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1st, October 2009 Celebrities 5

Peter Doherty In Court, Pictures

PETER Doherty. Calling Pete Doherty. Pete’s tour of British courtrooms continues today as the Babyshambles singer appears at Gloucester Crown Court today for a plea hearing... More »

1st, October 2009 Reviews 2

Gay Penguins Star At 27th Annual Banned Books Week

In recent years, Tango Makes Three - based on a true story and centring on gay penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo - has had the most ban requests. They hate penguins, don't they... More »

1st, October 2009 Celebrities

Jon Gosselin Makes His Own Millions Of Milkshakes

Jon Gosselin’s been making headlines lately with his solemn promises of better behavior and a lower-key personal life. That apparently includes a trip to West Hollywood, California, and Famewhore hangout Millions of Milkshakes... More »

1st, October 2009 Reviews 3

Global Warming Makes 2016 Last Olympic Games

Chicago wants to host the 2016 Olympic Games - Obama's Chicago. Obama is in Denmark to lobby for Chicago. But news from Tokyo Al Goreans is that the 2016 will be the last Olympics... More »

1st, October 2009 In Pictures 3

Amy Winehouse And Blake On Come Dine With Me, In Pictures

Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil are back together. And the good news is that their romance is being enacted in the hygienic glare of Facebook and over a dinner table. More »

1st, October 2009 Celebrities

Rumours Of Barry Manilow's Death Unfounded

Barry Manilow announced today he's quitting his long-time engagement at the Las Vegas Hilton, two days after he sent a memo to his fan club saying he's not sick (just a "skinny guy" who's "filled with energy" and still has his hair)... More »

1st, October 2009 Celebrities 7

La Toya Jackson Says Beatles Fans Murdered Michael Jackson

Today we hear from Paris Jackson about the man many believe to have been her dad. And we hear from Officer La Toya Jackson who says deep Jacko feared being murdered for his Beatles catalogue... More »

1st, October 2009 Key Posts 1

Media Plays Tabloid Bingo In The Sumatran Earthquake

An earthquake hits western Indonesia, near Sumatra. Much destruction. The next day a second tremor hits the region. Many dead. How many? Well, big natural disasters are stories told in numbers of dead. More »

30th, September 2009 Politicians 1

Facebook Welcomes Barack Obama Death Cult

Barack Obama Death Cult in alive on Facebook: A poll was posted on Facebook asking users to vote "should Obama be killed?"... More »

30th, September 2009 Celebrities

La Toya Jackson's Dead Raven Presents The Mobo Awards 2009

All the pictures from the 2009 Mobo awards - wear sunglasses.. More »

30th, September 2009 In Pictures

In Pictures: Mobo Awards 2009

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30th, September 2009 Celebrities

All The Opinions On Roman Polanski's Rape

No sure what to amke of convicted rpaist Roman Polanki's arrests? Amnrosk rounds up the opiniosn formers' opinions... More »

30th, September 2009 Strange But True 1

Afghan Girl Killed By RAF Leaflet Drop

News from the war on terror is that a young Afghan girl walking in Helmand province, Afghanistan, has been killed by a box of public information leaflets dropped from an RAF aircraft. More »

30th, September 2009 Key Posts 7

Stephen Fry Watches Man Get Shagged By A Rare Parrot, Video

TOP Twitter fan Stepehn Fry is on a BBC wildlife show Last Chance to See, and while whispering in the manner of Voice of God David Attenborough, he sees a BBC crew memebr being sahgged by a rare parrot.... More »

30th, September 2009 Reviews 3

Sting And Prince Charles Fight Climate Change With A Message In A Plastic Bottle

Ready for the greatest press release ever written? Well one of them - there are a few contenders when it comes to climate change, Sting and Prince Charles... More »

30th, September 2009 Politicians 1

Nigel Evans MP Responds From Tanzania

Nigel Evans MP replies to his name being mentioned on Channel 4's Dispatches show. He writes from... Tanzania... More »

30th, September 2009 Key Posts

The Wisconsin Tourist Federation Introduces The World's Worst Corporate Logos

The Wisconsin Tourism Federation (WTF) will now be known as the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin (TFW)... More »

30th, September 2009 Key Posts 2

How The Media Made A Scare Story From Natalie Morton's Cancer Jab Death

Natalie Morton died soon after being injected with the anti cervical cancer jab and the papers went bonkers, making a link between the jab and the death of a 14-year-old girl. One day one and... More »

30th, September 2009 Politicians

Nigel Evans Proves MPs Live On Another Planet

Anorak reader pings us with news of frequent flyer Nigel Evans, Tory MP for the Ribble Valley and climate change campaigner. The Lancashire Telegraph reports... More »

30th, September 2009 Strange But True

China Creates Dwarves Only Town

In China, a community/Lilliput/Newman/pantomime of dwarves (what’s the correct group term?) has created its own village to escape prejudice from non-dwarves... More »

30th, September 2009 Celebrities 15

Martine McCutcheon's The Mistress Shames Parodists

Martine McCutcheon's debut novel The Mistress is a work of parody that should make the nation’s satirists hang their heads in envy and snap their pencils in two... More »

30th, September 2009 Celebrities 1

The Real Reason Peter Andre And Katie Price Split

Anorak uncovers the amaszing truth behind Katie Price and Peter Andre's split... Now read on... More »

30th, September 2009 Politicians 2

Gordon Brown Blames The Media On Sky News

Like most of you, Old Mr Anorak marked the Labour Party conference in traditional manner by ignoring it... More »

30th, September 2009 Madeleine McCann 4

Madeleine McCann: Correcting A Correction

A word on newspaper apologies in the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Daily – oh, the irony – featuring Our Maddie as the ultimate newspaper apology... More »

30th, September 2009 OK!

Greg Lott's Farrah Fawcett Love Story

Fawcett has died, and with her passing came news of her romance with a Greg Lott. More »