The People (London, England) back issues from June 2008:
CASH FOR BAD PARENTS; EXCLUSIVE Controversial payment plan to deal with problem kids.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By DAVID COLLINS LOUSY parents could soon be BRIBED to make sure their kids go to school. The controversial ...
BROWN'S RESC U TURN; EXCLUSIVE PREMIER'S 2 YEAR PLAN TO SAVE GOVT.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By DEAN ROUSEWELL GORDON Brown is drawing up a two-year package of sweeteners to rescue his government from disaster at the next General Election. The raft of U-turns comes after several backbench MPs - many fearing defeat in marginal seats - warned the ...
STRAW I'll never stand against Gordon; EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By DEAN ROUSEWELL JACK Straw has vowed NEVER to challenge Gordon Brown as PM. Labour plotters wanted him to stand as a "caretaker leader" after the huge surge in Tory support. But Justice Minister Mr Straw, 61, told The People: "There is NOT a ...
First Class People; Royal Mail.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... I HAVE cancer for a second time and had a hysterectomy. My husband Derek, who's not well, has to do everything, and is doing a great job. Mrs Ann Field Hemlington, Middlesbro Say a BIG thank you to someone. Send their name, age, picture with your ...
HERE WE BOW! BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT EXCLUSIVE BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT SIZZLING STRING QUARTET INSIST THEY WILL MAKE IT BIG AFTER WOWING THE NATION...(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: by JON WISE STRING quartet Escala last night vowed they'd be stars after thrilling millions on Britain's Got Talent. Violinist Vicky Lyon, 23, insisted: "We love being sexy and feeling good when we are playing. "This is just the beginning for us ....
BLIND BROTHER; EXCLUSIVE TV bosses sign up sightless contestant for the new series.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: by TOM LATCHEM BIG Brother has sensationally recruited a BLIND contestant for this week's new series. A source said: "BB is ready to take a blind person into the house. "Everything possible has been done to make sure the person settles in and is ...
pounds 15m BETS SPREE.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... BOOKIES expect a record pounds 15MILLION in BB9 bets. Ladbrokes' Robin Hutchison said: "Controversy has made the show more popular than ever. We used to take peanuts on TV betting but BB ...
ROBBED OF OUR NISHA MEMORIES; EXCLUSIVE Killer hubby hides pics.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By TOM LATCHEM THE evil husband who murdered policewoman Nisha Patel-Nasri has piled more heartbreak on her grieving family by hiding away photos and other mementoes. Plotting Fadi Nasri, 34, grabbed the cherished souvenirs and stashed them in a secret spot. ...
3 die in beer crash horror.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... THREE men were killed and 18 people injured when a beer-laden van crashed - sending kegs "flying like missiles" into nine cars. The ...
Star's asthma scare.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... ACTRESS Lindsay Lohan, 21, went to hospital after ...
FAMILY VALUpounds S; EXCLUSIVE THE PEOPLE LOOKS AT CONTROVERSIAL BID TO TAME YOUNG THUGS Fines for parents who can't control yobbo kids Unless you're SO bad you get a Govt hand-out.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By DAVID COLLINS THE wild packs of yobs roaming our streets are one of the worst problems facing Britain today. Each week brings a fresh tragedy - a dad or teenager maimed or murdered by feral louts whose parents show little interest in their off-prings' ...
The sweet goes on; POLOS ARE 60 - BUT OTHER CANDY HAS ALSO MADE A MINT.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: RACHAEL BLETCHLY THEY were designed to fill a hole in the confectionery market and 60 years on the humble Polo mint is still one of Britain's best-selling sweets. 20MILLION are made every day and just one year's production would stretch around the globe a staggering 21/2 ...
pounds 5,000 for the bet of dad's life.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NICK DORMAN BRAVE Jon Matthews today collects pounds 5,000 from a bookie for cheating cancer. Doctors had predicted the 57-year-old salesman would die from his lung disease by the end of 2006. And eight months ago William Hill took his pounds ...
SMILEY PEOPLE.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... STUDENT Joey Gurly, 17, from Leeds, has set a world record ...
TV plane in death crash.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... TWO people were killed when an aircraft used in a live Channel 4 TV ad crashed just hours later. Three others escaped unhurt but six were injured when the wing of the Pilatus PC-6 broke off - sending the plane plummeting to the ground. It had ...
