diff --git a/recipes/daily_mirror.recipe b/recipes/daily_mirror.recipe
index 91a274ab8c..d8cb6e024e 100644
--- a/recipes/daily_mirror.recipe
+++ b/recipes/daily_mirror.recipe
@@ -7,50 +7,50 @@ class AdvancedUserRecipe1306061239(BasicNewsRecipe):
     description = 'News as provided by The Daily Mirror -UK'
 
     __author__ = 'Dave Asbury'
-    # last updated 19/10/12
+    # last updated 27/8/13
     language = 'en_GB'
     #cover_url = 'http://yookeo.com/screens/m/i/mirror.co.uk.jpg'
 
     masthead_url = 'http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/images/daily_mirror.gif'
-
+    #recursions = 10
     compress_news_images = True
-    oldest_article = 1
-    max_articles_per_feed = 12
+    compress_news_images_max_size = 30
+    oldest_article = 1.5
+    max_articles_per_feed = 10
     remove_empty_feeds = True
     remove_javascript     = True
     no_stylesheets = True
-    ignore_duplicate_articles = {'title'}
+    ignore_duplicate_articles = {'url'}
 
-   # auto_cleanup = True
+    #auto_cleanup = True
     #conversion_options = { 'linearize_tables' : True }
 
-
-
-    keep_only_tags = [         dict(name='h1'),
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='h1'),
                          dict(name='div',attrs={'class' : 'lead-text'}),
-                         dict(name='div',attrs={'class' : 'styleGroup clearfix'}),
+                         dict(attrs={'class' : 'tools clearfix'}),
                          dict(name='div',attrs={'class' : 'widget relatedContents pictures widget-editable viziwyg-section-245 inpage-widget-158123'}),
                         # dict(name='figure',attrs={'class' : 'clearfix'}),
                          dict(name='div',attrs={'class' :'body '}),
-
+                 dict(name='div',attrs={'class' :'thumb'}),
+                         dict(attrs={'img alt' : ['Perishers','Horace']}),
+                 #dict(attrs={'class' : 'tmRow span-15-5 col-1 article-page'}),
        #dict(attrs={'class' : ['article-attr','byline append-1','published']}),
-       #dict(name='p'),
+       # dict(name='p'),
         ]
 
-
     remove_tags = [
-           dict(attrs={'class' : ['article sa-teaser type-opinion','image-gallery','gallery-caption']}),
+           dict(attrs={'class' : ['article sa-teaser type-opinion','last','gallery-caption','gallery-data','ir btn-fullscreen','avatar']}),  # ,'image-gallery'
            dict(attrs={'class' : 'comment'}),
            dict(name='title'),
            dict(name='ul',attrs={'class' :  'clearfix breadcrumbs '}),
            dict(name='ul',attrs={'id' : 'login-201109171215'}),
-           dict(name='div',attrs={'class' : ['inline-ad span-16 last','caption']}),#'widget navigation breadcrumb widget-editable viziwyg-section-198 inpage-widget-80721 span-17','image-credit'
+           #'widget navigation breadcrumb widget-editable viziwyg-section-198 inpage-widget-80721 span-17','image-credit'
+           dict(name='div',attrs={'class' : ['inline-ad span-16 last','caption']}),
                     ]
 
     preprocess_regexps = [
         (re.compile(r'- mirror.co.uk', re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL), lambda match: '')]
 
-
     feeds          = [
         (u'News',u'http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/rss.xml'),
         (u'Sports',u'http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rss.xml'),
@@ -63,26 +63,31 @@ class AdvancedUserRecipe1306061239(BasicNewsRecipe):
            # example of commented out feed not needed ,(u'Travel','http://www.mirror.co.uk/advice/travel/rss.xml')
   ]
     extra_css = '''
-                    h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
-                    h2{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;font-size:small;}
-                    p{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
-                    body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
-		'''
+                    h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:170%;}
+                    .article figure figcaption {display: block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;
+                    width:100%;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:40%;}
+
+                    #h2{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;}
+                    p{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
+                    body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;}
+                    .article figure{display: block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;}
+                    .lead-text p {font-size:150%}
+    '''
 
     def get_cover_url(self):
         soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.politicshome.com/uk/latest_frontpage.html')
-# look for the block containing the mirror button and url
+        # look for the block containing the mirror button and url
         cov = soup.find(attrs={'style' : 'background-image: url(http://www.politicshome.com/images/sources/source_frontpage_button_92.gif);'})
         cov2 = str(cov)
         cov2='http://www.politicshome.com'+cov2[9:-142]
-#cov2 now contains url of the page containing pic
+        # cov2 now contains url of the page containing pic
         soup = self.index_to_soup(cov2)
         cov = soup.find(attrs={'id' : 'large'})
         cov=str(cov)
         cov2 =  re.findall('http[s]?://(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-_@.&+]|[!*\(\),]|(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]))+', cov)
         cov2 = str(cov2)
         cov2=cov2[2:len(cov2)-2]
-        #cov2 now is pic url, now  go back to original function
+        # cov2 now is pic url, now  go back to original function
         br = browser()
         br.set_handle_redirect(False)
         try: