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Madeleine McCann: back for Christmas in a Daily Express emergency news scoop

Madeleine McCann is back. The missing child – the media’s benchmark for all missing children – looks out from the cover of the Daily Express, as she has done so … (read more)

Posted: 11th, December 2015 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (4)

Hoverboard bandit steals a case of Lucozade

 

To Mitcham, where police are seeking a man who drove into the Co-op supermarket on a hoverboard – and drove out with a case of Lucozade, which he forgot to pay for.

 

 

Anyone feel … (read more)

Posted: 11th, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Firefighters cover wrong plane in foam ignoring burning jet

Safe

The good new is that the jet next to the one on fire is now covered in protective foam. The less good news is that the Air … (read more)

Posted: 11th, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Chelsea boss Mourinho repeatedly linked to Real Madrid return

In an “exclusive” the Sun says Real Madrid want to re-sign current Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. The Real players and fans might not like Mourinho, but the Sun says the … (read more)

Posted: 11th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Tabloid news: ‘Sheridan Smith’s Fanny brims with self belief’

 

Tabloid news of the day: “Sheridan Smith’s Fanny brims with self belief.” *

 

 

Smith is playing Fanny Brice in the Funny Girl musical.

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Posted: 11th, December 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Transfer Balls: Arsenal name 4-man shortlist of five names

The Mirror says Arsenal have made Southampton’s Victor Wanyama their “winter window priority”. The Kenyan is Arsenal’s “Number 1 target” this January.

 

 

The Bleacher Report says the Arsenal shortlist features four players:
A club … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2015 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Liverpool: Sturridge defies Klopp’s diagnosis

Daniel Sturridge is injured. The Liverpool striker is dogged by injuries. The Sun quotes Jurgen Klopp, Sturridge’s manager at Liverpool: He says: “We need to look at how we bring him … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports | Comment

What’s inside a cat’s advent calendar – a dead song bird for Jesus?

Christmas news now in the form of Ted the cat, who was unable to sign for his advent calendar because the Royal Mail insisted he needed ID to pick it up, and … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Frank Lampard marries Christine Bleakley for a third time

Former Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard is to marry “TV’s” Christine Bleakley. The Sun’s unnamed source says it will be a “star-studded bash” at London’s The Arts Club.

A few months ago, the … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Wallaby ‘rescued’ swimming kilometre offshore during sponsored swim

 

To New South Wales, Australia, where a bunch of marine students from the National Marine Science Centre, have ‘rescued’ a wallaby, “lost at sea”.

Says Laura Sanchez-Peregrine: “We see this thing swimming – it’s like … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

An Orangutan watch a magic trick (Video)

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Posted: 10th, December 2015 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment

Arsenal: Giroud remains rubbish as Olympiakos rival Liverpool

The plaudits are fulsome for Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud, whose hat-trick in Greece secured more Champions’ League football for his club.

The Mirror leads with ‘Our Hero’, praising the “much-criticised Frenchman.

John … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2015 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Watch BBC news presenter calls Tyson Fury a dickhead

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Posted: 9th, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Sports, TV & Radio | Comment

Manchester United: former player turned pundit caught criticising Van Gaal’s tactics

Former Manchester United player Owen Hargreaves is now a pundit for BT Sport. Unaware that he was on air, Hargreaves provide a lively assessment of his former club’s current game plan as they took … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2015 | In: Sports | Comment

Manchester United: Van Gaal damned but stays beyond 2017

 

Who can be blamed for Manchester United crashing out of the Champions League in the group stages? It’s worth noting that this is an improvement on last season, when United … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, manchester united, Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Ready sliced chocolate for your sandwiches exists

You can buy cheese and meat shaped into thin, square slices to slap between two pieces of bread. Now you can buy sliced chocolate for your sarnie. Japanese company Bourbon is selling packets of five … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2015 | In: The Consumer | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester United have £144m for Neymar (and anyone else)

Transfer balls: The Daily Telegraph says Manchester Untied are ready to splurge £143,9m on Neymar.

So incredible is the story that Neymar appears to point to it, laughing:

 

The paper reports:
It would be … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

How to make a vagina capable of orgasm from a penis and testicles (video)

This video created by the European Society of Urology affords us an insight into male-to-female gender surgery. the process uses the penis and testicles to construct a vagina – one able to orgasm. The penis’s tip creates … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Woman removes 6 ribs to get a 14 inch waist (video)

Pixee Fox found a surgeon willing to remove six of her ribs so that she could look more like cartoon figures, such as Tinker Bell, Sleeping Beauty, Fred Flintstone and Jessica Rabbit.

 

 

Fox … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2015 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment

Swansea City balls: Gary Monk sacked and Brendan Rodgers returns

Farewell, Gary Monk, manager of Swansea City, soon to be the Swans’ ex-manager. The papers all agree that the affable young Englishman is to be replaced by former Liverpool manager … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Manchester United go for Ancelotti (who fishes for Arsenal and Chelsea)

CAROLO Ancelotti is vying with Pep Guardiola for the Manchester United job. The Sun leads with “CARLO SEES RED – I’d love to be boss of United.”

The Sun shows Ancelotti … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Rare meat can kill

“RARE MEAT COULD KILL.” So declares the Sun via its front page. How rare? This rare?

 

 

The Sun says “deadly superbugs” might be alive in your meaty dinner. These bugs are … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Manchester United: Ferguson fears Liverpool boss Klopp and forgets himself

Sir Alex Ferguson says he’s worried at the impact Jurgen Klopp will have at Liverpool. The former Manchester United manager says of Klopp:
“I’m worried about him because the one thing United don’t want … (read more)

Posted: 7th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Chelsea lose to Bournemouth in Russian billionaire battle

Yesterday Bournemouth beat Chelsea 0-1 at Stamford Bridge. It was cracking result for the south coast club playing for the first time in the Premier League.

But in the Times, Rory … (read more)

Posted: 7th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Liverpool balls: Skrtel aims for the own-goal record

Martin Skrtel’s own-goal for Liverpool in their 2-0 defeat 1t Newcastle takes the player’s tally of shots-in-the-wrong-goal to 7, leaving him level with fellow Red Jamie Carragaher in the most top-division … (read more)

Posted: 7th, December 2015 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports | Comment

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