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Daily Mail (London)
A daily newspaper and online news service serving Britain and the United Kingdom. Stories cover news, politics, sports, and business updates of national importance. Additionally, the paper carries exhaustive celebrity news.
Articles from February 26, 2010
100 RBS Bankers Get Bonus of at Least [Pounds Sterling]1m
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Byline: Becky Barrow Business Correspondent MORE than 100 bankers at Royal Bank of Scotland were paid a bonus of at least [pounds sterling]1million last year, the company's chairman admitted yesterday. Revelations about the bonanza caused immediate...
100 RBS Bankers Get Bonus of at Least [Pounds Sterling]1m
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Byline: Becky Barrow Business Correspondent MORE than 100 bankers at Royal Bank of Scotland were paid a bonus of at least [pounds sterling]1million last year, the company's chairman admitted yesterday. Revelations about the bonanza caused immediate...
100 RBS Bankers Get Bonus of at Least [Pounds Sterling]1m
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Byline: Becky Barrow Business Correspondent MORE than 100 bankers at Royal Bank of Scotland were paid a bonus of at least [pounds sterling]1million last year, the company's chairman admitted yesterday. Revelations about the bonanza caused immediate...
17th, but Our Girls Sleigh the Whingeing Wallabies
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Byline: Eva Marie Gibney OUR bobsleigh team may have missed out on a medal when they finished 17th out of 21 at the Winter Olympics - but the satisfaction of beating the whingeing Aussies was golden. Australian officials had tried to get the...
270,000 Civil Service Strikers Plan Chaos
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Byline: Becky Barrow Business Correspondent UP to 270,000 civil servants are threatening to cripple Britain next month in a series of strikes, unions warned yesterday. The timing of the walkouts will be deeply embarrassing for Labour in the run-up...
2 for 1 Dry Cleaning at Johnsons Cleaners
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START your spring cleaning early and you can save pounds with this fantastic two-for-one offer from Johnsons Cleaners. This exclusive offer covers cloth garments and is for a limited period only - so don't delay and use your voucher, left, by Monday,...
900,000 Toil for Ten Hours a Week Unpaid; Teachers and Lawyers Put in the Most Overtime
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Byline: Daily Mail Reporter THE number of people doing more than ten hours of unpaid overtime a week has soared in the last year, according to a survey published today. The total rose by 14,000 to 897,000 in 2009 compared with the year before,...
900,000 Workers Are Now Toiling for Ten Unpaid Hours Every Week
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Byline: Daily Mail Reporter THE number of people doing more than ten hours of unpaid overtime a week has soared in the last year, according to a survey published today. The total rose by 14,000 to 897,000 in 2009 compared with the year before,...
A BRIGHT FUTURE; Using a Smattering of Neon Can Lift the Dullest Room out of the Winter Doldrums
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Byline: EMMA LOVEs WHEN most people think of neon, visions of Eighties Day-Glo clothing and smiley faces spring to mind. But how about neon in interiors? Somehow that doesn't sound as if it would work in our homes. And yet, here we are at the...
A Fridge Bulging with Food, but Emaciated Khyra Had to Scavenge for Crumbs on the Bird Table
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Byline: Fay Schlesinger, David Wilkes and Andy Dolan FORCED to stand outside in the freezing cold for hours in only her underwear, seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq made a pitiful sight. After five months of starvation and beatings she was severely...
A Fridge Bulging with Food, but Emaciated Khyra Had to Scavenge for Crumbs on the Bird Table
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Byline: Fay Schlesinger, David Wilkes and Andy Dolan FORCED to stand outside in the freezing cold for hours in only her underwear, seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq made a pitiful sight. After five months of starvation and beatings she was severely...
A Happy Marriage 'Can Reduce Men's Risk of a Stroke'
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Byline: Daily Mail Reporter HAPPILY-MARRIED men are much less likely to suffer a stroke than their single or unhappily married friends, according to research. Single men and those in unsuccessful marriages were 64 per cent more likely to have...
