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• Damien Hirst hit by claims animals killed in name of art

  18-04-2017 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The RSPCA has raised concerns after art auction website Artnet claimed almost one million creatures have met 'artistically-conceived resting places' for British artist Damien Hirst's work.
  
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• Paul Routledge: Election could be a landslide into a mire of ruin, poverty and Thatcherite hell

  18-04-2017 23:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The social fabric of British society will further disintegrate is Theresa May and her right-wingers are given the chance
  
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• General election 2017 - what happens next? Full timetable as Britain heads to the polls on June 8

  18-04-2017 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Britain is voting in a snap general election. Here's everything you need to know including the countdown, big dates and registering to vote
  
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• Teenage parents accused of smuggling newborn out of hospital briefly reunited with daughter

  18-04-2017 23:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jayden Lavender, 14, and fiancée Jenifer Morrison, 15, fled with three-day-old Aria fearing she would be taken into care by social services
  
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• The heartbreaking reality of the homeless: Man sleeps on perilously narrow ledge 20ft above River Thames

  18-04-2017 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man appears to be sleeping right up against the wall in a bid to stop himself falling into the river
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's Labour face a worse drubbing at the polls than under Michael Foot in 1983

  18-04-2017 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some gloomy MPs are even braced for the worst result since 1935 when the party won just 154 seats three weeks into Clement Attlee’s leadership
  
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• Lib Dem leader Tim Farron won't say if he thinks being gay is a sin

  18-04-2017 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tim Farron, a committed Christian, claimed it would be a "theological pronouncement" when confronted by Channel 4 News
  
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• Two pensioners square up in a fight outside a care home

  18-04-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two pensioners squared up for a fight on a patch of grass near their care home in Hebburn, near Newcastle, but it ended with the pair scrabbling around on the ground looking one for glasses.
  
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• Woman 'horrified' after finding metal SCREW in her Domino's pizza

  18-04-2017 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 28-year-old was cheesed off when she noticed the screw in among her toppings just moments before biting into the offending slice
  
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• Desperate police search for woman who went missing with baby three days ago

  18-04-2017 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 32-year-old woman and the baby were last seen with a shopping trolley on Saturday morning
  
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• Alison Phillips: Princess Diana would be so proud of her son Harry

  18-04-2017 23:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The openness of our new young royals – and the pioneering work of Princes Harry and William for their charity – reveals the seismic change in attitudes within the family
  
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• Gold medal gymnast Max Whitlock on why asking his girl to marry him was more nerve-wracking than the Olympics

  18-04-2017 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The five-times Olympic medallist says it took him a year to summon up the courage to pop the question to Leah Hickton
  
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• Labour MPs will NOT face any deselection battles ahead of 2017 general election, sources say

  18-04-2017 23:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There were claims sitting MPs would face a "trigger ballot" to be candidates - but a senior aide said they'll all stay on automatically
  
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• Missing girl, 14, found 'safe and well'

  18-04-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alecia Moran had disappeared from her home in Huddersfield, on Sunday afternoon. But West Yorkshire Police confirmed that she was found 200 miles away in Bristol this evening.
  
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• Dramatic 'road rage' footage shows westerner flooring man with single punch in Thailand's 'sex and booze capital'

  18-04-2017 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The clip shows two westerners arguing after one passenger gets out of a car before the victim is knocked out cold with one swing
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Instead of a country run for the rich we want richer lives for everyone

  18-04-2017 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour will be offering a real alternative to a government that has failed to rebuild the economy, says the Labour leader
  
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• The Lady IS for U-turning as Theresa May puts herself and Tories first by calling snap election

  18-04-2017 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The PM today even tried to blame ­opposition parties for her U-turn, insisting it was their repeated bids to block hard Brexit that forced her hand
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon to use general election to break up UK

  18-04-2017 22:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scotland’s First Minister said she will she will take her demand for a second independence referendum on the campaign trail ahead of the snap poll on June 8.
  
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• Missing schoolgirl 'seen holding hands with man in CCTV' found 200 miles from home as suspect arrested for child abduction

  18-04-2017 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 14-year-old, who was last seen on Sunday, was found "safe and well" after her family issued an emotional appeal for her to come home
  
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• Irish woman hurls racist abuse at train passengers

  18-04-2017 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A woman hurled racist abuse at another passenger on a train in Limerick in the Republic of Ireland for 16 minutes after a trivial row over a bag on a seat.
  
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• Teacher at centre of global manhunt found in Glasgow

  18-04-2017 22:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Harris Binotti, 26, is wanted over the murder of Gary Ferguson. He has evaded arrest despite a 'red alert' by Interpol, only to be spotted living in Glasgow, less than a mile from a police station.
  
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• Twin sisters greet Royal Navy father after three years

  18-04-2017 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Summer and Amelia Payne were two of the children greeting their mothers and father as they returned to shore at Plymouth after three years at sea, preventing people smuggling.
  
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• "Fly free my darling": Partner's emotional tribute to paramedic who died on 41st birthday after brave cancer battle

  18-04-2017 21:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a blog post, Kathryn Osmond told her followers that her treatment was not working, but asked for support in raising awareness of melanoma
  
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• Shameless Glossop crook caught on CCTV stealing £300 TV

  18-04-2017 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This brazen burglar has become a public laughing stock after he was caught on CCTV strolling out of a Co-op in Glossop, Derbyshire with massive £300 flat-screen TV.
  
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• Files reveal Allied forces knew about Holocaust for YEARS

  18-04-2017 21:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The archive shows that testimonies from concentration camp prisoners were smuggled to Allied forces in December 1942 - years before the liberation of Auschwitz.
  
