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• US and British Marines mass near Russian border in warfare exercise as tensions with Moscow mount

  06-03-2017 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Exercise Joint Viking is aimed at simulating combat in frigid conditions to practise crisis management and the defence of Norway
  
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• Turkish President Erdogan vows to 'make the world rise up'

  06-03-2017 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Angela Merkel has sought to calm an escalating row with Turkey, a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan labelled a German ban on rallies by his ministers 'Nazi practices'.
  
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• Redcar abductee screamed for help before forced into car

  06-03-2017 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The woman, in her 30s, was raped by two men in a 'horrendous ordeal' which began in Redcar on Friday just yards from the beach where people would have been walking their dogs.
  
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• Tragic cyclist breaks his leg while riding his bike and dies four days later

  06-03-2017 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Richard Jennings's treatment for a broken leg turned into a desperate fight for his life after tragic health complications
  
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• Woman's shopping trip turns into nightmare when chunk of flesh gets ripped from leg in freak escalator accident

  06-03-2017 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A piece of metal was said to have sliced into the woman's leg while she was using the shopping mall escalator
  
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• William Hague urges Tories to force an early election while Jeremy Corbyn faces grim new poll

  06-03-2017 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The peer urged Theresa May to force a vote, hours after a poll found the Labour leader's popularity has sunk among his own members
  
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• Travellers take over grounds of a Solihull Virgin gym

  06-03-2017 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Around six caravans pitched up on private land near the upmarket gym and spa in Blythe Park, Shirley, near Solihull, West Midlands, on Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Manchester United star Marcus Rojo's cousin shot dead

  06-03-2017 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Geronimo Rojo, 17, died in hospital during the early hours of Monday morning after the incident in La Plata, Argentina. An accomplice also lost his life.
  
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• Retired north London accountant wins £457,000 on 20p bet

  06-03-2017 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The life-long racing fan from north London, took home his huge win after placing £2 worth of 10p each way bets on accumulators over seven horses at Lingfield, Doncaster and Newbury.
  
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• Families of 193 Zeebrugge ferry victims gather to remember loved ones 30 years after disaster

  06-03-2017 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in just 90 seconds after setting sail from Zeebrugge harbour, Belgium, on Friday March 6, 1987 bound for Dover
  
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• Bank note stolen from a museum in the 1980s is sent back

  06-03-2017 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The antique bank note was sent to the Padstow Museum in Cornwall from St Lucia, over 30 years after it was stolen, alongside a book about the museum and with no return address.
  
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• Kenyan poachers kill rare giant elephant in Tsavo Park

  06-03-2017 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Satao II, named after another giant killed in 2014, was found dead in Tsavo National Park. The huge animals are so called due to their tusks, which are so long they nearly scrape the ground.
  
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• Knife-wielding prisoner dressed as Rambo threatens to 'SKIN' two Asian inmates screaming "you're f***ing ISIS aren't you?!"

  06-03-2017 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footage was shot last month at Salford’s privately-run Forest Bank prison, which has now launched an investigation into the incident
  
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• Leading horsewoman is crushed to death by her own horse

  06-03-2017 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sue Webb, 64, of East Sussex, was riding with the Mid Surrey Farmers Draghounds when she was thrown from her saddle at a jump and her mount landed on top of her over the weekend.
  
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• Pensioner spent 11 hours on floor before shop keeper came to help because she hadn't picked up newspaper

  06-03-2017 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ali Aktar became concerned about the 86-year-old woman's well-being when she failed to show up to buy her daily newspaper
  
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• Tory Home Secretary signals Theresa May's flagship anti-terror law could be ditched

  06-03-2017 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Asked if we are "still going to have" the Counter Extremism Bill, Home Secretary Amber Rudd replied: "I can’t give complete confirmation"
  
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• Terrified toddler runs away screaming from her OWN SHADOW after realising it was following her

  06-03-2017 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The adorable footage has been shared all over social media and is trending on Reddit
  
