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• Canada considers retaliation for US tariff on softwood lumber

  05-05-2017 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trudeau considers banning US coal exports and imposing duties on Oregon industries.
  
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• Eighteen fraternity members charged with hazing death of student after they 'failed to get help for unconscious teenager'

  05-05-2017 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Timothy Piazza was allegedly pressured into drinking vodka, beer and wine before he fell several times and injured his head
  
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• Woman who blamed cancer on baby powder is awarded £85MILLION by Johnson & Johnson

  05-05-2017 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A jury in St Louis, Missouri, awarded the record sum to Lois Slemp, 62, of Wise, Virginia, in the latest court case against the pharmaceutical giant
  
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• West Ham United 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur

  05-05-2017 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tottenham's hopes of catching Premier League leaders Chelsea are dealt a big blow as Manuel Lanzini earns victory for West Ham.
  
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• Mothers reveal they have babies called Bear like Cheryl

  05-05-2017 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This week Cheryl Cole and Liam Payne revealed their five-week-old son had been named Bear. But he is not the only little one with the unusual name. Pictured: Rebecca Mimms with son Bear.
  
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• 'We've never been so scared' say heroes who rushed to help as husband and wife battled frenzied 8ft shark

  05-05-2017 23:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As Dean Gonsalves fought off the Galapagos shark that attacked his wife, Paul and Craig Scipio raced into the water and dragged the couple 20 meters to shore
  
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• Tory who fought for sex abuse suspects to have anonymity is quizzed over 'groping' allegation

  05-05-2017 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nigel Evans, 59, was accused by a 28-year-old man after an evening drinking at his Westminster flat but strenuously denies the claims
  
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• Everyone is saying the same thing about Tottenham after their defeat at West Ham - including Rachel Riley

  05-05-2017 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Spurs have had a brilliant season, but that didn't stop the usual jokes being made after their loss at West Ham all but handed the title to Chelsea
  
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• We must strive to avert yet more Tory damage, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

  05-05-2017 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We’ve got a lot of hard work to do before the General Election on 8 June, but this is vitally important because Labour in power can make a huge difference to people’s lives
  
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• Inside Britain's secret underground city where the Prime Minister and Royals would have sheltered from Cold War nuclear attack

  05-05-2017 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The now-abandoned bunker sits 100ft below ground level and could house 4,000 people in the event of a war
  
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• Hero shopkeeper catches baby boy as he falls from balcony after spotting him dangling from rails

  05-05-2017 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tot Elif Cakmak wondered outside to play when he suddenly fell from the three-storey building after losing balance
  
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• British boxer says 'botched knee surgery' stopped her from bringing home gold

  05-05-2017 23:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Stacey Copeland, 35, was left with a painful second degree burn after having a routine operation outsourced
  
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• Couple's surprise pregnancy after dad's vasectomy heals

  05-05-2017 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ned Evans (pictured), 38, from South Wales, had a vasectomy so was extremely shocked to discover five years later, his wife Lucy was pregnant with their third child.
  
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• Would you pay a stranger to dump your partner for you?

  05-05-2017 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is now possible to pay someone to dump your partner, write thank you notes or queue up for you.
  
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• Men have bigger brains but ladies' ones are more efficient

  05-05-2017 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research from the Netherlands was based on MRI scans of almost 900 men and women and found male brains are around 14 per cent larger.
  
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• School girl’s yearbook quote goes viral after she claims 'anything is possible when you sound Caucasian'

  05-05-2017 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Savanna Tomlinson admitted that the wanted to 'go out with a bang' when she picked the quote to go alongside her graduation picture
  
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• Gardener who disembowelled gay British lover with a spear is jailed for 14 years

  05-05-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A friend said Eugenio Felipe Reicha had boasted of the killing and showed him a mobile phone photo of a naked and mutilated Simon Carley-Pocock
  
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• US rapper Kanye West disappears from social media

  05-05-2017 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US rapper deletes his Twitter and Instagram accounts, which had millions of followers.
  
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• "I never thought I'd say this, but thank you West Ham" - Chelsea fans take to Twitter to celebrate Tottenham's defeat

  05-05-2017 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  They're usually hated rivals, but Chelsea fans suddenly made West Ham their second-favourite team after the Hammers' shock win over Spurs made their title triumph more likely 
  
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• Three-foot 7in dwarf elected Britain's shortest politician

  05-05-2017 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Lusted has become the Conservative Party's shortest politician at just 3ft 7in tall. He hopes to stand up for the little people, despite being two feet shorter than Theresa May.
  
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• Gianluigi Buffon reveals his BRILLIANT reason for swapping shirts with Kylian Mbappe after Champions League clash

  05-05-2017 22:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Italian legend raised eyebrows when he sought out the teenager after Wednesday's Champions League game, but as always with him there was a classy reason
  
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• Little girl left in tears after nobody turned up to birthday so kind-hearted locals do something wonderful

  05-05-2017 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sophie Beer was heartbroken when not one friend came to her seventh birthday after her mum sent out 40 invitations
  
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• Inspirational bone cancer surviver re-learns to walk TWICE to achieve model dream as she struts down runway

  05-05-2017 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Natalia Harris, 21, was 12-years-old when doctors revealed the agonising 'growing pain' in her thigh was a malignant tumour
  
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• Local elections 2017: What should Labour do now?

