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• Sleeping bag chic: Angelina Jolie's favourite dowdy coat has now got a new celebrity fan in Sofia Vergara
• Time's up, Rafa! Benitez to pocket big pay-off to go with £4m from Liverpool
• BT faces multimillion-pound fine over battle with rivals
• Snow causes the first profits warning on the high street as Alexon takes hammering
• SANDRA PARSONS: To hell with austerity, it's time to make merry!
• 'We've already used HALF of the grit for the whole winter', warn highway chiefs as the snow continues to fall
• Boys, bikinis and pratfalls: A portrait of Zara Phillips, 12th in line to the throne, as she prepares to become Mrs Tindall
• There maybe a new Mayor in town... as George Lopez announces 'I want to run for Mayor of Los Angeles'
• 'My Shelley's mutilated body is probably in that rucksack': Father of Crossbow Cannibal victim tells of trauma after seeing CCTV of killer
• Revealed: How scrooge banks pay just 1p interest on every £100 of children's savings
• THE LAST WORD by TONY HAZELL: Shameful treatment of heroes
• 'I wish they lived with me': Nicole Kidman's heartbreak over her adopted children's decision to live with ex Tom Cruise
• Stressed? It may boost your memory by triggering thoughts of everyday experiences
• 'Spoiled And Entitled': Professional reality star Josie Golberg touts for a new job in her bikini
• Carra's calling: England target veteran as man to lead their next generation
• DEAR MARGARET: Booked on a flight I did not confirm
• World Cup in Qatar should be played in winter! Players' union backs 2022 plans
• Teen birth rates hit all-time low (but is it due to the recession or Bristol Palin?)
• Benefits Christmas: Single mother Eloise spends £3,000 to give her four children EVERYTHING they want for Christmas. And guess what? British taxpayers are paying for it
• Sheffield United, Norwich and Burnley keen on Carlisle youngster Madine
• Cahill is Everton's pocket assassin! How Tiny Tim heads to the top
• Man City could scupper Wigan's hopes of signing Bolton keeper Al-Habsi
• Bayern refuse to give up chase for Baines as Germans plot £9m raid
• Gwen Stefani braves the Christmas crowds as she piles her trolley high at Toys R Us
• More bad news for Obama as 2010 census forces 'musical chairs' effect in Congress - and the changes favour the Republicans
• Who's that singing? Matt Smith and Karen Gillan belt out a carol in sneak behind-the-scenes peek at Doctor Who Christmas special
• 'The Beast' stuns Burnley as keeper Jensen hands in transfer request
• Middle class girl doomed by drugs: She grew up with ponies and jewels but rebellion led to heroin, vice and a death at the hands of Crossbow Cannibal
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A fine start, but the tensions are showing
• Stoke near to £2.6m Pennant deal and target USA striker Buddle
• Barton will cost £1.5m up front, Toon tell Hammers as interest hots up
• Shark terrorising Egyptian resort 'killed by drunken Serb who jumped on its head': The hoax taking the internet by storm
• QUENTIN LETTS: Everyone wanted to know, was naughty Vince in the doghouse?
• Wilshere caught up in club v country row after Under 21 call riles Wenger
• MAX HASTINGS: This megalomaniac sleazeball embodies the nightmares we face in the anarchic age of the internet
• Savers to get £85,000 protection on their money FSA confirms
• Martin Keown: Everton star Cahill is small, explosive and full of aggression
• Sound with no strings attached
• RICHARD KAY: Jerry and Sir Mick 'make up' at his new love's riverside cocktail party
• We'll hand back our medals over frozen pensions, say war veterans
• Benitez sacked by Inter: Italians turn to former AC Milan coach Leonardo to take charge
• The toxic Christmas gift guide for those not-so-loved-ones you have to buy for
• EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Pin-up Kay Burley's mixed metaphors
• Scientists discover new test that detects Alzheimer's before it takes hold
• March of the supermarkets: A new store every day is given the go-ahead
• If you're stuck in the snow, know your rights! You could be entitled to compensation
• Blow for Everton with Jagielka ruled out of busy festive programme
• The Great Checkout Challenge: Think self-service tills will save your time? You must be off your trolley
• Ian Ladyman: City chairman Khaldoon lays down his marker at Eastlands
• Liverpool join Arsenal and Fulham in chase for £10m-rated Saints teenager
• What will it cost to protect your pup this Christmas?
