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• In the bag! The designer hedgehog (and the outrage of animal charities as tiny pets become a fashion accessory)
• RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: I've seen the future. It's dark and goes 'beep'
• Now that's what I call music: The 50 best albums of the Noughties
• Sven Goran Eriksson considering Notts County buy-out
• Anti-paedophile vetting regime 'is ruining school life', head teachers warn
• The St Trinian's tribes: The characters in the new film are based on real-life schoolgirls - so are any YOUR daughter?
• Liverpool are in meltdown and Torres could go, says ex-manager Souness
• Andy Townsend: Trust me, it's Barcelona who are the Real deal
• There's a game for every age this Christmas
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Tragedy of this funny money brigade
• Palace put entire squad up for sale: Wigan and Sunderland target Ambrose
• Porn and a new telly to watch it on: Fresh details on Jacqui Smith's notorious expenses claims
• Charles Sale: Award is twice in a lifetime for golfing iconoclast Seve Ballesteros
• The Limits Of Control: Guaranteed to test the limits of your patience
• The future's Ramsey: Arsenal's Aaron compared to United great Scholes
• BAZ BAMIGBOYE: John Simm joins Jude Law and David Tennant by taking on role of Hamlet
• The Stepfather: Without a shadow of a doubt, it's daft
• TOM UTLEY: I still shudder to recall the day I called a male teacher 'Mummy'. But therapy to erase the memory? I'd rather rely on a good claret
• Where The Wild Things Are: Are they trying to give children nightmares?
• Sheer greed of Britain's richest MP: Shaun Woodward hired accountants that specialised in 'amassing wealth' to handle claim
• Capello tops pay league: £6m England coach eclipses Del Bosque and Dunga
• EXCLUSIVE: Cash-strapped Pompey set for fire sale to see off creditors
• The lavish lives of the grandees: Tories claimed for Agas, pest control... and, of course, the duck house
• The five ages of Christmas: We compare the very different childhood experiences of the generations of one family
• Chris Moyles' jibes reduce Sarah Kennedy to tears at event to celebrate Sir Terry Wogan's career
• Haye: Valuev didn’t touch me, but winning the title has put me in a spin
• All eyes on Melissa Reid at Dubai Ladies Masters
• F1 considering radical points overhaul for season's curtain raiser in Bahrain
• State schools admit they do not push gifted pupils because they don't want to promote 'elitism'
• 'I'll sue if Magilton isn't sacked' - Akos Buzsaky issues ultimatum to Rangers
• One film to lord over them all: Jackson's telling of Tolkien's timeless tale heads the list of the Noughties' 50 best movies
• Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins to meet in UK Championship semis
• Why I believe in Angels: BEL MOONEY isn't ashamed to admit she's fascinated by the mythical beings
• Pendleton's treble Olympic dream remains, but there's gloom for Romero
• Barack Obama: Others deserve Nobel Prize more than me
• Keighley's on the up: Martin enjoying the vista from the winner's enclosure
• 'I'll stay for 10 years': Barcelona target Robinho commits to at Manchester City
• MARTIN SAMUEL: What did you do when the ice was melting, Daddy?
• Unmasked: The beautiful blue alien starring in £300m sci-fi blockbuster Avatar
• Stone me! It's Andy Reid: Once stocky Sunderland man has lost two stone
• Victoria Beckham shows off her pedicure (and bunion) as she loses a shoe
• Stunning images of distant stars and galaxies captured by powerful new British telescope
• Kelly Smith: How I beat the drink and turned into England's best player
• Author Penny Vincenzi hit by husband's tragic diagnosis
• Sidebottom determined after battling injuries, fitness jibes and Fletcher
• QUENTIN LETTS: Buttoned-down vocal delivery. Clipped manner. The warmth of Capt Scott's tent
• 'I feared I was finished': Monye intent on forgetting Argentina horror show
• Cambridge 31 Oxford 27: Varsity sees sweet revenge for brave Cambridge
• The 21st-century radio revolution as 17m tune in online
• Chris Foy: Irish attitudes to Magners League leave a bad taste
• Dentist and work experience son jailed for £110,000 insider dealer scam... son fed tips to father in coded messages about food
• Captured on Google's Street View: Moment man collapses in middle of busy New York road
• No cash bonuses for top Goldman Sachs executives, but 31,000 other employees could still be rewarded
• Woman 'kidnaps and cuts open pregnant woman she met at homeless shelter in bid to steal her baby'
• Shall we chalet? The snow comes and goes, but whatever the economic forecast ski resorts remain a popular choice for buyers
• Ten per cent of hospital funding set to be linked to patient satisfaction
• A soft light touch: Brighten up these gloomy days and long nights with a subtle, warming glow
• The Data Bank - all the best bets for Friday, December 11
• It's sale of the season time again when footballers kick start the property market
• Holly day home: Tips for stylish and festive decorations this Christmas
• BBC Sports Personality Of The Year: So, who wins our star panel's vote?
