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• Fury as Harman accuses lawyer, 87, of groping her

  02-02-2017 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Friends of the pensioner accused of 'groping' Harriet Harman when she was a clerk at a London law firm in the 1970s said they were 'horrified' at the accusation and that it was 'not possible'.
  
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• Police hunting for missing RAF airman Corrie McKeague release further CCTV images of three potential witnesses

  02-02-2017 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Suffolk Police officers combing through CCTV footage have released stills of three people who have yet to be traced
  
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• Angelina Jolie on travel ban: 'Response should be based on facts, not fear'

  02-02-2017 23:55
  
  In an op-ed for the New York Times, the actor and humanitarian criticized Donald Trump’s strict executive order surrounding immigrationAngelina Jolie has spoken out against Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, criticizing his restrictions as a response based on fear.In an op-ed penned for the New York Times, the actor, director and UN ambassador expressed her anger at the recent decision to limit travellers from certain countries. Continue reading...
  
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• Paramedic dad of girl, 15, blasts NHS for cancelling daughter's life-changing back surgery a DAY before operation

  02-02-2017 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lucy Huddleston suffers from adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, which is an abnormal twisting and curvature of the spine - but funding issues means she will miss out on op
  
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• Rotherham sex abuse victim who was pregnant at 12 says her child is a 'product of pure evil'

  02-02-2017 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Six men were given sentences between 10 years and 20 years - and totalling more than 80 years - by a judge who heard details of how two young girls were groomed
  
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• NHS worker secretly filmed young girls’ bottoms on phone

  02-02-2017 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paul Chapman, 45, was arrested after he took covert footage of twin teenage girls in a Sainsbury's in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was spotted by their horrified father.
  
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• House of horrors where serial killer chopped up and cooked male prostitutes goes on the market for £500,000

  02-02-2017 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two-bed flat in Muswell Hill is on sale for more than £30,000 above the average asking price for the area
  
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• Worst date ever? Lothario downs 11 pints and nine Jager-bombs then makes women film him bowling - badly

  02-02-2017 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Taylor, also known as Marty King Pin, wanted to show off his skills down the alley - but threw ball into wrong lane and then slipped over as date records his 'efforts'
  
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• Wife forgives husband after he infected her with HIV

  02-02-2017 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Veritee Reed-Hall, 63, from Cornwall, contracted the virus from her husband Barry, 65, who had unprotected sex with another woman while he served in the Merchant Navy.
  
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• Mum of toddler shot in head reveals heartbreak as doctors told her to 'say goodbye' to little Harry Studley

  02-02-2017 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In first chat about horrific incident Amy Allen said heart 'broke into a thousand million little pieces' when doctors told her it was certain her son wouldn't survive
  
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• Judges can now sentence criminals over the internet

  02-02-2017 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Convicted defendants will learn their fate sitting miles away from the judge, in adapted rooms in police stations or in specially-converted vans or buses under rules put into effect by the Lord Chief Justice.
  
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• Tunisia beach massacre survivor came face-to-face with gunman who shot her and her husband

  02-02-2017 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gina Van Dort, 32, was shot in the face as she and Christopher Dyer hide behind a car while jihadi Seifeddine Rezgui stalked the Imperial Marhaba Hotel, in Sousse
  
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• Brexit backlash in store for Theresa May when voters realise it will make little difference to immigration

  02-02-2017 23:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The rushed White Paper on the future is woefully inadequate and we need to know the real choices on offer
  
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• X-Men star James McAvoy 'donates a whopping £50,000 to brave cancer suffer's life-changing charity fund'

  02-02-2017 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Hollywood A-lister posed for a selfie with Kelly Turner days before a mystery man named James made the generous donation
  
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• X-Men star James McAvoy donates £50,000 to help save life of brave 16-year-old girl with terminal cancer

  02-02-2017 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kelly Turner was told she has just two years left in 2015. Her family are trying to raise $700,000 (£558k) to fly her to New York for pioneering treatment
  
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• Countless women have been saved from domestic violence but now funding will be cut to zero

  02-02-2017 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sunderland now faces the dubious honour of becoming the only major city in the country with no domestic violence refuge
  
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• Thug smashes up ambulance with concrete slab for no reason as he is filmed by stunned paramedics

  02-02-2017 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thug Josh Thacker, 24, caused £3,500 worth of damage and put the ambulance out of action for six days as he punched and kicked the passenger side wing mirror
  
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• 'Bodega strike' sees more than 1,000 New York grocery stores close in protest against Donald Trump's Muslim ban

  02-02-2017 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of Yemeni American store owners descended on Brooklyn Borough Hall to pray, rally and support those blocked from travelling
  
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• Paris explosion: Several feared dead after homes blown up in suspected gas leak

  02-02-2017 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two blasts reportedly occurred in the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand
  
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• Locked-In syndrome man bungee jumps

  02-02-2017 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Intrepid adventurer Mia Austin, 28, from Merseyside, has been diving with sharks, visited the Calais Jungle and jumped off England's highest fixed bungee jump - despite being paralysed.
  
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• Mum ran over and killed her two-year-old daughter in tragic school run accident

  02-02-2017 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Amanda Qi reversed into tragic two-year-old Karen in her Toyota Prius on the driveway of their home
  
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• London car thief admits killing child actor and his aunt

  02-02-2017 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Joshua Dobby drove a Ford Focus into Makayah McDermott, 10, and Rosie Cooper, 34, as they walked in Penge, south London, in August last year.
  
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• Philip Davies is like a cannibal joining the Vegan Society

  02-02-2017 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Plain-speaking Philip Davies (Con, Shipley) is causing merry mayhem. Mr Davies has got himself elected on to the soppingly wet select committee for Women and Equalities.
  
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• Gorillas massacred and driven to extinction - all for the sake of our mobile phones

  02-02-2017 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The animals are being poached for bushmeat by militia groups and miners digging for an ore called coltan used in mobile phones
  
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• Unforgotten series two, episode five recap – she's cracked the case!

  02-02-2017 23:00
  
  As we gear up for the finale, Cassie tightens the screws on the suspects and their lies unravel further – but will there be more bodies found? Brace yourselvesThe good news is that Cassie has finally figured it all out. The bad news is we have to wait until next week to discover exactly what she figured out. There are moments of levity, even joy this week, but there is also a breakup, memories of abuse and a confirmed false rape accusation. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Sneaky' phone app pays £10 bounty to anyone who snaps a car parked illegally

  02-02-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The firm which boasts of operating car parks for McDonalds, Halfords, Tesco and the NHS is handing out a £10 commission to increase parking “fines” dished out
  
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• Staffordshire Bull Terrier tried to rescue owner drowning

  02-02-2017 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gary Munt, 58, fell into a river in Slough, Berkshire, while walking his Staffordshire Bull Terrier Jess, who jumped in after him and unsuccessfully tried to rescue him from drowning.
  
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• Mosul zoo animals left to starve by ISIS thugs

  02-02-2017 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An emaciated lioness was found cowering in a squalid cage and lying on exposed cables at Al-Murur public park, in Mosul, Iraq, after the area was liberated from ISIS.
  
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• Disgraced lawyer who 'made soldiers' lives a misery' with false claims of abuse in Iraq is struck off

  02-02-2017 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Phil Shiner was also told to pay legal costs of £250,000, with Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon saying: "Justice has finally been served"
  
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• Theresa May will force councils to build 1000s of homes

  02-02-2017 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister plans to stop rich developers sitting on land and wants to redevelop inner-city areas - and a new wave of 'prefabs' will help Britons get on the property ladder.
  
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• Does this figure hold the key to missing Corrie McKeague?

  02-02-2017 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police searching for missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague have released a new CCTV image of a potential witness spotted in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, close to where he was last seen.
  
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• Tiverton Town Council has documents deleted by virus

  02-02-2017 22:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Vanderwolfe (pictured), clerk of Tiverton Town Council in Devon, accidentally exposed the IT system to a virus after opening a ransomware file that claimed to be from a parcel delivery firm.
  
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• Air rage yob called stewardess a ‘f****** bitch’ after being told he couldn't have eight cans of Stella on flight

  02-02-2017 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Boozy dad-of-one Lance Wheelwright, 33, was said to have 'kicked off' and shoved a stewardess before threatening to kill another member of the cabin crew
  
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• Will Lady Gaga's Super Bowl half-time show get political? 'I believe in inclusion'

  02-02-2017 22:22
  
  The Super Bowl performer revealed little of her plans for the half-time concert but hinted it would include support for the principles of equality and toleranceAmid inquiries about costume changes, special guests and her setlist during a press conference on Thursday, Lady Gaga was posed a question that has intrigued elements of the media before Super Bowl 51 almost as much as the game itself: whether her half-time concert on Sunday will feature a critique of Donald Trump.The singer revealed litt
  
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• Young man with learning difficulties fell in love with prostitute first girlfriend who killed him with heroin overdose

  02-02-2017 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Luke Taylor, 21, had learning difficulties and had never taken drugs before meeting his first girlfriend sex worker Kerry Churcher, 33
  
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• Sports Direct's French Connection flutter looks like a fashion faux pas | Nils Pratley

