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28th, September 2009 Celebrities

John Lennon's Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Dies

RIP Lucy Vodden, the woman who went to school with Julian Lennon and inspired his dad John Lennon to write Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds... More »

28th, September 2009 Reviews

Scare Stories: Italy's Binge Drinking Challenge And An Asteroid Attacks

An Asteroid is heading to Earth to kill... Well, you... More »

28th, September 2009 Key Posts 1

Sergeant Delroy Smellie Charged With G20 Assault

The G20 summit has long stopped being about politics, and now exists only as a chance for the uniformed police and banner waving poverty fans – hoods up, kids - to go for it in scenes missing from our TV screens since all-seater stadia erupted all over football... More »

28th, September 2009 Politicians

Chancellor Angela Merkel Invented The Obama Womb Of Life Symbol

In this collection of images, Chancellor Angela Merkel reveals that it was she who invented the Obama Womb Of Life symbol, the Big O... More »

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Amsterdam Mayor Says Ban The Burqa Or Lose Benefits

More fashion news now as Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen says "women who fail to find a job because they wear a burqa should not receive unemployment benefit." More »

28th, September 2009 Reviews 1

Government Brings In Ban On Unregistered Blogging And Linking

Before we get to the Government's plan to put all bloggers on a register, did you know that the rules that you have to abide by on pain of law also apply to the police? More »

28th, September 2009 Strange But True

G20 Sneeze Fetishist Arrested For Attacking Woman With Pepper Spray

To Commerce, Texas, where a local man is accused of blowing a white powdery substance in the face of a female shop assistant at Commerce Hardware and Feed... More »

28th, September 2009 Celebrities

The X Factor Fixed It For Me

It seems that the X Factor is less a school than a borstal, a last chance for jobbing wannabes to hit the big time, or clinch a walk-on part in Hollyoaks and / or a stint holding their enlarged chests in a lads’ mag... More »

28th, September 2009 Reviews 10

Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann Runs For Charity

Express continues to feature the search for Madeleine McCann by focusing on Kate McCann, one person we know had nothing to do with the child’s vanishing... More »

28th, September 2009 Celebrities 1

Coleen Nolan Sex Tape

The Daily Mirror brings front-page news of Coleen Nolan and the question that has burnt like a Swiss cheese maker’s cystitis... More »

28th, September 2009 Reviews

Banksy Demands No Ball Games In Tottenham

Is the work a parody of Tottenham Hotspurs FC? Or is it a parody of Banksy's at - which might now be entield "No Touching"? More »

28th, September 2009 In Pictures

Roman Polanski Testimony

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Full Police Transcript Of The Case Against Roman Polanski

Polanksi is arrested for raping 13-year-old Samantha Geimer (then Samantha Gailey) at Jack Nicholson's Mulholland Canyon house in March 1977. Polanksi was 43. This is her testimony... More »

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Let's Blame The Swiss For Roman Polanski's Arrest

Roman Polanski is arrested for rape and the media zooms in on the Swiss - place of civic pride and assisted suicide... More »

27th, September 2009 Money 11

Face Of Tesco's Is Illegal Immigrant

Tesco worker Fatou Cham, 32, face of the store’s Florence and Fred, came to the UK from Gambia in 1998 on a student visa but stayed after it expired in 2001. More »

27th, September 2009 Politicians

Lobby Hacks Defeat Ed Balls' Unfit Labour Party 5-1

Anorak's fan with a camera was at the Withdean Stadium in Brighton to see Schools Minister Ed Balls and other Labour MPs take on the Press Lobby in a game of football. More »

27th, September 2009 Key Posts

Jaycee Dugard Copycat Attacker Strikes In California

"How does it feel to be grabbed by a strange man in the park?" asks the hack. How does it feel is the media's mainstay question... More »

27th, September 2009 Celebrities

X Factor Danyl Johnson's Pants Open Up

What news of X Factor favourite Danyl Johnson? What does he think of Alesha Dixon. What part did being Daniel with a Y have in his sob story? Katie or Peter? More »

27th, September 2009 Strange But True

China Bans Pigeons

In readiness for the celebrations to mark 60 years of communist rule in China, it is decreed that all pigeons remain in their birdcages on October 1 More »

27th, September 2009 Celebrities 1

Katie Price's Chicken Nuggets, Sex And Dwight Yorke's Ring

orget pet names for sexual organs, time to give yourselves alter egos for every sexual position. Missionary sex should be termed “Jane Eyre”, while the Reverse Cowboy is hereon dubbed "Princess Chantellenella Paris Lady Fostropp-Stiffe"... More »

27th, September 2009 Celebrities

Jack Tweed's Suicide Watch With Jade Goody

Mary Tweed: "When I did try to speak to him, he was virtually monosyllabic.” Jack. Tweed. Jade. Good. Good. Good. E. I. Do. More »

27th, September 2009 Madeleine McCann 14

Madeleine McCann: Mrs Amaral, Kate McCann And Baby Jesus

Today the Sunday Express has chatting thigns over with Goncalo Amaral's wife, Sophia - baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary look on... More »

27th, September 2009 Key Posts 4

First Shock Pictures Of Jaycee Dugard At Disney

Want to see the first pictures of the adult Jaycee Dugard... before Oprah Winfrey nabs her? More »

26th, September 2009 Politicians

Illegal Housekeeper Loloahi Tapui Says Attorney General Baroness Scotland Did See Her Passport

Having consulted with Max Clifford – “If he’s so good at PR why do people think he’s a ***” - Loloahi Tapui, the former housekeeper to Attorney General Baroness Scotland, says the peer never asked to see her passport before giving her a job... More »

26th, September 2009 Politicians

Ken Livingstone Marries By The Reptile House

Livingstone married Emma Beal today in London Zoo's Mappin Pavilion, a venue situated next to the reptile house... More »