A Licence to Kill? Assisted Suicide Case Relatives Won't Be Charged If They Act out of Compassion
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Byline: Steve Doughty Social Affairs Correspondent HELPING a loved one to commit suicide out of compassion will no longer invite court action. Rules set down by the Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday remove the risk of a trial and up to...
A Matter of Life, Death and Stubbed Toes
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Byline: BY HARRY RITCHIE NEE NAW: REAL LIFE DISPATCHES FROM AMBULANCE CONTROL BY SUZI BRENT (Penguin [pounds sterling]7.99) SUZI BRENT is as an emergency medical dispatcher, which means that she's one of the people who take 999 calls for the...
A Moral Vacuum on Bonuses; COMMENT
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Byline: by ALEX BRUMMER City Editor YOU HAVE to hand it to Royal Bank of Scotland chieftain Stephen Hester. He has somehow managed to convince the world into thinking it is fine for a loss-making bank, in an economy barely growing, to be paying...
Animal Jokes? Don't Make Me Laugh ... PETERBOROUGH
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Of all the creatures in the land there's only one I know, off hand That's favoured with the gift to laugh and smile It's us, the human being, 'cos I don't remember seeing Any critter that could titter human-style. So, why have we been blessed...
Animal Jokes? Don't Make Me Laugh. PETERBOROUGH
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of all the creatures in the land there's only one I know, off hand That's favoured with the gift to laugh and smile It's us, the human being, 'cos I don't remember seeing Any critter that could titter human-style. so, why have we been blessed with...
Anyone Who Says I Am Hapless Is Sexist; Coughlan Angers Colleagues by Playing the Gender Card
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Byline: Senan Molony Political Editor WOMEN TDs accused Mary Coughlan of getting it wrong again yesterday when she played the gender card during a Dail debate. The Tanaiste had come under fire for failing to act promptly over jobs at Dell, Cadbury...
Are Mancini's Days at City Numbered Already? EXCLUSIVE
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Byline: by IAN LADYMAN Northern Football Correspondent ROBERTO Mancini's tenure at Manchester City is coming under intense boardroom scrutiny for the first time after a dismal run of two wins in eight matches which has left the world's richest club...
Ashley's Got a Point. You Don't Move Your Mother in. EVER! REGINA LAVELL Are You Thinking What She's Thinking?
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Byline: REGINA LAVELL BACK in 2003, on a particularly miserable November night, I met Cheryl (then Tweedy) Cole. I was interviewing Girls Aloud in a modest hotel room in Belfast. Only a month earlier, she had been convicted of assaulting a nightclub...
A White Knuckle Ride to Be Proud Of
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Byline: PETER DOHERTY THEY may never be hailed in the same way as Robbie Keane, Brian O'Driscoll or Katie Taylor but Ireland should be saluting two new heroes in Aoife Hoey and Claire Bergin. The bobsleigh pair moved from 20th to 17th overall...
BAILED OUT BUT MAKING YOU PAY AGAIN! Fury as Bol - Propped Up with [Euro]3.5bn of Public Money - Puts Up Cost of Borrowing
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Byline: Galen English BANK OF IRELAND has left customers reeling by hitting them with a raft of swingeing interest rate hikes. Despite having been recapitalised with E3.5billion of public money, the bank will impose crippling higher charges for...
Bald Mr Byrne Was like a Golf Ball in a Vice
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Byline: Quentin Letts Yesterday in Parliament ALISTAIR Darling may have been a big, brave Hector standing up to nose-tweaker Brown, but his right-hand minister at the Treasury is a more timid piece of work. Liam Byrne is Treasury Chief Secretary...
BBC to Axe Websites and Radio Stations
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Byline: Kate Loveys and Tamara Cohen THE BBC is planning to make widescale spending cuts, it emerged last night. Two radio stations will be closed, online output halved and spending on sports rights capped. The overhaul of services is expected...
