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3rd, February 2014 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: When All Else Fails Get The Gypsies

This news of a link to a theory is an "EXCLUSIVE From DANIEL SANDERSON", who in in Praia da Luz: DETECTIVES searching for Madeleine McCann are probing a traveller site just a 15-minute drive from where she was snatched... More »

3rd, February 2014 Flashback

Letters Of Note: August 1966 - Police Receive This Anonymous Letter About The Krays

The two Kray brothers are too clever and tricky for you... More »

3rd, February 2014 Celebrities

On This Day In Photos: February 3 1959 - Buddy Holly Dies On The Winter Dance Party Tour

ON This Day - February 3 1959: Charles Hardin Holley - aka Buddy Holly - 22, Jiles P Richardson - aka the Big Bopper - 28, and Richard Valenzuela - aka Ritchie Valens - 17, were killed when their single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza planed crashed shortly take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa... More »

3rd, February 2014 Strange But True

Who Is The Cleethorpes And Grimsby Kebab Bandit?

TO Grimsby and Cleethorpes in north east Lincolnshire, where the hunt is on for the Pizza Bandit, who lurks in takeaways listening to phone orders before delivering empty boxes and pocketing the cash... More »

3rd, February 2014 Reviews

Stop The Sick Trade In Live Animals Sold As Lucky Charms In China

FANCY hanging a live animal from your throat? AVAAZ.org are campaigning to end the revolting trend of sticking live animals in jewellery... More »

3rd, February 2014 Strange But True

Eiffel Tower Nose Jobs Help Chinese Score Jobs In Paris

“WE are influenced by the beauty of Eiffel Tower, we are not content to just add something to the nose, we reconstruct it,” says surgeon Wang Xuming... More »

3rd, February 2014 Flashback

Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: Your Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

WHEN disco hit its stride in the mid to late Seventies, it transcended language and boundaries. Perhaps, the secret of its success was that the criterion was so damn simple: Can you dance to it? If the answer was “yes”, chances are, you have a disco hit on your hands... More »

3rd, February 2014 Celebrities

Flashback To 1952: Robert Mitchum's Homemade Luxury Motor Home

When caravanning was cool.... More »

2nd, February 2014 Celebrities

Did An Internet Hoax Foretell Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death?

On February Vin Diesel's rep told one and all: “He joins the long list of celebrities who have been victimized by this hoax. He's still alive and well, stop believing what you see on the Internet." Hoffman's rep said thd same.... More »

2nd, February 2014 Sports

BOGOF: Sochi Boasts At Least These Two Sets Of Twin Toilets

BOGOF... More »

2nd, February 2014 Film

Watch Philip Seymour Hoffman Rock Three Parts In The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

IN 1995, Philip Seymour Hoffman played Bernardo, Horatio and Laertes in Todd Louiso's 1995 version of Tom Stoppard's 1976 play The Fifteen Minute Hamlet. Stoppard has enjoyed a hit with his Hamlet spin-off Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. In this play, Stoppard strips down Shakespeare's play into 13 minutes plus a two-minute encore.... More »

2nd, February 2014 Celebrities

Philip Seymour Hoffman - A Career In Photos

He was 46. More »

2nd, February 2014 Celebrities

Plastic Punks: The Sid Vicious Doll

SID Vicious was immortalised in plastic and nylon. He had his own doll... More »

2nd, February 2014 Reviews

On This Day In Photos: February 2 1979 - Sid Vicious Is Dead

His mother, Anne Beverley, found him dead in bed with his sleeping girlfriend, Michelle Robinson, in an apartment in Greenwich Village this morning... More »

2nd, February 2014 In Pictures

Plumbing The Depths: The Worst Company Names From Around The World

U benders. You what? You heard. I beg your pardon? U BENDERS.... More »

2nd, February 2014 Celebrities

Peaches Geldof drops massive clanger in Ian Watkins case

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1st, February 2014 Flashback 1

A Black Gnostic Introduction To Sun Ra And His Archestra: Space Is the Place For Saturn's Angel Race

BEFORE cosmic ordering became the celebrities' guiding light, there was Sun Ra, jazz maestro of Saturn's Angel Race" and not from Earth, but from Saturn. Sure, he was born into Alabama's deep segregation. He was named Herman Poole Blount, but as he said: "That's an imaginary person, never existed … Any name that I use other than Ra is a pseudonym." More »

1st, February 2014 manchester united

Dinnerladies For David Moyes: A Look At The Manchester United Manager As Stoke City Win

I...I...I don't really know, Mark.... More »

1st, February 2014 Key Posts

Mic Wright's Remotely Furious: Whatever Wollaston, Outnumbered Is Alright By Me

In The Guardian this week my bête noire, The Guardian’s Sam Wollaston, churned out one of his usual half-chewed rants on why the show is terrible. His conclusion? That some things in a SITCOM were not quite true to life and that the only people that like Outnumbered are “smug metropolitan middle-class Farrow & Ball families”... More »

1st, February 2014 Reviews

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young Thinks Sea Patrol TV Show Is Real

CAN you tell the difference between TV reality and TV fiction? You might care to help out Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who seems to think Sea Patrol is a fly-on-the boat documentary... More »

1st, February 2014 Key Posts

Man Buried Riding His Harley-Davidson Motorcycle - Photos

BILL Standley of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, has died. He was 84. He's been laid to rest in a plexiglass / wood coffin while “riding” his 1967 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He is , for safety's sake, wearing a leather jacket, boots and helmet... More »

1st, February 2014 In Pictures

Russian Wedding Photos To Make Your Eyes Bleed

YOU'VE seen the Russian you fancy on a dating site, and now you're ready to marry them. You've found a great venue. You need a great photographer. What about sone of the snappers who took these photos? Enjoy the portfolio, readers... More »

1st, February 2014 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Who Needs Keys To Force A Window?

More news on the missing child... More »

1st, February 2014 Strange But True

Shopper Uses Death Threat Card To Rob Hallmark Shop

At a Hallmark card shop in Philadelphia, a man is showing the cashier his card. The message inside reads: "Give me all the money or I will kill you..." More »

31st, January 2014 Arsenal

Arsenal Balls: Cracking Photo Of Kim Kallstrom In 1999

According to Panini... More »