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10th, February 2010 Madeleine McCann

World Famous Detective To Track Down Madeleine McCann On TV

Great news is that a top detective who always gets his man is on the case and is right now involved in the hunt for the media’s Our Maddie – as ‘TVLand’ writer Tim Oglethorpe (how dy’er get the job?) tells Mirror readers... More »

10th, February 2010 Celebrities 1

Girls Aloud's Kimberly Walsh Presents The Baftas: Pictures

AND the Sony Ericsson Orange Bafta host is… rustles envelope from PR company…looks up… looks down…smiles toothsomely…buckles knees slightly…places hands on lectern and leans forward to give shot of cleavage… (get on with it!)... More »

10th, February 2010 Key Posts 1

OK! Katie Price Tells Peter Andre She's Dumping Alex Reid

IN this week’s OK! magazine, Peter Andre, having moved on from Katie Price, tells us that Katie Price “CALLED TO SAY SHE WAS DUMPING ALEX”. That’s Mr Toffee Crisp Alex Reid... More »

10th, February 2010 Strange But True

Police Take 27 Minutes To Arrest Man Having Sex In Public

LIONEL Mark William Spratt is at Darwin Magistrates Court, charged with having sex in a Northern Territory garage... More »

10th, February 2010 Celebrities 8

Michael Jackson V Conrad Murray: Psychic Finds The Bald Truth In Signature Scent

MICHAEL JACKSON V Dr Conrad Murray: The perfume, the bald head, the profonol, the weak eyes, the seance and the death T-shirt... More »

10th, February 2010 Celebrities 1

Pictures Of Suri Cruise Introduce Mission Impossible 4: Scietology Or Less

Suri Cruise used her Earth Mother Katie Holmes to carry her into the Bowery hotel, in New York. Tom Cruise has just signed on to star in the fourth Mission: Impossible film, in which he strives to find a shorter way of saying Scientology... More »

10th, February 2010 The Consumer

The Hug E Gram: John Terry Need Never Leave Home Again

AS John Terry dashes out to Dubai to be with his loving wife Toni– just as soon as the game is over, and the next game, and the next – you may be wondering what you can do to show your love this Valentine’s Day... More »

10th, February 2010 Technology

Nintendo Fine Super Mario Pirate $1.5M: The Blame Game

JAMES Burt has agreed to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages plus $100,000 in court costs for uploading Super Mario Bros Wii to the internet. Burt's other claism to fame is that he is “the first Australian individual to be sued in the Federal Court for game piracy”... More »

10th, February 2010 Reviews 1

Daily Mail Uses Image Of Beachy Head For Story Over Sale Of Dover To France

NOW THEY'RE selling the White Cliffs Of Dover! The Daily Mail had the chilling news that the French were coming. Dover will be the first of five French Ports. We get to keep Calais. More »

10th, February 2010 Celebrities 12

Katie Price Caught In Princess Paedo Picture Storm

KATIE Price and Alex Reid: Want to read about Katie Price “SICKEST STUNT EVER” and how she turned her daughter into a “TART”? There are “SICK” pictures of the two-year-old Princess Tianaminimeeeeeeee. Want to see them? Want to see the daughter “dolled up like a tart”? More »

10th, February 2010 Celebrities

Michael Jackson V Conrad Murray: Introducting Danny Gans

MICHAEL Jackson V Dr Conrad Murray: Will this case finally allow the death of Danny Gans to emerge into the mainstream media? Gans was the Las Vegas stalwart found dead by iatrogenic mean. Anorak's Man in LA reports... More »

9th, February 2010 Celebrities 5

Susan Boyle's Turkish Swimming Cat Pebbles Relocates To London Olympics Village

SUSAN Boyle has split form Pebbles. The cat that encouraged SuBo to sing and perform by way to his radio-whiskers and mind control has been ditched... More »

9th, February 2010 Strange But True

American Students Charles Gill And Ryan Knight Arrested For Throwing Showballs: Face 5 Years Jail

In America, the people are so free that even the cops are free to issue “felony snowball throwing charges” against Virginia college students Charles Gill and Ryan Knight for throwing snowballs at a snowplough and an undercover police car... More »

9th, February 2010 Celebrities

Angelina Jolie Comforts John Terry: Pictures

Angelina Jolie breaks away from Brad Pitt (pictures) to tell the world... More »

9th, February 2010 Strange But True

Police Against Name Badges Form Facebook Protest Group With Real Names

In Lancashire, the police are wearing name badges. Only, they don't want to, so they're protesting on Facebook - using their own names and photos... More »

9th, February 2010 Celebrities 5

Pictures Of Within The Michael Jackson Mausoleum On Sale

Michael Jackson v Conrad Murray: Away from the court room news reaches us of those pictures from within the Mausoleum. Anorak's Man in LA looks on... More »

9th, February 2010 Reviews

Man Arrested In Connection with Keith Blakelock Murder: Broadwater Farm In Pictures

THE Murder of Keith Blakelock in the Tottenham Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 shocked. Cynthia Jarrett, 49, collapsed and died after a police raid on her home. The catalyst for a riot... More »

9th, February 2010 Hello!

Hello!: Toni Terry's Figure, Vanessa Perroncel's Coffee, Kirsty Gallagher's Magical Birth And EastEnders At 25

HELLO! magazine - we read it so you don’t have to: John Terry and Toni Terry are “STILL IN LOVE”; TV’S KIRSTY GALLAGHER introduces Jude The Dude; and EastEnders celebrates 25 years of searching for a stable family unit… More »

9th, February 2010 Politicians

The Parliamentary Pancake Race In Pictures

all doing their bit for the charity Rehab and to raise awareness of it's work for people with disabilities. By running. Touching stuff. Tossers. More »

9th, February 2010 Heat 3

Katie Price Tries For A Baby With Alex Reid: Pictures

"Me and Alex so want kids – well, we are trying, so let's hope, let's hope." Let’s hope for Haiti... More »

9th, February 2010 Politicians

Former UKIP MEP Tom Wise Sleeps On Paul McCartney

ELECTION 2010: Dizzy thinks on the matters of former UKIP MEP and ex-policeman Tom Wise, bnow in jail for "fraudulently fleecing the taxpayer of £36,000"... More »

9th, February 2010 Celebrities

Sarah Brown Is Wally And Chris Martin's Sperm Negative Present The Evening Standard Film Awards: Pictures

TO the Evening Standard Film Awards at The Movieum in County Hall, with the ubiquitous Jaime Winstone, Lily Allen lite Alfie Allen, Chris Martin dressed as Woody Allen's sperm negative... More »

9th, February 2010 Celebrities

Win A Night Out With Lindsay Lohan, For Haiti

PRESS Release of the day sees Lindsay Lohan host a Brits Awards charity fund raiser for Haiti. Having saved India, Lohan does not rest... More »

9th, February 2010 Celebrities

Michael Jackson V Conrad Murray: Court Case in Pictures

Michael Jackson in pictures: Every the showman, Michael Jackson uses doctors and drugs to make a spectacle of his own death and keep the show live for months. More »

9th, February 2010 Reviews 2

Swine Flu Jab Makes Cheerleader Speak In Australian Accent: Video

Remember Desiree Washington, the swine flu victim and former Washington Redskins cheerleader who claimed a flu vaccine caused her to walk backwards? Well, you'll enjoy this... More »