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• Pensions minister Rosie Winterton used taxpayers' cash to soundproof her bedroom
• New rules on back pain will leave more sufferers needing surgery, say angry doctors
• Taliban kill two more UK soldiers in Afghanistan
• Your glass distinction: How you hold a drink gives away your personality
• A real period drama: When your cottage starts to crumble, call in the experts
• Labour MP Lynne Jones spent £1,100 of taxpayers' money on wallpaper
• TOM UTLEY: I now know why the BBC thinks I'm right wing - because I've got four sons and no daughters
• A winning streak: Ascot is famous for its racing glamour, but the housing market is also top class
• Katie Price shows the strain of split with Peter Andre with her gaunt figure on the catwalk
• An aspirin a day 'can do more harm than good'
• Ministers must pay: A few scapegoats aren't going to restore the reputation of this rotten Parliament
• 'Gold rush' in the Commons as MPs 'tell each other which claims will be accepted'
• Baggies boss Mowbray harbours fears over vacant Celtic job
• Expats living the good life say there is less crime and more respect in France
• Dear Gordon, please sort it out... How even a ten-year-old can see the immorality of our MPs
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Her Majesty was the only head of state serving her country during D-Day but now she has been betrayed
• Employment Minister Tony McNulty repays £3,000 'wrongly claimed' on his parents' home
• JAN MOIR: If this plastic freak is Susan Boyle's support, things can only end in tears...
• Why I shot at President Ford: 34 years on, a white-haired old lady explains her bid for revolution
• Final call: Ferguson set for Hampden start… but will it be his last for Gers?
• PETER OBORNE: New Labour's victims are Middle Britons who obey the law, work long hours and are taxed almost to extinction
• Birthday boy Gazza celebrates with a blonde on his arm
• Ronaldo's Real dream shattered as Madrid move for Bayern's Ribery
• Ashley calls for patience as he works on Shearer's demands at Newcastle
• Racing legend Lester Piggott to be jockey Callan's Derby guide
• Tory MP Bill Cash will repay £15,000 in rent payments to socialite daughter Laetitia Cash but refuses to resign
• Egos as big as their pecs: After 20 years the Chippendales are back but their muscles aren't the only things that are inflated says Tanya Gold
• Frank's final push: I'm sick of losing and ready to lift the Cup for Guus
• DAVID WILSON: Exploitation? Britain's Got Talent makes Big Brother look saintly
• Late Easter proves to be a boost for High Street
• Wolseley won't take risks on acquisitions
• Reality cheque: How the stars of BB, BGT and X Factor are now raking it in
• The Data Bank: All the best bets for Friday, May 29
• Pregnant after being raped at 14, June was forced to give away her baby - what happened when they were reunited 40 years later?
• Big investors needed, says Kenwright, as day of the chairman-fan is over
• Watchdog's financial stress tests trouble jittery banks
• MARKET REPORT: Tuning into the recovery at ITV
• A boss gig? Bring it on! Kasabian hope to seduce Bruce Springsteen's fans at Glastonbury
• MARTIN SAMUEL: My Olympic solution for our MPs
• The next big thing: The Veronicas
• Christian Bale and his wife make a killer pair at European premiere of Terminator Salvation
• Fergie plots revolution - and Berbatov is being set up as United's fall-guy
• General Motor's last stand as new deal is struck
• BBC sports presenter Clare Balding is battling thyroid cancer
• Tate & Lyle unable to sugar-coat a dismal year
• Escala: 'We're proof that even runners-up on Britain's Got Talent can win!'
