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30th, May 2010 Key Posts

Stephen Griffiths: Uneaten Body Parts, Stickman, Missing Pets And A Former Lover Talks

Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the alleged serial killer in the news: the ex-lover, dead pets, missing lizards and body parts uneaten... More »

30th, May 2010 Celebrities

Charlotte Church And Gavin Henson's OK! Engagement And Split

Charlotte Church and Gavin Henson are no longer Wales’s orangey answer to Vicky and Day-vid Beckham... More »

29th, May 2010 Politicians 2

David Laws Finds Eurovision A Good Time To Bury Bad News

Mr David Laws, goodbye. You know the way out, having just used it to come in. Mr Laws resigned when Eurovision was in its pomp... More »

29th, May 2010 Celebrities

Dennis Hopper RIP: A Life In Pictures

Hopper, star of Rebel Without a Cause, Easy Rider, Blue Velvet,The Making of 'Super Mario Brothers' and 24 has died... A life in pictures... More »

29th, May 2010 Reviews 1

In Pictures: English Defence League Play Unite Against Facism In Newcastle

No football on the box? At a loose end? Want to get in the swing of the World Cup? Step this way... More »

29th, May 2010 Strange But True

Teenage Students Play Sun And Star Game: Five Fall Pregnant

In Poland, the kids are lower secondary school in the town of Ostroda, Poland, are playing “the sun” or “a star”... More »

29th, May 2010 Strange But True

China's Bus Drivers Drive By Bowls Of Bowel Matter To Check Speeds

The Longxiang Public Bus Company, of in Changsha, Hunan province, has given bus drivers a huge bowl to sit next to... More »

29th, May 2010 Reviews 5

Gulf Oil Spill: Hopes Raised As Millions Of Sea Sponges Swim In

BP is looking to plug the leak in the Gulf with mud, golf balls, rope and scraps of rubber tire. And flags.... More »

29th, May 2010 Strange But True

Snake Fails To Bite Baby To Death: Pictures

''She sent me a photograph on my mobile and the snake did not stand out..." More »

29th, May 2010 Strange But True

Wild Asian Ass Is An Excuse For Internet Donkey Porn

Man searches for 'Wild Asian Ass' gets disappointing crossword clue answer... More »

29th, May 2010 Reviews

ABC's Dan Noyes Meets The World's Touchiest PR Man: Media Video Of The Day

The who'd Be A News Reporter of The Day Award goes to ABC7's Dan Noyes who encounters touchy PR man Marc Slavin... More »

29th, May 2010 Reviews

Lianne Smith: Her Last Letter And A Mawkish Media Epitaph

“They’re trying to take my children. I’m giving them a wonderful holiday before events you will start to read about”... More »

29th, May 2010 Key Posts 3

Stephen Griffiths: Bodies Found In The Gutters

Stephen Griffiths: Anorak’s at–a-glance look at the ‘Crossbow Cannibal’ in the news. It’s Day Three of the story and its bad news for Griffiths... More »

28th, May 2010 Celebrities

RIP Gary Coleman: What You Talking 'Bout Harpists (Life In Photos)

WWhat you talking ‘bout Willis” That was your catchphrase. Now it’s “What you talking ‘bout harpists?” More »

28th, May 2010 Strange But True 1

In Pictures: Jonathan Trapp Crosses The Channel Tied To Children's Balloons

Trappe is an American adventurer/ asylum seeker, flying over the English Channel to France sat on a chair attached to 54 balloons filled with helium.... More »

28th, May 2010 Technology 4

Jake Lee Buys The First apple iPad In The UK And Everyone Loves Him

Jake looks delighted as throws off the austerity of his parent's generation and forks out a few hundred pounds for a new computer... More »

28th, May 2010 Politicians

South Africa Moves To Ban Porn, Jacob Zuma's Four Sexy Young Wives Agree

The BBC hears Malusi Gigaba, South Africa's deputy minister of home affairs, talking about porn. Gigaba works for Jacob Zuma... More »

28th, May 2010 Reviews

The Stephen Griffiths' Case And Trial In Pictures

The case of the suspected serial killer in pictures... More »

28th, May 2010 Reviews 4

Stephen Griffiths Is The Crossbow Cannibal: Now For The Book

Steeehn Griffiths is not a Ripper. It’s been done. Stephen Griffiths needs a new nom de gore. Stephen Griffiths is… The Crossbow Cannibal. More »

28th, May 2010 Reviews

Polar Bears All Die As Black Bear Gets Shot From Tree

Polar Bear Watch - Well, keep watching because those polies are all giong to die. The BBC condemns them (seals rejoice!)... More »

28th, May 2010 Celebrities 33

Cheryl Cole Hurts Ashley And England's World Cup Dream: What Would Vera Lynn Do?

Cheryl Cole and Ashley Cole are to divorce. The babies have been cancelled. Cheryl, as we have leant, is doing it for England... More »

28th, May 2010 The Consumer

Six Flags Bans Woman For Guns Tattoo But Exposes Kids To Violence?

They won’t allow Samantha Osborn, 30, into the Six Flags Over Texas fun park because she has a tattoo on her chest of a pair of six-shooters surrounded by yellow roses. And because... More »

28th, May 2010 Strange But True 1

Fun With Waxworks: Man Meets Greats At Museum (Photos)

Anorak loves celebrity waxworks as much as the next stalker who likes to think to their idol burning as a novelty table centrepiece... More »

28th, May 2010 Politicians 1

Russian Democracy Sees 88 MPs Vote 449 Times: Motion Passed

The 450-member lower house of parliament, 88 MPs have passed a motion making it illegal for motorists to have any alcohol in their blood by, er, 449 votes... More »

28th, May 2010 Technology 19

Win A New iPad And Get A Free Mobile Apple Idiot App.

The Apple iPad is on sale, and anyone keen to look like an utter twat is lining up outside the Apple store in London's Regent Street. More »