The Mirror (London, England) back issues from August 2008:
LOTTO RAPIST'S NEW LOVE; EXCLUSIVE She's the ex-wife of a policeman He says she stays at his pounds 1m home.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JEREMY ARMSTRONG LOTTO rapist Iorworth Hoare has a new love - the ex-wife of a policeman. Millionaire Hoare, 56, who spent 16 years in jail after a series of sickening sex attacks, claims he began seeing Karen Cameron after she posted him a note asking for ...
WHO SAID THAT?(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Every age can be enchanting, provided you live ...
TODAY ON THE WEB Mirror.co.uk.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... FOOTBALL SPY WATCH our video round-up of all the very latest transfer news and gossip ...just go to Mirror.co.uk/video THE SATURDAYS THE new girl group talk about ...
OPINION OF THE DAY.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE real face of evil was seen in The Hague yesterday as ...
DAY OF THE DAY.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... F1 ACE Niki Lauda in critical condition after crash at German ...
BET OF THE DAY.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Tottenham GET on Spurs to beat ...
SITE OF THE DAY.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... www.uswitch.com FIND if you can get a better ...
NEWS.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... WALKIES BAN FOR THE PARK PETS ROMEOS TAKING dogs and cats to parks has been banned in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh - to stop men using them as an excuse to chat up women. So many males are using pets as excuses to meet girls that Islamic religious police have clamped down on ...
Becks education; DAVID TEACHES ELMO HIS FAVOURITE WORD FOR SESAME STREET.. PERSISTENT.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY SARA WALLIS ONE is a muppet who is a massive star in America - and the other is Elmo from Sesame Street ... David Beckham reached a new pinnacle in the States when he appeared on the educational kids' TV show. But he was not showing off his ...
Amy upset at missing 007 theme; MUSIC.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By TOM BRYANT Showbiz Reporter AMY Winehouse is gutted not to be recording the new James Bond theme. The Rehab singer was set to team up with producer Mark Ronson to record a song for Quantum of Solace but plans were axed after it was deemed the 24-year-old ...
Naomi was my saviour, says mum; FASHION.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By SARA WALLIS NAOMI Campbell's mother yesterday defended her air rage-attack daughter and declared: "She saved my life." Valerie Campbell, 55, said the supermodel, 38, made sure she got the best treatment when she was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ...
GAS GUZZLERS; The day after record 35% price rise, Centrica rakes in pounds 1bn profits and its bosses share huge windfall.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY GRAHAM HISCOTT DEPUTY BUSINESS EDITOR GAS giant Centrica yesterday revealed profits of pounds 1billion just a day after it raised prices by a record 35 per cent. The astonishing figure was released as the company's British Gas arm was accused of using sneak ...
COMMENT.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By GRAHAM HISCOTT BRITISH Gas customers must have thought it couldn't get any worse. But for 1.6 million of them facing over average bill increases it just has. The firm could hardly have thought customers wouldn't notice. Bosses blame ...
THE pounds 4 UNIFORM.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... ASDA is to sell the UK's cheapest school uniform - at just pounds 4. Part of its George range, the credit crunch-beating price is the same for kids aged three to 12. Asda chief Anthony Thompson said: "Buying the school wardrobe can put a massive strain on any ...
pounds 3m bill of knife and gun victims; NHS.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By EMILY COOK Health Correspondent INJURIES inflicted by gun and knife crime are costing the NHS more than pounds 3 million a year, a study has revealed. Stabbings accounted for almost three-quarters of penetrative injuries with an average of pounds 7,196 per ...
Lawyers rap soft justice 'quick fixes' COURTS.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BOB ROBERTS KNIFE thugs, sex offenders and burglars are being let off by the police with cautions or on-the-spot fines, defence lawyers warned yesterday. JPs also claimed police were increasingly trying to ease their workload by not taking criminals to ...
The 'cleaner' who stays all night at lotto rapist's home; EXCLUSIVE BEAST BOASTS THAT COP'S EX CHASED AFTER HIM.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG ANGRY Karen Cameron yesterday denied being the lover of lotto rapist Iorworth Hoare - and insisted she is merely his cleaning lady. When Karen, 44, the ex-wife of a policeman, was asked about serial sex offender Hoare, 56, she said: "I ...