• Salford in for kill after Warriors prop Fielden loses his appeal
• Booker tees up profits hike as cash-and-carry booms
• BEN LAURANCE COMMENT: GM - now for the tricky bit
• REVEALED: Shocking revelations of Chelsea's first black player
• Sidebottom is quick to stake England claim on comeback from inury
• It's in the blood for Barcelona's goalscoring hero Eto'o
• Ferrari in U-turn as they agree peace deal to end F1 civil war
• The four key questions: Jamie Redknapp and Andy Townsend assess what went wrong in Rome
• BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Crikey, June is busting out all over
• Virtua Tennis: Serving an ace
• Scots drop veto to clear way for English side at the 2012 Olympics
• Economic glass is half full for pubs group Young
• Rangers join Fulham in chase for Baggies winger Brunt
• The day my Jennifer died: Gordon Brown speaks with heart-wrenching candour about the pain of losing his baby girl
• 12 Rounds: Daft Die Hard rip-off is a heavyweight dud
• Pique: I lived my dreams against United... then Barcelona went crazy
• Bolton in cut-price £6m bid for Sporting midfielder Miguel Veloso
• Littlejohn: Nice legs Julie, shame about the expenses
• Chelsea are the strongest team in Europe, says Blues star Ballack
• Hunting for a taste of her old life
• Obsessed: Here comes trouble... and I do mean the script
• Fabia goes out of Britain's Got Talent despite 'splash dance' routine
• Dyer need: Southampton sell winger to Swansea to survive
• Fermat's Room: One for the Labour Cabinet
• Vertu hails Government's 'cash for old bangers' scheme
• EXCLUSIVE: Scholes out? Stoke target United legend as player-coach
• CITY FOCUS: How long can China keep the miners shining?
• Drag Me to Hell: It's trashy movie heaven!
• Nurseries are full of little Keiras, Rihannas and Ashtons as Brits name their offspring after celebrities
• Lions begin quest as O'Connell hopes to match the invincibles
• Falstaff: A merry old time was had by all
• Bagging a bargain in Bulgaria: It's a tough market but investors prepared to pay now will reap the rewards later
• Aunt Dan and Lemon: Carpet bombing in the suffocating suburbs
• Lowry starts life as a pro with a lowly 78 at the European Open
• Sven sheik-en and stirred: Swede confirms interest in Pompey job
• Julius Caesar: Lend me your ears - or speak louder!
• Three-year-old girl shoots dead brother, 2, after finding gun
• Ireland relieved after finally signing new contract at Manchester City
• Peter Jackson: Charming coach with Springbok in his step
• Colour confidence: Red, blue, yellow...whatever your favourite hue, be bold, be brave, be delighted
• CHARLES SALE SPORTS AGENDA: FA chief and the heir to Mussolini
• Scientists develop home-testing kit for ME
• Bing it: Microsoft to launch new search engine but doesn't bank on beating Google
• Former chair of Tory policy unit denies telling female colleague 'all women should be sterilised'
• Cacophony of sirens makes cities seem 'more dangerous than they really are', says police chief
• Neville has Premier League and Champions League winners' medals ... but leading Everton to Cup glory will top the lot
• Airfield worker seriously injured after blade snaps off helicopter during take-off crash
• Fall of the house of Christian Lacroix: Recession hit designer launches insolvency proceedings
• Surge in new recruits as jobseekers turn to 'recession-proof' armed forces
• Terrific Torres agrees new £110,000-a-week Liverpool deal
• United striker Tevez would be perfect for Liverpool, says Mascherano
• Families hit by hike in water bills as industry giant announces soaring profits
• Fighter Federer digs deep to halt his 2009 freefall at French Open
• The Tufty Terminator: The man on a mission to rid us of the American grey squirrel
• Imposter sets up fake Shaheen Twitter account and dupes Ashton Kutcher – but Lily Allen is less easily fooled
• Ever felt hounded into staying fit? Kirin the border collie puts humans to shame with her exercise plan
• The Alternative List: Boffins pick their top 10 Wembley finals
• Holiday heaven and hell: Stomach trouble in India and eating for England in Italy
• Complaints handling questionnaire
• Workers' expenses up, but most are honest
• 'Rockefeller' was a charmer - but he was also delusional, court hears in kidnapping case
• Cash-strapped Lindsay Lohan travels in style in a matte black Rolls Royce Phantom (but she's only renting it)
• Joining the chain gang: The best High Street fashion
• Christian Bale: My wife won't take my nonsense
• FRENCH OPEN - WOMEN: Venus battles back to overcome Safarova
• Celtic target Coyle 'close' to agreeing Burnley deal, claims Clarets chairman
• Virgin Money - Terms and Conditions
• Win a four day break to commemorate the D-Day landings!
• West Brom keeper Kiely quits Ireland after friendly snub
• THE LIST: The greatest Wembley finals in history, Nos 10-1
• Infants weaned on home-cooked foods grow up leaner, say scientists
• Is she off her trolley? World's pushiest shop girl becomes TV star
• Holloway ties up deal for Blackpool starlet Halstead
• Dire warning of 350,000 job losses in manufacturing by mid-2010
• Eton forced to close as pupil is diagnosed with swine flu
• Web exclusive: Missoni accomplished!
