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LAST NIGHT, when I put my 11-year-old daughter Charlotte to bed, a piece of paper she'd been writing on fluttered to the floor. At the top she'd written, 'My Diary'. Halfway down, after details about what she'd been doing that day, she had written: 'I'm so glad I can talk to you, diary. My mum is so busy she never has time to do anything with me, and I don't have anyone else to talk to.' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ENGLAND rugby hero Mike Tindall is the talk of his local pub. In fact, you could say that Tinners -- as he is known to the regulars -- has created quite a scandal. But it's nothing to do with the photographs published of him laughing cosily with Zara Phillips at the Gatcombe Horse Trials last weekend, nor even those of him grappling and smooching with the Queen's bikini-clad granddaughter on a Caribbean beach that were in the papers the week before. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN Dirk Bogarde died five years ago, the world lost a consummate actor who began his career as a matinee idol and went on to give powerful and sophisticated portrayals in films such as The Servant and Death In Venice. But, although he wrote his memoirs, he guarded fiercely the true secrets of his life. Only now, in an authorised biography by John Coldstream, written after five years of research into the papers Bogarde left behind, can the real story of his life be told... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE annual summer holiday -- a fortnight of sun, sea and sand preceded by a week of panic trying to fit in everything you need to do before you go. Pack your things, pack the kids' things, tidy up the house, cancel the papers, drop some keys with a neighbour, stick a new message on the answerphone, wax your legs, apply self-tan, do your bikini line, eyebrow tweeze, go on a crash diet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DIRK BOGARDE was fiercely protective of his private life. But now, five years after his death, the screen idol's official biographer John Coldstream -- who had access to his private papers -- reveals the dark secrets of his life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EXAMINERS marking GCSE English literature papers have been banned from penalising poor spelling and grammar, it emerged yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE letter from my birth mother was abrupt and to the point. Written in her neat hand on pale blue paper, she explained that almost 40 years after giving me up for adoption, she had no desire to meet me. She also said she wasn't prepared to tell me who my father was. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HER INSTRUCTIONS have been followed to the letter: avoid soap or hair products, don't wear fresh clothes and don't even think about carrying a mobile phone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE founder of Nestor Healthcare will be nursing a £4m paper fortune when his new care business joins Aim in November. Mike Rogers will retain a 20pc stake in Careforce. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

YAWNER-OO! Charles Kennedy does not so much deliver a speech as unwrap it, a man producing a treasure from the family safe and, with shaky hand, hushed voice, slowly removing its protective layer of scented tissue paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A CIVIL servant working at the Cabinet Office has been arrested by police investigating alleged leaks of confidential Government papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CLIVE BRITTAIN -- titled Monsieur Le Optimiste in France's racing paper, Paris-Turf -- had good reason to celebrate (pictured above) after Frankie Dettori had ridden Var, his ex-American claimer, to a thrilling half-length win in the Prix de l'Abbaye at Longchamp yesterday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RICHARD Nixon's aides tried to get John Lennon thrown out of America amid fears that he would disrupt the president's plans for a second term, FBI papers have revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

YOU may be sure that the irony is wholly lost on Home Secretary David Blunkett. It comes in initiative No 103 (a), or whatever the current figure is for the latest White Paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

