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25th, December 2011 Photojournalism

The Sandycove Christmas swim in photos

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25th, December 2011 Reviews 1

Arrests made at Southampton church midnight mass fight

To Midnight Mass at St Edmund’s Church, Southampton, where the devoted are tossing chairs and throwing punches amid the pews... More »

25th, December 2011 TV & Radio

Brendan Adhere is the man who slipped on the ice

But what was it like for Brendan to be a national joke? Well... More »

25th, December 2011 Reviews

Another day at the rock face for those working on Christmas day

The pre-dawn picture is a tribute to all those who must get ready to work today; emergency services, doctors and nurses, mountain rescue teams, soldiers, aircrews, sailors (military and merchant), their civilian backups... More »

25th, December 2011 Key Posts

Gordon Ramsay's Sex Dwarf presents the 10 best news headlines of 2011

What were the 10 Best News Headline of 2011? Gordon Ramsay's sex dwarf - the one eaten by a badger - should do well... More »

25th, December 2011 Key Posts

Alleged child rapist Jerry Sandusky sells gay films to child rape fans on TLAGay.com

What would alleged Penn State University child rapist Jerry Sandusky watch on his DVD player? Well, that question is rhetorical because we already know... More »

25th, December 2011 Reviews

Santa threatened with spatula by offensive Exeter cafe owner

Greg Martin has p0sted a picture of Santa Claus at his Fuel in North Street, Exeter that featrues the message: "Eat here or the old b****** gets it".. More »

24th, December 2011 Sports 4

Gary Speed: smears, lies and Fleet Street's desperation

The Times editorial is worried, saying that we know “possibly a great deal less than there is to know” about Gary Speed's life and death... More »

24th, December 2011 Reviews 2

Roy Greenslade comments on Nick Davies and phone hacking errors at the Guardian

Greenslade casts an eye over his Guardian colleagues less than faultless reporting on phone hacking... More »

24th, December 2011 Reviews

Warning: do not eat your Eden Project Jequirity bean jewellery

You Eden Project bracelet is poisonous. It contains a “highly toxic seed”... More »

24th, December 2011 Celebrities

Santa Claus blows smut up Kerry Katona's chimney

What's Kerry Katona up to this Christmas? Well the good news is that Santa Claus has the inside take - literally... More »

24th, December 2011 Celebrities

Green Gisele Bündchen's home Ark has room for all the elephants

Green environmentalist Gisele Bündchen is ready to take up residence in her new green $20 million “super-mansion” / Ark in Los Angeles... More »

24th, December 2011 Celebrities

Kutcher begs Demi to let him have Christmas dinner at hers because he can't work an oven

Caught with his pants down on his wedding anniversary, you can imagine that Ashton Kutcher wasn't that surprised Demi Moore promptly went about divorcing his famous arse. However, a little thing like that ain't gonna stop the Kutch!.. More »

24th, December 2011 Celebrities 1

TOWIE sexy Santa Christmas photos

How did Santa Claus turn from being a chubby old man into a vajazzled sauce pot?... More »

24th, December 2011 Key Posts 2

Virgin and Waterstone's say Hitler's Mein Kampf is 'recommended reading' at Christmas

Mein Kampf, the book by one-hit wonder Adolf Hitler, is said by Waterstone’s to be the “perfect present” for Christmas... More »

24th, December 2011 Photojournalism

Santa Claus around the world: photos of Father Christmas at work

Claus is all over the world. He’s in Israel at a Palestinian protest; walking down a road in Milan, Italy; distributing gifts in Seoul, South Korea; being kidnapped by Eric Koch’s Grinch... More »

24th, December 2011 Key Posts

Corina Gutierrez performs the happiest most uplifting Christmas song ever

Corina Gutierrez, aka EX2Smile, of San Antonio, Texas, will now star in the most uplifting and happiest feel good Christmas song ever.. More »

24th, December 2011 Celebrities

George Michael and Prince Philip locked in newspaper death match

George Michael and the Duke of Edinburgh are two sides of a tabloid death coin. Will the singer or Prince Philip, for it is he, die first and give the media a Christmas croaker?... More »

24th, December 2011 In Pictures

Santa Clause (Awkward Santa Photos)

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24th, December 2011 In Pictures 1

Weird Statues: The Santa Butt Plug And Then Some

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23rd, December 2011 In Pictures

Meri Yulanda: first photos of Wati the Indonesian tsunami miracle

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23rd, December 2011 Key Posts

The Meri Yulanda story: is the Indonesian tsunami girl for real?

Meri Yulanda is your feel good Christmas story for 2011. Meri, also known as Wati, was swept away from her village of Ujong Baroh on the Aceh coast, Indonesia, by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami... More »

23rd, December 2011 TV & Radio

Bad TV: woman scared of snowmen meets huge snowman on This Morning

Bad TV presents the woman who can't stand people dressed as snowmen being introduced to a snowman peeping through Jimmy Savile's old Y-fronts on ITV's This Morning... More »

23rd, December 2011 Technology

Stan Collymore, Emma West and the twitter narks

Stan Collymore has been re-Tweeting racist abuse aimed at him and Manchester United's Patrice Evra, the footballer racially abused by Suarez... More »

23rd, December 2011 Key Posts 2

British say French are wrong - industrial PIP silicon breast implants are fine

Will the British Government command British women to remove the implants made by Marseille’s–based Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), the French company killed off by news that it used industrial silicon (used in electrical insulation and mattresses) in breast implants?... More »