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• Sly Tories will target wages after Brexit as British Government green-lights exploitation

  16-04-2017 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pinning responsibility for ­undercutting of salaries on the EU is another red herring, like Eurocrats’ mythical banning of “straight bananas”
  
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• At least 68 children among 126 refugees killed by suicide car bomb as they tried to leave besieged Syrian towns

  16-04-2017 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bombers lured children close to the vehicle by handing out crisps before detonating explosives that ripped through the crowd           
  
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• It's 'not unreasonable' to assume Vladimir Putin ordered the killing of Alexander Litvinenko says former top cop

  16-04-2017 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Speaking ahead of a documentary out tomorrow, ex-Scotland Yard deputy commissioner Peter Clarke says the lingering impact of the “state-sponsored murder” is still being felt
  
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• Cleveland Facebook shooting: Police hunt killer Steve Stephens who streamed murder and claims '15 more victims'

  16-04-2017 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve Stephens broadcast the moment he shot and killed an elderly stranger on Facebook
  
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• Donald Trump needs to give peace a chance or his game of chicken with NOrth Korea could end in tragedy

  16-04-2017 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A peaceful resolution is in the world’s interest, so we must hope wisdom trumps a President who seems to be itching for armed confrontation
  
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• Turkish President Erdogan hails 'historic' victory

  16-04-2017 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking in Istanbul, he said: 'With the people, we have realised the most important reform in our history. Turkey for the first time in its history has decided with the will of the parliament and its people.'
  
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• "Frankly, we have no choice": US ready to hit North Korea as Donald Trump boasts of increased firepower

  16-04-2017 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As Vice President Mike Pence slams North Korean missile launch Trump says the US military is "rapidly becoming stronger than before"
  
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• Cleveland Police launch manhunt for 'armed and dangerous Steve Stephens after pensioner shot dead on Facebook Live'

  16-04-2017 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Distressing video being circulated on social media shows the gunman shooting a 'stranger' dead 'because of a woman' - in what he claims is an "Easter Day slaughter"
  
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• Price wars make champagne cheaper than mouthwash

  16-04-2017 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Price wars at supermarket giants including Tesco, Asda and Lidl have led to the price of champagne being slashed - with some now being cheaper than leading mouthwash brands.
  
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• 'I've had 22 years of agony': Richey Edwards' sister on the comfort that BGT's Missing People Choir brings her

  16-04-2017 22:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Manic Street Preachers star Richey vanished in 1995 and his sister Rachel says being a member of the group has helped her cope with the pain of losing him
  
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• UK Weather: Rain set for the rest of Bank Holiday weekend

  16-04-2017 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There have been showers around much the country today, with the east of England worst hit and the far north of Scotland faring the best with spots of sunshine.
  
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• Mike Pence arrives in Seoul with family in tow on Easter

  16-04-2017 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vice President Mike Pence arrived in South Korea along with his family on Easter shortly after a failed North Korean missile launch that may have been 'thwarted by cyber attacks from the US.'
  
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• Life and death battle between crocodile and elephant sees reptile bite off more than it can chew

  16-04-2017 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The giant reptile launches itself out of the water and latches on to the baby elephant but gets a nasty surprise
  
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• Motorist spotted driving hands free because he's too busy playing the dashboard with drumsticks on busy motorway

  16-04-2017 22:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In scenes that could be straight out of an Alan Partridge comedy sketch the motorist can be seen playing along to music - hitting the dashboard with two drumsticks - as he steers
  
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• British doctors modify pig organs to treat newborn babies

  16-04-2017 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The procedure will be carried out next year on about ten children in the UK born with oesophagus astresia, a rare condition where the upper section of the gullet does not connect to the stomach.
  
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• Police killer Harry Roberts takes a shopping trip to Tesco

  16-04-2017 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Triple police killer Harry Roberts, who murdered three police officers in west London in 1966, continues to enjoy a life a normality as he took a trip to the supermarket in Peterborough.
  