Violence in women at record high; CRIME.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... VIOLENT crime by women is at a record high, official figures show. The number of women arrested for street brawling, GBH and murder is up 11 per cent. This increase is being blamed on the "ladette" culture with more young women binge-drinking. In 2006-07, ...
DOWN, SHEP.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... FORMER Blue Peter host Peter Purves, 69, was bitten by a terrier ...
Brits abroad.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... DRUNKEN holiday Brits abroad were yesterday blasted by ...
PHONE-IN CALLERS RALLY TO HIS CAUSE.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVID Miliband was urged to stand for the leadership by callers to a BBC Radio 2 phonein yesterday - and did not rule out doing so. Asked directly if he would challenge Gordon Brown, he told presenter Jeremy Vine: "I always say focus on the job you have got. "I am not ...
Boyfriend of suitcase girl horror held; MURDER.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By STEWART MACLEAN THE boyfriend of a British teenager was yesterday arrested in Brazil after her mutilated body was found stuffed in a suitcase. Police claimed Mohammed Dali Carvalho dos Santos, 20, stabbed Carla Burke, 17, with a kitchen knife before ...
Girl, 10, sees dad drown in pier leap; TOMBSTONING.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By AIDAN MCGURRAN A GIRL of 10 watched in horror as her dad became the latest fatality of "tombstoning" after he leapt 20ft from a pier. Lee Griffin, 33, is the sixth person to be killed by the craze in the past 14 months. He and a friend are ...
Reddy steady go Kate.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... KATE Moss looks relaxed and reddy for anything as she enjoys a giggle soaking up the sun in Ibiza. The supermodel, 34, in a low-cut red mini dress, sat with daughter Lila Grace, five, Lila's nanny, and fashion photographer Marcus Piggott at a cafe. Kate stuck to ...
Getty lost, Sienna; EXCLUSIVE Wife's marriage fight.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY TOM BRYANT SHOWBIZ REPORTER SIENNA Miller faces a bitter battle with her lover's estranged wife - after friends revealed she is determined to salvage their marriage. The Alfie actress has been left devastated by claims father-off-our Balthazar Getty, 33, ...
CRASH BOY'S BAN.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A DRUNK teenager who had never driven stole a luxury Lexus sports saloon then ploughed into six parked cars at 107mph and overturned, a court heard yesterday. The 16-year-old, who caused pounds 50,000 damage, sobbed as he was sent to a young offenders' ...
3m skipped school days; TRUANTS.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... ALMOST three million school days were lost in the spring term through children skipping school, government statistics show. More than 60,000 primary and secondary pupils per day missed classes with out permission through truancy, family ...
Bus man has head cut off; SLAUGHTER.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A BUS passenger cut off another man's head with a Rambo knife after stabbing him "50 or 60 times" as he slept with headphones on. And when he got off the Canadian Greyhound service from Edmonton to Winnipeg, he taunted the Manitoba police ...
A salute to the selfless; EXCLUSIVE CHARLES BACKS MIRROR'S PRIDE OF BRITAIN 10 YEARS.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY RUSSELL MYERS PRINCE Charles has praised the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards for celebrating the "selfless". He said: "They are a unique way to celebrate the achievements of some truly remarkable people and hear something of their inspiring and ...
Police fears as mum and son vanish; SEARCH.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... FEARS were last night growing for a mum and her 10-year-old son who went missing four days ago. Police have launched a massive air and land hunt for epileptic Salma Kadri, 29, and little Nassan Hasser after the pair vanished on Tuesday. Investigation chief ...
Shrapnel's in Minder; TELEVISION.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... ACTOR Lex Shrapnel is to play Shane Richie's sidekick in the latest TV version of Minder. His part in the revived classic series was confirmed yesterday by bosses at Five. The Mirror revealed in February that Richie, 44, would be taking ...
