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• Take children on holiday in term-time, says Julia Bradbury

  19-02-2017 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Countryfile star Julia Bradbury (pictured) has criticised travel companies for jacking up prices during the school holiday period. She even accused the travel industry of being 'evil'.
  
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• Man survives 20m fall down cliff in Sydney

  19-02-2017 23:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  He was winched to safety almost five hours later in a complicated rescue in dense bushland.
  
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• Shangri-La is in Surrey!

  19-02-2017 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Retirement communities like Whiteley Village (pictured) near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, can help women live years longer than the national average- partly due to increased social interaction.
  
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• Women raped so often in brutal Syrian government-run prisons that guards give them birth control pills

  19-02-2017 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The crimes against women in Syrian prisons were revealed in a new report by the London School of Economics
  
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• Donor mum who helped her daughter’s best friends to live

  19-02-2017 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ella Murtha, 32, from Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, decided to donate her mother Tish's kidneys. She received letters from the families of Jane Holmes, 43, and Teresa Saunders, 40,
  
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• Pope poses for a selfie with a beaming schoolboy

  19-02-2017 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pope Francis was visiting the parish of Santa Maria Josefa of the Heart of Jesus in Rome, where he met some children. He cracked a smile when the schoolboy showed him the picture.
  
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• Face up to the love Labour's lost, Jeremy. A by-election win may just paper over the cracks

  19-02-2017 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A Stoke win would be a Dunkirk moment, salvaging as much Labour support as possible, not a D-Day offensive ­signalling an inevitable march on Downing Street and a majority in the House of Commons
  
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• Boxer Michael Watson urges police to find his attackers

  19-02-2017 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Watson, 51, and his carer Lennard Ballack were sprayed with ammonia by thugs in Chingford, east London, who smashed into the back of their Volkswagen Golf.
  
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• Cat can let herself out after learning how to open door

  19-02-2017 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Muffin the five-year-old tabby cat stands up on her hind legs, reaches up to pull the handle down, then hooks a paw behind the door of her home in Ely, Cambridgeshire, to swing it open.
  
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• Hamster disappears after escaping cage and scaling wall

  19-02-2017 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gingy the hamster broke free of her cage and scaled a seven foot wall and was found some six weeks later when she turned up at a care home a mile away in Aberdeenshire.
  
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• Michael Watson vows 'we'll find the thugs who attacked me' as boxing world rallies around him after carjacking

  19-02-2017 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former boxer Watson and his carer Lennnard Ballack were sprayed with ammonia by two thugs driving a Mercedes
  
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• CCTV shows moment leading to Kim Jong-nam's assassination

  19-02-2017 23:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The CCTV video, from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, allegedly shows the moment which led to the assassination of Kim Jong-nam - the half-brother of the North Korean leader.
  
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• Cambridge locals catch beggars feigning homelessness

  19-02-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The group walked together to the outskirts of Cambridge’s shopping arcades, before separating to avoid working the same areas. They left Romanian licence plated car in a residential road.
  
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• Angelina Jolie on Cambodia, film and family

  19-02-2017 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The actress spoke to the BBC ahead of the release of her new film, First They Killed My Father.
  
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• Heartbreaking photos show football star celebrating birthday with twin sons just weeks after "princess" wife's death

  19-02-2017 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thomas Buffel's wife, Stephanie De Buysser, tragically died aged 39 on January 25 following a battle with bowel cancer
  
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• Tiny 7ft-wide house for sale could be yours - but you'll need a fat wallet to afford it

  19-02-2017 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  But the tiny home still has almost 1,000 sq/ft of space, making it larger than the average newbuild
  
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• Riot police storm house to find woman stabbed to death and man dying in 'murder suicide'

  19-02-2017 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Witnesses reported seeing riot police with shields entering the building where the bodies were found
  
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• Perfect storm

  19-02-2017 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tackling an industry that trades on perfection with a talent agency for disabled actors and models.
  
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• Horrific moment man drives into oncoming traffic killing woman instantly in head-on smash

  19-02-2017 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING DISTURBING FOOTAGE: A witness said the erratic motorist was "jumping around in his car and going nuts like he was happy about what he had actually done"
  
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• Richard Keys' wife Julia reveals 'telltale sign' that made her realise husband was seducing daughter's friend

  19-02-2017 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Sky Sports presenter was pictured walking with his 27-year-old 'lover', Lucie Rose, outside a five-star hotel in west London last month
  
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• Madeleine McCann's parents say they will keep fighting libel battle with ex-cop and bring their daughter home

  19-02-2017 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kate and Gerry McCann  are making a formal complaint to Portuga's top court in a bid to stop the detective telling "awful lies" about her disappearance
  
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• US giant Kraft Heinz drops £115billion bid to buy some of Britain's favourite brands

  19-02-2017 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  American food giant has withdrawn bid for a mega-merger with Anglo-Dutch firm Unilever, which owns brands including Marmite and PG Tips
  
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• Lotto rapist's victim calls for police to reopen their fraud probe over £2.5million 'scam'

  19-02-2017 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Edward Putman raped the pregnant 17-year-old in 1991 and won the huge Lottery jackpot in 2009 using what is now believed to be a fake ticket
  
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• Stephen Lawrence murderer David Norris launches law suit against government 'after being beaten up in prison'

  19-02-2017 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David Norris reportedly says he wants £10,000 compensation over the attack from fellow prisoners
  
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• Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe will stand for President again at 94 as he insists 'the people' see no viable replacement

  19-02-2017 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The despotic leader said: “They want me to stand for elections, they want me to stand for elections everywhere in the party"
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn pays for secret opinion poll on whether he should quit before 2020

  19-02-2017 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Only John McDonnell and Corbyn himself will see the result of the 10,000-person study to canvass views on his future
  
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• Cost of pint of beer set to soar as pubs struggle with massive Tory business rates hike

  19-02-2017 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An extra £70 million will be added to the bills of 17,160 pubs in England and Wales in April, an analysis warns
  
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• SpaceX successfully launches rocket after Saturday setback

  19-02-2017 21:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US rocket company sends a cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station.
  