Beyond Belief. How 9 Officials Let a Girl of 7 Starve to Death in a Modern British City
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Byline: Fay Schlesinger and David Wilkes A GIRL of seven was starved to death by her mother and step-father after a series of failures by public officials. Khyra Ishaq was beaten with a cane and allowed to die a slow and agonising death, despite...
Bohs New Boys Bring Quality, Desire and Hunger -- Fenlon
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Byline: GARETH MAHER PAT FENLON was spoiled for choice with regard to players that he could have signed this season, but he didn't just want to pick the best players available. With over 90 per cent of players who featured in the league last...
Breast Cancer Victims like Me Can't Take Any More Stress
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Byline: Leah McDonald VALERIE Finan knows all to well how a fragmented health service can cause severe stress and hardship to someone already suffering from breast cancer. Mrs Finan was one of the first women to highlight the agonising ordeal...
Breast-Feeding Mother Told to Get off the Bus
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Byline: Luke Salkeld A MOTHER was accused of indecent exposure and thrown off a bus after breast-feeding her six-weekold baby. Amy Wootten, 25, was travelling home when the driver stopped the bus and told her to stop feeding her daughter Emily....
Breast-Feeding Mother Told to Get off the Bus
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Byline: Luke Salkeld A MOTHER was accused of indecent exposure and thrown off a bus after breast-feeding her six-week-old baby. Amy Wootten, 25, was travelling home when the driver stopped the bus and told her to stop feeding her daughter Emily....
BRING IN FOREIGN REFS FOR OLD FIRM; Poll's Call for Radical Action; EXCLUSIVE
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Byline: MARK WILSON FORMER World Cup referee Graham Poll last night called for Europe's elite match officials to be flown into Scotland to take charge of Old Firm games. The Englishman has watched scrutiny build on whistler Dougie McDonald ahead...
British Bobsleigh Women Crash Out
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Byline: Steven Henry IT was the moment their world turned upside-down. Hurtling down a twisting, icy track at 82mph, the British women's bobsleigh team found themselves in deadly danger. As driver Nicola Minichiello tried to negotiate a turn,...
Brokers Vote for a Quick Election
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Byline: MARKET REPORT by Geoff Foster STOCKBROKERS are getting fed up waiting for the general election. The sooner the UK goes to the polls and Greece sorts its debt problems out the better. The volume of business in recent weeks has slumped to...
Brown Fighting a Pitch Battle
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Byline: EWING GRAHAME MOTHERWELL manager Craig Brown last night hit back at the storm surrounding the club's 'unfit' Fir Park pitch. SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster and secretary Ian Blair demanded a highlevel inspection of the pitch this...
CALM VERSUS CHAOS; Captain Sensible Weir Is a Very Different Breed from Impetuous, Gung-Ho Brown, Yet Both Old Firm Skippers Embody the Football Philosophies of Their Managers
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Byline: by JOHN GREECHAN THEY stand out as shining examples of two conflicting football philosophies.Everything that separates the current Rangers and Celtic teams -apart from the obvious points differential -is embodied in the men wearing the captain's...
CALM VERSUS CHAOS; Captain Sensible Weir Is a Very Different Breed from Impetuous, Gung-Ho Brown, Yet Both Old Firm Skippers Embody the Football Philosophies of Their Managers
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Byline: BY JOHN GREECHAN THEY stand out as shining examples of two conflicting football philosophies. Everything that separates the current Rangers and Celtic teams -- apart from the obvious points differential -- is embodied in the men wearing...
Camilla? She Looks 80 Says Cheeky Pademi,7
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Byline: Rebecca English Royal Correspondent AS A mother and grandmother, she is wise to the ways of little people. So the Duchess of Cornwall did not bat an eyelid yesterday when she was asked by an inquisitive seven-year-old how old she was....
Camilla? She Looks 80, Says Cheeky Pademi, 7
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Byline: Rebecca English Royal Correspondent AS A mother and grandmother, she is wise to the ways of little people. So the Duchess of Cornwall did not bat an eyelid yesterday when she was asked by an inquisitive seven-year-old how old she was....
