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• Government promises £10m grant 'to build spaceport in tiny English coastal town'

  09-02-2017 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The transport hub would be the first place in Europe where commercial space operators can launch small satellites into orbit, or offer space plane flights for science and tourism from 2020
  
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• Family's home destroyed by 'boisterous' Boxer dog after illegal puppy trader told them it was more placid breed

  09-02-2017 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The family paid £600 for Bella, who ripped up flooring and tore chunks out of the walls, causing £1,700 of damage 
  
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• Spanish hotel chiefs cash in on British terrorism fears

  09-02-2017 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hoteliers in Spain and the Balearic Islands are taking advantage of the fact that Britons and other nations have switched away from terror risk destinations like Turkey, Tunisia and Egypt.
  
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• Father with breast cancer becomes youngest ever man to have double mastectomy

  09-02-2017 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Giles Cooper, 56, went under the knife after finding a lump and being diagnosed with the disease that killed his father and uncle, both at the age of 77
  
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• £150,000 worth of accordions are stolen from music shop during third raid in just six months

  09-02-2017 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Burglars have targeted the Piano and Accordion shop in Sunningdale, Berks, several times, with the first raid seeing £130,000 worth of instruments taken in one go
  
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• Insiders fear Labour's Brexit civil war could lead to UKIP winning the key by-election

  09-02-2017 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A senior source revealed Labour has been trailing UKIP in private polling and warned public split over Article 50 could hand Commons seat to Paul Nuttall
  
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• Parents so drunk they couldn't look after children arrested on family holiday after being found unconscious in caravan

  09-02-2017 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police found the parents in a drunken stupor at a North Wales caravan park after their toddler daughter contacted her granddad and told him she was scared
  
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• 'Single mum' jailed after being caught by Facebook photo

  09-02-2017 23:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elizabeth Hughes, 36, from Dundee, told the DWP that she was single in 2010 and had reconciled with husband Arthur in 2013. But, in reality, they were still married and lived together.
  
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• NHS in crisis as spending at its worst rate since 1950s as Tories fail to fund it

  09-02-2017 23:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Millions of patients are suffering the longest ever waits for casualty care, beds, cancer treatment and operations
  
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• 'Security alert in Brussels' after massive blackout plunges entire centre of EU capital into darkness

  09-02-2017 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The loss of electricity across the Belgian capital has sparked terror attack fears, although the cause of the outage has not been confirmed
  
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• From jumping ticket queues to getting windows cleaned - 11 bizarre laws you can still be arrested for

  09-02-2017 23:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Be careful next time you think about beeping your horn or celebrating Easter
  
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• Dorset pensioner who vanished 3 months ago spotted in Fife

  09-02-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sandra Summers, 70, of Walton Road in Bournemouth, was last seen leaving her address in a taxi at around 10am on Saturday October 22 last year. She was spotted in Fife on Wednesday.
  
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• Deadly phosphorous bombs unearthed in Wiltshire

  09-02-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Locals were told to stay indoors when the explosives were found by a digger driver working on a building site in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
  
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• £26,000 benefits allowance lump sum successful business

  09-02-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scott and Leanne Gavin, from Kirkby, Liverpool, appeared on Channel 5's controversial documentary The Big Benefits Handout last year where they received a £26K windfall.
  
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• Man who sent Kayleigh Haywood explicit messages sentenced

  09-02-2017 22:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bruce Cordwell was sentenced to three years detention at Leicester Crown Court after admitting to attempting to meet Kayleigh Haywood, 15, who was killed in November 2015, for sex.
  