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• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers on Tuesday, April 18 with £21m jackpot up for grabs

  18-04-2017 21:28 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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• 'Shocked' TOWIE star Ferne McCann urges wanted boyfriend to go to police station 'immediately' over nightclub acid attack

  18-04-2017 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police say Arthur Collins, 25, is wanted for questioning, should not be approached and anyone who sees him is urged to call 999 immediately
  
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• What the snap election means for the Tory election fraud investigation

  18-04-2017 21:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One political expert told the Mirror the timing of June's election could prove a "considerable miscalculation" for Theresa May
  
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• Tory MPs could be prosecuted over 2015 spending DURING the general election campaign

  18-04-2017 21:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tory election fraud scandal - first revealed by the Daily Mirror - could come back to haunt Theresa May as she rides high in the polls
  
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• "Sadomasochist" accused of electrocuting lover's vagina claims she blowtorched his penis to 'teach him a lesson'

  18-04-2017 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kieren Batten says he was strapped to a restraint board while the woman carried out the act "to teach him a lesson"
  
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• Mum-of-five 'watched Jeremy Kyle as her two-year-old daughter was dying after drinking her heroin substitute'

  18-04-2017 21:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lucy King, 39, only called emergency services two-and-a-half hours after she suspected her toddler Frankie had sipped her methadone, a court heard
  
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• Man 'told a pregnant woman he would STAB her in the womb'

  18-04-2017 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rakim Braithwaite, from Middlesex, is alleged to have attacked Sara Snoussi during an 11-month campaign of abuse - where he attacked her threatened to kill her, the Old Bailey heard.
  
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• Teenagers arrested on suspicion of Doncaster murder

  18-04-2017 20:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 17-year-old boy and a woman, 18, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a pensioner was found collapsed in Hexthorpe Park, Doncaster.
  
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• TOWIE star Ferne McCann's boyfriend wanted for questioning over nightclub acid attack that left 20 with burn injuries

  18-04-2017 20:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police say Arthur Collins, 25, should not be approached and anyone who sees him is asked to call 999 immediately
  
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• Britain's first 'pet minister' offers blessings and funerals for animals and counselling for bereaved owners

  18-04-2017 20:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  All creatures, great and small, are catered for at Shirley Wakefield's Serendipity Spiritual Church
  
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• Could 'pre-built' homes solve Britain's housing crisis?

  18-04-2017 20:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bosses of the expanding firm making the wooden houses in Witney, Oxfordshire say they are cheaper and quicker to build than brick homes and thus could solve the British housing crisis.
  
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• America 'will shoot down North Korean missiles' if Kim Jong-un doesn't back off testing

  18-04-2017 20:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sources say the Pentagon is considering the move to show Jong-un's regime the US can smash 'unacceptable' tests
  
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• Four-year-old girl died after being knocked down by her own mum in "unsurvivable" tragedy

  18-04-2017 20:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ava Henderson suffered a horrific head injury when she was struck by the vehicle, being driven by her mother, Laura
  
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• Wealthy accountant from London stole more than £200,000

  18-04-2017 20:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Annmarie Norris, 40, from London, earned a salary of up to £103,000 but still decided to steal more than £200,000 from her bosses to pay for extravagant family holidays and renovate her home.
  
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• Cleveland Facebook killer Steve Stephens 'ordered 20 McDonald's chicken nuggets and fries at drive-thru before killing himself'

  18-04-2017 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve Stephens, 37, who shot a man in cold blood before posting the footage on Facebook, turned his gun on himself after a dramatic police chase
  
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• Nigel Farage boasts about catching fish – but he's done something really controversial

  18-04-2017 20:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It doesn't look like he's thought this through
  
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• Malaysia Air will have its planes tracked by satellites

  18-04-2017 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The airline has announced a deal which will see the flightpaths of its fleet mapped out anywhere in the world.
  
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• Top designer loved by celebrities accused of selling stuffed endangered animals

  18-04-2017 20:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sasko Bezovski, who co-owns label KTZ, which designed Bjork's famous swan dress, allegedly traded the illegal specimens last year
  
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• Hosepipe ban fears in South East

  18-04-2017 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In Kent groundwaters and reservoirs are lower than normal for the time of year after a very hot March with temperatures often exceeding 20C, sparking fears of a hosepipe ban.
  
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• Nervous flier forces plane to divert to UK after he downed duty-free whisky and champagne and had mid-air meltdown

  18-04-2017 19:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Zahi Lebhardt, 31, behaved "erratically", spat across the aircraft and locked himself in a toilet during the meltdown
  
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• Essex mother facing jail after her dog mauled a boy

  18-04-2017 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dexter Neal died in hospital in August last year after he was bitten on the head by the dog Ruby while playing at Jade Dunne's home in Halstead, Essex. Dunne is pictured outside court.
  
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• Philippine police being given bonuses for killing suspects

  18-04-2017 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Philippine police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings they have long blamed on vigilantes.
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of murder at Maldon holiday park

  18-04-2017 19:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The woman was found 'seriously injured' at the St Lawrence Holiday Park (pictured) in Maldon, Essex, at around 10.45am on Monday, but paramedics were unable to save her.
  
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• Cleveland Facebook killer Steve Stephens shoots and kills himself in dramatic police chase after being spotted at McDonald's

  18-04-2017 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thegunman - who murdered Robert Godwin Jr, 74, in cold blood - committed suicide after being pursued by police from a McDonald's car park
  
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• Heartbreaking story behind 'well-kept' unmarked grave that 'suddenly appeared' in 12th Century churchyard

  18-04-2017 19:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The grave belongs to a baby girl, who tragically died at just four-months-old in 1987
  
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