Charter for Euthanasia; New Legal Ruling in England Means Relatives Will Be Let off in Most Assisted Suicide Cases
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Byline: Steve Doughty Social Affairs Correspondent HELPING a loved one to commit suicide out of compassion will no longer invite court action south of the Border. Rules for England and Wales set down by the Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday...
Chick-Lit
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Byline: BY SARA LAWRENCE REVENGE BY SHARON OSBOURNE (Little, Brown [pounds sterling]12.99) REINVENTION seems to be at the heart of this story, which is appropriate given the circumstances -- from rock-star wife and The X Factor judge to novelist?...
Chick-Lit
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Byline: BY SARA LAWRENCE REVENGE BY SHARON OSBOURNE (Little, Brown [euro]14.99) REINVENTION seems to be at the heart of this story, which is appropriate given the circumstances -- from rock-star wife and The X Factor judge to novelist? I'm not so...
Cooking's Come a Long Way, Fanny!
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Byline: BY SAM LEITH FOOD HOW THE BRITISH FELL IN LOVE WITH FOOD: 25 YEARS OF FOOD WRITING AND RECIPES FROM THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BY LEWIS ESSON (Simon & Schuster [pounds sterling]20) 0 NE morning, when I was three or four years old, my...
Cooking's Come a Long Way, Fanny!
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Byline: BY SAM LEITH FOOD HOW THE BRITISH FELL IN LOVE WITH FOOD: 25 YEARS OF FOOD WRITING AND RECIPES FROM THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BY LEWIS ESSON (Simon & Schuster [pounds sterling]20) 0NE morning, when I was three or four years...
Critics' Choice
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Byline: TV previews by SOPHIE HEATH FILM: MURDER MOST FOUL, 1pm, Ch4 MARGARET RUTHERFORD'S deceptively astute Miss Marple (pictured below with Stringer Davis) replaces Hercule Poirot in this loose adaptation of Agatha Christie's Mrs McGinty's...
Critics' Choice
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Byline: TV previews by SOPHIE HEATH FILM: MURDER MOST FOUL, 1pm, Ch4 MARGARET RUTHERFORD'S deceptively astute Miss Marple (pictured with Stringer Davis) replaces Hercule Poirot in this loose adaptation of Christie's Mrs McGinty's Dead, the third...
Critics' Choice
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Byline: TV previews by SOPHIE HEATH FILM: MURDER MOST FOUL, 1pm, Ch4 MARGARET RUTHERFORD'S deceptively astute Miss Marple (pictured below with Stringer Davis) replaces Hercule Poirot in this loose adaptation of Agatha Christie's Mrs McGinty's...
Cueto in Race to Prove Fitness
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Byline: BY CHRIS FOY ENGLAND'S recent sickness curse is in danger of causing them back-line disruption ahead of tomorrow's RBS Six Nations clash with Ireland at Twickenham, as Mark Cueto missed a second day of training with a stomach bug. The...
Dave's Lost My Vote -- and I Was a Tory MP
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I APPLAUD those who are drawing attention to the damage that David Cameron's dictatorial reforms are doing to a great Conservative Party. I was a member of the first Thatcher government, but I won't be supporting my old party at the next election for...
Deadly Blizzards Sweep Scotland; Four Killed, Hundreds Stranded and Thousands without Power
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Byline: Maureen Culley Playtime: Lauren Stewart, six, with Tilly in Huntly THE harshest winter for generations once again blasted Scotland yesterday, claiming four lives, leaving hundreds of motorists stranded and forcing dozens of families out...
'Deterrent' Is a Dirty Word for Dealing with Teen Mothers
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GIRLS, do you want to know how to ruin your life in two easy stages? OK. First, get pregnant by some random spotty youth who is almost as irresponsible as you. Quite possibly you will both be drunk at the time, but this is not mandatory. Make...
'Deterrent' Is a Dirty Word for Dealing with Teen Mothers; JAN MOIR Are You Thinking What She's Thinking?
