The Mirror (London, England) back issues from October 2008:
SAFE! Brown guarantees to protect everyone's savings up to pounds 50,000.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BOB ROBERTS, Political Editor GORDON Brown tried to calm jittery Britain yesterday as he pledged to guarantee up to pounds 50,000 in savers' accounts. The Prime Minister will raise the current pounds 35,000 threshold amid fears the failure of America's ...
WHO SAID THAT?(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... "It gives you a perspective on things." ...
TODAY ON THE WEB Mirror.co.uk.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... PRIDE OF BRITAIN WATCH video and see pictures from last night's awards at www.mirror.co.uk/celebs CARLING CUP PICTURES from last ...
OPINION OF THE DAY.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... GORDON Brown has lashed himself to the helm of HMS Great Britain ...
DAY OF THE DAY.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE first competitive football match was played under floodlights at ...
BET OF THE DAY.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Liverpool ..to beat PSV Eindhoven in the ...
SITE OF THE DAY.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... www.uktransplant.org.uk FIND ...
NEWS.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... ETHNIC REASON FOR PROSTATE CANCER RATES BLACK men are biologically more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men, new research suggests. It was already known there are three times more prostate cancer sufferers in England among the black population. Now research ...
Brolly good show; STARS SHINE IN THE RAIN THE TENTH PRIDE OF BRITAIN AWARDS.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY CLEMMIE MOODIE IT is the night when the stars come out to pay tribute to Britain's extraordinary everyday heroes ... And not even the pouring rain could spoil the biggest awards event of the year as it celebrated its 10th anniversary last night. ...
PRIDE AND JOY; THE TENTH PRIDE OF BRITAIN AWARDS We honour the country's heroes and heroines at glittering event.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY ROS WYNNE-JONES IF this Britain is broken, someone forgot to tell the glittering gathering of heroes, stars and celebrities last night. They forgot to tell Bernard Butler, the lorry driver who ignored his own heart condition to rush into the path of a 50ft ...
BOYS DO CRY AND I WILL BE TONIGHT; Lineker salutes heroes THE TENTH PRIDE OF BRITAIN AWARDS.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY MARK JEFFERIES and VICTORIA WARD CELEBRITIES from the stage, screen, sport and politics paid tribute to those they call "real stars" at the Pride of Britain awards last night. On the red carpet outside London's Television Centre, all talked of the ordinary ...
THE SLASHER; Top Tory reveals Cameron's real plan.. public services cutbacks Tories at Birmingham 2008.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY JAMES LYONS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT DAVID Cameron is desperate to slash public spending, a key aide admitted yesterday. The Tory leader has played down talk of spending cuts, hoping to convince voters that he can be trusted with schools and the NHS. ...
'Earn prison release' call; Tories at Birmingham 2008.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... PRISONERS should earn early release, Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert urged yesterday. ...
Thatcher is voted No1; Tories at Birmingham 2008.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... TORIES have voted former 80s leader Margaret Thatcher a bigger hero than Winston Churchill. In an ...
Dole axed if no to 3 jobs; Tories at Birmingham 2008.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... UNEMPLOYED people who turn down job offers three times would be banned from claiming benefits for three ...
HBOSHED; Falling shares threatens bank merger deal CREDIT CRUNCH CRISIS.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY GRAHAM HISCOTT DEPUTY BUSINESS EDITOR MORE than pounds 1 billion was wiped off the value of HBOS yesterday amid fears its takeover by Lloyds TSB was under threat. Shares in Britain's biggest mortgage lender plunged 20 per cent at one stage. ...
TESCO BOSS: FOOD BILLS WILL FALL; CREDIT CRUNCH CRISIS.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By RUKI SAYID HARD-pressed shoppers were given some good news yesterday as Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy said soaring food prices had peaked. He spoke out as Britain's biggest supermarket made nearly pounds 1.5billion in half year pre-tax profits, 11 per cent up ....
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Steer a safe path, Gord.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE only safe ship in a storm is one whose captain shows leadership and authority. Gordon Brown has lashed himself to the helm of HMS Great Britain and is steering a difficult but determined course through an unprecedented global economic crisis. All intelligent ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Great victory.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... GURKHAS who are good enough to fight for our country are good enough to live in our country. The Daily Mirror is delighted that veterans won yesterday's landmark High Court battle. The ban ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Day of Pride.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... DON'T forget to make a date tonight - 8pm, ITV1 - with the 10th ...
