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• Mum whose fiancé died in Shoreham air disaster in court

  07-03-2017 23:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Giovanna Chirico, 34, appeared at Lewes Crown Court in East Sussex charged with dealing amphetamines after she was arrested when police found class B drugs during a raid at her home.
  
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• Nestle is slashing sugar by 10% in its chocolates - but they say it won't change the taste

  07-03-2017 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The chocolate manufacturer claims it has developed a technique to reduce sugar without cutting the size of the bar
  
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• Heavily pregnant woman feared for unborn child after gorilla 'threw block of wood at her head' in zoo

  07-03-2017 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sylvia Cressy, 34, claimed she blanked out after the object was allegedly launched at her, causing her to fall on her belly
  
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• Thief stole nurse's car after swiping handbag and keys from room where she treated him for burns

  07-03-2017 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experienced practice nurse Cheryl Lewis-Thomas revealed she no longer felt safe at work or travelling in her car, as thief Craig Knapp was jailed for 44 weeks
  
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• Father relives night 'axe-wielding crooks held knife to wife's throat and punched daughter, eight, in the head'

  07-03-2017 23:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One of the thugs repeatedly punched Stephen Hughes' eight-year-old daughter Olivia in the head during the break-in
  
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• Pedestrian in Bolton cheats death by INCHES as car crashes

  07-03-2017 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A pedestrian was crossing the street in Bolton, Manchester, when a black Audi S3 racing another driver in a blue Audi S3 crashed through the intersection on Bridgeman Place on August 7, 2016.
  
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• Fans wonder if Alexis Sanchez was LAUGHING on the bench during Arsenal's hammering by Bayern Munich

  07-03-2017 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chilean was snapped having a little smirk to himself as the Gunners were battered by the Bavarians, but was he having a laugh at his own team's expense?
  
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• Budget 2017: Hammond's 'upbeat' message over Brexit future

  07-03-2017 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Philip Hammond to say economy remains resilient but many families are "feeling the pinch".
  
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• Ex-Panama ruler General Noriega suffers brain haemorrhage

  07-03-2017 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manuel Noriega, Panama's former military ruler, suffered a brain haemorrhage after an operation.
  
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• Boko Haram hire teenage girl for suicide mission for 40p

  07-03-2017 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a video, the girl tells Nigerian police she was offered just 200 Naira to detonate a suicide vest in a 'crowded place' in the city of Maiduguri.
  
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• The 10 most embarrassing stats for Arsenal fans as Gunners are HAMMERED by Bayern Munich

  07-03-2017 23:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Arsenal were shocking AGAIN against the German giants, and their 10-2 aggregate defeat made for some pretty awkward numbers
  
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• Driverless car called 'Sedric' is unveiled by Volkswagen

  07-03-2017 23:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A driverless car described as a 'comfortable lounge on wheels' has been unveiled by in Geneva, Switzerland, by Volkswagen - with a windscreen that doubles as a huge television.
  
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• Jealous ex-boyfriend 'used cling film and tape to suffocate girlfriend in kebab shop after stalking her for weeks'

  07-03-2017 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ahsan Hassan, 28, allegedly became enraged and began stalking Zofia Sadowska, 20, after she started dating his childhood friend
  
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• Wikileaks: CIA has tools to snoop via TVs

  07-03-2017 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The CIA has malware to hack mobile phones and turn TVs into secret listening devices, Wikileaks says.
  
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• Corrie McKeague disappearance: What we know so far as police search landfill for missing RAF gunner

  07-03-2017 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The search for the 23-year-old, who vanished last September, is now focusing on a landfill site after police followed up on hundreds of tips from the public and analysed hundreds of hours of CCTV footage
  
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• The one shocking fact that exposes how Tory budgets treat women

  07-03-2017 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tory Budgets have made 86% of their savings from women, says Labour equality chief Sarah Champion. With Budget 2017 falling on International Women's Day, that must stop now
  
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• Man charged over racist threats to Gina Miller

  07-03-2017 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, 50, from Knightsbridge in London was charged with malicious communications with racially aggravated factors and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in April.
  
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• Men are filmed HORSE RACING on a dual carriageway 

  07-03-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage, taken by a dashboard camera from another driver, shows a horse carrying a two-wheeled card running down the northbound A46’s fast lane in Leicestershire on Sunday.
  
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• Princess Diana's butler Paul Burrell gets sons' blessings over plans to wed boyfriend Graham Cooper

  07-03-2017 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Burrell's sons Alex and Nick have vowed to support their dad when he gets married next month
  
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• The 21 angriest #WengerOut tweets after Arsenal are HAMMERED 10-2 on aggregate by Bayern Munich

  07-03-2017 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Gunners fans were understandably not happy as their team suffered a humiliating Champions League exit to the Germans, and they were out in force on social media
  
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• The vicious real-life gangsters behind Martin Scorsese's chilling mega-budget movie 'The Irishman'

  07-03-2017 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The violent story of mobster Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran tells how he killed 25 people and claimed to have murdered union leader Jimmy Hoffa
  
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• Boy, 8, dies after paramedics take him to A&E 21 miles from home despite living TWO MINUTES away from hospital

  07-03-2017 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The schoolboy's death comes in the middle of a consultation period as to whether children's services should be kept at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Worcestershire
  
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• Graduate is CLEARED of raping York university student

  07-03-2017 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A jury took less than two hours to clear Lewis Tappenden, 24, of raping an 18-year-old female student whom he had a 'drunken one-night stand' with after meeting her in York.
  
