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25th, September 2012 Money 1

No, living in Bexhill does not make you live longer

"Now that reputation has been borne out by official figures, after the first detailed analysis of last year’s census showed that the Sussex resort has more centenarians per head of population than anywhere else in the country.." More »

25th, September 2012 Sports 3

Post-Hillsborough Sun overlooks Liverpool idiots to focus on sales

The new Scouse-friendly Sun's report on the Liverpool v Manchester United match is illuminating... More »

25th, September 2012 Key Posts

Mark Webber is Formular One's best champagne squirter: the 2012 season in photos

Who is the best champagne podium squirter in Formula One? No contest. It's Mark Webber... More »

25th, September 2012 Reviews

Two New York suits fight over a tax (video)

To New York, to see two suited and booted New Yorkers fighting over a taxi.... More »

25th, September 2012 Key Posts 4

What happened when Leo Traynor met his Twitter Troll

Leo Traynor met a troll. He left twitter became he was tageted. He joined twitter in May 2007. In July 2009, he received a message: "Dirty f*cking Jewish scumbag"... More »

25th, September 2012 Strange But True

Gerard P Streator: mug shot of man who had sex with an abandoned sofa

Gerard P. Streator, the 46-year-old Waukesha, Wisconsin, man caught having sex with an abandoned yellow sofa, has has had his mug shot taken.... More »

25th, September 2012 Key Posts 8

Why didn't Jeremy Forrest wait until Megan Stammers was 16? Well...

Megan Stammers is the 15-year-old schoolgirl who has legged it to France with Jeremy Forrest, the 30-year-old lover who teaches her maths at Bishop Bell School in Eastbourne... More »

25th, September 2012 Sports

Theo Walcott is desperate - Arsenal just despair

"Theo Walcott admits he is desperate to stay at Arsenal and sign a new contract." So says the Sun... More »

25th, September 2012 In Pictures

Real life cartoon look alikes

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25th, September 2012 Technology

The automatic sperm extractor offers hands free banking

The hands free sperm harvesting machine... More »

24th, September 2012 Politicians 5

The full police log after the Andrew Mitchell ‘pleb’ bust-up

"Whilst on duty at *** tonight (Wed 19th Sept) on a 1400-2200 hrs between the hours of 1800-2000 I had to deal with a man claiming to be the chief whip and who I later confirmed to be such and a Mr Andrew MITCHELL..." More »

24th, September 2012 Reviews 2

Iranian woman beat up cleric who ordered her to tighten her veil

A nasty business... More »

24th, September 2012 The Consumer

Mario goes ape shit (video)

Super Mario loses it... More »

24th, September 2012 Celebrities

Lindsay Lohan's carer in a gif

Lohan. The career so far... More »

24th, September 2012 Technology

London Underground Portraits - iphoneography

Photographer Richard Gray has been using the time on the Tube to create this series of iphoneography... More »

24th, September 2012 Reviews 1

CNN hacked Christopher Stevens

Christopher Stevens lay dead in Libya. The US Ambassador and three other Americans have been murdered. So, CNN goes looting... More »

24th, September 2012 The Consumer 1

Awful food: The Ryanair Steak sandwich

One consumer on RyanAir's Dublin-Alicante flight invested €7 in the steak sandwich... More »

24th, September 2012 Film

Return of the Ewok: Star Wars actor Warwick Davis goes looking for work

David Tomblin broke from filming Star Wars movie Return of the Jedi to work on Return of the Ewok, a 24-minute film featuring Warwick Davis, 11, looking for work... More »

24th, September 2012 In Pictures

Josephine Baker - a life in photos

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24th, September 2012 Celebrities

Josphine Baker rocks the yellow banana two-piece: 1936 in photos

At the Ziegfeld Follies performance on 11/02/1936... More »

24th, September 2012 Celebrities

Show-off Kanye West not so keen on sex-tape release

Despite the fact Kanye West's little yeezy has appeared online already, he's not so thrilled at the notion of a sex-tape of himself doing the rounds in public... More »

24th, September 2012 In Pictures

The Ziegfeld Girls in photos

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24th, September 2012 Money

Black tie activists crash HMRC boss Dave Hartnett's retirement do (video)

Gratifyingly for the protestors, the man to his side chips in and calls them "scum"... More »

24th, September 2012 Key Posts

There's science, bad science and then there's the gays and drugs story

The Daily Mail tells us that the gays are taking more drugs than the rest of us... More »

24th, September 2012 Money

Farm Bureau salutes the female workers - fail

Ever feel undervalued? More »