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1st, July 2013 Flashback

Car time capsule up for sale in Nebraska - the Lambrecht Chevrolet story

Lambrecht Chevrolet of Pierce, Neb., (prop. Ray and Mildred Lambrecht) shuts its doors after 50 years business. The owners kept around 500 cars. And now these old cars - many have less than 10miles on the clocks - are for sale... More »

1st, July 2013 Reviews

Photos of the Birmingham recycling plant fire sparked by a 'lucky' Chinese lantern

A Chinese lantern is thought to have triggered the West Midlands' biggest ever fire. The symbol of romance lanced on a recycling plant in Smethwick, Birmingham. It set alight 100,000 tonnes of plastic... More »

1st, July 2013 Money

Do we have to start saving our own pee to produce phosphorus for farming?

Some scientists are working on the idea that we do you know. Fortunately, they've really not grasped an important part about the world that we live in... More »

1st, July 2013 Money

Apple pays no UK tax yet again - this is why

There's three different things going on here... More »

1st, July 2013 Key Posts

'Alan Shearer provides expert anal' - and other epic subtitle fails

Of course, it’s easy to laugh when subtitlers get it wrong. But that’s no reason not to do it – so here are some of our favourites… More »

1st, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Arsenal 'sign' QPR's Julio Cesar and Liverpool's Pepe Reina as Wojciech Szczesny 'fights for place'

TRANSFER BALLS: A look at Arsenal's moves for a new goalkeeper, as reported by the experts in the news media with a wet finger held up in the breeze... More »

1st, July 2013 Reviews

Wind turbines murder the Bird of the Century

WOW! Looks at that bird in the Outer Hebrides. It's that a White-throated Needletail? It's only ever been spotted in the UK 8 times... More »

1st, July 2013 Film

Psycho slashed: Alfred Hitchcock's classic in 24 seconds, 60 seconds and 11seconds

Douglas Gordon's version of Psycho last 24 hours. Alfred Hitchcock's classic film also inspired Chris Bors to adapt the movie. He compacted the action into 24 seconds... More »

1st, July 2013 The Consumer

Dads on Roller Coasters - the best ones

Summer is here. Time, then, to head to the god-forsaken amusement park and ride The One. You're an adult, a grown man, you do not want to go on. You're adamant. No way. But... More »

1st, July 2013 Reviews

Man stole TV to frame hamster girlfriend loved more then him

Andrew Walsh, 30, wasn't pleased when his girlfriend told him she loved her hamster more than she loved him. The hamster was not some high-street sex aide, but an actual hamster called Harry... More »

1st, July 2013 Reviews

Chicken in a basket saves leopard trapped in well

How do you rescue a leopard trapped in a dry well?... More »

30th, June 2013 Reviews 6

Saudi Arabian women conference features one women - can you spot her?

How many women attended the feminism conference in Saudi Arabia..? More »

30th, June 2013 Key Posts

The 20 worst and most worrying dolls for sale on Etsy

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30th, June 2013 In Pictures 2

Bacon tattoos

You like bacon. They love bacon. They want to be at one with their breakfast meat. These are the world's greatest bacon tattoos... More »

30th, June 2013 Reviews

The news business dies without its photographers

Stock shots have their place. They are readily accessible and a godsend when you have a difficult subject to illustrate, but they have no place in live news stories where the reader wants an image of the event. If you use one in such circumstances it is tantamount to admitting that you missed the story, couldn't get there on time - or didn't have anyone to send... More »

30th, June 2013 Reviews

Notes to clarify the terms in the The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

‘Husband’ here will include a man or a woman in a same sex marriage, as well as a man married to a woman. In a similar way, 'wife' will include a woman married to another woman or a man married to a man..." And... More »

30th, June 2013 Sports 2

Liverpool: wanted by Real Madrid, Luis Suarez signs for Manchester City and learns German

TALKING Balls: Anorak's look a transfer speculation in the news. Today we look at Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's past week... More »

30th, June 2013 Flashback

2004: Chris Morris and Alan Partridge discuss the deaths of JFK, Princess Diana and September 11

And what really happened on September 11... More »

29th, June 2013 Film

21 Movie Barcodes - classic films in a single image

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29th, June 2013 Music

In 1984 Morrissey ordered Smash Hits readers to execute Staus Quo

Back in 1984, Morrissey worked as a record reviewer on Smash Hits to review the week’s singles. Was he full of praise, saluting the singers' effort in just turning up, with plus points for effort and likability? Not quite... More »

29th, June 2013 Reviews

Gay Pride London 2013 - in photos

It's better than the event's equivalent in Moldova, where bigots attacked the parade. In St Petersburg, the soon-to-sanctioned Russian law banning “homosexual propaganda”, led to anti-gay activists lobbing stones at priders... More »

29th, June 2013 Reviews

Welsh government to send locals into prostitution

A Welsh government-backed careers website offered advice about jobs in the sex industry. People have to pay the bills right?... More »

29th, June 2013 Reviews 1

The Oxford Muslim child rape gang were brainwashed by Tory MPs and the liberal elite

News in the Times is that "Muslims across Britain joined together in an unprecedented show of unity yesterday when a sermon condemning the grooming and sexual abuse of children was delivered in hundreds of mosques". This is recognising a problem that the police and the liberal elite buried... More »

29th, June 2013 Reviews

Hunt is on for foreign Centaur pooing in a Somerset car park

To Misterton, Somerset, where the hunt is on for the 'person' who has taken to leaving a pile of poo in the middle of the village hall car park... More »

29th, June 2013 Strange But True

Woman who mistook superglue for lip salve gives muffled call to emergency services

''Basically, she could only grunt. Ambulance received a call, but due to the muffled speech ... they were unsure whether it was a medical event or whether someone had been gagged.''... More »