The Mirror (London, England) back issues from April 2008:
WHO SAID THAT?(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... My attitude is, if someone's going to criticise me, tell ...
TODAY ON THE WEB Mirror.co.uk.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... MORE JIM SHELLEY NOW you can get more brilliant comment from our resident TV critic online at Mirror.co.uk/tvandfilm/shelleyvision CHAMPIONS LEAGUE THE latest from Liverpool ahead of tomorrow ...
OPINION OF THE DAY.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... FREE school meals for every child is a recipe for ...
DAY OF THE DAY.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... UP to 1,000 prisoners riot at Strangeways Prison, ...
BET OF THE DAY.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Sheffield Wednesday GET a bob or two on the Owls ...
SITE OF THE DAY.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool ...
NEWS.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... ANTI-HONKING BLITZ ON BIG APPLE'S CABS NEW Yorkers are cracking down on horn-honking taxi drivers. They are demanding that cabs be fitted with lights that will identify the culprits. Although blasting the horn is an offence, police must see the driver doing it. The problem is ...
TV BRUCE IN BOOZY FILM AXE; EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BRIAN ROBERTS SACKED Coronation Street star Bruce Jones has been axed from making a big screen comeback. Jones, 55, was due to play a paparazzo photographer in a new British comedy film, called Snappers, with singer Joss Stone, 20. But Jones - ...
ROBBIE'S GIG FOR MONTY; EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By TOM BRYANT ROBBIE Williams is to sing at golfer Colin Montgomerie's starstudded wedding. He will perform a special gig when Monty ties the knot with Gaynor Knowles on the banks of Loch Lomond, on April 19. Chris Evans will compere the evening ...
PICTURE PERFECT; Madonna close to 50.. yet looking so youthful.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By KATE JACKSON WE know Madonna looks good for her age as she hits 50 ... but is she TOO perfect? Dressed in skimpy lingerie and kinky thighlength boots, this is the queen of pop's latest reinvention - for the May issue of Vanity Fair. And the ...
FREE SCHOOL MEALS COULD BEAT OBESITY; EXCLUSIVE DAILY Mirror Feed me better Radical plan may be centrepiece of Labour manifesto.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BOB ROBERTS, Political Editor A RADICAL plan to give free school meals to all children could become the centrepiece of Labour's next election manifesto. Children's Secretary Ed Balls is said to be keen on the proposal, which would be a key weapon in the ...
PERV RELEASE ROW.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BOB ROBERTS TWO sex offenders were released from jail up to 18 days early under a controversial scheme to free space, it emerged yesterday. Figures show they were freed in February under the End of Custody ...
Free range revolution.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... SHOPPERS are buying more free range eggs than battery for the first ...
IMMIGRANT FEAR.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JAMES LYONS IMMIGRATION has made lowpaid workers worse off, a Lords report warned yesterday. Ministers claim that foreigners add billions to the economy. But the demands on the NHS and housing ...
We said T5 would be fiasco.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By STEPHEN MOYES BRITISH Airways was repeatedly warned of problems that led to the new Terminal 5 fiasco, a union said yesterday. BA boss Willie Walsh claims he was not told of concerns about computers, security, overtime and failures in tests of the baggage ...
Ministers: 1 in 4 'do nothing'.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BOB ROBERTS A QUARTER of all ministers sit around doing nothing, an ex-Downing Street chief said yesterday. Matthew Taylor, once of No.10's policy unit, insisted too many were employed by the Government. And he said that one in four should be ...
'You died a hero .. my girl was playing on the field you avoided' - MESSAGE TO PILOT FROM A PARENT; JET HORROR IN SUBURBS.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By STEWART MACLEAN, LAURIE HANNA, ROBERT STANSFIELD and GREIG BOX TURNBALL A GRATEFUL family paid tribute last night to the hero pilot killed when a jet crashed on to a house. Mike Roberts died with four others as he tried to steer the doomed plane clear of ...
CRASH DAD PLAYS GOLF; JET HORROR IN SUBURBS.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... THE pensioner whose pounds 450,000 home was destroyed in the jet crash relaxed with a round of golf yesterday. Edwin Harman, 73, soaked up the sunshine on the last day of a break in Portugal. He tried to book an earlier flight back to comfort wife Patricia, 68, who returned on ...
SAVERS TOOK pounds 14BN FROM BANK AS ROCK CRUMBLED.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By GRAHAM HISCOTT Deputy Business Editor SCARED savers withdrew almost pounds 14billion from crisis-hit Northern Rock, figures showed yesterday. Thousands of people queued at branches after learning the bank had asked for emergency cash from the Bank of ...
Cutback on loans.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... NORTHERN Rock will encourage borrowers to remortgage with rival lenders when their home loans come up for renewal. The move is aimed at helping the bank slash its mortgage book from pounds 107billion to ...