• Chelsea target Ribery not for sale, say German giants Bayern Munich
• Arab answer to Alan Sugar buys Portsmouth but who's hired and who's fired? Sportsmail hosts an Apprentice special at Fratton Park
• Crackdown on skivers as GPs replace sick notes with 'fit notes' telling employers what workers CAN do
• Scarlett Johansson unveils her tousled new hairstyle in sultry shoot for Mango
• Olympic champion cyclist Victoria Pendleton loses her lycra in revealing photoshoot
• Watch TV on your Xbox: Sky to offer live sport on games console
• Britain's Got Talent say the show WILL go on for embattled Susan Boyle
• Chelsea's Alex cleared for Cup clash but hernia op rules him out for Brazil
• Power of my 'fro will help Everton beat Chelsea and lift FA Cup, claims Fellaini
• Defender Wheater on course for Middlesbrough's pre-season after successful knee operation
• United old boy Yorke one of seven shown the door by Sunderland
• Spurs flop Gilberto goes back to Brazil in search of escape route from the Lane
• Ask Amy De Vine: our Tuscan temptress on the perfect chianti
• Man fathers 21 children by 11 different women... and he's only 29
• Schoolboy 'heroes' save men from wreckage of crashed plane using cub scout skills
• Disneyland Paris goes virtual with Google Earth visits to the theme park
• Smugger than Simon Cowell – and just 16!
• Frustration for Van Persie as Arsenal contract talks hit the buffers
• Berlusconi faces new embarrassment over New Year's Eve party for 50 young girls
• Sports Direct sells off its stake in JJB Sports
• Petrol price rise fear as Saudis predict oil cost will soar by more than 27%
• Pensioner, 76, banned from every Mecca bingo hall in country because she arranged trip to rival venue
• Schoolgirl killed by van was too scared to use subway full of 'abusive youths'
• Gipsy sites to double in London over next decade, say Boris Johnson
• Crisis at Southampton deepens as club fails to pay the wages this month
• Helena Christensen loses the au naturel look for full on glamour to attend Burberry bash
• Food for thought: Women spend TWO YEARS of their lives thinking about their next meal
• Girls Aloud stylist Frank Strachan on giving Susan Boyle a makeover and his top tips for summer dressing
• Designer Nicole Farhi 'was strangled on her doorstep by knife-wielding muggers until she passed out'
• Blackburn boss Allardyce prepares to make a double swoop on Marseille
• Singing sensation Faryl Smith gets a virtual makeover.... on her gappy teeth
• Food provides boost to trading at Young & Co's
• Ex-Newcastle skipper Lee urges Ashley to keep Shearer in Toon
• PICTURE SPECIAL: Manchester United's McDonald's just desserts... Gary Neville's fast-food fix after Red Devils' fall in Rome
• So near, yet so far: How British girl is brought together with boyfriend 4,000 miles away in amazing Flickr photo art album
• Bird bath... Mother mistle thrush uses herself as dam to protect nest from overflowing drainpipe
• Sports Direct sells stake in rival JJB
• Is United's destroyer Messi the first 'New Maradona' worthy of the name?
• Mobile phone chip that diagnoses disease on the spot 'available in five years'
• Now I know I made the right decision to stay with Barcelona insists Henry
• Spurs flop Ramos lined up to take over from former Rangers boss Advocaat at Zenit
• Union accuses pub firms of profiteering on booze
• Pink Floyd, Blur and Billy Bragg call on BNP to stop selling music to raise campaign funds
• Free aftershave for every reader!
