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22nd, April 2012 TV & Radio

Trompeten - man plays two trumpets at one whilst balancing four jugs of beer

Clap along, if you know the words... More »

22nd, April 2012 Flashback

Batman CAN ride an elephant

The argument is settled: Batman CAN ride an elephant... More »

22nd, April 2012 Celebrities

Sir Simon Cowell biography: How Rebekah Brooks fixed it for David Cameron

Tom Bower's unauthorised biography of Simon Cowell makes it into the Sunday Times. The Sun deals with the Cowell sex and the Cowell arse - Cowell seems to view his arse as his bigeset enemy; Rupert Murdoch's more up-market sister organ look at Cowell lifestyle and politics... More »

22nd, April 2012 Celebrities 4

Simon Cowell's 11-times-a-night sex with most of Alicia Douvall

It's open season on Simon Cowell's love life says his PR Max Clifford. And so we journey to today's shocker in the Sun that Cowell had sex with Alicia Duvall, the "ex-model", 11 times in one night... More »

22nd, April 2012 Key Posts 1

Madeleine McCann at 8 - photos and Sunday Express experts

The good news is that the innocent child who vanished in Portugal almost five years ago looks bright-eyed and very much alive.. More »

21st, April 2012 In Pictures

Charlton Athletic promoted 2012 - photos

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21st, April 2012 Key Posts

TMZ says all gypsies are thieves - My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding gets racistier

Gypsies are having a tough time in the media. In the USA, you can watch by My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding.... More »

21st, April 2012 Strange But True

Man attacked by ferrets he stole to pay off drugs debt

In the dock. Marshall, 20, is accused of stealing four ferrets, four guinea pigs, three adult rabbits, four baby rabbits, a packet of bird feed, a plastic container, a skipping rope and two hutches.... More »

21st, April 2012 Reviews 1

German bodybuilders, Flash Gordon and a Ming-a-ding-ding

Big. Hard. Men. With. Big. Inflatable. Guns. More »

21st, April 2012 Celebrities

Did Tinie Tempah turn Jessie J the gay way?

How the Tabloids Work - Tinie Tempah has a new fashion range out by Disturbing London at Selfridges in London. Jessie J is on The Voice... More »

21st, April 2012 Reviews

Inflatbale Titanic stirs memories in Antrim

To mark 100 years since hundreds of peoples died aboard the Titanic, Antrim Borough Council has provided mourners in Lough Shore park with a replica ship made of air and plastic... More »

21st, April 2012 Strange But True

Marathon runner poos ar two-mile mark - Paula Radcliffe and Gary Lineker might nod

The WBI has been called in by the people of Deer Harbour and Elk Creek to discover the source of human poo found on the area's pavements... More »

21st, April 2012 Flashback

When Chris Evert and Yvonne Goolagong met Don Robertson, the European Yo-Yo Champion

It's June 21, 1972, and the yo-yo is the go-ahead sport for go-ahead kids... More »

21st, April 2012 TV & Radio

The yo-yo flick-up-the-skirt trick gets adapted

The Yo-Yo is the stuff of champions. Oddly, yo-yo-ing is not an Olympic sport. Table-tennis is. The two are the chosen sports of the insecure teenage male... More »

21st, April 2012 Reviews

Dania Suarez, Barack Obama and the underage Secret Service sex scandal

Ahead of Barack Obama's trip to Colombia this weekend a scandal has emerged. In checking the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena for bugs and nasties, Obama's Secret Service goons have been paying for sex with prostitutes... More »

20th, April 2012 Reviews

Kyron Horman: Police remain without a clue

Kaine Horman talks about his Kyron Awareness Booth... More »

20th, April 2012 Reviews

Are the NYPD about to find Etan Patz? Kyron Horman is missing

Etan Patz was 6 when he disappeared on May 25, 1979. President Ronald Reagan would name May 25 National Missing Children's Day.... More »

20th, April 2012 Madeleine McCann 2

Madeleine McCann: Five years on the BBC Panorama sells the Our Maddie Mystery

"The senior UK investigator talks to Richard Bilton about how he is working collaboratively with Portuguese police and explains why he believes he has the best opportunity yet to establish the facts..." More »

20th, April 2012 In Pictures

Buildings the look like other things

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20th, April 2012 The Consumer 1

Indian's National Fisheries Development Board building is a massive fish

To India, to gaze upon the new National Fisheries Development Board building, designed to resemble a fish, in Hyderabad. It's a terrific idea, and it should catch on on the UK.... More »

20th, April 2012 Reviews

The Titanic Michael Jackson tribute hits Liverpool (photos)

For added dignity, it was thought a good idea to mark the centenary of the day when hundreds of people died in the Titanic disaster with The Little Girl Giant, a giant marionette that looks a lot like the late King of Pop Michael Jackson.... More »

20th, April 2012 Celebrities

Kim Kardashian wins Total Pro award - world sniggers (photos)

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20th, April 2012 Film

In photos - Scarlett Johansson at The Avengers UK premiere

Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Junior were there. So too were… Oh, who cares. Scarlett Johansson! ... More »

20th, April 2012 Music 1

Valentina Monetta: The Social Network Song - the worst Eurovision song ever?

Valentina Monetta - The Social Network Song is utterly dreadful. It might win... More »

20th, April 2012 Sports

Olympic ASBOs are more Beijing than London

London is geting clean for the world's eyes in this Olympics Year. First they tear down the Occupy London Stock Exchange tents, thus giving the tourists and TV cameras a nice view of St Paul's Cathedral... More »