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• Man posed as woman online to get naked selfies from kids

  19-02-2017 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Matthew Anthony (pictured), 32, from Staffordshire, made up two online profiles and chatted to his victims on Instagram, before receiving the shocking pictures.
  
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• Becky Watts' father reveals he's taking 'a lot of tablets'

  19-02-2017 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Darren Galsworthy said he blames himself for not saving his daughter. The Bristol teenager went missing in February 2015 and step-brother Nathan Matthews was convicted of her murder.
  
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• Bright yellow car vandalised because it ruined the view

  19-02-2017 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Peter Maddox, 84, found his Vauxhall Corsa with the windows smashed in. Tourists complained his car ruined their photos of Bibury, Gloucestershire. The car was written off, with £6k of damages.
  
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• Huntsman launches foul-mouthed rant at saboteurs

  19-02-2017 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Video filmed at a meeting of the Cottesmore Hunt in Owston, Leicestershire, appears to show an outraged man launching into the foul-mouthed aimed at the Beds and Bucks Hunts Saboteurs.
  
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• Groundbreaking gene-editing surgery saves two-year-old girl from leukaemia

  19-02-2017 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The child, identified only by her first name Layla, received new genes from a donor’s immune cells in a pioneering operation
  
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• Cheeky cameraman zooms in on scantily-clad lingerie model's BUM during 'family TV show'

  19-02-2017 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The toe-curling clip shows the brunette beauty smiling at the camera as she modelled a set of red, black and white underwear
  
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• Drunk milkman smashes float into couple's car and home

  19-02-2017 20:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Milkman Adam Martin, 28, admitted drink-driving at Leamington Spa Magistrates Court and was banned from driving after crashing his milk float into a couple's home, causing structural damage.
  
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• Thug beats boy SIXTY TWO TIMES times with belt in sickening CCTV footage 'because he stole phone charger'

  19-02-2017 20:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kordarell Williams, 27, is the boyfriend of the boy's mother and was tracked down after police could see his car registration plate in the video
  
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• Hideous footage shows woman's boyfriend thrash her son, seven, with belt SIXTY TWO TIMES

  19-02-2017 20:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kordarell Williams, 27, is the boyfriend of the boy's mother and was tracked down after police could see his car registration plate in the video
  
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• Woman marries man she met when he was a tramp searching her bins for food 40 years ago

  19-02-2017 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Great gran Joan first met Ken when he was sleeping rough in stations and shop doorways
  
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• Moment Kim Jong Nam assassinated at airport ticket machine in front of stunned passengers captured in sickening footage

  19-02-2017 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The extraordinary footage shows the build up to the attack, the suspect launching at Kim and then him seeking help in pain during the final moments of his life
  
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• Busty £3,000 sex doll, artificial body parts, X-rated DVDs: What it's REALLY like to work in adult shop

  19-02-2017 20:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pulse and Cocktails in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, is home to an array of X-rated products, from artificial vaginas and gimp masks to lingerie
  
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• Artificial body parts, X-rated DVDs and a £3,000 sex doll: What it's REALLY like to work in adult shop

  19-02-2017 20:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pulse and Cocktails in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, is home to an array of X-rated products, from artificial vaginas and gimp masks to lingerie
  
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• Biker's chin impaled on spiked railing after high speed crash in horrifying footage

  19-02-2017 20:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The man hit a speed bump and lost control, ending up with a metal spike sticking through his chin and out his open mouth
  
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• UKIP canvasser is caught on CCTV URINATING on pensioner's fence while campaigning for Paul Nuttall

  19-02-2017 20:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man who was canvassing in the Stoke by-election relieved himself on the disabled widow's fence then tried to push his way into her house to use her loo. He has since apologised for the incident
  
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• Putin's critic who fell into a coma leaves Russia

  19-02-2017 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Journalist and pro-democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza (pictured) nearly died two years ago after a 'toxic influence of an unknown substance' caused his kidneys to fail.
  
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• Jack the Ripper unmasked? Writer Patricia Cornwell claims bragging letters identify monster who killed up to 20 women

  19-02-2017 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Crime writer Patricia Cornwell says her new research has left her “more convinced than ever of Walter Sickert’s guilt”         
  
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• Dear Coleen: My wife is planning holiday with pal I bedded behind her back

  19-02-2017 20:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The problem is, I had a short affair with the woman a couple of years ago when my wife and I were going through a rocky time and talked about splitting up
  
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• People share their scariest experiences – from creepy men in wardrobes to 'occult murders'

  19-02-2017 20:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some of these are very rude
  
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• 'LOL assassin' suspected of killing Kim Jong-un's brother is my SISTER, claims Vietnamese man

  19-02-2017 20:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joseph Doan has confirmed that his sister's name was Doan Thi Huong and that she was born in 1988 in Nam Dinh province, southeast of the capital Hanoi
  
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• Brit buys horror house where 'serial killers' dubbed the 'Fred and Rose West of Germany' allegedly tortured victims

  19-02-2017 19:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The duo allegedly lured single females to the home before killing them - now expat Dave Macleod has revealed ambitious plans to turn the property into a refuge for battered women
  
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• Brit buys horror house where 'Germany's Fred and Rose West tortured and killed victims'

  19-02-2017 19:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The duo allegedly lured single females to the home before killing them - now expat Dave Macleod has revealed ambitious plans to turn the property into a refuge for battered women
  
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