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• No law and out of order as the Tories hinder police probe into suicide of party worker

  24-04-2017 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The failure of the party to hand over a report into allegations of bullying surrounding Elltiott's deathis indefensible
  
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• Indian youngsters risk death by diving from rail bridge

  24-04-2017 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Heart-stopping photographs have captured the moment the teenagers line up before leaping into a canal as a train approaches above the Upper Ganga Canal in India.
  
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• Family of Brit Dean Gonsalves who punched shark speak out

  24-04-2017 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Frankie Gonsalves, 40, was just ten yards from the shore of Ascension Island when the beast plunged its teeth into her leg and foot, but husband Dean lunged at it and hit it in the head until she escaped.
  
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• Abandoned underground tunnels used to train World War One soldiers discovered along with scrawled graffiti

  24-04-2017 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The tunnels were used to reflect conditions soldiers would face in trenches and even have preserved graffiti etched into the walls
  
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• Police slammed after 999 handler said 'it's up to you'

  24-04-2017 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Derek Hancock called police three times and threatened to 'take the law into my own hands' before stabbing Robert Cox to death in Bristol. The IPCC investigated how the 999 team handled the call.
  
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• Lord Mandelson says Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit position is too similar to the Tories

  24-04-2017 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Asked what Labour's position on Brexit was, the New Labour architect said: 'Search me...'
  
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• Disgraced NFL star Aaron Hernandez 'had convicted robber as prison lover' before hanging himself in cell

  24-04-2017 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The New England Patriots player was serving a life sentence for murder after killing semi-professional player Odin Lloyd
  
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• Arron Banks says he will not stand in Clacton

  24-04-2017 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Insurance billionaire Mr Banks had threatened to win the constituency from Mr Carswell as revenge for what he saw as sabotage of Ukip.
  
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• Torture-claim lawyers 'knew their clients were armed insurgents fighting the British in Iraq'

  24-04-2017 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The firm Leigh Day is accused of giving the impression the 'victims' it  represented were civilians, while totting up over £9million in fees
  
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• Labour WOULD use nukes if necessary despite Corbyn's 'personal view', shadow Defence Secretary says

  24-04-2017 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nia Griffith insists the Labour party is 'fully committed to the nuclear deterrent'
  
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• Labour 'would scrap Theresa May's Brexit plan' on day one and put workers' rights centre stage

  24-04-2017 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer will vow to axe Mrs May's Great Repeal Bill and Brexit White Paper
  
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• Tory VAT hike will cost the average family £2,500 - and poor will be hit hardest

  24-04-2017 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tories are planning to smash poorer families with the devastating tax hike
  
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• "Give me the truth on my son's death": Dad blasts Tory 'bullying cover-up' after son's suicide

  24-04-2017 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Officials have ignored cops' requests to see an internal report into allegations surrounding the death of Elliott Johnson in 2015, after he claimed in a letter that he was bullied
  
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• Great Western offers £10,000 ticket for 64-mile journey

  24-04-2017 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The price of the hourney between Taunton in Somerset and Trowbridge in Wiltshire in June works out at £156 per mile and is a huge premium to pay on the standard fare, just £12.70.
  
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• Serena Williams brands Ilie Nastase comments 'racist' and backs investigation

  24-04-2017 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Serena Williams says Ilie Nastase's comments about her unborn child are "racist" and backs an International Tennis Federation investigation.
  
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• London Marathon runner proposes to girlfriend after crossing finishing line of gruelling race 'he couldn't do without her'

  24-04-2017 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nick Edwards had completed his first marathon - raising over £2K for disability charity Sense - when he decided to pop the big question to Sally Gerrish
  
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• Newcastle United back in Premier League

  24-04-2017 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Newcastle United secure an immediate return to the Premier League with a convincing home win over 10-man Preston.
  
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• Little Boy Blue has viewers 'sobbing' at the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones and seething at the injustice with 'painful but essential' viewing

  24-04-2017 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Viewers struggled to watch the new ITV drama about the real-life murder
  
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• Teen denied new lungs due to marijuana traces found in system dies after transplant surgery

  24-04-2017 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Riley Hancey underwent life-saving surgery after a desperate appeal by relatives but sadly died following complications, his devastated family revealed
  
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• Iain Duncan Smith faces 'attack' campaign from anti-Brexit group to oust him as an MP

  24-04-2017 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Tory former welfare slasher is on an 'attack list' of 20 Leave-supporting MPs as a target for tactical voting
  
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• 'The shark had me, Deano is an absolute hero': Mum dragged from jaws of beast praises amazing husband

  24-04-2017 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Frankie Gonsalves was enjoying a dip on her holiday when the 8ft shark grabbed her, but brave hubby Dean punched it on the nose and it released her
  
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• Ex-Oxford University PhD student accused of rape set to walk free after second jury fail to reach verdict

  24-04-2017 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sherman Ip, 25, was said to have forced a woman down on to his bed and pulled off her clothes before launching the attack but he told jurors she consented to sex
  
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• France elections: Le Pen steps aside as National Front leader

  24-04-2017 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Marine Le Pen says she will be above "partisan considerations" as she seeks the French presidency.
  
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• Bigamist found out when ex found images of him on Facebook

  24-04-2017 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Self-employed computer consultant Iain Theyers, 45, married Marian Belahonia in 2007 then split with her, stopped seeing their son, and married Louise Martin in 2001, Hull Crown Court heard.
  
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• London knifeman caught with ISIS booklet is locked up

  24-04-2017 21:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Idris Hassan, 18, attacked Lance Walker, 18, in the hostel in Glenwood Gardens, Hayes, west London, where they both lived on August 15 last year.
  
