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13th, January 2012 In Pictures

Tattoos - The Tramp Stamp

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12th, January 2012 In Pictures

One Direction play Hammersmith - in photos

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12th, January 2012 Celebrities

$94k of unpaid taxes says Lindsay Lohan isn't trouble-free just yet

AWW! Just when it looked like Lindsay Lohan was going to get her life back on track, a whole bunch of stuff keeps tapping her on the shoulder to remind her that, basically, she's going to be in the bad books for the rest of eternity... More »

12th, January 2012 Celebrities

Photos of Heather Mills wearing a skimpy swimsuit on a ski slope

Mills, nee Penny Lane, has posted pictures on Facebook of herself wearing a skimpy swimsuit up a mountain in the snow. This is how you remain relevant and remind people that you here to help... More »

12th, January 2012 Celebrities

Sinead O'Connor is unwell - time for tabloids to pile in

Sinead O'Connor has has featured on Anorak in recent weeks for her brilliant writing and appeal for a man to marry. She got the man, Barry Herridge. But Sinead O'Connor is not happy... More »

12th, January 2012 Technology

will.i.am introduces the Intel Ultrabook Project and the cool kids laugh

Will.i.am is "Intel's director of creative innovation". It's the kind of corporate bollocks that will have the cool kids drooling - and the saps rushing out to buy what will.i.am's got. This is hideous and wonderful... More »

12th, January 2012 Flashback

Photos of the day: The 1980s Quiz

It's the 1980s here at Anorak Towers, the era when Old Mr Anorak's godson Tiny Rowland was big cheese in the Harrods food hall, Margaret Thatcher was made of iron and America was run by Ronald Reagan... More »

12th, January 2012 Key Posts

Shit patronising bloggers say about Shit Girls Say

Some commentators are apparently worried that the millions of people who are viewing, laughing at and re-posting the original "Shit Girls Say" videos and their many spin-offs are doing so for all the wrong reasons... More »

12th, January 2012 Reviews

Sunderland Echo remembers breast implant horror is just about tits

Can a saucy pun be made over the horror of women being given PIP breast implants filled with illegal silicon? Katy Wheeler and the Sunderland Echo have a bash. The headline thunders... More »

12th, January 2012 Reviews 1

Kimberley Hainey life sentence for murdering son Declan (photos of house)

Hainey will serve a life sentence for murdering her son, Declan Hainey... More »

12th, January 2012 Madeleine McCann

Leveson Inquiry: Richard Desmond and Peter Hill on Madeleine McCann and live blogs

Desmond has taken the stand at the Leveson Inquiry - and the main topic of his Q and A was Madeleine McCann. Before him was Peter Hill, former editor of the Daily Express, "who was in charge during the disappearance of Madeleine McCann"... More »

12th, January 2012 In Pictures

38th Annual People's Choice Awards in photos

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12th, January 2012 Sports

Liverpool FC makes a new friend - and he's black

Liverpool stand accsused of being racist and on their website you get this: More »

12th, January 2012 Film

Madonna’s W.E. premiere in London – in photos

It's the bipic in which Andrea Riseborough plays Wallis Simpson and James D’Arcy does the abdicated King Edward VIII. Crowds flocked... More »

12th, January 2012 Reviews 2

'Marines humiliating dead Taleban insurgents': a video of American soldiers urinating on dead Muslims?

A video of US Marines urinating on the bodies of three dead Afghan men is on the internet. Three Muslims. Is the video called “Marines humiliating dead Taleban insurgents” a hoax? More »

12th, January 2012 Madeleine McCann 6

Madeleine McCann caused the Daily Express to withdraw from the PCC

At the Leveson Inquiry Hugh Whittow, editor of the Daily Express, explains why his paper ran the Madeleine McCann story day after day after day… More »

12th, January 2012 Reviews

The Top Ten Newspaper Cuttings Ever (Volume 1)

These are very funny... More »

12th, January 2012 Sports

A football 'sexism storm' stars the uncompromising Phil Jewell and Amy Fearn

Ipswich manager Paul Jewell was upset with defeat and an unpunished challenge in the box on Ipswich winger Lee Miller. The referee’s assistant was Amy Fearn - a woman... More »

12th, January 2012 Reviews

Man jailed for saying 'damn mosques' in Abu Dhabi

To Abu Dhabi, where an engineer employed by the parks and recreation section of Abu Dhabi Municipality to create gardens around a mosque has been arrested for asking: "When will we finish with the damn mosques?"... More »

12th, January 2012 Flashback 2

The Type A-2 Bomber Jacket: bombs, babes and wartime fashion (photos)

The Bomber jacket was the American Type A-2 leather flight jacket that allowed US military men to wear their hearts on their backs... More »

12th, January 2012 Strange But True 2

Lewis woman moves horse into her living room

To Lewis, outer Scotland, where Stephanie Noble, 65, has moved a three-year-old horse named Grey Lady Too into her semi-detached home... More »

12th, January 2012 Strange But True 2

Massive Dutch clog stolen

Anyone being offered a massive Dutch clog on the black market or at a car boot sale should contact the police... More »

12th, January 2012 Key Posts 1

Leveson Inquiry: The Guardian and Daily Mail have different versions of the Steve Whittamore story

Can two newspapers have two different versions of the same story? Yes... More »

12th, January 2012 Key Posts 10

Chelsea captain and Sun monster John Terry turns mansion into QPR shrine

Chelsea and England captain John Terry has a "£4.6m MYSTERY MORTGAGE".Sun readers pricks up their ears. A football story on the front page is always of interest. But where's the sex?... More »

11th, January 2012 Strange But True

Hazel Jones is the woman with two vaginas

You might have caught Hazel on This Morning talking about her uterus didelphys with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield... More »