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• Fukishima cleaning robot pulled from reactor after camera gets damaged by massive radiation levels inside tsunami disaster site

  09-02-2017 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The robot was the first to enter the chamber inside the No. 2 reactor since the Fukushima Da-ichi nuclear plant was badly damaged in March 2011
  
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• Judges reveal they don't feel 'valued' by the government - but do by the public

  09-02-2017 22:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  According to a study by University College London, more than 40% of judges felt valued by the public while just two per cent felt valued by the Government
  
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• Mum of money-burning Tory student says cruel stunt 'completely out of character' as he volunteered at homeless charity

  09-02-2017 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sandra McLaughlin, 46, said Cambridge University student Ronald Coyne "felt really bad about" torching a banknote in front of a rough sleeper
  
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• Trapped reality TV star escapes out window of her smashed up car after colliding with lorry on roundabout

  09-02-2017 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Later Chelsey Harwood, who appeared in Celebrity Botched Bodies, shared pictures of her white Smart car soon after the accident to her 42,800 social media followers
  
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• Calls for urgent inquiry into Rupert Murdoch's bid for full control of BSkyB

  09-02-2017 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A previous attempt to buy Sky six years' ago was abandoned following the phone hacking scandal at Murdoch's News of the World
  
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• Driver caught doing 107mph in a 50mph zone claims he thought speed limit was rated in kilometres

  09-02-2017 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peter Carr, who had been working in west Africa, said he had forgotten UK speed limits were measured in imperial and not metric units
  
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• Are these Britain's worst drivers? Shocking dashcam footage shows absolute carnage on roads

  09-02-2017 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage shows cars being cut off, traffic signals seemingly non-existent and juggernauts dodged on the motorway
  
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• Theresa May's grammar schools to take 'just the cleverest 10% of children'

  09-02-2017 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Minutes of a Government meeting reveal ministers could allow the new selective schools planned by the Prime Minister to be even more elitist than the current system
  
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• Grim collection of death masks of Victorian crooks - including a notorious serial killer - found in shed

  09-02-2017 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two of the dead heads have been identified as Benjamin Courvoisier, a London serial killer 50 years before Jack the Ripper - and coachman Daniel Good
  
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• Can you spot the 12 soldiers hiding in the Brunei jungle? Household Cavalry's mind-boggling photo has people stumped

  09-02-2017 21:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The British Army's elite unit shared the photo onto social media to show off their skills during Close Target Reconnaissance training
  
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• Lawyer sent letters to relatives of her husband's mistress

  09-02-2017 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Katherine Simpson, 49, from Winchester, Hampshire, sent details of her husband Jonathan's antics with the woman to the victim's brother, sister-in-law and her former partner.
  
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• Dive of death: Beautiful kingfishers frozen solid in ice after plunging into sub-zero lake

  09-02-2017 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The unfortunate birds were locked in a diving position after plunging into a pond, where a priest stumbled upon the extraordinary sight
  
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• Forgotten former England under-21 man Matt Derbyshire is now the leading English goalscorer in Europe

  09-02-2017 21:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ex-Blackburn Rovers and England under-21 man is turning his career around at Omonia Nicosia, as is his manager
  
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• White students accused of 'racism' after dressing as white character with cornrows from Orange is the New Black

  09-02-2017 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Critics say the teenagers are guilty of 'cultural appropriation' - but they deny that the outfits were racist or offensive
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about forests and woodlands

  09-02-2017 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 13 February You’ll have to see the woods from the trees for your songs on the theme this week – readers recommend published a playlist specifically about the latter (along with grass and flowers) in 2006.You have until 11pm on Monday 13 February to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor Pairubu will select from y
  
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• MPs hand FA vote of no confidence and order reforms

  09-02-2017 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tracey Crouch, the Sports Minister, warned the FA not to play Russian roulette with public funds during a vote of no confidence in football's governing body called in Parliament.
  
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• Couple deny murdering baby daughter found dead in pram by horrified passengers on London bus

  09-02-2017 20:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rosalin Baker, 25, and Jeffrey Wiltshire, 52, today pleaded not guilty to killing Imani Wiltshire, who was found with head injuries on the number 25 bus in Stratford, east London
  
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• Cambridge student sets fire to £20 in front of homeless

  09-02-2017 20:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is understood that the student was a member of the Cambridge University Conservative Association.A spokesman said he has since been expelled from the group.
  