REASON MUST PREVAIL; Resolute Prime Minister calms fears as guarantee for savers rises to pounds 50k CREDIT CRUNCH CRISIS Shares rally as Bush vows to push through EUR700bn bail-out.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY BOB ROBERTS POLITICAL EDITOR GORDON Brown yesterday assured Britain a solution would be found to the global financial meltdown and insisted: "Reason must prevail." Mr Brown said he was confident would approve the EUR700billion bank bail-out that could save ...
MORE CALL HELPLINES; CREDIT CRUNCH CRISIS Shares rally as Bush vows to push through EUR700bn bail-out.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... CALLS to the Samaritans rose 25 per cent in the past two months as the credit crunch deepened. The hotline in Central London received an extra 1,000 calls in August and September - up a quarter - compared to the same period last year. Many calls were about money troubles ....
LOG ON IF YOU NEED ADVICE; CREDIT CRUNCH CRISIS Shares rally as Bush vows to push through EUR700bn bail-out.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE Mirror's Personal Finance Editor John Husband went online yesterday to answer your questions on the banking crisis and how it affects all of us. John was inundated with so ...
SUGAR: IT WAS MAD; CREDIT CRUNCH CRISIS Shares rally as Bush vows to push through EUR700bn bail-out.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... SIR Alan Sugar yesterday said he believed the world economic crisis was a levelling process after an era of "mad financial Disneyworld". And the tycoon and TV personality praised the Government's "superb" handling of the banking problems facing the country, adding he hoped ...
Cameron stock is down as PM rises.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: KEVIN MAGUIRE GORDON Brown's suddenly finding his stride and David Cameron is now scrambling. The political race in Britain has been remarkably transformed by the global economic earthquake. A Prime Minister foolishly written off a week a go is ...
We'll keep the banks and your cash safe..(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: YVETTE COOPER FAMILIES across Britain are understandably worried about all the bank failures amid world financial crisis and troubled stock markets. That's why Gordon Brown has made it clear we will do whatever it takes to make sure our banking system stays ...
DON'T LOCK UP.. BURGLARS WILL ONLY DAMAGE DOORS; Allotment holders blast council advice.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY RICHARD SMITH STUNNED allotment holders have been told not to lock their sheds - in case burglars damage them while breaking in. Instead they have been advised to leave expensive gardening tools and equipment unsecured so raiders don't have to smash doors ...
Nat and her Five star boy.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... NATASHA Kaplinsky looks a picture - in this first photo of her baby son. But the newsreader and her banker husband Justin Bower still have not yet named the boy who was ...
FAMILY CREDIT.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... MORE than half of students are helped through university by their families, a survey reveals today. It found 58 per cent are bankrolled for tuition fees, accommodation and costs. The help is due to the soaring expense of higher education ....
Red tape is cut on lofty home ideas; PLANNING.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... NEW rules come into force today enabling families in England to extend homes without planning permission. It means most people can carry out extensions and loft conversions without needing local council approval - saving them up to pounds 1,000. Larger home ...
Comic Robin in tribute to Prince at 60; SHOWBIZ.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... ROBIN Williams is returning to the UK stage after a 25 year absence to celebrate Prince Charles's 60th birthday. The televised gala - which will also feature rare appearances by John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson - is being held to raise money for youth charity The Prince's Trust. ...
Hat's a lot of cash for old statue; ART.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A STATUE by the great Victorian sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert that has been used as a hat stand is set to fetch pounds 75,000 at auction. The lad who posed for the bronze also posed for Gilbert's most famous artwork - Eros in London's Piccadilly Circus. The 27 inch bust ...
KNIFE IN HEAD ..AND HE LIVED.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THESE dramatic X-ray images reveal how a 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the head with a five-inch blade - and survived. The youngster was rushed to hospital with the kitchen knife still embedded in his brain after he was attacked by thugs. Despite losing a fifth of ...