• Arsenal would have won title with Henry as Wenger laments letting hero leave
• Inside Amy Winehouse's Caribbean hideaway: New documentary shows troubled singer's battle to stay clean
• The great pothole protest: How one village is fighting back with a dossier to shame the council
• How to turn vinyl into MP3s
• U.S. economy has pulled back from the brink, Obama tells celebrities at $15,000-a-head dinner
• O'Neil backs Southgate to take Boro back to the Premier League
• THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK END OF SEASON AWARDS: Take a bow Rafa, Roy, Roman...and Rafa again
• Family hospitalised after attack by rampaging apes in Gibraltar
• Poetic perfection as intellects and stars mingle at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival
• Coyle coy on 'hypothetical' Celtic questions as he plots Burnley's bid
• 'Rihanna will face former lover Chris Brown in court, ' says singer's lawyer
• Family fury at Iraq hostage stalemate: Miliband 'doesn't give a damn' says Briton's father
• Wedding bells for Kylie at last? Whispers abound that Miss Minogue 'plans to wed model boyfriend'
• Hate preacher Abu Hamza's sons who lived 'party lifestyle' from profits of £1m luxury car scam are jailed
• Jenkins digs his heels in and warns Wigan off Swansea boss Martinez
• Hugh Hefner saves all his kisses for three - but how long will the 'troublesome twins' stay in favour?
• It's a song for Europe next, insists bullish Hull boss Brown
• Secret Iraqi prisoner photos Obama wants blocked show rape and abuse
• Police to grill Commons officials over expenses amid claims of 'gold rush' by eager MPs
• Workers lifted my car, painted yellow lines under it and put it down... then the wardens came and towed it away
• HARRY PHIBBS: The European Parliament is an affront to true democracy - but we MUST still vote
• Wolseley braced for more tough times as profits dive
• McGeechan names strong Lions team for Royal opener in South Africa
• Retail slump resumes after Easter 'blip'
• Twitter ye not: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher threaten to quit blogging site amidst plans for a Twitter TV show
• Seven police officers hospitalised after farmer in feud with National Trust kills himself with poison gas tablets
• Will I get employment tribunal cash?
• The Marmite messiah: How a mother found Jesus in a jar
• Judge blasts 'hopelessly inadequate' sentence for 'Fast And Furious' boy racers who left woman brain-damaged
• Jenas targets Champions League after Tottenham miss out on Europe
• Jagger, Bond and Cruise: the boy's own adventures of Dougray Scott
• Celebrity chef John Burton Race declares himself bankrupt
• Train carriages 'desperately needed' as passenger numbers increase by 60% in 15 years
• The Sand-X all-terrain vehicle capable of speeds of 114mph
• What's the story? Diane Keaton sports 'Nora Batty' curlers on set of her new movie 'Morning Glory'
• Obi's Wembley dream: Chelsea star insists FA Cup glory would make up for European woe
• And the winners of American Idol are...
• Pictured: Seas turn red as whales are brutally slaughtered by Faroe Islanders
• Don't bet against us, warns Everton keeper Howard ahead of facing Chelsea in FA Cup final
• THE INSIDER: Yes Stephen Fry, I'll settle for 'pleb'... Shame you're not one yourself
• Arab billionaire dubbed the Alan Sugar of Abu Dhabi buys Portsmouth FC
• Is this interest rate for real?
• Penpals meet for the first time... after 400 letters and 60 years
• Baby boy born on the Tube as mother goes into labour early
• Fugitive tycoon suspected of battering girlfriend to death 'tried to escape on speedboat'
• Landlords to offer tourists local information along with their pint
• How can I earn 8.7% interest?
