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3rd, April 2015 Reviews 1

How anti-Christian bigots made Memories Pizza in Indiana the world's most profitable restaurant

Gastronauts in search of a rare treat should head to Walkerton, Indiana, the world's highest revenue restaurant. In one day, the eatery has earned a whopping $484,600... More »

3rd, April 2015 Liverpool

Transfer Balls: underpaid Sterling wants Arsenal or Chelsea move - and so does his agent

Is Raheem Sterling leaving Liverpool? Is he going to play for Arsenal. Is he a greedy sh*t or a footballer who knows his worth? Questions abound on the matter of former QPR player Raheem Sterling. And the tabloids lead with the news... More »

3rd, April 2015 Reviews

Germanwings: Daily Mail says Andreas Lubitz was killed by anti-depressants

Andreas Lubitz: a look at the Germanwings co-pilot in today's tabloids... More »

2nd, April 2015 Politicians

Ed Miliband's biased knob: papers react to #leadersdebate

SO. Who won the Leaders Debate on ITV? Helping you with the facts are the newspapers... More »

2nd, April 2015 Reviews

Sick man jailed for possessing 'medical' marijuana

David Patterson is serving 60 days in prison for marijuana possession A Minnesota jury noted Patterson's seven pounds of marijuana and his intent to distribute it. He's clearly guilty. Only... More »

2nd, April 2015 Music

AMY: Watch the trailer for the Amy Winehouse documentary

This trailer features the line: "I don't think I'm going to be at all famous. I don't think I could handle it. I think I would go mad"... More »

2nd, April 2015 Reviews

Tabloid Scare Stories: watching TV gives you diabetes

The Daily Express says "Watching TV Gives You Diabetes"... More »

2nd, April 2015 Reviews

Man Gerbil Mike Holpin has 40 kids by 20 women and a thriving media career

Yesterday we wondered if Mike Holpin really did have 40 children by 20 different women. Holpin, a jobless, feckless, self-confessed alcoholic was front-page news in the Sun and Daily Mirror... More »

1st, April 2015 Reviews 1

Andreas Lubitz: framed by callous liars and saved only by the Facebook truthers

Andreas Lubitz has tumbled down the news cycle. The Sun waits until page 27 to report on the Germanwings co-pilot who was at the controls when the plane slammed into an Alpine mountain killing all 150 people on board... More »

1st, April 2015 Arsenal

Arsenal Transfer balls: 140,000 reasons for Theo Walcott to love Chelsea and Liverpool

Transfer Balls: the Times says Chelsea are ready to make a move for Arsenal's Theo Walcott... More »

1st, April 2015 manchester united

Transfer balls: Hummels 'pledges' future Manchester United and then explains

Transfer balls: The Sun leads with news that Borussia Dortmund's Mats Hummels has made a "pledge" to join Manchester United. Hummels is reported to have said that Manchester United is the only non-German team he will play for... More »

31st, March 2015 Strange But True

You'll never believe what the child who only eats Petit-Filous is called

The Daily Mail's story on the four-year-old girl who only eats yoghurt is a disappointment... More »

31st, March 2015 Reviews

Free speech saves Christian preacher who said all gays must die and Mohammed was a paedo

Is the Bible banned? Are some bits of it, to use the dread word of the age, 'inappropriate'? Mike Overd has been told that reading bits of the Good Book aloud is offensive... More »

30th, March 2015 Reviews

Transfer balls: Liverpool buy Mateo Kovacic after watching him not play

Utter balls in the Press... More »

30th, March 2015 Reviews

Police helicopter tracks cyclists drinking wine in South Wales

If you wanted something to illustrate how pettty offences are now treated as full-blown crimes, we can point up to the police helicopter tracking a man suspected of riding a bicycle while drinking a bottle of wine in Llanelli, South Wales... More »

30th, March 2015 Reviews

Andreas Lubitz and me: the blind, gay, cheating, mentally ill fitness fantatic I knew

Andreas Lubitz smiles from the front of the Daily Mirror, where the story is that the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 impregnated his lover, Kathrin Goldbach. Jeremy Armstrong says fatherhood "may have led him to crash" the plane and murder 149 people... More »

30th, March 2015 Arsenal

Transfer balls: Sterling to Arsenal, Walcott to Liverpool, Reus to everywhere

Transfer balls looks at the Daily Mirror's lead story: Raheem Sterling could be leaving Liverpool for life at Arsenal.... More »

29th, March 2015 Politicians

Her Majesty The Queen spotted canvassing for UKIP (photo)

James Melville‏ has spotted something... More »

29th, March 2015 In Pictures

Where to buy a fresh cat's foot and an 19th Century leather leg splint in Lancashire

Weird & Wonderful, Accrington, Lancashire, is "The North's Finest Natural History Store"... More »

29th, March 2015 Reviews

Robert Durst: the race against death for a killer TV finale

Robert Durst has been charged with the murder of Susan Berman in 2000 Durst is suspected of murdering two more people: his first wife Kathie in 1982 and Morris Black... More »

29th, March 2015 Arsenal

Transfer balls: Arsenal chase Victor Wanyama who wants to play for a Top 7 club, like Spurs

The Sun says Arsenal are looking to buy Southampton's Victor Wanyama for £30m contains a line to make Gunners fans smirk... More »

29th, March 2015 Chelsea

Transfer balls: Manchester City knock £10m of Ross Barkley bid as Chelsea wait with £50m

The Daily Star is reporting in an "EXCLUSIVE" that Manchester City and Chelsea want on sign Everton's Ross Barkley. The Star adds that the two clubs can have Barkleys for £50m.... More »

29th, March 2015 Reviews 10

Drugs confusion: woman arrested for asking if she could carry marijuana in police car

The confused and absurd US drugs policy (plus stupidity) has caused a woman in West Volusia, Florida, to be arrested. An "extermely intoxicated" Michelle Sanford tried to take marijuana into the patrol car of a sergeant who offered her a ride to a safe place... More »

29th, March 2015 Politicians

Katie Hopkins wants Miliband gassed in the oven: do you see Jews?

To-deadline harridan Katie Hopkins invites Labour Party leader Ed Miliband to stick his wife Justine in the oven and gas her... More »

29th, March 2015 Key Posts

Did Andreas Lubitz murder for fame? Maria W. should not be believed

Did Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz see mass murder as his route to eternal fame? The BBC says he did. Maybe. It repeats a line someone billed as Maria W. gave to German tabloid Bild. The source says Lubitz told her... More »