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'Sextortion' gangs blackmail 30 teenagers a day by luring them into webcam sex acts using fake women's profiles

05-03-2017 23:49 via mirror.co.uk

'Sextortion' suicide scandal as four victims are believed to have killed themselves after being tricked into performing online sex acts

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Mother calls conditions in military home a 'disgrace'

05-03-2017 23:41 via dailymail.co.uk

The mother, who lives on a base in the south west of England, has claimed her family home was left covered in 'animal waste' and mould but contractor CarillionAmey said her case was not a ‘priority’.

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'Snitches get stitches': How police investigations are being hampered by vow not to 'grass'

05-03-2017 23:37 via mirror.co.uk

The phrase has seeped into common usage, muttered on street corners and threatened in glaring social media posts

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tyrone Mings wait on referee’s report to FA

05-03-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com

• Players could face bans after clashes in Bournemouth’s visit to Old Trafford
• Charges likely to follow if referee Kevin Friend says he did not see incidentsZlatan Ibrahimovic and Tyrone Mings can expect to discover on Monday whether they will be charged with violent conduct by the Football Association, with the Bournemouth defender at risk of a lengthier ban.The Manchester United top scorer faces the prospect of a three-match domestic suspension, which would have been his sanc

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Marie Stopes abortions signed off after just a phonecall

05-03-2017 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk

A Mail probe into the practices at the Marie Stopes chain has revealeddoctors are approving thousands of abortions without meeting patients and after discussions that can last just 22 seconds.

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Crystal Palace and Sam Allardyce see best of Liverpool reject Mamadou Sakho

05-03-2017 23:29 via theguardian.com

• Defender impressed in Palace’s 2-0 win at West Bromwich Albion
• Allardyce says he has been ‘exceptionally good’ in early games for Palace“I mean, he’s a flamboyant character. You can see it from his hair alone.” Sam Allardyce was back in wisecracking mode after his side’s impressive away win at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. The subject of his affectionate mockery was the strapping 6ft defender with a lemon squiggle on his head, Mamadou S

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Trump 'wiretap': White House wants investigation but Clapper denies order

05-03-2017 23:28 via theguardian.com

Sean Spicer asks ‘whether executive powers were abused in 2016’Ex-DNI says no order in his tenure; FBI chief reportedly rejects claim
The White House has asked Congress to investigate Donald Trump’s allegation, presented without evidence, that Barack Obama ordered illegal wiretapping of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election. Related: Out of control? Or is Trump's tweeting designed to distract?Continue reading...

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Farmer shot dead two women months after cops gave him back his guns... to shoot foxes

05-03-2017 23:27 via mirror.co.uk

John Lowe had seven firearms seized after he was accused of threats to kill but they were handed back and he went on to murder his partner Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy

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Relegate half the Premier League? It’s excessive … but not without merit | Simon Burnton

05-03-2017 23:26 via theguardian.com

Worried Premier League clubs could do worse than adopt Herbert Chapman’s 1926 suggestion to scrap transfers once the season starts – and to relegate half the divisionTen days ago Leicester City, fuelled by their sheer terror of the implications of the relegation they appeared to be hurtling towards, sacked the man who had led them to the greatest moment in their history nine months previously. As of the start of this weekend none of the top 14 clubs in the Premier League had changed

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Cycling drug inquiry will switch focus to painkiller tramadol

05-03-2017 23:21 via theguardian.com

Questions for Team Sky and British Cycling as the substance, which can enhance performance, is likely to draw the attention of the MPs committeeWhile the focus last week was on the corticosteroid triamcinolone, the legal painkiller tramadol is likely to draw the attention of the group of MPs looking into doping in sport, the Guardian has learned. “There are a number of lines of inquiry that remain open and tramadol is one of them,” said Damian Collins, chairman of the House of Common

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Teenage girl with Crohn's disease reveals how she had courage to have colostomy bag fitted

05-03-2017 23:05 via mirror.co.uk

Brave Paige Dease has told how a trip to Florida with other youngsters suffering from the disease helped her to make the decision

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SS-GB recap: episode three – no more Mr Nazi Nice Guy

05-03-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com

With bomb blasts, cigarettes laced with cyanide and death by live rail, it was the most electrifying episode yet. The resistance are on the rampage – and the fallout for Brits will be most unpleasant
“You operate in a very strange world,” Superintendent Archer says to the mysterious Colonel Mayhew in the third episode of SS-GB. Since Archer has just come across Mayhew, who we assume is a big cheese in the British resistance, consorting with senior officers at German army HQ, it

