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• After £700,000 damages, Colin Stagg is in line for a SECOND payout
• Could this be a glimpse of one of the Brangelina twins in Spain? No, it's Freddie Flintoff's wife Rachael and their baby
• Ex-minister for bins accused of selling out after getting job with top waste firm
• Lapdance club laws 'must be tightened'
• Thousands jet off on holiday without their luggage as computer glitch brings chaos to Heathrow
• Now Government plans £600m of vouchers to help poor buy fuel
• Has honed and toned Jerry Hall won the cellulite war?
• VICTORIA MOORE: Kiss me Quick! I'm retiring: After 118 years, Margate's beach donkeys are put out to grass
• Mowbray tight-lipped as West Brom eye Real Mallorca trio
• Sporting birthdays - August 15
• Obesity poses as big a threat to our nation as terrorism, Government adviser warns
• On this day in sport - August 15
• RAY CONNOLLY: Take heart from Parky and Delia if you didn't share in those record exam results
• Police fight war on gun crime - by giving young boy a machine gun
• Baroque (Rising Star): Classic, dungeon-based role player that elicits nostalgia and excitement
• Mariah Carey lives up to her diva reputation as she employs TWO people to towel her dry
• When do you start losing your looks? We asked eight writers aged 31 to 73
• 'Unhappy' Robinho still yearning for Stamford Bridge switch
• Madden NFL 09: Undoubtedly the best version yet
• TV guide: What to watch out for in Beijing today
• 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
• The 1920s satnav ... and other weird and wonderful gadgets that never quite took off
• Defender Davies desperate for Barry to stay at Villa after UEFA Cup success
• How cricket will be stumped by Beijing
• Summer Athletics: It's fun if you're game ...
• Saints go marching on after second-half comeback in Sweden
• Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day: Amy can't save this moth-eaten mess
• Tree-killing beetle that feeds on oak, beech and shrubs has arrived on plants imported from China
• When my little girl was born with Down's, I felt like I'd given birth to an alien and just wanted to get rid of her
• Attack of the Palace jobsworths
• Tiago likes the Toffees after being swayed by the Chair
• Ipswich boss Magilton offers Newcastle outcast Ameobi a lifeline
• Wild Child: Public school gets a makeover
• JAN MOIR: Sorry, but Colin Stagg deserves every penny he can get
• LITTLEJOHN IN AMERICA: Obama for President? Don't count your chickens
• Triple threat for Cumani in his search for Ebor glory
• 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
• Five top-flight clubs circling with an eye on Super Eagle Dele
• You Don't Mess With The Zohan: Turns out to be good advice
• Edinburgh Festival: Coming Up For Air and the best of the festival's comedy
• The Clone Wars: Should have gone straight to video
• Dunn urges Blackburn not to cash in on star striker Santa Cruz after City bid
• ANDREW ALEXANDER: Nato is pushing Russia into a new Cold War
• 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!
• Rising star Keatings gives British gymnastics a lift
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Hell, Boy, You're gonna love it!
• Calzaghe insists: I will definitely retire if I beat Jones - perhaps
• Coach Park: Ainslie will 'kill' anyone who gets in way of third Olympic gold
• Brown set to stay in power for three more years after taking Hull up
• West Side Story: The devil is in the detail
• Piaf: From the gutter to greatness
• Devastated Deng out of Great Britain's Euro basketball bid
• Bush demands 'bullying' Russia get out of Georgia - but Medvedev warns Moscow will respond if attacked
• City's UEFA Cup hopes in tatters after they're savaged by great Danes at Eastlands
• Pogatetz: Boro can still be successful after cutting the huge salaries
• 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
• 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
• Relegated Foxes top agent spending table in Championship
• Pictured: Disgusted Swedish wrestler throws away his bronze medal in amazing Olympic spat
• 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
• Chubby Ashton shedding the pounds to boost his England chances
• Children who have tonsils removed are more likely to be obese adults, studies suggest
• Mr and Mrs Mohamed Al Fayed
• Bolton boss Megson bemoans pressure of 'barmy' transfer window
• Barry scores for Villa in UEFA Cup but O'Neill insists: 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 could top U.S. bestsellers
• Council chief is kept on payroll despite emigrating to Australia
• It's been emotional, says proud Vinnie Jones as his son passes out of army college
• 'Bigfoot' discovery was just a frozen gorilla suit
• Richards: Ohuruogu 'fortunate' to be competing in Beijing
• 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
• 'That's not a knife...': Alligator Netty stands up to robber in true Crocodile Dundee fashion
• Two women charged over murders of British couple shot dead on Antigua honeymoon