You may be sure that the irony is wholly lost on Home Secretary David Blunkett. It comes in initiative No 103 (a), or whatever the current figure is for the latest White Paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PAPER hats, balloons, streamers and a group of over-excited youngsters -- it might look like an ordinary birthday party but this is a celebration with a difference. There are no guests, only brothers and sisters here. And ideally, there should have been seven cakes and 49 candles -- one for each of the McCaughey septuplets who last Friday celebrated their seventh birthday in Carlisle, Iowa, with their elder sister Mikayla. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVID BECKHAM has rubbished talk that Real Madrid are a spent force in the wake of their 3-0 drubbing at the hands of arch rival's Barcelona. Spanish sports paper Marca ran the headline 'The Beginning of the End' while rival title AS viewed Real's dismal showing in the Nou Camp as signifying 'The End of an Era'. Beckham admitted Real were outclassed by the likes of Ronald-inho, Samuel Eto'o and Deco but he dismissed any talk of a crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EVER since it was reported by The Sunday Telegraph last weekend that Home Secretary David Blunkett was taking legal action to establish if he was the father of his ex-mistress Kimberly Fortier's children -- one as yet unborn -- I have been puzzled by one detail. Why did the Telegraph, who appear to have got their information from the Blunkett camp, emphasise that the story had appeared in the News of the World? Did Telegraph executives give it to the notorious redtop tabloid? And, if so, why? Perhaps because editor Dominic Lawson feared his superiors would take offence at such scurrilous material originating in their paper -- especially since Miss Fortier is a fellow executive of the Telegraph Group. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE extraordinary demands placed on Victorian pupils were revealed yesterday. The publication of an 1898 exam paper, meant for 11-year-olds, sparked a fierce debate about standards in modern education -- and left the nation's adults scratching their heads as they tackled the questions. The Daily Mail has consulted leading academics in literature, maths, geography and history. And here we reveal the answers to the Victorians' questions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON PAPER, my friend has it all. She lives in a beautiful house in Surrey with her husband, a successful banker, and their two beautiful children. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE exams watchdog has ordered a crackdown on poor spelling and grammar in GCSE and A-level papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JUST hours after Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric's public attempt to paper over their differences, Watford manager Ray Lewington concentrated on the business of football, turfed Portsmouth out of the Carling Cup and took his club to within 90 minutes of their first major final in 21 years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MY WIFE and I took a holiday in northern Spain with Ryanair. We arrived at Santander Airport for our return on October 10, only to be told that our papers were not in order. We were not booked for that day's flight, but for another later in the week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GORDON Brown and Tony Blair tried to paper over the cracks in their relationship last night as the Prime Minister went out of his way to praise the Chancellor's record. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TUCKED inside a plastic file at Scotland Yard is an explosive nine-line note from an anonymous informant concerning the untimely death of Princess Diana. Written in a blue felt-tip pen on a flimsy piece of paper ripped from an A4 exercise book, the note is central to the British police investigation into how the Princess was killed in a Paris road crash seven years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THERE can't be a woman alive who, during her dating life, hasn't tried joining her Christian name with her lover's surname for size. It's an illicit thrill -- and a sure sign that a relationship is getting serious -- when you roll your name with his around in your head or sneakily commit it to paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PROFITS at paper and packaging group DS Smith (down 51.4p to 1423.4p) took a pasting as the paper industry across Europe suffered 'the worst conditions for a decade'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NOW comes the frantic effort to paper over the cracks. After the Commons debacle over the Mental Capacity Bill, which opens the possibility of euthanasia by the back door, New Labour's establishment is suddenly all sweetness and light. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Daily Mail's foreign correspondent Ann Leslie has been honoured at the prestigious What the Papers Say Awards. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A DEAL that has spawned the nation's second-largest caravan site operator has also created three multi-millionaires. Between them Park Resort founders David Vaughan, Alan Castledine and Robert Sewell are estimated to have made a £15m paper fortune from an initial £1m investment three years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SHARES in Whatman dived as the FTSE 250 lab filter paper maker unveiled almost £15m worth of exceptional charges and warned on sales. Most of that one-off hit covers the cost of restructuring Schleicher & Schuell, which it bought in December for £34.6m. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE British Medical Journal has turned over missing evidence to the US authorities that appears to link Eli Lilly's best-selling antidepressant Prozac with an increased risk of suicide and violence. The papers reportedly disappeared in 1989. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN it comes to the delicate matter of lavatory paper, the Civil Service has a history of being too hard on itself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE IRA was blamed yesterday for Britain's biggest bank robbery, putting the Northern Ireland peace process at risk -- as measures which will make the haul worthless were announced. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THIS has been a week of glaring contrasts. IN a democracy where all voters are equally entitled to be heard and respected, it is right that political parties should listen to the views of Muslim and other minority communities. Indeed, this paper believes politicians could learn much from the Islamic ethos of hard work and family responsibility. IS anyone remotely surprised that the IRA is firmly in the frame for the ruthless £22million raid on the Northern Bank? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Daily Mail has topped a poll as the newspaper the public trusts the most. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN the Keystone Cops of Northumbria can spend £10,000 deploying a helicopter and a plane in the hounding of a driver for the heinous offence of holding an apple in her car, the public is entitled to wonder what has gone so badly wrong with modern policing priorities. THIS paper carries no torch for terrorists or those who flirt with the enemies of freedom. If British citizens Moazzam Begg, Feroz Abbasi, Martin Mubanga or Richard Belmar were indeed involved in the barbarism of Al Qaeda, as the Americans claim, they would deserve everything the law threw at them. FIRST the Government demands more and more students, while paying less and less per head. Then it won't allow cash-strapped universities to charge British undergraduates more. It won't even allow them to pick the brightest candidates, if they happen to be middle-class. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NIGEL MARTYN provided David Moyes with some welcome relief from the contractual uncertainty surrounding Goodison Park yesterday by committing himself to Everton until the end of next season. The former Leeds and England goalkeeper put pen to paper after weeks of negotiations and accepted a one-year extension that will take him up to within a couple of months of his 40th birthday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE Treasury is holding back the publication of sensitive documents relating to the near-collapse of insurer Equitable Life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HOSPITAL patients with little hope of recovery should be allowed to die in some cases because it costs so much to keep them alive, leaked Government papers suggest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

UNTIL this week I had no idea I was an apprentice cruciverbalist. Too dim to work it out, I'm afraid, so I am indebted to our rival paper The Times for enlightenment. Cruciverbalists attempt to solve cryptic crosswords. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PETER KENYON was very pleased with himself. He marched in to the Manchester United boardroom, cast a triumphant eye around the assembled directors and let the papers he was holding slide across the polished mahogany table. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE day that my divorce papers came through was a bitter-sweet day that I'll never forget. I spent much of the morning in tears, staring at the legal papers in shock. But that evening, two of my closest girlfriends and their husbands took me out to a swish London restaurant where I had an unexpectedly enjoyable time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BLACK Wednesday and the end of British membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism -- ah, yes, I remember it well. It was perhaps my most exhilarating day as this paper's City editor. Economic freedom at last! The shackles were coming off, the moment of liberation was at hand. We were now free to run our own interest-rate policy, which started the long period of prosperity we have since enjoyed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ITALY have already singled out their target for today's clash with Wales -- the Dragons' golden boy Gavin Henson. 'All Eyes on the Playboy', was the headline yesterday in one leading Italian sports paper, which featured the young full back who became the match-winner on his Six Nations debut against England last Saturday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TEN years ago professional punters would have put their shirt on US giant International Paper swallowing David S Smith. The UK's biggest manufacturer of paper escaped its clutches and remains totally independent, but for how long? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ABBEY National investors who took bidder Banco Santander's paper face a long wait for its promised London share listing. It is now hoped to happen in 'summer'. The Stock Exchange requires three years of consolidated accounts, which is holding things up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE head of a lottery-funded charity is being investigated over claims that she helped asylum seekers to obtain forged identity papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NO paper follows events at Britain's flagship store group Marks & Spencer with more interest than the Mail. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE young founders of a company that hunts down computer viruses and email pornography could net an £80m paper fortune, writes James Ashton. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]