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7th, March 2013 Sports

Not a brown noser: Spurs star Gareth Bale named daughter after Alveley Village Band

Tottenham Hotspur hotshot Gareth Bale has a daughter. He named her Alba Violet Bale. That's AVB for short, like the Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas... More »

7th, March 2013 Madeleine McCann 3

Madeleine McCann and the Cyprus toaster thieves

Well, if you want to get police to look for a toaster thief, tell them Maddie dunnit... More »

7th, March 2013 Reviews 3

Police seek habitual bicycle seat masturbator

“At first I thought that it was some kind of sick joke, but when it happened for the third time I decided it was enough and reported it to the police. It’s bloody disgusting."... More »

7th, March 2013 Reviews 1

Cycling 'carnage' and a runners' 'stampede' in the New Forest: what really happened?

The New Forest Journal is reporting on looming "carnage". By the paper's front-page news of a dead child and a missing student, we read of the Wiggle New Forest Spring Sportive... More »

7th, March 2013 Reviews

Is the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye paper racist?

On Facebook we spotted the news that the paper used 300 words to report on a shooting in a “white” part of Chicago but just 20 words top tell the story of four shootings in “black” neighbourhoods... More »

7th, March 2013 Flashback

Advice for Yeti hunters from the Us Embassy in Kathmandu

It's 1959. The Yeti is big news... More »

7th, March 2013 Reviews

Police arrest chicken chocker for assault

No monkeys were hurt... More »

7th, March 2013 TV & Radio

Man uses electric stun gun to catch fish - electrocutes himself

Gone fishing... More »

7th, March 2013 Sports

Man United fan calls 999 after Nani sending-off (Arsenal fans might laugh)

Of course, Manchester United eventually lost the game 2-1, and it was entirely because of the injustice of the red card to Nani... nothing more, nothing less... More »

7th, March 2013 Flashback

Nuclear toys of the 1950s

The A.C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab retailed at $49.50 in 1951 (Armageddon-in-a-box didn’t come cheap)... More »

7th, March 2013 Film

Star Wars Christmas cards

Dear Santa Darth... More »

7th, March 2013 Reviews

Heather Frost: which of benefits pirate's 11 children should die in a house fire? You decide

What should we do about the horse-riding benefits pirate of Tewkesbury, Gloucs? Mail readers want her dead. Fair enough... More »

7th, March 2013 TV & Radio

Parrot sings Drowning Pools soulful ballad 'Let the Bodies Hit the Floor'

End of days... More »

7th, March 2013 Flashback 1

Highway Hi-Fit Phonograph

One day all the cool kids would have one... More »

7th, March 2013 Celebrities

Justin Bieber can cause depression in non-golfers

Can all grown women's depression and adult angst be blamed on every teenage boy they ever encountered?... More »

7th, March 2013 In Pictures 2

Rage faces - with CATS

Cats work the meme... More »

6th, March 2013 Celebrities

Russell Crowe has filmed a real UFO outside his office in Woolloomooloo (and fruit bats)

Russell Crowe has posted a video on YouTube which he claims shows a UFO passing by his office window in Sydney... More »

6th, March 2013 Sports 12

Joe Cole tells Liverpool fans what they already know: you're not that big

How football reporting works... More »

6th, March 2013 Key Posts

99 acts of vandalism by BANKSY

Banksy is the famous Bristolian artist, a master of witty one liners. They say he's called Robin ­Gunningham. The Banksy part came from his nickname Robin Banx... More »

6th, March 2013 Key Posts 2

Daily Mail trolls want Tewkesbury mum Heather Frost and her kids murdered

We learn that Doreen Freeman, 81, has died. Her son is Dr James Freeman, 63, a senior university lecturer. He has made public his mum's diary, which detailed Frost's "five-year campaign of terror".... More »

6th, March 2013 Reviews

Car thief identified after being on X Factor

Getting away with a crime is hard enough at the best of times, but if you've been on television, chances are someone will find it very easy to spot you... More »

6th, March 2013 Politicians

King Barack Obama would stomp on the 6th amendment

Is Barack Obama a dictator? No, of course he isn't. But would he like to be one? As he said... More »

6th, March 2013 Reviews

Cardinal Keith O'Brien was 'always straight' with me, says Monsignor in Rome

Ooer... More »

6th, March 2013 Photojournalism

Follow Me To: a photographer follows his lover around the world

In Follow Me To, Murad Osmann let's his lover take his hand and lead him around the world. Osmann, a Russian, heads to Moscow, London and Venice... More »

6th, March 2013 In Pictures

Hugo Chavez - a life in photos

Commandante! More »