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28th, January 2015 Chelsea

Chelsea v Liverpool Balls: Relive the Diego Costa stamp collection in gifs

Did Chelsea striker Diego Costa deliberately stamp on Liverpool's Emre Can and Reds’ defender Martin Skrtel in a fast and furious Capital One Cup semi-final ?... More »

28th, January 2015 Strange But True

Nottingham Trent University intruder was stuck upside-down in window for five hours

“I was unsure where the noise was coming from but when I looked up and found him screaming and crying.” So says Dan De-Niet, 20, who were passing the Arkwright building on Nottingham Trent University at 2:30am.... More »

28th, January 2015 Strange But True

Woman jailed for spinning children too quickly on playground merry-go-round

“I was just having a good time and I told one little kid, ‘I’m going to go fast, do you want to jump on?’ and he said he’d have a go. He had a bit of a scream then he got off and the other kids jumped on and off we went. There was one family that decided they wanted to ring the police... More »

28th, January 2015 Reviews

Daily Mail scare stories: The Pill gives you brain cancer and the NHS approves sex with 10-year-olds

Health Tuesday: Anorak's look at news ways to fall ill and die in the Daily Mail's mid-week illness special... More »

27th, January 2015 Reviews 1

Teenage, Muslim, Geordie racists go 'Jew hunting' in Newcastle

At Newcastle Crown Court the victim of a racist beating tells us: “I feel shaken and unsafe to walk the streets in my own community. I have never experienced fear and terror like it and I have no doubt I was attacked for being Jewish."... More »

27th, January 2015 Reviews

Humanity wins: Auschwitz survivor Dora bathes her granddaughter

Never forget... More »

27th, January 2015 Strange But True 1

Man smelled of pony sex: Is Nothing Safe?

When police searched Barfield’s rucksack looking for items he might use to commit theft, they found several cans of Lynx deodorant, a length of white electrical cable, a handheld water sprayer, a cloth, a metal dog chain and two bottles of Lucozade... More »

26th, January 2015 In Pictures

The invisible brain: soldiers' haunting masks reveal the trauma inside

Caroline Alexander has taken these pictures of fantastic masks painted by soldiers whose brains were injured in blasts. .. More »

26th, January 2015 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Mark Warner pulls out of Praia da Luz and Amaral's libel case rumbles on

Madeleine McCann: a look at reporting on the missing child in the news... More »

26th, January 2015 Reviews

ISIS football team recruits five footy flops: Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Figo are not imposters

Are ISIS buliding a football team? Monday's Daily Star leads with the news: "5 footie aces are secret jihadis."... More »

26th, January 2015 Reviews

Transfer Balls: Arsenal wannabe Loic Perrin wants Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpoool, Spurs switch

Transfer Balls: What news on Loic Perrin, the St Etienne player linked in print with a move to Arsenal. He is (at the time of writing) one of the 65 players linked with a moves to Arsenal this January... More »

26th, January 2015 Politicians 1

Romford Conservative MP Andrew Richard Rosindell sent this loaded poll to voters

The poll is more loaded than George Bush at a frat house party: More »

26th, January 2015 Reviews 1

Jon Venables' dating profile: Everton, GSOH and sexual deviancy get the sleuths hunting

Right now hundreds of people are scouring dating websites for Jon Venables, one of Jamie Bulger's two killers. Find the man will nto easy, given that he has new identity and no longer looks like the 10-year-old who sat in the dock... More »

26th, January 2015 Politicians

GCHQ hoax caller identified as well-educated man on drugs: George Osborne is away

In "Con Her Majesty's Secret Service", the Sun tells how a hoax caller managed to speak with the cheif of GCHQ and David Cameron. The Sun knows this because the - get this - hoax caller called the Sun and told them about it... More »

25th, January 2015 Chelsea

Transfer Balls: Arsenal get Paul Pogba for £35m less than Manchester United, Chelsea and Man City will pay

Transfer Balls: It's the Daily Paul Porba, in association with the Daily Mirror, which declares: "Man United, Chelsea AND Man City to battle for Paul Pogba's £75million signature this summer..." More »

25th, January 2015 Money

Davos: G21 tribal elder Bill Clinton's $60,000 platinum Rolex points towards wealth redistribution

How's life treating the great and good in Davos? Last time a mountain people were on the news, it was the Yazidis up Sinjar "mountain of death". Is the G21 Tribe fairing any better?... More »

25th, January 2015 Reviews

Rod Liddle on The Sun's Page 3 and the prigs who want it banned

Rod Liddle looks at The Sun's Page 3, and the prigs who want it banned... More »

25th, January 2015 Reviews 1

Je Suis Grub Street: Salman Rushie and the But Brigade love Charlie Hebdo but hate the British Tabloids

Salman Rushdie has been taking on the 'but Brigade', whose newfound committment to free speech after the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been steadily vanishing, who see moral equivalence and relativism in the killings... More »

25th, January 2015 Arsenal

Arsenal Transfer Balls: Gunners sign Paulista in principal for a variety of fees

Arsenal Transfer Balls: So. Is Paulista heading to the Emirates?... More »

25th, January 2015 Celebrities

Morgan Freeman nails Black History Month and ends racism, just like Rosa Parks and her fried chicken did

Morgan Freeman might get it... More »

24th, January 2015 Reviews

Asbos for vocal victims who attack Muslims: rally for truth

News in the Daily Mail is that a "Muslim gang" has been "barred from gathering in large groups and burning flags after violent outbursts at rallies led by hate preacher Anjem Choudary".... More »

24th, January 2015 Chelsea 2

Chelsea Balls: Dennis Wise debuts his Lego Hair on Setanta Sports

Dennis Wise goes back to school... More »

24th, January 2015 Sports

Get the Ched Evans looks: celebrity Natasha Massey shows us how

So. What's resting footballer and convicted rapist Ched Evans been up to? The Sun has news... More »

24th, January 2015 Chelsea

Transfer Balls: Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea chase Paul Pogba to Spain

Transfer Balls: The Daily Express has stella news on Juventus and France star Paul Pogba. Apparently, Pogba has dropped a "MASSIVE" hint that he will not play for Manchester United or Chelsea. More »

24th, January 2015 manchester united

25 Years ago today Manchester United's Eric Cantona king-fu kicked himself into legend

Magna Carta, Nelson’s death at Trafalgar, the Battle of Waterloo, Victory in Europe, VJ Day… Some significant anniversaries fall this year, but the one that will always have a place in my heart occurred just 20 years ago, on 25 January 1995 at Selhurst Park Stadium, London SE27.... More »