HE WAS A GOOD CITIZEN ..AND HE PAID THE PRICE; Tribute to the banker killed by a yob gang.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY KRISSY STORRAR THE brother of a millionaire banker killed after stepping in to save a couple from a gang of thugs tearfully spoke of the family's devastation yesterday. Tony McGarahan said they could "never truly recover" from the loss of brother Frank, ...
I CELEBRATED pounds 7M JACKPOT WITH BEANS ON TOAST; 18-year-old EuroMillions winner.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY PATRICK MULCHRONE and JEREMY ARMSTRONG A TEENAGE EuroMillions winner celebrated her pounds 7million jackpot in typical student style - with cheap bubbly and beans on toast. Ianthe Fullager, 18, yesterday recalled how she "could not stop screaming" when her ...
pounds 21k FOR DIANA LETTERS.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A RARE collection of letters written by Princess Diana fetched pounds 21,100 at auction yesterday - more than three times the guide price. In the correspondence to ex-nanny Mary Clarke, the Princess speaks of her love for Prince Charles, her excitement over their forthcoming ...
CANCER TEST IN MINUTES.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... SCIENTISTS have invented a 15-minute test for cancer and other killer illnesses. They say the detector could be as small as a mobile phone and as easy to use as a pregnancy test kit. The Leeds University team said a drop of blood from a patient would be dripped on to ...
Funeral of bomb hero; FAREWELL.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... HUNDREDS turned out to pay their last respects to hero Gary O'Donnell as he was buried with military honours yesterday. The dad-of-four, 40, a warrant officer in the Royal Logistic Corps, was killed defusing a bomb in Afghanistan ...
Avoid family or be jailed; COURT.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A TEENAGER who tried to force his way into his parents' home faces jail if he visits them again. Kevin Needham, 18, was banned from seeing them under his bail conditions. But he went round to their house in Ash, Kent. ...
GARDENER'S SEVERED ARM SAVED BY FROZEN PASTRIES; LIMB IN A TESCO BAG.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY GREIG BOX TURNBULL A GARDENER who sliced off an arm with a chainsaw had the limb sewn back after his neighbour put it in a pack of frozen pastries. Surgeons operated on John Stirling, 59, for 14 hours after they were given the severed arm in a Tesco plastic ...
168 pilgrims die in crush; STAMPEDE.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... AT least 168 people were killed and 425 injured in a stampede at a Hindu temple in India yesterday. Thousands had gathered in the historic town of Jodhpur for a nine-day religious festival. But a wall collapsed and people lost their ...
Girl bleeds from pores; MYSTERY.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A GIRL of 13 bleeds from her skin daily - without being cut or scratched. Twinkle Dwivedi has transfusions as the seepage through her nose, hairline, neck, feet and even eyes happens up to 20 times. Villagers in Uttar Pradesh, India, ...
Are you the.. X FAKER? EXCLUSIVE COWELL'S TV SHOWDOWN WITH LAD WHO 'FIBBED' OVER FAMILY.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY MARK JEFFERIES THIS is the dramatic moment X Factor wannabe Alan Turner is confronted by Simon Cowell about his troubled home life. In a heart-to-heart to be shown on Saturday the music mogul asks the singer: "Did you tell the truth?" Breaking ...
3am: clocked.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler HOLLYOAKS hunk Jamie Lomas pinching girlfriend Kym ...
3am: Now we're a McHit!(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler WE always knew it was only a matter of time before we had a Top 10 album ... And thanks to McFly, we've done it. Sort of. The ...
3am: CREDIT crunch.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler CREDIT crunch? What credit crunch? Hotel heirhead Paris Hilton flashed the cash during a four-hour shopping extravaganza in LA. ...
3am: Pete isn't cutting it.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler PETE Doherty didn't look very rock 'n' roll during a visit to the barbers. The Babyshambles singer emerged half way through with a blue towel rapped firmly around his barnet to ...
3am: It's Moyle over.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler RADIO One's gobbiest DJ Chris Moyles, inset, has ended pop's longest running feud by apologising to Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts, 22, right. Still managing the odd dig on his morning ...
3am: wicked whisper.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler WHICH Premier League star is cheating ...
3am: NOEL Gallagher.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler NOEL Gallagher's broken ribs, suffered when a crazed fan pushed him off stage, ...
