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8th, October 2009 Reviews

Interview With Cross-Dressing Cage Fighters Who Beat Up Swansea Yobs

"Lights Out" Lilley and "Lion Heart" Lerwell, were on their way for tea with around 10 other cage fighters in a nightclub when they were picked on... More »

8th, October 2009 Madeleine McCann

Selling Jaycee Lee Dugard As Entertainment, In Pictures

To British readers the Jaycee Lee Dugard's case is a freak show, a form of entertainment that takes over from where so-called reality ends; showing us what a TV executive would call a "last taboo" cloaked in faux concern to legitimise its broadcast. More »

8th, October 2009 Celebrities

Katie Price And Peter Andre In Slash Horror

More Peter Andre and Katie Price news as amid a fight at the Mayfair Hotel, bookmakers slash the odds of the pair reunited their camera crews and giving it one more shot. More »

8th, October 2009 Key Posts 2

Harry Connick Jr Presents Jackson Jive, The Medical Michael Jackson Tribute Act

Five-piece Australian medical group pay tribute to Michael Jackson in a tribute that leaves many red faced, ashed faced and open mouthed... More »

8th, October 2009 Reviews

Brazil's Postal Workers Strike In Support Of Royal Mail

The Guardian’s front-page news that the Royal Mail has lost the Amazon contract makes us foam with rage. Biting dogs is bad enough but biting snakes and spiders as big as your clenched fist are a step too far... More »

8th, October 2009 Reviews

Pedos And Paedos: How Paedophile Vanessa George Made Teachers The Enemy

As paedophile Carole Clark is jailed, the media links her case to those of Vanessa George and Baby Peter Connelly... More »

8th, October 2009 Politicians 1

Guardian Closely Examines Sarah Brown's Seat Of Power

Let’s enjoy this highlight from the Guardian’s Andy Beckett, whose opinion of Sarah Brown is a direct address to the seat of power... More »

8th, October 2009 Celebrities

Katie Price And Peter Andre Fans In Street Riot

Katie Price and Peter Andre: Today Katie goes beserk with an umbrella - there is "blood" - fans square up in Fleet. Britney Spears returns and Pete talks Pete... More »

7th, October 2009 Celebrities 6

Noel Fielding's Ghost Haunts Never Mind The Buzzcocks

THE trailers for BBC music panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks features a person who looks not a lot unlike The Mighty Boosh’s Noel Fielding – the Noel Fielding of whom the Sun’s Gordon Smart wrote... More »

7th, October 2009 Strange But True 1

Woman In Phillipines Spots Crime In Oklahoma

In Oklahoma, Midwest City police Chief Brandon Clabes thanks Maribel Chouinard for capturing three thieves robbing a man’s flat. She was in the Philippines... More »

7th, October 2009 The Consumer 3

Paris Fashion Week In Pictures: Witness Appeal

Paris Fashion Week - this image was taken from footage shot at the Chanel Spring-Summer 2010 ready-to-wear collection show held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, on October 6, 2009. More »

7th, October 2009 Key Posts 1

Susan Boyle Sings For Barbara Bush

Susan Boyle Watch: With Amanda Holden's dinner, Postman Pat, Simon Cowell's gardener and meeting Barabra Bush... More »

7th, October 2009 Key Posts 1

Drag Queens Knock Out Swansea Street Yobs: Video

To Swansea Magistrates Court, where two men are accused of starting a fight with Spiderman before and getting knocked out by two cross-dressers. More »

7th, October 2009 In Pictures

Paris Fashion Week

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7th, October 2009 Reviews 1

Scottish Government Rejects Ban On Lads' Mags

The lad's mags fulfil an equal opportunities need for onanists with short arms to get their thrills... More »

7th, October 2009 Celebrities 1

David Beckham Can Barely See Victoria

Beckham's weight is subject of heated debate in the celebrity magazine community. and today we invite you to consider two Closer magazine headlines and move the polemic forward... More »

7th, October 2009 Celebrities 8

Katie Price And Peter Andre Consider Getting Back Together

Katie Price and Peter Andre Watch: Peter’s “sh*t” song, the reconciliation and the truth about Alex Reid’s cross-dressing… More »

7th, October 2009 The Consumer

The H1N1 Swine Flu Cuddle Toy

If swine flu has not already killed you, you need to be aware what it looks like. Now you can familiarise yourself and your loved ones with a H1N1 Influenza Virus, stuffed with down harvested from bird flu victims.... More »

7th, October 2009 Reviews 1

Scare Story Of The Day: Two Thirds Of Our Chickens Are Out To Kill Us

Scare story of the day: “Killer Bug In Most Chickens” – two thirds of chickens sold in the UK are infected with a deadly bacteria. The chickens are attcking.... More »

7th, October 2009 Celebrities 1

Lily Allen's Chanel Barn Dance In Pictures

Lily has risen from the floor of a stage barn scene to sing a song about her rubbish lover. Models strut. And Karl Largefeld talks of pigs... More »

7th, October 2009 Celebrities 5

The Real Story Of Kevin McGee And Matt Lucas

Kevin McGee has died. He was briefly married to Matt Lucas, the TV star. And the media goes to work giving his life meaning. Yesterday, Mr McGee was “Little Britain Star Matt’s Ex Found Dead” – today he is front-page news. The next biggest thing to a celebrity dying is someone who once knew a celebrity dying... More »

6th, October 2009 Strange But True

Irish School Asks Pupils To Bring In Own Toilet Paper

The Celtic Tiger's roars sounds like constipation... More »

6th, October 2009 Politicians 3

Boris Johnson Exposes Jeremy Paxman's BBC Agenda

Before we see Jeremy Paxman's hideous interview with London mayor Boris Johnson, in which Paxman looked like a sneery head boy sucking up to a more popular pupil while seeking to exert a superiority that was patently lacking, a word on dirt digging... More »

6th, October 2009 Madeleine McCann 12

Madeleine McCann's Parents To Make Private Trip To Praia Da Luz

The Spanish news agency reports that Kate McCann and Gerry McCann could return to Praia da Luz before the end of the year.... More »

6th, October 2009 Celebrities 1

Separated At Birth: Jade Goody And Kelly Clarkson

Reality TV show winner Kelly Clarkson (American Idol), seen here modelling her new fashion inspiration is channelling the late reality tv show winner Jade Goody (Big Brother)... More »