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6th, November 2013 Celebrities

Cheryl Cole's Rosy Bee-Hind Present The World's Best And Worst Tattoo Remakes

WHEN Cheryl Cole went from national treasure to England's rose by tattooing her backside with a bunch of blooms, we wondered... More »

6th, November 2013 Music 1

Central London Record Shop For Sale On eBay

Ageing hipster with £300,000 knocking around your bank account? Well then why don't you check out this little listing on eBay... More »

6th, November 2013 Reviews 1

Lexi Branson: Ghoulish Media Feasts Off Killed Child With Misinformation And Spreads Fear Over Dogs

The family's pet dog killed Lexi Hudson at her home, a flat in Rowena Court in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire. Lexi was four. The dog is also now dead... More »

6th, November 2013 Celebrities

Lady Gaga Meets Dot Cotton For A TV Road Trip: Photos

Lady Gaga and Dot Cotton have shared Graham Norton's sofa. Gaga might have thought Dot Cotton a new internet address format, a social working site for actors. But Dot is June Brown, a fragrant actress whose ability to smoke on the telly marks her out as likeable.... More »

6th, November 2013 In Pictures

Shipwrecks Of Detroit: Photos of Boats Abandoned In America's Failed City

A city cast adrift... More »

6th, November 2013 Politicians

Obama Caught Lying Over Obamacare: At Least Nixon Made An Effort

Obama is not a liar. He's just economical with the actualité... More »

6th, November 2013 Reviews

Rubberband Gate: Leicester Police Bully Schoolboy To Tears

"They knocked on the door at 7.05pm, asking for my 12-year-old son and asked him, 'Do you know why we are here?': says Angela Brightwell. "My son looked completely bemused and absolutely terrified..." More »

6th, November 2013 Flashback

Richmond Golf Club Rules 1940

Bomb and Shrapnel can damage the mowers... More »

6th, November 2013 Celebrities

Michelle Pfeiffer And The Tale Of Her Mental Times In A Cult

You seem, Pfeiffer was a breatharian... More »

6th, November 2013 Strange But True

The Liberation Wrapper Means Japanese Women With Small Mouths Can Eat Burgers Without Shame

With this handy device, women with small mouths, or ochobo, can eat a meaty burger without disgusting everyone else... More »

6th, November 2013 Reviews

Burglar Arrested After His Mother Calls The Mobile He Dropped At Crime Scene

To Florida, where a phone is ringing in the kitchen at the Lake Worth house where a burglary has taken place... More »

6th, November 2013 Reviews

Australian Mad Dog Fought Off Home Invaders Who 'Hit Like A Girl'

Some of you still have the Aussie spirit. It's not all juice bars, Factor 50 and vegetables.... More »

6th, November 2013 Reviews

Chester University Students Dress As Burning Twin Towers For Halloween

Amber Langford and Annie Collinge dressed as the burning Twin Towers for a Halloween costume contest in Chester... More »

6th, November 2013 Strange But True

Dear Ashley: A School Lunchbox Love Letter

This love letter was found in a box of primary school projects... More »

5th, November 2013 Music

Shopping In The Lego Vinyl Store

Plastic does vinyl... More »

5th, November 2013 In Pictures

Fitness Mantras Printed Over Posters Of Dedicated Drinkers

How to be abetter drinker... More »

5th, November 2013 Strange But True

Elephant Fishes And Eats Catch (End Of Days)

What does an elephant eat..? More »

5th, November 2013 Celebrities 1

On This Day In Photos: Robert Maxwell's Body Is Found Floating Off The Coast Of Tenerife

The millionaire newspaper publisher had been on his yacht, the Ghislaine, in the Canary Islands... More »

5th, November 2013 Arsenal

Injury Watch: Arsenal's Gibbs Has Chronic Calf Injury Relocated To Fixed Hip

HOW football reporting works: the Injury List... More »

5th, November 2013 Key Posts

The Official President Assad Instagram Caption Contest

President Assad of Syria is a cool guy. His wife is a fragrant "rose in the desert"... More »

5th, November 2013 Sports

'I'm Bernard Hopkins And I'm A Fighter' - Oldest Ever Boxing World Champion Won't Quit

The 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins is the “oldest fighter in boxing history to win a world title”... More »

5th, November 2013 Sports

Local News Watch: Will Yohan Cabaye Swap Newcastle For 'Less Fashionable' Rome?

Biased much? More »

5th, November 2013 Politicians

How's 'Making Government Cool Again' Working Out For Obama?

In other news, former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden had a few words on NSA grass Edward Snowden... More »

5th, November 2013 Money

Cartoon: Justin Welby Goes To Wonga

Sign on the dotted line More »

5th, November 2013 Flashback

Home Rule: British Political Anti And Pro-Irish Independence Posters 1905-1910

Between 1905 and 1910 British Posters focused on Ireland and the issue of Home Rule... More »