Pier inferno wasn't arson; PROBE.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE blaze that ripped through the Grand Pier in Weston was not arson, it was confirmed yesterday. The news came as owner Kerry Michael was on site to see it re-open, with most of the walkway accessible, as is the landward end of the 104-year-old site. ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Law will beat evil.(Leaders)
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE real face of evil was seen in The Hague yesterday. Gone was the shaggy beard and bushy moustache from Radovan Karadzic's face as he appeared in the UN War Crime Courts. Without the oversized glasses this was the Bosnian butcher remembered from the bloody days of ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Smell of gas.(Leaders)
Aug 01, 2008 ... ANOTHER day and another slap in the face to the customers of British Gas. Just 24 hours after they announced 35 per cent price rises for customers their parent company Centrica announced almost pounds 1billion in ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: El-lo Becks.(Leaders)
Aug 01, 2008 ... DAVID Beckham has finally met Elmo, Sesame Street's cute, red, furry monster with big eyes and an ...
YOU STILL HAVE THE POWER TO SWITCH; EXCLUSIVE Mirror guide to saving money on your fuel bills.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY DAMIEN FLETCHER and BETH NEIL MILLIONS of households are already feeling the heat - and now British Gas have slapped a whopping 35 per cent on bills. And that comes after a budget-busting nine per cent rise in suppliers' electricity prices. ...
Army death beasting: 3 are cleared; TRIAL.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By RICHARD SMITH THE grieving mum of a squaddie who died in an Army "beasting" vowed last night to keep up her fight for justice after three soldiers were cleared of killing him. Debra Williams also pledged to "never forgive" military chiefs over the death of ...
Action man Wills linking up with SAS; ROYALS.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: By CHRIS HUGHES PRINCE William is joining the SAS to see how they and other special forces operate. The 26-year-old officer will study all aspects of combat on a two-month secondment - the final stage in his year-long tour with all three services. ...
Newman fights on in silence.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... PAUL Newman sparks new fears for his health as he leaves a New York hospital in a wheelchair. The Hollywood legend, reportedly battling cancer, looked painfully thin in a baggy tracksuit and baseball cap. Newman, 83, has dismissed rumours about his health, saying he ...
17 PATIENTS IN FALSE CANCER ALL-CLEAR; Consultant suspended in hospital test bungle.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY EMILY COOK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT SEVENTEEN patients given a cancer all-clear have now been told they have the disease after a series of hospital blunders. One consultant at Hereford County Hospital has been suspended since the flawed test results came to ...
3am: KANYE West.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler KANYE West is just lovin' cool Brittania. The rapper ...
3am: Carey'd over the threshold.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler MARIAH Carey enjoyed her honeymoon with hubby Nick Cannon so much she's having a second one! After tying the knot in the Caribbean this May, the singer has splashed out pounds 2.5m on a luxury home in the West Indies so the ...
3am: SACHA Baron.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler SACHA Baron Cohen (below) is getting ready for his role as Sherlock Holmes in ...
3am: My bitter 'alf.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler THERE'S never a dull moment with fiery Jaime Winstone and Alfie Allen. The actress was left fuming at Alfie's no-show to the trendy PPQ fashion store party in London on Wednesday. Our mole says: "Jamie kept phoning Alfie and ...
3am: Col me Mrs Rooney.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler "CALL me Mrs Rooney" is the latest demand from Coleen McLoughl ... sorry, Coleen Rooney. Our ITV2 mole says: "Everyone on her Coleen's Real Women show has been warned not ...
3am: Arctic's ice queen; JAMIE TORN BETWEEN BAND AND BABE.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler ARE the Arctic Monkeys turning into The Beatles - as the band now seems to have its very own version of Yoko Ono? The lady in question is 24-year-old glamour model Katie Downes, girlfriend of guitarist Jamie Cook. ...
3am: Wildman of Osbourneo.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler DRINKERS in LA must have thought a wolf had escaped when they saw ...
3am: wicked whisper.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler WHICH leggy supermodel ...
3am: clocked.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler SHAZNAY Lewis (below) in ...
3am: Britney finds herself the mane attraction.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler BRITNEY Spears loves horsing about ... So it's no surprise to see the pop star, 26, saddling up on the beach in Los Cabos, Mexico, with friends. The Piece Of Me singer was snapped cosying up to a ...
