was shocked when she heard the bang and saw the sparks flying from the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge at her home in Whitefield, Greater Manchester.
  
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• Under-10s footballers could be banned from heading the ball over health fears

  30-12-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Professional Footballers’ Association wants to follow guidelines introduced in the United States that bars children under 10 from heading the ball
  
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