The Mirror (London, England) back issues from February 2009:
KIDS 'BIG BROTHER' TV FURY; EXCLUSIVE Children suffer violence & bullying in C4 show.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: By NICOLA METHVEN A BIG Brother-style show featuring children as young as eight was blasted yesterday after they were left sobbing, hungry and scared. The 10 boys and 10 girls were filmed trying to fend for themselves for two weeks. But within two ...
WHO SAID THAT?(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman ....
British workers.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... 'British workers have a right to be considered for jobs and their grievances ...
TODAY ON Mirror.co.uk.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... FOOTBALL SPY Last day of the transfer window at mirror.co.uk/sport/football MIRRORCASHBACK Check out today's special offers exclusive at mirrorcashback.com ...
Jo's shocked as BNP flap about joke; COMPLAINT.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: By MARK JEFFERIES COMEDIENNE Jo Brand was shocked last night after police launched a probe into a joke she made about the BNP. She was performing on stand-up show Live At The Apollo on the BBC when she brought up the leaked British National Party's membership ...
Ice celebs in panic over 'green peril' TELEVISION.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: By MARK JEFFERIES ALL Dancing On Ice celebrities have begged ITV1 bosses not to put them in green outfits - because they're convinced they are bad luck. Since the new series started, Graham Le Saux and Jeremy Edwards have been booted off while wearing the ...
Family Madders; GUY AND MADONNA SPEND TIME TOGETHER FOR THE KIDS.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY STEPHEN WHITE IT looks like happy families - but Madonna and Guy Ritchie are spending time together for the sake of the children. It was the second weekend in a row that Guy joined the singer and their three youngsters at the Kabbalah faith's New York ...
ARCHER FACES BOOT IN CRACKDOWN ON LORDS; Sleaze blitz could see 4 Tories axed.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY JASON BEATTIE DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR AT least four Tory peers including Jeffrey Archer face being kicked out of the Lords in a bid to clean up Parliament. Justice Secretary Jack Straw wants to expel peers with criminal records, which could mean the chop ...
'Runaways danger' on the railway; EXCLUSIVE SAFETY.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: by MARK ELLIS AT least 14 trucks and two locomotives have become dangerous rail "runaways". A file on what unions call a national safety crisis has been seen by the Mirror. The dossier, in the hands of watchdogs, comes a fortnight before the fifth ...
Bank job for Post Offices; REBELLION.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... THE Post Office could be turned into a "people's bank" under plans being considered by Business Secretary Lord Mandelson. The scheme would see all 12,000 outlets offering financial services, such as loans for small businesses. It is part of a ...
UK aid falls with dollar; CHARITIES.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... THE value of British aid to the developing world has dropped by more than a quarter due to the pound falling against the dollar. Agencies working in countries such as Ethiopia said pounds had to be converted into US currency. The pound has slumped ...
WHITEOUT; Worst snowstorms in 18 years carpet Britain.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY VICTORIA WARD THE heaviest snow storms for 18 years are expected to cover Britain today, bringing chaos to the roads. Forecasters said the snowfall would be the worst since the extreme weather of February 1991 and predicted up to 20cm in areas ...
BLEAK AND COLD AS RAW RUSSIAN FRONT MOVES IN.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: CLARE NASIR GM-TV weather presenter THE average temperatures across Britain this week will be very chilly. About 2C to 3C by day and falling to - 1C by night. Temperatures will not improve before Valentine's Day which is nearly two weeks away and even then ...
Boss Walsh: BA is losing pounds 2.7m a day; EXCLUSIVE AIRLINE.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: by STEPHEN MOYES BRITISH Airways boss Willie Walsh has admitted the airline faces a struggle to survive. In an email to workers, he reveals BA is losing a staggering pounds 2.7million every DAY. Walsh - who is on pounds 614,000-a-year plus bonus - ...
POWER STRUGGLE; Energy fear as angry workers stand on brink of defying PM.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY JASON BEATTIE DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FEARS of power shortages grew sharply last night as angry workers vowed to defy Gordon Brown by staging more wildcat strikes. Senior MPs warned supplies would be at risk if the action spread to Sellafield and other ...
pounds 140M FOR APPRENTICES.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: By JASON BEATTIE SIR Alan Sugar will today front a major TV campaign to encourage young people to sign up as apprentices. The self-made millionaire and star of The Apprentice says trainees have the "dedication and persistence" to get the country through the ...
