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• Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist posed as qualified driving instructor to con learners out of £4,500

  05-01-2017 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michael Machell, once described as the 'most atrocious' contestant Simon Cowell had seen, set up a driving school and advertised cut-price lessons despite having not passed his exams
  
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• Man, 30, is charged with firearms offences after police operation in which Yassar Yaqub was shot dead by officers on M62 slip road

  05-01-2017 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Moshin Amin, from Dewsbury, has been charged in relation to a loaded semi-automatic handgun following the police operation in which Yassar Yaqub (shown) was shot dead.
  
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• Britain's most protected bird under threat from SAS-trained wildlife hunter on the run

  05-01-2017 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jeffrey Lendrum, 55, has spent a lifetime stealing eggs from the peregrine falcon and sell them into a life far from their natural habitats
  
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• Diet expert reveals how seeing ‘before’ picture shocked him into giving up junk food 

  05-01-2017 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Alexander van Tulleken from west London, avoided mirrors and scales after going from 12-and-a-half to 19 stone in less than a year after becoming a student again as an adult.
  
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• Convoy of pole dancers performing sexy routines on top of beach buggies during bizarre funeral for top politician

  05-01-2017 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chiayi county politician Tung Hsiang was farewelled by the dancers in skimpy tops and shorts in a processions attended by top officials
  
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• Fatcat bankers to pocket £5bn in biggest bonuses for a decade as campaigners slam "unjustified" pay levels

  05-01-2017 23:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Goldman Sachs veteran Michael Sherwood could pocket more than the £17m he received last year
  
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• Mile of ancient trees cut down as squirrels gnaw on branches with some failing in front of drivers on busy road

  05-01-2017 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of beautiful beeches were reduced to stumps over claims the chomping rodents made them a danger to motorists
  
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• Teenager stabbed to death in broad daylight 'had been left "lost" after mum's recent death'

  05-01-2017 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim - named locally as 17-year-old Reece Cullen - died after the attack in broad daylight in Tallaght, Dublin this afternoon
  
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• Pictured: Hero police officer killed stopping major terror attack by two Kurdish terrorists armed with machine guns

  05-01-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dramatic footage shows an officer sprinting away from a row of parked cars before collapsing to the ground after been shot during a gunfight in Izmir, on Turkey's west coast.
  
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• Big Brother star 'too sexy' for Instagram has account shut down after posting 'offensively' raunchy naked photos

  05-01-2017 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Maca Diskrecia posted a topless snap of herself while lying in bed, which social media bosses took offence to after it was reported for "nudity"
  
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• Terrifying moment a 13-foot great white shark leaps out of water in front of Brit tourist

  05-01-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This spectacular shot of the 13-foot, three-quarter ton predator was captured off Kleinbaai, South Africa, by holidaymaker Joseph Butler
  
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• Canadian research reveals more likely to suffer from dementia if you live on a busy road

  05-01-2017 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Toronto and Public Health Ontario found people exposed to traffic fumes and noise were up to 12 per cent more likely to develop the disease.
  
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• Dad-of-two told he's got weeks to live after 'bad flu' turned out to be terminal cancer

  05-01-2017 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Phil Cox, 36, has fought aggressive tumours for 16 months after being diagonosed with lung and testicular cancer
  
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• Children left without toys after sick yobs break into primary school and urinate in Wendy house

  05-01-2017 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Disgusted locals came forward with donations for the school after vandals caused hundreds of pounds of damage
  
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• Mysterious British island in middle of ocean only just celebrates Christmas TWO WEEKS after rest of world

  05-01-2017 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Foula in Shetland - which has a population of just over 30 - has a strong Norse tradition of folklore, music and festivities
  
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• Jill Saward, sexual violence campaigner and Ealing vicarage rape victim, dies aged 51

  05-01-2017 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jill Saward was attacked at her home in Ealing, west London, and brutally raped while her vicar father and brother were tied up, before dedicating her life to campaigning against sexual violence.
  
