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• One Direction Fans At Band's 'Final Show'

  31-10-2015 23:44
  
  They began as five X Factor solo hopefuls, astutely formed into a band that made pop history, selling out Madison Square Garden and topping the charts around the world. But  Zayn Malik quit earlier this year and Harry Styles has long been expected to forge his own solo career, while there is speculation the others could do the same.
  
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• Strictly's Georgia May Foote dubbed 'Queen of Halloween' after tango

  31-10-2015 22:13
  
  The celebrities faced the horrors of trying to survive Halloween Week on Strictly Come Dancing.
  
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• UK police make third arrest over TalkTalk cyber attack

  31-10-2015 22:12
  
  British police have made a third arrest in connection with a cyber attack this month on telecoms company TalkTalk in which the company said bank details of more than 20,000 customers were hacked. A 20-year-old man from Staffordshire, central England, was being held in custody and his address was being searched, London police said in a statement.
  
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• All Blacks In Historic Rugby World Cup Win

  31-10-2015 19:39
  
  New Zealand have become the first team to successfully defend the Rugby World Cup, beating Australia 34-17 in the final. The All Blacks had been ahead 21-3 at half-time before Australia staged a rousing fightback, which looked even more threatening after New Zealand lost Ben Smith to a yellow card. But in the final 16 minutes, a drop goal and long-range penalty from New Zealand's Dan Carter and Beauden Barrett's late try settled the contest.
  
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• Third arrest in TalkTalk cyber attack probe

  31-10-2015 19:31
  
  A third person has been arrested by police investigating the cyber attack on telecoms firm TalkTalk.
  
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• UK 'too late in recognising need to tackle extremist views'

  31-10-2015 18:35
  
  Britain was too late in recognising the need to tackle the extremist views that fuel terrorism, the Foreign Secretary has suggested.
  
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• Nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers 'open to fraud' after data breach

  31-10-2015 18:35
  
  Nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers are "open to fraud" after hackers accessed their personal details, the company has revealed.
  
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• Man arrested after armed siege shuts Portsmouth city centre

  31-10-2015 18:19
  
  A 20-year-old man has been arrested after a three-hour armed siege closed a section of a busy city centre.
  
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• Hackers strike at Vodafone stealing bank details from thousands of customers

  31-10-2015 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HACKERS have stolen the personal and bank details of almost 2,000 Vodafone customers in a targeted cyber attack.
  
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• MAN-Tastic!  Dad Wins ‘Man Cave Of The Year’ With Signed Football Shirts And Beer On Tap

  31-10-2015 18:03
  
  This man-tastic space puts other Man Caves to shame...
  
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• Hackers Access Nearly 2,000 Vodafone Accounts

  31-10-2015 18:00
  
  Vodafone says hackers have accessed the accounts of 1,827 customers, just a week after a separate hacking attack at TalkTalk. The hack could potentially give criminals customers' names, mobile numbers, bank sort codes and the last four digits of their bank accounts. The company said an attempt had been made to access some of its customers' account details between midnight Wednesday and midday on Thursday.
  
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• TERROR TOWN: UK budget cuts 'causing a national security crisis' warns police chief

  31-10-2015 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE police chief monitoring “the extremist capital of Britain” fears a national security crisis because frontline police are starved of funds.
  
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• Hackers 'may have accessed 2,000 Vodafone customers' details'

  31-10-2015 17:32
  
  Hackers may have accessed the bank details of nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers, the company has said.
  
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• Ben Nevis Walkers Warned Against Building Cairns Filled With Poo

  31-10-2015 17:20
  
  The piles of rock - known as cairns - are a feature of mountain walks, with many official examples along trails, but a number of DIY cairns are being constructed to hide rubbish and even human excrement
  
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• From Eritrea to London: Refugee's 3,500 mile journey MAPPED but he expected 'MORE from UK'

  31-10-2015 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN illegal immigrant given a taxpayer-funded home after sneaking into the UK in a deadly 3,500 mile journey said he expected Britain “to be better” than it is.
  
