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• Tory cuts are seizing 800 vital Motability cars a WEEK from disabled people

  23-02-2017 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  So far, 48,500 people have had their vehicles taken from them as they transfer from Disability Living Allowance to the new Tory flagship Personal Independence Payment
  
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• Apartment where Madeleine McCann vanished is 'bought by British gran for half the asking price'

  23-02-2017 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Apartment 5A in the Ocean Complex of Praia da Luz was snapped up by widow Kathleen Macguire-Cotton for just £113,000, according to reports
  
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• Storm Doris leaves thousands of commuters stranded

  23-02-2017 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  All services from London Euston (pictured) were suspended due to Storm Doris. Around 50 flights in and out of the country have been cancelled and motorways were closed.
  
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• Boris Johnson helped into his tie by his Australian counterpart before the pair held talks

  23-02-2017 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Julie Bishop stepped in to smarten up the perenially scruffy Foreign Secretary as the pair held talks in London this afternoon
  
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• Man 'hung stepson on door and used him as human dartboard during decade of abuse'

  23-02-2017 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bernard Thomas Cawley is alleged to have launched darts at a young boy during a terrifying campaign of abuse towards his stepchildren
  
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• Boy who died in Topshop tragedy 'was hit by barrier as his mum paid for clothes at till'

  23-02-2017 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kaden Reddick suffered fatal head injuries when the queue barrier fell over as his mum Lisa Cooper Mallet was at the check-out, an inquest heard
  
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• Whirlpool facing calls to pay compensation to customers over faulty rumble dryers

  23-02-2017 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Politicians also echoed the ­Mirror’s call for the firm to carry out a product recall after it admitted millions of its dryers should not be used
  
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• Rescuers battle to save last lion left alive in Mosul Zoo after it's liberated from ISIS

  23-02-2017 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Simba is the last lion alive at Mumtaz al-Nour Park after his mother ate his dying father before dying herself
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn to outline plans for Labour's “progressive vision for post-Brexit Britain” as he launches fightback after by-elections

  23-02-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mr Corbyn's intervention come shours after the results were due in two crunch polls in the Potteries and Cumbria, where Labour was defending challenges from UKIP and the Tories respectively
  
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• British Gas boss on £3million a year claims customers WANT to pay sky high prices

  23-02-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Iain Conn even called the deals “good value” – despite his firm admitting it costs the average customer up to £210 a year more than the cheapest deal from rivals
  
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• 'Loving dad' fell 130ft to his death as he climbed from flat balcony after stealing neighbour's Xbox

  23-02-2017 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jason Heywood had 'tightly wound' a leather belt around the handrail of his balcony to hoist himself back up but slipped and plunged 130ft
  
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• Walking Dead actor who plays Negan hits out as Primark pulls TV show T-shirt after claims of 'racism'

  23-02-2017 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Store bosses received complaints that the white T-shirt with the message "eeny meeny miny moe" and a picture of a bloodied baseball bat was racially offensive
  
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• "The way this world is going is not for us": Elderly couple left heartbreaking note before double suicide

  23-02-2017 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  David and Kathleen Howell drove to a beauty spot, shared a drink then gassed themselves after putting their affairs in order
  
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• Islamist extremists kill at least eight and injure 28

  23-02-2017 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The blast, the second to hit the provincial capital this month, crumpled cars and sent panic rippling through the city after a wave of attacks across Pakistan killed more than 130 people.
  
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• Burglar fell 130ft to death after climbing Rochdale tower

  23-02-2017 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jason Heywood, 40, broke into a flat at Mitchell Hey in College Bank, Rochdale. He lowered himself from his balcony to the flat below with a wound leather belt but lost his footing on the way back.
  
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• British ISIS suicide bomber who blew himself up in Iraq 'used taxpayers' money to fund terror'

  23-02-2017 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shukee Begum claimed husband Jamal al-Harith received "substantially less” than the reported £1m payout from the British government but used it to fund terror
  
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• FlyBe plane crash lands on the runway at Amsterdam airport

  23-02-2017 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  FlyBe flight 1284 had already battled fierce winds as part of Storm Doris during its delayed take off from Edinburgh airport at 2.10pm on Thursday.
  