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• Leigh Day lawyers accused of misconduct over Iraq claims

  24-04-2017 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A tribunal hears lawyers did not disclose evidence their clients were in a "murderous" Iraqi militia.
  
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• North Korea nuclear: White House calls Senate to briefing

  24-04-2017 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The unusual move comes amid rising tension over North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
  
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• Pensioner dies with his wife as a blaze rips through home 

  24-04-2017 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Brian Hazell, 86, and his wife Eileen, died in a fire at their home (pictured) near High Wycombe. Firefighters rescued them from their bedroom but they tragically died at the scene.
  
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• Maria Sharapova: Stuttgart opponent Roberta Vinci questions wildcard

  24-04-2017 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Maria Sharapova's first opponent following her 15-month doping ban questions the decision to give the Russian wildcards on the WTA Tour.
  
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• Pictured: Man mowed down and killed on Majorca stag trip

  24-04-2017 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Adrian O'Kane, from Birmingham, was enjoying a stag weekend with friends when he was knocked down at around 3am on Sunday as he walked back to his hotel.
  
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• Plastic-eating caterpillar could munch waste, scientists say

  24-04-2017 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A caterpillar that munches on plastic bags could hold the key to tackling plastic waste, say scientists.
  
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• Court rules Kensington 'candy-cane' house stripes can stay

  24-04-2017 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A judge rules the owner may ignore a council notice requiring her townhouse to be repainted white.
  
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• Carol Vorderman knocks £100,000 off her house sale price

  24-04-2017 19:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The luxury mansion which has its own heated pool, gym and bar is being offered for £2.5million. But the secluded home in North Somerset has fallen from the £2.6million it was offered at last year.
  
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• Elderly man banned from roads after hitting Agnes Canavan

  24-04-2017 19:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robert Laing (pictured) hit Agnes Canavan as she crossed the road in front of his house in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The victim was swept under the wheels as witnesses tried to stop the vehicle.
  
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• Poll suggests Tories could win first EVER Welsh majority

  24-04-2017 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A YouGov survey of Welsh voters suggests Tory support has rocketed to a record breaking 40-points, with most of the increase coming from a collapsing Ukip vote.
  
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• Migrant criminal suspects in Germany surged in 2016

  24-04-2017 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police in Germany revealed they were pursuing 174,000 migrant criminal suspects in 2016, an increase of 52.7 per cent on the previous year. Islamist crime also rose by 13.7 per cent.
  
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• General Election: Corbyn is endorsed by COMMUNIST PARTY

  24-04-2017 19:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tiny party said it would not field any candidates on June 8 for the first time since 1920 - because the Labour leader is so in tune with its extreme left wing views.
  
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• Obama at Chicago youth event: 'I'm old'

  24-04-2017 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A relaxed-looking Barack Obama soon felt his age at his first public event since leaving the White House.
  
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• Sturgeon urges Scots to give her a mandate to curb Brexit

  24-04-2017 19:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The SNP leader lashed out at Tory attempts to 'buy' the election and accused the PM of calling the poll in a bid to defuse the row over campaign spending in 2015.
  
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• Man cleared of sexual assault on disabled lesbian teenager

  24-04-2017 19:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As he was cleared of sexual assault at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, Innes Frazer, 30, was slammed by a judge for abusing the vulnerable teenager 'for his own sexual gratification'.
  
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• General Election 2017: Theresa May signs up Jim Messina

  24-04-2017 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The American election guru made his name masterminding Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign and was a senior figure in David Cameron's 2015 win.
  
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• Justin Carney: Salford Red Devils winger charged with racial abuse

  24-04-2017 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Salford's Justin Carney faces a suspension of eight or more games after he was accused of racially abusing a Toronto player.
  
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• Revenge porn victim begged Facebook to take pictures down

  24-04-2017 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Timothy McCarthy (pictured) was jailed at Hull Crown Court after his ex-girlfriend was left feeling suicidal by Facebook's repeated failures to haul down the images.
  
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• RAF sends Typhoons to Romania amid tensions with Russia

  24-04-2017 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Typhoons set off from RAF Coninsby, Lincolnshire and will spent up to four months based at Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase in south east Romania.
  
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• Tenbury Wells couple whose baby drowned in the bath jailed

  24-04-2017 19:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wayne Dale, 44, and partner Lisa Passey (pictured), 28, from Worcestershire, left 13-month-old son Kian Dale in a bath seat while they entertained friends downstairs.
  
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• The land that used to belong to so-called Islamic State

  24-04-2017 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC gets rare access to north western Syria where so-called IS have been defeated.
  
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• Lib Dems launch bid to unseat Kate Hoey

  24-04-2017 19:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tim Farron (pictured left today) branded Labour veteran Kate Hoey as Ukip's candidate after Paul Nuttall indicated the Eurosceptic party would not contest the seat.
  
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• The MPs who are quitting

  24-04-2017 19:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Who is joining George Osborne in stepping down as an MP, and who plans to return?
  
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• Tory MP Jack Lopresti facing deselection calls

  24-04-2017 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jack Lopresti left his wife of 23 years after being caught having an affair with ‘Cameron cutie’ Andrea Jenkyns, who he now has a son with.
  
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• Ex-Oxford PhD student accused of rape set to walk free

  24-04-2017 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Statistician Sherman Ip, 25, allegedly forced the woman on to his bed and pulled off her clothes before raping her on 14 May 2013. But he insisted at Southwark Crown Court that she consented.
  
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