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7th, March 2010 Celebrities

Katie Price And Alex Reid Can Marry Again As Rev Mose Henney Questioned

Katie Price to marry Alex Reid again as reverend said to be illegal? More »

7th, March 2010 Key Posts 4

Life's Been Hell For Jon Venables, James Bulger's Killer Accused Of Possessing Child Porn

Jon Venables, child porn and how he has suffered. He's a victim too, you know... More »

7th, March 2010 Reviews 10

Jade Goody: A Year Without Her In Pictures And Will

Jade Goody is back and so is that subsidiary of Jade Good Incorporated, Mr Jack Tweed, her widow. There's a TV show coming... More »

6th, March 2010 Politicians

Gordon Brown Joins Anorak's 'No Poppy Day' Appeal As He Tours Afghanistan, In Pictures

Anorak has long championed No Poppy Day, when donors will only wear the central black button and plastic stem of old-style commemorative poppies. But Brown was there to get the plaudits for the 200 new patrol vehicles that are replacing the much-criticised Snatch Land Rovers... Oh, year an election is looming... More »

6th, March 2010 Celebrities

Mariah Carey's Top Lip Presents The 25th Independent Spirit Awards In Pictures

Who dresses Mariah Carey? It’s the kind of debate that can plug the seconds between awards dos that surround the Oscars. And do you recognise her without her award-winning moustache? More »

6th, March 2010 Reviews 1

Slimming Pills Give You Severe Fits, And Other Media Scare Stories

Huge front-page warning over slimming pills - sweating makes you lose weight.... More »

6th, March 2010 Celebrities

Lily Allen Does MEN With Dizzee Rascal: In Pictures

Dizzee Rascal had another go at saving the British music industry from Simon Cowell’s pap factory at The Manchester Evening News Arena, in Manchester. Also there was celebrity pop mouth Lily Allen, the reformed Luddite fresh from reassembling her computer and Tweeting that Courtney Lover is an old crone... More »

6th, March 2010 Celebrities

Katie Price In Hollywood Oscars Film: The Veruca Salt Biopic

KATIE Price is in Los Angeles with Mr Toffee Crisp Alex Reid. The Oscars are due to start. And the Daily Star’s crack team of story experts create the front-page headline: JORDAN: THE MOVIE. More »

6th, March 2010 Madeleine McCann 16

Madeleine McCann: Blonde Children Invited To Join 'I Am Not Maddie' Campaign

MADELEINE MCCANN: Blonde children, and also children with black hair that looks like a wig, are to be encouraged to wear “I am not Maddie” badges in a bid to help locate the missing child... More »

6th, March 2010 Key Posts 9

John Venables 'Sex Crime' As Jack Straw Forced To Meet James Bulger's Mum Denise Fergus

The UK's highest legal Cabinet member is being forced into a meeting most would dearly love to avoid. He has to try and explain to a still grieving mum why her child's killer deserves to stay anonymous and hidden within a protection programme... More »

5th, March 2010 Reviews

James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Worked As A Bouncer

James Bugler and Jon Venables: The Killer is back behind bars. And the killer is closer to being identified. Will a newspaper dare to reveal Jon Venables’s new identity?... More »

5th, March 2010 Celebrities

Lindsay Lohan's Front Shades Jared Leto Dior Paris: Pictures

Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto were at the Dior show in Paris. Leto wore sunglasses indoors - which means he’s either that woman who plays the fruit machines in the hotel lobby, or trying not to be recognised amid all the people not wearing sunglasses indoors... More »

5th, March 2010 The Consumer

The Ironic iPhone App Presents The World's Worst Company Logos

The best bit about it is the logo that targets a key iPhone demographic… The ICount presents the world worst corporate logos – updated... More »

5th, March 2010 Strange But True

Prius Kills Baby: Son Dies As Parents Raise Virtual Solution

Kim Yoo-chul, 41 and Choi Mi-sun, 25 are accused of allowing their daughter to die while they raised a vitual baby called Anima in a computer game called...Prius. The childdied from prolonged malnutrition... More »

5th, March 2010 Celebrities

In Photos: Jennifer Lopez Stars In The Back Up Plan

JENNIFER Lopez did something odd at the Grey Goose RAAD pre-Oscars bash at Soho House in Los Angeles last night... More »

5th, March 2010 Politicians 36

When Geert Wilders Came To London: Pictures

Did you go to support or fight Geer Wilders when he came to London (read all the views)? Did you do as most do and just let him get on with it - it's free speech and so long as your life is not made worse, what the matter? More »

5th, March 2010 Celebrities 2

Cross-Dressing Shiloh Pitt Is The Anti-Suri Crusie

With Angelina and Brad Pitt out of bounds, Life & Style magazine looked on Shiloh Pitt and wonder if she was tuning into a cross-dresser. Shiloh is three. She is no Suri Cruise in mini-heels (hear her voice and obey). Shiloh is the anti-Suri... More »

5th, March 2010 Politicians 1

Geert Wilders: Muslims 'Burning In Hell' And All Other Moderate Views

Geert Wilders is in London. He’s in Westminster showing his anti-Islamic film, Fitna, at the House of Lords. Wilders is the Dutch far-right politician with designs on Hollywood... More »

5th, March 2010 Strange But True 3

Man Accused Of Owning Image Of Human Shagging A Squid

At Swansea Magistrates Court, Andrew Charles Dymond, 46, is answering the charged with possessing an "extreme pornographic" image of someone having sex with what appears to be a squid. A dead one. (Does that make it better or worse?)... More »

5th, March 2010 Madeleine McCann 2

Madeleine McCann Captured By Madeira Liberation Army

Madeleine McCann – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann – Having yesterday told us that all avenues need to be checked and of those "reams of promising leads", the Daily Star now tells us that a lot of those leads are dead ends, non starters and plain useless. More »

5th, March 2010 In Pictures

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5th, March 2010 Key Posts 3

Exclusive Video: John Terry Says Sorry To Wayne

John Terry has finally said "sorry" to Wayne Bridge for allegedly shagging Vanessa Perroncel, mother to Wayne's son. Happy days for Team England who can now await Wayne's response and hope that he moves back into the World Cup party... More »

5th, March 2010 Sports

'Laughing' And 'Miserable' Ashley Cole Meets A Shrink

Ashley Cole is not yet divorced from Cheryl Cole, but he might be losing something else: his marbles... More »

5th, March 2010 Key Posts 21

James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Is Identified

The twists and turns of the Strange Case of Jon Venables - or whoever he is now - got a little darker and dirtier yesterday when the Prime Minister backed the system which is keeping the joint murderer of a two-year-old hidden from the public... More »

5th, March 2010 Strange But True

Man Sues Over Wife Who Can't Make Sexy Fist With Her Toes

Germaine Bowman McDonald says that when a hairdresser’s head mannequin fell on her foot it ruined her life and her sex life. More »