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• Should all our police be armed? The arguments for and against cops with guns

  09-01-2017 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Metropolitan Police Federation will ask its 30,000 officers if they want to be armed
  
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• Charter for villains is a threat to freedom of the press - and democracy - like never before

  09-01-2017 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tories want to introduce Section 40, which would spell the end of freedom of the press
  
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• Rapist dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal back behind bars after turning up at ex's work with stun gun

  09-01-2017 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Spencer Mellors, 52, turned up at the Sou'Wester Tavern pub in Glasgow armed with the weapon to try and get his dog back
  
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• Boris Johnson says Britain's 'first in line' for US trade as he faces awkward reminder of his antics

  09-01-2017 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  On a US trip he met Donald Trump's aides and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan - who brought up a bust of Winston Churchill
  
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• Shocking video shows Birmingham prisoner inhaling Black Mamba drug

  09-01-2017 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The inmate, believed to be in HMP Birmingham, had to be placed in the recovery position by panicked cellmates after he began convulsing - seconds after finishing the Spice cigarette.
  
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• This broken down lorry is clearly not following its own advice

  09-01-2017 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The truck with an advert for Boots flu medication on the side stopped traffic in a London street, causing hilarity
  
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• "Leaving soon": The heartbreaking final text of newlywed knocked down and killed after 30th birthday party

  09-01-2017 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Charity worker Laura Murray-Woodford was described by her devastated husband as “genuine and compassionate”
  
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• Tunisia terror attacks mastermind finally identified as it's revealed he could still be on the run

  09-01-2017 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chamseddine al-Sandi is said to have led not only the Sousse massacre but also the Bardo Museum attack
  
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• Jeremy Hunt ditches four-hour target as A&E crisis deepens

  09-01-2017 23:11
  
  Royal College of Emergency Medicine says significant level of overcrowding at substantial number of hospitals jeopardises patient safetyFrontline doctors have issued an unprecedented warning that patient safety is at risk at many A&E units across the NHS because hospitals are overwhelmed, as the health secretary ­provoked controversy by suggesting the four-hour treatment target should exclude people who waste time by presenting with minor ailments. Related: Share your experiences of the
  
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• Honda unveils self-balancing robot motorbike that can move without a rider and won't fall over

  09-01-2017 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Japanese company says its prototype technology Riding Assist could prevent road accidents in slow-moving traffic
  
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• Shopping and changing: How we went from corner stores to drone deliveries

  09-01-2017 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From high streets with butchers, bakers and grocers to corner shops and the birth of the mega-supermarket, things have changed drastically over the past 100 years - and are set move on even more quickly in the future
  
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• It's the Nigel Farage Show: former Ukip leader hosts first radio phone-in

  09-01-2017 23:03
  
  Farage pledges ‘it’s all about you’ as he delivers monologues on air – but it’s the promise of a call from ‘Donald in Washington’ that keeps attention on LBCWhile Donald Trump turned a broadcasting career into electoral success, Nigel Farage has had to settle for the moment for going in the opposite direction. And, while the president-elect sends his views to millions on Twitter, the former (and possibly future) Ukip leader has opted for the more old-fas
  
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• Corbyn: Labour not wedded to EU free movement

  09-01-2017 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn will say the UK can be "better off" after Brexit, as he calls for "fair" immigration.
  
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• The Halcyon episode two recap – either costume drama at its best … or cracking self-parody

  09-01-2017 23:00
  
  Yes, it’s sometimes hard to tell whether this series is being tongue-in-cheek or not. But it’s so stunning, ambitious and full of bitchy zingers that I’m loving itCheesy American Voiceover Man set a puzzling tone for this episode with the line “before things get better, they’re going to get a lot worse...” Is he doing it tongue-in-cheek or not? That question sums up this series so far: sometimes it’s hard to figure out exactly where The Halcyon is pitche
  
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• Parents of Britain's youngest organ donor Baby Hope get moving letter from woman who received her kidneys

  09-01-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The heartfelt letter tells Hope's brave parents: "I can't imagine how horrific your loss must be... but you have given me life"
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: UK can be better off out of the EU

  09-01-2017 23:00
  
  First speech of 2017 will make clear that Labour is not wedded to free movement and supports ‘repatriating powers’ from BrusselsJeremy Corbyn will use his first speech of 2017 to claim that Britain can be better off outside the EU and insist that the Labour party has no principled objection to ending the free movement of European workers in the UK.Setting out his party’s pitch on Brexit in the year that Theresa May will trigger article 50, the Labour leader will also reach for
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn to soften his stance on immigration in major Brexit speech

  09-01-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour is "not wedded to freedom of movement as a point of principle", he will say - but he will stress the importance of the EU single market
  
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• FA Cup: Cambridge Utd 1-2 Leeds Utd highlights

  09-01-2017 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Championship side Leeds United avoid an FA Cup third-round upset as they fight back to win 2-1 at League Two opponents Cambridge United.
  