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Byline: JAN MOIR GIRLS, do you want to know how to ruin your life in two easy stages? OK. First, get pregnant by some random spotty youth who is almost as irresponsible as you. Quite possibly you will both be drunk at the time, but this is not...
Do Homeopathic Treatments Actually Work? Debate
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THE COMMONS Science and Technology Committee has decided that homeopathic treatment is little better than 'active deception, sugar pills and placebos'. Homeopathic medicines are obviously no more than a placebo, but at least they are harmless and...
Do Homeopathic Treatments Actually Work? DEBATE
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it DOES seem to have taken a long time to sink in that typical homeopathic solutions contain nothing but water. there isn't enough water on the planet to produce some of the more extreme dilutions recommended. When faced with these facts, the designers...
Dumb-Down Don's Marking Row Victory; University 'Unfairly Dismissed' Him
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Byline: Laura Clark Education Correspondent A PROFESSOR who quit in protest at the 'dumbing down' of degrees has won a longrunning legal fight to prove he was forced out of his job. Paul Buckland failed 18 out of 60 second-year students on an...
Eat Your Way to Good Health; the Yummy MUMMY Diet
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DAY FIVE THIS week, the Scottish Daily Mail has launched the Yummy Mummy Diet Plan in association with Scottish Slimmers. We've told you about the abundance of food you CAN eat - and amazingly, there are NO forbidden foods. With Scottish Slimmers,...
Eejit's Guide to Ireland! A Dizzy Heroine, an Oafish Leading Man, Moronic Villagers, Crimes against Film and Ireland - Awarding This Movie a Turkey Is Almost Generous
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Byline: by Chris Tookey Leap Year (PG) Verdict: Turkey doesn't even begin to cover it... LEAP years come round every four years, but dispiriting romcoms appear with depressing inevitability at least four times every year, and this is one of...
Eejit's Guide to Ireland; A Dizzy Heroine, an Oafish Leading Man, Moronic Villagers ... for Crimes against Film (and the Irish), Leap Year Gets My Shamrock of Shame
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Byline: by Chris Tookey Leap Year (PG) Verdict: Turkey doesn't even begin to cover it ... LEAP years come round every four years, but dispiriting romcoms appear with depressing inevitability at least four times every year, and this is one of...
Eejit's Guide to Ireland; A Dizzy Heroine, an Oafish Leading Man, Moronic Villagers. for Crimes against Film (and the Irish), Leap Year Gets My Shamrock of Shame
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Byline: by Chris Tookey Leap Year (PG) Verdict: Turkey doesn't even begin to cover it... LEAP years come round every four years, but dispiriting romcoms appear with depressing inevitability at least four times every year, and this is one of the...
Euro in Danger as the Greek Crisis Deepens
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Byline: Jason Groves Political Correspondent GREECE's debt crisis has plunged the euro into a 'dangerous' situation, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted last night, prompting fresh fears about the collapse of the single currency. In the...
Euro in Danger as the Greek Crisis Deepens
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Byline: Jason Groves Political Correspondent GREECE's debt crisis has plunged the euro into a 'difficult situation', the German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted last night, prompting fresh fears about the collapse of the single currency. In the...
Ex-Wife Claims [Pounds Sterling]560,000 ... 30 Years Af Ter Marriage Split
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Byline: Daily Mail Reporter A LEADING barrister will go to court next week to stop his ex-wife claiming [pounds sterling]560,000 from him - nearly 30 years after they separated. Philippa Vaughan, 66, says she has been left with a 'totally inadequate'...
Failures Let Girl Starve to Death; She Would Still Be Alive If Officials Had Done Their Job, Says Judge
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Byline: Fay Schlesinger and David Wilkes A GIRL of seven was starved to death by her mother and stepfather after a series of failures by public officials. Khyra Ishaq was beaten with a cane and allowed to die a slow and agonising death, despite...
Families Evacuated as Rain Causes Landslips
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Byline: Kris Gilmartin HUNDREDS of residents were last night told to evacuate their homes as severe weather threatened to trigger devastating landslides that could crash down on their properties. The warning was sparked by two 'significant' landslips...
