The Mirror (London, England) back issues from July 2009:
We love telly; Back with a wil..(Features)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: MAEVE QUIGLEY UGLY BETTY C4, C4HD, 10pm CHANGE is the wheel that drives fashion. In Ugly Betty, though, the scramble is on to get all the players back behind their rightful desks. But while Betty tries to make Daniel see sense and return to Mode, ...
CHOICE.(Features)
Jul 01, 2009 ... CHOICE Unbreakable (ITV2, 9pm) Bruce Willis, left, stars in this drama about a security guard who discovers he can't be injured. CHOICE Saving Private Ryan (Sky Movies ...
'CAN YOU FEEL IT?' Joy at return: 'I feel so alive again': He's NOT dad of kids: Coffin at Neverland.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: TOM BRYANT MICHAEL Jackson whooped with joy as he rehearsed on stage for his comeback tour. Thrusting his arm in the air after one of his trademark twirls, he cried: "I feel so alive - can you feel it?" The superstar, who died of a heart attack just hours ...
THIS IS IT ..THIS IS WHERE I BELONG; THE KING OF POP 1958-2009.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: TOM BRYANT JACKO was back - and the King of Pop seemed to love every minute as he twisted and gyrated to the pulsating beat. Pointing to the lighting gantries high above the stage at LA's Staple Center he grinned broadly as he triumphantly declared: "This is ...
COPS SCOUR HOME FOR DRUGS.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... POLICE probing Jacko's death were granted a warrant to search his home for drugs and needles, it emerged yesterday. Officers scoured the singer's rented Los Angeles mansion last Friday and again on Monday. Sources said the second search was triggered after Michael's ...
GREAT JACKO BOOK OFFER.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... OUT NOW, Michael Jackson - King of Pop celebrates his life through a selection of great images from the Daily Mirror archive charting his rise from childhood to the height of superstardom. Part of the new Mirror Collection, it follows him from his early successes with the Jackson 5 through ...
BASHIR'S FILM SET FOR RERUN ON ITV.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: MARK JEFFERIES The bombshell documentary Living With Michael Jackson is lined up for a re-run on ITV. The singer's controversial interview with Martin Bashir attracted 15 million viewers when it aired in February 2003. Among its revelations were ...
FOREVER IN NEVERLAND; THE KING OF POP 1958-2009 BODY TO LIE IN STATE: Million fans will line streets for last goodbye: Fairytale carriage to carry coffin on journey.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: MARTIN FRICKER ; MATT BLAKE MICHAEL Jackson's body will lie in state for two days in a glass coffin at Neverland so fans can pay homage to their idol before his funeral. The King of Pop will be driven to his 3,000-acre ranch tomorrow in a 30-car cavalcade ...
Queue can do it Andy; FANS IN LINE FOR 2 DAYS TO SEE MURRAY MATCH.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: REBECCA EVANS DEVOTED Andy Murray fans are so game to get tickets for his match today that some have been queuing outside for two days. Andy, 22, is not due on Centre Court to face Spanish wildcard Juan Carlos Ferrero until this afternoon. But the ...
Fury at lord 'reward' for ex-Speaker; PEERAGE.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: JASON BEATTIE FORMER Speaker Michael Martin is to be made a peer, it emerged yesterday. His elevation to the Lords comes despite being the first Speaker to be ousted since Sir John Trevor was expelled in 1695 for taking a bribe. The Queen paved the ...
UK defence 'belongs in a museum' FINANCES.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: JASON BEATTIE BRITAIN'S defence policy is stuck in the last century and our forces are armed with Cold War weaponry fit for a museum, experts said yesterday. Instead of spending billions on nuclear deterrents and oldstyle ground wars, the MoD should invest in ...
MY CRYSTAL TENNIS BALL.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... HE'S not naturally superstitious - but Andy Murray is being trained to be LUCKY. Coach Miles Maclaglan insists the No3 seed always follows certain rituals. And it goes further than just using the same ball after winning a game or serving an ace. Miles insists he ...
POOR TEACHERS TO GET EXPELLED.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: MARK ELLIS SCHOOLS will weed out failing teachers with MoT-style check-ups on their classroom skills, it was revealed yesterday. Schools Secretary Ed Balls' reforms will clamp down on failing teachers who move from school to school to avoid their shortcomings ...
ID CARD U-TURN; Compulsory scheme ditched.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: BOB ROBERTS PLANS for compulsory identity cards for British citizens were scrapped yesterday in a government U-turn. Home Secretary Alan Johnson ditched a scheme to force airport staff and pilots to carry the controversial cards. He also ruled out ...
'No chance' on poorly lit crossing; INQUEST.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... A WITNESS who saw a boy of seven and his gran killed on a poorly-lit level crossing told an inquest yesterday it was "over in milliseconds". Jean Hoggart, 56, and Mikey Dawson were hit by a 62mph train as they crossed the line in Bestwood village, Notts, last November. ...