  02-02-2017 22:04
  
  Mike Ashley showed typical disregard for shareholders’ concerns when he bought a needless stake in the struggling chain
  Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley and French Connection’s Stephen Marks both don’t enjoy being told how to run their business. Thus excellent entertainment could be in prospect now that Sports Direct has bought control of an 11% stake in the struggling fashion chain.Marks, who owns 42% of French Connection, is already sparring with a hedge fund that thinks he
  
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• Ministry of Defence releases new footage of helicopter gunfight minutes before British soldier shot dead wounded Taliban fighter

  02-02-2017 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sergeant Alexander Blackman was found guilty of murder at a Court Martial at the Military Court Centre, Bulford, Wiltshire, in 2013
  
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• Two murdered teens' mums back 'Helen's Law' which would deny parole to killers who hide victims' bodies

  02-02-2017 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Marie McCourt, who has been searching for the body of daughter Helen for 29 years, launched the campaign, which is supported by Linda Jones, whose daughter Danielle was murdered by her uncle
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn to offer Ed Miliband return to front line politics in shadow cabinet reshuffle

  02-02-2017 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former Labour leader Mr Miliband has been earmarked to replace incumbent Clive Lewis as shadow business secretary if he quits over Brexit
  
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• South Park creators to back off Trump jokes: 'Satire has become reality'

  02-02-2017 21:47
  
  Matt Parker and Trey Stone say it will ‘be more difficult’ to mock the new administration: ‘They’re already going out and doing the comedy’South Park creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone have said they will refrain from “mocking everybody in government” in future episodes. Related: South Park spoofs the US election result: 'What have you done? You maniacs!'Continue reading...
  
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• Immigration may not be curbed for YEARS after Brexit, government White Paper reveals

  02-02-2017 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Theresa May’s Brexit plan said Ministers will “consider very carefully” how to cut the number of people moving to Britain
  
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• Hapless thief gets wedged in bathroom window as tried to climb into pensioner's house to steal from inside

  02-02-2017 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Startling photos taken by police show how intruder Sean Crawshaw, 47, was found stuck in the tiny upstairs window of a property near Manchester
  
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• Military action against Iran is not off the table - Trump

  02-02-2017 21:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Trump spoke at the White House as tensions mount over a missile test conducted by the Islamic republic in defiance of a nuclear deal with the Obama regime. He also tweeted about the test.
  
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• Donald Trump team eases sanctions on Russia - then says it hasn't

  02-02-2017 21:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's also been claimed there was no record of Trump's first phone call with Vladimir Putin because White House recorders were disabled for the call
  
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• Conservative minister pledges new strategy to help children of alcoholics

  02-02-2017 21:33
  
  Nicola Blackwood, public health minister, praises Labour frontbencher Jon Ashworth for his speech and says government will actA Conservative minister has promised to produce a new strategy to help the children of alcoholics after she was moved to tears hearing Labour frontbencher Jon Ashworth talk about his father’s drinking.Nicola Blackwood, the public health minister, praised Ashworth for speaking out, along with Labour former minister Liam Byrne, about their experiences of growing up wi
  
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• Quiz: Find out just how good your general knowledge really is with this test

  02-02-2017 21:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If so, you need the latest version of the world’s most comprehensive reference book: The A to Z of Almost Everything
  
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• Moment burglar got wedged in a tiny first-floor window

  02-02-2017 21:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A hapless burglar who became wedged in a bathroom window as he tried to climb into a pensioner's house has been jailed in Manchester.
  
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• The Guardian view on the Brexit white paper: encouraging delusions | Editorial

  02-02-2017 21:14
  
  The white paper offers no scrutiny, no mechanisms to hold ministers to account and no ways of influencing the process to leave the EU. The public should not fall for the circusThe government’s much anticipated white paper on Brexit tells the country nothing and everything about the most important foreign policy decision to face Britain for decades. Most of what is in its 77-pages is a souped up version of Theresa May’s speech last month. It retails the idea that a trade deal could be
  
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• John Smyth: the go-to barrister for Mary Whitehouse

  02-02-2017 21:09
  
  Smyth won blasphemy case against Gay News and initially took on prosecution of the National’s production of The Romans in BritainChurch ‘could have done more’ over John Smyth abuse claims
  At the height of his legal career, John Smyth QC was the go-to barrister for morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse.When Whitehouse took a private prosecution against Gay News and its editor in the 1970s, it was Smyth – whom she described as an evangelical Christian – who won the case
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about unity

  02-02-2017 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 6 February If you can think of a song that unifies or is about unity, we want to hear it. You have until 11pm on Monday 6 February to post your nomination and make your justification. RR contributor Sarah Chappell (who posts as AFictionHabit in the comments) will select from your recommendations and produce a playlist of favourites, to be published on 9 Febr
  
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