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• Younger pensioners better off than older retirees

  12-02-2017 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pensioners are £20 a week better off than than working-age households. Those who retired 13 years who haven't seen their income increase. 73 per cent of pensioners now own their own homes.
  
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• Will drivers be handed £3,500 to ditch dirty diesels?

  12-02-2017 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New radical plans to reduce diesel emissions in London could be brought in by Sadiq Khan. Under new rules drivers could be incentivised to get rid of their older cars in favour of new, cleaner alternatives.
  
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• JASON ELLIS explains how to cure your insomnia

  12-02-2017 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An estimated 15 per cent of people are living their days with bleary-eyed insomnia, which lead to serious illness, stress and fatty foodcravings. But sleep expert Jason Ellis has a plan to cure your insomnia.
  
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• Voice of the Mirror: NHS crisis shows Tories guilty of criminal neglect of health service

  12-02-2017 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bassetlaw Hospital, Worksop, Notts, closes a children's ward at night and transfers kids to other hospitals by ambulance
  
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• Moment British backpacker Joanne Lees realises she's prime suspect in boyfriend Peter Falconio murder investigation

  12-02-2017 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Never before seen video tapes show police interviews during the investigation 15 years ago where Joanne underwent a grueling four-hour grilling by cops
  
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• Concerns about Donald Trump's 'mental health' raised by his political colleagues

  12-02-2017 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Democrat Al Franken said he thought the US leader was suffering from mental health issues and claimed some of the President's party felt the same way
  
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• Get tough on drug addicts to cut jail population

  12-02-2017 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Handing criminals with drug and alcohol problems tougher community punishments will lead to a reduction in the prison population, the Justice Secretary will say today.
  
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• Rugby star met girlfriend when she worked at his school 

  12-02-2017 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Elliot Daly, 24, and Michelle Cussell, 25, first met at the Whitgift School for boys in Croydon, south London. The rugby star was a pupil and she was working as a sports events organiser.
  
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• Theresa May's £3billion cuts are leaving schools run down and facing NHS-style crisis

  12-02-2017 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  98% of 24,000 schools will receive less for every kid with primaries down an average £339, secondaries £447 and the worst hit cheated of more than £1,000 per head
  
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• NHS trust shuts children's ward at night and pays PRIVATE ambulances to ferry kids to another hospital

  12-02-2017 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust spends £14,000-a-month moving the children from the 20-bed ward in Worksop to one in Doncaster
  
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• Karen Matthews 'wasn't the mastermind behind Shannon kidnap plot', claims her close pal

  12-02-2017 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Julie Bushby has spoken out to defend the woman dubbed "Britain's worst mum", saying she could not have carried out the snatch plot alone
  
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• Police force refers itself to watchdog over man's death after he slashed himself in suicide attempt

  12-02-2017 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Independent Police Complains Commission is probing the contact police had with the man prior to his death after his bid which saw officer injured
  
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• Kim Jong-un claims North Korea has launched missile capable of carrying nuclear warhead

  12-02-2017 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The dictator says the missile was launched today and that his rocket programme has now transitioned to solid fuel based
  
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• Homeland recap: season six, episode four – A Flash of Light

  12-02-2017 23:05
  
  Finally, some action! Homeland has been low-key so far, but this week gave us a terrorist plot and the shock return of the show’s most dangerous villain
  All talk and no action has been a common complaint of season six so far, with some justification. Carrie’s new paradigm of legal advocacy hasn’t exactly got the adrenaline pumping. Hopefully, the big bang that ends tonight’s episode is a turning point. The return of Majid Javadi too can only be a good thing. Continue read
  
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• Wales on the wrong axis against England to enjoy bread of heaven | Paul Rees

  12-02-2017 23:00
  
  Wales were minutes away from mass rejoicing in Cardiff but they must now address the gap that has opened up between them and Eddie Jones’s EnglandWhen Wales were at their pomp in the 1970s the sound of the crowd in Cardiff singing Bread of Heaven as the visiting team were about to run on to the field put a wobble in the step of even the most hardened player in opposition colours. It was not enough on Saturday as England, who have fast become a team in the mould of their head coach Eddie Jo
  
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• Ukip's Paul Nuttall should 'sod off back where he came from' says Labour's Stoke candidate

  12-02-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mild-mannered Gareth Snell tore into Mr Nuttall, insisting he had no ties to Stoke-on-Trent.
  