Fifth Star Hit by Bug
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Byline: by CHRIS FOY Rugby Correspondent ENGLAND'S recent sickness curse is in danger of causing disruption ahead of tomorrow's RBS Six Nations clash with Ireland at Twickenham, as Mark Cueto missed a second day of training with a stomach bug. ...
For Alexander McQueen, the Saddest Fashion Show
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Byline: Paul Harris and Richard Simpson EVERYWHERE you looked, there were little flashes of his legacy. Someone wore an Alexander McQueen dress. Naomi Campbell chose the kind of high heels that looked as if he'd designed them specially with her...
Gerrard Claims a Record as He Seals Passage for Liverpool
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Byline: JOHN EDWARDS reports from Bucharest Unirea Urziceni 1 Liverpool 3 (Liverpool win 4-1 on aggregate) STEVEN GERRARD chalked up another landmark in a glittering career after becoming a European recordbreaker here in the Steaua Stadium....
Gerrard Claims a Record as He Seals Passage for Liverpool
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Byline: JOHN EDWARDS reports from Bucharest Unirea Urziceni 1 Liverpool 3 (Liverpool win 4-1 on aggregate) STEVEN GERRARD chalked up another landmark in a glittering career after becoming a European recordbreaker in the Steaua Stadium....
Girl Died at the Poolside Af Ter Young Lifeguard Stopped Trying to Revive Her
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Byline: Andy Dolan A CORONER demanded an overhaul of resuscitation training after hearing how a teenage swimmer was revived at a poolside, only to die when a lifeguard stopped giving her mouth-to-mouth too soon. Sophie Konderak had a cardiac...
Growth Is on Hold at Eircom
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Byline: Joe Downes EIRCOM is to cut costs following a 9pc drop in group revenue to E933m, it emerged yesterday. However, the Singapore Telecom-owned firm posted a core profit of E327m for the six months to December 31. The profit, on an adjusted...
Half of Single Mothers Never Live with Partner; Study Shows Thousands Make 'Lifestyle Choice' to Rely on Benefits
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Byline: Steve Doughty Social Affairs Correspondent MORE than half of single mothers have never lived with a husband or boyfriend because they make the 'lifestyle choice' to stay on their own, a study has revealed. Fresh figures show that 57 per...
Hares Do Best in Areas Where Coursing Takes Place
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Byline: Galen English IT WILL come as a bitter blow to animal rights campaigners but research has shown that coursing could be good for the hare population. For the number of hares living in preserves controlled by the country's 76 coursing clubs...
Hearts Melt as Cinders Gets Her Skates On
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Byline: PATRICK MARMION Cinderella On Ice (Albert Hall) Verdict: Cinderella story has strictly gone dancing *** YOU don't go to Sainsbury's for the architecture, so it's probably wrong to expect much from the plot of Cinderella On Ice. It...
Hearts Melt as Cinders Gets Her Skates On
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Byline: PATRICK MARMION Cinderella On Ice (Albert Hall) Verdict: Cinderella story has strictly gone dancing *** YOU don't go to Sainsbury's for the architecture, so it's probably wrong to expect much from the plot of Cinderella On Ice. It really...
He Did the Right Thing by Quitting
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Byline: by MARTIN SAMUEL THERE will be those who say Wayne Bridge let his country down yesterday. That by withdrawing from the England team in World Cup year, particularly over a personal matter, he has taken the easy way out, shrugging his shoulders...
Here Is the News: BBC Blundering on New Buildings Costs Us Millions
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Byline: Paul Revoir TV Correspondent THE BBC's state-of-the-art Scottish headquarters soared [pounds sterling]60million over its original budget, a damning report revealed yesterday. The Corporation has wasted many millions through overspending...
Historical Fiction
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Byline: BY KATHY STEVENSON CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH HITLER BY EMMA CRAIGIE (Short Books [pounds sterling]6.99) THE cover picture shows a small girl staring petulantly at the camera, sitting in front of Adolf Hitler. The girl is Helga Goebbels, daughter...
