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14 August 2008

• Police fight war on gun crime - by giving young boy a machine gun
• Mariah Carey lives up to her diva reputation as she employs TWO people to towel her dry
• 'Unhappy' Robinho still yearning for Stamford Bridge switch
• Weekend rail chaos as West Coast line is 'severed' for track upgrade
• A third of elderly not receiving basic NHS care as campaigners call for laws against 'ageism'
• Rangers' target Loovens close to making a Celtic switch
• Dogs behaving badly: Martin Clunes's new show finds man's best friend is still a wolf at heart
• MAIL COMMENT: Who wins when you can't FAIL exams?
• GB hockey women keep dream alive with lacklustre New Zealand win
• English is a second language for 1 in 8 pupils in England
• Cost of caring 'will hit £60,000' as a generation is forced to dip into savings to support ageing parents
• O'Connor goal proves in vain as Doonhamers suffer Euro defeat
• Defender Davies desperate for Barry to stay at Villa after UEFA Cup success
• Loser! Bradley Saunders says he’s glad he lost, so he can get back to his family... (P.S. They were at ringside!)
• Saints go marching on after second-half comeback in Sweden
• Tree-killing beetle that feeds on oak, beech and shrubs has arrived on plants imported from China
• Is global warming putting garden birds at risk by making them lay their eggs earlier?
• Rooney's double shift opens door for a quick Man Utd return
• New anti-arthritis vaccine planned
• PICTURE SPECIAL: Olympic Games diary - Swede goes bananas
• Cheryl's the hot new judge. Dannii's feeling left out. But Louis Walsh says he's keeping shtum - honest!
• Carew pens new deal
• Coach Park: Ainslie will 'kill' anyone who gets in way of third Olympic gold
• Devastated Deng out of Great Britain's Euro basketball bid
• Rice flies in to Tbilisi as Kremlin shatters Georgia truce
• Lambrusco to make comeback decades after 1970s heyday
• Indefatigable Radcliffe steps out on her impossible Olympic dream
• If it wasn't for me, he'd look like the back of a bus, says Mrs Windass
• Hoyte set for Boro switch
• Barca could enter Berbatov equation
• Kuyt knows Liverpool must improve after below Standard performance
• Gail's dream ends in tears: Emms calls it a day as GB medal hopes crash
• Turner's Earners - All the top tips for Friday August 15
• Oh brother, Sculthorpe Senior hears the call of the Wildcats
• Key's half-century not enough to save England Lions from crushing defeat
• IPL won't be allowed to dictate English Test season, warns ECB
• FSA blamed for oil price rise
• Shock as body left in ward
• Children who have tonsils removed are more likely to be obese adults, studies suggest
• Bolton boss Megson bemoans pressure of 'barmy' transfer window
• Barry scores for Villa in UEFA Cup but he could still sign for Liverpool
• Drug that uses the body's cells to blast cancer
• Hammers defender pleads with Upton Park board not to part with Curbishley
• Batman off the hook: Christian Bale will not face charges over hotel family bust-up
• Portsmouth and agent Willie McKay charged by FA over Benjani transfer
• Blow for Newcastle as injured Owen to miss Old Trafford clash
• Berbatov price war: Barcelona battle United for Spurs striker
• Mutu ordered to pay Chelsea £13.68m in compensation over drugs sacking
• Book which claims Obama has links to communists and black-power groups could top U.S. bestseller lists
• It's been emotional, says proud Vinnie Jones as his son passes out of army college
• Starve girl probe mum in court
• BA fares 'may soar' after deal with American Airlines, watchdog warns
• Video: Georgian TV reporter shot by Russian sniper during live broadcast carries on with her report
• Two women charged over murders of British couple shot dead on Antigua honeymoon
• King of the Tigers
• The good, the bad and the very cute... Young fan meets Simon Cowell as hopefuls roll up for X Factor
• Chinese student brutally murdered in flat 'may have been involved in internet football betting scam'
• Pictured: The teenage girl who played chicken on the M4 - while her friend filmed her and put it on YouTube
• Stars in their eyes: Host of celebrities auction specs for sight-saving charity
• George Clooney snaps up film rights to story of Osama Bin Laden driver's detention
• The battle to rehabilitate Zulu's Henry Hook after film portrayed him as drunken malingerer
• Blues duo face wait after Lamps deal
• Van der Sar tight-lipped over future
• Indiana Jones star Shia LaBeouf to return to work with fingers in a splint after horror crash
• Coe's says 'extraordinary weekend' could be golden for Brit athletes