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Vladimir Putin's rags to riches story: How a thug from the slums became Russia's most powerful man

05-03-2017 22:58 via mirror.co.uk

The Russian president grew up in a bedsit on the 'brutal', rat infested streets St Petersburg, then called Leningrad, and it's believed this is where he got his ruthless streak

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Teenage girl dies after collapsing in shopping centre as police treat death as 'unexplained'

05-03-2017 22:46 via mirror.co.uk

The girl collapsed at the Southgate Shopping Centre in Bath, Somerset, at around 3pm today

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Philip Hammond's budget will not fix this economic con by the Tories

05-03-2017 22:41 via mirror.co.uk

Damaging Conservative austerity was a political choice, not a financial necessity and this programme is continuing, extending and deepening

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Is this the world's youngest snake catcher? Two-year-old boy tames deadly creatures in heart-stopping footage

05-03-2017 22:39 via mirror.co.uk

Jensen Harrison caught his first reptile aged just two, with the help of both his parents who happen to be snake catchers

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Hidden crystals offer clue to a geological riddle

05-03-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com

A South African scientist believes that zircons found on Mauritius may be the remants of a buried continental fragmentOceanic crust lives fast and dies young, usually being dragged down a subduction zone after 250m years or so. By contrast, continental crust lives to a ripe old age, with some of the oldest continental crust on Earth – dating to 4bn years – found in Canada and Greenland. But geologists have long been puzzled as to why there isn’t more continental crust bobbing a

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Joe Root and Chris Woakes save England to seal series win over West Indies

05-03-2017 22:27 via theguardian.com

• West Indies 225, England 226-6; England won by four wickets
• Pair shared stand of 102 after England stumbled to 124 for sixIt required an unbroken 102-run seventh-wicket partnership from Joe Root and Chris Woakes to rescue England from a dramatic middle order collapse in Antigua and clinch their one-day series against West Indies with a match to spare.Eoin Morgan’s side had come to the Caribbean looking for a stiff workout ahead of June’s Champions Trophy and after Frida

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Family defy the odds when three generations were all born on exactly the same day

05-03-2017 22:11 via mirror.co.uk

Dana Turnbull became the third generation in a row to be born on January 18, sharing a birthday with her mum Joy Spowart, 21, and grandmother Judie Spowart, 51

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Nike accused of hindering Usada’s Alberto Salazar doping investigation

05-03-2017 22:03 via theguardian.com

• Sportswear giant reportedly made ‘unreasonable demands’ for confidentiality
• Nike rejects accusation and says it sent thousands of documents to UsadaThe sportswear giant Nike was accused of hindering a doping investigation into the elite training group run by Mo Farah’s coach Alberto Salazar according to fresh revelations from a leaked United States Anti-Doping Agency interim report, it has been claimed.According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, two of the Nike

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Pointless GP appointments costing the NHS £306million a year are blamed on admin staff cuts

05-03-2017 22:02 via mirror.co.uk

The 'boomerang' appointments are being made to obtain routine medicine or book follow-up hospital visits, which could be done on wards

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Arsène Wenger’s direct gamble backfires in Alexis Sánchez’s absence | Michael Cox

05-03-2017 22:02 via theguardian.com

The Arsenal manager shunned his usual approach against Liverpool to counter Jürgen Klopp’s pressing tactics but Sánchez’s pace could have been valuableIf this proves to be Arsène Wenger’s final season as Arsenal manager, the 3-1 defeat against Liverpool may be remembered as his most damaging loss. It would be a peculiarly unfitting finale, as the focus here was almost entirely upon Wenger’s shock decision to omit Alexis Sánchez, the Premier Leagu

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Teenage girl collapses and dies at shopping centre in Bath

05-03-2017 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk

Emergency services were called to Southgate shopping centre in Bath just before 3pm on Sunday afternoon. They said her death was 'unexplained' but is thought to be related to a medical condition.