Bruno blast for ex pal Madonna; SHOWBIZ.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... CAMP comic character Bruno has branded Madonna a "transsexual child catcher". Sacha Baron Cohen used his latest creation to hit out at the singer, once a pal, during an interview. He told Attitude magazine: "Ich divide Madonna into ze following eras: Puppy Fat (Like ...
VICTORY FOR OUR HEROES; Award for fallen announced today.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: CHRIS HUGHES; BOB ROBERTS THE Queen has approved medals for those who died in combat in a historic victory for the Mirror's Honour The Brave campaign. It is to be announced today that the fallen will also be given a scroll similar to the one cherished by ...
TOUGHEST RECESSION SINCE 1958; Economy plummets by a record 2.4%.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: CLINTON MANNING THE economy shrank at its fastest rate for half a century in the first three months of this year. Official figures show output fell 2.4 per cent - worse than the 1.9 per cent previously estimated. The decline equals a low in 1974 ...
A sad farewell to an Angel.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: ANTON ANTONOWICZ HER coffin covered in flowers, the funeral cortege sets off for an Angel's final journey. Friends and family turned out to honour Farrah Fawcett last night at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. The Charlie's ...
MPs outlaw tip top-ups; WAITERS.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... RULES banning restaurants from using waiters' tips to pay the minimum wage were approved by MPs yesterday. Business minister Pat McFadden praised the Daily Mirror's Fair Tips campaign with trade union Unite. We exposed how greedy chains ...
De Menezes cop's top job; POLICE.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE head of the operation that led to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes has been promoted to one of the top jobs at Scotland Yard. Cressida Dick has taken responsibility for the Met's specialist crime wing. The pounds 172,000-a-year post includes ...
Hello, I'd like to apply for the job.. Which job is that? The one that pays pounds 80,000 for 40 days' work.. hello.. WE FIND OUT HOW HARD IT IS TO LAND ONE OF THE TORIES' HIGHLY PAID, CUSHY PART-TIME VACANCIES.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: DAMIEN FLETCHER; MELISSA THOMPSON SOUNDS like a dream job. Part-time director for investment bank. Banking experience not necessary. No qualifications needed (as long as you went to Eton, old boy). But if you thought you were in fantasy land, it gets better ....
..stars eat too; TV LAND.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nicola Methven MAT Horne was spotted noshing on a strawberry shoelace during filming of the new series of Gavin & Stacey. ...
IT'S officially the Year [...]; TV LAND.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nicola Methven IT'S officially the Year of the Sponge! Robin Williams, Will Ferrell and Ricky Gervais star in a special episode to celebrate SpongeBob SquarePants' 10th birthday ... They'll appear in Truth Or ...
in the pipeline.. TV LAND Telly news & gossip.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nicola Methven CRANFORD fans can expect a starry line-up of new faces in the BBC1 drama this Christmas. Celia Imrie plays the sister of Mrs Jamieson (Barbara Flynn) and Lesley Sharp is Mrs Bell, a widow who's a "bit of a whinger" I'm told. Meanwhile ...
Herby Lamb's high old time; TV LAND.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nicola Methven GEORGE Lamb is being paid by the BBC to hang out with yoofs and dabble in drugs! In a new documentary the presenter smokes salvia divinorum - a mind-bending herbal drug banned in some countries but still available in the UK. ...
FORMER EastEnders star Phil Daniels [...]; TV LAND.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nicola Methven FORMER EastEnders star Phil Daniels has had a pop at the soap - for being too serious. Phil, who played car dealer Kevin Wicks, moans: "Characters like mine, who start off happy-golucky, can't succeed because EastEnders doesn't really 'do' ...
M-OP AND BUCKET.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... A DOCTOR who slept at his surgery and let a street sweeper lance a ...
EMBRYO TESTS ON THE WAY.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... A TEST to screen embryos for almost all inherited diseases could be available in the UK in months, say experts. The genetic MoT or karyomapping, will allow people at risk of passing on gene defects to conceive healthy children with IVF. The pounds 2,500 procedure ...
DAILY SEX MAKES MEN MORE FERTILE.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: EMILY COOK IF you're trying to get your Sheila pregnant, the best advice is to "keep the river flowing". Aussie researchers yesterday claimed that having sex every day can boost a man's fertility - because sperm DNA suffers more damage and deteriorates in quality the ...
Soldier in killing quiz; MILITARY.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... A SOLDIER has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a comrade in a garrison town. The 29-year-old was quizzed after a man, 21, collapsed in the street in Larkhill, Wilts. He was released on bail last night pending further tests on the ...
Speedy fan's X-ray Factor; TELEVISION.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... AUDITIONS for X Factor had to be delayed for an hour after an audience member raced in to get a front-row seat - and dislocated his knee. Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and the other judges waited for an ambulance to come and take the unnamed ...