It's fall in the jeans.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... A TEEN landed in hospital after tripping on his ...
RETURN OF REG HOLLIS; HELLO HELLO HELLO.. WHAT'S GOING ON HAIR? Prim-and-copper Jeff set to rejoin T V's Bill EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By DAVID COLLINS TORMENTED Bill star Jeff Stewart has been in secret talks with producers to make a sensational comeback as TV's favourite bobby - but he will have to smarten himself up a little bit. The actor who played prim-and-proper PC Reg Hollis in the ...
WILLIAM WINDIES DRUG JOB.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By DEAN ROUSEWELL Royal Editor PRINCE WILLIAM will tomorrow start intensive training as part of his naval attachment - which will see him battling drug runners in the Caribbean. Sub-Lieutenant Wales will report to Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth to ...
THE ROYAL IN SPECTRE; Royal EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: by DANIEL JONES SPOOKED staff at Windsor Castle are refusing to work alone at night after two saw George IV's ghost. The King, right, who died ...
Night party-goer shot in leg; DERBY.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NICK DORMAN A PARTY-goer was shot during a bust-up at an all-night bash. The man, in his 20s, was blasted in the leg as the fracas spilled into the front garden at 6.30am yesterday. He was said to be in a serious condition last night after an op ...
Naked British girl murdered; SPAIN.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By FIONA MAY TWO Brits were being hunted on Majorca last night after a naked woman was stabbed at her holiday apartment. Cheryl Maddison, 21, was found slumped on a stairway in the resort of Magaluf. She had been knifed twice in the back and once ...
Hero shopkeeper shot dead in 'revenge' attack; EXECUTED..SLAUGHTERED.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By TOM LATCHEM A BRAVE dad of six was shot dead in his newsagent's shop yesterday - days after he fought off a machete-waving gang. Cops believe the thugs may have returned to take deadly revenge. A customer found Abdul Saeed lying in a pool of ...
Parents quizzed as 2 kids knifed to death at home; EXECUTED..SLAUGHTERED.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By TOM CARLIN A COUPLE were last night being quizzed by murder cops after two of their kids were knifed to death and their baby was left fighting for life. Navarajah Navaneethan and wife Sasikala, were held after their five-year-old son and four-year-old ...
Crooks rob 500 with card scam at garage.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By TOM LATCHEM MORE than 500 people are feared to have had their bank cards cloned at a single petrol station. A service station in Bournemouth was at the centre of an investigation last week into alleged international fraud. Now more than 500 ...
SMILEY PEOPLE.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... GREAT gran Jilly Needham, 90 this week, puts her long life down to ...
Brit farmers betrayal row.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... LABOUR were yesterday accused of betraying British farmers by not bothering to send a minister to key EU talks. Tory Peter Ainsworth blasted: "It is absolutely indefensible. We're entering critical negotiations on policies that have a huge bearing ...
Flo good to see you.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... SISTERS Angela Castleton, 57, and Pam Sullivan, 52, of Redditch, ...
BOMB SUSPECT AS AN ARAB.. AMAZING PIC OF EXETER NICKY REILLY IN HEAD-DRESS EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JOSHUA LAYTON THIS is nail bomb suspect Nicky Reilly in desert head-dress - symbol of the Arab lifestyle he yearned for. Reilly, who changed his name to Mohammed Rasheed, loved to parade round his flat in the traditional keffiyeh - scarf - and a white robe ....
GEORGE'S FAMILY ANGUISH; AMAZING LOOK INTO EARLY LIVES OF THE BRITAIN'S GO TALENT CHILD STARS Tug of love for breakdance lad EXCLUSIVE.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By MARC BAKER BRITAIN'S Got Talent dancing sensation George Sampson is at the centre of a heart-breaking tug-oflove battle between his warring parents. The 14-year-old's world was torn apart five years ago when his mum Lesley, 39, and dad Brian, 40, separated ...