Historical Fiction
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Byline: BY KATHY STEVENSON CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH HITLER BY EMMA CRAIGIE (Short Books [euro]8.99) THE cover picture shows a small girl staring petulantly at the camera, sitting in front of Adolf Hitler. The girl is Helga Goebbels, daughter of Nazi...
Hodgson Heroes Rewarded with Juventus Clash
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Byline: ASHLEY GRAY reports from Donetsk Shakhtar Donetsk 1 Fulham 1 (Fulham win 3-2 on aggregate) FULHAM pulled off their greatest result in European competition last night to set up a last-16 clash with the mighty Juventus. However, their success...
Hodgson Heroes Rewarded with Juventus Clash
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Byline: ASHLEY GRAY reports from Donetsk Shakhtar Donetsk 1 Fulham 1 (Fulham win 3-2 on aggregate) FULHAM pulled off their greatest result in European competition last night to set up a last-16 clash with the mighty Juventus. However,...
Home Insurance Goes Up by [Euro]120; We'll ALL Pay for the Big Freeze, Say Insurers
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Byline: Ferghal Blaney Consumer Affairs Correspondent HOME insurance bills are set to rise by E120 a year to pay for the devastation caused by the Big Freeze. Experts warn that the cost of insuring homes is likely to increase by 20 per cent after...
Honoured at Last, the Girls Who Really Dug for Victory
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Byline: George Arbuthnott AS Hitler threatened to invade, they toiled tirelessly in the fields and forests to keep Britain going. Yet for 70 years, the efforts of the forgotten army of Land Girls and 'Lumber Jills' went unrecognised as they were...
How a Happy Marriage Can Cut Risk of a Stroke
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Byline: Irish Daily Mail Reporter HAPPILY MARRIED men are much less likely to suffer a stroke than their single or unhappily married friends, according to research. Single men and those in unsuccessful marriages were 64 per cent more likely to...
How a Happy Marriage Can Cut Stroke Risk
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Byline: Daily Mail Reporter HAPPILY-MARRIED men are much less likely to suffer a stroke than their single or unhappily married friends, according to research. Single men and those in unsuccessful marriages were 64 per cent more likely to have...
How Hanafin Got It So Wrong on the Town with the Longest Dole Queue
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Byline: Aiden Corkery Political Reporter IT was the story that summed up all that is wrong with our benefits system - a town with 700 residents and 1,300 claiming the dole. But then a top civil servant said the story was incorrect. In fact, she...
How Talking about Your Bad Back Can Take the Pain Away
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Byline: Fiona MacRae Science Reporter TALKING about your bad back can help ease the pain, researchers have revealed. A study of hundreds of adults with chronic back trouble found that those given a short-course of talking therapy were still reaping...
How Tim Burton's Aussie Alice Entered a World of Wonder
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Byline: Baz Bamigboye MIA WASIKOWSKA was born in Canberra but when she was eight, she lived in Poland, her mother's homeland, for a year and travelled around Europe. Then it was back to the Aussie capital, 'a strange, modern city, full of contradicting...
How to Spot If Someone Is Lying
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Byline: CLAIRE COHEN HOW do you spot a liar? Give up? Thankfully, there are a number of giveaway signs which can alert you to a fib. Here, CLAIRE COHEN rounds up the signals to watch out for... EYE CONTACT IT IS a myth that a liar will avoid...
How Two Mothers Forced a Change in the Rules
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TWO court cases have brought the 'right to die' issue into sharp focus. They illustrated the ethical arguments and emotions of the debate and compelled a clarification of the guidelines on assisted suicide: KAY GILDERDALE was cleared by a jury last...
How Two Passports a Minute Are Given to Foreigners in UK
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Byline: James Slack Home Affairs Editor PASSPORTS were given to foreigners at the rate of two a minute last year. Officials approved a record 203,865 citizenship applications, 58 per cent more than in 2008. Another 190,000 immigrants were...
