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• Killjoy residents try to block Legoland plans over fears laughter of happy children will disturb them

  15-02-2017 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new Legoland Discovery Centre at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham city centre is a headache for some residents
  
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• Southampton conman scammed women out of thousands

  15-02-2017 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conman David Coombs, 52, from Southampton, claimed to be a wealthy businessman as he swindled his victims out of thousands, even leaving one woman without her home.
  
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• Sister of prisoner found dead in cell claims he saw inmates high on Spice being carried out on stretchers

  15-02-2017 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Darren Rawlinson was found unresponsive in his cell in Salford’s Forest Bank prison last month
  
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• Voice of the Mirror: Bosses who rip off low-paid workers should face court and heavy fines

  15-02-2017 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Naming and shaming 360 companies who cheated 15,520 employees of even the legal minimum wage is good as far as it goes
  
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• Childcare costs set to rise because of raising fees 

  15-02-2017 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nurseries will have to pay as much as £118m more in rates over the next five years – with the average day nursery facing a 15 per cent rise in annual bills from April and a 47 per cent rise in five years.
  
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• The 9 most HUMILIATING stats for Arsenal fans as Gunners are hammered by Bayern Munich

  15-02-2017 23:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It was an awful night for Arsene Wenger and Arsenal in Munich, and the numbers don't look good for them
  
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• Revealed: How paedo footballer Adam Johnson's promo firm plummeted in value after star's child sex conviction

  15-02-2017 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Adam Johnson Promotions has been wound up after a court heard it owed the taxman £65,000
  
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• Protesters riot close to Gare du Nord in Paris

  15-02-2017 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police pepper-sprayed protesters in Paris tonight as suburban rioting spilled into the French capital. Rioters tonight took to the streets at the Barbès - Rochechouart station, close to Gare du Nord.
  
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• British couple airlifted to safety in Tenerife

  15-02-2017 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the moment a British man and his wife had to be pulled out of tricky waters in Tenerife by rescuers in a helicopter after they got into difficulties swimming in stormy weather.
  
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• Manchester brawl breaks out between two men

  15-02-2017 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A taxi driver in Manchester caught the moment two men brawled violently outside a takeaway in the city's Gay Village. The pair throw punches at each other and end up on the floor during the fight.
  
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• Do these naked women offend you? Gallery visitors demand 'disgusting and obscene' nude photos be taken down

  15-02-2017 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING NUDE IMAGES: The Victorian art was removed from a Valentine's Day exhibition after three outraged women complained they were 'obscene and bordered on pornographic'
  
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• Is it time Kate Middleton ditched her skinny jeans as Duchess forced to yank them up to keep them on?

  15-02-2017 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge has been spotted out in her favourite denims but fashion stylist Lauren Goodwin-Grafton asks if it's time she stopped wearing them
  
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• Joe Root can take heart from proud history of Yorkshire’s England captains

  15-02-2017 23:00
  
  Past bodes well for county’s 10th national leader, who can look back on a lineage of lords, knights and no little silverwareSo the three-day event that has been the deliverance of the new England captain finally came to a conclusion at sunny Headingley. Up stepped Joe Root in his collar, tie and blazer, two days after Andrew Strauss had confirmed the bleeding obvious, plenty of time for him to compose a manifesto.To the relief of his Yorkshire forebears his first aspiration had a familiar
  
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• Girlfriend's Valentine's Day disappointment goes viral after boyfriend plays cruel trick about romantic getaway

  15-02-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Laura Marie Kerr thought the love of her life was about sweep her away on a romantic break - but she was wrong
  
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• The 21 angriest #WengerOut tweets as Arsenal are DESTROYED by Bayern Munich

  15-02-2017 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As usual, social media was not a pretty sight for the Arsenal manager as his side were hammered in Germany
  
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• Casemiro stunner hands Real Madrid the edge against brave Napoli

  15-02-2017 22:59
  
  It was fun and there is more to come. Ninety minutes, four goals, 27 shots, and an important, if not yet decisive, lead for Real Madrid to take to Italy: that was the balance from an enjoyable night at the Bernabéu where the first chance came after 20 seconds, the first goal after seven minutes, and the hosts came from behind to defeat Napoli 3-1. Next stop, San Paolo.“We’ll try to win 2-0 but I don’t think Madrid would agree,” Maurizio Sarri, the Napoli manag
  
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• Stalker harassed female Greggs worker and bombarded her with 50 letters including 'disturbing sexual content'

  15-02-2017 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chloe Davies received unwanted gifts from David Challinor at the Greggs shop she worked
  
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• Thiago Alcântara and Bayern Munich leave Arsenal staring into the abyss

