5th, January 2014
Strange But True
To Stevenson, Washington, to see Christopher Wayne Dillingham, 45, jailed for blowing up Cabella, the family's dog he thought possessed by the devil... More »
5th, January 2014
Celebrities
In "Hourglass figure is a thing of the past... we’ve all gone square", the Sun produces guide to womanhood... More »
5th, January 2014
Celebrities
Here's Jim to talk about his "sex arrest agony" — Every minute I thought I would end up going to jail — I feared cops were out to convict me but I was not going to be Savile's scapegoat... More »
4th, January 2014
Reviews
4 “Hungry Like the Wolf” by Duran Duran "Smell like I sound. I’m lost in a crowd." BEG PARDON? What does that even mean to smell like you sound? No offense to Duran Duran; it’s a great song, and let me say right off the bat that I happen to enjoy most songs on this list... More »
4th, January 2014
Celebrities
Before 8 August 1963 (his 34th birthday) Biggs was a small-time criminal. On that day, he took part in Britain’s biggest-ever heist, and the rest of his days were lived in the public eye… More »
4th, January 2014
Madeleine McCann
A look at the missing child in the news. The papers have news... More »
4th, January 2014
Reviews
1 In June 2013, about 100 protesters from a South Korean right-wing civic group staged an anti-North Korea demonstration, slashing a North Korean flag and burning an effigy of leader Kim Jong-Un... More »
4th, January 2014
Reviews
"The Chinese captain is an incredible ambassador for his country," she said today. She is very lucky that China, which normally incurs the wrath of the climate change lobby due to its fondness for new coal-fired power stations, has chosen the path to wealth – which includes ships and helicopters able to rescue scientists in distress – rather than a path to carbon-free enlightenment... More »
3rd, January 2014
Celebrities
Imagine, for example, if you were in a nightclub and someone said to you "Hello, I enjoy bloodshed, throat-slitting and the destruction of life," well, I doubt if you'd want to exchange phone numbers... More »
3rd, January 2014
Music
Is Heavy Metal, the music sound hewn in the British Midlands, big in black, sub-Saharan Africa? South African photographer Franck Marshall found a pocket of metal in Botswana... More »
3rd, January 2014
Celebrities
3 "The actuality is that radio stations will not play my music, and the majority of people have lost faith in the music industry,’ he claimed. "It’s generally assumed – quite rightly – that the number one chart positions are ‘bought’ by the major labels, so there really is no passion left in pop or rock music."... More »
3rd, January 2014
Reviews
1 Banks is planning to tour the UK this year too and it will no doubt be popular. However, she's piled so much hype and ego on herself, that she's become a curiosity show. The critics have invariably already written their reviews, thanks to continual unpleasant behaviour and her needless point-scoring... More »
3rd, January 2014
Sports
“To the two guys in black leather jackets who have recently started sitting in some of these seats. Sorry. There's no way to put this without hurting your feeling..." More »
3rd, January 2014
Film
Yes, I’m unhappy with the work that I did. But who am I preserving it for? No one’s ever gonna see it. But the preservation that I believe is that, when I die, I’m in total control of the material now. Nobody can touch it. After I’m gone, who knows what’s going to happen? I think I have the legalese necessary to keep it where it is.... More »
3rd, January 2014
Reviews
3 Five basic Antarctic facts for climate change sceptics ... 1. It is large and cold... More »
3rd, January 2014
Reviews
The Anarcttic is home to the coldest place on Earth.On August 10, 2010, satellites recorded the temperature at minus 93.2C (-135.8F), in East Antarctic Plateau at an altitude of about 3,900m (12,800ft). The coldest temperature on the ground was recorded in July 1983 at minus 89.2 C (-128.6F) at the Vostok Research Station, Antarctica... More »
3rd, January 2014
Reviews
1 This is a a “significant” year on year reduction of more than 10 per cent, claims Manuel Valls, the Interior Minister. He hails it as a “positive result”... More »
3rd, January 2014
Strange But True
Michael Mullady, 49, of Spring Hill in Hernando County allegedly assaulted his wife with a turkey neck... More »
3rd, January 2014
Flashback
THE NEW YEAR has arrived. Time to once again pledge to stop eating like a starved cow and get going on a weight loss program. Catalogs and magazines in decades past were full of wonderfully terrible options to start you on the Grand New Year’s Tradition of Fitness Plans Doomed to Failure. Let’s have a look at a few... More »
2nd, January 2014
The Consumer
I want to start this off by thanking Kleenex for selling these in 36-packs. I've put it on subscription, and if they want to start selling a 72-pack, sign me up. I have three reasons for needing this much Kleenex, and their names are Liam, Samuel and Hank... More »
2nd, January 2014
Film
This experimental silent short is very rare (filmed in 8mm) and only lasts 11 minutes. Nigel Gordon, film student, filmed Syd Barrett while he tripped on mushrooms. This film is made up of two parts. Part 1: Syd tripping at Gog Magog Hills. Part 2: April '67, Pink Floyd right after they signed their first recording contract, with EMI Records at Abbey Road Studios... More »
2nd, January 2014
Key Posts
THE ROGARIANS are among us. On January 1 2014, the Romanian and Bulgarians united to invade the British Isles. Armed with a EU Directive, these villains are right now stealing your kids, using your cashcards, moving into your bedroom (quick, go check) and doing nothing - NOTHING - to help the England cricket team. Liz Gerard investigates the horror... More »
2nd, January 2014
Flashback
This is the "Instrument of Surrender of all German armed forces in Holland, in north west Germany including all islands, and in Denmark". The pact was signed by Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, and agreed by Germany's Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg and other members of the German high command, at Luneburg Heath, May 4, 1945. The ceasefire took effect from 8am on May 5... More »
2nd, January 2014
Strange But True
News is that your packet of Wal-Mart donkey meat contains other meats. The Five Spice donkey meat sold in Wal-Mart's China stores has been found by the Shandong Food and Drug Administration to contain fox... More »
