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• Thousands of gipsies brave the rain at Appleby Horse Fair

  08-06-2017 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of families have been descending on the town in Cumbria since yesterday, with one group of fair-goers even crossing the River Eden in their horses to get to the event.
  
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• Florida man shoots 12-foot python as it strangles goat  

  08-06-2017 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scott Dame, 63, opened fire on the reptile after his 10-year-old grandson found it around 200 yards from his house wrapped around the young female goat.
  
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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Manchester United not expected to offer deal to striker

  08-06-2017 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not expected to be offered a new deal by Manchester United, with the club’s retained list released on Friday.
  
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• Heroic man tried to save Sara Zelenak during London attack

  08-06-2017 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The man who tried to save Australian nanny Sara Zelenak as she was stabbed by terrorists in London has revealed he is haunted and cannot sleep after the harrowing attack.
  
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• Macron unveils 'Make our planet great again' website

  08-06-2017 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The initiative was first mooted by French President Emmanuel Macron (pictured) after the US President pulled his country out of the historic Paris climate deal.
  
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• Royal Navy officer 'raped female sailor at Raddison Blu'

  08-06-2017 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lt Nicholas Robinson, 28, allegedly pinned the woman to the bed and attacked her, at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Bahrain. When she woke up he raped her again, a military court heard.
  
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• Comey's most revealing moments

  08-06-2017 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former FBI director called the president's character into question while reflecting on his own actions in front of the Senate.
  
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• Muslim woman cared for collapsed bus passenger in London

  08-06-2017 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The woman, who wore a niqab, was pictured holding the old woman's hand. The pensioner got her head stuck between the bus door and the metal pole.
  
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• London Bridge attack ringleader seemed 'jolly' and 'nice'

  08-06-2017 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Choosing to remain anonymous in an ITV interview, the man added that he was in denial when rumours started to spread that Butt had been involved in the attack.
  
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• Transfer news LIVE: Latest on Zlatan Ibrahimovic leaving Manchester United, Lionel Messi wants Barcelona deal and more

  08-06-2017 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The summer sales are on the way as clubs look forward to a busy few months. Keep up to date with all the latest transfer news here
  
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• Why did BBC cut 'Allah' references from interview?

  08-06-2017 21:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Karrien Stevens, who runs Little Diamonds Nursery in Hermon Hill, London saida member of her staff was slashed with a 'Stanley knife' by three 'Asian women' chanting about 'Allah' and the 'Koran'.
  
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• Duchess of Cornwall has fun at farm show as she 'knights' farmer with a leek

  08-06-2017 21:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Playing the role of a 'grumpy farmer', actor Callum Arnott implored Camilla to knight him with the vegetable and protested after she only dubbed him on one shoulder
  
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• Gomersall woman stabbed partner through heart with knife

  08-06-2017 21:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michelle Spencer, 48, of Gomersall (left, centre, and right left), pleaded guilty to murdering her partner David Butterfield (far left), 43, with a kitchen knifethat she plunged into his heart.
  
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• 'It's about as unfake as you can possibly get': Comey slams Trump's denials Russia hacked the US election

  08-06-2017 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former FBI director said of the hacking: "They did it with purpose, they did it with sophistication, they did it with overwhelming technical efforts"
  
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• What time do the general election polls close tonight? 2017 opening hours and how to find my nearest polling station

  08-06-2017 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Here's everything you need to know including the deadline, who can vote, how to get an emergency proxy ballot and where to find your local polling station
  
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• Prosecutors charge men for 'smuggling Albanian immigrants'

  08-06-2017 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The National Crime Agency began investigating after an abandoned rigid hulled inflatable boat containing life jackets was found on Dymchurch beach in Kent in May last year.
  
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• Jewish nurse touches hearts breastfeeding baby Palestinian boy rescued from car crash

  08-06-2017 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The nurse tried for seven hours to get the little boy to bottle feed
  
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• South Wales teacher, 32, 'had sex with a schoolgirl'

  08-06-2017 20:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daniel Rickard, 32, who was a popular teacher at Cynffig Comprehensive School in Bridgend, South Wales, allegedly took the 17-year-old to a hostel basement in Berlin where they had sex.
  
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• "Loving" dad fatally stabbed in heart by partner had suffered history of domestic abuse at her hands

  08-06-2017 20:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Violent Michelle Spencer, 48, was jailed for life with a minimum tariff of 13 years after changing her plea at the last minute to guilty of murder
  
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• In a world of 'alternative facts' and austerity, George Orwell's 1984 overshadows us all

  08-06-2017 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Since before Brexit and Trump, we have faced an onslaught of new, invasive forms of political brainwashing that have brought about the 'post truth era'
  
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• London Bridge terrorist Khuram Butt 'inspired by watching videos on YouTube' relative claims

  08-06-2017 20:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fahad Khan, the cousin of Butt's wife Zahrah Rehman, said Butt openly discussed with him his support for Islamic State
  
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• Charlie Gard's parents lose Supreme Court battle

  08-06-2017 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chris Gard and Connie Yates, from Bedfont, west London, want a doctor in the USA to give experimental treatment to the ten-month-old who has a rare genetic illness.
  
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• Angry Ryanair passenger leaves flight attendant in TEARS

  08-06-2017 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An angry airline passenger at Brussels Airport has been slammed online for an angry outburst that left a Ryanair boarding attendant in tears.
  
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• Vandal who ransacked Lee Rigby memorial fined just £105

  08-06-2017 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Patrick Burke, 66, binned several flags and tributes during a destructive rampage at the monument in Woolwich, which marks the spot where the soldier, 25, was butchered by two terrorists.
  
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• Police chief tried to kill himself after lover dumped him

  08-06-2017 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nick Harverson, 57, of Cassington, Oxfordshire, said his lover ended the relationship soon after he confessed the affair to his wife.
  
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• World Triathlon: Alistair Brownlee v Jonny Brownlee: Inside a sibling rivalry

  08-06-2017 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's Alistair and Jonny Brownlee discuss their triathlon legacy before Sunday's World Series event in their home city of Leeds.
  
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• Somerset woman gives birth to her brother as a surrogate

  08-06-2017 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jacky Edwards, 47, of South Horrington, Somerset, was unable to carry a baby naturally but her daughter Katherine, 30, offered to help. (Left, mother and daughter with baby Caspian).
  
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• The Scottish Episcopal Church backs same sex marriage

  08-06-2017 20:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A proposal to amend canon law to permit clerics to conduct weddings for gay couples was backed at the annual meeting of the church's General Synod in Edinburgh.
  
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• Conservative party manifesto summary - All the Tory policies that'll hit YOU if Theresa May wins 2017 general election

  08-06-2017 20:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pensioners and infant school children are hit in a not-so-sweet general election offering from the Tories. Here's a summary of the key points at a glance
  
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• 'Poisoned' Russian whistleblower tried to take out £8.5million of life insurance before he died

  08-06-2017 20:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alexander Perepilichny, who helped expose a money laundering scam, collapsed while out jogging
  
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• Married teacher, 27, sent indecent photos to pupil, 16

  08-06-2017 19:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Emily Tatra, 27, became inappropriately close with the 16-year-old boy when she was head of history at Downham Market Academy, Norfolk, Norwich Crown Court heard.
  
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• Officials claim Saudi football team ignored minute's silence 'because it's not in their culture' - but is that really why?

  08-06-2017 19:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some people, offended by the team's apparent refusal to show respect from the London dead, are not convinced this explanation holds up
  
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• Heavily pregnant woman goes into labour - but ignores contractions to vote Labour

  08-06-2017 19:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In a video on Facebook, Hannah de Carteret rubs her tummy and talks of her visit to the polling station in Dartington, Devon, with daughter Ivy, 2
  
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• War hero's violin played to him at graveside

  08-06-2017 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pte Richard Howard (right) dreamt of returning from the front line to finishing making his violin. But the war hero lost his life during the Battle of Messines, on June 7 1914, in Belgium.
  
