27th, November 2011
Celebrities
Hasselhoff is a man who commands attention, much like a car crash demands a look. When you walk into the room and people turn to look, you wonder if you have toilet paper stuck to your trousers. When you look at The Hoff, he knows your looks are born of admiration... More »
27th, November 2011
Sports
Over the internet comes news that Gary Speed, the manager of Wales, has died at age 42... More »
27th, November 2011
Flashback
2 McWhirter, a one-time Conservative parliamentary candidate, had offered £50,000 to anyone who could provide information leading to the arrest of IRA bombers that had been prolific in England... More »
27th, November 2011
Politicians
Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn set up? Was the man who would have been President of France targeted by dark forces?... More »
27th, November 2011
Strange But True
1 When Liz Douglas' Nissan Note hit a telegraph pole and flipped over on the B829 near Inversnaid her life was saved by her white sliced loaf of bread... More »
27th, November 2011
The Consumer
ODD JOBS? I DOG ALLOTMENTS, PROOF-READ, SHOP FOR SPASTICS, POSE FOR ART ETC.. CALL BOB... More »
27th, November 2011
Strange But True
Get a load of little Jihad. The 6-kilogramme (13-pound) boy born to 40-year-old Elfi at Berlin’s Charité hospital... More »
27th, November 2011
Key Posts
The Sunday Times reports that Argus Scotland — where former Labour MP Adam Ingram was non-executive chairman - gave the Gadaffi International Charity and Development Foundation £100,000 "at about the same time as it was awarded a multi-million-pound contract in Libya".... More »
27th, November 2011
Key Posts
Chelsea footballer and former Mr Cheryl Cole has "attacked" a "clubber"... More »
26th, November 2011
TV & Radio
Worrying about what to get your mum or lover for Christmas? One word, presents giver: scarves... More »
26th, November 2011
Key Posts
11 Some of the biggest news stories of the year could not have been reported. Pictures of Charlie Gilmour swinging from the Cenotaph would have been taken illegally, likewise pictures of Oliver Letwin disposing of government documents in a park bin... More »
26th, November 2011
Technology
In this challenge, the tech tester will see if Microsoft's Tellme is better than Apple's Siri... More »
26th, November 2011
Reviews
Google Inc has abandoned an ambitious project to make renewable energy cheaper than coal. Well, superyachts need a helluva lot of wind... More »
26th, November 2011
Books
Great British bollocks from Jamie Oliver... More »
26th, November 2011
Film
Reasons not to see Twilight: Breaking Dawn: its gives you seizures... More »
26th, November 2011
Key Posts
Black Friday is when America goes mad for shopping. Highhlights of the craziness were a Californian woman who squirted pepper spray to beat other shoppers to an Xbox 360... More »
26th, November 2011
Reviews
Local News Story of The Day: The Coulsdon and Purley Advertiser reports on the closure of Jeff Dee Bookmakers, in Purley, which shut its doors owing money to punters... More »
26th, November 2011
Reviews
Studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving, for instance. Children understand and use sarcasm by the time they get to kindergarten. An inability to understand sarcasm may be an early warning sign of brain disease... More »
26th, November 2011
Reviews
[Schultz] wants to embed critical thinking into news the way we embed photos and video today: "I want to bridge the gap between the corpus of facts and the actual media consumption experience" ... More »
26th, November 2011
Celebrities
11 Face of The Day: Cody Adams, aged five, from Gorbals, waits on line to see former glamour model Katie Price at a signing for her new book Santa Baby at the St Enoch Centre, Glasgow. The Katie Price generation is upon us… More »
26th, November 2011
Reviews
1 At Isleworth Crown Court, Bouzalim - a Moroccan who claimed to be an Afghani tortured by the Taliban - was jailed for seven years for 11 counts of deception, fraud and assisting illegal entry into the UK. In all, his lie scooped him £400,000.... More »
26th, November 2011
Celebrities
1 GaryGlitter is on the Mirror's front page. The headline declares: "He's back again". And he has been away... More »
26th, November 2011
Reviews
Lawrence Murder Trial Day 9: Anorak;'s look at the trial of Gary Dobson and David Norris in the news... More »