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• Paddle boat used as D-Day gun platform will be sold

  16-04-2017 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Ryde Queen Paddle Boat (pictured) was once used as a gun platform in the D-Day landings and helped evacuate Dunkirk. But now after years of rusting on the Isle of Wight it will be sold for scrap.
  
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• Beauty Queen 'sues United Airlines claiming she was roughed up after being handcuffed and forcibly removed' from flight

  16-04-2017 21:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former Miss Venezuela Carmen Maria Montiel is reportedly taking legal action against the carrier over the way she was allegedly treated by staff after seeing what happened to Dr David Dao
  
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• Dad's priceless reaction after discovering wife has given birth to baby boy after FIVE girls

  16-04-2017 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kennedy Zarour was so excited and bounding around the delivery room a doctor had to ask him to sit down
  
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• Man arrested for attempted murder after 'groping actress on subway platform then throwing her onto tracks'

  16-04-2017 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 22-year-old victim, who was heading home after visiting a bar, broke her wrist in the fall and suffered a torn ligament in her shoulder
  
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• British F4 racing driver collides with another car

  16-04-2017 20:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British F4 racing driver Billy Monger, 17, was airlifted to hospital after crashing into Finnish driver Patrik Pasma's vehicle during a race at Donington Park on Sunday.
  
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• North Yorkshire fire crew sent to an emergency in CORNWALL

  16-04-2017 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mix-up saw firefighters at the Harrogate station directed to a location two and a half miles away from a business park there were supposed to be dispatched.
  
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• Cheating students are using tiny listening devices

  16-04-2017 20:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pupils across Britain can put the wireless earpieces in their ears and link them to a phone or mp3 player to remind themselves of some crucial answers in the exam.
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury urges 'restoration and hope'

  16-04-2017 20:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Most Rev Justin Welby told his congregation at Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, that in the face of 'pain and despair, grief and death' people should remember the words 'Do not be afraid'.
  
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• Turkish opposition set to challenge referendum result

  16-04-2017 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Yes' campaign had won 52.7 percent, the election commission said in figures quoted by state news agency Anadolu, in an initial count based on 90 percent of the ballot boxes.
  
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• Cecil Parkinson's lovechild and former mistress 'face eviction because he didn't leave her a penny in his will'

  16-04-2017 20:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sara Keays says their disabled child Flora, who Parkinson never met, was not included in his will and she is fighting his estate to get money for her daughter
  
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• Heroics of WW2 seaman who rescued four comrades revealed

  16-04-2017 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chief Officer George Stronach (pictured) spent 80 minutes rescuing four comrades from the Ocean Voyager when it was attacked by German bombers in 1943 in the port of Tripoli, Libya.
  
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• Melania Trump brings Easter gifts to teen girls in Florida

  16-04-2017 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The First Lady stopped by HomeSafe in Lake Worth in Palm Beach armed with Easter baskets and bunnies and spent 45 minutes chatting with girls who live there and touring its amenities.
  
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• North Korea's 'devastating' new missiles mocked as FAKE after footage of rockets 'wobbling with bent nose cones' emerges

  16-04-2017 20:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Speculation is mounting that Kim Jong-un may have substituted cardboard cutouts where he is lacking where it counts - as tensions between Pyongyang and Washington escalate
  
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• Hundreds of paratroopers can't use PARACHUTES - as they're not qualified 'because Tory cuts led to training backlog'

  16-04-2017 20:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  230 members of the Parachute Regiment are “not qualified” as military parachutists, with another 180 only “part qualified” according to a figures from the MoD
  
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• Cow discovered with fifth 'leg' coming out of its back - that's actually part of unborn twin

  16-04-2017 19:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The deformity caused by a birth defect is extremely rare, due to an incomplete egg separation
  
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• School bullies picked on boy with facial disfigurement

  16-04-2017 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Benji Baker, from Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire has a cyst in his cheek known as lymphangioma. Mother Kathleen McGrath said older children at the local school bully him.
  