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• Eddie Jones copies José Mourinho manual to keep England winning | Robert Kitson

  12-02-2017 23:00
  
  After his side snatch a 21-16 win over Wales, England’s coach admits adopting Spanish practices used by Portuguese manager in bid to catch up All BlacksThis year’s Six Nations has yet to reach the halfway mark but already the old tournament has a renewed sense of verve. When a game matches the occasion in Cardiff there is no finer place in the world to watch rugby union, even if the lurching late twist in England’s favour made it a bittersweet Welsh symphony.Carry on like
  
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• Eddie Jones considers ringing the changes for England’s match with Italy

  12-02-2017 23:00
  
  • Jamie George’s form may see him replace captain Dylan Hartley
  • Mako Vunipolaand Anthony Watson in line for returnsEddie Jones is poised to reshuffle his unbeaten England team for the home game against Italy, with Mako Vunipola and Anthony Watson close to returning to the Six Nations fray. Elliot Daly will also be considered at full-back, as Jones looks to take the Azzurri “to the cleaners” at Twickenham a week on Sunday.With England having won 16 consecutive Tests,
  
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• Trump powers 'will not be questioned' on immigration, senior official says

  12-02-2017 22:28
  
  Policy adviser Stephen Miller: ‘Judiciary has taken far too much power’
  White House open to new order after block of travel ban by courtsA senior White House adviser on Sunday denounced federal judges who have stood in the way of Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, warning that “the whole world will soon see” that the president’s executive powers “will not be questioned”. Related: Senior White House official refuses to say if Trump supports Mi
  
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• Baftas 2017 live: the awards, the speeches and the frocks

  12-02-2017 22:18
  
  Join us until 11.15pm for live coverage of this year’s British Academy Film Awards!• Full list of winners (and go here for nominees)
  • Peter Bradshaw’s predictions
  • BBC braced for glut of Trump-bashing speeches
  • Interview with this year’s Fellowship winner, Mel Brooks 9.18pm GMTAnd the winner is I, Daniel Blake. 9.16pm GMTDev Patel and Nicole Kidman are up first, to present the award for Outstanding British Film. For the first time tonight, let’s pre
  
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• David Davis apologises for insulting Diane Abbott in text message

  12-02-2017 22:16
  
  The Brexit secretary has been criticised for a ‘silly, sexist and patronising’ remark made about the shadow home secretaryBrexit secretary David Davis has apologised after private text messages emerged in which he insulted Diane Abbott.Abbott was said by friends to have been upset by reports of the remarks, which were leaked to the Mail on Sunday, and followed a late-night encounter between the pair in a House of Commons bar after Wednesday night’s historic Brexit vote. Continu
  
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• How to spot if barbaric dog fighting is happening near you as RSPCA warn kittens are being used as BAIT

  12-02-2017 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The secretive, and illegal, sport had previously mainly taken place in the countryside, but an animal rights charity now says it is moving into urban areas
  
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• Gang rape and death on streets: Outlawed 'Spice' tears city apart as lethal synthetic drug driven underground

  12-02-2017 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  How the drug is leading to prostitution, sex trafficking and even death on the streets of Manchester says the support worker on the front line
  
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• Ken Loach slams Tory Government's U-turn on refugees during BAFTA Award acceptance speech as he scoops prize for I, Daniel Blake

  12-02-2017 22:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The film director made a passionate speech as he picked up his award
  
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• Military to offer soldiers three-day week away from frontline

  12-02-2017 21:56
  
  Servicemen and women to be offered time off to spend with family as part of pilot scheme to modernise armed forcesBritish military personnel will be allowed to work a three-day week and pull out of frontline duties as part of a pilot scheme currently being tested. Related: Army photographic competition 2016 – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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• Listen to dramatic moment two planes just avoid a mid-air collision right above airport

  12-02-2017 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The audio reveals the conversations between the two pilots and air traffic control near Dublin Airport
  
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• Terminally ill mother dies just five days after husband 

  12-02-2017 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A terminally ill mother whose family shared a heartbreaking picture of her holding the hand of her dying husband has passed away just five days after him. 
  
