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• Ukip at war as Nigel Farage demands party's only MP Douglas Carswell be sacked

  27-02-2017 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nigel Farage was enraged by claims Douglas Carswell scuppered his dream of getting a knighthood
  
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• Sex worker who doesn't identify as man or woman gets sterilised to avoid 'passing on her condition' to children

  27-02-2017 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andie has revealed her thoughts on the ethics of the procedure while insisting her work makes the issue more of a risk
  
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• Food blogger Jack Monroe sues columnist Katie Hopkins for libel claiming 'serious harm' over tweets

  27-02-2017 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Monroe claims Hopkins "defamed" her on Twitter and wants damages
  
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• Dr Miriam Stoppard: Restoring breast sensation after surgery is the holy grail

  27-02-2017 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When a surgeon says your breasts will feel natural, they mean how well it will feel to someone else, not to you. The emphasis has been on how a woman looks, not how a woman feels
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn caught nodding off on the train twice

  27-02-2017 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was photographed snoozing on the train to Stoke where he spent four-and-a-half minutes congratulating his newly elected MP Gareth Snell on Friday.
  
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• England football star spared jail after breaking opponent's nose on the pitch during a clash

  27-02-2017 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Partially sighted futsal player John McDougall was given an 18 month probation order for attacking Sean Briscoe and punching him in the face
  
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• "She’s getting sacked in the morning!" Teachers filmed celebrating headteacher's dismissal - but council says she HASN'T been fired

  27-02-2017 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Staff chanted 'she’s getting sacked in the morning!' on Friday about Michelle Brindle, who the council said today remained in her post as they closed the school
  
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• Dozens of bikers confronted by undercover police in shock sting while they performed dangerous moves

  27-02-2017 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One policeman tried to run after the bikers - but was left in their dust moments after starting his dash
           
  
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• Calls for Oscars accountants PwC to be fired from film awards after Best Picture blunder

  27-02-2017 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After plunging Sunday night's ceremony into chaos, accountancy firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers have issued a grovelling apology - but some still want heads to roll
  
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• Uber passenger wakes up to £467 fare after being taken on 240-mile detour to south London via BRISTOL

  27-02-2017 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aaron Wray's 20-minute taxi ride from Brixton to Croydon turned into five hours and 20 minutes when the cab headed to Bristol instead
  
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• Childhood sweethearts fight for more time together after brain tumour shock just a year since reunion

  27-02-2017 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Chris McGregor, 30, was diagnosed a year after he was reunited with pre-school playmate
  
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• Driver who 'deliberately' crashed into five people bailed

  27-02-2017 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 23-year-old driver who 'deliberately smashed into five Romanian car wash workers' and was said to be drunk at the time has been released on bail pending further enquires.
  
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• Police divers searching for missing Bristol clubber find body in city's harbour

  27-02-2017 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  While formal identification is yet to take place, police believe the body belongs to missing 26-year-old Lewis Ball
  
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• Daughter pays tribute to murdered mum after they're both stabbed in horrific attack

  27-02-2017 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Beverley Robinson, 42, died in hospital yesterday having fought for life since the stabbing, which also left her 25-year-old daughter Nateesha Hudson injured
  
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• Elton John tribute act who stabbed parents during violent row over family home sentenced to five years

  27-02-2017 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark Ruck, 43, attacked his mum and dad after they refused to flog their semi-detached property so he could raise money to go on a paramedics course
  
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• Social media suicide game blamed after spate of teen deaths and '130 children taking their own lives in six months'

  27-02-2017 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two schoolgirls fell to their deaths from a 14 storey building and one was critically injured falling from a fifth floor window just days after a girl threw herself in front of a train
  
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• Explosion rocks Malmo as police seal off block of flats in troubled suburb of Swedish city

  27-02-2017 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It comes as Sweden remains in the spotlight for the conditions experience by recent immigrants in its suburbs
  
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• "Fiercely loyal dad who developed depression after losing mum to heart disease" found hanged at hotel

  27-02-2017 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Allan Michael Worrall's family said they "regret the things we didn’t do” and have urged others battling depression to get help
  
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• Is this the key to finding the missing Moors victim?

