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• Family's horror after their 200 PET RATS take over home and ruin everything

  11-02-2016 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A FAMILY had to call in animal specialists after their home was overrun by more than 200 rats.
  
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• Broadband made 50,000 TIMES faster - Cutting two hour downloads to a SPLIT SECOND

  11-02-2016 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SCIENTISTS have made a new breakthrough of super-fast household broadband which could make the snail-like speeds something of the past.
  
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• Mothers 'asked to move to the back of restaurant so men can read their paper in peace'

  11-02-2016 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  APPALLED mothers say they were requested to eat their lunch at the back of a restaurant following complaints from men.
  
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• Horror as baby's body found stuck in drain after plumber called to deal with 'blockage'

  11-02-2016 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A HORRIFIED plumber has discovered the body of a baby lodged in the drain of a house.
  
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• UK's first toll motorway for sale

  11-02-2016 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The loss-making M6 Toll road is put up for sale for nearly £2bn, the BBC understands.
  
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• HEADED FOR LONDON: People warned not to approach paedophile who skipped licence

  11-02-2016 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  POLICE have tonight warned Londoners not to approach paedophile who skipped licence to catch a train to the capital.
  
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• VIDEO: Top Gear's top seven

  11-02-2016 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The full line-up of presenters set to front the new series of Top Gear has been announced.
  
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• Einstein's gravity waves detected a century after his prediction

  11-02-2016 22:06
  Gravity waves - ripples in spacetime - have been detected by scientists a century after Albert Einstein predicted their existence.
  
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• 25% Of Female Rape Victims Are Under 15

  11-02-2016 21:53
  
  The statistics, from a detailed breakdown of the age and gender of victims of alleged sexual offences, were recorded from March 2014-15 from 13 police forces in England and Wales. Further findings showed that rape victims of both sexes were most likely to be aged between 15 and 19. Three in ten (30%) of female rape victims were aged under 16, and half of female victims of other sexual offences, such as assaults, grooming and sexual exploitation, were also girls aged under 16.
  
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• Adam Johnson Sacked After Sex Charge Admission

  11-02-2016 21:43
  
  Footballer Adam Johnson has been sacked by Sunderland after admitting one count of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl. The Black Cats announced they have terminated the 28-year-old's contract with immediate effect a day after Johnson admitted the charge during a hearing at Bradford Crown Court. Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt, who was in court on Wednesday, said that although few details are known about the sex charge Johnson has pleaded guilty to, it did involve the kissing and touc
  
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• 'Not long enough' Speeding driver who killed two young sisters jailed for just four years

  11-02-2016 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MAN who killed two young sisters after mowing them down with his car while speeding has been sentenced to just four years in jail.
  
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• NHS bosses cited in letter 'don't back imposition of junior doctor contracts'

  11-02-2016 21:25
  
  Several NHS chief executives who apparently put their names to a key letter used by Jeremy Hunt to justify imposing new contracts on junior doctors have withdrawn their support for such a plan.
  
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• Police hunt paedophile over licence breach

  11-02-2016 21:21
  Police have released a photograph of a paedophile they are hunting after he breached his licence conditions.
  
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• Adam Johnson sacked by Sunderland after admitting sexual activity with girl

  11-02-2016 21:21
  England footballer Adam Johnson has been sacked by Premier League Sunderland after he admitted a charge of grooming and one of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.
  
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• E-cigarette vapour 'as damaging for babies' brain development as tobacco smoke'

  11-02-2016 21:15
  Pregnant women who smoke may harm their babies' brain development if they turn to e-cigarettes to satisfy their nicotine craving, scientists have warned.
  
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• £1.5m bill for NHS over sacked woman boss called ‘whore’

  11-02-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN NHS sex scandal has cost taxpayers almost £1.5million after a married human resources executive was branded a whore by her boss.
  
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• Premier League star Adam Johnson SACKED by Sunderland over child sex charge admission

  11-02-2016 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PREMIER League star Adam Johnson has been sacked by his club Sunderland after he admitted child sex offences this week.
  
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• OK Go defy gravity in music video first

  11-02-2016 20:31
  The first music video ever to be shot in zero gravity has been made by OK Go and premiered on Facebook.
  