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• Young mum with terminal cancer's heartbreak as she “can’t bear to think” about not seeing her children grow up

  12-02-2017 21:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Danielle Hughes, 32, has tumours in her lungs is undergoing treatment by the NHS but has also visited a clinic in Germany for alternative therapies to prolong her life
  
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• Al Jarreau, Grammy-winning jazz, pop and R&B singer, dies at 76

  12-02-2017 21:38
  
  Wisconsin native won seven Grammys in three categories in 50-year careerBiggest hits were We’re in This Love Together and Moonlighting themeThe Grammy-winning jazz singer Al Jarreau died on Sunday in a Los Angeles hospital, days after announcing his retirement from touring due to exhaustion. Related: Al Jarreau: My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke review – a classy tributeContinue reading...
  
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• Would you give your lover a meal from POUNDLAND?

  12-02-2017 21:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Poundland three-course meal consists of crab on bruschetta, a tin of meatballs with peas on a bed of Pot Noodles and chocolates, but it may not be the best way to show someone you care.
  
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• Three in 10 homeless women 'have been sexually assaulted on the streets'

  12-02-2017 21:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Channel 4's Dispatches has found three in five have been threatened with violence in the past year compared with two out of five men
  
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• The Young Karl Marx review – intelligent communist bromance

  12-02-2017 21:30
  
  Marx and Engels meet cute in this intense, fervent film about the early development of communism from I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul PeckRaoul Peck is the Haitian film-maker who has an Oscar nomination this year with his James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Now he comes to Berlin with this sinewy and intensely focused, uncompromisingly cerebral period drama, co-written with Pascal Bonitzer, about the birth of communism in the mid-19th century. It gives you a real sense of what radi
  
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• Sudanese stowaway, 16, is discovered clinging to truck

  12-02-2017 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The teenager was onlydiscovered after police officers and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency stopped the truck. He'd manage to cling on at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour.
  
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• Government won't stand in the way of attempt to remove John Bercow

  12-02-2017 21:22
  
  Commons leader says No 10 will abide by convention of leaving question of who is Speaker to parliamentThe government has insisted it will not interfere in an attempt by backbench MPs to remove the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, who came under fresh attack this weekend after a video emerged in which he admitted voting to remain in last year’s referendum.Bercow irritated some backbenchers last week when he publicly vetoed the idea of Donald Trump addressing both houses of parl
  
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• Government distances itself from attempt to remove John Bercow

  12-02-2017 21:22
  
  Commons leader hints Tory MPs will not be told to vote in a no confidence motion in Speaker after he vetoed Trump speechThe government has insisted it will not interfere in an attempt by backbench MPs to remove the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, who came under fresh attack this weekend after a video emerged in which he admitted voting to remain in last year’s referendum.Bercow irritated some backbenchers last week when he publicly vetoed the idea of Donald Trump addressing b
  
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• Huntsman 'hits saboteur over the head with riding crop'

  12-02-2017 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Animal rights activists, who captured the footage (pictured), say it happened while they were tracking the Atherstone Hunt during a meeting in Shackerstone, Leics., on Saturday.
  
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• The Guardian view on Anglicans and gay clergy: stop listening, start leading | Editorial

  12-02-2017 21:06
  
  A whole generation of gay and lesbian Christians have been denied their place in the rituals of their faithGeorge Orwell’s phrase about “the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls” was coined at a time of impending global tragedy but it returns as parochial farce to haunt the General Synod of the Church of England. On Wednesday, it meets to consider a report that appears to be a further attempt to avoid a decision about gay people. In fact, the aim app
  
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• Millionaire pal of David Cameron vows to transform entire village he bought despite pledge to keep it 'unspoilt'

  12-02-2017 21:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In 2015 old Etonian Nicholas Johnson bought rural village of Bantham for £11.5m and vowed to keep the area as it was, but now he wants underground car park and beach club
  
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• Parents on zero-hour contracts 'could miss out on free childcare'

  12-02-2017 21:02
  
  Government confirms that half of families receiving existing 15 hours of free childcare will not qualify for new 30-hour schemeThe shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, has warned that parents on zero-hours contracts could miss out on the government’s election pledge of 30 hours a week of free childcare, as it emerged that fewer than half the families who receive the existing 15 free hours will qualify.David Cameron made the 30 hours a week promise a key thrust of the Conservative par
  
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• Mother humiliated after Argos repairman calls her large

  12-02-2017 21:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kelly Wells, 38, asked the retailer to fix the arm of her electric reclining sofa at her home in North Lanarkshire. But a report by the engineer blamed the fault on her mother, Christine, and called her 'very large'.
  