  15-02-2017 22:56
  
  For Arsenal, perhaps the most demoralising part is that nobody can even be greatly surprised any more. Once again, they have flatlined in the first knockout stage of the Champions League, a competition that is simply beyond their reach. It will be the seventh successive season they have lost their way at this point and, for all the disappointments in the second part of the Arsène Wenger era, it is difficult to think of another occasion when they have looked so far removed from the elite.W
  
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• Kanye West's NYFW Yeezy show: no fireworks, no Kanye

  15-02-2017 22:55
  
  After a tumultuous year of West-Trump controversy and Kim Kardashian being robbed, this was a more relaxing affairIt’s no secret that Kanye West and his family have had a weird and rough few months. In October, his wife, Kim Kardashian West, was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. In November, West endorsed Donald Trump (“if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump,” he told booing fans during his Saint Pablo tour); soon afterwards he had a breakdown and was hospitalis
  
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• Celia Imrie was celebrating in Nice during terror attack

  15-02-2017 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'It was a miracle for me that I survived - unlike for other poor people,' said Celia Imrie of the attack on July 14 last year, when a 19-tonne cargo truck was driven into the crowds in Nice, France.
  
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• Marine Le Pen pledges to end same-sex marriage

  15-02-2017 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The far-right leader said she would abolish same-sex marriage in France in a long list of 144 pledges. President Francois Hollande signed a law that legalised gay marriage in 2013.
  
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• Debenhams among firms shamed for under-paying staff

  15-02-2017 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The biggest ever list of offenders included employers in hairdressing, retail, hospitality and care homes, as well as Debenhams, which underpaid nearly 12,000 employees.
  
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• Donald Trump's pick for labour secretary brought down by Oprah Winfrey amid abuse claims

  15-02-2017 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The allegations made 27 years ago came back to haunt Andrew Pudzer after six Republicans said they would not agree to his appointment
  
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• School of boy, 10, 'crushed under Topshop display unit' honour energetic and caring student who helped others

  15-02-2017 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A tribute issued by Garland Junior School says Kaden Reddick's loss will be “felt by all our pupils, teaching staff and governors".
  
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• US ground troops 'could be deployed in Syria' as Trump prepares to 'bomb the s**t' out of ISIS

  15-02-2017 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Already a small number of specials forces operate in the war-torn country, but the previous Obama administration had rejected putting soldiers on the ground
  
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• Motorist blocked speed camera with boot in ticket revenge

  15-02-2017 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chris Welford had an hour to kill so stopped his car and put the boot up to block the camera on Cleveland Police's mobile van in Skelton, North Yorkshire.
  
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• This is why you should NEVER leave your dog at home alone

  15-02-2017 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The one-year-old Rottweiler and Akita cross savaged one of the living room cushions and five days later Sophie is still vacuuming up the house
  
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• Donald Trump says US not committed to two-state Israel-Palestine solution

  15-02-2017 22:32
  
  Speaking alongside Benjamin Netanyahu, US president appears to dismantle years of policy by saying he is looking at multiple options for peaceDonald Trump has dropped a two-decades old US commitment to the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel as part of a permanent Middle East peace agreement.Speaking at a joint press conference with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the US president did not rule out a two-state solution but implied his administration had no ­p
  
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• Children's commissioners write to home secretary over end of Dubs scheme

  15-02-2017 22:31
  
  Commissioners for Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland write to Amber Rudd calling for government to do more to help child refugeesChildren’s commissioners for all four UK nations have written to the home secretary, Amber Rudd, urging her to rethink the government’s plans to close the transfer of lone child refugees in Europe to the UK.The commissioners, who are public appointees, said they wanted to “express deep concern” about the decision of the government to
  
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• Ian Wright has complete and utter MELTDOWN as Arsenal are hammered by Bayern Munich

  15-02-2017 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Gunners legend seemed to have some hope that his side could get a good result, but then things went badly wrong...
  
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• Donald Trump discusses government business as the North Korean missile crisis unfolds at private members club

  15-02-2017 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A member of his private members Mar-a-Lago Club in Plam Beach, Florida posted several photos to his now-deleted Facebook account of the President and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as they penned their response
  
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• Arsenal have FOUR man hit-list in case Arsene Wenger does decide to walk away in the summer

  15-02-2017 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The board don't want their manager to end his 21-year reign and the feeling is he'll stay but plans are in motion just in case
  
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• Wife who wants divorce faces years next door to husband

  15-02-2017 22:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tini Owens, 66, resides in a grand farmhouse next door to her 78-year-old husband Hugh Owens' Cotswolds manor despite battling him in the High Court over their 39-year marriage.
  