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• William attends funeral of polar explorer Henry Worsley

  11-02-2016 20:29
  The Duke of Cambridge has attended the funeral of polar explorer Henry Worsley, who died trying to make the first unassisted solo crossing of the Antarctic.
  
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• EU refines UK offer, up to Cameron now to clinch deal

  11-02-2016 20:21
  By Jan Strupczewski, Alastair Macdonald and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British and EU negotiators agreed much of a reform package on Thursday to help keep Britain in the European Union, leaving Prime Minister David Cameron to settle tricky final issues, notably on migration, at a summit next week, diplomats said. After talks in Brussels among officials from all 28 member states to review mostly minor amendments to proposals made by European Council President Donald Tusk last week, a
  
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• Friends who won 66 million euro in syndicate choose to keep their names secret

  11-02-2016 20:18
  
  A group of Irish friends who won 66 million euro on the EuroMillions are to keep their identities secret.
  
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• US crackdown on foreign salamanders to keep out deadly fungus

  11-02-2016 20:15
  Scientists have explained why the US has slapped a Donald Trump-style ban on all foreign salamanders.
  
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• Camilla awarded honorary degree for work on bone condition

  11-02-2016 20:15
  The Duchess of Cornwall has been awarded her first honorary doctorate for her work supporting osteoporosis patients, and scientists and medical staff who treat them.
  
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• Islamic terror suspects 'could return to UK after conviction'

  11-02-2016 20:14
  Three alleged Islamic extremists fighting extradition to Italy to stand trial accused of terror offences could return to live in Britain after serving a prison sentence if convicted, a court heard.
  
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• 30% of female rape victims are girls aged under 16

  11-02-2016 20:14
  Nearly a third of female rape victims are girls aged under 16, new figures indicate.
  
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• Ministers press ahead with plan to cut MP numbers to 600

  11-02-2016 20:06
  The Government has confirmed its intention to cut the number of MPs in the Commons from 650 to 600 in a review of constituency boundaries beginning this year and due for implementation by the 2020 general election
  
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• JOBS MADNESS: Economic migrants being offered work AHEAD of unemployed Britons

  11-02-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  JOBLESS Britons are being denied work in favour of economic migrants from Eastern Europe, it has been claimed.
  
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• Overweight, depressed smoker? Blame your Neanderthal DNA

  11-02-2016 20:00
  If you are a heavy smoker, overweight, depressed, and have survived a heart attack or stroke, it could be your Neanderthal ancestry that is to blame.
  
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• Paris attacks will see Chelsea fans facing HOUR LONG security lines and ban on BELTS

  11-02-2016 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PARIS has implemented strict security checks ahead of the Champions League clash between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.
  
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• Restored Jimi Hendrix apartment opens to public in London

  11-02-2016 19:17
  The London apartment where Jimi Hendrix lived more than 45 years ago has opened to the public, restored to look just how the rock star used it. Hendrix moved into the apartment on the upper floors of 23 Brook Street - next to the house composer George Frideric Handel lived in centuries earlier - in July 1968 after his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham saw it advertised in a newspaper. Hendrix, who died in 1970 aged 27, wrote music, rehearsed and gave interviews there.
  
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• REVEALED: British soldier unmasked as 'legend' who tripped up drug suspect for police

  11-02-2016 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SERVING British soldier has been uncovered as the hero who tripped up a suspected drug dealer in a police chase.
  
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• Met Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has contract extended for a year

  11-02-2016 18:45
  Britain's most senior police officer Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe will remain in his post for at least another 19 months after the Home Secretary awarded him a one-year contract extension.
  
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• Man Jailed For Killing Unborn Son In Attack

  11-02-2016 18:33
  
  A man has been jailed for life for killing his unborn son during a vicious attack on his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Teaching assistant Kevin Wilson took matters into his own hands after eight-months-pregnant Malorie Bantala refused to have an abortion. The 22-year-old hid in bushes near her Peckham flat with accomplice Taffari Grant, 17, before pouncing on his former lover, who had been buying decorations for a baby shower.
  
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• VIDEO: Are football tickets too expensive?

  11-02-2016 18:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool's owners have got rid of plans to charge £77 for tickets.
  
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• Longest-surviving heart transplant patient dies THREE decades after being given five years

  11-02-2016 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE world's longest-surviving heart transplant patient has died at the age of 73, more than three decades after being told he had just five years to live.
  
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• Royal Air Force officer who flew with Churchill during Second World War dies aged 97

  11-02-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A ROYAL Air Force officer who flew with Winston Churchill during the Second World War has died aged 97.
  
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• Anti-depressant prescriptions surge by more than 10 million in just four years

  11-02-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PRESCRIPTIONS for anti-depressants in England have surged by more than 10 million in just four years, figures show.
  
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• Inspirational boy with cerebral palsy awarded Everton's Goal of the Month

  11-02-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BOY of nine with cerebral palsy was today presented with Everton’s Goal of the Month award after capturing the hearts of thousands of fans.
  
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• Hotel Mum and Dad: One in FIVE still living with parents until they are at least 26

  11-02-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LIVING at home is so comfortable that one in five adult offspring stay at the Hotel of Mum and Dad until they are at least 26 years old, according to a new report.
  
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• Cousin of teenage 'terror twins' guilty of Syria jihad charges

  11-02-2016 17:30
  A cousin of two sisters who were dubbed the "teenage terror twins" after they joined Islamic State is facing jail for helping a friend go to Syria to fight jihad.
  
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• Einstein's gravity waves detected 100 years after his prediction

  11-02-2016 17:00
  Gravity waves - ripples in spacetime - have been detected by scientists a century after Albert Einstein predicted their existence.
  
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• 'Legend' who tripped up suspected drug dealer revealed as soldier

  11-02-2016 16:33
  
  A man who tripped up a suspected drug dealer running from police has been revealed as a soldier, who said his military training kicked in when he saw the chase.
  
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• Toxic chemicals found in system of 2012 stranding whales

  11-02-2016 16:32
  A pod of whales stranded in Scotland more than three years ago had high concentrations of toxic chemicals in their system, some of which had reached the mammals' brains, scientists have found.
  
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• Chancellor's Brother Struck Off Over Affair

  11-02-2016 16:32
  
  The brother of George Osborne has been struck off as a psychiatrist after admitting to a two-year affair with a vulnerable patient. A disciplinary tribunal concluded that Dr Adam Osborne's fitness to practise was impaired by reason of misconduct and his behaviour was "profoundly unacceptable". Dr Osborne admitted having an emotional and sexual affair with the mentally ill patient during a hearing that started on Monday.
  
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• Doctor brother of UK's finance minister struck off medical register

  11-02-2016 16:25
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The psychiatrist brother of Britain's finance minister George Osborne was struck off the British medical register on Thursday for having an affair with a patient and threatening her to keep quiet about it, a disciplinary panel said.
  
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• Junior doctors to 'consider all options' as Jeremy Hunt vows to impose contract

  11-02-2016 16:22
  
  Junior doctors have pledged to fight on after Jeremy Hunt announced he will impose a new contract on thousands of medics in England.
  
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• George Osborne's psychiatrist brother struck off over affair with patient

  11-02-2016 16:17
  
  Chancellor George Osborne's shamed psychiatrist brother showed "a blatant disregard for the fundamental tenets of the medical profession" in having a two-year sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient.
  
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• Firm Prosecuted Over Harrison Ford Leg Break

  11-02-2016 15:48
  
  A film production company has been charged with breaching health and safety laws after Harrison Ford broke his leg when shooting Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Representatives from Foodles Production (UK) will appear in court in May to face four charges after the incident at Pinewood Studios. Ford was airlifted to hospital after he was struck by a heavy hydraulic metal door on the set of the Millennium Falcon on 12 June, 2014.
  
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• Spying laws rethink demanded after third inquiry finds proposals 'flawed'

  11-02-2016 15:46
  
  Theresa May is facing calls to return to the drawing board on new spying laws after a third inquiry called for major changes to the "flawed" proposals.
  
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• Google: We pay 'fair' tax amount in the UK

  11-02-2016 15:46
  Google has insisted that it pays a "fair" amount of tax in the UK, as one high-paid executive came under fire from MPs after admitting he did not know how much he earned.
  
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