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24th, February 2013 Sports

Oscar Pistorius: We all knew he was going to kill someone one day

The Sunday Mirror quotes a source who once saw Oscar Pistorius with a black eye. This becomes a "mysterious black eye" in the Daily Mail... More »

24th, February 2013 Film

And the winner of the most memorable Oscar speech of all time is...

Lights, cameras… Cue wailing and gnashing of teeth… Yes, it’s Oscars time again, and that means Oscar speeches... More »

24th, February 2013 Reviews

Heather Frost: The media erects a benefits bashing theme park in her garden

"Dole queen Heather Frost has taken taxpayers for a ride — by hiring out a fairground carousel for her kids..." More »

24th, February 2013 Celebrities 1

Tanning mom Patricia Krentril heads to London in search of the sun's rays

“I was born to tan — and there is nothing like the colour that you get from a sunbed. But in the past year I have been banned from tanning salons..." More »

24th, February 2013 Celebrities

Kate Price announces her baby with a football cliche

Katie Price aka Katie 'Loud' Hayler and her husband Kieran (pronounced: Kevin) are to have a baby... More »

23rd, February 2013 In Pictures

Inside the private jets of the sticking rich - photos

The rich are way, way overhead... More »

23rd, February 2013 Politicians

Margaret Thatcher's battle bus sells for £17,000 (photos)

The bus weighs 38 tons, seats 32 passengers and can survice a 7.62 bullet / handbag-encased brick... More »

23rd, February 2013 Reviews

The Pope, the butler and gay sex in the archbishop's Verona home

Why did the Pope resign? We know what he said. But other think they know different. It's all about the gays. Maybe... More »

23rd, February 2013 Strange But True

When frogs and other animals scream - a video

Aaaaaaaaaaaaa! More »

23rd, February 2013 Sports

Paul Elliott booted by his own Kick It Out anti-racism thought police

Farewell Paul Elliott, who has left his role as the Football Association's ambassador for using the word "nigger"... More »

23rd, February 2013 The Consumer

Weird eBay: 1930s/1940s Vintage French Knickers Silk and Lace x x (model's own)

The knickers appear to be second hand, at least.. More »

23rd, February 2013 Celebrities

RIP Bob Godfrey: from TOTO to Roobarb, The Beatles and Henry's Cat

You died in the same week as Richard Briers, teh actor who gave your characters voies.... More »

23rd, February 2013 The Consumer

Miss Sheffield models Chip Week

They said it would be glamorous... More »

23rd, February 2013 Reviews

South Yorkshire’s chief constable David Crompton calls Hillsborough campaigners liars

And still it comes, the drip of police bile and subterfuge that defamed the Hillsbourgh victims as agents of their own deaths... More »

23rd, February 2013 Flashback

Women behaving like brain-dead fools in vintage adverts

Sometimes,the women featured are simple curve-bots happy to be validated by a man with "infectious dandruff"... More »

23rd, February 2013 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: What really happend with the troll Tony Bennett and Peter Tobin

On Thursday last, Tony Bennett, 65, was given a three months prison sentence suspended for one year for publishing claims that Kate and Gerry McCann caused their daughter Madeleine's death... More »

23rd, February 2013 In Pictures

Quotation marks - the 10 sarcastic ones

UNNECESSARY quotation marks make you wonder... More »

23rd, February 2013 Key Posts 2

Oscar Pistorius jokes: The funniest thing you'll read about the killer Olympian

Today Tony Parsons writes in the Mirror: "The bigots are happy – the Oscar Pistorius murder case has given them licence to openly despise the disabled again..." More »

23rd, February 2013 Celebrities

Ant 'n' Dec: Taking drugs and loving booze never did us any harm

THEM Mirror's front-page scoop is an extract from a interview Ant 'n Dec did in the Guardian's weekend section More »

22nd, February 2013 In Pictures

You had one job - 10 stupid cock ups

You had one - ONE - job... More »

22nd, February 2013 In Pictures

Awkward wedding photos

Don't mind us... More »

22nd, February 2013 Sports

Oscar Pistorius balls: the most stupid things said about the suspected murderer

"But whatever transpires in this terrible business, we must never let go of the things Pistorius helped us to gain. The world is genuinely a better place because of Pistorius..." More »

22nd, February 2013 Reviews

Man beaten to a bloody pulp with a Furby

By the time the police arrived at the scene of the domestic, a house shared by Trimmer and her boyfriend William Ley, they soon discovered that the weapons used weren't exactly the norm... More »

22nd, February 2013 Money

Apple and Microsoft gadgets are more expensive in Australia because of politicians and their taxes

The Aussie politicians are getting all angry at the tech companies because Australians have to pay more for their shiny shiny tech than do Americans. But... More »

22nd, February 2013 Reviews

Weatherman passes out in morning TV stunt

"I want to see how long I can last at G8," Denyer impishly quipped. "I want to know if I'm as tough as Matt Hall."... More »