• One in five students fear insolvency
• Childhood sweethearts tie the knot... 50 years after breaking up
• Man Group shares tumble on fund exodus
• Speaker was 'encouraged by very senior political sources to cover up MPs' expenses'
• Wolseley feels the heat as profits fall 90%
• Outclassed: After brilliant Barca, five more Euro nights to make United wince
• Why men who call their wives ugly could go to jail (only in Malaysia)
• Credit card complaints up by a third
• Former United striker Van Nistelrooy vows to stay with Real Madrid
• Man Group shares tumble on fund exodus
• Six-y football: Barca's Guardiola joins the elite half dozen who have won the European Cup as player and manager
• Mourinho eyes £8m move for City's brooding Brazilian Elano
• 100 Classic Book Collection
• Rockabye baby: How music soothes the pain of newborns
• Facebook forced to lift ban on breast cancer victim's 'sexual and abusive' mastectomy scar photos
• Passengers trapped on swine flu cruise ship off Australia after second outbreak
• Pacific tsunami watch as massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Honduras
• I don't know if I'll still be a United player next season, says Ronaldo as star slams Fergie's Champions League tactics
• Chelsea set to agree record £43m deal for Bayern Munich star Ribery
• Hull KR coach Morgan hopes to keep Dobson at Craven Park
• 'Health tests' for struggling British banks
• Air hostess who drove daughter to school while four times over drink-drive limit is spared jail
• United Utilities plugs leaks and pushes profits higher
• Wigan prop Fielden to appeal against one-match ban
• Super bowl! Obama orders dog 'refresher' from inventor rejected by Dragons' Den (who went on to make £1m)
• Riots as more than 100 Barcelona fans are arrested as they celebrate VICTORY in Champions League
• Remember when we used to do that... Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton reminisce at Girls Aloud concert
• City Red Ratchford wants to take the fight to the Warriors
• Interest rate spreads
• The tiny panda cub that fits in the palm of your hand
• Fulham boss and UEFA chief Hodgson hails Barcelona's United slayer Xavi
• Tate & Lyle full-year profit drops by two-thirds
• Carrick counts the cost after United slip up early in the defeat to Barcelona
• Beijing on the mergers and acquisitions prowl
• 19-year-old British hairdresser facing 49 years in Bolivian jail for smuggling cocaine
• HATCHET MAN: Second-rate Celtic eye small fish like Coyle and Mowbray as boss when they should hunting for a shark
• United Utilities beats profit and leakage targets
• Holiday Briton plunges to his death after stepping off cliff while taking photo of wife
• HATCHET MAN: Fantasy football at Fratton Park? Mega-rich City struggled to get Robinho, Pompey will be lucky to land Afonso Alves
• Sterling set fair as it breaks through $1.60
• We'll be back: Giggs promises that United will show their class next year
• 'My attraction to women makes boyfriends uncomfortable,' says Lady GaGa as she poses in bubbles
• City Focus: Santander's plans to rebrand
• Footsie follows Wall Street south: Thursday latest from the London Stock Exchange
• HATCHET MAN: If naive Guus thinks Drogba & Co can behave at Wembley, the laugh will be on him
• The driverless 'Knight Rider' car that uses cruise missile technology to get you home
• Clegg: MPs shouldn't take summer holidays until expenses crisis is sorted out
• HATCHET MAN: The red lights must be flashing at Old Trafford when a player as ordinary as Fletcher is so badly missed
• HATCHET MAN: Ferguson the best? He's not even as good as Hiddink - and Vidic is an overrated carthorse as well
• Yesterday's trading: Punters thirsty for Greene King
• Shell jobs on the line as Voser sweeps in
• Insured private patients pay 50% more
• Major tumour-busting 'breakthrough' in fight against breast and ovarian cancer
• Middle earners have lost out over 30 years
• FTSE 100 close: Man Group leads fallers
• A bit late for the school run, isn't it? Sam Taylor-Wood drives her teenage lover home after romantic dinner date
• Nationwide blasts rivals over savings
• Pictured: £30m cocaine haul discovered on London-bound lorry
• What the back pages say: Chelsea to sign Bayern star Ribery for £43m, Messi lays waste to United, Sunderland hit the £200m jackpot
• Livingstone's windfall as BT crashes to loss
• Briton faces 170-year jail sentence over £4.4million U.S. Ponzi scam
• Fears for Vauxhall jobs as GM talks fail
• Fears for Vauxhall jobs remain as Canadian firm Magna agrees to buy GM in Europe
• Crackdown on the car sale con artists
• Baby P brutes could face longer jail terms as public anger forces law chief to review sentences
• Child turning 18? Prepare for an £18,000 bill
• A generation of children growing up to distrust all strangers
• MP Peter Ainsworth tried to claim £1,000 for 'pewter finish' radiator cover
• Tory grandee Sir John Butterfill to repay £60,000 gained on the sale of his taxpayer-funded house
• Just one knife yob gets maximum jail term despite tough on crime rhetoric
• Experiment will see if the William Tell Overture makes racehorses giddy-up
• We were well beaten: Sir Alex rues 'shoddy' goals as dream dies in Rome
• I had the world at my feet, but it took a humbling tragedy to show me what truly matters
• Defiant North Korea tests a sixth missile as U.S. raises military alert levels in nuclear stand-off
• Split with Peter Andre turns ugly as Katie Price calls in the locksmiths
• With apologies to the Old Masters: The animalistic masterpieces by Van Goat and Vermiaow
• Millions of middle earners have lost out on pay