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• Man arrested after armed siege at Portsmouth shop

  31-10-2015 16:55
  
  A man has been arrested following a three-hour armed siege closed a section of a busy city centre.
  
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• Cow & Gate baby food recalled over insects discovery

  31-10-2015 16:55
  
  A baby food maker has issued a product recall after complaints that insects were found in some of its muesli.
  
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• £260m Bradford Broadway launch ends troubled saga

  31-10-2015 16:55
  
  The opening of the biggest retail development of 2015 in the UK will signal the end of a troubled saga which came to symbolise the destructive effect of the global financial crisis on British city centres.
  
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• Aircraft search off Isle of Man abandoned

  31-10-2015 16:51
  
  The search for an aircraft which issued a distress call off the coast of the Isle of Man has been abandoned.
  
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• Kezia Dugdale slams Cameron and Sturgeon in Labour conference speech

  31-10-2015 16:34
  
  New Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has pledged more cash to help the country's poorest pupils and to reverse tax credit cuts for working families north of the border.
  
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• Knifeman sparks armed siege in Portsmouth city centre shop

  31-10-2015 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN alleged knifeman has sparked an armed police siege in a city centre shop this afternoon.
  
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• 50 residents rescued after blaze in London tower block

  31-10-2015 16:08
  
  Sleeping residents were evacuated from a tower block and 16 people taken to hospital after a fire in a third-floor flat.
  
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• Cow & Gate Recalls Baby Banana Muesli After Parents Find Insects In Boxes

  31-10-2015 15:51
  
  Alex Bianco was one customer horrified to discover a spider’s web lurking in the box of baby muesli, sharing the photograph on Twitter
  
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• Sea search for 'lost aircraft' off Isle of Man

  31-10-2015 15:47
  
  A search operation is under way off the coast of the Isle of Man after an unknown aircraft issued an emergency code.
  
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• Loch Ness Monster Was 'PR Stunt Dreamed Up For Tourists In London Pub'

  31-10-2015 15:25
  
  That's the bizarre claim in a new book about the Scottish myth...
  
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• Poppy Lady: I've sold poppies for 80 years to honour promise to father

  31-10-2015 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HER father made her promise never to forget those who sacrificed their lives in the Great War and teenager Christine England dutifully kept her word for 80 years.
  
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• Man arrested over fatal shooting in Birmingham

  31-10-2015 15:18
  
  A man has been arrested in connection with a double shooting which left one man dead and another critically injured.
  
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• South Wales Police Delete Their Own Halloween Clown Video Because It's Terrifying

  31-10-2015 14:30
  
  After being posted on South Wales Police’s Twitter feed, it became clear that the clip was itself giving people nightmares
  
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• Woman Visits Almost 1,000 Wetherspoons To Honour Her Late Husband

  31-10-2015 13:59
  
  Mags Thomson, 66, from Livingston in Scotland, started going to pubs in the Wetherspoon’s chain back in 1994 with her husband Ian
  
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• 'Great Pumpkin' Halloween asteroid to fly past Earth

  31-10-2015 13:54
  
  A Halloween asteroid the size of four football pitches is due to fly past Earth today.
  
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• A Real Nightmare On Elm Street! House Prices Slashed On Roads Linked To Freddy Flick

  31-10-2015 13:24
  
  The fictional nightmare has become a reality to homeowners who actually live on an Elm Street
  
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• Dog rescued after getting stuck in CHAIR with its feet in the air

  31-10-2015 13:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A DOG named after Hollywood’s greatest gangster has survived the electric chair.
  