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• Pope gives Easter Sunday Mass speech in Rome

  16-04-2017 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tens of thousands of faithful braved heavy security checks - and, later, a brief downpour - to enter St. Peter's Square where Francis celebrated Mass on the steps leading to St. Peter's Basilica.
  
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• Nottingham teen dies following a serious street attack

  16-04-2017 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Matthew Rothery, 18, from Nottingham, was attacked early in the morning. He was taken to the Queens Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead. Police are investigating the Friday incident.
  
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• Scottish prisoner not charged as he is too dangerous

  16-04-2017 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Andrew Burns, 25, was due to face trial in Alloa, Scotland, but a report recommended the charges were dropped because 'the potential for harm is too grave,' leaked documents reveal.
  
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• "We lost our first son in his mother's arms": Family's heartbreaking statement as three teens arrested for murder

  16-04-2017 19:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police launched a murder investigation and arrested three teenagers in connection with the killing
  
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• Mick Schumacher makes F1 debut

  16-04-2017 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Schumacher was unable to watch his son at Silverstone as he continues to recover in Switzerland from a horror skiing accident which put him in a coma in 2013.
  
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• Meet the man with 20,000 bird ornaments - that fill his house, THREE sheds and a garage

  16-04-2017 19:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lawrence Cobbold has a collection worth around £60,000 - including an incredible 14,000 thimbles and 2,000 paperweights
  
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• Nazi plaque made by German prisoners of war found in Essex

  16-04-2017 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When seven-year-old Geoffrey Parkhurst from Essex found a concrete plaque by a stream in 1970 he was amazed to find it was a Nazi plaque made by defiant German prisoners of war in 1947.
  
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• Evil delivery driver sexually assaulted elderly and disabled women in their own homes

  16-04-2017 19:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One of John Muttitt's victims was partially blind and deaf, while the other had Cerebral Palsy and Parkinson's disease
  
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• April the giraffe kicks vet in very unfortunate place to protect her newborn baby

  16-04-2017 19:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  That's got to hurt!
  
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• Secret handshakes, rolled up trousers, baring breasts and Royal Family links: Inside the mysterious world of the Freemasons

  16-04-2017 19:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As a new Sky TV documentary aims to lift the lid on what it's liked to be the member of a Masonic lodge, we talk to one assistant grand master
  
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• Two people 'shot dead' outside polling station in Turkey

  16-04-2017 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An argument between two families had escalated and one person was still in hospital after the incident in a school playground in Diyarbakir which resulted in two arrests.
  
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• Nine people injured in an Ohio club shooting

  16-04-2017 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police received calls of a shooter at the J&R Party Hall on the 1700 block of Cleveland Avenue, in northeast Columbus in Ohio at 3.20am ET.
  
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• 25 care home residents carried from burning building as it goes up in flames in the middle of the night

  16-04-2017 18:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Five fire engines helped tackle the blaze, which left seven injured and the home suffering 'considerable damage'
  
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• Turkey's referendum to hand President Erdogan sweeping new powers is as close as Brexit and just as divisive

  16-04-2017 18:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A "Yes" vote would replace Turkey's parliamentary democracy with an all-powerful presidency and may see Erdogan in office until at least 2029
  
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• Hackers leak Anthony Stokes's girlfriend's photos

  16-04-2017 18:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Arsenal and Sunderland striker Anthony Stokes, 28, and girlfriend Eilidh Scott, 25, have become the victims of a cyber attack for the second time in just six months.
  
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• How London has changed since the Victorian era

  16-04-2017 18:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While many of the old buildings, captured on film at the end of the 19th century, have gone, others remain and the legacy of the long-dead master craftsmen has lived on.
  
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• Essex mother begs for help for her violent autistic son

  16-04-2017 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Caroline Lewis, 50, from Clacton, Essex, said her youngest son Paulie has struggled with behavioural problems since 'before he could speak' and attacks her every day.
  
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• Essex student dies in horror crash after car spun off road

  16-04-2017 18:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Megan Harding-Jones, 18, died when her Volkswagen Polo came off the road in Essex in the early hours of the morning yesterday. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
  
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