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• Storm Doris leaves a trail of carnage as deadly winds claim one life and leave others injured

  23-02-2017 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A 29-year-old woman was killed by flying debris as a girl suffered "life-threatening injuries" when he school gym ceiling collapsed
  
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• Heartbreaking memories of those who lived through Boston bombings as they remember loved ones who didn't

  23-02-2017 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  New movie, Patriots Day, chronicles the terrible events of the terror attack on April 15, 2013
  
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• Pamela Anderson braves Storm Doris to visit Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London

  23-02-2017 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Baywatch beauty made her seventh visit to the Wikileaks founder as gale-force winds left her trademark blonde curls in a tangle 
  
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• walking dead tweet

  23-02-2017 22:14 via mirror.co.uk
  Holy crap people are stupid. 'Walking Dead’ Shirt Pulled From Stores After Complaint of Racism https://t.co/cpeIqcxTwJ
  
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• Birmingham mother who killed daughter detained indefintely

  23-02-2017 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paranoid mother Iman Omar Yousef (pictured), 32, of Birmingham, who killed her young daughter and doused her in acid has been held indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
  
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• British ISIS suicide bomber 'funded by the taxpayer'

  23-02-2017 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shukee Begum today, the wife of Jamal al-Harith, said tax payers' money may have been used to pay for his extremist activities - including travel to Syria where he joined ISIS.
  
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• Revealed: Astonishing complaints made by peers about taxpayer-subsidised food in House of Lords restaurants

  23-02-2017 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  “Pathetic” petits fours and “fussy” fish feature among peers' gripes about the luxury food served in the House of Lords
  
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• Woman horrified to find something unpleasant after biting into McDonald's chicken burger

  23-02-2017 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sickened Nicole Campbell said she was almost physically sick when she spotted the thin tail-like shape poking out from her fast-food meal
  
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• Crooked vicar stole more than £100,000 paid by grieving families to church for funeral fees

  23-02-2017 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rev Michael John Fry, 57, resigned from his post after the thefts were discovered
  
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• Simon Cowell thought home break-in was 'inside job'

  23-02-2017 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The X-Factor supremo was asleep upstairs with partner Lauren Silverman and their young son Eric when an intruder raided his £35million luxury home in Holland Park, west London.
  
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• Stoke and Copeland by-election results LIVE: Labour battles Ukip and Tories to keep seats after Storm Doris chaos

  23-02-2017 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Follow live updates all night from the count in Stoke-on-Trent Central, as Labour bids to hold off Ukip's Paul Nuttall, and Copeland in Cumbria
  
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• Donald Trump announces he wants to build up America's nuclear arsenal to make US 'top of the pack'

  23-02-2017 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Trump also complained about Russian deployment of a cruise missile in violation of an arms control treaty and said he would raise the issue with Putin
  
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• Tui accused of 'gross neglect' in Tunisia beach massacre

  23-02-2017 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The inquest into the deaths of the Britons at the Royal Courts of Justice heard that 'part of the attack or most of it could have been prevented', had security been tighter.
  
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• Video shows schoolgirls fighting violently in the street

  23-02-2017 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clip, filmed in the North London, shows the teens punching, hitting and kicking each other savagely while another girl can be seen holding a knife as she grabs gold of one of the wrestlers.
  
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• Teenage thug who left loving dad in coma boasted on Facebook that he 'sent him snoring hahaha'

  23-02-2017 21:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Connor Jary was already on bail for breaking two men's jaws when he left Calvin McLellan with serious brain injuries in a one-punch attack
  
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• Ex-love of mum who scooped £14.5million on Euromillions is penniless and has been homeless

  23-02-2017 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Brandon, 42, has a 17-year-old son with Bev – who scooped the EuroMillions ­jackpot last Friday
  
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• Driver racks up 62 points on licence but not banned

  23-02-2017 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The driver from West Yorkshire exceeded the limit to qualify for a ban. He is one of 10,000 drivers with more than 12 points still legally on the roads. It is not known why an exception was made.
  