• Britain's average family worth £204,000 (but difference between North and South is almost double)
• Knife-wielding gang uses bat preservation area to rob victims under cover of darkness
• Only one in five knife-wielding thugs sent to jail despite promise of tougher sentences
• Tapped phone calls won't be allowed in court, as Brown's plan is defeated
• Millionaire broker 'hired private detective to spy on ex-wife and lover to fight £125,000-a-year divorce deal'
• Don't tell Tiger! Dubai heats up as the Ladies Masters golf tournament tees off
• A sample of children's poems
• Hungarian admits to bludgeoning British model to death at her animal sanctuary
• Thousands of bottles of Metatone Tonic recalled after traces of petrol are found
• Where to buy the cheapest iPhone
• Charming cookie jewellery
• Giant pet rabbit that thinks he's a dog after copying behaviour of family's cocker spaniel
• How was this missed? Porn star told the world seven months ago that she had slept with Tiger Woods - and nobody noticed
• Snowball the overweight hedgehog is running and swimming his way back to health
• Salsa dancing British grandmother, 75, wins Spanish 'You've Got Talent' TV show
• Redknapp told to sell before he can bring new players to Tottenham
• Recipe: Sugar plum fairies
• Illegitimacy: There was no hiding place for a child of 'sin'
• Out with the new... in with the old: Village is first to bring back old phone box after 25-year battle with BT
• Recipe: Cranberry clusters
• Popularity of online radio soars as one third of UK's adult population tunes in via internet
• VIDEO SPECIAL: It's hat-trick heaven when Liverpool square up to Arsenal
• Avram shuns Pompey administration talk to focus on fighting relegation
• Future of X Factor in chaos as Simon Cowell demands more money to return show to ITV
• Recipe: Chocolate candy cane cookies
• No matter how rapturous the applause, Sheila Hancock always celebrates the same way..with baked beans and bubbly
• THE LIST: Greatest last-gasp goals in the history of British football - 10-1
• Muslim men who force their wives to wear the burkha are not welcome in France, says justice minister
• 'Sweet Amanda is no murderer': Foxy Knoxy's jailed ex-lover speaks
• Vela hands boosts Wenger by signing new long-term deal with Arsenal
• Recipe: Reindeer cupcakes
• Festive misery for rail users as drivers plan strike over pay
• Teenager 'poured bleach over woman who asked him to be quiet during Harry Potter film at cinema'
• Food: Santa’s little helpers
• Swann shines as England warm up against South African Airways XI
• Rebecca Romero and Bradley Wiggins see their Olympic events scrapped
• MI6 boss: US military's 'Darth Vadar kit and wraparound shades' alienated Iraqi locals after invasion
• Under the sea: Ocean sculptures cause a splash
• Strictly between you and me: The dancers spill the beans for Christmas
• Daniel Day Lewis: I love strong women and I got to work with plenty during the filming of Nine
• Beattie row is over and I'll pick him against Wigan, says Stoke boss Pulis
• Three glasses of wine a week 'increases risk of breast cancer returning by 30%'
• Is this the end of eBay? Fixed price sales overtake auctions as Tesco brigade muscle in
• Unmasked: The rarely seen star whose booming voice definitely has the X Factor
• Tricked into ditching final salary pensions
• 'Allo 'Allo, it's Victoria Beckham... taking style tips from Herr Flick
• Katy Perry unwraps herself for a sexy Christmas present for boyfriend Russell Brand (and all her Twitter fans)
• Tesco shopper cuts his own throat with kitchen knife from display in front of horrified customers
• Property asking prices fall for 2nd month
• Teenage thugs stomped two-day-old fawn to death 'for a laugh'
• A money-saving idea: All 13 F1 teams launch on same day in the same place
• Five American men arrested in Pakistan amid fresh fears of Western Muslims fighting a holy war
• Edman could go Dutch as clubs on the continent track Wigan defender
• Let the countdown for Christmas begin
• Thirty years of the Chippendales: Pecs and abs and rock'n'roll!
