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11th, May 2011 Music 2

The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Gates For Sale?

The gates of the park immortalised in The Beatles hit have been removed.... More »

10th, May 2011 Key Posts 5

Madeleine McCann: Casandra Jardine, Chris Freind And Spinning In Circles

Cassandra Jardine and Chris Freind debate the rights and wrongs of Kate McCann’s book... More »

10th, May 2011 Music

Whitney Houston Totters Off To Rehab While Prince Scowls At Her

Glassy-eyed pop diva, Whitney Houston, is not having a good time of it at the moment. Or rather, perhaps she's having too much of a good time and it has started to rot her brains and liver... More »

10th, May 2011 Celebrities

Some Idiot Decides To Give Bristol Palin Her Own TV Show

Prancing politician offspring, Bristol Palin, is to get her own reality television show in the United States of America. That's right. That bizarre collection of country-sized states are seemingly hell-bent on making a star of the loinular-produce of one of the most spectacularly dim politicians to ever walk the Earth... More »

10th, May 2011 Politicians 4

Was Hillary Clinton Airbrushed Into Situation Room Photo?

New York's Yiddish newspaper Di Tzeitung airbrushed Hilary Clinton from the that Situation Room photo... More »

10th, May 2011 Sports 1

Harry Redknapp On Money And Manchester City

"The man from Abu Dhabi has got so much money, I mean, it isn't like money to him is it?.." More »

10th, May 2011 Key Posts 4

Madeleine McCann: Extracting The Extracts

The Sun has extracted so much from Kate McCann'sMadeleine for its massive serialisation it's a wonder there's anything left worth reading. More »

10th, May 2011 Reviews

Levi Bellfield: The Hunt For A Serial Killer In Photos

The police captured him, eventually. But over a two year period before Amanda Dowler’s disappearance, police received – get this – over 90 messages naming Bellfield... More »

10th, May 2011 Reviews

Levi Bellfield Denies Murdering Amanda Dowler

To prove that some cases do get closure, the Old Bailey calls Levi Bellfield to the dock, where he is accused of murdering schoolgirl Milly Dowler nine years ago... More »

10th, May 2011 Strange But True 3

Girl Born With Two Heads In China

To China, where Bao Qiaoying, 25, has given birth to a child with two heads (or twins with one body?)... More »

10th, May 2011 Music

Rap Music's Rebecca Black Sings 'She's Mad'

World's Got Talent presents the rapping Rebecca Black... More »

10th, May 2011 Reviews 1

Osama Bin Laden's Head Turned Into An Executive Desk Toy

"After Kitchener slaughtered the jihadists of the day at the Battle of Omdurman in 1897, he made a point of digging up their leader the Mahdi, chopping off his head and keeping it as a souvenir..." More »

10th, May 2011 Royal Family

Joe McElderry Plays Mirren's Queen: Literally

We can confirm that X Factor sensation Joe McElderry is alive and is still singing... More »

10th, May 2011 Reviews

Osama Bin Laden Was A 'Shitting Duck' (Sunday Sport Is Back)

Amid all the bluff and guff written about Osama bin Laden's death, the once dead Sunday Sport returned from hiding to add a little muff... More »

10th, May 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: Osama Bin Laden's Refer Madness

Photos of The Day feature Osama and Obama sharing a joke, Cheryl Cole losing her feet, a massive spliff and Batman... More »

10th, May 2011 Madeleine McCann 7

Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann's Sex Drive And Osama bin Laden's Death

Day Three of The Sun’s serialisation of Kate McCann’s Madeleine book. And today we learn of Kate and Gerry’s sex life... More »

10th, May 2011 TV & Radio

Revolution Spreads To America: Arab Freedom Drive Gets Results

Arabs export revolution to America... More »

10th, May 2011 Reviews

Kids React To Osama Bin Laden's Death: A Video

Who's your favourite. I like Landon for his lightness of touch and wry humour... More »

9th, May 2011 Key Posts 3

Will Smith And Jenny Cannybody Lose Super Injunction Fight: Spoilt Rich Bastards Got Theirs First

Cannybody, 30, of Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne is never Jenny Cannybody likely to get the superinjunction she craves to stop the of exposure of the fact she is having her bones humped to breaking point by Will Smith More »

9th, May 2011 Key Posts 2

Government Says Global Warming Will Kill Wi-Fi And Send Us Back To AOL

"Climate change will disrupt wi-fi connections, cause regular power failures and lead railway lines to buckle unless Britain spends billions of pounds..." More »

9th, May 2011 Celebrities 4

Robert Pattinson Wants To Bother Everyone With His Awful Singing

Perpetual bore and Twilight death-hunk Robert Pattinson has said he wants to reignite his music career. Did you not know he had a music career? Yes! He totally bought an acoustic guitar and likes singing his dreadful... More »

9th, May 2011 Celebrities 1

Brigitte Bardot Mourns Suicide Ex Husband

Remember when Brigitte Bardot was nothing more than a brilliant nymph who didn't care much for wearing clothes and ached of Gallic cool? Remember those days? The days before she started being an animal rights activist and... uh... mentalist who said dodgy things about Muslims... More »

9th, May 2011 Key Posts

Brazil's Big And Bold Dam Project Is No Avatar Plot

After meeting with indigenous leaders, Cameron became the figurehead of an international campaign against Amazon destruction, claiming that a "real-life Avatar confrontation is in progress" by the Xingu river... More »

9th, May 2011 Music

The Dusty Springfield Memorial: Featuring The Robin Gibb Celebrity Funeral Service

To the unveiling of the blue plaque in Aubrey Walk, Kensington, that honours singer Dusty Springfield. And who but Bee Gee Robin Gibb was there to do the honours... More »

9th, May 2011 Film

Princess Diana's Unlawful Killing Appeals To The Usual Suspects

The Princess Diana conspiracy film is called Unlawful Killing. It’s created by Keith Allen, dad to Lily Allen, and funded by Mohamed Al Fayed, father to Dodi Fayed... More »