• Mac on... birdsong making you happy
• 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan back on his feet at basketball game after kidney transplant
• Ruthless Houllier begins cull of stars with Sidwell bound for West Ham
• Smashed through the glass ceiling? Watch out for the glass cliff!
• UK women are world's worst dieters: 86% fail to lose weight long-term
• Big Sam puts the boot in: Caretaker Kean is not the right man to replace me
• Insurance companies duping motorists into paying too much 'excess' in claim scam
• British tennis hope George Morgan keeps his eye on the ball
• Sunderland boss Bruce plots double deal for City's Johnson and Onuoha
• Private pupils 55 times as likely to go to Oxbridge
• He got game: Nine-year-old schoolboy's board game flies off the shelves at Harrods
• Boy born to save his big sister: 'Saviour sibling' brings hope to his family and makes medical history
• Lay off our kids, Chelsea! Feyenoord fury as 15-year-old is lured to London
• A brief and gloriously patriotic history of the world, by BILL BRYSON
• Proactive and motivated? Don't put that on your CV
• Pepe Reina EXCLUSIVE: It's bad now but next year Reds will fight for the title
• Scrooge bankers pay children a pittance: How £100 of savings can add up to just pennies in interest
• The latest WikiLeaks revelation: 1 in 3 British Muslim students back killing for Islam and 40% want Sharia law
• Paris Hilton's terror as four-inch knife is found hidden on plane
• 'I'm done with class': Chris Brown tweets certificate from domestic violence course
• Top Gear gets revenge on The Stig as Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May perform mock drive-by shooting on former colleague
• Enzo Bearzot: World Cup winner and class act of Italian football, dies aged 82
• No charges: Marksmen who killed drunken barrister in a hail of gunfire cleared of wrongdoing
• Back to Russia without love... Diplomat accused of spying is expelled from the UK just days after MP's aide arrested
• ICC give West Indies spinner Shane Shillingford the elbow for illegal action
• Google's already taken over the web...now it's set on taking over the mobile market
• Hotspots: All the best bets and top tips for Wednesday, December 22
• Smiling honeymooner Nicole Richie glows with happiness as she enjoys life as a newlywed
• Bum note: Lady Gaga shows buttocks in see-through flesh-coloured pants for a chilly shopping trip in ice-bound Paris
• McCoy stars on his return at Kempton following memorable BBC award win
• Australia stars Johnson, Ponting and Clarke turn back on an IPL payday
• Silvio Berlusconi's daughter: 'I don't think my dad warrants some of the treatment he gets'
• TOM PARKER BOWLES: Bin the mini burgers: It's time to restore the canapé's reputation as a serious bite-sized treat
• Wade spends Xmas with Whitlock - the man who stuck darts in him last year!
• I want my Jo back for Christmas: Sobbing boyfriend of missing architect tells how he came home to find she had disappeared
• Khawaja ready to break barriers for if captain Ponting loses fitness fight
• Our cancer shame: Survival rates in UK are the worst among leading nations
• A discovery to trumpet... a third species of elephant is found using DNA
• Nasser Hussain: Five things England need to get right in Melbourne
• How deep is your love? Taking the plunge with an underwater proposal
• Food: Keep calm and carry on
• Ashes rivals set to go head-to-head in front of world record crowd at MCG
• Recipe: Celery, apple and stilton soup
• 'I'm in love': Shania Twain announces her engagement after real-life wife swap
• Review: HTC Trophy (Windows 7)
• 'Cold-blooded murder': Police officer investigating disturbance shoots and kills family's pet dog
• Fashion for life: The ones to watch
• We blew it! Manchester City missed chance to stamp authority on Premier League with Everton win, says Joe Hart
• Stuck right now! Thank you very much! Victoria Beckham needs son Brooklyn's help to show her how to use a door
• Henry and Anelka still yet to give up on World Cup bonuses after France farce
• 'Understand women; they hold the key to the gate of success at M&S,' says Stuart Rose
• Kakuta snubs AC Milan as Chelsea starlet signs contract extension till 2015
• Teachers' horror at website for private school cyber-bullies to be mean about pupils
• Allardyce suspects dirty tricks behind getting boot from Blackburn Rovers
• Rics: House prices will fall 2% in 2011
• 'I bet you're still a virgin': What doctor said to medic as he pestered her for date
• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie 'will have a nuclear break-up,' predicts Celebrity Rehab's Dr Drew
• U.S. to vote on 'net neutrality' laws which would give mobile internet service providers the right to charge for usage
• An honour guard of British soldiers and Maori warriors: Private killed by 'friendly fire' laid to rest in native New Zealand
• Wishful thinking: As Britain freezes...bikini sales are soaring
• Audience scream in horror as stuntman in new Spider-man musical plunges 30 feet into orchestra pit as harness fails
• The Botox boom: Six women talk about their quest for perfection
• Stay at a Thistle Hotel for 3 nights for under £100!
