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• 'You are not safe': Muslim woman claims airport security asked her to remove hijab before boarding flight

  14-04-2017 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Aghania Adzkia, a student in London, claims she was racially profiled by staff at Ciampino Airport in the Italian capital Rome
  
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• 'Anti-dogging' barrier installed at local park to stop people having sex labelled "waste of money"

  14-04-2017 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The security fence was installed after long-standing fears the site's car park earned a reputation for attracting people late at night to watch strangers having sex
  
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• Leicester City fans sentenced for brawl at Champions League match with Atletico Madrid

  14-04-2017 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The supporters – who were not identified - were each given four month suspended sentences
  
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• Airport security officials who hauled United Airlines passenger off overbooked flight 'shouldn't have been on plane'

  14-04-2017 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jeff Redding, security chief at the Chicago Department of Aviation said security officers should not respond to calls like that which saw David Dao hauled from a flight
  
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• Pakistan blasphemy: The student lynched for being a humanist

  14-04-2017 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mashal Khan was killed by a mob of fellow students on campus who accused him of blasphemy against Islam.
  
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• Premier League matches to be guarded by armed police amid fears of ISIS terror attack

  14-04-2017 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Dortmund bus terror attack will see extra measures put in place this weekend
  
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• Newcastle United 1-1 Leeds United: Championship – as it happened

  14-04-2017 22:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Leeds scored at the death with their only shot on target of the second half to frustrated Newcastle and claim a potentially vital play-off-related point 9.53pm BSTRight then, I’m off. That was a superlatively enjoyable game of league football, a credit to everyone involved. Newcastle will wonder how they failed to win it, but Leeds’s spirit and dedication was excellent throughout, they fought to keep themselves in the game and produced probably the game’s finest moment of attac
  
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• Heartbroken bride's wedding dress sale goes viral after she blasts fiancé on Facebook for 'having sex with pal'

  14-04-2017 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Spurned Kerry Wilkinson’s attempt to flog her unused gown for £100 quickly became an internet sensation
  
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• Three children hospitalised after swallowing 'unknown substance' near sports centre during Easter holidays

  14-04-2017 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The children, thought to be aged between 11 and 12, were being treated in hospital after police were called to the National Sports Centre in Douglas
  
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• Police investigate racial hate complaint over Kelvin MacKenzie Sun column on Ross Barkley

  14-04-2017 22:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Police investigating article that compared Everton footballer who was punched in a nightclub to a gorillaThe Sun has suspended Kelvin MacKenzie after Merseyside police said they were investigating a column in which he compared the footballer Ross Barkley, who is of mixed race, to a gorilla. Related: MacKenzie has scored a spectacular own goal by insulting Liverpool againContinue reading...
  
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• Cadbury's new £75 million robots making our Easter eggs 

  14-04-2017 22:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cadbury has hailed a £75m investment at its Bournville factory as crucial to securing the future of the chocolate in its historic home.
  
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• World on brink of nuclear war as Kim Jong-un refuses to give in to Donald Trump's missile demands

  14-04-2017 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As the American president’s warships headed to North Korea amid claims he was set to launch a pre-emptive strike, capital Pyongyang threatened to blitz American targets with nuclear attacks
  
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• Warning over 'bad batch' of heroin after three people found dead at different homes in same town

  14-04-2017 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police chiefs are investigating a trio of unexplained deaths which it said could be as a result of strong heroin being used locally
  
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• Jamiroquai keyboardist Toby Smith dies aged 46

  14-04-2017 22:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The band's lead singer Jay Kay, 47, posted a statement on Facebook informing fans of the news, and to pay tribute to his late friend, who passed on Tuesday night.
  
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• Ross Barkley: Sun suspends Kelvin MacKenzie over Liverpool article

  14-04-2017 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Columnist Kelvin MacKenzie is suspended by The Sun after he expressed "wrong" and "unfunny" views about the people of Liverpool and Everton midfielder Ross Barkley.
  
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• Terrified theme park visitors left stranded 80ft above ground for FOUR HOURS after ride breaks down

  14-04-2017 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two dozen riders, as young as six, had to be lowered to the ground by a cherry picker after the Joker's Jinx stalled as frantic parents watched on
  
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• The 'Werewolf' was the perfect husband, dad and cop - and world's worst serial killer with 82 victims

  14-04-2017 22:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mikhail Popkov shrugged in court when asked how many women he had raped and killed and said he hadn't kept track
  
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• Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie is suspended

  14-04-2017 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie has been suspended from the newspaper after he expressed 'wrong' and 'unfunny' views about the people of Liverpool, News UK has said.
  
