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6th, July 2014 Sports 2

Andrew Strauss And Kevin Pietersen Trade Insults At The Crease

FORMER England captain Andrew Strauss chose to share his view of former England colleage of 82 Tests Kevin Pietersen at the Lord’s bicentenary celebration match between the MCC and the Rest of The World. Commentating for Sky Sports, microphones picked up Straus calling Pietersen a “c***” in an aside to one of his co- commentators, Nick Knight... More »

5th, July 2014 In Pictures

Tour De France 2014: Leeds To Harrogate In Beautiful Photos

Yorkshire never looked better... More »

5th, July 2014 Music

Jake Bugg Hates Music Festivals - Doesn't Mind Sexism

"I hate music festivals so much, but obviously to be this high up on the line-up and to be playing [at Glastonbury] is a privilege," he told NME. "But the actual experience of festivals I could really do without.".. More »

5th, July 2014 Music

Watch Robbie Williams Break A Fan's Arm In Newcastle

IT is always nice to watch someone successful make a fool of themselves. It isn't their fault we're all pathetically jealous, but they've got such nice and unusual lives, it is pleasing to find out their stuttering bozos like the rest of us... More »

5th, July 2014 Celebrities

Katie Price Tells Rolf Harris To Reach For The Sky

THIS week Katie Price was on the radio. She told us: “I have to confess if there is anything perfect about me, it’s my feet"... More »

5th, July 2014 Strange But True

Watch What A Drop Of Viper Venom Does To Human Blood

It's estimated that snakes bite around 5.5 million people every year, leading to 400,000 amputations, and up to 125,000 deaths... More »

4th, July 2014 Celebrities

'Sexless' Rolph Harris Smiles And Shows No Remorse As He Is Jailed

A GRINNING Rolf Harris arrived at Southwark Crown Court, London, by car with a large man in bad suit, thtree other large men, his daughter Bindi and his neice Jenny... More »

4th, July 2014 Liverpool

Transfer Balls: Liverpool Sell Luis Suarez For £63m But Barcelona Buy Him For £80m

TRANSFER Balls: Is Luis Suarez off from Liverpool? Today's news round-up now follows... More »

4th, July 2014 Celebrities

Feast And Famine: Marilyn Monroe Was Not Some Porky Lardbucket, She Was Tiny

HALF the time we're told that the entire country is becoming obese, waddling around with dripping rolls of fat hanging from our frames, the other half the time we're being screamed at for our unhealthy obsession with being thin... More »

4th, July 2014 Key Posts

15 Terrifying Weapons From The ISIS Hello Kitty Arsenal - And How To Beat Them

THE jihadis of ISIS are uysing Hello Kitty notepads to organise their massed ranks. Eitehrt hat, or else the pad in the phot below is offial ISIS merchandise, sent from the Great Kitty herself. ... More »

4th, July 2014 Key Posts 1

Mic Wright's Remotely Furious: The (not so) Secret Life of Students versus The Honourable Woman

STUDENTS get drunk, do stupid things and feel homesick: those were the shocking secrets uncovered in the first episode of The Secret Life of Students, Channel 4’s latest slice of unflinching voyeurism... More »

4th, July 2014 Reviews

Cute Alert: ISIS Trolls Recruit Hello Kitty To Jihad

Be afraid! More »

4th, July 2014 Strange But True

Other Parents: Dad Left 11-year-old Daughter Home Alone With Loaded Gun While He Got Head Tattoo

OTHER Parents presents John Ruiz, 41, who left his 11-year-old daughter home alone with a loaded weapon while he nipped out to get a head tattoo... More »

4th, July 2014 Reviews

Isis Imitates Monkey Dust: At Home With The Black Country Jihadis

MONKEY Dust foretold the ISIS jihadis - Black Country chapter... More »

4th, July 2014 Reviews

The Hunt For Racist Australian Train Woman Sue Wilkins And The Moral Voyeurs (Video)

The ranting woman verbally assaults a man and woman stood in front of her. She calls the man white trash. She says the wolman by his side is a "gook". She says, "Look at this bogan here. He can only get a gook, he can't even get a regular girlfriend. It's so sad." .. More »

4th, July 2014 Celebrities

One Dimensional Lindsay Lohan to Sue GTA For Turning Her Into A 2D Cartoon Character

And, make no bones about it - Lohan wants "serious money" as compensation, or else things are going to get pretty ugly... More »

3rd, July 2014 manchester united

Manchester United Balls: Newcastle United's Siem De Jong Damns Van Gaal With Praise

Utter balls in the Sun... More »

3rd, July 2014 Sports

World Cup Balls: Lionel Messi Saves Angel From A Red Face

WHEN Angel Di Maria salved a terrible perfoemance for Argentina against Switzerlande (he gave the ball away 51 times) with the game's only goal, the Mirror saluted the man who had set him up: Saviour Messi To The Rescue... More »

3rd, July 2014 Reviews

Stanley O’Neal And Google V Robert Peston Puts The Case For More Libraries

WANT to manage your reputation on Google? Well, just ask them to press 'delete'... More »

3rd, July 2014 Reviews

Why The West's Gap Year Jihadi Rappers Use Youth Culture To Get An ID

WHY does a seemingly sane, intelligent, academically ambitious young man leave Cardiff, as Nasser Mauthana did, and decide to wage holy war in Syria and Iraq? Why are young British male Muslims like Aberdeen schoolboy Abdul Raqib Amin attracted to the idea of waving the militant black flag of ISIS. Why are so many tuning in to cheer on the brethren?.. More »

3rd, July 2014 Reviews

Policing Free Speech Takes Up Half Of The Force's Time

CHIEF Constable Alex Marshall, head of the College of Policing told BBC Radio 4's Law in Action that policing social media is full-time job... More »

3rd, July 2014 Money

Surprise! Union Think Tank Says Unions Should Have More Power!

THIS really is a turn up for the books. A union funded and financed think tank has decided to reveal to the world that the cure for all that ails us is that unions should have more industrial and political power. Just allow the shades of the recently departed Bob Crow to have their way and everything would be peachy... More »

3rd, July 2014 Music

Oh. A Superhero Film Written by Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane

When Kane was asked when the duo will release new material, he said: "It's something we always talk about y'know? But I think we're gonna write this film first anyway before we hit back into that." "It's gonna have a sort of X-Men kind of vibe and sort of set in the '60s, but I can't give anymore away than that."... More »

3rd, July 2014 Sports

Talking Balls: You'll Never Guess Who They're Calling The 'New' Ronaldo

WHO is the new Cristiano Ronaldo? The Press love to look for the next big thing, the Ronaldo-alike who will be the world's best player... More »

3rd, July 2014 Celebrities

X Factor Judge Cheryl Cole Survives Alleged Criminal Singer

AFTER the succesful prosecutions of showboi types Rolf Harris, Stewart Hall, Max Clifford but not Jimmy Savile, the Sun seeks to highlight entertiainers who might be engaging in criminality... More »