• WIN a pair of tickets to Chelsea v Portsmouth on Sunday
• I want to beat Jones and retire undefeated, reveals Calzaghe
• Making jets less jumbo: From cutlery to clingfilm, airlines cut weight to save on plane fuel
• Milk slashed by 25p a pint as supermarkets start new price war
• New recession threat to Britain as euro zone goes into a downturn
• Former England coach Steve McClaren hilariously 'speaksh' the lingo in Dutch TV interview
• Bird flu detection 'in two hours'
• Cheryl's the best: Simon Cowell fuels rivalry between his glamorous judges
• Middlesbrough agree fee for Arsenal's Hoyte as replacement for Luke Young
• Austrian sex dungeon victim Elisabeth Fritzl is 'teaching her children to play'
• Federer's annus horribilis continues as Blake ends Olympic hopes - for ever
• Russians shatter Georgia truce and tell the West to 'forget talk of territorial integrity'
• Becky blitzes rivals in bid to become double Olympic champion
• 'Sexist' airlines, City banks and shops force women to wear high heels to work
• Pictured: The loving pose that tells the world Macca and Nancy are together
• Briton jailed in Dubai for taking photos up women's skirts
• Arsenal's Merida waits on Wenger for Spanish return
• House sells for just 50 PENCE as U.S. property market hits all-time low
• Zimbabwe intelligence confiscates Tsvangirai's passport at airport because he was 'on the list'
• Big hair day: Is Girls Aloud's Nicola allowed that bouffant?
• Teenage sister of youngest soldier to die in Afghanistan follows him into Army ranks
• The soggy Olympics: Britain's wet summer is a drop in the ocean compared to China
• Halsall books final spot
• Jeffries has medal in his sights
• HATCHET MAN: Lampard's in the money; Spurs' pot and black kettle; No Silva rush; Liverpool WAGS; Mourinho - simply the best of. Plus Wigan, Man City and Blackburn
• Children hospitalised after taking drugs soars by up to 50% under Labour
• Dream over for Emms and Robertson after British pair crash out in quarters
• Olympic rowing, canoeing and sailing events delayed by thunderstorms
• NHS dental charges 'rise' slammed
• Calmer weather follows storm chaos
• Creditable show from teenage Keatings
• Pietersen's dreaming if he thinks England will win Ashes, says Clark
• Woman jailed for 20 years for killing bigamist husband who was planning to get Muslim wife pregnant
• Princess Eugenie gets top grades in her A-levels
• Jeffries survives scare to reach last eight but there's heartache for Billy Joe
• Rafa disappointed by 'lucky' Reds
• King of the Tigers
• Footballer due home from Afghanistan in weeks killed by suicide bomber
• Brad Split: The busy Hollywood dad tears his trousers
• Glitter to be deported to UK
• 'Cavorting with the enemy': Simon Cowell's girlfriend Terri steps out with X Factor rival Louis
• Starve girl probe couple face court
• Peaches Geldof's new husband admits he doesn't even know who her father Sir Bob is
• Public schoolboy drink-driver who 'ripped cottage in two' gets off with £400 fine
• It's all Rover for Manchester City as Blackburn reject £12m bid for free-scoring striker Santa Cruz
• Wenger wary of complacency
• Couple ring up £20,000 bill for fish and chips as they travel 60 miles for their favourite lunch every day for a decade
• Catherine Zeta-Jones heartbroken after namesake grandmother dies at 91
• Thaksin to stay away from City's UEFA Cup opener as owner fights extradition
• Gunner Walcott and Villain Gabby back among the youngsters for England
• I owe my fantastic A-level results to being kidnapped when I was just two days old
• Tories slam 'A-level wealth divide'
• Another record year for A-levels
• Sculthorpe to leave Saints
• Mourinho - Arsenal may miss out
• Let's drink to that: Pub punters beat the credit crunch by trading home-grown produce for beer
• 'This time it's for good'... Kelly Brook and Billy Zane go their separate ways AGAIN
• Furious Spurs will force United to pay 'record fee' for Berbatov
• I got used to the English players at Real, says Spurs keeper Sanchez
• M-way petrol prices 'a raw deal'
• Glitter to be deported back to UK
• Arsenal boss Wenger promises new signing after win in Europe
• Named and shamed: The Premiership clubs which pay backroom staff 'poverty wages' as players pocket millions
• Britain rescues family from war zone
• Angry China attacks Western media for being too critical after arrest of British journalist
• Colonel Mustard killed off by a Wag in the gym: Board game Cluedo gets a modern makeover
• Katie Holmes slips into boy jeans for 10th time in a fortnight (but they can't be Tom's as she has to turn them up!)