• Look ahead to the new season with Les Ferdinand and Tim Sherwood
• 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
• BBC plans daily Crimewatch show to combat Britain's anti-social hoodies
• Golden girl Rebecca Adlington breaks Olympic record
• Stars in their eyes: Host of celebrities auction specs for sight-saving charity
• Johnson ruled out for Cottagers as Hodgson dismisses Konchesky exit
• Quentin Tarantino signs Brad Pitt to star in gory World War II movie
• 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
• Indiana Jones star Shia LaBeouf to return to work with fingers in a splint after horror crash
• Shares spotlight: Lonmin & Michael Page
• Coe's says 'extraordinary weekend' could be golden for Brit athletes
• Royal Navy fly-past scrapped because of Prince William stag party controversy
• 'Oil and dollar will decide FTSE'
• Grandfather on charity bike tour devastated after he was refused entry to U.S. for 'being Hells Angel'
• Parents of GB canoe medallist Florence struck by lightning as storms hit Games
• 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
• Big thrills, and big sleeps in the Big Easy
• New recession threat to Britain as euro zone goes into a downturn
• Insurance woe for double-crash family
• Former England coach Steve McClaren hilariously 'speaksh' the lingo in Dutch TV interview
• Cheryl's the best: Simon Cowell fuels rivalry between his glamorous judges
• Middlesbrough agree fee for Arsenal's Hoyte as replacement for Luke Young
• Parents of British Olympic canoeist struck by lightning on Great Wall of China
• Austrian sex dungeon victim Elisabeth Fritzl is 'teaching her children to play'
• Pound collapses against dollar
• 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
• Do you suffer from gym rage?
• Amazing 5,000-year-old skeletons laid on bed of flowers found in Sahara - proving desert was once green and lush
• 'Sexist' airlines, City banks and shops force women to wear high heels to work
• New boys Hull sign up a King from Wigan and a Gardner from Spurs
• Pictured: The loving pose that tells the world Macca and Nancy are together
• Briton jailed in Dubai for taking photos up women's skirts
• BA moves to expand transatlantic deal
• Arsenal's Merida waits on Wenger for Spanish return
• Recession fears drag down pound
• House sells for just 50 PENCE as U.S. property market hits all-time low
• Asda tops its rivals with a leap in sales
• 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
• Jail for mastermind who ran £1m racket in fake Nike trainers
• The soggy Olympics: Britain's wet summer is a drop in the ocean compared to China
• BA seals tie-up with American and Iberia
• Lord Coe eyes golden weekend for British team
• 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
• VIDEO: Wally Steve McClaren becomes the big red Dutchman as he revealsh hish new acshent
• Children hospitalised after taking drugs soars by up to 50% under Labour
• Dougherty off to a flying start as the European Tour moves to Stockholm with the Ryder Cup edges ever closer
• Dream over for Emms and Robertson after British pair crash out in quarters
• Diary of 18th century sailor provides fascinating insight into life below decks in Nelson's navy
• Cost of a U.S. shopping spree soars as pound collapses to 22-month low against the dollar
• Moisturisers used by millions of women every day could increase risk of skin cancer
• Olympic rowing, canoeing and sailing events delayed by thunderstorms
• The hi-tech garage that lifts cars up to your 6th-storey apartment
• Organisers agree to put back Champions League until October
• THE INSIDER: Hoyte's a Boro boy... Rovers play hard over Santa... Chelsea volte face on Serb... Everton lose the Love... Plus Konchesky and Warnock
• Nicole niggles housemates and rows with Rex over tea that's 'too milky'
• 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
• Paxman outrages Scots by calling Burns' poetry 'sentimental doggerel'
• Jeffries survives scare to reach last eight but there's heartache for Billy Joe
• Footballer due home from Afghanistan in weeks killed by suicide bomber
• Brad Split: The busy Hollywood dad tears his trousers
• Mourinho dismisses Arsenal's title challenge and backs Spurs for top four
• 'Cavorting with the enemy': Simon Cowell's girlfriend Terri steps out with X Factor rival Louis
• Health trust loses private details of hundreds of expectant mothers
• That Was the Sporting Week: Padraig 'goddit' in the hole; It's a knockout in the Afghanis' taekwondo training camp; The Wally with the Lolly
• Stock market report: latest trading
• 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
• Bank's prices forecast proves a mite out
• Robot powered by rat's brain in bizarre British experiment
• England's only matador to return to the ring at the age of 65 after heart and knee surgery
• 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
• Round one! Babies bring battles as well as bonding to relationships
• I owe my fantastic A-level results to being kidnapped when I was just two days old
• Will care costs rob me of parents' home?