  27-02-2017 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Callous killer Ian Brady (pictured) has hinted that a shotgun (pictured) found on Saddleworth Moor, might be his, raising hopes of finding the remains of victim Keith Bennett (pictured).
  
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• Boy loses big toe while wearing Crocs on an escalator

  27-02-2017 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stanley Wood, 5, was on a holiday break in Dubai with his family when his big toe was mangled after he became trapped in the side of an escalator while wearing plastic Crocs.
  
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• Two men murdered following string of failings by private probation firms monitoring their killers

  27-02-2017 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The mothers of Conner Marshall, 18, and Tanis Bhandari, 27, are now calling for grieving relatives to be given more information if mistakes are made by probation
  
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• Chocolate lovers are only just realising why Kinder Surprise toy cases are yellow and it's blowing their minds

  27-02-2017 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's actually really obvious when you think about it
  
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• Biker killed after bus driver turned right without looking

  27-02-2017 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Darren Churchill, 21, from Kent (pictured) was thrown from his motorbike and killed when bus driver Hussein Al-Shabib, 56, turned right without looking on the A30. Al-Shabib went on trial today.
  
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• Dear Coleen: Our marriage is suffering now we have young kids

  27-02-2017 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  I assumed things would settle down, but we just gripe at each other all the time
  
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• Couple lose £70,000 fight to keep their pet dog in their £1million penthouse flat

  27-02-2017 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gabby and Florian Kuehn pent 15 months fighting to keep their pooch Vinnie in the apartment - but now they have 28 days to get him out
  
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• ISIS dumps 4,000 corpses in giant sinkhole after driving bus loads of victims into desert and shooting them

  27-02-2017 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Locals have revealed how convoys of buses full of "ISIS enemies" were driven into the desert before being executed and tossed in the pit
  
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• Bring back Nigel Farage and make me Ukip chairman, donor tells Paul Nuttall

  27-02-2017 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Leave.EU chief threatened to pull his millions in donations from the party unless they made him Chairman
  
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• Four-letter outbursts, gallows humour and anger at Shami Chakrabarti's absence - inside the Parliamentary Labour Party meeting

  27-02-2017 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Going on the telly to say your party has neglected heartland voters then skipping the official debrief really is poor form
  
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• Al-Qaeda's second in command killed in US drone strike

  27-02-2017 21:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A senior al-Qaeda leader, Abdullah Muhammad Rajab Abdulrahman, is thought to have been killed by a US drone strike in Syria's Idlib province.
  
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• Have they found Moors Murderer’s shotgun? Ian Brady claims buried gun was from his secret arsenal

  27-02-2017 21:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a letter to a journalist Brady said he had two shotguns, two revolvers, two rifles, and an automatic, "strategically placed" and boasted police only found "the revolvers and one rifle”
  
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• Black Trump supporter launches foul-mouthed rant about 'A-rabs' claiming Muslims in US get better treated than African Americans

  27-02-2017 20:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: The raging man claims that while Muslims 'can be all covered up' if a black man walks down the street in a hoodie 'you shoot him.'
  
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• Top Theresa May advisor quits after being accused of 'mansplaining' to the Prime Minister

  27-02-2017 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Old Etonian Sir Mark Lyall Grant is also said to have irritated Donald Trump with is high-handed style
  
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• John Major's incendiary speech branding Brexit a 'historic mistake' in full

  27-02-2017 20:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Prime Minister has torn strips off Theresa May in a speech to Chatham House. Here it is in full
  
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• Baby boy died after nanny 'lost temper and shook him'

  27-02-2017 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Viktoria Tautz, 34, is on trial for manslaughter at Blackfriars Crown Court in London after she was accused of causing the death of Joshua Paul, 10 months, by shaking him.
  