Cancer cash aid for wine dad's 'killer' COLLECTION.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A ONE-legged man accused of killing a dad for a bottle of wine once had thousands of pounds raised for him as he battled cancer. Carl Keatley, 20 - in custody over the murder of Mick Eccles - lost his limb to the disease in his teens. One resident said: "When he was ...
Heel of a lot for Palin kit; AUCTION.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A PAIR of red high heels owned by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has sold for pounds 1,400 on eBay. The open-toe shoes were worn by Palin,44, when she campaigned alongside Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Palin's niece put ...
Kids killed in Taliban fight; AFGHANISTAN.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... TWO children were killed when Taliban militants used a family as a human shield during a grenade attack on British troops in Helmand Province. The International Security Assistance Force said eight Taliban fighters forced three adults and ...
KIDS PUT THROUGH HELL.. FOR TV SHOW; EXCLUSIVE Outrage at C4 'Big Brother' stunt Bullying and fighting in house Children of 8 get death threats.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY NICOLA METHVEN and MARK JEFFERIES THE producers of a Big Brother-style show for children aged eight to 12 were yesterday accused of making their lives hell in an effort to get a TV hit. In Channel 4's Boys And Girls Alone, which starts tomorrow night, the ...
BOSSES' PRIME PAY.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... CHANNEL 4 employs 19 bosses who earn more then the PM. The TV executives are paid at least pounds 190,000 a year, compared with Gordon Brown's pounds 189,994 salary. They are among 91 staff at the station who enjoy six-figure incomes. Chief executive Andy ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Power to our people.(Leaders)
Feb 02, 2009 ... GORDON Brown needs to sort out the oil workers' strikes and fast. The impression is that the Government took its eye off the ball and let the dispute run out of control. British workers have a right to be considered for jobs and grievances went ignored too long. ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: Crime Lords.(Leaders)
Feb 02, 2009 ... CROOKS must be kicked out of the House of Lords if the place is ever to restore its tarnished image. That Archercontinues to lord it over us despite serving time for perjury is a constitutional obscenity. Fellow felon Lord Black of Dodgy Deals is in a US jail - yet ...
VOICE OF THE DAILY Mirror: No kidding.(Leaders)
Feb 02, 2009 ... CHANNEL 4's latest reality show featuring a house full of children is exploitation and voyeurism dressed up as a social ...
AS TOM JONES DITCHES DYE, WHY MEN SHOULD BE.. Glad to be grey.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Sue Carroll The last time I interviewed Tom Jones it was hard not to be fixated by his mop of ridiculously jet black hair. Or linger too long over the matching eyebrows wriggling like a couple of caterpillars covered in soot. The look, overall, ...
Gun victim was failed club hitman; SHOOTING.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: By PATRICK MULCHRONE A MAN executed in the street by a lone gunman had served time in prison for shooting two people, police said yesterday. Daniel Keatinge, 25, died in a hail of bullets as he left the home of a friend. His killer, aged 16 to 20, ...
Mayhem at pounds 5.99 'binge drink' club; FIGHTS.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: By PATRICK MULCHRONE HAVOC broke out as hundreds of revellers piled in to the club holding a pounds 5.99 for all-you-candrink night. Two people were injured as fights started outside in the early hours of Saturday. Police raced to the club after ...
I WAS A DOPE; Olympic champ sorry for drugs.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY STEPHEN WHITE OLYMPIC swimming hero Michael Phelps apologised yesterday for his "regrettable" antics after he was pictured smoking dope. Phelps, 23 - who won a record eight golds in Beijing last year - was snapped apparently inhaling from a drugs bong. ...
Postie puts parcel in bin; CRUSHED.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A BUNGLING postman left a camcorder in a woman's bin - which was then emptied. Rachel Rogers, 29, who ordered the pounds 100 gift from Amazon, found a card saying: "Parcel in bin, Postie." She ...
50% doubt over Darwin; EVOLUTION.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... HALF of people do not believe Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is true. One in four definitely reject the scientist's natural selection principle while another 25 per cent are doubtful. ...