• THE FIRING LINE: Win or bust! West Ham boss Avram Grant running out of games
• The best fixed rate bonds for 2011
• Cook insists England can stand heat of battle at the MCG cauldron
• Is that REALLY you, Clare? GMTV presenter unveils extraordinary new figure on cover of fitness DVD
• U.S. senators demand public apology from UK over release of Lockerbie bomber in damning report
• Santa Claus gets thrown to the sharks in Berlin ... and to the fishes and the rays too
• France's top credit rating under threat as Euro debt crisis spreads
• First person: Goodbye friends, family and Prada handbag. Bonjour new life!
• EXCLUSIVE: Sportsmail's Magnificent 7 access all areas at 2012 village
• Kightly suffers setback as Wolves forward has second knee operation
• 'This is in honour of Michelle Obama': Sarah Palin takes aim at the First Lady as she attacks her anti-obesity campaign
• One in ten intensive care beds taken by flu sufferers
• Top 10 sport videos of the year: Bundesliga babe hit by the ball, Roger lets rip from between his legs and more in our round-up
• OLLY SMITH: Sexy whites, zinging bubbly and lush reds... It's been a vintage year for wine. Here's my top ten of 2010
• Jagged red lines, bald patches and lumpy flesh: Heidi Montag reveals the scars from her 'botched' plastic surgery
• Hundreds of Iraqi civilians who wanted to sue MoD over mistreatment by British soldiers lose appeal for public inquiry
• A Christmas tree miracle: Pine bark could ease the misery of UK's 7 million tinnitus sufferers
• Osborne accused of homophobia after branding openly gay Labour MP a 'panto dame'
• Ben Arfa targeting shock Newcastle comeback in February after broken leg
• Betty Ford Centre employee fired after talking to the press about Lindsay Lohan fight scandal
• Newlyweds who boasted about their infidelity in the New York Times are branded 'tasteless'
• Beckham loan deal hopes in doubt as Galaxy insist he's due back next month
• Cable: 'I've declared war on Murdoch!'
• Howard revels in the 'pure emotion' of Everton's victory over Manchester City
• New York taxi drivers to wear bulletproof vests in pilot scheme
• Dancing On Ice: Jennifer Metcalfe's chemistry with partner leaves Torvill and Dean 'open-mouthed'
• Best cash Isas for savers in 2011
• 'No human being stands a chance against that type of animal': American tourists speak of horror after tour guide is ripped from kayak by giant crocodile
• 'Bomb' found in crowded Rome subway station
• Take a Day Trip to France from just £1!
