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Michelle Mone's horse among favourites to win Grand National amid backlash fears
Monbeg Genius, who was reportedly bought by Michelle Mone for £80,000 as a wedding gift for husband Doug Barrowman, has odds of 16-1 to win the Grand National in April
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Israel birthplace 'scribbled out' on baby's UK passport form as probe launched
Around 30,000 Palestinians have died in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas that was triggered by a bloody terror attack on October 7 that claimed over 1,200 Israeli lives
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Unearthed memo shows Post Office boss was told don't 'rip off the band aid'
Ex-Post Office chairman Henry Staunton is locked in a row with Kemi Badenoch over claims he’d been told to stall on compensation for postmasters such as Alan Bates
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Council tax to soar in April - see how much bills will rise in your area
The majority of households in England will see their council tax soar by up to 5% on April 1. Use our handy calculator to see how your bills will be affected this year
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Teachers to be banned if they don't report child sex abuse under new law
Teachers and health workers could be banned from working with kids if they don't report child sex abuse cases, the Government said - a move David Cameron promised back in 2015
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'Tyrant Vladimir Putin poses mortal danger to Britain - he can’t be ignored'
Campaigner Bill Browder - thought to be top of the Kremlin's kill list in the UK - is right to warn of the threat Vladimir Putin poses and cannot be ignored, says the Voice of the Mirror
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Prince William told 'stick to BAFTAs' by Nigel Farage after Gaza statement
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said Prince William should 'stick to the BAFTAs' after the royal issued a statement saying too many people had died in the Middle East conflict
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Tory minister gives strange excuse for not handing back £8,000 pay-off
Tory Health Minister Maria Caulfield pocketed thousands of pounds in severance pay despite returning to the same job just seven weeks later - and she has refused to give it back
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Top Tory defends 'flood' of party donors into Lords as Truss allies take oath
Lord Robert Douglas-Miller was challenged after Jon Moynihan and Matthew Elliott took their places in the House of Lords after being elevated in Liz Truss's resignation honours
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Assisted dying should be legalised to give people 'dignity', say Mirror readers
Dame Esther Rantzen is calling on the government to legalise assisted dying to spare families 'painful last memories' - and nearly 80% of Mirror readers support the plans
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Labour calls for 'immediate humanitarian ceasefire' in Gaza ahead of key vote
Over 28,000 Palestianians have so far been killed in the conflict and dozens of aid charities have called on all MPs to vote for an immediate ceasefire this week
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Sunak makes desperate plea to farmers amid fears rural voters will desert Tories
Rishi Sunak became the first Prime Minister to address the National Farmers Union conference in 15 years - since Gordon Brown in 2008 - as he tried to woo rural voters
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'Bad employers are parking workers on zero hours contracts for years' says TUC
The TUC said hundreds of thousands of workers are being trapped in low-pay and insecurity
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Bank of England 'no longer competent' and its freedom 'must be questioned'
Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg took aim at the Bank of England's response to economic events as Labour used a Commons urgent question to raise concerns over the UK falling into recession
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Majority of parents demand free school meals for all primary school children
A poll for the National Education Union found nearly nine in 10 (88%) parents outside London backed universal provision of free lunches in primary schools across England
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'Prince William's mission to end suffering of Gaza conflict victims brings hope'
Six years ago, Prince William said healing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be his 'lifelong project' - and he now hopes to bring people together, ending all the suffering
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Households face £103 hike to council tax in April in fresh cost of living misery
The majority of cash-strapped local authorities in England are planning to hike council tax in April as they struggle to stay afloat after years of squeezed funding
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Workers 'stuck' on insecure zero-hours contracts for years
The Trades Union Congress said a staggering 66% of employees on zero hours contracts have been with their current firm for over a year while 12% have been for over 10 years
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Childcare costs have shot up by 80% as Tories accused of 'failing' parents
Parents have been left thousands of pounds worse off after childcare costs soared by a third faster than inflation since the Tories came to power, according to Labour's analysis
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'Starmer should be wary of a final fall - Labour needs to get its act together'
Darren Lewis says the Labour Party appears convinced it needs only to turn up to win a general election – because it’s not the Tories
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Tories told to compensate Alan Bates and Post Office victims instead of fighting
Liam Byrne, chair of the Commons Business Committee, demanded Post Office bosses and ministers end the blame game and get cheques in the post to victims of the Horizon scandal
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Rachel Reeves blasts Jeremy Hunt for hiding from MPs after recession announced
The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be overheard asking "where is he?" as the more junior Treasury minister Bim Afolami was sent to field questions in his boss's absence
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Tory MPs glued to mobile phones on day ministers tell pupils to get off theirs
Conservative MPs sat checking their mobile phones in the Commons just hours after ministers announced a clampdown on devices in classrooms over fears they're a distraction
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Esther Rantzen shares final meal plan before ending her life in cancer battle
Dame Esther Rantzen revealed last year that she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has been campaigning for euthanasia to be legalised in the UK in the months since