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• Desperate final words of doomed Irish air sea rescue crew

  14-04-2017 22:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Co-pilot Mark Duffy, pictured, was the last voice recorded as the doomed Sikorsky S92-A helicopter lost control as it came into land beside a lighthouse nine miles off the coast of Ireland.
  
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• Mystery £1,000 donation helps cerebral palsy sufferer Ben Baddeley begin latest treatment

  14-04-2017 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An anonymous donation of £1,000 means Ben can start his post-op physiotherapy again to help him walk
  
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• Traffic wardens blitz on nurses as hospital staff hit with £70 fines for parking on a ROAD

  14-04-2017 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Medics say they have parked there since being kicked out of the NHS hospital’s car park two years ago and this is the first time they have been ticketed
  
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• Dunkirk migrant camp demolished following major fire

  14-04-2017 22:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Almost half of the 1,500 migrants at the makeshift camp in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk have gone missing since fire destroyed many of the temporary buildings earlier this week.
  
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• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers on Friday, April 14 with £14m jackpot up for grabs

  14-04-2017 22:02 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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• Heartbreaking images of monkeys sold online and kept in tiny cages and awful conditions as pets

  14-04-2017 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There are now calls for the government to ban to cruel trade as thousands of monkeys end up beinfg cruelly treated as pets in Britain
  
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• Pizza-eating squirrel makes desperate dash up tree to save his slice from swarm of 'intimidating' pigeons

  14-04-2017 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Teenage singer-songwriter Declan McKenna captured the footage in which a rodent tries to fend off the cheese snack from an army of birds
  
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• Trump's close generals lack the diplomatic experience to deal with North Korea

  14-04-2017 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  If military option is chosen, it is hard to see how things would not escalate, says Professor Hazel Smith, North Korea expert at SOAS, University Of London
  
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• Andy Murray fit to start French Open buildup at Monte Carlo tournament

  14-04-2017 21:42 via theguardian.com
  
  • World No1 has suffered illness, injury and a dip in form
  • Briton will start against Gilles Müller or Tommy RobredoThe appearance on Friday of Andy Murray’s name at the top of the draw for the Monte Carlo Open was a relief for the tournament, his travelling fans and the player. If he is to get back to winning tournaments, however, he is likely to have to beat either Novak Djokovic or the nine-times champion, Rafael Nadal.Illness, injury and a dip in form have weighed Murra
  
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• UEA's Antony Gormley art installation criticised by students

  14-04-2017 21:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The life-size human sculptures are on top of tall buildings at the University of East Anglia.
  
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• Monte Carlo Masters: British pair Dan Evans & Kyle Edmund meet in first round

  14-04-2017 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans will meet in round one of the Monte Carlo Masters, where Andy Murray will return from injury.
  
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• Meet the iCar? Apple to test self-driving vehicles in California

  14-04-2017 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The iPhone maker has been awarded a permit to test autonomous cars, moving into a highly competitive space that includes Google, Tesla and FordApple is joining the fiercely competitive race to design self-driving cars, raising the possibility that a company that has already re-shaped culture with its iPhone may try to transform transportation, too.Ending years of speculation, Apple’s late entry into a crowded field was made official Friday with the disclosure that the California department
  
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• I have hope not hate for the power of social media

  14-04-2017 21:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  I found its strengths of Twitter far outweighed the negatives. You get to see instant confrontations and glorious reactions to them
  
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• Turkey President Erdogan portrayed as saviour in portraits

  14-04-2017 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kitsch paintings depicting Turkey's president with Bana Alabed and Aylan Kurdi have emerged just days before a landmark referendum in which he seeks to expand his powers in the country.
  
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• Martin Rowson on Trump dropping a bomb in Afghanistan – cartoon

  14-04-2017 21:09 via theguardian.com
  
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• Chelsea boss Antonio Conte is asked if any Man Utd players would get in his side

  14-04-2017 21:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea manager Antonio Conte is cheekily asked whether any Manchester United players would get in his first team at Stamford Bridge.
  