• 'He'd have gone if he was a Tory': Cameron backbench anger as Vince Cable clings to his job
• Arsenal power games continue as Usmanov aims to top Kroenke's stake
• Helicopter scrambled to save fisherman trapped in the ice... who turned out to be dummy wearing a jacket used to scare birds
• Economy set to grow 2% and a late rate rise
• Search for missing Las Vegas showgirl intensifies as police reveal she may be pregnant
• Gangster shot innocent teenager dead just six months after he was released early from jail... now he faces life
• Winter fuel payments could be next to go, says Vince Cable
• Zara Phillips is to marry England rugby star Mike Tindall
• Watch out Kris! X Factor winner Matt Cardle admits he has a crush on 'gorgeous and incredible' mentor Dannii Minogue
• BAE fined £0.5m for accounting records failure
• Dembele making good progress as he eyes Christmas comeback for Fulham
• Ponting gets thumbs up for Melbourne from Aussie chief, despite Khawaja call
• Career criminal who urged villains to stay out of jail at Christmas faces his TENTH festive season behind bars
• Best easy access savings for 2011
• Father figure Keane makes Kiwi hot shot Fallon feel at home with Ipswich
• What a year! We meet the surprise celebrities of 2010
• State pension for people living abroad: where your payments will go up and where they will be frozen
• 'I really, really like him!' Chantelle Houghton speaks about her 'perfect man' Rav Wilding as she shows off her weight loss in new photoshoot
• BBC radio presenter exposed as £18,000 benefits cheat avoids jail
• Drunk driver who killed two British students in U.S. is found guilty of manslaughter
• Thousands of passengers stranded as power failure closes East Coast Main Line 'indefinitely'
• From Kasporov's clash against a computer to Bobby Fischer's sensational victory: Ten of the greatest chess games of all time
• Age really is just a number: Unhealthy lifestyle means the average woman looks four years older
• Caterina Murino: Meet the the former Bond girl who's being hailed as the new Sophia Loren
• It's a miracle! After 23 years in a wheelchair, woman walks again and says it is all down to spiritual healing
• Boost for Jones as Blackburn starlet undergoes 'successful' knee surgery
• Pacquiao will fight ME in May, claims former welterweight champ Mosely
• Is that you Kourtney? Kardashian sister goes incognito without her warpaint
• Winter fuel payments next to go, says Cable
• D'Ambrosio seals drive alongside Glock for 2011 as Virgin axe Di Grassi
• Iceland faces 'mackerel wars' sanctions as Britain and EU clamp down on fish dumping
• HARRY PHIBBS: Vince Cable is wrong - Coalition must accelerate, not put a brake on change
• So whose bright idea was it to paint the cycle-lane bollards white?
• Basement boys West Ham in advanced talks to sign Villa midfielder Sidwell
• Alastair Cook admits England's confidence took a battering during Australia's onslaught in Perth
• Former rugby player is awarded £7,000 for shoulder injured while playing rough and tumble game in scouts - 10 years ago
• Now credit crunch even hits the U.S. execution business
• Why the eyes are the key to making our faces look 'human'
• Proud as peacocks: The Christmas turkeys dyed bright neon colours for the holidays
• Life is a Cabaret for Kara Tointon as she emulates Liza Minnelli to promote the Euromillions Christmas draw
• What next for pensions in 2011?
• Legal bid to overturn bans on gay marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships is delayed... because of council's clerical error
• Bring it on! Vitali Klitschko insists brother Wladimir is ready to face Haye
• Sales extravaganza: Stores slash prices up to 70% as tomorrow is set to be busiest retail day EVER
• Interiors: Zing and country
• Schoolgirl, 14, gets her dream Christmas gift early... a prosthetic ear so realistic it even turns red in the sun
• JAMES MARTIN: The E is Mini's vision of our electric future - but can it compete with the original?
• King's Speech leads London Critics Circle Film Award nominations with seven nods
• Second blow in a week for AstraZeneca as it drops lung disease drug
• The American dream: Chelsea striker Anelka considers ending career in MLS
• Want to nail the season's coolest looks? We try three of the best party-perfect manicures
• Don't tell Rudolph, but Russia's latest export is ready to hit the shelves - canned reindeer
• Thousands of horses and ponies abandoned in Irish countryside as financial crisis bites
• Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall set for Royal wedding as England rugby ace and former eventing champion get engaged
• Austerity Christmas means presents take a back seat to cash on people's wish lists
• Alexon's older shoppers stay away during snow
• Nato dismisses report U.S. is planning to expand Special Forces raids into Pakistan
• Girl, 13, battles cancer just three years after her twin brother survives disease
• All fur coat... let's just hope she's wearing knickers! Freezing weather is snow problem for Pamela Anderson as she braves the cold in Liverpool
• Jack who? I've never heard of Wilshere, admits Golden boy Balotelli
• The 999 pranksters: Ambulance service staff pictured on Facebook 'asleep' and doing the conga
• U.S. buffets and salad bars 'threatened with poison attacks’ by Al Qaeda group behind 'ink cartridge' bomb plot
• Merry Christmas Mr Fritzl: Cellar monster treated to a lie-in and a roast chicken dinner on big day
• Australia put uncapped Khawaja on standby as cover for injured Ponting
• James Corden signs multi-million pound book deal to write his autobiography
• The mouse that tweets like a BIRD: Japanese scientists create genetically-modified singing rodent
• O'Hara up for the FA Cup as Spurs midfielder eyes Charlton comeback
• Doncaster give O'Driscoll permission to open talks with Sheffield United
• Concentrate! Celtic's Ki Sung-yueng calls for more focus after surrendered leads in successive games
• Wait years for a Royal wedding... 'Shocked but very happy' Zara to marry England rugby star Mike Tindall after seven-year romance
• Cambridge students paid £250 to take horse tranquiliser drug ketamine 'for schizophrenia research'
• What an end to 2010: Bret Michaels proposes to girlfriend Kristi Gibson on reality show finale... and she says yes!
