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17 August 2008

• Megson thinks new signing Elmander can do the job this season
• Cameron: 'Punish the Russians for their attack on Georgia by banning them from our shops'
• Littler Britton Fern is back in a bikini as she hits the beach five stone lighter
• 'Wossy hates me. Madonna hates me. Jude Law's nearly run me over': the celeb diaries of Heat editor Mark Frith
• Mothers' jobs could be kept open for a YEAR of maternity leave in new Government proposals
• MAIL COMMENT: A golden triumph for British sport
• Disappointed Ashton knows he has to slim down to team up with Capello
• Fewer than 1 in 100 Britons eating 'healthy' diet - the rest of us eat food laden with fat, sugar and salt
• Ex-Spurs striker Mido says: 'I think Berbatov is looking for a move'
• Slap shopping ban on Russians: Tory
• Rogue clampers given a 'licence to print money', says AA chief
• Keegan's Toon tonic: Blunt United are held by a show of attacking courage
• Torres wins it for Liverpool - but Rafa knows tough decisions must be made
• Hull clash with Middlesbrough following opening Premier League win
• Rescue of young stricken yacht crew
• Antigua inquiry 'closer' to charges
• Mother-of-three gives birth to second ever set of septuplets to all survive
• Pictured: Tough guy Harvey Keitel takes lead role in U.S. version of Life On Mars
• Shoppers 'cheated' as supermarket brands offer less for same price
• Cameron: I want to be the Thatcher of social reform
• Masterful Ainslie wins plaudits as he sails to third Olympic gold
• Inspirational Kwakye raises the bar as Baddeley noses into 1500m final
• Russian tycoon named as mystery buyer of the world's most expensive house - sold for £395 million
• Will awful August be the wettest for nearly a century?
• Britain set a new gold standard as a wondrous weekend produces harvest of eight Olympic golds
• Cancer-stricken Patrick Swayze puffs away on a cigarette while filming show
• Nice boss anger at high drug prices
• Cod psychology from coach Bowman spurs Phelps to Olympic splendour
• Agony and ecstasy as British rowers have extraordinary day in Beijing
• Drugs and failed marriages are Obama and McCain's biggest regrets, they reveal in bid to win moral high ground
• Five dead as light aircraft collide
• Torrential rain causes floods havoc
• Scolari puts down a marker of Chelsea's intent as Portsmouth are put to the sword
• Hoops held by Dundee United
• Nadal caps his world domination with golden victory over Gonzalez in Beijing
• Another Games gold rush for Team GB
• Yngling trio bag gold
• Arshavin transfer stalemate
• Cycling's golden girl Romero: 'British sport should model itself on us'
• Moors murderer Ian Brady's extraordinary rant: 'The other patients get paid more than me'
• Brown hails Tigers' feat
• Wiggins on track for second goal after Britain reach pursuit final in record time
• Ohuruogu turns on the power as British quartet impress on the track
• Benitez committed to Reds '100%'
• Beginning of a new era in athletics as golden Bolt blitzes world record
• Wenger upbeat after low-key start
• Heskey in as Crouch misses out
• Tears flow for crestfallen Radcliffe as marathon title eludes Briton again
• Dita Von Teese, the woman who has made a career taking her clothes off, signs a deal with Wonderbra
• Pilot's body taken from wreckage of mid-air crash that claimed five lives
• Paula's pain as Olympic marathon dream shattered - for another four years
• 12m tune in to see X Factor but miss the real drama between 'jealous' Dannii and tearful Cheryl behind the scenes
• Police name man found on bonfire
• Prince accused of ignoring poor
• Romero comes out on top in all-British final to secure unique double
• Ince - no more departures
• Potter - 'I was always confident'
• What the back pages say - August 17
• Dragons edge past battling Giants
• Phelps surpasses Spitz record
• Teenager dies in street fight
• Awesome Ainslie clinches golden hat-trick with Finn victory
• Bolt smashes record to take gold
• Boy stabbed to death in party row
• Gold rush mental challenge for Hoy
• Hunter and Purchase live up to favourites tag by claiming gold
• Amy Winehouse is back to her worst after two V Festival gigs in two nights
• Three blondes, four golds and Britain climb up to third in the medal table
• Paula's tears over marathon failure
• Ferguson focused on finding frontman
• Great to be British! Team GB strikes gold EIGHT times in one weekend and rockets to fourth place in medals table
• Men's four strike gold
• Adlington golden double
• Players' union backs Mutu
• Sotherton finishes in fifth place
• Wayward Red Devil delays kick-off
• 'It's not where you live, it's HOW you live', says sink estate mum whose quadruplets got into top universities
• BAA 'forced' to sell off airports
• Golden day for Team GB in Beijing
• Call for UK action in Georgia
• Protestors arrested at BNP festival
• Briton jailed for adultery to fly home with new family
• War between FBI and US drug enforcers left Taliban's leader at large
• Buttock-clenching at the bus stop: The nanny state's new bid to get us all fit
• For busy Britons, the orange that peels in just 35 seconds
• Son of Britain’s top soldier quits Army... to earn three times as much in Civvy St
• Wife's fury as Labour lord and a 'stick thin Barbie doll' set up home together
• Three quizzed in anti-terror probe
• PM is urged to end his feud with Foreign Secretary Miliband
• 'Shameful and disgusting': The No1 song which has sparked outrage - from the singer's own parents
• Harry Potter: The brain disorder which means I can’t tie my shoelaces
• Russia bombs a rail bridge, then signs ‘ceasefire’ with Georgia
• 10 Downing Street police who guarded PM are charged with assault
• Found... the peasant woman whose anguish told the world of the horror of Georgia's war