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• Threats To Rape MP For Men's Debate Remark

  31-10-2015 13:14
  
  Labour MP Jess Phillips has contacted police after being subjected to threats of rape over her objections to a debate on men's rights. The outspoken member for Birmingham Yardley faced death threats and told she should be "raped in front of everyone" online after dismissing Conservative MP Philip Davies when he called for a discussion in Parliament on International Men’s Day. Ms Phillips has passed emails, containing the threats, to West Midlands Police and also reported Twitter users who
  
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• 50 rescued from fire in west London tower block

  31-10-2015 13:13
  
  Firefighters have rescued 50 people from a burning tower block in west London after a fire in a third-floor flat.
  
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• Insects In Baby Food Spark Product Recall

  31-10-2015 12:56
  
  Cow & Gate has recalled a batch of muesli baby food after some customers complained of finding insects in the product. Took it back to Tesco and they found a maggot in it," tweeted Alex Bianco, who also posted a photo. A statement on the Food Standards Agency website  said: "This product is not suitable for consumption because the presence of foreign bodies such as insect.
  
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• 35 rescued from burning North Kensington tower block

  31-10-2015 12:51
  
  Firefighters have rescued 35 people from a burning tower block in west London after a fire in a third-floor flat.
  
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• VIDEO: The 'wicked' sport banned by Henry VIII

  31-10-2015 11:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is a sport once considered so distracting that Henry VIII banned it for leading people into wicked ways.
  
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• UK troops and Royal Navy warships join huge Nato training exercise

  31-10-2015 11:54
  
  Nearly 3,000 UK troops and two Royal Navy warships are taking part in the largest Nato training exercise in more than a decade.
  
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• Bid to trace pair after man's death

  31-10-2015 11:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police release descriptions of two men they want to speak to following the death of Douglas Brandie in Aberdeen.
  
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• Pedestrian Has Face 'Ripped Off' By Sofa Falling From London’s W Hotel

  31-10-2015 11:30
  
  The man suffered a serious head injury as he was struck by the two seater sofa which is thought to have fallen from scaffolding outside the luxury W London Hotel
  
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• Woman dies after A44 two-car crash

  31-10-2015 11:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman has died after a crash involving two cars on the A44 in Powys, Dyfed-Powys Police says.
  
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• UK scientists use Google Street View photos to assess natural disasters damage

  31-10-2015 11:15
  
  Photographs from Google Street View are being used by British scientists to assess the damage caused by major natural disasters.
  
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• Shaker Aamer 'to take legal action against Government' after Guantanamo release

  31-10-2015 10:38
  
  The last British resident held at Guantanamo Bay is set to take legal action against the Government following his release, sources said.
  
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• Hamilton to finish career at Mercedes

  31-10-2015 10:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  World champion Lewis Hamilton says he plans to finish his career with Mercedes and will sign one more contract with the team.
  
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• VIDEO: How do you clear a huge abandoned tip?

  31-10-2015 10:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A huge, steaming pile of rubbish is making life miserable for the residents of the village of Great Heck, in North Yorkshire.
  
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• VIDEO: Is this the UK's spookiest Halloween House?

  31-10-2015 09:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Peter Marshall reports from a family house in Preston which has been transformed into a "house of horrors" to raise a Halloween fright and drum up money for charity.
  
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• Overseas patients face A&E charges

  31-10-2015 09:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Patients from outside the European Economic Area could face charges for emergency treatment in England, the Department of Health confirms.
  
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• £6m MRI scanner arrives in Cardiff

  31-10-2015 09:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A giant brain scanner worth £6m arrives at Cardiff University - the third of its kind in the UK.
  
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• Doctors warn over plan for A&E charges for overseas patients

  31-10-2015 08:55
  
  Doctors have warned they must not be expected to act as border guards after it emerged that charges for emergency healthcare are set to be imposed on patients from overseas.
  
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• Shaker Aamer undergoing medical tests

  31-10-2015 08:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shaker Aamer, who spent 13 years in Guantanamo Bay, is undergoing physical and psychiatric tests ahead of being reunited with his children.
  
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