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11th, April 2011 The Consumer

Words Advertisers Use To Seduce Girls And Boys

What words do sellers use to attracts boys and girls? These ones... More »

10th, April 2011 Reviews 1

Al Gore's Melting Arctic Ice Is Going Back To The Future

Remember when Al Gore said on 13th of December 2008, that the “entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years”...? More »

10th, April 2011 TV & Radio

Ghost Driven Tractor Runs Amuck In Walmart Car Park

Beware the machines, readers. The machines are learning how to destroy us... More »

10th, April 2011 Sports 1

Death At The Grand National: Photos Of What Makes The World's Greatest Horse Race Great

Ballabriggs takes the plaudits. But Ornais goes home in an altogether different kind of horse box... More »

10th, April 2011 Key Posts 4

Banning 'Extremists' From France - What Would Voltaire Say?

As a believer in 'the domination of the world by Islam' and a supporter of capital punishment for 'whoever insults the message of Mohammed', Anjem Choudary may not be the kind of guy most of us would have over for dinner. More »

10th, April 2011 Flashback

The Brixton Riots: Photos Of A Black Eruption

In 1978 Margaret Thatcher made an infamous speech asserting that Britain “might be rather swamped by people of a different culture”. Then came Operation Swamp... More »

10th, April 2011 Reviews 2

Ban Spitting Now: It Takes Tiger Woods' Cherry Pip

Bond, Enfield Council’s cabinet member for the environment, wants to make spitting in public a criminal offence... More »

10th, April 2011 Politicians

Anti-Cuts Occupation Of Trafalgar Square: Photos

ne sign said that democracy has been "sold to the highest bidder". Well, yes... More »

10th, April 2011 Key Posts

Wayne Rooney's X-Rated Sky Show: Manchester United Player's Face Pixelated On TV

Rooney has had his “TV show axed”. He has been “dropped by TV”. It's a huge scoop... More »

9th, April 2011 Celebrities 1

Donald Trump's Hair: A Scientific Study

Salon-strength hair products likely play a role in the final construction of this lattice-like structure... More »

9th, April 2011 Reviews

Did Two Lancashire Six Years Sexually Abuse Five Girls?

a letter sent to students’ homes at a Lancashire primary school responds to the local story that five girls have been sexually assaulted by two six-year-old boys... More »

9th, April 2011 Reviews

Kapow Comic Convention In Photos: Ian Hislop Is Batmite

A hot, sunny day in April. Perfect weather, then, for the Kapow Comic Convention at the Design Centre in Islington north London... More »

9th, April 2011 In Pictures

HMS Astute In Photos

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9th, April 2011 Key Posts 5

Why Ryan Donovan Did It: Heroic Royston Smith And HMS Astute (Photos)

A sailor has shot and killed a crewman on HMS Astute, a nuclear submarine based at the Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde and docked in Southampton... More »

9th, April 2011 Reviews

Boffins Create Arctic Ice Melting Machine

"Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer sea ice will probably be gone in this decade..." More »

9th, April 2011 Reviews

Tim Flannery's 'Super-Organism' Of Human Ants Will Create The 1000 Year Green Reich

Big Mother is watchin you... More »

9th, April 2011 Reviews

North London Mum Turns Dog Poo Into Cup Cakes

So angered by dog poo is Willows that she picks the stuff up and marks the crime scene with a drawing of a pink cupcake in a yellow cup... More »

9th, April 2011 Strange But True 2

Man Spells Out 1,500 Miles Long 'Welcome' Sign In Croatia

His movements will be tracked by a GPS device that when finsihed will spell out the word "Welcome" across the map of Croatia... More »

9th, April 2011 Politicians

European Union Turns Bankrupt Portugal Into A One-Party State Run By Bankers

The European Union says it will hand €80bn to Portugal. But there is a condition... More »

8th, April 2011 Key Posts 4

These Photos Of Ladies' Day At Aintree Are Fantastic: Grand National Fillies Live

Ladies and gentleman, we present The Ladies… More »

8th, April 2011 Royal Family

Dublin Landlord Who Banned Queen Elizabeth Arrested In Dublin

Last time we saw the The Players Lounge, Fairview, in Dublin today, John Stokes, the father of Celtic player Anthony Stokes, was sticking up a huge banner banning Her Majesty The Queen from entry during her tour of Ireland. More »

8th, April 2011 Key Posts

Illegal Death Crash Driver Aso Mohammed Ibrahim Escaped Iraq To Make The UK More Dangerous

Paul Houston has left the Royal Courts of Justice, having lost his latest bid to deport Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, the failed asylum seeker who killed his 12-year-old daughter Amy... More »

8th, April 2011 Celebrities

Kerry Katona Presents A Birth And Cocaine TV Show For Kidz

“Other celebrity mums have taken their kids out of the spotlight — but yours feature quite heavily in this series.” Why Kerry..? More »

8th, April 2011 Celebrities

Can Nicola McLean Make Anorexia Sexy? OK! Investigates

Nicola McLean, a former pneumatic Page 3 has breasts that look even more out of proportion to the rest of her because she has anorexia.. More »

8th, April 2011 Music 1

Fugees To Reform To Remind Us How Few Hits They Actually Had

Rumours are floating around some imagined pop ether, noting that the Fugees may be reuniting to peddle out old hits and remind us how irritating Wyclef Jean... More »