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• New pictures reveal STD-riddled ladybirds are still at large despite winter freeze

  09-01-2017 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The insects - known as harlequin ladybirds - carry a fungus that can infect native UK ladybirds through mating
  
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• Jeremy Hunt proves he needs a sick note by scrapping A&E four hour targets

  09-01-2017 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Health Secretary said the long-standing pledge to treat every A&E patient within a four-hour window should now apply to “urgent” cases only
  
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• Crime victims' rights are being put at risk by Tories blocking new laws

  09-01-2017 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said she intends to oppose the proposed laws when they go before the Commons on Wednesday as part of the Policing and Crime Bill.
  
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• Upper reaches of music industry 'a man's world', diversity study finds

  09-01-2017 22:28
  
  UK Music taskforce finds that women make up 59% of entry-level business roles, but only 30% of senior executivesThe upper ranks of the UK’s music industry are still “a man’s world”, with women in only 30% of senior executive roles despite making up more than half of entry-level positions.The findings appear in the most comprehensive diversity survey of the business side of the music industry to date. Examining the balance of gender and ethnicity in record labels and publi
  
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• Nigel Farage denies 'duping' Britain's poorest voters as he's confronted on live radio phone-in

  09-01-2017 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A caller accused the ex-Ukip leader of encouraging poorer voters to make themselves worse off during the first of his nightly LBC radio shows
  
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• Trinity Mirror in merger talks with Express Newspapers

  09-01-2017 22:26
  
  Daily Mirror parent company in talks with Richard Desmond’s Express group after failed negotiations two years agoThe Daily Mirror’s parent company is back in talks with Richard Desmond in a potential deal to take a stake in Express Newspapers, the owner of the Express and the Star.Trinity Mirror, the owner of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, is understood to have reignited talks to potentially merge parts of their businesses. Continue reading...
  
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• Army reservist crawls for three HOURS by torchlight along a rocky beach after slipping on rocks and breaking his leg 

  09-01-2017 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tim Robinson, 54, dragged his body across the rough shingle beach in Bridport, Dorset, after he slipped and broke his leg. He was discovered by his wife when she saw his torch light through the mist.
  
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• Dad paralysed after play fight in sumo costume dies after being hit by car while in a wheelchair

  09-01-2017 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chris Clements, 40, was hit by the car while exercising his dog next to a busy road last week
  
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• Arsenal fan Jeremy Corbyn prepares for TV clash with Piers Morgan with some football banter

  09-01-2017 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader said he would "talk some sense" into his fellow Arsenal fan about Arsene Wenger's future
  
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• Millions of patients condemned to 'indefinite' A&E waits by Jeremy Hunt as top doctors warn of chaos

  09-01-2017 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a shock statement Mr Hunt said the pledge to treat every A&E patient within four-hours should now apply to “urgent” cases only
  
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• Grinning police and firefighter take selfie in front of burning house as family's home destroyed by flames

  09-01-2017 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The officers could face disciplinary action after footage emerged of them grabbing a cheerful snap outside the house 
  
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• Protesters hide 500 notes around Harrods in row over tips after staff demonstrated in the street

  09-01-2017 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The notes, which are signed by the 'United Voices of the World', accuse Harrods of 'pinching' 75% of staff tips
  
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• Tube strike brings manic Monday to commuters in gridlocked London

  09-01-2017 22:03
  
  London Underground and rail unions say they are prepared to resume talks after 24-hour walkout closed stations across capitalLondon Underground and the rail unions said they were prepared to resume talks later this week over safe staffing levels on the tube, after a day in which millions of commuters were affected by a strike across the network. Representatives from the TSSA union, who represent station staff, will meet on Wednesday and talks could resume afterwards. The unions have an ongoing m
  
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• Woman, 68, is knocked over and killed by lorry on Tesco petrol station forecourt

  09-01-2017 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 68-year-old woman has died after being hit by a lorry on a Tesco petrol station forecourt on Lanark Road, Carluke, South Lanarkshire. She was struck by the lorry this morning.
  
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• Vile vlogger who posts hate-filled YouTube rants is named as jobless ex-student

  09-01-2017 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Colin Robertson, 34, pictured, from Linlithgow, outside Edinburgh, has recorded more than 600 videos for his 20,000 followers over the past three years, many from his bedroom.
  
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• Judge says small UK airfields are 'defenceless' against people traffickers

  09-01-2017 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Judge Stephen Holt jailed Lithuanian Algirdas Barteska, 60, for six years after he was found guilty of trying to smuggle three Albanians into the UK from Germany at an airfield in Norfolk.
  
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• Britain to freeze by FRIDAY: UK will shiver from an Arctic blast

  09-01-2017 21:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Plunging temperatures have been blamed for dozens of recent deaths across Europe - and the cold snap will enter Britain with 55mph winds, sub-zero temperatures and frosts along with blizzards.
  