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Top Gear review – sorry Matt LeBlanc, there’s just too much baggage in the trunk

05-03-2017 22:00 via theguardian.com

Chris Evans may have sped off into the sunset, but this latest revamp is still trying too hard to make us forget Clarkson, May and HammondIn an interview in the current Radio Times, Matt LeBlanc is asked what he would want people to say about the new series of Top Gear (BBC2, Sunday). He says he would like people to watch with an open mind and “just give it a chance”. I’m going to try to do that, Matt. Forget about the fiasco of the last series, with Chris Evans. Plus you-know-

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Floyd Mayweather’s UK tour hit by arson attack as boxing champ's car is torched while he meets fans

05-03-2017 21:51 via mirror.co.uk

Pictures circulating on social media showed one of his entourage's vans up in flames outside the International Convention Centre

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New £500m plan for 'T-level' technical training that will be equal to academic qualifications

05-03-2017 21:48 via mirror.co.uk

Philip Hammond will unveil new system, which will cost more than £500 million a year, in his Budget on Wednesday

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Multi-billion pound plan to put technical training on a par with academic qualifications

05-03-2017 21:48 via mirror.co.uk

Philip Hammond will unveil new system, which will cost more than £500 million a year, in his Budget on Wednesday

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Jeremy Corbyn publishes tax return, revealing total income of £114,342

05-03-2017 21:44 via theguardian.com

Labour leader publishes summary to website on the same day chancellor Philip Hammond said he has ‘no intention’ of revealing his tax returnsJeremy Corbyn has published details of his tax return, hours after the chancellor, Philip Hammond, said he would not be releasing his. The Labour leader revealed that his total income for 2015-16 was £114,342 and that he paid £35,298 in tax, according to a tax summary published on his website. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, ha

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White House asks Congress to look into wire-tapping claims

05-03-2017 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk

The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says his panel will probe President Donald Trump's allegations that Trump Tower was wire-tapped by President Obama.

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Teen 'vampire' killer said going to prison was 'the most exciting thing to have ever happened to him'

05-03-2017 21:41 via mirror.co.uk

Psychiatric nurse Chris Kinealy says she actually liked Mathew Hardman "as crazy as that may sound to most people"

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Emma Watson 'stunned' by criticism that Vanity Fair cover is not feminist

05-03-2017 21:40 via theguardian.com

The Beauty and the Beast actor said those who attack photo that shows parts of her breasts do not understand that ‘feminism is about giving women choice’
The actor Emma Watson has hit back at critics who say she has betrayed her feminist ideals by posing for a revealing picture in Vanity Fair magazine, in which parts of her breasts were exposed. Related: Emma Watson: the feminist and the fairytaleContinue reading...

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Kingfisher's magnificent fishing dive caught in perfectly timed snaps taken in Scotland

05-03-2017 21:39 via mirror.co.uk

Photographer Roger Coan got the shots during one of his long shoots, which can last from four in the morning until ten at night

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Philip Hammond vows the UK will 'fight back' if EU blocks Brexit trade deal

05-03-2017 21:38 via mirror.co.uk

The Chancellor said Britain would not “slink away into a corner” if our demands for market access were not met

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Listen to North Korea's chilling coded messages

05-03-2017 21:27 via dailymail.co.uk

The coded broadcast recited numbers, which it is believed could be used by North Korean spies in South Korea to translate into orders amid high tension between the warring nations.

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Woman, 88, avoids rape from home invader after telling attacker she has HIV

05-03-2017 21:23 via mirror.co.uk

Helen Reynolds said of the reason given during the terrifying home invasion: "That's the comment that saved my life"

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Horrifying footage of 'Spice' drug turning homeless people in UK city into 'the walking dead'

05-03-2017 21:10 via mirror.co.uk

The drug is dubbed 'fake weed' and has been leaving users in Manchester standing like statues

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Huge fire breaks out near Rangers FC stadium at Ibrox

05-03-2017 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk

Pictures posted from the scene in Glasgow's Ibrox area showed a plume of dark smoke billowing into the sky. Locals described seeing a 'mushroom cloud' towering over the city.

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Terrified Mosul residents forced to strip at gunpoint to prove they aren't carrying explosives as they flee fighting

05-03-2017 21:00 via mirror.co.uk

206,000 people have fled the fighting between US-backed Iraqi forces and ISIS militants since the start of the offensive in October – and as many as 15,000 children in the last few days alone

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Leaving the EU is the start of a liberal insurgency | Douglas Carswell

05-03-2017 20:44 via theguardian.com

Brexit isn’t like Trump’s election. It’s Britain’s safety valve against angry, radical populismWhat is Nigel Farage so cross about? We won the EU referendum, for goodness sake. Since 23 June, I’ve been walking on sunshine. My mood has been a state of Zen-like bliss. Related: Nigel Farage: Carswell 'stopping Ukip becoming radical anti-immigration party'Continue reading...