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• Britain's Brexit regret: Survey shows Referendum result would be reversed today

  12-02-2017 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new Mirror survey finds that if the EU referendum were held again the result would be reversed with 51% voting for Remain and 49% to leave
  
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• Britain's cyclist accident blackspot revealed as dozens of people injured on just one roundabout

  12-02-2017 20:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Digital marketing company, Mapmechanics, has analysed the data from the roundabout and revealed there have been 53 accidents involving cyclists at the roundabout
  
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• Government accused of 'full-frontal attack' on whistleblowers

  12-02-2017 20:52
  
  Outcry follows plans to radically increase prison terms for revealing state secrets and to prosecute journalistsThe government has been accused of launching a “full-frontal attack” on whistleblowers over proposals to radically increase prison sentences for revealing state secrets and prosecute journalists.Downing Street believes a major overhaul of existing secrecy legislation is necessary because it has become outdated in a digital age when government employees can easily disclose v
  
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• Corbyn's Labour critics organise locally to prevent leftist successor

  12-02-2017 20:44
  
  Few MPs expect leadership challenge soon but are organising across the UK to prevent changes lowering threshold for candidatesJeremy Corbyn’s centre-left critics are launching a systematic fightback aimed at preventing the Labour leader from ensuring a leftist successor if he steps down before 2020.With renewed speculation about Corbyn’s future on Sunday, when Labour’s election coordinator Ian Lavery said there were “plenty of leaders to pick from”, some MPs were ce
  
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• WW2 Hurricane that crash-landed at Dunkirk set to take to the skies again

  12-02-2017 20:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mk 1 Hawker Hurricane was shot down as troops prepared to evacuate across the Channel and after a £2million restoration it is ready to fly again
  
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• Ken Loach: Tory government 'callous, brutal and disgraceful' and 'must be removed'

  12-02-2017 20:40
  
  Accepting the award for best British film at the Bafta awards in London, the veteran director says politicians speak for corporations – and film-makers must stand with the poor and vulnerableKen Loach has launched an uncompromising attack on the UK government at the 70th British Academy Film Awards. Speaking as he picked up his award for outstanding British film for I, Daniel Blake, which is conceived as a critique of the current state of the benefits system, Loach touched on accusations b
  
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• Katarina Johnson-Thompson books European Indoor Championships place

  12-02-2017 20:37
  
  • Heptathlete was competing in the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield
  • She registered 6.69m in the long jump, narrowly missing out on first placeAfter Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s Olympic heartbreak in Rio she not only picked up the pieces but radically re-arranged them, deciding on a new coaching team and a new life in France. In Sheffield on Sunday, however, some things remained reassuringly familiar as a leap of 6.69m in the long jump booked her place at next month&rsqu
  
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• Martin Rowson on the Labour party leadership – cartoon

  12-02-2017 20:32
  
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• Victoria Beckham's New York show restores some sparkle to family brand

  12-02-2017 20:26
  
  Her catwalk show is now enough of an event that it can’t be overshadowed by scandal over her husband’s hacked emails Brand Beckham has had a rocky time of late. In New York, it fell to the fashion branch of this modern family empire to restore some sparkle after the hacked emails that threatened David Beckham’s clean-cut image.It is a reflection of how serious a player she has become in the fashion industry that – rather than being overshadowed by the scandal – a Vi
  
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• Murdered backpacker Peter Falconio's girlfriend Joanne Lees set to become Australian citizen after finding long-lost sister

  12-02-2017 20:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joanna told Channel 9's 60 Minutes programme that her half-sister Jess is helping her get over the 2001 ordeal at the hands of Bradley Murdoch
  
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