Tot killed by parent drug; TRAGEDY.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... A TODDLER died after drinking his parents' heroin substitute left on the kitchen table, a court heard. Dylan Hughes, two, became ill soon after swigging liquid methadone thinking it was fruit juice and died in hospital. His ...
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY..(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: GREIG BOX TURNBULL ONCE Mel the killer whale has chosen a victim for lunch, its fate is usually sealed. But this pup miraculously evades the jaws of death as the 10-ton predator closes in. The amazing images were shot by photographer and conservationist Rob ...
Jacko's thriller effect on HMV sales; yourmoney.(Business)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: CLINTON MANNING MICHAEL Jackson fans have been clearing the shelves at HMV. The chain sold up to 50,000 albums in the two days after the King of Pop's death. Details emerged as HMV revealed profits rose 11.5% to pounds 63million in the year to April 25. The ...
300 jobs go at Gala Coral.(Business)
Jul 01, 2009 ... GAMING group Gala Coral is to ditch up to 300 staff despite a pounds 60million tax windfall. The company plans to shut five more bingo halls with the loss of around 100 jobs. Another 200 will go from departments such as marketing and finance. Chairman Neil Goulden ...
LLOYDS AXE 2,100 STAFF; your money.(Business)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: CLINTON MANNING LLOYDS faced union fury yesterday after revealing "horrendous" plans to cut another 2,100 jobs. It takes the total number of job losses to 7,000 since the Black Horse rode to the rescue of HBoS last year. The cull still has a long ...
Slump not over yet, warn experts; HOUSING.(Business)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: CLINTON MANNING HOUSE prices continued creeping up last month but experts fear a full recovery is some way off. The UK's biggest building society, Nationwide, reports prices rose pounds 81 a day in June - the third jump in four months. The 0.9% ...
Carpetright pile shrinks; SHOPPING.(Business)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: CLINTON MANNING CARPETRIGHT has seen a dramatic 72% nosedive in its profits as it battles through the recession and housing market slump. The carpet firm made pounds 16.7 million in the year to May, compared with pounds 59.5m for the previous ...
IT'S A BECKS FACTOR; yourmoney.(Business)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: CLINTON MANNING FELLAS are rushing to defuzz to look cool this summer. Inspired by the clean-cut looks of stars such as David Beckham and Gareth Gates, sales of shavers ...
CATTERICK RUK.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... NEWSBOY 2.30-CONTRACT CATERER 3.00-TOTALLY INVINCIBLE 3.30-SUMMER DANCER 4.00-MAISON DIEU 4.30-ROODEE KING 5.00-FISTRAL BOUVERIE 2.30-CONTRACT CATERER 3.00-ELUSIVE SUE ...
Fortune to Rip it up in star-spangled Eclipse.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: DAVID YATES JIMMY FORTUNE is looking for the "top-class" Rip Van Winkle to show his true colours after being booked to ride the Aidan O'Brien trained colt in Saturday's CoralEclipse Stakes. The son of Galileo has been beaten in all three tries in Group 1 ...
Blaster Booth bashes Rocky; Bringing you updated reports & results from around the world: Boxing.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: SPORTS WIRE JASON BOOTH retained his British superbantamweight title last night with a comprehensive points win over Norfolk's Rocky Dean at Bethnal Green. The Nottingham fighter got the verdict by massive ...
Sam the man for Warriors; Bringing you updated reports & results from around the world: Rugby League.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: SPORTS WIRE EXCITING Wigan Warriors prospect Sam Tomkins, 20, called into England's squad to face France, has agreed a new five-year deal which will keep him until the ...
Taylors let rip at the Aussies; Bringing you updated reports & results from around the world: Cricket.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: SPORTS WIRE ENGLAND'S women took a 2-0 lead in their one-day series against Australia with a 55-run victory at Chelmsford. Sarah Taylor's ...
It's all kicked off already; Bringing you updated reports & results from around the world: Football.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: SPORTS WIRE JUST 34 days after Barcelona won the Champions League in Rome, the 2009-10 tournament kicked off last night. ...
When my 3-year-old bowled me out I knew it was time to retire! CRICKET COUNTDOWN TO THE ASHES.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: DEAN WILSON ARCHIE VAUGHAN ended the playing career of England's greatest postwar captain with a little dibbly-dobber that cleaned up his dad Michael's off stump. The fact that Vaughan Junior is just three years old told the architect of 26 England Test wins ...
SPORT ON TV.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... TENNIS: Wimbledon - BBC 1 & 2, 12noon CRICKET: England Lions v Australia - Sky Sports 1, ...
THOMMO PANNING PONTING.(Sport)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: MIKE WALTERS RICKY PONTING was last night branded a "c**p" Australian captain - by England's old Ashes nemesis Jeff Thomson. Ponting became the first skipper in a baggy green cap for a generation to hand over the urn to England four years ago, and Thomson ...