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• Sickening discovery on beach as charred remains of dog found with skin burned off 'while it was alive'

  09-02-2017 20:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES A vet said the dog, believed to be a young, male Jack Russell terrier, could have died in agony as its skin was burned off
  
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• Worcestershire woman hit by train and killed on tracks

  09-02-2017 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ambulances and police were called to Barnt Green station in Worcestershire shortly before 7am this morning, where two people are said to have tried to cross the tracks.
  
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• Louvre 'terror' suspect denies links to ISIS and says he 'acted on his own will'

  09-02-2017 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Egyptian Abdallah El-Hamahmy reportedly planned only to vandalise famous artworks as a 'symbolic assault' on France and has denied that he planned to carry out mass murder
  
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• 'Assange will be given 30 days to leave Ecuador's embassy'

  09-02-2017 20:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could be evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London if right wing presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso is victorious in the country's election.
  
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• Fiance accused of murdering author Helen Bailey admits lying about her disappearance

  09-02-2017 20:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In December the dad-of-two claimed in his defence statement she had been abducted by two men named 'Joe and Nick" and didn't just simply leave with her dog
  
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• Tory MP launches no confidence motion against Speaker John Bercow over his Donald Trump ban

  09-02-2017 20:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  James Duddridge tabled a no confidence motion after John Bercow said he would not allow the US President to give an address in Westminster Hall
  
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• Rio 2016 Olympic swimming pool turns orange

  09-02-2017 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The abandoned practice pool in the Aquatics Stadium has turned colour from rot, mud and dead insects. Six months after the games, the Maracanã stadium has been abandoned and looted.
  
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• Hindu brothers get compensation after quizzed on toy guns

  09-02-2017 20:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The brothers, from Bedfordshire, excitedly told their primary school teachers after they were given the plastic toys as gifts. Central Bedfordshire Council has apologised to the family.
  
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• Gabriel Jesus reveals the REAL reason behind his goal celebration - he's a mummy's boy

  09-02-2017 20:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Manchester City star has taken the Premier League by storm, and if you were wondering what his celebration was all about then step this way
  
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• Man detained after sending schoolgirl Kayleigh Haywood explicit messages days before she was raped and murdered

  09-02-2017 19:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bruce Cordwell attempted to arrange to meet the tragic teenager over Facebook and WhatsApp for sex, a court heard
  
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• First British woman to join fight against ISIS vows she is prepared to die for the cause

  09-02-2017 19:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kimberley Taylor, 27, from Blackburn, quit her studies and travelled to join the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units the female arm of the feared YPG faction in Syria a year ago
  
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• Body found in search for missing kayaker Dominic Jackson who vanished off Scottish coast

  09-02-2017 19:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officers said a body had been found in the water in the Wick area of Scotland but have not confirmed it as Dominic
  
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• Windsor soldier jailed for jealous attack on serviceman

  09-02-2017 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Watson (left) from Surrey, attacked James Dicks (right) when he became jealous of his relationship with his estranged wife.
  
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• Mum with Lyme disease releases harrowing footage to warn others about agony of infection

  09-02-2017 19:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Heidi Luckraft, 34, is seen doubled up in pain after contracting the infection being bitten by a tick as she walked her dog in a Nottingham park
  
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• Man who was too fat to fit in plane seat makes amazing transformation by shedding 5st in SIX MONTHS

  09-02-2017 19:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mehmet Zamur, 36, was mortified to find he couldn't fit the seatbelt over his body after boarding the flight last year
  
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• Teenager jailed for killing charity worker after smashing into stationary car on motorway while 'lost in daydream'

  09-02-2017 19:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chloe Thompson, who only passed her driving test five months earlier, ploughed her pink car into the back of charity worker Anne Tongs's stationary Citroen C4
  
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• Hindu boys pulled out of lessons and quizzed by anti-terror cops over TOY guns

  09-02-2017 19:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The brothers, aged five and seven were playing with bright green and orange toy guns at their primary school when detectives feared they showed signs of extremism
  
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