Ears Faryl; AMAZING LOOK INTO EARLY LIVES OF THE BRITAIN'S GO TALENT CHILD STARS.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By JON WISE SINGING sensation Faryl Smith, 12, is set to become the country's richest schoolgirl after wowing millions of viewers of Britain's Got Talent. Regardless of last night's result, she has already convinced showbiz experts she could rake in pounds 5MILLION in ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror; LETTER OF THE WEEK wins pounds 50, the others pounds 10.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Tom Baxter ANOTHER day and another young life taken by someone carrying a knife. Harry Potter actor Robert Knox was just 18 and had his whole life to look forward to when he was killed. We do not want to ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Pat Holt THE People did a great job warning of the Seven Deadly Scams that prey on the gullible and naive. But you omitted the worst scam of all - politics. Empty promises, trust betrayed, greed and ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Shirley Binding SOMETHING is so wrong when the Government cuts 88-year-old war hero Eric Whittaker's benefits, as The People reported. It should make no difference that he received a payment for the hell he endured as a PoW slave on the Burma ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Christina Gibbs A BOY of 14 is the latest victim hurt in the craze for "tombstoning" - leaping from heights into shallow water. How many more incidents like this are there going to be before ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Anne Forrester I HOPE Kate and Gerry McCann can find some comfort from the fact that they are not alone in having a child vanish. They are in the same nightmare situation as thousands of other ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Paul Maddocks A POLICE inspector is said to be amazed at the amount of form filling officers are forced to do. They spend up to 30 per cent ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jack Amer I DON'T often agree with listening to rebels. However MP Frank Field has come up with useful suggestions in the past and his suggestion that Cabinet Ministers Jacqui Smith, David Miliband, Jack Straw and John Hutton should be ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Maria Connelly IF indeed Tony Blair is giving advice to Gordon Brown then no wonder things are going downhill fast. Are we never to be free of the Blairs? Cherie has pushed herself forward like no other ex-PM's wife has ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Sandra Nathan IT was a terrible shame that members of the Envira tribe were disturbed by a plane flying low over the Brazilian rainforest to take pictures of ...
Letter: 'you say' - Cops must crush killer knife terror.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jimmy Newlove IF anyone sets up a Slash Fuel Costs Party they are guaranteed my vote. It costs me pounds 65 a week to fill up my Ford ...
Letter: 'you say' - BECKS NO FREAK FOR THAT PEEK.(Letters)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: Jolene Cooper I LOVED your pictures of Victoria and David Beckham at a basketball match in Los Angeles. What man wouldn't look at such a gorgeous ...
TOP MARKS FOR SCHOOL HOLIDAY CHANGES.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... MOVES to change school terms and holidays, as revealed in The People, won backing from readers. IT'S a superb idea to have five eight-week terms. I teach infants and they forget almost everything they have learned by the time they return from their six-week summer holidays. ...
JOKE OF THE WEEK; loaded.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... A CUSTOMER went into a bank and asked the cashier to check his balance. "Certainly, Sir"," said the cashier ...who then stood up and pushed him over. That joke wins Mrs M Robertshaw, of Batley, ...
'we say' THE PEOPLE: It's action.. not Asbos.(Leaders)
Jun 01, 2008 ... TEN years ago anti-social behaviour orders were hailed as a panacea for all the yobbery, violence and teenage terror in our communities. A decade on they have had little impact. Youth crime is now a plague infecting every corner of Britain - fuelled by binge-drinking and the ...
'we say' THE PEOPLE: Great tale of talent.(Leaders)
Jun 01, 2008 ... CREDIT crunch, soaring bills, the promise of a long, wet summer.. There was NO excuse for long faces in the UK last night though. At 7pm a performing dog, a singing plumber and four sexy fiddlers took to a stage with a bullied choirboy and a pair of bhangra-dancing ...
Warm Emmerbrace; BANDAGED ROXANNE'S HUG FOR TEENAGE CO-STAR PEOPLE PICTURE EXCLUSIVE.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By EMMA DONNAN EMMERDALE beauty Roxanne Pallett can't resist giving teenage co-star James Baxter a warm embrace - even though her right arm is bandaged. Roxanne, 25, overcame her "soapland" injury to get to grips with 18-year-old James who plays hunky Jake ...
I'M GUTTEED! EXCLUSIVE Golf balls-up costs fishmonger Pat a pounds 10k Vegas trip He hits magical hole-in one But forgot to enter contest PEOPLE PICTURE EXCLUSIVE.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By TOM LATCHEM GOLFER Pat Malone hit a hole-in-one to win a pounds 10k contest - only to learn he hadn't paid the pounds 7 entry. Fishmonger Pat, who was celebrating his 46th birthday, hit his ball at a 150-yards par three with a nine iron for his first ace in ...