Soulja Boy's fans calling wrong tune; MUSIC.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: ALLISON MARTIN THOUSANDS of music fans have been bombarding a family with calls after their phone number featured on a rap track. US rap artist Soulja Boy included the ex-directory number in his latest hit, Kiss Me Thru The Phone. Since its ...
Docs order skinny Love to fatten up; SHOWBIZ.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: FIONA CUMMINS COURTNEY Love has been diagnosed with malnutrition. The singer, who was pictured last week looking painfully thin, has revealed doctors have warned her she is seriously underweight. She blamed her weight loss on worry about the missing ...
IF GMTV BOSSES CUT MY SALARY.... I'LL QUIT; Garraway's fury as she faces dip of up to pounds 70k.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: NICOLA METHVEN KATE Garraway has threatened to quit GMTV over plans to slash presenters' pay by up to a quarter. The 42-year-old, whose contract is up for renewal next month, is furious that show chiefs have suggested her pounds 280,000 salary be cut by ...
FOREVER IN NEVERLAND; Million fans will line streets to say goodbye: THE KING OF POP 1958-2009 BODY TO LIE AT RANCH: Home could become new 'Graceland' shrine.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: MARTIN FRICKER ;MATT BLAKE MICHAEL Jackson's body will lie in state for two days in a glass coffin at Neverland so fans can pay homage to their idol before his funeral. The King of Pop's body will be driven to his sprawling 3,000-acre ranch tomorrow in a ...
Ke'ber and Black.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... "Which part of the ...
Kill off all ID plans.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE climbdown on compulsory ID cards is a victory not only for this newspaper but for common sense and tough campaigning. Home Secretary Alan Johnson made the right decision not to hesitate before ditching the scheme which risked becoming Labour's plastic poll tax. ...
MICHAEL Jackson's last performance [...].(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Maguire Kevin MICHAEL Jackson's last performance is as show-stopping in South Africa as Britain or the US or everywhere else for that matter. The King of Pop's still wiping crime and corruption off the front pages, TV and radio dwelling on every new twist. ...
Geech can teach us all.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Kevin Maguire LIONS head coach Ian McGeechan could teach Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger a trick or two about handling fans. The oval ball game, with all that rucking and mauling, is a brawl until a match breaks out. Yet off the field Geech and his ...
JACK'S SHAME OVER A KILLER.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Maguire Kevin TO Britain's shame, victims of a gruesome industrial disease enjoy better treatment in a developing country. Asbestos is a fatal link across the Equator - deadly fibres mined in South Africa then shipped to England to be turned into building ...
SA's goal should be to show its true colours.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: Kevin Maguire SOUTH Africans are touchy about questions over whether they'll put on a great show for next year's football World Cup. The greatest sporting event of them all, eclipsing even the Olympics, kicks off in Soweto's stunning 104,000-seat Soccer City ...
Drunk thug too young to be jailed.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: EUAN STRETCH A FRAIL pensioner was disgusted yesterday after the 13-year-old yob who attacked her at home was freed by a court. Frederika Ogborn, who walks with a frame, was kicked, hit and knifed in the terrifying ordeal. The attacker, who ...
SHOPPER STAB HORROR.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: JON CLEMENTS A PENSIONER was last night fighting for life after a crazed knifeman stabbed her nine times as she walked home from a supermarket. Ann Driscoll, 82, staggered bleeding nearly 100 yards along a street after suffering multiple stab wounds to her ...
OLD AGE PUGILIST; Boxing pensioner batters knifeman.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: EUAN STRETCH THIS is the battered face of a knife-wielding intruder beaten up by his 71-year-old victim. Gregory McCalium, 23, smashed into his ex-boxing champ neighbour Frank Corti's home over a long-running row. As he tried to stab him in the ...
Strike fears at BA after talks stall; DISPUTE.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... STRIKE action loomed at British Airways last night as the airline sought up to 5,000 job cuts and a two-year pay freeze for ground staff, cabin crew and baggage handlers. BA's demands meant talks with the unions to agree a new deal on pay and conditions ended in deadlock. ...
pounds 200m home plan helps SIX families; MORTGAGES.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Byline: JASON BEATTIE A pounds 200MILLION mortgage rescue package has helped just six families, ministers admitted yesterday. The scheme, launched at the start of the year, enables people struggling to pay their mortgage to sell their home to housing associations but ...
TEEN DROWNS AS HE COOLS OFF.(News)
Jul 01, 2009 ... A VICAR'S teenage son drowned after jumping into a river on one of the hottest days of the year. Tragic Tony Ballard, 17, died after he and three pals took a dip on Monday afternoon. He managed to swim across the slow-moving waters, but horrified onlookers watched as ...