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11th, October 2013 Money

Mobile phone spectrum fees rise: Costs to us won't

The mobile phone companies have got all hot under the collar about new fees they've got to pay for the spectrum they use to provide the service. So much so that they've actually started lying about it. .. More »

11th, October 2013 Reviews

BBC debunks BBC reporter Victoria Derbyshire's scare story on an 'army of drunk children'

The story about hundreds of drunk children in A&E departments was a front-page shocker. And it was, as we noted, balls... More »

11th, October 2013 TV & Radio

BBC hires swivel-eyed loon to front children's TV show (video)

Get a load of that "swivel-eyed loon" on the BBC's Newsnight show last Monday... More »

11th, October 2013 Reviews

Liverpool sisters stole funeral wreaths to sell on to the grieving

ere they running a business? The sisters claimed many of the items used for making wreaths had been left to them by their aunt, who had been keen on art... More »

11th, October 2013 TV & Radio

Great video: Security guard closes in on fleeing bank robber

The man who has robbed the K&H bank in the Angyalföldm district of Budapest, Hungary, on Wednesday morning, is making his getaway... More »

11th, October 2013 Reviews

Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Ron Paul use the The Guardian to change the world, and other views on leaking

What do we make of the Guardian's decision to publish Edward Snowden's leaks?... More »

11th, October 2013 Books

Sharon Osbourne v Malala: battle of the book covers

Juxtaposition of the day... More »

10th, October 2013 Reviews 1

Racism in Mexico: Health centre makes Indian women gives birth outside on the grass

To Mexico, where Mexican paper La Razon says Irma Lopez, 29, was forced to give birth on the lawn in front of a medical centre in Oaxaca, Mexico, which refused to admit her... More »

10th, October 2013 Reviews

Court Artist Priscilla Coleman is first artist to sketch inside an English courtroom during a hearing

Contempt of court rules prevent photographs being taken during hearings and stop artists making illustrations for publication... More »

10th, October 2013 Reviews

West Sussex local news special: triple-ladder saves trapped mum and daughter

Local news story of the week was found in the West Sussex County Times. Reporter DW Nye enlarges in the headline: "Mother and daughter freed from Horsham bathroom"... More »

10th, October 2013 The Consumer

New ways to die: the deep-fried Oreo ice-cream gasper

After 30 minutes my ice cream was finally ready for the deep fryer... More »

10th, October 2013 Celebrities

Julian Assange nearly makes Benedict Cumberbatch quit film, says leaked email

Not a man known for attracting attention to himself, Julian Assange apparently refused to meet Benedict Cumberbatch while he was preparing to play the WikiLeaks founder for a film... and amusingly, it is a leaked email that has revealed this news. More »

10th, October 2013 Liverpool

Rafa Benitez gets his own statue in Naples - Liverpool and Chelsea must wait

When Rafa Benitez left Liverpool, the club lost a great manager. But they never did build a statue to his name... More »

10th, October 2013 Reviews

Sexy Two Air Hostesses in Uniform: BA investigates this unerotic staff video

A video has appear online starring two women in British Airways uniforms... More »

10th, October 2013 Books

Jack Kerouac's original sketch for On The Road (and all the book's covers)

Jack Kerouac was so unimpressed by the cover his publishers stuck on The Town and the City, he sketched the one he wanted for OneThe Road... More »

10th, October 2013 Sports

AFC Bournemouth's Harry Redknapp and Shaun Teale's wife: what really happened?

Y Redknapp continues to make friends with his latest book. Via the Daily Mail, he makes a claim that might well interest the police More »

10th, October 2013 Sports

Poor Alex Horne: former FA Chairman David Bernstein nails Harry Redknapp and the General Secretary

Redknapp has called the FA "clueless". He says they no nothing about football. Now David Bernstein has responded to the words... More »

10th, October 2013 Politicians

Ed Miliband's day was a cat killer: The Man Who Hated Kitten

Pussy La Gore... More »

10th, October 2013 The Consumer

Pop up TV advert hits the hot spot

Spot on... More »

10th, October 2013 Key Posts 2

Amanda Knox: 'Foxy' Cara Delevingne, unforgiving Patrick Lamumba and Cartwheels of joy

Meredith Kercher is not yet at peace. The retrial of Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy, for Kercher's murder is underway... More »

10th, October 2013 Flashback

In 1981 STASH cologne for men attracted women as well as police and their dogs

Can the smell of marijuana attract member of the opposite sex as well as the police? In 1981, the makers of Stash perfume thought so... More »

10th, October 2013 Film

Terrible film lines: the Howling III howler

Bad lines to savour... More »

10th, October 2013 Flashback

Hitler worked as a chef, a professor and a Nazi-next-door in Western Canada

Hitler was a chef woking in Western Canada.... More »

10th, October 2013 Sports

Arsenal and Stevenage's Jack Wilshere v England and Pietermaritzburg's Kevin Pietersen

When Arsenal's Jack Wilshere said only English-born players should represent the national team, England cricketer Kevin Pietersen (born in South Africa) tweeted him a question... More »

10th, October 2013 Reviews 3

Naked easyJet passenger who challenged captain to a fight tasered at Manchester airport

“He must have been drunk because when he came off the plane, he took his top off and shouted ‘come on then’ in a Manchester accent..." More »