THE BABY GIRL WHO REFUSES TO GROW; EXCLUSIVE 14-month-old who weighs same as newborn child baffles doctors.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY EMILY COOK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT MEET Suraya Brown - the little girl who is baffling doctors by refusing to grow. The brown-eyed youngster is now 14-months-old and should weigh at least 20lb. Yet she is still the size of a newborn baby, tipping the scales ...
TYNE AND FEAR; Smoke bomb terror in football thug clashes.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG FOOTBALL thugs hurled smoke bombs at rival fans yesterday as a Premiership derby ended in violence. Fights between local gangs and louts in visiting Sunderland colours brought Newcastle city way back to the station as more than 500 police ...
Red Dwarf in Corrie St.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... HERE'S Craig Charles going for a double down at the Rovers ... The star was on the set of Corrie to film a Red Dwarf special where he plays old character Lister AND Street cabbie Lloyd ...
Lidl behind our push to buy British; CAMPAIGN.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... SUPERMARKET Lidl has thrown its weight behind our Buy British campaign. It will sell fresh beef, chicken and pork only from Britain in its 500 UK stores from today. The discount chain, based in Germany, is also introducing free-range British chicken to all its ...
YOU BIN RUMBLED.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... TEN illegal immigrants were caught trying to smuggle themselves ...
WATCHING TV AT 60MPH; Trucker's dashboard view on main road.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY STEPHEN WHITE THIS is the blockhead German trucker caught driving in Britain while watching a DVD. The screen mounted on the dashboard was showing a war film while the long-distance driver was travelling on at least one 70mph dual carriageway. ...
KILLER LORRY ALERT; EXCLUSIVE ALARM Lib Dem MP Norman Baker.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: by JASON BEATTIE DRIVERS are being put at risk by a sharp rise in dangerous lorries. Nearly 60,000 heavy goods vehicles were banned from the roads last year for being unsafe. The Department for Transport said a total of 58,635 had mechanical ...
Health fears as Philip, 87, skips church; ROYALS.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: By AIDAN McGURRAN FEARS were growing for Prince Philip's health yesterday after he missed church and a weekend shooting party at Sandringham. Buckingham Palace said the 81-9-a-zear-old prince was staying indoors after pulling a muscle in his back while ...
FRIES AND SHINE..(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A NEW alarm clock uses the smell of bacon to wake you up. The US-made ...
3am: the charts.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler THE Lady will be going GaGa after Lily Allen's new single The Fear knocked her off the top spot. Well done, Lils ... TOP 10 SINGLES 1 (-) The Fear - Lily Allen 2 (1) Just Dance - Lady GaGa ...
3am: PRAY.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler PRAY tell us what Matthew McConaughey thinks he's up to. Is he seeking inspiration - or has the Malibu ...
3am: wicket whisper.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler WHICH TV presenter has stolen his best mate's girlfriend? ...
3am: SEEMS.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler SEEMS as though 50 Cent is keen on burying the hatchet with Robbie Williams. Back in 2005, they fell out when Fiddy and his crew ...
3am: clocked.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler JADE Jagger gazing at the street art exhibition at Whiskey ...
3am: Brange nuts for Brazil.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler GLOBETROTTING Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are now upping sticks and moving to Brazil. With homes all over the world, trips to the Far East and Africa and twins Knox and Micheline born in France, the entire multiracial ...
3am: Em's still so sweet.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler EMMA Watson really is as much of a goody two-shoes as Hermione, her Harry Potter character. On best behaviour again at L'Atelier on Saturday night, the 18-year-old said: "I'm not into parties and don't like being ...
3am: get a room.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler DANNII Minogue's toyboy Kris Smith is more interested in tonsil tennis than what's happening on court at the Australian ...
3am: GIRL band.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler GIRL band The Saturdays reduced beefy NFL American football stars to screaming groupies when they played ...
3am: Here's Thrilly Allen..(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler SHE arrived as the Pink Panther but Lily Allen quickly turned into a minx when she appeared on stage for a concert. The 23-year-old slipped out of her cat suit to reveal this sexy outfit in one of her most tantalising ...
3am: Grills Aloud as Cheryl gets fit; SHE GETS ASHLEY'S HELP TO PILE ON WEIGHT.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: Clemmie Moodie & Danielle Lawler SHE'S got a slender figure most women would kill for - but Cheryl Cole is determined to pile on the pounds with a new junk-food diet. But she's not trying to turn into Waynetta Slob - the Girls Aloud glamourpuss wants to beef ...