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• As a new Cold War brews, check out the James Bond-style spy gadgets used through the ages

  05-01-2017 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The gadgets, on display at the International Spy Museum, provide an insight into the world of espionage as tensions between the West and Russia’s Vladimir Putin
  grow more strained
  
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• French managers get used to law that forces companies to let staff switch off email

  05-01-2017 22:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As the French government enacted a new law forcing employers not to send staff emails outside of working hours, managers said the country's workforce is having to adjust to the change.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn is running out of time to turn Labour's fortunes round - and we have to look credible

  05-01-2017 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neil Coyle is the Labour MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark
  
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• Police slammed for 'unprofessional and patronising' Facebook appeal that jokes about suspected burglar 'not accepting their friend request'

  05-01-2017 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The post said: "We have a slight suspicion that you might be blanking us #Awkward
  . You don't text, you don't call back and haven't accepted our friend request"
  
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• Rapist Ryan Pheasant who attacked drunk victim in Ruislip is jailed

  05-01-2017 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ryan Pheasant, 32, was found guilty of one count of rape after attacking a 17-year-old girl at a house party in Ruislip, Other guests said he was 'creepy' and had poured her vodka all night.
  
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• Labour chiefs urge voters to ignore Jeremy Corbyn's nuclear views ahead of Copeland by-election

  05-01-2017 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader is a veteran anti-nuclear campaigner, which could be a problem for him in Copeland in Cumbria
  
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• Ealing vicarage rape victim Jill Saward believed 'forgiveness gives you freedom' as she dies in hospital

  05-01-2017 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jill Saward was 21 when she was attacked in at an Ealing vicarage in 1986 and became the first rape victim to waive her anonymity
  
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• Dogs rescued from hell of South Korean meat trade are just days away from being rehomed in Britain

  05-01-2017 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The dogs being rehomed comes after the Mirror exposed sickening conditions at a site where 200 pups were stuffed into filthy cages and fed scraps before being taken to the slaughterhouse
  
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• Interior designer Linda Garland who created getaways for Bowie and Richard Branson dies

  05-01-2017 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The interior designer who was behind some of the world's most luxurious tropical getaways, including a stunning Caribbean retreat for David Bowie, has died.
  
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• Schoolgirl among 276 kidnapped by Boko Haram found by Nigerian army wandering forest with baby

  05-01-2017 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Troops discovered Rakiya Abubkar, abducted from a school in Chibok in 2014, cradling a six-month-old child near Algarno, a former stronghold of the terror group
  
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• 'Homeless' teenager stabbed outside busy central London Tube station at rush hour 'by youth riding bike'

  05-01-2017 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police were called to reports of a stabbing near Chancery Lane Tube station shortly after 6.20pm
  
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• Most DISGUSTING Dr Pimple Popper video yet shows huge puss-filled cyst ball being popped out of patient's head

  05-01-2017 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: The video shows the removal of a Pilar Cyst which commonly occur in the scalp
  
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• Animal rights protesters pelted with manure as violence erupts in clash between hunt saboteurs and supporters

  05-01-2017 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police have launched an investigation after a "baying mob" of Atherstone Hunt supporters clashed with saboteurs in Warwickshire
  
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• Tragedy of 'designer dogs' being abandoned as number dumped soars

  05-01-2017 21:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Breeds such as pugs and French bulldogs have ended up in the care of the RSPCA, with some being rescued from near death situations
  
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• Theresa May sets date to meet Donald Trump - but she's already sent close aides to build bridges

  05-01-2017 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister sent her two top staff on a secret mission to repair any damage done to the special relationship by the frosty exchanges after Trump's election
  
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• Royal Mail postmen are delivering cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis every day 

  05-01-2017 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Postal workers around the UK were unwittingly deliveringcocaine, ecstasy and cannabis bought on the dark web.
  
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• Alfie Barker sacked for trolling Harry Arter about his stillborn daughter

  05-01-2017 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alfie Barker, 18, a striker for Codicote in the South Midlands League, claims his abuse of the Bournemouth star was 'out of character' and has asked to meet the footballer to apologise.
  