LIST OF NO-NOS TOO BIG.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By PROFESSOR HUGH PENNINGTON FOOD safety expert and Government adviser Professor Hugh Pennington was stunned by our findings. He said: 'The worst effects of food poisoning happen to the elderly and the sick. Most hospital patients are elderly, and none of us ...
SO MANY DANGERS.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... OUR investigation totted up each type of problem at the 696 hospitals whose reports we inspected. We found: Dirty areas or lack of cleaning - 240 hospitals (35 per cent) Vermin or poor pest control - 88 (13 per cent) Staff training problems - ...
WORST 20 IN BRITAIN; EXCLUSIVE.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE filthy state of Britain's hospital kitchens is exposed today by a shock People investigation. Up to TWO-THIRDS are so disgusting they would fail basic hygiene standards - putting sick patients at risk of fresh infections. The list of horrors in our "world class" ...
FIVE-STAR HOSPITALS.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Furness General Hospital University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust - issues of 2006 resolved Royal Hallamshire Hospital Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Darlington Memorial Hospital ...
DISHING UP A DOSE OF POISON.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... VOMITING, stomach pain and diarrhoea are the most common symptoms of food poisoning, caused by bacteria where kitchen hygiene is poor. Victims also risk fever, chills, dehydration, aches, tiredness and damage ...
HOSPITAL GRUB; Cobwebs in your soup, cockroaches rats & mice behind the fridge, staff chewing gum as they cook out of date food with unwashed hands. THE PEOPLE investigates what's in nation's Hidden scandal of the filthy NHS kitchens allowed to keep going in shameful conditions.(News)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Ashford Hospital Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals Trust FINDINGS: DESPITE concerns at previous inspections, Ashford still has cockroaches and is risking patient safety with sandwiches stored at up to 15 deg C - risking bacteria growth, according to an inspector. In ...
WHAT NOT WHO WEAR; EXCLUSIVE Is DOCTOR - WHO star geek or chic? Our ViP girls decide David's the Timelad.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: by KATIE HIND and EMMA DONNAN AS The People's ViP girls, we're used to showbiz excess - especially when it comes to fashion. And Dr Who star David Tennant seems more Timelad than Timelord with this outfit. The 37-year-old actor chose the schoolboy ...
ViP: Eazy lovers.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind PARIS HILTON's pooch Tinkerbell is dating her boyfriend JOEL MADDEN's mutt Eazy, we ...
ViP: IT'S PETE STROPERTY.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind POTTY PETE DOHERTY has thrown a hissy fit over sharing a stage with KATE MOSS's new fella JAMIE HINCE at Spain's Benicassim Festival. BABYSHAMBLES were due to follow THE KILLS - fronted by JAMIE, 34 ...
ViP: CHRIS BROWN.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind COULD marriage be on the cards for Umbrella (ella-ella) singer RIHANNA? The 20-year-old beauty's boyfriend CHRIS BROWN ...
ViP: OSMONDS.. NIFTY AT 50.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind THE OSMONDS made an emotional return to the stage on Friday - to celebrate the band's FIFTIETH anniversary. The wholesome sevensome haven't performed together for the past 27 ...
ViP: MODEL DAISY LOWE and DJ MARK RONSON.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind MODEL DAISY LOWE and DJ MARK RONSON's ...
ViP: Socks in the City, Madge?(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind MADONNA had to watch her step and hope there was no broken glass on the floor when she left ...
ViP: Pussycat Amy.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind PUSSYCAT DOLL NICOLE SCHERZINGER is keen to perform a duet with AMY WINEHOUSE. Racy Nicole, 28 - reported to be dating F1 ace LEWIS HAMILTON, 23 - ...
ViP: KYM'S HOT FAVOURITE; She's STILL flirting with Hollyoaks Jamie And even SNOGS him at the racecourse!(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind CORRIE's KYM RYDER might not be single furlong it seems - she's been getting frisky with Hollyoaks hottie JAMIE LOMAS at a racecourse. Kym was cosying up to Jamie, who plays bad-boy Warren Fox, at Chester Racecourse - ...
ViP: FiGHT NiGHT.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind BOXER RICKY HATTON enjoyed a ...
ViP: TiP FOR THE TOP.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind US star SARA BAREILLES's ...
ViP: LiFE'S LOSER.(Features)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Byline: By Alice Walker, Emma Donnan & Katie Hind I'M A Celebrity star ...