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• John Higgins hails rise in prize money before richest world championship

  14-04-2017 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  • Winner of tournament at the Crucible in Sheffield will collect £375,000
  • Higgins faces world No18 Martin Gould in first roundJohn Higgins believes the day when snooker players earn wages comparable to those of Premier League footballers is on the horizon.“I could be one of the players you see who are like the old footballers who maybe weren’t paid the money they deserved back in the day,” the 41-year-old said. “Snooker could go that way but every credit
  
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• Scorned wife whips husband's mistress with STICK after finding amorous pair getting steamy in his car

  14-04-2017 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shocking footage showed the man desperately trying to shield his girlfriend from his wife's attacks amid her rage-filled outburst
  
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• Eden Hazard and José Mourinho: anatomy of a rollercoaster relationship | Jonathan Wilson

  14-04-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The pair fell out at Chelsea and while there is no animosity now, stopping the forward is a priority for Manchester United manager in Premier League matchFans, content with a perfunctory victory, were beginning to drift away from Stamford Bridge. Chelsea were leading Porto 2-0, having been in control for most of the game. In a turbulent season, the Champions League had again provided a pocket of calm. And then José Mourinho decided to take off Eden Hazard, who had been involved in the bui
  
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• Chilling photos of the Nazi angels of death who worked as guards in Belsen concentration camp

  14-04-2017 20:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  These jail mugshots, seen for the first time in colour, are of the women who helped run Bergen-Belsen, the German concentration camp where 50,000 perished during the Second World War
  
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• Police escort TWENTY-THREE stag party revellers from Manchester flight to Prague after 'booze-fuelled' behaviour on airport runway

  14-04-2017 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Witnesses claimed police boarded the plane FOUR times following a disturbance on the board the flight involving two different stag groups
  
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• Brit exchange student, 21, stabbed to death by Palestinian man on Jerusalem tram on Good Friday named as Hannah Bladon

  14-04-2017 20:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police say the Jerusalem suspect was suffering with 'mental health problems' after dragging him away from tram where brutal attack happened
  
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• Smirking pervert locked up following new plot

  14-04-2017 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Callum Jennings (pictured) tried to meet an underaged girl in Newcastle last April but was spared jail. However now he's been locked up for trying again to meet another child.
  
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• Young British woman killed in Israel stabbing

  14-04-2017 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 21-year-old British woman has died after she was stabbed with a kitchen knife in Jerusalem on Good Friday as police say they have arrested a 57-year-old Palestinian man who is 'unstable'.
  
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• Teachers' union to launch legal challenge over 'sneaking' grammar schools

  14-04-2017 20:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  National Union of Students has slammed selection within academy trusts
  
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• Anthony Knockaert double puts Brighton on threshold of promotion

  14-04-2017 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Anthony Knockaert’s two goals set up Brighton with the opportunity to host their own promotion party at home on Monday. The Championship’s player of the year has so often provided Chris Hughton’s slick team with the penetration to go with their hard work and so it proved at Molineux on Friday as Brighton dismissed any disappointment at Huddersfield, beating Preston, delaying their elevation to the Premier League.Brighton will seal a return to the elite of English football for t
  
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• Video shows Halfords staff calling man 'a f****** idiot’ 

  14-04-2017 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gareth Cranston (pictured), 31, took his car to a branch of Halfords in Scotland and couldn't believe it when he later reviewed his dashcam footage which appeared to show staff mocking him.
  
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• Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie suspended after 'wrong' and unfunny' jibes about Everton's Ross Barkley and people of Liverpool

  14-04-2017 20:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MacKenzie, 70, was branded “racist and prehistoric” by the mayor of Liverpool who reported him to Merseyside Police
  
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• Zero-hours contracts: firms could be forced to pay more for short notice

  14-04-2017 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Government’s employment tsar suggests firms pay premium rate if they call upon workers contracted to be on standby for workBusinesses who employ people on zero-hours contracts could be forced to pay a premium rate for short-notice work, the government’s employment tsar has said, in an effort to stop “lazy” employers exploiting staff.Matthew Taylor was appointed by Theresa May last October to review employment practices in the light of concerns about the precarious nature
  
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• Police launch race hate probe after Kelvin MacKenzie compared Everton star Ross Barkley to a gorilla

  14-04-2017 20:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MacKenzie, 70, was branded “racist and prehistoric” by the mayor of Liverpool who reported him to Merseyside Police
  
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• Somerset v Essex: Former England captain Alastair Cook hits unbeaten 39 for visitors

  14-04-2017 20:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-England captain Alastair Cook scores 39 not out for Essex in his first game since standing down as Test skipper.
  
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• Jerusalem stabbing: British student, 21, killed close to Old City

  14-04-2017 20:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Hannah Bladon, a University of Birmingham student, allegedly killed by Palestinian assailant on light railwayThe young British victim of a fatal stabbing in Jerusalem has been named as Hannah Bladon, 21, a University of Birmingham student who was visiting the city as part of an exchange programme.She was killed on Friday as thousands of Jewish and Christian pilgrims descended on the city’s holy sites for Good Friday and the Passover holiday. Continue reading...
  
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