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15th, June 2011 Celebrities

Kerry Katona Delivers Her The Only Way Is Essex Love Story Masterclass

Katona's OK! diary reaches a peak this weeks as she consider news of her relations ship with Can Associates stablemate, James 'Arg' Argent... More »

15th, June 2011 Music

Joss Stone Escapes Being Taken To Manchester - Fiat Drivers Arrested

Stone is fine. The singer of urban songs who lives in Devon has not been kidnapped by two men from Manchester.... More »

15th, June 2011 TV & Radio

Jeremy Kyle's Show Jumps The Shark - On A Groping Egyptian's Camel

Has Kyle's baiting show jumped the camel..? More »

15th, June 2011 Key Posts 4

Ryan Giggs Investigates News Of The World Over Phone Hacking Claims: Rhodri Giggs Smells Revenge?

Giggs is the one-man content factory. Today, Giggs has, as the BBC reports, begun his phone hacking action against The News of the World - the paper that set up his brother Rhodri Giggs in a failed drugs sting in... More »

15th, June 2011 Reviews

Tim Flannery Foresaw Drought In New South Wales: Sydney Locals See Floods

It's raining in Sydney, Australia. It's been chucking it down. The AAP reports: "Flood fears as rain lashes down." Only, in 1998, were were told to expect flooding... More »

15th, June 2011 Reviews

Eco Pressure Group FFF Have Sex In Public And A Cathedral To Save Rainforests

To Norway, where eco pressure group F**k For Forests have been shagging in cathedral to publicise global deforestation... More »

15th, June 2011 Money 3

The Robin Hood Tax Is Unworkable, Ridiculous And Supported By The Elite

The bankers could not lose; teachers and nurses lost their jobs. It all looks great. Then we look at the Robin Hood tax website. We learn... More »

15th, June 2011 Celebrities 5

Owain Yeoman Is Peta's Dumb Animal Of The Month: Anthony Bourdain, Foie Gras And Cooking Fortnum & Mason's Goose

Yeoman has created a "crime scene" hazard tape and chalk body outlines of geese outside Fortnum & Mason's.... More »

15th, June 2011 Celebrities 3

Sean Bean Gets Stabbed Outside Pub In Row Over His Bird, Which Is So Very Northern

Sean Bean (pronounced Shaun Baun) has been stabbed. No really. He's been stabbed with some glass by a man who intended to stab him with some glass... More »

15th, June 2011 Reviews 8

Human Rights Laws Help Jon Venables And Shropshire Child Sex Traffickers

Human Rights for human wrongs. The Supreme Court says that placing anyone on the sex offenders' register for life is a breach of their human rights... More »

15th, June 2011 TV & Radio

Lion Tries To Eat Baby Boy Through Glass at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (Video)

The lion is trying to eat a baby boy through glass at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Put your faith in glass, readers. It never breaks... More »

15th, June 2011 Strange But True

Harry The Sick Parrot Watches Two Girls One Cup

Harry the African Grey parrot is sick. He is as sick as a parrot. His housemate in Belfast, David, took him to the vet. It turns out that Harry's sickness is love sickness... More »

15th, June 2011 Sports

Matt Stutzman Aims To Fire Arrow With his Feet At The London Olympics

Stutzman is representing the National US Olympic team in archery . Matt Stutzman has no arms. He was born with no arms. He uses his legs and feet... More »

15th, June 2011 Sports

David Haye Joins The Boxing Taliban: Wladimir Klitschko Will Be Decapitated (If He Can Reach His Head)

Haye was one of the main attractions at an open training session at the Hayemaker Boxing Gym, London. He shared centre stage with another David Haye - the one who stars in an app... More »

15th, June 2011 TV & Radio 2

Man Is Run Over By Two Trucks - And You'll Smile (Video)

In this video the man is run over by one trucks....two trucks. Doors, eh, readers. God, they're complicated... More »

15th, June 2011 Strange But True 3

Rapist Dies During Sex With Victim

Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez, 53, died while raping his 77-year-old victim in Refugio County, Texas... More »

15th, June 2011 TV & Radio

The Barking Cat Will Control Your Dog (Video)

In this video the cat is caught in barking his instructions to the dogs. They will do his bidding... More »

15th, June 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Human Centipede Genital Cloud

Photos of The Day are presented by the humans centipede circle of digestion; the Ginger Kid pizza; the penis cloud, a few sage words on avoiding lightning and the best E-fit of a woman with a moustache you will see today... More »

15th, June 2011 Reviews 4

Fading Sun Spots Points To Reduced Sun Activity - What Now For Warmists?

“If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we’ll see for a few decades,” Hill said. “That would affect everything from space exploration to Earth’s climate"... More »

14th, June 2011 Celebrities

Petra Ecclestone And James Stunt Buy Candy Spelling Massive Home for LA Grand Prix: Photos

Petra Ecclestone, 22, daughter of Formula One action figure Bernie Ecclestone and beloved of James Stunt, has bought Candy Spelling's massive home. It was for sale at $150m... More »

14th, June 2011 Reviews 13

Police Arrest Manchester Photographer For Committing No Crime: He Just Took Photos

Police arrested Manchester Evening News photographer Sean Wilton. He was working outside Manchester Magistrates' Court. Two men were due in court to answer a charge of assaulting Big Fat Gypsy Weddings star Paddy Doherty... More »

14th, June 2011 Key Posts

James MacMaster Is Not a Gay Girl In Damascus, Lez Get Real Is Bill Graber And Eton John Is Wendy Craig

MacMaster is not a gay girl living in Damascus. And Paula Brooks is not a gay girl with a website called Lez Get Real... More »

14th, June 2011 Sports

Royal Ascot 2011 In Photos: Ladies Wear Hats - Horses Favour Jockeys

Royal Ascot is all about the hats. Why the horses don't wear hats, we can only wonder at. Perhaps they'd eat them. Perhaps they think the jockeys are hats?... More »

14th, June 2011 TV & Radio 14

Daily Mail Lambastes Terry Pratchett's TV Suicide Show While Advertising Duncan Bannatyne's Twitter Suicide

In Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, Peter Smedley, 71, committed assisted suicide. He had motor neurone disease. He had gone to Switzerland to die at a euthanasia clinic... More »

14th, June 2011 Key Posts 11

Anthony Weiner Is A Secret Muslim Controlled By Huma Abedin - You Want Proof?

Weiner, the New York politico who sent photos of his naked self and lewd texts to women and a teenager via Twitter, is a Muslim. Yep. The nice Yiddisher boy with the pants tent is a Muslim. Egads!... More »