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Harry Kane finds pocket of calm amid Spurs’ high energy against Everton | Barney Ronay

05-03-2017 20:44 via theguardian.com

Striker is now Premier League’s outright top scorer and his brace – alongside his workrate – against Ronald Koeman’s attritional team showed whyTwo minutes into the second half of this tight, bruising, full-body collision of a football match the poor old beleaguered orange ball spun out of a tackle and into a pocket of space between Ben Davies and Séamus Coleman. Both players reacted instantly, flying into that square of green and producing a startling thud, the so

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Alexis Sánchez dropped at Liverpool after storming out of Arsenal training

05-03-2017 20:41 via theguardian.com

• Forward had angry words with players in dressing room during training
• Sánchez was controversially dropped for Arsenal’s defeat at LiverpoolAlexis Sánchez stormed out of an Arsenal training session last week and was involved in a dressing-room slanging match with some of his team-mates – which was, seemingly, part of the reason why Arsène Wenger dropped him from the starting XI at Liverpool on Saturday.The Chile forward, who is Arsenal’s undoub

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Astonishing aerial pictures reveal shocking extent of one of Britain's biggest fly-tipping sites

05-03-2017 20:32 via mirror.co.uk

The extent of the mountains of rubbish in Newport, Wales have been highlighted in overhead pictures

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Dead baby found in park was a newborn - and a fire had been started nearby

05-03-2017 20:31 via mirror.co.uk

Remnants of a small fire have also been found at the scene after it was believed to have been started up to 3 hours before the baby was discovered

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Roger Stone claims he has 'perfectly legal back channel' to Julian Assange

05-03-2017 20:29 via theguardian.com

The former political adviser to Trump, with whom he maintains close ties, later deleted tweet that was part of series of profane challenges to president’s criticsRoger Stone, a former adviser to Donald Trump, wrote on Saturday night that he has a “perfectly legal back channel” to Julian Assange, whose organization WikiLeaks published emails related to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign that intelligence agencies say were hacked by Russian intelligence. Stone then del

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Prince Harry sends tray of drinks flying as he moonwalks at Jamaica wedding reception

05-03-2017 20:21 via mirror.co.uk

The royal was trying out his moonwalk moves to Michael Jackson's Billie Jean when he sent the tray of drinks flying across the dance floor

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Labour MPs hit out at suggestions they want to replace Jeremy Corbyn

05-03-2017 20:19 via theguardian.com

Rebecca Long-Bailey says it is fake news to link her to the leadership while Clive Lewis is ‘annoyed’ by intimation over his plansMPs seen as possible successors to Jeremy Corbyn have criticised suggestions that they want to replace the Labour leader.Clive Lewis said he was annoyed by the suggestion, while his replacement as shadow business secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, also hit out on Sunday at reports linking her with the leadership, calling them fake news. Continue reading...

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Brutal 20-man brawl erupts at MMA fight

05-03-2017 20:18 via dailymail.co.uk

Two men were left in hospital after a savage 20-man brawl at a mixed martial arts event in Liverpool, with footage showing a spectator lying on the floor as he is kicked in the head.

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The Guardian view on the Northern Ireland assembly election: a warning to Brexit Britain | Editorial

05-03-2017 20:13 via theguardian.com

The usual parties finished in the usual order in the 2 March election. But Arlene Foster’s obduracy and the UK’s vote to leave the EU threaten a period of fresh instabilityOn the surface, the results of the 2017 Northern Ireland assembly elections look very familiar. The largest unionist party, the DUP, has again come first in Thursday’s voting, as it has done in all five assembly elections of the 21st century. The largest nationalist party, Sinn Féin, has come second, a

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The Guardian view on North Korea: Pyongyang’s advantage | Editorial

05-03-2017 20:13 via theguardian.com

While Kim Jong-un’s regime has hacked other countries, US attempts to damage his nuclear programme face tough challengesThat the United States has been working to hobble North Korea’s missile programme through cyber and electronic strikes is important, but not especially surprising. Pyongyang’s technological advances, if not yet as impressive as it claims, are real and alarming. Sanctions have had limited impact. Intelligence on the country is so inadequate, and its technology

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Army veteran Tristan Voorspuy shot dead on ranch in Kenya

05-03-2017 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk

Father-of-two Tristan Voorspuy was shot dead in Laikipia in Kenya after going to inspect a friend's home that had been burnt down. Farm staff lost contact with him and he was found dead.

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