• 'I don't like humans' admits Crossbow Cannibal who murdered and dismembered three prostitutes... but how many more did he kill?
• That's quackers! Vets remove rubber duck from stomach of dog who swallowed it NINE MONTHS ago
• Lazio ready to rescue Bendtner from Arsenal as striker hints at exit
• Teenager 'claimed he was a vampire before sexually assaulting girls and drinking their blood'
• Sony warns of TV switch-off
• £9bn Apax at the apex of buyouts
• Milan to sign Cassano as Ronaldinho edges closer to San Siro exit
• Brussels backs bid for BSkyB
• Borrowing jump puts deficit plan in doubt
• How a freak diversion of the jet stream is paralysing the globe with freezing conditions
• Win a ten-night Canaries Cruise with Iglucruise and Royal Caribbean International!
• Happy holidays: Shock study finds people more likely to die in U.S. on Christmas Day than any other day of the year
• Congratulations it's a boy... no, a girl: Couple thought baby with rare condition was wrong sex for a month
• 'Bleak prospects' for the economy
• Former Liverpool and Rangers defender Avi Cohen in critical condition after motorcycle smash in Israel
• N&P first-time buyer 2-year fix at 3.89%
• Paramedics tell crash boy, 8, with double skull fracture 'you've only bumped your head'
• Recipe: Brussels sprouts with chestnuts and crisp pancetta
• Vodka-swigging father jailed for groping six young girls while on school trip with son to zoo
• £23bn borrowing blues for Osborne: Warning as cuts fail to turn around rising debt
• 'Del Boy' stabbed to death in savage punishment beating for poaching the sale of two stolen luxury watches
• Bearded and gaunt, but free: Mexican politician turned loose by kidnappers 'after $20m ransom'
• Moyes calls for consistency after Everton dump Man City at Eastlands
• The Top Spin: Keep calm and don't turn Mitchell Johnson into a totem
• FTSE close: Banks & miners spur Footsie
• Sean Bean divorces fourth wife Georgina Sutcliffe after two years of marriage
• Stormy times for Obama's reforms
• Freezing conditions hit womenswear retailer Alexon as older shoppers struggle
• Go-vanovic! Milan Jovanovic set for Liverpool exit after just six months at Anfield
• Roy Hodgson urges fans: Give me time to make Liverpool great again
• NAO probe slams bank asset scheme
• Pull your weight! Malouda tells Chelsea defenders to shape up and stop rot
• Dolce & Gabbana model, 28, dies after spending four weeks in a coma following surfing accident
• Bottoms up! Kim Kardashian celebrates her 30th birthday by swigging from a beer keg... upside down
• Liverpool? I'd rather stay in Russia, insists Anfield target Kerzhakov
• Proof Shane Warne can't drive past a blonde without stopping... as friend Michael Parkinson says: 'He needs help'
• South Korea shields economy with capital controls
• Oil price heating up in big freeze
• Rockhopper and Desire's drill plans
• Cobham contract
• Angry Assange insists: I am not a sexual predator, I just really like women
• AIB is closer to nationalisation
• 888 shares winning on Ladbrokes bid move
• Pain in Spain
• Businesswoman struck down with Parkinson's overcomes symptoms with sessions on her children's Nintendo Wii
• Gartmore may lose staff in takeover
• British couples launch bid to overturn European 'apartheid' law banning gay marriages, civil partnerships
• A lesson for London's turncoats
• Chelsea boss Ancelotti wants £30m Modric, claims Tottenham star's pal
• Future is bright at Man City after seeing off Tevez saga, insists Mancini
• Teacher forced to quit girls' school after bombarding pupil with romantic texts and emails
• Mortgages to hit lowest levels in 30 years
• Warm front for the energy firms
• What’s the best remedy for your chesty cough?
