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29th, June 2013 Sports 3

Spurs Transfer Balls: Gareth Bale to hook up with Ronaldo at Manchester United

The Daily Bale: Anorak's look at the Tottenham Hotspur in the news media - a murky world between fact and fiction... More »

28th, June 2013 In Pictures

Glastonbury 2013 in photos: Massive pic dump of fans and bands in the mud and the sun

If you were at Glastonbury 2013, and someone from a news agency took your photo, we've got that picture here... More »

28th, June 2013 Reviews

Melissa Nelson photos: Iowa court looks again at woman sacked for being too attractive

The Iowa Supreme Court will look again at Melissa Nelson. And look again. And again. Nelson is the married mother of two fired for being "irresistible"... More »

28th, June 2013 The Consumer

Great ads: the Smart Fortwo is a hit with your Mercedes (literally)

At 40 seconds in, it does hit the parked car... More »

28th, June 2013 TV & Radio

The New Yorker cover shows Sesame Street's Bert & Ernie in gay embrace

The New Yorker's July covers are Moment of Joy. They show Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie snuggled up in front of a TV broadcasting the Supreme Court of the United States' sanctioning of gay marriage... More »

28th, June 2013 Reviews

After Leveson: biggest hackers are lawyers and insurers

A few views on the hacking scandal they never inquired about... More »

28th, June 2013 Reviews

Man hooked stolen lawnmower to push bike and rode off

Keep-fit this summer... More »

28th, June 2013 Money 2

About those tax-dodging hypocrites at The Guardian

When we do it it's just fine, legal and moral. When someone else does the same thing it's disgusting tax dodging. Yes, that is hypocrisy... More »

28th, June 2013 Flashback

Men of the People: when pasty-faced politicians who pretended to be just like the rest of us fail

What has George ‘lifelong Chelsea fan’ Osborne learned this week? That passing yourself off as a man of the people is trickier than it seems... More »

28th, June 2013 Reviews

Epic Fail: Anti-gay Christian group produces suggestive logo ('On our knees for America')

Is this an epic fail? The anti-gay mariage, anti-gay, anti etc. Christianist group Call 2 Fall have produced a new logo... More »

28th, June 2013 Money

Branding A Rotten Apple: Stormfront Opens Outlets (Chapters) All Over The UK

Stormfront. What does that name mean to you..? More »

28th, June 2013 Reviews

Pregnant women warned drinking wine makes your baby develop into a Daily Mail reader

PHEW! Cancel the opiates and Prozac. The Daily Mail has news on pregnant women and stress relief: "Mums-to-be 'CAN have a glass of wine a day without harming their child's development'"... More »

28th, June 2013 TV & Radio

No news: TV news readers fills 60 seconds airtime with no news

Helen Kapalos has no news. This is tough for a TV news presenting Channel 7′s Today Tonight.... More »

28th, June 2013 Politicians

Photos: Barack and Michelle Obama look through the slave 'Door of no Return' on Goree Island, Senegal

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28th, June 2013 Reviews

Car crash leaves man and dog coated in gallons of paint (photos)

The man as with his dog. In the car were buckets of paint... More »

28th, June 2013 Sports 2

Everton star Marouane Fellaini wanted by Chelsea and Man City signs 125,000 a week deal at Arsenal

Transfer Balls: A week in the life of Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini. When we last covered the story, Fellaini was on his way to Arsenal, Arsenal had made a bid and the Belgian has rejected a contract worth £70,000-week... More »

28th, June 2013 Reviews

Reporter drops double F bomb, which is nice

News reporters dread the phrase "Kent countryside" for fear of getting their tongue tied. Sometimes, reporters just turn the air blue because their brains switch off... More »

28th, June 2013 Reviews

Queen's representative urinates of expectant mother's doorstep

Eyewitness news of the day is found in the Exeter Express & Echo. News is that an Exeter postman has been caught urinating freely urinating outside a young couple's front door. It went on for months... More »

28th, June 2013 Reviews

Google's Tameside Hospital web search page censors an image of the Grim Reaper

A search for Manchester's Tameside General Hospital on Google delivers a picture of The Grim Reaper lurking outside the building. Big Media's not happy... More »

27th, June 2013 Reviews

Nelson Mandela death watch: photos of the 'racist' media 'vultures'

"It's like truly vultures waiting when a lion has devoured a buffalo, waiting there for the last carcasses. That's the image that we have, as a family..." More »

27th, June 2013 Technology

How the Lara Croft video game made me gay - the proof in photos

What if Lara Croft has been a man? What if the creators of the 1996 video game Tomb Raider had made Lara Croft a man? What would it have changed?... More »

27th, June 2013 Sports 3

Gareth Bale 'signs new contract' at Spurs as his agent 'talks to Real Madrid'

Anorak's look at the Tottenham Hotspur star in the news... More »

27th, June 2013 Fashion

All hail the coat made from human chest hair (Chelsea FC launch new fashion range)

HEY fashionistas! Want a unique piece of clothing that will make everyone else green? Okay, they might go green with nausea rather than envy, but that's the price of fashion right?.. More »

27th, June 2013 Reviews 1

Eyewitness Grandmother: local news hero reports from Tesco Bournemouth

"Shocked eyewitness grandmother Margaret Howe was shopping with her husband David when she heard the commotion..." More »

27th, June 2013 Strange But True

Toddler wishes for 'big boobies' - blame mother and video games

Kids say the darnedest things don't they? Well, one girl will make you coo/vomit when you see her at her birthday party (which doesn't look great if we're being honest here) making a wish!... More »