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• Readers recommend: share your songs about the music industry

  23-02-2017 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 28 February This week we’re looking for songs that reference anything to do with the record industry: think labels, the experience of touring, gigs, corporates, the charts, all those things that help – and hinder – music getting from the artist’s brain to the audience’s ear.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 28 February to post your
  
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• Michael Gove regrets running to replace David Cameron as Prime Minister and rues pledging support to Boris Johnson

  23-02-2017 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Justice Secretary said he now accepts victory for Theresa May was “the right result”
  
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• Storm Doris blows tree in front of moving car in Spalding

  23-02-2017 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Motorist Paul Smith, 50, was driving through the town centre of Spalding in Lincolnshire when the giant tree came crashing down just metres in front of him, felled by the force of Storm Doris.
  
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• Shoppers stumped by 'embarrassing' new Easter decoration in Waitrose

  23-02-2017 20:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Just like Christmas, Easter seems to come earlier every year
  
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• Massive iceberg 'twice size of WALES' poised to break off Antarctica and increase sea level

  23-02-2017 20:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The iceberg, known as Larsen C, is predicted to be one of the largest 10 break-offs ever recorded but it is not down to climate change, say experts
  
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• Britain's youngest EuroMillions winner misses flight home from partying in Tenerife after claiming £1m windfall 'ruined her life'

  23-02-2017 20:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jane Park, 21, was stranded on the Spanish island after getting "melted" celebrating her beloved football team Hibernian's win over Hearts in the Edinburgh derby
  
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• Tory ministers have rewritten the law to deny increased disability benefit payments to more than 150,000 people

  23-02-2017 20:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tribunals had said the DWP should expand the reach of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) - but the government warned this would cost it £3.7bn
  
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• Horror as school hall roof crashes in on class of children leaving girl with life threatening injuries

  23-02-2017 20:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Around 40 people are thought to have been in the sports hall when an 8ft by 5ft section of the ceiling collapsed at just after 3.30pm today, Thames Valley Police said
  
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• EastEnders writer hits back at racism slurs, claiming storylines reflect "very real" post-Brexit problems

  23-02-2017 20:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In Tuesday night's episode, Mick Carter, played by Danny Dyer, was seen cleaning graffiti, which said "Poles go home" off the doors of the Queen Vic pub
  
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• Files suggest Nazis tested a NUCLEAR BOMB before WW2 ended

  23-02-2017 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Recently declassified files from the National Archives in Washington show a detailed survey of how far Third Reich scientists got in the development of an atomic bomb - something Hitler craved.
  
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• Man swore, spat, and threw coffee over London Tube worker

  23-02-2017 20:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incident happened at Victoria Tube station in London around 2.20pm on February 6. The British Transport Police (BTP) have issued an appeal to trace the man.
  
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• Bees can teach others how to play FOOTBALL after tests saw them score 'goals' with tiny ball

  23-02-2017 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bees surprised scientists by working out how to use a novel tool to obtain a food reward simply by watching their neighbours
  
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• Powerful Storm Doris gales tear sheets of metal from apartment block roof and send them crashing into street

  23-02-2017 20:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Large strips of metal roofing flap in the devastating winds as a huge section ripped from the roof lays in the street below - dwarfing people and cars
  
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• North Korea denies Kim Jong-nam assassination - and claims it was a 'heart stroke'

  23-02-2017 20:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In their first official statement on the murder of leader Kim Jong un's brother, the communist state's media blamed Malaysia for his death
  
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• Anna Friel fights order to demolish extension at her £1m home near Windsor Castle after wrong materials used

  23-02-2017 19:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Brookside actress, who recently starred inhit detective drama Marcella, was told to tear down the new building and start again after planners found the bricks, roof tiles, mortar and render were not approved
  
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• Stonemason finds 150-year-old time capsule hidden in secret chamber inside slab - and discovers fascinating contents

  23-02-2017 19:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  James Whiting was sawing through a reclaimed slab of Hamstone when he came across the jar filled with items dating back 152 years - and they're now up for grabs
  
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