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• Life's a beach - if you're an air hostess: Glamorous cabin crew and pilots show off perks of the job on Instagram

  09-01-2017 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Flight crew across the globe have been uploading lavish pictures of their travels in a number of envy-inducing Instagram posts
  
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• Leeds husband 'stabbed his wife to death and burnt down their home'

  09-01-2017 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Martin Ashworth, 48, from Garforth in West Yorkshire, had attempted suicide by gassing himself with his own car after believing his wife Susan Ashworth (pictured) of 25 years was leaving him.
  
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• Wheelchair-bound father, 40, paralysed after breaking his neck play-fighting in sumo wrestler outfit is killed by car while out walking his dog 

  09-01-2017 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Father-of-three Chris Clements, who was left paralysed in 2006, was exercising his dog in Cambridgeshire when he was struck by a vehicle and died in hospital the next day.
  
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• Tesco to make 1,000 staff redundant in shake-up of distribution network 

  09-01-2017 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The proposals will see the number of Tesco distribution centres cut from 25 to 23. The centres in Welham Green in Hertfordshire and Chesterfield will close.
  
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• Teenager 'held another girl's hand for comfort' while being 'gang raped in back of van'

  09-01-2017 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The young girl was abused between the ages of 13 and 17 after being targeted as “vulnerable” by members of a Travelling community in Shropshire, prosecutors allege
  
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• Man 'raped on psychiatric ward' says NHS staff failed to protect him

  09-01-2017 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He claims he was given drugs to relax but woke up being sexually assaulted
  
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• Thousands of troops face uncertain future in government plans to close 91 Ministry of Defence sites

  09-01-2017 21:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nearly 27,000 military and civilian workers are potentially affected by the move, according to figures uncovered by Labour
  
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• Mexico protests: how gas prices lit the flame under a quietly smoldering rage

  09-01-2017 21:44
  
  Angry gasolinazo protests over the 20% hike in state-set fuel prices are the symptom of a tense dissatisfaction with politics, corruption and the economyMarching with a boisterous but peaceful crowd through central Mexico City, Héctor Pérez, a sales manager with an insurance company, rattled off a list of grievances to explain a wave of furious protests which erupted after a rise in the country’s government-set petrol price. “It’s not because we all have cars. Whe
  
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• Tyneside man 'found with 9,000 extreme sexual images and films of children'

  09-01-2017 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Carey, 33, from Longenton in North Tyneside, faced nine charges at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court. He spoke only to confirm his name and tell the court his date of birth and address.
  
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• Tube strike brings travel hell for millions as Uber prices quadruple

  09-01-2017 21:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Major London stations were shut with people forced on packed buses or choosing to cycle, drive or walk to work - and people ran towards bus stops packed by those trying to complete their journeys.
  
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• Ukip's EU funding at risk after M5S quits Nigel Farage's Brussels group

  09-01-2017 21:39
  
  Italy’s Five Star Movement votes to ditch Eurosceptics in European parliament, but fails to forge new alliance with liberal groupMembers of Italy’s populist Five Star Movement (M5S) have voted overwhelmingly to sever ties with Nigel Farage and his MEPs in the European parliament, raising the prospect of a Ukip losing some of its EU funding.
  Almost 80% of M5S’s 40,000 members voted to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the liberal bloc led by the form
  
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• The Guardian view on Northern Ireland: there may be trouble ahead | Editorial

  09-01-2017 21:39
  
  A political crisis amid the churn of Brexit should see politicians face up to the real problems in the province. Unfortunately there is no sign that they want toThe sudden decision by Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness to step down as deputy first minister looks almost certain to capsize Northern Ireland’s assembly. His departure is the latest in a series of political dramas which have deepened a crisis building in the province for weeks. The scandal over a flawed renewable heating
  
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• Pregnant mum and dad-of-three die in horror crash while street racing at 102mph on icy road

  09-01-2017 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dashcam footage shows the moment a 37-year-old driver and his 35-year-old wife were killed instantly
  
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• No bombshell: the intelligence report on Russia and the election was ineffective | David Klion

  09-01-2017 21:32
  
  The report is too late – and too unsubstantiated – to fully persuade the American people of the danger we now find ourselves inOn Friday, the director of national intelligence released a report accusing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, of directly interfering in the US presidential election with the aim of undermining Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump. While most of the main conclusions had already been anonymously leaked to journalists either before or after the electio
  
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• Peers defeat higher education and research bill by 248 votes to 221

  09-01-2017 21:27
  
  Lib Dem spokeswoman says bill ‘not fit for purpose’ and Lords vote will help ensure independence of universities Peers have defeated controversial government reforms of higher education that would have made it easier for new free-market colleges to award degrees and become universities.Labour, Liberal Democrats and crossbench peers in the House of Lords defeated the higher education and research bill by 248 votes to 221, voicing fears that reforms in the bill would unacceptably comme
  
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