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26th, March 2010 Reviews 1

Papal Sex Scandals Are Based On Great British Journalism And Protestant Prejudices

Pope Benedict's public apologies are the beginning of a new enlightenment though whether trite public abasement from His Holiness can halt the anger now boiling to the surface in every continent from destroying his church is a different matter.... More »

26th, March 2010 Celebrities 1

In Pictures: Jesse James And The Four Women

Meet mystery woman number 4, introduced by Gloria Allred. No, readers, it's not the legal confidant. Although if it were the story would be neat... More »

26th, March 2010 Reviews 1

Global Warring: Warming Leads To More Murders

Global warming will not make us chilled. Hell, no. Global warming will make us heat up and boil with rage. More »

26th, March 2010 Strange But True 2

Weird Pictures Of The Week Presented By Easy Bedwetting

Pics Of The Week is presented by Bedwetting Made Easy. And you thought it couldn’t get any easier... More »

26th, March 2010 Celebrities

Peter Andre Bans 'Katie Price' From His Liverpool Show

This is the “astonishing rant” that “reveals hidden feelings”. Now read on... More »

26th, March 2010 Key Posts 1

How To Buy Meow Meow From A Labour MP's Son

Sean Ellman, son to Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside, is, as the Sun claims, Britain’s Meow Meow “DRUGS BARON”... More »

26th, March 2010 Reviews 3

Why Didn't They Ask Evans: Cranking Up The Terror Threat

MI5 Head Jonathan Evans will not talk to a joint committee of MPs and peers from the House of Commons and the House of Lords about national security. Why? More »

26th, March 2010 Key Posts 2

Wayne Bridge 'Dates' Kim Kardashian And Vanessa Perroncel's Deal

Wayne Bridge, the Manchester City player billed as the Sun’s “bitter” “sad” loser in light of candid John Terry’s alleged dalliances with Vanessa Perroncel is being linked to home-made porn star and reality TV fodder Kim Kardashian. More »

26th, March 2010 Reviews

The Web-Savy Daily Mail Wants No 'Nothing Too Young' For The Weekend

The gulf between the Mail's attitudes towards the web and its actual strategy continues to widen. More »

25th, March 2010 Reviews 1

Pervy Sun Readers Play Airport Security Guard On Page 3

"Pervy airport security guard John Laker leered at a woman colleague in a body scanner and told her, 'I love those gigantic tits,'" - like the "pervy" ones on Page 3... More »

25th, March 2010 Reviews

Lambs Die In Russian Blackjack Attack On UK s

The UK Ministry of Defence has released this cracking picture of an RAF Tornado (the smaller plane) closing in to intercept a Russian Blackjack bomber. It was one of two which breeched UK air space on March 10... More »

25th, March 2010 Celebrities

Jesse James's Vanilla Gorilla Meets Deann McClung, Allegedly

After Michelle McGee, aka The Bayeux Bombshelter, Melissa Smith (yeah, Mel Smith), and Posh totty Brigitte Daguerra, Sandra Bullock’s husband Jessie James is said to have shared his Vanilla Gorilla with Deann McClung... More »

25th, March 2010 Celebrities

Pictures: Peta Hires Octomum's Litter

CNN reports that Peta is to pay Octomum, Nadya Suleman, $5,000 a month to tell people that they should stop their pets breeding by spaying or neutering them... More »

25th, March 2010 TV & Radio 4

Florizel Street: 50 Years Of Coronation Street Gets Its Own Show

Fabulous tale in tonight's Manchester Evening News of the struggle writer Tony Warren had to convince Granada Television his brainchild Coronation Street was a good idea... More »

25th, March 2010 In Pictures

Dennis Hopper

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25th, March 2010 Celebrities

Dennis Hopper Is Terminally Ill So Finally Gets A Hollywood Star And Dodges Wife's Lawyers

Ever the entertainer, Dennis Hopper is terminally ill but still manages to give us a celebrity cancer news story. Hopper is not wasting his final moments and is divorcing Victoria Hopper on grounds of - get this - "outrageous conduct". More »

25th, March 2010 In Pictures

Robert Pattinson Waxwork

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25th, March 2010 Key Posts 10

'Bitter' Wayne Bridge Meets Vanessa Perroncel In Court

The Sun has news on Vanessa Perroncel and Wayne Bridge's money. They who were were two thrusts of the hottest shagging story around - until the story of John Terry’s extra-martial doings got spiked and money, allegedly, changed hands... More »

25th, March 2010 Celebrities 2

In Pictures: Robert Pattinson Is Wet Wet Wet At Madame Tussauds

Twilight actor Robert Pattinson is now waxwork at Madame Tussauds in London. It’s his toughest acting gig yet. More »

25th, March 2010 Money

The Taxpayers' Alliance List Of Budget Cuts

It was grimly amusing to watch as TV interviewers tried to get some straight answers out of the UK government and the Tory opposition about what items of public spending would and could be cut to get the finances under control... More »

25th, March 2010 Money

The Budget: The Newspapers Decide

Helping you to make sense of the Budget are the newspapers, which delivers the news without bias nor prejudice. Anorak rounds-up... More »

25th, March 2010 Celebrities

Jesse James In Pictures: After Michelle McGee And Melissa Smith Meet Brigitte Daguerra

You've met Bayeux Bombshelter Michelle McGee. You’ve met Melissa Smith. Now meet Brigitte Daguerre, who claims that she too has shagged Sandra Bullock’s husband Jess James. More »

25th, March 2010 Strange But True 1

Two Women Fight At Children's Museum: Bring On The Wall

"YOU know it was a pretty big hole, they were fighting with each other and kind of just ran into the wall and it knocked a kind of person sized hole in the wall"... More »

25th, March 2010 TV & Radio

Hit And Run: Woman Stopped By Police In China Hits Reporter

To Guizhou, southern China, where a TV reporter is trying to break the big news story of a woman getting stopped by the traffic police. The woman reacts badly... More »

25th, March 2010 Money 1

Gordon Brown's 35 Days To Explain Why He Sold Country's Gold At £7bn Loss

THE Telegraph have been fiddling with the lock on Pandora's box again. AKA the Freedom of Information Act... More »