Browsing: The Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror, founded in 1903, is a British national daily tabloid. The paper supports the Labour Party and it aimed at the working class.

The Daily Mirror leads on a pensioner jailed for smuggling £1m worth of cocaine on a cruise ship has told of his regrets after breaking his silence for the first time. The paper says he refuses to admit guilt and instead is demanding compensation for ‘human rights breaches.’

The Daily Mirror reports the couple who scooped £61m in the Euromillions lottery said they partied like Del Boy and Rodney from Only Fools And Horses after their win. It includes a picture of the winners Richard and Debbie Nuttall popping a bottle of Champagne, as well as an inset image of Del Boy and Rodney.

The Daily Mirror says the Royal College of Nursing union boss, Pat Cullen, has said a collapse in nursing recruitment is putting the future of the NHS at risk and will cause patient safety to suffer too.

The Daily Mirror says a takeaway boss was the mastermind behind the armed robbery that led to PC Sharon Beshenivksy being shot dead. The paper reports that Piran Ditta Khan, 75, who went to Pakistan after the killing, “sat in a car nearby as a gang carried out the raid on a travel agent, jurors were told”.

The Daily Mirror leads with the news that Sarah Payne’s murderer Roy Whiting has been stabbed in prison. The paper writes that the paedophile was said to have been “saved” by a guard at Wakefield Maximum Security prison, where he was stabbed in a “frenzied” attack.