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• Corrie McKeague's dad says he's "haunted" by the thought of his son being crushed in a bin lorry

  06-03-2017 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A specialist teams started to hunt for the missing RAF gunner's body in a landfill site five months after he disappeared, leading some to criticise the 'delay'
  
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• Trump's housing secretary Ben Carson sparks fury after calling African American slaves 'immigrants at the bottom of ships'

  06-03-2017 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Critics including actor Samuel L Jackson and the NAACP have slammed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson for the remark
  
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• Tesco shoppers fight over REDUCED priced items

  06-03-2017 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The astonishing video, filmed in New Malden, London, was uploaded to Twitter yesterday. The clip shows a throng of bargain hunters lunging over each other.
  
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• Tory plan to axe housing benefit for under-22s 'could force thousands onto the streets'

  06-03-2017 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Centrepoint blasted a law - slipped out on Friday when MPs weren't in Parliament - to end payments for jobseekers aged 18 to 21
  
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• Pregnant mum sobs for joy after seeing 'dead grandmother's face' in baby scan

  06-03-2017 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Louise Corkill said she now knows her grandmother is looking after her baby from the spiritual world
  
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• Tesco superstore filled with shoppers evacuated after man found dead in customer toilet

  06-03-2017 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A shopper who was inside the store when it was evacuated said an announcement was made over the Tannoy and there was "a big circle" of Tesco staff, police and paramedics around the public toilet area
  
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• Cigarettes sold for £20 EACH in prisons where smoking has been banned

  06-03-2017 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Inmates and visitors have revealed that the ban has created a lucrative black market like those in contraband drugs, phones, alcohol and porn
  
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• Young woman joins 'booty flip challenge' viral craze by flipping pen into bin with just her bum

  06-03-2017 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The #bootyflipchallenge clip has been retweeted 87,000 times and liked 127,000 times in just three days
  
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• MP backs call to keep porn helpline open after we reveal Brits are blackmailed by cyber sex criminals

  06-03-2017 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror yesterday revealed the final moments of one tragic British teen believed to have taken his own life after being tricked into performing an online sex act by a blackmailer
  
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• Hampshire woman 'dangled baby out of flat window'

  06-03-2017 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jade Vokes-McLean, 20, from Fleet in Hampshire, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court (pictured) accused of child cruelty.
  
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• Top secret nuclear submarine plans found in charity shop

  06-03-2017 21:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The documents on the now-decommissioned HMS Trafalgar were uncovered by shocked staff following an anonymous donation made at the store.
  
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• Brothers killed electrician who tried to stop them beating up his friend over 'gay' comment

  06-03-2017 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim Ian O'Mahoney died as a result of a brain hemorrhage after suffering a 6" skull fracture
  
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• Manchester builder wins £15,000 after using a FREE £10 bet

  06-03-2017 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lucky builder Danny Murphy from Manchester won the huge payout after correctly predicting the results in three Premiership matches and two Championship games.
  
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• Mum gets fake paedophiles to attack young son to teach him chilling lesson

  06-03-2017 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 12-year-old boy exchanged messages with a "teenage girl" he met on Facebook, but when he showed up at her home he was cornered by two shirtless men posing as sexual predators
  
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• Student begged to launch ISIS suicide attack in the UK

  06-03-2017 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mubashir Jamil, 22, from Luton, allegedly offered to put on a suicide vest and 'press the button on the same day', before his arrest in April last year, the Old Bailey heard.
  