• Keane handed Forest return
• Little Weed never got drunk! Young model takes a tumble by the flowerpots
• Unlucky-in-love Jennifer Aniston 'splits' from rocker boyfriend John Mayer
• Murrays dispatched by French aces
• White Americans will be in the minority by 2042
• UK aid worker dies in Afghan ambush
• Clintons shocked and saddened after politician friend and confidant is shot dead at party HQ
• British scout leader killed after plunging 1,000ft down an Alpine ravine
• Brain surgeon's identity stolen for fake Facebook slur on Olympic gold medallist
• Saunders well beaten by Cuban
• Gary Glitter to be deported back to Britain after he completes jail sentence for molesting children
• Council worker emigrates 10,000 miles to Australia... but keeps his job in Cambridgeshire
• Teenagers to get A-level results
• A-level pass rate rockets to highest level ever as test chiefs herald the 'unfailable' exam
• Battle of the WAGs Day 3: Claudine Palmer scores an own goal when she wears the same outfit twice in a row
• Jordan unveils her smaller bust and much larger lips
• Easy for Blues
• Lampard sticks with Blues
• Thief steals doctor's car as she stops to help elderly man knocked down by a bus
• F1's Lewis hits town with his girlfriend and her pals (well, they are the Pussycat Dolls)
• Racism concerns over legal watchdog
• Stagg awarded £706,000 compensation
• What price a medal now?
• Pooley claims silver
• Halsall through in record time
• Gunners ease to victory
• Superb Reina denies Standard
• US military flies aid into Georgia
• Unemployment figures jump by 60,000
• Economy facing 'painful adjustment'
• Tragic honeymoon couple buried
• Man arrested as house siege ends
• Cameron rejects Northern city claim
• What's Punch and Judy? How the traditional seaside show is in danger of disappearing
• Tube workers agree pay row walkouts
• 'No refunds' for Wrapit's customers
• 80 per cent of Britons dream of escaping the rat-run and finding their spot in the countryside
• PHILIP NORMAN: How that holiday feeling disappears as soon as you step off the plane
• Earnshaw's double moves him closer to the record he has pledged to shatter
• ITV will bring back variety shows to win Saturday night ratings battle
• Jobless total jumps by 60,000 adding to Britain's economic 'tragedy'
• 50,000 drain covers stolen 'to be sold as scrap in China and India'
• McLeish deight as Nafti breaks his duck in Carling Cup romp for Blues
• EDWINA CURRIE: Isn't it time we Scousers admitted some home truths?