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• Cancer campaigner helps save five lives after urging followers to join bone marrow register

  07-03-2017 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Emily Clark, who died March 12 last year, inspired 4,500 people to sign up - which has led to five bone marrow transplants
  
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• 5 reasons Arsenal fans' anti-Arsene Wenger protest was actually pretty rubbish

  07-03-2017 22:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Gunners fans were out in "force" before the clash with Bayern Munich in the Champions League, but it all seemed a little bit hollow
  
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• Secret underground world of Knights Templar in Shropshire

  07-03-2017 22:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The caves, in Shropshire, are believed to have been carved by followers of the Knights Templar to offer safe haven at a time when they were being persecuted by the bitter French King Philip IV.
  
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• What does Brexit vote defeat in the House of Lords mean - and what happens next?

  07-03-2017 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As you may have heard, Theresa May has just suffered her second defeat over Brexit in the House of Lords. Here’s what it actually means
  
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• Carlisle pizza shop worker beat his ex-girlfriend to death

  07-03-2017 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Miklos Verebres, 29, broke into Melinda Korosi's Carlisle home on September 15 last year and beat the 33-year-old mother-of-two to death and was found next to her body, covered in blood.
  
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• Sussex tops global university ranking

  07-03-2017 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The universities of Sussex and Loughborough are at the top of global rankings for individual subjects.
  
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• British spies linked up with CIA reveals WikiLeaks

  07-03-2017 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British intelligence worked with the CIA to bug Samsung televisions to spy on targets while appearing to have been switched off, according to secret US government files published by WikiLeaks.
  
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• Manchester United become first football club to join Stonewall to help fight homophobia in the sport

  07-03-2017 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  United are the first Premier League side to form a partnership with the LGBTQ charity
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn "ambushed" over Manchester Gorton by-election as disgraced Keith Vaz bags key role

  07-03-2017 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader has clashed with deputy Tom Watson over who chooses the party's next MP
  
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• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers on Tuesday, March 7 as £51 million jackpot up for grabs

  07-03-2017 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tonight's estimated jackpot could net you a life-changing sum - but have you just become a multi-millionaire? Check your numbers here...
  
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• SAS fantasist jailed for poisoning wife with laxatives

  07-03-2017 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  David Smith, 62, of Telford, Shropshire, had made his partner Elizabeth so ill she thought she was going to die. Today he was jailed for three and a half years.
  
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• Man arrested after Ludgershall woman was found dead

  07-03-2017 21:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samantha Blake-Mizen (pictured), 47, suffered severe head injuries in an attack at a property in the small village of Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire.
  
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• Corrie McKeague's anguished dad visits landfill where police are searching for body as mum admits she expects devastating news

  07-03-2017 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police investigating the RAF man's disappearance have said a waste collection firm now say a wheelie bin collected that night weighed 100kg, rather than the 11kg first thought
  
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• Amal Clooney: 'Yazidis in Iraq are IS genocide victims'

  07-03-2017 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lawyer Amal Clooney says she has heard "harrowing" testimonies from the ethnic Kurdish group.
  
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• Their dad murdered their mum then killed himself, now these sisters attend a unique group to help them cope

  07-03-2017 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  At the UK's only residential weekend for children who have lost a loved one by murder or manslaughter four families lost a mum, two a dad or step dad, one a brother and three sisters lost both parents
  
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• Cold callers conned vulnerable pensioners of over £1.7m

  07-03-2017 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The men pleaded guilty to a string of fraud charges following an investigation by the Met’s Complex Fraud Team and were jailed at Southwark Crown Court, London.
  
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• Lauren Phillips from Bristol been missing for two weeks

  07-03-2017 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lauren Phillips (pictured), 26, has now been missing for two weeks and police have already found her car in Woolacombe, north Devon, more than 100 miles from her home in Bristol.
  
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• Dog stabbed to death with flick knife by gang of youths while out on walk with his owner

  07-03-2017 21:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Staffordshire bull terrier, Chaos, eight, was described as a healthy dog who had been with his owner since a puppy
  
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• Fiancee of Shoreham Air Show crash victim pleads guilty to dealing amphetamines

  07-03-2017 21:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum-of-four Giovanna Chirico was set to marry her partner of 12 years Mark Trussler before his tragic death in 2015
  
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• Secret tape emerges of cash-strapped Tory council's leader talking about 'gentleman's agreement' with government

  07-03-2017 20:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Theresa May faces calls to apologise just weeks after she said claims of a "sweetheart deal" for cash-strapped Surrey were "alternative facts"
  
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• Inside the restaurant serving Tesco food bound for the bin

  07-03-2017 20:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  wastED doesn't just use Tesco, however – food has been supplied from farms and producers up and down the country
  
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• Mum 'finds 20 shards of glass in Asda juice' bottle seconds before sharing drink with toddler son

  07-03-2017 20:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alice Thomas says started bleeding from her mouth after removing a piece of glass
  
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• Missing Corrie Mckeague: Rubbish truck 'was carrying heavier load'

  07-03-2017 20:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The lorry load at the centre of the Corrie Mckeague case was heavier than first thought, police say.
  
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• This science experiment will make you think twice about drinking full fat Coke

  07-03-2017 20:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  By boiling the water out of the fizzy drink in a pan, you can see how much sugar is left
  
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• Last killer whale calf EVER to be born at SeaWorld will be arriving soon

  07-03-2017 20:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Orca Takara has been pregnant for 18 months and was already expecting when the firm announced it would cease its killer whale breeding programme
  
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• Team Sky admit 'mistakes' over medical package but deny wrongdoing

  07-03-2017 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Team Sky admit mistakes were made around the delivery of a medical package to Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011 but deny breaking anti-doping rules.
  
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• Emma Watson isn't alone - I face a 'breast backlash' every day

  07-03-2017 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mother-of-two Karen Gormley says the size of her breasts means people make judgements about her personality.
  
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