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9th, March 2012 Reviews 3

Dead man too big for fridge left to rot on mortuary table for six days

When David Gardner died at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on 1 March, the staff left his body on the mortuary table for six days... More »

9th, March 2012 Celebrities

Face of the Day - Baptiste Giacobini dazzles Katy Perry

Are ya havin' fun yet, Katy? Well, are ya..? More »

9th, March 2012 TV & Radio

BBC TV news reporter falls asleep at desk - video

In this video the BBC news reporter Simon McCoy falls asleep at his desk... More »

9th, March 2012 Reviews

Is Imogen Thomas pregnant in Thailand?

Thomas tweets her holiday photos from Thailand. The one of the former not-Mrs Ryan Giggs Imogen in a bikini is familiar, but the shot of her holding up a small pot of frozen white... More »

9th, March 2012 Reviews

In photos - Louis Vuitton-Marc Jacobs exhibit and fashion law

These are fashion creations displayed at the Louis Vuitton-Marc Jacobs exhibit in the Art Decoratifs Museum in Paris. LV loves its brand. More »

9th, March 2012 Celebrities

Katie Price unviels the inverse bra

Price spent part of today launching her new range of swimwear, nightwear and lingerie at Store Twenty One in Worthing, Sussex... More »

9th, March 2012 TV & Radio 2

The reporter walks into a lamp-post

When lamp-posts attack! More »

9th, March 2012 Celebrities

Celebrity Colonialism with Holly Branson - and Freddie!

"This part of India would be great place to bring kids from back home, to show them how happy others are with very little."... More »

9th, March 2012 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Portuguese police 'reopen' the case

Anorak's at-a-glance look at missing child in the news… The case is being reopened in Portugal?... More »

9th, March 2012 Money

Now Ryanair sues the Commission

The complaint comes after the colourful entrepreneur was told at the end of last year that the commission's travel agency could not book him on to a Ryanair flight to speak at a conference on innovation in Brussels.... More »

9th, March 2012 TV & Radio

Coronation Street's Deirdre Rachid is a chair

Dreary wants you to sit on her... More »

9th, March 2012 Celebrities

Denise Richards is not a prostitute, apparently (Charlie Sheen gutted?)

"The craziest rumour that's ever been written about me is that I was a prostitute for Heidi Fleiss," Denise said in an interview with Nancy O'Dell for Entertainment Tonight. "I think my ex-husband [Charlie Sheen] would vouch for me..." More »

9th, March 2012 Flashback 2

A history of the Great British Football mascot - from Ken Bailey to sex and violence

Once upon a time, football mascots were men like Ken Baily, who dressed as John Bull, helped restore Erica Roe’s modesty after her Twickenham streak, and followed the Queen and the England and Bournemouth football teams across the world. Subbuteo even honoured him with his own model... More »

9th, March 2012 Reviews

Kony 2012 - what really happened when

2012 - Invisible Children - the "dream evangelists" - created a viral buzz with a 29-minute documentary on Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army. Kony uses stolen children to fight his fight... Only... More »

9th, March 2012 Celebrities

Daniel Bedingfield will make a handmade shirt and play strip poker for your money

By now you'll be wondering what Daniel Beddingfield is up to. The legend has signed up to Pledge Music.... More »

9th, March 2012 Politicians 5

Eric Joyce MP banned from every pub in Britain

He has been found guilty of head-butting a Tory rival in a House of Commons bar brawl.... More »

9th, March 2012 Celebrities

John Torode discusses his spoons

"There is no way in the world that a vacuum cleaner will ever be obsolete..." More »

9th, March 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the Day - the Young Carlos Tevez

The young Tevez dreamed of playing for Manchester City.... More »

9th, March 2012 Celebrities 1

Guy Ritchie gets morgue room in new home

Former Mr Madonna Guy Ritchie is fitting hi new £6 million home out with a room "packed with…poisonous plants"... More »

9th, March 2012 Key Posts 7

Daily Mail fails Tiffany Porter's Plastic Brit test

Porter is the Daily Mail's "Plastic Brit". She's the captain of Team GB at the World Indoor Championships in Turkey.... More »

9th, March 2012 Flashback

TV Taboos from 1949 - in racy photos

This magazine article from 1949 illustrates TV “taboos”. Things to avoid broadcasting on the new medium include: “too-tight sweaters” and “too-gay drinking”... More »

9th, March 2012 The Consumer

Man banned from Bournemouth swimming pool for wearing too-long trunks

At Bournemouth's Littledown Centre, Andy Toms and his stepdaughter and her friend are disappointed. He's been banned from entering the pool because his trunks are too long... More »

9th, March 2012 Key Posts 1

Kate Middleton is pregnant - Peter Andre, Katie Price and Kerry Katona will be delighted

Middleton places a hand on her tum-tum and waves to the crowd. To her side OK! delivers the headline is bold yellow ink: "A ROYAL BABY"... More »

9th, March 2012 Key Posts 7

Gemma McCluskie's death is a tabloid soap opera

Gemma McCluskie appeared in 34 episodes os EastEnders between 2000 and 2001. She's dead. Well, so police believe. A body has been dragged form the Regent's Canal in Hackney, London. It has no head. It has no limbs.... More »

9th, March 2012 Strange But True 3

Big man sheds sparkly tutu in police chase

San Diego's 10News.com has proof that life is following cartoons.... More »