• Benitez hails penalty king Reina as lacklustre Liverpool stretched to the limit by Belgian minnows
• Time's up: Health and safety tells fifth generation clockwinder it's too dangerous
• UK fears as Germany on brink of recession
• Whisky bottle lock is toast of unusual gadgets show
• 'Hell' estate from Blair poverty campaign gets £2.4bn revamp
• Thames barge to make supermarket deliveries
• Carnival police use 'ring of steel' to curb violence and crime
• Winehouse, The Verve and mud to star at V Festival
• Westminster tops table as councils and TfL hand out six million fines to drivers
• Brain surgeon's identity stolen for Facebook slur on gold medallist
• The timeless insincerity of a little do in Las Vegas
• Sorry,Your Highness, but science just isn't your field
• Real women aren't served by size zero
• A squeeze in town beats boredom in a backwater
• Comment: The value of today's A-levels
• Rolls-Royce and Goodrich in engine controls tie-up
• Wenger promises major new signing
• Footsie boost as the hot money favours miners
• Comment: New Brown test
• Only 15% say 2012 will lift Britain's reputation
• BBC gives host Gabby Logan more coverage than the sport
• Hit-run girl's parents condemn killer driver jailed for cover-up
• Passenger's lucky escape as tree kills van man
• Lampard: £35m deal not about the money
• The Grater is shelved as credit crunch hits City offices
• Russia abandons truce and goes back into Georgia
• The money is great but being free is priceless
• Divorce lawyer Jaws hires Steel Magnolia for his marriage split
• Shamed Glitter to fly back to the UK
• The Western media is too critical, says angry China
• Comment: What are a few protesters to this regime?
• Gymnasts will vault on to the world stage in film by BBC
• Prescott tries to blame Boris for 'insane' report
• Wags step proudly into pages of new dictionary
• Premiership clubs pay staff 'poverty wages' as players earn millions
• British Land loses £572 million over just three months
• Rise and rise of the 'gold standard'
• Comment: No diplomas please, this system will serve us well for another 50 years
• Quads go separate ways ... all to top universities
• A-levels you cannot fail
• 'Get rich culture killing hopes of young people'
• Moves to stop eight days of Tube strikes
• Twente questions Wenger must face
• Don't dither, business chiefs tell Darling
• Not so sweet on Candys taking over Hyde Park
• Bellway adds to housing woe as reservations drop by 45%
• Favourites come out of the cold for Frijj
• Greenspan on attack over US home loans rescue deal
• Double blow hits boxers hard
• Pedal medal pair tell the nation to get on their bikes
• Success is pretty in pink for captain Ed
• Javelin is the key to Kelly's chances
• Coe expects extraordinary weekend for the British hopes
• Fran drained by relay but makes solo trip to final
• Is Gabby gabbing a bit TOO much at the Olympics?
• Bank's prices forecast proves just a mite out
• Cost cutting helps boost Logica by 16%
• Dedicated holiday fans boosting TUI's sales
• InBev closer to Anheuser deal success
• Russian 'in talks to buy Hummer'
• Tom Cruise UA partner quits
• B&O feeling the profits crunch
• Wrecks threat to gas pipeline
• Yang is lord of the rings as hosts dominate
• Rafa's sigh of relief as Reds ride their luck
• Murphy calls for a huge improvement
• Students celebrate record grades
• New boy Patel is hoping to get on road to riches
• Girl sought to play Darwin's daughter
• Comment: This strike will backfire on Bob
• TUC digs in its heels on sexist dress rules
• BP's pipeline in Georgia is back in action
• Canoeist's parents struck by lightning as storms hit Games
• Key battles in vain as England Lions fail to roar
• New recession threat to Britain as euro zone goes into a downturn
• Hospital admissions for drugs soar by 35 per cent
• Adlington breaks Games record as Foster goes out
• Asda tops its rivals with a leap in sales
• BA seals its tie-up with American and Iberia
• Scout leader in ravine plunge died 'at his absolute happiest'
• I made him proud says girl, 17, who lost brother to war
• Emms now the cheerleader as she says cheerio
• Johnno gets tough on England's rugby stars
• Ramos is dodging Berbatov questions
• Blake's in heaven but it is hell for Federer
• Force is weak in Star Wars
• Pitch-perfect pain in Piaf
• Gutter Twins are brothers in arms
• Basil serves up laughter in Faulty Towers
• Oz gets news look in Westway
• Blazing trip to a scaffold with Dudamel
• Verbal dexterity with Paul Merton
• Rise of Russian Master in The Banishment
• Bad hair day for smutty Sandler
• Wild Child is strictly for schoolgirls
• Jimmy Carter is Mr Nice Guy
• Miss Pettigrew isn't done justice
• Hard life in Little Box of Sweets