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• Passenger jet forced to divert because of 'extremely pungent' smell coming from toilet

  06-03-2017 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Passengers noticed the foul odour just a few minutes into the flight and it got so bad that the pilots - who were also overcome by the smell - decided to land at the nearest airport
  
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• Bikini model who gained three stone because of brain tumour speaks of her shocking degeneration in under a year

  06-03-2017 21:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Vicki Perez's face began to bloat and her feet swelled so large she had to wear men's shoes
  
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• Vauxhall workers fear for their jobs as PSA strikes £1.9billion takeover deal

  06-03-2017 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  PSA chief executive Carlos Tavares has hinted that the futures of all its 24 factories rely on 'performance', but that the company's plans were 'not based on job cuts'
  
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• Inside Vladimir Putin's new Russia, where corrupt tycoons plunder billions while 19.2 million live in poverty

  06-03-2017 20:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Beggars on the street are commonplace and in Moscow alone 90,000 women have turned to prostitution to afford food
  
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• Britain will need 'many more allotments' to grow food after Brexit, Labour peer warns

  06-03-2017 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Baroness Andrews warned that leaving the EU meant the UK would need to “grow a lot more of our own food”
  
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• Pablo Escobar's son condemns Netflix's Narcos

  06-03-2017 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The son of drug lord Pablo Escobar, Sebastian Marroquin has slammed the Netflix show Narcos for glorifying his father's exploits. He said that children were idolizing the former cocaine baron.
  
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• Parents whose toddler weed on TV visited by authorities

  06-03-2017 20:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Matt and Adele Allen, from Brighton, shocked the nation with their hands-off approach to parenting their children Ulysses and Ostara, then aged 5 and 1,during an appearance on This Morning (pictured).
  
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• MP tells how 17-year-old daughter fractured her foot after being forced to wear heels at work

  06-03-2017 20:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gill Furniss told a debate her daughter Emily spent a month off work yet was denied sick pay or compensation, "quite literally adding insult to injury"
  
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• Pascal Troadec's brother-in-law 'admits to killing family'

  06-03-2017 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hubert Caouissin, 46, has confessed to the murder of Pascal Troadec and his wife Brigitte, both 49, and their 21-year-old son Sebastien and daughter Charlotte, 18. The family vanished from Nantes.
  
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• Terrified family flee their home after thieves trigger massive gas blast while burgling garden shed

  06-03-2017 20:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Hannah Brambridge and her fiancé Dan Cain were inside with two young children when the main gas pipe exploded
  
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• Horrifying footage shows man brutally headbutted to the floor in the middle of busy fast-food restaurant

  06-03-2017 20:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Diners watched on in horror as the violence escalated into a savage brawl
  
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• Woman befriends man who stabbed her in the face and murdered best friend after finding him on Google

  06-03-2017 20:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lynette Grace, 56, says she has forgiven killer Johnny Bell and has called for his release from prison in spite of his horrific knife attack
  
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• Driver dubs BMW 'Christine' after it causes fire by itself

  06-03-2017 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The BMW 3 series belonging to George Day, from Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, started by itself and crashed into the next-door home, setting the kitchen ablaze.
  
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• Queen's Sapphire Jubilee should be celebrated says Tory MP

  06-03-2017 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell has called for a public holiday to mark the Queen's Sapphire Jubilee. The Queen celebrated 65 years on the throne this year with Mr Rosindell calling for a celebration.
  
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• Woman has FIVE boob-jobs after husband complains she 'looks like man' - and she's left with shocking scars

  06-03-2017 19:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: Janey Byrne, 48, got her first boob job in 2004, after her husband Dave, also 48, joked that her 36AA boobs made her look like a man
  
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• Redcar rape: Both men carried out "serious and horrific" rape on mother after she and toddler were abducted

  06-03-2017 19:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman, who is in her 30s, was held for up to seven hours after she and her child were snatched from the beach front in Redcar
  
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• Hospital bosses use metal detectors to find swallowed coins and save children from X-rays

  06-03-2017 19:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kids are being spared the exposure to radiation as well as the stress of the procedure in favour of handheld detectors, which also save the NHS money
  
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• Van carrying thousands of counterfeit cigarettes flips

  06-03-2017 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The crook was driving on the M6 motorway southbound in Leicestershire, on Monday when his van crashed, sending thousands of counterfeit cigarettes flying across a field.
  
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