Medical MoTs for over 40s.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BOB ROBERTS PLANS for health MoTs for everyone over the age of 40 will be announced by Gordon Brown today. The Prime Minister will say he wants screenings for heart and kidney disease, diabetes and strokes. Every year the ailments hit four ...
Sister in fury over air crash.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By RICHARD SMITH THE sister of one of 10 British servicemen killed when an RAF Hercules aircraft crashed in Iraq hit out before an inquest into the tragedy yesterday. The transport plane came down in 2005 after enemy gunfire pierced a fuel tank which exploded ...
100,000,000 BULBS TO CUT BILLS.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JAMES LYONS, Political Correspondent FAMILIES are to get 100 million energysaving green light bulbs to cut bills in a new scheme launched today. Electricity and gas giants have agreed to spend a massive pounds 3billion over the next three years to slash the ...
Spacey's TV talent hunt fury.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NICOLA METHVEN KEVIN Spacey has hit out at the BBC for "unfairly promoting" musicals like The Sound of Music and Joseph through its Andrew Lloyd Webber TV talent shows. The artistic director of the Old Vic theatre accused bosses of "crossing the line" and ...
Swearing Sharon is let-off.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By MARK JEFFERIES SHARON Osbourne's four-letter outburst at the Brit awards was "acceptable," TV watchdogs said. Regulator Ofcom did not punish ITV1, despite 128 viewers' complaints, because it said the show is known for swearing. Host Sharon told ...
SEAN'S STEAMY AFFAIR HOTS UP.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By MARK JEFFERIES SEXY Sean Slater and Roxie Mitchell's love affair in EastEnders sizzles next week when she sneaks out from behind the bar and into his bedroom. The flirty Albert Square pair are trying to keep their relationship under wraps from Roxie's ...
PARENTS LOCK UP BABIES.. TO GO FOR A CURRY; EXCLUSIVE Couple get jail for neglect.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By LUCY THORNTON A COUPLE who locked their toddler and two babies in a bedroom while they went for a curry were given jail terms. The two girls and a boy - aged three, 19 months and eight months - were kept prisoner for nearly five hours with a cord tied from ...
TOTS LEFT HOME ALONE.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... THERE have been several Home Alone scandals in recent years. NATALIE Smythe, 23, from Manchester, left her daughters, two and four, for 16 hours to go drinking at her lover's home. KENISHA Anglin, 22, left her eight-month-old to go ...
Hospital drink cases treble.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... BOOZE-related hospital admissions have soared since the introduction of 24-hour drinking - and many cases involve children. In some areas cases of alcohol poisoning and liver damage have tripled from November 2005, according to Government figures. One of the largest ...
Maddy cops quiz Tapas 7.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... SEVEN of Kate and Gerry McCann's friends are to quizzed by Portuguese police in the UK next week. Detectives will fly in on April 7, a date agreed with British police. The seven, members of the socalled Tapas Nine who were dining with the McCanns when daughter ...
Cancer doc's 20 blunders.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... A DOCTOR who wrongly gave the allclear to 20 breast cancer patients was suspended from practising for 12 months yesterday. One of the women died after the misdiagnosis of consultant radiologist Amjad Husien was not spotted for three months. A General Medical Council ...
LOVE LOVE ME DO; MACCA AND HIS NEW GIRL Frolicking Beatle has such fancy for Nancy.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By FIONA CUMMINS, Showbiz Reporter and CLEMMIE MOODIE in New Tork THEY were like a couple of infatuated teenagers, wandering a Caribbean beach lost in each other's company and making no secret of their new romance. Newly-divorced Sir Paul McCartney and US ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Success on menu.(Leaders)
Apr 01, 2008 ... FREE school meals for every child is a recipe for healthier, betterbehaved and better-educated kids. Scoffing snacks or popping out of school to buy cheap junk food is deadly when so many are dangerously overweight, officially classed as obese. And every teacher ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Life savers.(Leaders)
Apr 01, 2008 ... HOPEFULLY it will bring a little comfort to the families of the pilot and co-pilot of the crashed Cessna that residents of Farnborough regard the two men as heroes. The fact that no one on the ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Glad all over.(Leaders)
Apr 01, 2008 ... PAUL McCartney snogging US socialite Nancy Shevell publicly confirms they're are an item. ...
We took to the air with a rifle and two pigeons; Founder member Henry on RAF at 90.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: MATT ROPER IT IS 90 years today since the first Royal Air Force plane took to the skies. Henry Allingham, who at 111 years old is the only surviving founding member of the RAF, will be the guest of honour at RAF Odiham, Hampshire, to mark the anniversary. Here, with ...
Sad mum back with Scarlett.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By EMILY MILLER THE mum of teenager Scarlett Keeling returned to Britain with her daughter's body last night. Barefoot Fiona MacKeown was met by family members after she landed at Heathrow Airport. They travelled home to North Devon to make plans ...
Fern: So tired we'll be axed.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By MARK JEFFERIES FERN Britton and Phil Schofield joked yesterday they could get the sack - because they're too tired to concentrate on their daytime TV show, This Morning. Fern, who has been hosting the show for nine years, and Phil, who has been with her ...