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• Rescue dog named Bob Marley due to matted 'dreadlocks' looks like a new pooch after workers' astounding makeover

  08-06-2017 19:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The poor pooch was found in a barn with another dog, named Rita after Bob Marley's wife, and could barely see or eat - but he's now looking much, much better
  
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• Election day 2017 live: Latest news as Theresa May battles Jeremy Corbyn for 10 Downing Street

  08-06-2017 19:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The UK is heading to the polls in the 2017 snap general election and we'll have all the latest as it happens
  
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• Boy starved while clinging to mother's rotting corpse

  08-06-2017 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chadrack Mbala Mulo clung to his mother's rotting corpse for two weeks before starving to death in their London flat. He was too disabled to call for help when she died.
  
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• Thurston boy dies after shot in neck in air rifle accident

  08-06-2017 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ben Wragge was fatally struck by the air rifle while playing with a group of boys at a friend's house in the village of Thurston, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.
  
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• Mother cleared over vodka and cocaine-fuelled threesome

  08-06-2017 19:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lucy Coleman, 34, was found not guilty of assault by penetration and causing actual bodily harm after three adults ended up in bed together. Her trial was at Maidstone Magistrates Court.
  
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• BBC video of Theresa May with 'bloodied knife' slammed

  08-06-2017 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The BBC has been accused of 'disgraceful' bias, after it appeared to show a laughing Theresa May pulling out a bloodied knife on the eve of the general election.
  
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• Family are 'proud' of hero PC injured in London attack

  08-06-2017 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Charlie Guenigault, 25, is in a stable condition after he was slashed in the head, leg, back and stomach by the three attackers.
  
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• 'I raised £52,000 after Manchester... I wish I hadn't'

  08-06-2017 19:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The good Samaritans who ended up ruing the day they ever became involved in fundraising.
  
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• Fernando Alonso: McLaren driver could leave if the team are not competitive

  08-06-2017 19:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fernando Alonso indicates he will leave McLaren-Honda at the end of the year if they are not competitive by September.
  
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• Scientist killed himself with lethal dose of chemicals

  08-06-2017 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Peter Tomasec, 47, worked with a team of scientists at Cardiff University (pictured) who had significant findings published in a leading world journal of science.
  
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• Corbyn refuses to say the naughtiest thing he has done

  08-06-2017 18:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader was asked by a member of the public on camera what his naughtiest escapade was, but he flashed a smile and simply said 'it's far too naughty to talk about' before scarpering off.
  
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• Dewsbury man filmed girlfriend having SEX with dog

  08-06-2017 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michael Smith, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, filmed the sex act between Gwen Kerr, 55 and his bullmastiff. He then took the video to social services and reported concern for Kerr's welfare.
  
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• British sailors died 'after being told to take shortcut'

  08-06-2017 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Douglas Innes (left), 42, director of Stormforce Coaching Limited, allegedly told the inexperienced Cheeki Rafiki crew to take a 'dangerous' 4,000 mile route across the Atlantic.
  
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• Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli reveals healthy figure

  08-06-2017 18:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli has shown off her healthier figure at the French Open in Paris (pictured) a year after fans she worried fans with her dramatic weight loss.
  
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• London Bridge video shows terrorist Khuram Butt dying

  08-06-2017 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Khuram Butt died on his back with armed officers training their weapons on him eight minutes after he masterminded the murder of eight people and the maiming of 48 more.
  
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• British public head to General Election polling stations

  08-06-2017 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some voters reported queues of people ready to vote this morning as Theresa May issued an eve-of-poll rallying call last night to ‘reignite the British spirit’.
  
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