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5th, January 2011 Reviews 1

How Gerry Rafferty's Suicidal Sax Created Chris Moyles

It was probably the last melodic thing a whole generation of young female suicides heard before the one-way ticket ride to Beachy Head... More »

5th, January 2011 Reviews 1

Will Sienna Miller Kill Off Andy Coulson? NoTW Editor Suspended Over Phone Hacking

A Miller claims her phone’s voicemail hacked by the News of The World in 2005-2006. The allegation – now a legal matter - has resulted in the paper’s editor news editor Ian Edmondson being suspended... More »

5th, January 2011 Reviews 1

Police Convict Michael Thompson For Warning Drivers To Obey The Law

Only July 21, 2010, Michael Thompson was motoring on the A46 in Grimsby. He spotted a police speed trap. A policewoman with a speed gun was stood by the roadside. And then... More »

5th, January 2011 Politicians 1

Dani Filth Is Suffolk's Leading Culture Icon: Council Says Local Don't Count

Locals voted for Dani Filth in a Choose Suffolk poll to discover the county’s greatest icon. Filth beat Ipswich’s Broomhill swimming poll into second place.... More »

5th, January 2011 Strange But True 2

Boy Buried In Computer To Read Emails In Afterlife

And then it got creepy... More »

5th, January 2011 Key Posts 11

Ghost Dogs On Dorset Beach: Incredible Photo Of The Paranormal

There are ghosts dogs on the beach at Hengistbury Head in Dorset... More »

5th, January 2011 Royal Family

Royal Wedding Route Revealed: Students Excitedly Grab Barge Poles

Students - to your marks: St James's Palace have confirmed the route that Prince William and Kate Middleton will use when they travel to and from Westminster Abbey for their wedding... More »

5th, January 2011 Reviews 1

Joanna Yeates: Is This Her Missing Sock?

Have you seen the missing sock? The sock was not with Joanna Yeates’s body when it found on Longwood Lane, Failand near Bristol... More »

5th, January 2011 Key Posts

Nicki Minaj's Facebook Row Is A Coco Theme Park Ride: Photos

La Minaj sticks out her fabulous bum out like a Coco Austin theme park ride and takes on Facebook... More »

5th, January 2011 Reviews

Rubbish Not Collected For Four Weeks: Dustmen Missing Presumed In Bed

Have your bins been collected and emptied by the dustman...? More »

5th, January 2011 The Consumer 1

Vogue's Creepy Slutty Kiddie Couture Lacks Romeo Beckham

Vogue Paris, you have no need to imagine too hard what the child will look when they turn into barely animated portraits of sex objects... More »

5th, January 2011 Key Posts 1

Ted Williams Has A Great Radio Voice: He Needs A Job

Mr Williams spends too much of his time stood on the verge by Highway 71 in Columbus, Ohio, holding a cardboard sign that states... More »

5th, January 2011 Sports

The Ashes: Sour Aussies Gladden English Hearts With Bitter Chant

Now Australia have two songs... More »

5th, January 2011 Reviews

Joanna Yeates: The Single Sock Killer And Chris Jefferies Sues

First a quick word on Chris Jefferies – this year’s Robert Murat: Mr Jefferies has employed lawyers, London-based Stokoe Partnership. The company’s Rhys Mardon has written to the media... More »

5th, January 2011 Music

Wannabe Black Girl Justin Bieber Likes Black Artists

Bieber tells Vanity Fair that he is still in tune with his inner black girl in a plaid skirt,,, More »

4th, January 2011 The Consumer 9

The Power Bracelet Is A 'Sham' Says Australian Consumer Body

You might want to hang onto that receipt for your new Power Bracelet... More »

4th, January 2011 Music

Gerry Rafferty RIP: Walking Champion Dies

Gerry Raffery, lead singer of Stealer's Wheel, champion of urban rambling down Baker Street has died... More »

4th, January 2011 Strange But True

Murdered Politician Captured His Killer On Camera Moments Before He Was Shot

Caloocan City politico Reynaldo Dagsa has been shot and killed by the man he has just captured on his camera... More »

4th, January 2011 In Pictures 1

Blaxploitation Films: Classics

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4th, January 2011 Key Posts

Daily Mail Links 40,000 British Muslims To Terrorists

The Daily Mail would like its readers to know that in the past ten years 100,000 British people have converted to Islam... Or not. More »

4th, January 2011 TV & Radio

Snooki's Book Is Like Listening To A Parrot Murdering Raymond Chandler

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, a half-pint–sized MTV fetish, star of Jersey Shore – a show set on a New Jersey beach but modelled on life in a Blackpool theme bar’s toilets in 1981 – has written a book... More »

4th, January 2011 Strange But True

The Eclipse In Photos: Looking For A Star

THE eclipse was not total. The eclipse was not a harbinger of doom – Nicholas Owen has news on that... More »

4th, January 2011 Sports 4

Ronaldinho To Blackburn Rovers: Count Your Chickens

Rovers are in the bidding for buck-toothed, mega-gifted, idle, footballing superstar Ronaldinho. Well, if it helps sell chickens... More »

4th, January 2011 Reviews 2

Al Gore, Sheryl Crow And Gisele Bundchen Open Homes To Homeless

George Monbiot says its time to turn your places into a kibbutz: More »

4th, January 2011 Politicians

Pete Postlethwaite Damned By John Prescott's Stupid Mine

Postlethwaite has died. The press laud the man. And John Prescott manages, as ever, to speak in tongues and deliver an argument that has holes bigger than the ones on his face... More »