MY 200 MILE TAXI HELL WITH GAZZA; EXCLUSIVE Cabbie 'attacked as star refuses to pay fare' Pleads for booze and vows to be Keegan No2.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JEREMY ARMSTRONG PAUL Gascoigne was facing a police probe last night after allegedly grabbing a taxi driver by the throat and refusing to pay a pounds 350 fare after a boozy 200-mile trip. Adnan Aziz, 30, claims the star clambered into his cab in Newcastle ...
PS..RIO HAS BEEN IN THE WARS TOO.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... ENGLAND captain Rio Ferdinand shocked his Manchester United teammates yesterday when he turned up at an airport with a massive black eye. John O'Shea shouted : "Crikey, Rio, what the hell's ...
HAND US POWER; OPPOSITION TELLS MUGABE.. Rival claims victory but delayed results spark fears of vote rigging.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By MARK ELLIS, Foreign Editor ZIMBABWE'S opposition claimed they had triumphed at the polls last night - but tyrant Robert Mugabe showed no sign of standing down. Tendai Biti, of the Movement for Democratic Change, said the country was standing on a ...
Clegg's a Calamity as a stud.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JAMES LYONS NEW Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg admits that he has bedded "no more than 30 women" ... and a few may have found him a flop. The 41-year-old dad of two - dubbed "Calamity" - replied when asked if he'd had any complaints: "Oh God, yes of course." ...
Horror of hit-run tot.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... A TODDLER was last night fighting for her life after she was mown down by a suspected hit-andrun driver. Anam Hanif, 21 months, was playing at the back of her dad's shop with her brother and two sisters. The car sped off as she lay dying on the pavement. Her eldest ...
Heads sit on billions.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... SCHOOLS are hoarding huge amounts of cash that should be spent on pupils, figures will reveal today. A handful of head teachers have budget surpluses of pounds 2million, the Department of Children, Schools and Families will admit. The total lying idle in accounts in ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: ROSS'S DROSS.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY AFTER his toe-curlingly crawly "interview" with his pal David Baddiel, this week's love-in on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross featured Trevor "Eddie Shoestring" Eve. "How nice to have you on the show. I'm a big fan," Ross fawned. "I'm ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: Teenage Kicks.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY JOKES about date rape, men's trousers ripping when they bend over, the fact that Chinese people can't speak Engrish ... Ade Edmondson's new sitcom Teenage ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: Real Blue.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY WHO is the least authentic police officer in Holby Blue? Absurdly intense Scottish detective DI John Keenan? Captain Birdseye-lookalike desk ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: Ashes trashes the Gene genius.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY LIKE its predecessor Life On Mars, Ashes To Ashes is bound to clean up when it comes to Bafta nominations. Worst Comic Actress, Least Convincing Copper, and Best Supporting Bra-strap to ... Keeley Hawes. Worst Waste of A Great ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: GAG OF THE WEEK.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY Stacey: "I'm just doing my video!" ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: WORDS WE ALL WANT TO HEAR.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "JUST get down here. I want you to pull my ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: SPEECH OF THE WEEK.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "YOUR generation don't know how to drink. My generation drink because it's good. Because it's ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: SPARKLING DIALOGUE OF THE WEEK.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY TANYA: "What you doing here? How ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: D'OH!!!(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "EVERYTHING will be all right." - Patty Hewes ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: COME AGAIN.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "'ENID,' he said, 'you will never be an artist. But your breasts are tremendous ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: DEDUCTION OF THE WEEK 1.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY PC Roger Valentine: "Contact CID. The paramedic says there are bite marks on her chest and bruising on her ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE WEEK.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY TANYA: "Me and Max - we had a bit of a falling out." Jack: "What happened?" ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: DEDUCTION OF THE WEEK 2.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "THIS file contains the details of one Genesis Pascoe." "Well that's got to be ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: OPTIMIST OF THE WEEK 1.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "WHAT about Pete the Piano Man?" ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: WORDS YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR IN CASUALTY.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "OK, let's ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: OPTIMIST OF THE WEEK 2.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "PAT reminded me of her. So kind ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: ...AND ON THAT BOMBSHELL.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY 'I crashed a flight simulator because I ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: Up.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY The Bill Don't have nightmares Sean's back to being a ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: TV IS EdukaSHunal.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "XU is a unit of the Vietnamese currency. There are one hundred Xu ...
SHELLEY ViSiON: Down.(Features)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY Katie & Peter: The Next Chapter Down Under Deportation can't come too ...
Capello's evidence attacked.(News)
Apr 01, 2008 ... AN Italian prosecutor yesterday recommended Fabio Capello be investigated for giving false evidence when quizzed on claims of match fixing. The England manager repeatedly told a court in Rome he "couldn't remember" in reply to questions about his time two years ago as boss of ...