3am: Christina Aguilera.(Features)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler WE'RE not positive but it looks like Christina Aguilera was Steppin' Out with ...
Four weeks on loo stuck Pam to seat; ILL-TREATMENT.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A WOMAN spent so long on the toilet that the seat stuck to her bottom. Pam Babcock had refused to come out of the bathroom at boyfriend Kory McFarren's house for two years. But this week he got six months for mistreatment of a dependent adult - a sentence cut to ...
Missing key blunder at Biggs' jail; PRISON.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... THE prison guarding jail-breaker Ronnie Biggs is having to shell out pounds 250,000 to change all its cell locks after one crucial key went missing. The loss earlier this week sparked fears the key could be in the hands of an inmate at Norwich jail. The Category C ...
Village fury as only road out is closed; TRAFFIC.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A VILLAGE was in uproar yesterday after its only main road was shut down for six months - leaving drivers with a ten-mile detour to get home. The Environment Agency said the bridge, used by 1,800 drivers a day, has to be shut from Monday for repairs. It means drivers ...
BEATEN BY A THUG.. AT FACEBOOK PARTY; Girl flattened by yob as 'play' waterfight turns ugly.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY TOM PETTIFOR A THUG knocks a young woman off her feet as what was meant to be a fun waterfight turned ugly. It was one of many sickening scenes of violence at the event, which was advertised by a user of social networking site Facebook. Police ...
ENJOY YOUR LIFE NOW, NOTHING'S STOPPING YOU.. HA HA HA; Mum's note for ex after killing son.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY ROD CHAYTOR A DEPRESSED and jealous mother killed her son to spite his father before committing suicide, an inquest heard yesterday. Emma Hart, 27, force-fed Lewis Dangerfield, five, a lethal cocktail of painkillers and antidepressants before slashing her ...
WORKER HELD ON PASSPORT THEFT; INVESTIGATION.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A DELIVERY man has been arrested over the theft of 3,000 blank passports worth pounds 2.5million. The 48-year-old had told police he was held down in ...
'HOUSE FAULTS' SITE IS A NET HIT; PROTEST.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A WEBSITE set up by a fed-up couple to list the many faults on their pounds 700,000 newly built Bovis home has received almost 100,000 hits. Rennie Bottali, ...
OPEN TOP TERROR; Soft heather saves 15 passengers hurled out of bus.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY RICHARD SMITH FIFTEEN people thrown from an open-top bus miraculously escaped death yesterday after landing on soft heather bushes. The terrified passengers, including a baby and children, were hurled 30ft in the air when the bus swerved off the road to ...
McCanns see cops' dossier; MADELEINE.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... KATE and Gerry McCann were finally allowed to see the Portuguese police files on their missing daughter Madeleine yesterday. Their lawyers were given access to the 20,000 page dossier, which had been kept under lock and key. It came after they were ...
SQUIRREL FEARS.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A VIRUS which is carried by immune grey squirrels may kill off one ...
Getting a lift from UK's strongest boy.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BLIMEY, that looks tyreing. Kye Thomas, 17, shows why he has been crowned Britain's Strongest Schoolboy - by lifting up a car. He won the title in a competition after a training programme that included regularly hoisting a Peugeot 106 weighing 1.5 tonnes. Kye, of ...
TIPPING POINT.. EXCLUSIVE Boost for Mirror campaign FAIR TIPS.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY ANDREW PENMAN and NICK SOMMERLAD OUR Fair Tips campaign was given a massive boost yesterday as it won the backing of hundreds of independent restaurants. We have been fighting with the union Unite to stop Scrooge restaurant bosses paying less than the legal ...
BORIS U-TURN ON PAY.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... BORIS Johnson has done a U-turn on an election campaign vow to give workers a living wage. Before becoming London mayor, he pledged tough action on hotels and restaurants that do not pay pounds 7.45 a hour ....
Remains of five children at care home; ABUSE.(News)
Aug 01, 2008 ... AT least five children are feared murdered in the Jersey child abuse care home - but no one is likely to be charged. Police said the children, aged four to 11, were killed and their remains burnt in the cellar after 65 milk teeth and bone fragments were found. But ...