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29th, October 2009 Sports 2

Burnley Football Hooligan Escapes Jail Because He Loves His Dog

Is that you in the “DEE 38” top biting off part of a fan's ear at the Champions League final in Rome? More »

29th, October 2009 Strange But True 1

Alien Crawls Onto South Pacific Beach

Says the woman on the beach: "I must admit, I thought: 'Heck, this is an alien'. It looks like it's got big ribs coming out of it, but it looks like they could be tentacles, so I don't know"... We do. More »

29th, October 2009 Reviews 1

James Arthur Ray Cancels Event As Sweat Lodge Deaths Bite

Then, in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the Quantum Leapers, got an e-mail from one of James Ray’s associates, Director of Operations Megan Fredrickson... More »

29th, October 2009 Celebrities

X Factor: Spice Girl Mel B Rejects Top Job She Wasn't Offered

Former Spice Girl Mel B turns down job on the X Factor... More »

29th, October 2009 Politicians 3

Revealed: What Nick Griffin Wrote On Question Time

When Nick Griffin appeared on BBC TV’s Question Time he spent a considerable effort in putting pen to paper. So often did Nick write that many viewers supposed that he had been brought along to take the minutes... More »

28th, October 2009 Reviews 3

British Muslims For Secular Democracy Ridicule The Nutters

In London this Saturday you can take your pick of protest groups marching for this and that: al-Muhajiroun'sIslam3UK, is screaming for Sharia law, the English Defence League, which sounds better then it looks, Muslims4UK, and Muslims for Secular Democracy... More »

28th, October 2009 Celebrities 3

This Isn't It: Michael Jackson Conspiracy Theorists Hijack Film Premier, In Pictures

Not everywhere is the film a big deal. But our snappers were in LA and London. And this is what they saw (there’s a film in this). Look sout for... More »

28th, October 2009 Celebrities

Peter Andre Tweets The Ultimate Michael Jackson Film Review

Peter Andre has taken his dignity to see the Michael Jackson film. Eat your heart out, Elizabeth Taylor. This is golden... More »

28th, October 2009 Celebrities

Elizabeth Taylor Reads Extracts From The Michael Jackson Film Sequel

Anyone unsure what to make of the Michael Jackson necrophilia film in which the show goes on even after the star has died can be assured that Elizabeth Taylor likes it. A lot... More »

28th, October 2009 Celebrities

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood Sells His Hanky For Hundreds of Pounds

See that “Black Guitar Silk-Cotton Scarf, Ronnie Wood for Liberty of London”? It's not. No, it is Ronnie Wood. It’s not a scarf. It is a hanky... More »

28th, October 2009 Strange But True 1

China Erects Pair Of Massive Breasts Attached to Tiny Girl

"The little girls were scared and cried loudly, asking me if they would grow those huge things, and boys laughed crazily..." More »

28th, October 2009 Sports 2

England Refuse To Play 'Swine Flu' Mexico At World Cup

They should also follow the fine example set by the likes of Rafa Benitez in not shaking hands and avoiding the antics of Jose Mourinho, no friend to public health, who was lucky to get out of that soiled laundry basket alive... More »

28th, October 2009 Celebrities 1

X Factor: Danyl Johnson And Stacey Solomon Adopt A Child

As voters we demand that we get to know your elected leaders. Is Danyl good with kids or a misunderstood paedophile? Is Stacey a caring mum or a heartless go-ahead modern woman who wants it all? Is Olly Murs contagious? More »

28th, October 2009 Celebrities 5

X Factor: Danyl Johnson Look-Alike Gallery

The biggest bugbear about Danyl Johnson is his looks. He has a face formed not by surgeons blade and chemist – see Cowell, Louis Walsh and Danni Minogue – but by committee... More »

28th, October 2009 Politicians

Obama Connects With His Inner George Bush On Golf Cart One

Anorak told you that you’d miss George Bush when he was gone. But he’s not gone – his spirit lives in Obama. On Golf Cart One, Obama rides out his greens credentials... More »

28th, October 2009 Celebrities 5

X Factor: Victimised Cheryl Cole Wants To Punch Simon Cowell

Look out Simon Cowell, it sounds like Cherly Cole has not developed as much had been hoped. The X Factor judge found guilty of assaulting a toilet attendant remains a fan of the short sharp shock, as the Star’s front page says: More »

28th, October 2009 Reviews 3

National Archives Releases Evidence Of IRA's Balcombe Street Gang: In Pictures

THE IRA is no longer the pariah of the British Isles. Factions of armed Irish Nationalists still exist. But the fear factor has been mush diminished. The National Archives has released documents showing an IRA list of potential targets recovered by police in a raid on a north London flat in the 1970s... More »

27th, October 2009 The Consumer 3

Five Things You Never Knew About McDonald’s In Iceland

Here are 5 things you never knew about McDonald’s in Iceland: 1. In 2007, nine-year-old Einar Huld became lost in a snowstorm. She was rescued when a helicopter spotted the luminous yellow cheese slice she had removed from the cheeseburger and stuck to her head. More »