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• Pooping in space: suit could help Nasa astronauts boldly go when duty calls

  15-02-2017 22:14
  
  The Space Poop Challenge sought designs for a system that could collect human waste for up to six days, routing it away from the body without the use of handsAstronauts wear adult diapers under their suits in case they need to pee or poop on spacewalks, but what happens if there’s an emergency and they have to stay in their suit for several days? That was the question Nasa posed to members of the public in its Space Poop Challenge, and the winners of the contest have just been announced. R
  
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• Dramatic moment two Brits are plucked to safety after nearly drowning in choppy sea off Tenerife holiday resort

  15-02-2017 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man and woman were swimming at Charco de La Laja between San Juan de la Rambla and La Guancha when Valentine's Day nearly turned to tragedy
  
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• The likes of Arron Banks and his chum Farage have no time for the working-class and their struggles

  15-02-2017 22:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  UKIP's biggest donor accused ME of milking Hillsborough, when it was actually his own party's leader who had done so, obscenely
  
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• Tiny London home less than nine feet wide is yours for an eye watering £600,000

  15-02-2017 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pint-sized pad, one of the smallest detached homes in London, is valued at almost three times the UK average house price despite needing a full renovation
  
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• TV giant Sky tries to scupper annual biker's charity event 'because it will stop it's staff smoking outside'

  15-02-2017 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The multi-million pound company claims if the the annual event is held outside its offices in Stockport it could impact the safety and welfare of its staff
  
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• How can we keep libraries open when disabled people have no care: Road to Wigan Pier 2017

  15-02-2017 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cuts are forcing increasingly hard choices in the Black Country exactly 80 years after the publication of The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
  
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• Anti-Muslim hate groups nearly triple in US since last year, report finds

  15-02-2017 22:00
  
  Southern Poverty Law Center credited rise in racist and far-right groups to Donald Trump’s ‘incendiary rhetoric’ and his senior staff of ‘anti-Muslim ideologues’The number of organized anti-Muslim hate groups in America nearly tripled last year, from 34 to more than 100, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning non-profit that tracks extremist groups. The center credited the “incendiary rhetoric” of Donald Trump&rsqu
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto and Thunderball numbers for £12 million jackpot on Wednesday, February 15

  15-02-2017 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's lottery could make you a very rich person - but have you got a winning ticket?
  
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• James Arthur's attacker jailed for over five years

  15-02-2017 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unprovoked attack by jealous ex-lover Christopher Revell, 31, took place in The Plimsoll Line pub in Redcar, as the star was out drinking with friends.
  
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• Church of England in turmoil as synod rejects report on same-sex relationships

  15-02-2017 21:53
  
  Clergy vote against report by 100 to 93 in blow to archbishop of Canterbury as he tries to chart course between apparently unreconcilable wings of churchThe Church of England has been plunged into fresh turmoil after its general assembly threw out a report on same-sex relationships in a rebuff to bishops following almost three years of intense internal discussion and intractable divisions.The C of E’s synod, meeting in London this week, voted on Thursday to effectively reject the report, w
  
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• Lisa Appleton flashes boobs (again!) in see-through dress and bizarre tiger mask after doing her best Adele impression

  15-02-2017 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Every day is a photo opportunity for the ex Big Brother star
  
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• Glimmer of hope for 10,000 refugees left stranded by Australia's inaction

  15-02-2017 21:46
  
  A federal court verdict exposed how valid citizenship applications from people who arrived by boat were shunted into a drawer and ignored. Now the immigration department has to say what it is going to do about themKyar was overjoyed to the receive the letter, embossed with the coat of arms of Australia and the letterhead of the minister for immigration and border protection.“On behalf of the Government and the people of Australia, I am pleased to inform you that your application for Austra
  
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• Lucas Leiva wants Leonardo Di Caprio to play him in a film of his life

  15-02-2017 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Liverpool's Brazilian stalwart has been having his say on the movies, and he reckons that the Wolf of Wall Street and The Revenant star would be the man to play him
  
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• French senate report says UK must not be better off after Brexit

  15-02-2017 21:40
  
  Cross-party inquiry also rules out privileged EU access for some UK sectors and says 200,000 jobs are at stake in the CityThe scale of Britain’s task in negotiating a successful Brexit has been underlined by a cross-party report from the French senate vowing that the UK must not be allowed to leave the EU in a better-off position than it is now, and if necessary a withdrawal without an agreement has to be considered. The report also rules out sectoral agreements giving some UK industries p
  
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• Outrage over plans to build sausage and bacon factory at site of Nazi forced labour camp

  15-02-2017 21:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A dispute has erupted over a 25-acre plot of land at Haiming, Austria, where hundreds of prisoners were put to work building a dam
  
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• National Lottery results live: Lotto numbers for quadruple rollover £12 million jackpot on Wednesday, February 15

  15-02-2017 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's Lottery could make you a very rich person - but have you got a winning ticket?
  
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• Camera strapped to 150mph golden eagle captures dramatic moment it swoops in to kill mountain hare

  15-02-2017 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Falconer Roy Lupton designed the nifty Eaglecam to allow people to 'literally to ride on the back of the bird when it makes a kill'
  
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