  05-05-2017 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour has a plan to avert disaster at the general election - and it means we'll be seeing more of Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers on Friday, May 5 with £63 million jackpot up for grabs

  05-05-2017 21:49 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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• Father of missing RAF airman Corrie McKeague makes 10th visit to site of body search

  05-05-2017 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin McKeague, 48, was joined by his wife, Corrie’s stepmum Trisha, who was seen hugging a member of the search team
  
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• The 2017 local elections mapped

  05-05-2017 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Conservatives have made gains in the local council elections, with Labour and UKIP losing out, as the results are declared.
  
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• Andy Burnham wins Manchester by a landslide

  05-05-2017 21:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former health secretary Mr Burnham won 63 per cent of the vote, easily seeing off his rivals in the first round of counting. He vowed to tackle homelessness in his victory speech.
  
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• 23 of Cristiano Ronaldo's weirdest Instagram posts to celebrate him reaching 100 million followers

  05-05-2017 21:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Real Madrid icon has passed the nine-figure mark for followers on Instagram, and hopefully he'll carry on being weird on social media for a lot longer too
  
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• These are the invisible bugs with eight legs that feed on dead skin and live on your face

  05-05-2017 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The microscopic creatures have eight leg and spend their whole life crawling around your face - including eating, mating and dying
  
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• Diamond League: Justin Gatlin & Andre de Grasse beaten in Doha 100m

  05-05-2017 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  South Africa's Akani Simbine continues his impressive start to 2017 by beating Justin Gatlin and Andre de Grasse in Doha.
  
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• Brian Reade: Young people need to drag their apathetic backsides to the polling booth

  05-05-2017 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Young people need to lay down their iPhones
  and register to vote to make the UK a more balanced, representative democracy.
  
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• Second British tourist drowns in Canaries just 24 hours after man swept away by giant wave in Tenerife

  05-05-2017 20:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 30-year-old holidaymaker was enjoying a walk near a sea cave when he was dragged into the water
  
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• Zoe Ball's boyfriend Billy Yates found dead aged 40

  05-05-2017 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Radio 2 DJ Zoe Ball, 46, is said to be devastated after her 40-year-old partner Billy Yates -an Antiques Roadshow cameraman - was discovered at his flat in Putney, south London, yesterday evening.
  
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• England v Ireland: Eoin Morgan praises Adil Rashid for overcoming 'tough' winter

  05-05-2017 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eoin Morgan says Adil Rashid has learned from a "tough" winter after his 5-27 helps England beat Ireland by seven wickets.
  
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• Tories win the race to be the first Tees Valley Mayor

  05-05-2017 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former John Lewis boss Andy Street saw off Labour's Sion Simon by just a handful of votes. The Tories earlier stunned Labour by winning the Tees Valley.
  
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• Labour losses 'not as bad as expected'

  05-05-2017 20:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour keeps control of Swansea and Cardiff councils as the Tories fail to make the expected gains.
  
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• What do local results mean for general election?

  05-05-2017 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What do the local election results mean for the outcome of June's general election?
  
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• Towards a landslide?

  05-05-2017 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What do the local election results mean for the outcome of June's general election?
  
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• 6 things we learned from the local elections

  05-05-2017 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What do the local election results mean for the outcome of June's general election?
  
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• EU boss Junker says he speaks French because 'English is losing importance in Europe'

  05-05-2017 20:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The President of the European Commission joked at a conference in Italy but adopted a more serious tone when he told attendees that Brexit was a 'tragedy' and the UK was 'abandoning' the EU
  
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• Abbott gets election figures wrong in latest interview

  05-05-2017 20:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The shadow home secretary gave another car crash interview just days after claiming putting 10,000 more police on the streets would cost just £300,000.
  
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• Woman invites stranger over for threesome and tells him she lives in Buckingham Palace in Snapchat catfish

  05-05-2017 20:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The woman - who wishes to be unnamed - claims she played a brutal prank on the man
  
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• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks out about party's battering in 2017 local election results

  05-05-2017 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Labour chief insisted he is "closing the gap" on the Conservatives, despite losing more than 300 councils seats as the Tories made massive gains
  
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• 'Goodnight my little pickle, be good': Mum's heartbreaking tribute to daughter who died days before her first birthday

  05-05-2017 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tragic Honey-May Dix died just days before her first birthday after being born with Leigh syndrome
  
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• North Korea accuses CIA of plotting to kill Kim Jong-Un 

  05-05-2017 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The CIA and Seoul's Intelligence Services have 'hatched a vicious plot' involving unspecified 'biochemical substances' to assassinate Kim Jong-Un, the Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
  
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• Runaway dog delays train for an hour after trotting along tracks for four miles

  05-05-2017 20:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In an astonishing drama, Alfie the Tibetan terrier held up the service after he stubbornly refused to get off the Acle-Great Yarmouth line
  
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• Inspiral Carpets drummer Craig Gill's tinnitus 'worsened before death'

  05-05-2017 20:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Inspiral Carpets drummer Craig Gill's wife says he had "unbearable" tinnitus leading up to his death.
  
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• Somalia conflict: US suffers rare combat loss in al-Shabab clash

  05-05-2017 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the first confirmed death of a member of the US military there since Black Hawk Down in 1993.
  
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• Council election results: Sturgeon hails victory despite Tory surge

  05-05-2017 19:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The SNP finishes as comfortably the biggest party in the Scottish council elections despite big Conservative gains.
  
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