• Ukrainian chemistry student killed by exploding bubble gum
• PETER SCUDAMORE: Please explain to me the point of this new rule...
• DYLAN JONES: Hanging out on Paradise Island
• Swine flu pandemic is 'less lethal' than first feared
• Next year, kids, you assemble the toys! We review this year's top gadgets
• Kakuta bans talk of FIFA suspension to focus on making his mark with Chelsea
• Christmas recipes: Pecan and cranberry pie
• Daily Mail/RBS U15 Cup: Warden Park into last 16 after crushing Eltham
• It happened to me: My house flooded 12 times in 12 years
• Steven Gerrard shows off two young daughters to Liverpool crowd before Champions League defeat (perhaps they should have played)
• Christmas recipes: Butternut squash, porcini and butterbean stuffing cake
• Saracens fly-half Jackson has three years to make it as a World Cup ref
• Whisky distilled in England for first time in 100 years (and even the Scots are buying it)
• Royal Mail's rivals grab 30 per cent of post as private firms set to handle most letters by 2012
• BAA air passenger numbers show Britain is flying again
• Caught on CCTV: The stumbling, urinating, jubilant drunk who still managed to drive his car away... in front of police
• Hughes insists it is fine to fight each other as long as City keep winning
• You, me, the polar bears and rhinos are all in peril if Earth warms by 2C, warns WWF-UKs Colin Butfield
• Female gene breakthrough could spell new treatments to delay motherhood even further
• Now you can get <u>£800</u> off a boiler
• Ferdinand faces month on Sunderland sidelines after suffering bad ankle injury
• Jaci Stephen's Soap Watch: Nigel Havers to play male escort on Coronation Street
• Put him down, Mariah! Ms Carey embarrasses husband Nick Cannon with a red carpet smooch
• 'Not eating is a very aggressive thing to do': Actress Celia Imrie reveals her childhood secret
• THE FIRING LINE: We're braced for a tight Christmas as Gary Megson, Phil Brown and Mick McCarthy fight for their jobs
• Jessica Simpson 'smitten' with 42-year-old Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan
• BBC slammed by viewers over 'grainy' HD (that's Highly Disappointing) channels
• 'I felt so fat and ugly during my pregnancy': Jennifer Garner celebrates her return to form with glamorous fashion shoot
• Burnley step up their pursuit of on-loan wantaway Pompey striker Nugent
• Royal Mail faces £10bn pensions hole as it posts £7m profit despite drop in mail
• Hopes on emerging markets in 2010
• Cilla Black, Lord Alan Sugar, Sarah Brown... Welcome to the Morgans 2009 Part Two
• Hearts: SFA must explain ref Somers' performance in Hamilton clash
• Ribery admits he'd have better chance of Champions League glory at Chelsea
• Tesco sparks iPhone price war with £20 a month contract
• Christmas recipes: Vegetable saute
• Christmas recipes: Smoked salmon, radish and cucumber salad with caper and dill cream
• What recession? Women continue to spend thousands on luxury goods as Mulberry sales soar
• Tesco Mobile sparks iPhone price war
• Rates held and end of QE plan in sight
• Labour minister submitted £20k bill for repairs to bell tower at country estate
• Brazil striker Adriano must now decide between West Ham, Milan and Roma
• Sir Paul McCartney admits marriage to Heather Mills was his 'biggest mistake'
• A quarter of all children overweight or obese when they start primary school
• As he took over Europe and slaughtered millions, there was only one thing Hitler feared... going to the dentist
• Is everything really half price in the shops?
• Mystery solved? Norway's spiral light display 'was down to a failed Russian Bulava missile test'
• Widow's fury at two girls whose false accusation that her husband was a paedophile 'drove him to a heart attack'
• How can I 'tail swallow' Lloyds shares?
• Brown calls on EU leaders to crack down on banking sector
• Bring on Arsenal! Aquilani desperate to start for Liverpool in crunch clash
• How many police does it take to change a lightbulb? None, but there IS a 5-step guide
• CML: Mortgage lending at 22-month high
• The girl's girl guide to friendship: Jennifer? Tick. Angelina? Uh-oh...