• Banks 'let down small businesses'
• Most dinosaurs were vegetarian and T-rex was just an exception, finds new study
• Mezhgan Hussainy puts paid to split rumours as she FINALLY joins fiancé Simon Cowell in Barbados
• FSA fines hit a record £88m
• Governor of New York fined $62,000 for abusing power by getting free tickets to take son to Yankees game
• What the back pages say on Tuesday, December 21: Carlos Tevez truce as star agrees to stay at Manchester City and Fabio Capello vows to stick with England
• Taylor Momsen booed in Scotland after calling Glasgow 'the craziest crowd in all of England'
• 28% quit work over bad boss
• France's top credit rating under threat
• FTSE in-depth: Zurich is sailing in for Admiral
• Alexa Ray Joel returns to the stage with mum Christie Brinkley cheering her on... as she puts suicide drama behind her
• Tata in tasty £93m British salt purchase
• Crazed groom guns down wife and best man at wedding reception before killing himself
• FTSE preview: Oil stocks bolster Footsie
• RBS risks backlash over top banker bonuses
• The worst call centres named and shamed
• Blow for BAE over 'corruption' case
• Dannii Minogue is feeling broody again as she meets a young fan at Australian book launch
• Britain braced for another night of plummeting temperatures as transport tsar admits 'we might run out of salt this winter'
• Taking it easy, Wayne? Rooney sticks to shandies as he joins Manchester United teammates on Christmas party
• Santa Stacey Solomon spreads plenty of Christmas cheer as she delivers a boot full of presents
• If you can see snow already, chances are you'll be having a white Christmas, say experts
• Make-up free Heidi Klum buys some very pricey Christmas presents
• Are Joe Jonas and Ashley Greene taking the next step? Singer picks up something special at a jewellers
• 'Remember to search out the goodness of God in the face of tragedy': Last message of American stabbed to death hiking in Israel
• Skating Shocker! Judges' favourite Jonny Moseley sent home one day before Skating with the Stars finale
• Survivor stars Rob and Amber Mariano welcome a baby girl
• Let there be light: David Cameron sparks Olympic Stadium into life for the first time
• How could this happen?! Zsa Zsa Gabor's pension reportedly cancelled because her union thought she had died
• Fed-up with your boss? You're not alone as 28% quit their job over bad management
• QUENTIN LETTS: Philip Hammond would make a good pilot, calm even when a wing drops off
• How to survive Christmas lunch... No, not the in-laws - the hidden health dangers in your turkey AND trimmings
• Health News: Ginger could cut ulcer risk, a new vaccine could protect against MRSA and could a dose of zinc silence tinnitus?
• That 70's Show star Lisa Robin Kelly arrested for drunk driving
• Christmas dinner? It's a piece of cake... How to turn the turkey and ALL the trimmings into an eye-catching gateau
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: No X Factor repeat
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Well played, Mr Gove
• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Time for the reckless to join the real world
• Under the microscope: Food writer Marguerite Patten, 94, says longevity is the only ailment in her family
• RICHARD KAY: Betrayal of a royal confidante
• Get a grip! The experts' guide to avoiding a slip-up in the snow
• IAIN DUNCAN SMITH: History's greatest male role model and a humbling lesson for feckless fathers today
• King Kong merrily on high! Crackers full of raisins. Edible baubles on a tree. But NO sprouts. How Christmas came to Chessington Zoo
• Naughty Girl! LeAnn Rimes shares sexy Christmas photos with her fans
• How just five minutes of birdsong can make us feel chirpy
• Nose spray that eases a migraine in minutes
• Angela Rippon's fears about sexism and ageism on TV seem to have melted way
• Christmas gift guide for football boots... Sportsmail's stocking special
• JANET STREET PORTER: Why Christmas reduces capable women like me to gibbering wrecks (clue: it might have something to do with all those utterly useless men)
• Hotspots: All the best bets and top tips for Tuesday, December 21
• Henry de Bromhead still has Kauto Star in his sights on Boxing Day
• Khan to ignore Warren's plea for UK fight with Sheffield's unbeaten Brook
• Reality check for debut boy Henson ahead of Saracens bow at Wembley