How We've Become a Nation of Email Snoopers
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Byline: Paul Sims WE'RE living in age with access to more forms of communication than ever before. And it seems the temptation to snoop is just too much for many of us. Almost half of Britons admit reading a friend or partner's emails or text...
Hughes Finds His Hibs Are Just Too Nice
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Byline: BRIAN MARJORIBANKS A FEARSOME defender by trade, John Hughes has surprised many by building teams the opposite of his snarling image as an uncompromising centre-half with Falkirk, Celtic and Hibs. As his Easter Road side faces a real...
Ibsen's Ghosts Need Much More Spirit
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Byline: Reviews by Quentin Letts Ghosts (Duchess Theatre) Verdict: Unloosen that clerical collar ** THERE is an electrifying place for Henrik Ibsen today, as was proved last week when An Enemy Of The People, his play about political intolerance...
Ibsen's Ghosts Need Much More Spirit
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Byline: Reviews by Quentin Letts Ghosts (Duchess Theatre) Verdict: Unloosen that clerical collar ** THERE is an electrifying place for Henrik Ibsen today, as was proved last week when An Enemy Of The People, his play about political intolerance...
I'D HOLD MY BREATH IN GAMES SO THEY COULD NOT SMELL THE DRINK; Thrown out by Fergie, Football's Ultimate Hell Raiser Paul McGrath Came Back to Haunt Him EXCLUSIVE
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Byline: by NEIL MOXLEY PAUL McGRATH has just hammered the living daylights out of himself in an interview. Just like he used to hammer the living daylights out of the best strikers in the world. Take this as an example. 'It was an on-the-edge existence....
'I'll Need to Break the Pain Barrier'
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Byline: PETER DOHERTY WI L L I E McLaughlin believes he can retain his Irish welterweight title, despite not doing any roadwork for three months. The Donegal man, from the Illies club, faces Bray's Adam Nolan in tonight's Irish Elite championships...
I'm Deirdre No More; LET TERS
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LIKE MANY others, I like to sit down in the evening and watch a few of the soaps - a great escape especially in the current recession, including the copious negative daily news programmes. Coronation Street is high on my list of favourites and I...
I'm Staying, Says Lenihan Asreshuffle Talk Heats Up
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Byline: Senan Molony Political Editor A PALE and gaunt Brian Lenihan has insisted he is staying on as Finance Minister as a Cabinet reshuffle looms. Mr Lenihan, who is having chemotherapy for a pancreatic tumour, made clear he has no plans to...
In Marriage, Three's a Crowd; DEBUT FICTION
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Byline: BY HEPHZIBAH ANDERSON THE WIVES OF HENRY OADES BY JOHANNA MORAN (HarperPress [pounds sterling]14.99) THREE is notoriously a crowd in a marriage, but what if both women are legally wed to the same man? Inspired by a snippet of 19thcentury...
In Marriage, Three's a Crowd; DEBUT FICTION
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Byline: BY HEPHZIBAH ANDERSON THE WIVES OF HENRY OADES BY JOHANNA MORAN (HarperPress [euro]16.99) THREE is notoriously a crowd in a marriage, but what if both women are legally wed to the same man? Inspired by a snippet of 19thcentury history, this...
INSULT TO 7/7 BOMB VICTIMS; Families' Fury as Their Loved Ones and the Four Suicide Bombers Who Murdered Them Share the Same Inquest
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Byline: Lucy Ballinger and Arthur Martin FAMILIES of the July 7 victims reacted furiously yesterday to the decision to include the deaths of the four bombers at the inquest. They said they were appalled that terrorists could be given the same...
INSULT TO 7/7 BOMB VICTIMS; Families' Fury as Their Loved Ones and the Four Suicide Bombers Who Murdered Them Share the Same Inquest
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Byline: Lucy Ballinger and Arthur Martin FAMILIES of the July 7 victims reacted furiously yesterday to the decision to include the deaths of the four bombers at the inquest. They said they were appalled that terrorists could be given the same...