3am: Charlie's angels; BABES BATTLE OVER SOAP DISH.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler EASTENDERS and Hollyoaks went head to head at this year's Inside Soap awards - for the affections of toyboy star Charlie Hawkins. The lucky 17-year-old, Darren Miller in EastEnders, was caught in an incredible battle of the ...
3am: Pete Wentz.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler FALL Out Boy Pete Wentz can hardly bear bedtime with ...
3am: Travis Barker.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler FORMER Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, 32, will never fly ...
3am: Justin is Lovin' It-aly with Jess.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler JUSTIN Timberlake and girlfriend Jessica Biel forgot the sights and had a snog instead on a trip to Rome. After eventually coming up for air during their ...
I want to be a boarder collie.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... NOW here's a pooch who's a true rock'n'roll star. Tillman the English bulldog has attracted four million hits on the internet after learning how to skateboard. The three-year-old pushes his deck down the road, steers round corners and even weaves between people ....
SACKED WORKER KILLED COLLEAGUE IN REVENGE RAID; 26 years for boss caught stealing laptops.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY ADRIAN SHAW A SACKED manager was jailed for life yesterday for murdering a workmate who caught him stealing from the office. Cathy Marlow, 28, was catching up on a Saturday when Matthew Fagan sneaked into the market research firm to pinch laptops in ...
Wage cheat bosses face pounds 5,000 fine; EARNINGS.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... ROGUE bosses who refuse to pay the minimum wage will be hit by an automatic pounds 5,000 fine, ministers have pledged. The clampdown comes as the national minimum wage rises today from pounds 5.52 per hour to pounds 5.73 for adults and from pounds 4.60 to pounds 4.77 for ...
Wrong way motorway nut is jailed; CHASE.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A DRUG-FUELLED "lunatic" led police on a "suicidal" 100mph car chase the wrong way down two motorways, a court heard yesterday. Michael Connors, 48, and Peter McCann fled after trying to burgle a woman of 85. After dropping off McCann on a junction, Connors then ...
JUMP! JUMP! JUMP! Cruel mob goad suicide lad into 60ft death leap.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY ROD CHAYTOR A TORMENTED teenager plunged 60ft to his death from a multi-storey car park after a callous crowd of onlookers cruelly urged him to jump. Police and community leaders yesterday condemned the "horrifying" behaviour of the jeering mob as Shaun ...
Donor plea to students; ORGANS.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... ALL teenagers aged 14 and over should sign up as potential organ donors to give the gift of life, Health Secretary Alan Johnson said yesterday. He is sending a plea to every secondary school and college in England to "encourage more young people to discuss" donation of organs ...
Send-off for legend Paul; FUNERAL.(News)(Obituary)
Oct 01, 2008 ... FAMILY and friends of Paul Newman held a memorial meal at his restaurant last night after a private funeral. They gathered at the Dressing Room, in the grounds of a theatre, after the low key cremation service. The fiercely private Hollywood legend died at home in ...
NOW WE CAN RIGHT THIS GREAT WRONG; Proud Joanna celebrates historic Gurkha victory.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: BY GRAHAM BROUGH CAMPAIGNER Joanna Lumley punches the air in delight yesterday after Gurkha heroes won their battle to live in the UK. Ajudge ruled ministers acted illegally in claiming that around 2,000 lacked proper ties to Britain and said the country owed ...
HOW MIRROR LED CAMPAIGN.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE Mirror's Gurkha campaign began in 2001 over widows' pensions. In 2007 we highlighted VC winner Tul Bahadur Pun, 85, as he won his battle to live in the UK. ...
Mum dies in 75ft plunge; CLIMBING.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A CLIMBING instructor died in a fall from a cliff she had scaledmany times. Mum of five Lesley Coupland, 59, plunged 75ft while training a friend. Experts are investigating her slip at Dewerstone Rock, Yelverton, Devon, on ...
Dinosaurs, born rulers; EVOLUTION.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... DINOSAURS fought back from two mass extinctions and waited up to 50 million years for world domination, research has found. Experts claim their rise to power came "in fits and starts". Around 35 per cent died out two million years after their ...