• Arsenal 's very own hero Tom Cruise making right moves to be a superstar
• Saturn's mysterious hexagon crown lit up as 30-year winter ends
• First Cougar Cruise lets older women hunt younger men on the high seas
• A life without proper food: Keaton, 5, will never eat due to bizarre medical condition
• De Jong has the Dutch courage to be a star of the World Cup, says Toure
• FTSE close: RBS up; United Utilities down
• Lloyds rights issue: last chance to invest
• Mariner takes charge of Plymouth as Argyle axe Sturrock
• Jennifer Lopez gets the VIP treatment as she shops for a party frock in Beverly Hills
• Downcast and dressed down Uma Thurman ventures out after split from fiancé Arki Busson
• Roberto's having a Ball! Wigan ready to throw free agent career lifeline
• Living with MS: 'I had everything I'd ever wanted – I couldn’t be ill'
• Mascherano puts Barca on red alert as midfielder remains coy over future
• Socks AND high heels! Britney Spears shows she hasn't got a clue how to dress stylishly in winter
• Shopping centre security guards given tough police powers to hand out fines
• Katie Price, Lily Allen, Simon Cowell... Welcome to The Morgans 2009
• 'Let's be gay': 50s comics to make PC brigade squirm go under the hammer
• Portsmouth deny they are heading for administration and insist owner Ali Al Faraj is committed to the club
• Fabianski urges Wenger to keep him in the Arsenal goal against Liverpool
• Staff benefit as Sports Direct profits rise
• Gigantic storm buries America's Midwest under snow as 16 people are killed
• O'Hara hoping Harry can spare him on loan at Pompey until end of the season
• Robinho's Barca move faces collapse as Man City struggle to land Villa
• School lends pupils iPhones to use as 'educational tools'... and they even get £15 to buy apps
• Photo-me develops strong cashflow
• Work permit failure cost me my dream move to United, says £10m Ljajic
• Interest rates 'to stay at 1% or lower for next five years'
• Britain cashes in on rising exports
• Arthritic great-grandmother ordered to remove hood in shopping centre yob crackdown
• Season starts at Old Trafford - where so many City dreams died, says Dunne
• Recession claims another casualty as pub chain goes into administration
• U.S. motorist deliberately ran over mother duck as she walked her 12 ducklings across a car park
• Facebook outrages privacy campaigners by encouraging users to share personal details online
• Chelsea up the stakes to bring Ajax striker Suarez to Stamford Bridge
• Pre-Budget: UK finances analysed
• University challenge: Baby-faced 12-year-old genius starts maths degree... even though he hasn't left school yet
• Stagecoach aims to drive forward
• Mulberry makes bags of money despite recession
• Pre-budget: How NIC's hike will hit small businesses
• VIDEO SPECIAL: Potty Jens Lehmann takes toilet break during Stuttgart win
• Soros slams French German 'conspiracy'
• Pre budget: Cash strapped firms face £5bn tax grab
• Banker bonus tax - how they will avoid it
• Lily Allen gives crowd a few cheeky glimpses in a tiny tunic dress
• 'Worst is over' says HSBC chief
• Facebook prank backfires after hundreds of tributes pour in for 'dead' man who was alive and well
• England Ladies boss hoping to hone her skills in the men's game
• Fergie and husband Josh Duhamel brush off affair claims to put on united front at LA Nine premiere
• EasyJet in a spin over board row
• Wiggins confirmed as Team Sky's latest signing for Tour de France assault
• Pre-Budget analysis: Welcome to age of austerity
• Pre-Budget: £400 towards your new boiler
• Sports Direct delivers 39% profits rise and hoists full-year forecasts
• Pre-Budget: Rich face tighter pension curbs
• Dumped husband's £20,000 wrecking spree after driving his car down the aisle of the church where he was married
• Redknapp tips Campbell to be as big as loan star Larsson at Manchester United
• Pre-Budget: 30 years to clear debt mountain
• Ignore the bankers' cries of grief
• Clinton McKenzie's big fight preview: Klitschko will have little trouble
• Irish bid to make 'Celtic Tiger' roar again
• Pre-Budget: Gilts issue is record
• Pre-Budget: Bingo tax is scaled back
• Hershey close to Cadbury bid decision