• Hammers are ready to give Soca Warrior Keon a go
• City offers free school meals to every primary school pupil in battle against obesity
• Don't dither, business chiefs tell Darling
• Pub beats the credit crunch by allowing punters to barter home-grown food 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
• Carol Vorderman has a firmly fixed smile as she counts down to her final Countdown
• Greenspan attacks US home loans rescue deal
• I got used to the English players at Real, says Spurs keeper Sanchez
• Arsenal boss Wenger promises new signing after win in Europe
• Home comforts: Rafa backs Anfield effect after Liverpool's struggle in Liege
• Rolls-Royce in new jet engine venture
• Named and shamed: The Premiership clubs which pay backroom staff 'poverty wages' as players pocket millions
• Cost cutting helps boost Logica by 16%
• UK recession threat as eurozone enters downturn
• Angry China attacks Western media for being too critical after arrest of British journalist
• Named and shamed: The dirty dozen invaders that are clogging up Britain's waterways
• BBC Golden girl Gabby wins more TV coverage than most Olympic events
• Colonel Mustard killed off by a Wag in the gym: Board game Cluedo gets a modern makeover
• InBev closer to Anheuser deal success
• 'Cuellar will be kissing the Aston Villa badge by the end of the month and while Spurs star Hutton is coming on Celtic's McGeady could be too lightweight to move south' - Andy Gray
• Man City boss Hughes launches £12m bid for Rovers' Santa Cruz
• Scientists develop machine that can detect bird flu outbreaks in just TWO hours
• Dedicated holiday fans boost TUI's sales
• Bellway feels housing woe as reservations drop 45%
• 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!)
• City interview: O2 boss Matthew Key
• ABS pricing
• Little Weed never got drunk! Young model takes a tumble by the flowerpots
• Unlucky-in-love Jennifer Aniston 'splits' from rocker boyfriend John Mayer
• A round-up of the newspapers: Thursday
• EXCLUSIVE: Celtic turn to Wolfsburg's £3.5m German cap Madlung
• British Land loses £572m in 3 months
• White Americans will be in the minority by 2042
• Inflation: Cold reality from the Bank
• Georgian baby left covered in blood after Russian attack recovers at home as sister relives terrifying ordeal
• 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
• Tesco vows to fight plastic bag charges
• Wonderkid Esclapez joins Rangers but billionaire Hunter won't bid for the club
• Miner shows off its mettle in Xstrata bid
• Brain surgeon's identity stolen for fake Facebook slur on Olympic gold medallist
• Gary Glitter to be deported back to Britain after he completes jail sentence for molesting children
• What back pages say: Reina saves Reds, Lampard fortune, Barry set to stay, New Toon row over Milner and more
• Family holiday is £400 more than last year
• Council worker emigrates 10,000 miles to Australia... but keeps his job in Cambridgeshire
• A-level pass rate rockets to highest level ever as test chiefs herald the 'unfailable' exam
• UK tops literary spots
• Battle of the WAGs Day 3: Claudine Palmer scores an own goal when she wears the same outfit twice in a row
• Recession fears drag down pound
• Criminal gangs in new chip and Pin fraud
• Jordan unveils her smaller bust and much larger lips
• The teenager with SEVEN straight As - and the quads who are all celebrating top results
• Thief steals doctor's car as she stops to help elderly man knocked down by a bus
• Market report: Thursday close
• Yesterday's trading: Inflation clouds rate cut hopes
• F1's Lewis hits town with his girlfriend and her pals (well, they are the Pussycat Dolls)
• Archer Folkard misses out on her target of an Olympic medal
• US beach volleyball pair in smashing form as they bid to defend their title
• Buy-to-let pensions facing trouble
• Halsall pools her emotions to give herself chance of swim medal
• Halsall pools her emotions to give herself chance of swim medal
• Cheating judge resigns after affair that led to murder
• Total of online TV viewers doubles to 2.8m in a year
• How quick is an instant? Scientists delve into the mind-boggling spooky world of quantum physics
• Ugly Bettys will always do worse say scientists, 'because humans are biased towards beauty'
• Which whizzer is best for you? Eight blenders for your kitchen
• Briton risks his life in 1,200 mile journey into hell to rescue his family in Georgia