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• Dad's horror as baby daughter 'turns blue and almost chokes to death on Tommee Tippee dummy'

  27-02-2017 20:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Earl Wilson revealed his concerns to friends on Facebook after buying the dummy from a B&M store for his 18-month-old daughter
  
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• Kate Middleton sparkles at joint appearance with the Queen and William at palace reception to celebrate India

  27-02-2017 20:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Greeting those invited to Buckingham Palace was a peacock - the national bird of India - projected on to the facade of the famous London landmark
  
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• Stately home trust fined £266,000 after butler crushed to death in lift horror

  27-02-2017 20:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Arthur Mellar, 48, died while attempting to free a stuck item of luggage at Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, in July 2014
  
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• CCTV shows fake £185,000 heist at post office as postmaster found guilty of being 'inside man'

  27-02-2017 20:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mohammed Iqbal, 33, collected the robbers hours earlier and hid them in the post office garage with police discovering he had been talking to one of them on his phone in the run up to the raid
  
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• Rugby club tells woman 'pipe down sweetheart' after she complains about boyfriend's jaw being broken during match fight

  27-02-2017 20:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emmerson Whittel was left with fragments of tooth lodged in his cheek and will be unable to eat for weeks after violence erupted during a Challenge Cup game 
  
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• Top NHS chief Simon Stevens asked: 'Are we on dope?' by Tory MP

  27-02-2017 20:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens was being grilled by MPs over ambitious plans to integrate health and social care
  
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• Judge convicts the three men on trial HIMSELF 

  27-02-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mr Justice Goss used a rare legal power to convict three men himself at Leeds Crown Court after he discharged the jury when attempts were made to bribe its members.
  
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• ISIS using 'increasingly unconventional' weapons as footage shows drones dropping grenades on army forces

  27-02-2017 19:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After reports of ISIS fighters strapping a bomb to a terrified puppy,
  
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• Troubled primary school closed after NINE HUNDRED angry parents sign petition demanding the headmistress be fired

  27-02-2017 19:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michelle Brindle, 39, was criticised after four governors resigned and up to 19 out of 21 teachers walked out on strike in a row centred on her leadership
  
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• Huge rat filmed running rings around KFC staff who stamp on it after it leaps into diner's lap

  27-02-2017 19:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE The rodent caused a commotion at a branch of the fast-food chain in Reading after leaping into a customer's lap as she ate her foods
  
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• Spain appoints SEX TSAR to encourage couples to have more nookie to boost country's 'catastrophically' low birth rate

  27-02-2017 19:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Faced with an impending population crisis, the government has tasked senator Edelmira Barreira with sorting out the problem
  
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• Waterstones under fire for opening stores on the high street disguised as independent book shops

  27-02-2017 19:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The retail giant's boss James Daunt defended the move, saying he wanted the chain to have bookshops with their own unique feel
  
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• Man accused of killing doorman 'told aunt "I think I've killed someone" after stabbing victim in cigarette row'

  27-02-2017 19:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Leighton Holt allegedly stabbed Daniel Fox after one of the victim's friends refused to share a cigarette, a court heard
  
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• Young woman found dead in a garden after a frantic two-week search by relatives 'had taken prescription drugs'

  27-02-2017 19:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some 250 people were involved in searches for Melanie Wilson after a a missing persons group made an appeal for help
  
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• Bayonet wielding teenager who wrote kill list avoids jail

  27-02-2017 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jack Haddon, 19, who took a 2ft-long bayonet into his school in Rugby (inset) with the intention of hurting other students - even writing a list of names of those he wanted to kill - has avoided jail.
  
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• Schools funding crisis deepens as head teachers launch desperate cash plea to government

  27-02-2017 19:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Heads and governers say they are running out of things to cut and are being 'forced to make impossible choices' due to funding shortfalls
  
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