• Brown's 'war' with Darling over Budget: Chancellor wanted to raise VAT - but the PM said no
• A party fit for a Nobel Peace Prize winner... but Barack Obama admits others were more deserving of the award
• What a result: Tom Cruise gets to watch football match with Katie Holmes and Cameron Diaz keeping him company
• Walcott begins a new chapter as Arsenal striker pens children's book deal
• Pre-Budget: Helping the over-50s
• Pre-Budget: Canteen perk cut
• Pre-Budget: A boost for inventors
• Pre-Budget: Tax blow for holiday homes
• JD Sports Fashion offloads £16m stake in JJB as break-up fears ease
• Pre-Budget: Green tax soars on company cars
• Pre-Budget: This pension delay is a bitter blow
• Patch the guinea pig gets new lease of life... with rodent wheelchair
• Pixie Geldof caught out by the flashbulbs as big knicks shine out under sheer dress
• Pre-Budget: Child benefit rises brought forward
• Warne was better than me - Muttiah Muralitharan's tribute to Aussie legend
• Pre-Budget: How NICs hike will hit middle-income family
• Manchester City target Toure rules out leaving Barcelona in January
• Pre-Budget: The chasm in our finances is simply terrifying
• Pre-Budget: How much extra NI will you pay?
• Booze and cigarettes hit by VAT hike
• Pre-Budget: How bankers will beat bonus tax
• What the back pages say: Chelsea target Ajax striker Luis Suarez, Steve Coppell, Paul Ince and Alan Curbishley tipped for QPR job, new buyers for West Ham
• The moment a man everyone thought was dead is reunited with his loyal dog after Baghdad blasts that killed 127
• FTSE 100 preview: Rates in focus after US rally
• Garner slams umpire review system as a 'gimmick that's not working'
• 'Never a failure, always a lesson': The words Rihanna has had tattooed back to front on her collarbone
• Rovers return: Blackburn emerge as shock suitors for Van Nistelrooy
• Auto-enrolment pension plan is shelved
• Bath's Heineken Cup hopes suffer a blow as Banahan hit with two-match ban
• Copenhagen climate change summit: We have just 10 years to avert catastrophe warns Met Office, as 1,700 scientists defend global warming research
• 'Don't drink and ski': Britons told to stay sober on the piste after string of fatal accidents
• Labour's class war explodes in its face: Expenses claims show Party's MPs milked the system to live like lords
• Hammer time! Gold and Sullivan make £42m West Ham takeover bid
• From Barnet to Athens, my young Guns will grow from 'big jump', says Wenger
• Fresh hope for little girls like Sophie: Revolutionary treatment could cure aggressive cancer
• Neapolitan pizza gets EU label to guarantee authenticity
• Messi may miss Barcelona derby with Espanyol after limping off in Kiev
• Injured Essien a doubt for Africa Cup of Nations as Chelsea confirm lay-off
• Cheryl Cole prepares for Saturday's X Factor fight with ninja routine on TV special
• Sandra Bullock and husband Jesse James win custody battle with his porn star ex
• Frank Lampard's ex Elen Rivas unveils the UK's most 'innovative lingerie ever'
• Hippo New Year! Zoo staff celebrate arrival of first female pygmy hippo
• Kylie Minogue shows her racy side as she steps out in a pair of leather shorts
• Twice as many suspects are extradited to U.S. (is that fair to Gary McKinnon?)
• Woods' wife says she will stand by her man despite string of infidelity claims
• The 13-year-old star of Britain's Got Talent's Stavros Flatley has turned his back on school to tour Britain with his dad. Is he happy? He's having a belly laugh!
• United move just a dream for Sol as Campbell admits he's had no contact
• Charles Sale: New Notts County owners may signal Sven's end
• New MPs' claims revealed after U-turn over 'secret expenses'
• Should Owen be in Fabio's World Cup squad? Sportsmail asks the experts
• Mac on... the pre-Budget report
• 'Freedom of speech' victory as Christian hoteliers are CLEARED of insulting Muslim woman as judge slams her evidence
• Law chief wasn't happy about Iraq war, says John Prescott
• Plymouth set to discuss Sturrock future as Laws told Wednesday job is safe
• Score more! Capello's blunt message to Owen over World Cup dream
• How to find the cheapest Christmas turkey 2009