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24th, April 2012 Key Posts

Chelsea beat Barcelona in photos - and Geoff Shreeves kills Ivanovic

Before the best photos from the match, a word to Geoff Shreeves, who seems to break the news to Branislav Ivanovic that he's suspended for the final... More »

24th, April 2012 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: The Etan Patz connection

Det Ch Insp Andy Redwood told the BBC's Panorama... More »

24th, April 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the Day - living the dream on a pole

This could be you... More »

24th, April 2012 Celebrities 2

Harvey Price gets scalped like a French collaborator

Harvey Price - time to go it alone... More »

24th, April 2012 Sports

Sport mag alters cover shot of the Xavi-Puyol classico nosh

And you thought only Chelsea players loved to hug and kiss... More »

24th, April 2012 Money 1

Idiot Newspaper Headline of the Day

"With Venezuelan Food Shortages, Some Blame Price Controls." Some..? More »

24th, April 2012 Sports

Football Dive of the day - HB Koge Defender Ronni Bendtsen

Marvellous... More »

24th, April 2012 Reviews 12

Sky News names Ched Evans' rape victim as Natasha Massey gets vocal

The story of Ched Evans rape continues to make waves. The woman raped by the the Sheffield United footballer has had her name broadcast on twitter and Sky News... More »

24th, April 2012 Celebrities

Former glamour model says she had sex with Simon Cowell 11 times in one night, which she didn't?

There is a huge "unofficial" media story that makes Simon Cowell look like a veritable stud at the minute, which of course, sends alarm bells ringing with anyone who has thought about the way media companies present the news for more than 5 seconds... More »

24th, April 2012 Reviews

Leyton rapists, prostitute mutilators and Ched Evans fans - what's wrong with men?

To Zimbabwe, where digitaljournal.com says a woman working as a prostitue was murdered with an electric cord and her eyes plucked out with a coat hanger... More »

24th, April 2012 Strange But True

Happy Mug Shot of the Day - Robert Authelet smiles for the police

Happy Mug Shot of the Day - Robert Authelet, 18, of Conneticut. He was arrested in one day for stealing rain gutter, downspouts and copper piping... More »

24th, April 2012 Reviews

Google honours Swedish zipper man

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24th, April 2012 Reviews 1

Face of the day - James Murdoch tongues the Leveson Inquiry

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24th, April 2012 The Consumer 1

So. She got her beauty spots made into a dot-to-dot tattoo

"Ever since I was little I joked about getting my birthmarks numbered..." More »

24th, April 2012 Celebrities

Made In Chelsea star's 'cocaine' shame

The Sun says Made In Chelsea star Spencer Matthews has been "photographed sniffing cocaine in front of stunned fans"... More »

24th, April 2012 Celebrities 3

Tim Lovejoy tweets his ballbag to the world by accident through Twitter

Well, prepare to throw up into your own hand as it slowly dawns on you that the picture of the gentleman you can see standing proudly in his briefs is that very same vapid television botherer, Mr Lovejoy.... More »

24th, April 2012 Key Posts 1

Claire Squires death at the London Marathon becomes a spectator sport

No little shock at Claire Squires' death at the London Marathon. The 30-year-old from North Kilworth, Leicestershire died on Birdcage Walk, not far from the finishing line. Her death is the tenth since the London Marathon began in 1981... More »

24th, April 2012 Reviews

Emily Longley: the death of a blonde

At Winchester Crown Court, Elliot Turner is accused of killing his girlfriend in Bournemouth on May 7 2011. It's further alleged that his parents, Leigh and Anita, lied to the police to protect him... More »

23rd, April 2012 In Pictures

Susan Sarandon - a life in photos

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23rd, April 2012 Flashback

When the manacled swimmer Jules Gautier swam the Boat Race

It's January 1 1909 and Jules Gautier, is the manacled swimmer... More »

23rd, April 2012 Key Posts 6

The Daily Mail's bird brained 'elf and safety hysterics with the Carshalton Ponds firemen

When the Daily Mail highlighted the madness of 25 "foremen" racing to save a bird in Carshalton Ponds, South London, we clacked our marmalade-coated tongues and knew if was 'efl and safety gone mad.... More »

23rd, April 2012 The Consumer 1

What drugs will you take?

"People who use illicit drugs often have been shown to have higher rates of both extroversion..." More »

23rd, April 2012 Music

Unseen Beatles photos up for sale - the Olympics Years

One photo is of an in-flight meal for the Fab Four's trip to The Bahamas for filming of 'HELP!' next their autographs.... More »

23rd, April 2012 Reviews 1

The Walmart of Weed does battle with regressive marijuana laws in Washington and Amsterdam

America's attitude to weed is strange. On April 2, 2012, U.S. marshals raid Oaksterdam University in Oakland, Calif, which teaches people how to grow marijuana. And then... More »

23rd, April 2012 Celebrities

Rihanna: going to die like Whitney Houston?

Rihanna has been a gigantic pain in the posterior lately, flaunting herself to the point of apathy. We've had vague allusions to drug use, side-boob... More »