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22nd, March 2012 Reviews

Professor Paul Frampton, the “well-known model” and bag of cocaine in Buenos Aires

Officials at Buenos Aires airpot found 2kg of cocaine in bag in possession of 68-year-old Briton Paul Frampton. Mr Frampton is the Luis D. Rubin Jr. Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UNC University of North Carolina... More »

22nd, March 2012 The Consumer 2

The world first diamond ring - a ring made only from a diamond

It is exactly what it is says it is - ring made form a diamond. All other wedding rings must be known as metal rings with diamond attached... More »

22nd, March 2012 Celebrities

Simon Cowell models his new look - it's BGT 2012

You know when BGT is in town when you see the action figure Simon Cowell, a man physically designed to sit behind a desk and lick his eyes... More »

22nd, March 2012 Technology

Giles Walker's 'Last Supper' - photos of a scrap yard Jesus

Is it too subtle..? More »

22nd, March 2012 Technology

Jon Ronson takes on @Jon_Ronson over wasabi dumplings

Jon Ronson has arranged to meet the creators of twitter's @Jon_Ronson... More »

22nd, March 2012 The Consumer 1

Killer daffodils strike Scotland's salad fans

The Daily Record carries an interesting story that "Health and safety bosses have warned Scottish people not to eat daffodils". Are daffodils being mistaken for fresh fruit?... More »

22nd, March 2012 Sports 1

New Team GB kits 'tres patriotic' says Nicholas Sarkozy

The new Team GM Olympic sports kit, as designed by Stella McCartney, is blue. There can be no escaping the lack of red in the Union flag on the kit's top... More »

22nd, March 2012 The Consumer 1

Haircut man banned from Tesco

Nigel Eynon, 42, of Chorley New Road, Horwich, says he was banned from a supermarket because of his haircut... More »

22nd, March 2012 Money

Smoking does not cost the NHS money: nor does obesity

Smoking does not cost the NHS money: nor does obesity. Nor even does booze. So we can tell the health wowsers to bugger off the next time they use that argument upon us... More »

22nd, March 2012 Reviews

Michael Raven's death: tabloid lies and Daily Mail ghouls

The tabloid press went to town over the death of Michael Raven with stories of Facebook bullies and girl gangs... More »

22nd, March 2012 Sports

Stoke City manager Tony Pulis escapes driving ban because sick kids and Stoke-on-Trent need him

"Pulis has escaped a ban after his lawyer argued it would have caused the manager, Stoke City and the people of Stoke-on-Trent exceptional hardship..." More »

22nd, March 2012 Sports

Manchester United twins Fabio and Rafael da Silva off to Barcelona

The Premier League football season is in the Squeaky Bum Zone, and the BBC is looking at who will be on the move next season... More »

22nd, March 2012 In Pictures

Everyday acts of rebellion - photos

Defy authority whenever you can... More »

22nd, March 2012 Reviews

'How does evolution kill black people?' - And then it kicked off

Student Jonatha Carr has a question for Associate Professor Stephen M. Kajiura, who has been discussing sex between consenting peaocks... More »

22nd, March 2012 Strange But True

Urine stored in felon's vagina bottle failed drugs test

Mug Shot of the Day is the face of Mishelle Salzgeber, 20, of Dade City. She's been arrested for violating her probation... More »

22nd, March 2012 Key Posts

Mohamed Merah throws himself from a window and dies - photos

Mohammed Mera, aka Mohamed Merah and Mohammed Merah - the news media has yet to settle on the name of the Toulouse mass murderer - is dead. More »

22nd, March 2012 Flashback

1967 Holiday Camp Music - Joe the baby gorilla takes a bath

In this edition of Holiday Camp Music Classics, we listen in as baby Gorilla Joe takes bath at Twycross Zoo... More »

22nd, March 2012 Key Posts 2

The Killer Shisha tobacco scaremongering blows up in smoke

How dangerous are shisha pipes? As No Smoking Day looms, a barage of press releases have gone out wanting that shihsa smoke is a killer... More »

22nd, March 2012 Photojournalism 2

Photos of the day - mum keeps it under her vest

Keep it under your vest, mum; the greasy pole; passing out in style; salve school, drawing the curtains; a stand off between the snake and the heron; and keep fit to keep fat... More »

22nd, March 2012 Sports

Fabrice Muamba: two deaths, Thierry Henry insults family and Bolton's Wembley dream

Anorak's look at the Bolton Wanderers' midfielder in the news: tabloid lies, and D. Venkatesh and Christina Goredema die... More »

21st, March 2012 Key Posts

Fabrice Muamba and the Munich Air Disaster - compare and contrast

On twitter, Liam Stacey has been death with but what to make of Red Issue, the Manchester United fanzine that sees mourn porn in the media's cynical treatment of Muamba.... More »

21st, March 2012 Film

The Premiere of Wild Bill in photos

Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher and Nick Moran are the streetwise trio of British acting… More »

21st, March 2012 Sports 3

Wolves boss Terry Connor is Oliver Holt's white man's burden

Wolves are bottom of the Premier League. Their manager is Terry Connor. He's black. Oliver Holt notices. He writes in the Mirror: "Why the sick wolves are already howling for Terry Connor's blood"... More »

21st, March 2012 TV & Radio

Dogs as characters from Downturn Abbey, a gallery

It's little known fact that Downton Abbey began as Dogturn Abbey, the everyday tale of dogs living between the wars... More »

21st, March 2012 Celebrities

Kim Kardashian is so low that even Jason Statham feels like he can slag her off

Since Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries died like a mayfly, everyone has had it in for her. In fairness, everyone has always thought she was a vapid nincompoop, but not, fellow celebrities feel safe enough to sling handfuls of faeces her way... More »