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• Senior civil servants demand PAY RISE to cover extra Brexit work

  05-01-2017 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  FDA union chief Dave Penman (pictured) said a decade of pay restraint and staff cuts had left the civil service 'demoralised' at a time it faced its biggest challenge in a generation.
  
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• Parents could face £120 fines, court or even JAIL if their children are late for school

  05-01-2017 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dads and mums at the primary school in Essex have been threatened with council-issued fines if their kids miss 9am registration
  
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• Fenwick closes one of 11 branches claiming it 'cannot compete with online shopping'

  05-01-2017 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 97 full-time staff at department store Fenwick's outlet in Leicester were given the news at a meeting today and will be made redundant when it closes in a few months' time.
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs with notable alliteration

  05-01-2017 21:00
  
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 9 January This week’s readers recommend guru seeks songs with impressive or arresting alliteration in their titles or lyrics.You have until 11pm on Monday 9 January to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor Scott Blair (who posts in the comments as misterbadexample) will select from your recommendations and produce the
  
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• ISIS butchers release propaganda film showing a prisoner being drowned in a fish tank

  05-01-2017 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The video, filmed in Mosul, Iraq, shows an ISIS prisoner being water-boarded before having his head forced down into a tank full of water.
  
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• Donald Trump-themed restaurant opened in Iraqi Kurdistan to help defeat ISIS 

  05-01-2017 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Even before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated, one of his biggest fans has named a fish restaurant after him in Iraqi Kurdistan.
  
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• This is what happens when Donald Trump tweets about your company

  05-01-2017 20:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  You'd better hope your company isn't the first thing Donald Trump thinks about when he wakes up. Especially if you manufacture things in Mexico
  
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• Pep Guardiola has decided Gerard Pique is going to be Barcelona president one day

  05-01-2017 20:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The future of the Manchester City boss has been up for discussion recently, but he knows one job that he certainly doesn't want
  
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• Marcelo Martina posts gloating Facebook pictures of his life behind bars 

  05-01-2017 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Marcelo Martina, gloated that life in prison was easy in a series of arrogant Facebook posts sent from HMP Altcourse, where he is serving a 40-month sentence for drugs offences.
  
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• Aldi becomes first supermarket chain to pay all staff MORE than the real living wage

  05-01-2017 20:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The discount chain is increasing its minimum pay rate for more than 3,350 workers to £8.53 an hour - and £9.75 in London - from February 1
  
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• Pupils at £25k-a-year private school 'broke curfew to go on cocaine and booze binge during Tenerife trip'

  05-01-2017 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The sixth form students from Truro School in Cornwall snuck out from their hotel for a late-night binge
  
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• Schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 is rescued after she was spotted wandering in bushland near terror group's forest stronghold

  05-01-2017 20:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the jihadist group in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, in 2014. Twenty-one girls were released in October in a swap for detained leaders of Boko Haram.
  
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• Talented footballer who 'took his own life' after night out appeared 'happy and positive' about year ahead

  05-01-2017 20:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kyle Jones, 29, a builder, was found dead on January 2 as family described him as 'the life and soul of the party'
  
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• Arsh Aggarwal installed tracking app on girlfriend's phone and used it to stalk her

  05-01-2017 20:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Arsh Aggarwal, 21, who studied at Manchester University, subject the woman to a campaign of harassment after becoming 'excessively jealous and controlling'.
  
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• Man left bedridden by giant abscess the size of a BASKETBALL that's so heavy he can't stand up

  05-01-2017 20:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man, aged about 50, was discovered lying face-down in his shabby wooden hut
  
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• Drug smugglers throw cannabis overboard as they flee from police in Bay of Gibraltar 

  05-01-2017 20:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police recovered hashish worth more than £4million that was thrown into the Bay of Gibraltar by drug traffickers after a high-speed chase.
  
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• CES 2017: Vacuum sucks bugs out of bed pillows

  05-01-2017 20:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A vacuum designed to suck tiny bugs and other hidden causes of allergies out of bed pillows is on show at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas.
  
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