Petrol truck blast kills 111; FIREBALL.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... AN overturned petrol tanker exploded killing at least 111 people. Crowds had surrounded the crashed truck in Molo, Kenya, trying to scoop up free fuel into bottles. ...
DIY John's pounds 6m debts; TELEVISION.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A DIY expert on TV's Cowboy Builders ran up debts of pounds 6.4million after his property firms went bust. John Russell, 44, was hired by Five to help viewers avoid rip-off tradesmen ....
PROBATION CUTS 'TO LET CRIME SOAR' EXCLUSIVE Union warns of 300,000 more offences every year.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY JASON BEATTIE DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR BRITAIN faces 300,000 more crimes a year because of planned pounds 120million Probation Service cuts, it was feared yesterday. At least 6,000 staff - one in four of the profession - are set to be axed over the next ...
My Time to cry is up now; EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: by MARK JEFFERIES JADE Ewen yesterday declared that she won't be overwhelmed in Russia as she revealed that her tearful Eurovision breakdown was not just joy at winning the BBC1 final of Your Country Needs You. The 21-year-old singer saw her blind dad Trevor ...
Blair in 'am I bovvered' confession; TELEVISION.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... TONY Blair has admitted he felt like saying "am I bovvered" to people who bored him with their problems when he was PM. Referring to the catchphrase made famous by Catherine Tate TV character Lauren, he said: "I shouldn't say this, but as a politician people always come in to ...
2 more held over killing at bus stop; STABBED.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... TWO more men were arrested yesterday over the bus stop murder of a father on the way to see his newborn son. John Abbey, 26, an amateur boxer originally from Ghana, was knifed in the heart in front of his daughter, three. One of those held was aged 36. Not details ...
Hallelujah.. they make jeans for 'odd' women; ASDA LAUNCHES IN-BETWEEN SIZES.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY RUKI SAYID CONSUMER EDITOR BUDGET jeans aimed at millions of women who need in-between sizes of 11, 13, and 15 are being launched today by Asda. The pounds 12 George jeans are expected to plug the gap for those who find regular sizes such as 12 are too much ...
VERDICT; Hallelujah.. they make jeans for 'odd' women.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: AMBER GRAAFLAND FASHION DIRECTOR NEVER underestimate the difference an extra inch can make, especially in jeans. Most women know the problem. A size 14 pair are a bit too big, slightly baggy round the bum and oh so unsexy. But squeeze yourself into ...
Pensioner's bill threat.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... A PENSIONER was sent a whopping gas bill despite being cut off 30 years ago. For more than two years British Gas claimed Joan Miles owed it pounds 300 and even threatened to disconnect her. The 83-year-old told the firm ...
POO, WHAT A SCORCHER; Half of Britain's homes could be heated with gas from sewage.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: BY MIKE SWAIN SCIENCE EDITOR ONE in two homes could be heated by sewage, research yesterday suggested. Human waste could be turned into biomethane and pumped into the gas grid. The pounds 10billion biogas scheme could be in place by the end of the ...
Medic crew bowled over by shoe ban; WARNING.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... PARAMEDICS called out to a bowling club stroke victim were asked not to cross the rink to treat him - as they did not have the right footwear. Bill Farrington collapsed during an indoor match. But his wife Gill claimed officials seemed more concerned about the special flooring. ...
Paedos 'can use Xbox to groom kids' SECURITY.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... DEVIOUS paedophiles could be using online Xbox 360 games to groom their victims, the makers fear. Ed Gibson, 56, the head of Microsoft's cyber security, says gamesters can never be sure who they are chatting to while they are at the console. Gibson, who exposed IT ...
Ni-cold Kidman.(News)
Feb 02, 2009 ... NICOLE Kidman keeps warm as she films new movie Nine and shows she's got back her perfect 10 figure. The new mum, 41 - in the fur coat for the role ...
Shelley Vision: UP.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY Shameless demented ...
Shelley Vision: DIPLOMAT OF THE WEEK.(Features)
Feb 02, 2009 ... Byline: JIM SHELLEY "HE was always washing his feet! And he was always showing me these Beatles chords" - Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones ...