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28th, October 2011 TV & Radio 3

Christina Martin's Bad TV: Man At 3-2-1

My name is Christina Martin and as my Twitter bio says “I love bad TV. Sometimes I film it”... More »

28th, October 2011 Key Posts 2

Giles Fraser Resigns: Occupy The Church Of England Takes Over Lehman Brothers' Offices

Reverend Giles Fraser has left his post as canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral for showing what some may see as Christian understanding in backing the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp massed .4 of a mile from its target at St Paul's Cathedral... More »

28th, October 2011 Reviews

College Uses Photos Of Rejected Student In Prospectus

The Portsmouth News reports on Aaron Jones. He was rejected by South Down's College, where he had applied to study A-levels in business, biology and sociology. The college then used photos of the 18-year-old in its 2012 prospectus... More »

28th, October 2011 Strange But True

Ipswich Man Gets Trapped In McDonald's Straw Dispenser

To Ipswich, where a man has become trapped in the straw dispenser at the McDonalds eatery in Hening Avenue, on the Ravenswood development. A fire crew attends... More »

28th, October 2011 Strange But True 5

Woman Knifes Lover In Row Over Monopoly Game

Mug Shot of The Day features the sorry face of New Mexico's Laura Chavez, 60. She is accused of stabbing her boyfriend Clyde "Butch" Smith, 48, with a kitchen knife. She thought he was cheating at Monopoly... More »

28th, October 2011 Flashback 7

The 1970s In Photos

Can you name all the events and people in this gallery? More »

28th, October 2011 Reviews

Sara Raylance And Fazy Uddin's 'Muslim' Death

The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph made this story about Muslims.In their fevered minds, Fayz's religion was in some way complicit in the lovers' deaths... More »

28th, October 2011 Photojournalism

Retro Images Of The Day: Marilyn Monroe's Sunbeam Eggs

All your yesterdays...Groovy.... More »

28th, October 2011 Key Posts 6

Daily Mail Rips Apart Kate Middleton Over A Scar On Her Head

The paper told readers she she was sporting "weft" hair extensions, before launching into a thorough debate on how one side of her head is covered in thicker hair than the other... More »

28th, October 2011 Key Posts

Charla Nash Photos: The Woman Who Lost Her Face To A Pet Chimpanzee

Carla Nash, 55, has a new face. Her original face was destroyed by a pet chimpanzee that also ripped off her hands and blinded her... More »

27th, October 2011 Money 1

Don't Fear The Greek Default: It's A False Alarm

To a large extent all this alarm about what's going to happen when Greece defaults is just that: alarm. Alarm with no real basis in anything that's really likely to happen... More »

27th, October 2011 Celebrities

Michael And Lindsay Lohan Open Father And Daughter Prison

Lohan and daughter Lindsay Lohan's drive to open up a chain of father and daughter jails is moving on apace as dad heads back to choky... More »

27th, October 2011 The Consumer

Does The Man Who Want To Masturbate In Every New York City Starbucks Work There?

Who is Mister PeePee, the loyal masturbator whose ambition is to pleasure himself in every Starbucks toilet in New York? That's over 171 toilets. That's practically a week of tossing for your average adolescent or Noel Edmonds fan... More »

27th, October 2011 Money

Facebook Founder Sean Parker Finds Being Stinking Rich Awkward: He Is The 0.0000001%

Parker was once the President of Facebook. He's now very rich and lives in a house so large you can see the curve of the Earth in his TV room.... More »

27th, October 2011 Celebrities

Courtney Stodden Is The Organic Pumpkin Patch Princess (Photos)

When we first encountered Stodden we thought 17 was the mean age of her surgical attachments. But its turns out it is her actual birth age... More »

27th, October 2011 Technology

The Royal Society of Chemistry Presents Bobbitt

How Bobbitt got his name..? More »

27th, October 2011 Gifs

Gifs Of The Day: Sarkozy's Pole Dancer Lifts

It's all done with string... More »

27th, October 2011 Celebrities 3

Amy Winehouse Was Five Times Over Lying On A Bed Limit When She Died

Winehouse was five times over the drink drive limit when she died. This fact is dutifully reported on the front pages of the Daily Star and the Sun.... More »

27th, October 2011 Reviews 2

News In Photos: October 27, 2011

What you might have missed... More »

27th, October 2011 Reviews 1

Robert Black Murdered Jennifer Cardy: Good That He Was Not Executed

Black kidnapped and murdered nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy. On August 12, 1981, the girl was cycling to a friend’s house in the village of Ballinderry, Co Antrim. She never made it.... More »

27th, October 2011 Sports

The BBC Turns Leeds United's Simon Grayson Into A Joke

Leeds United manager Simon Grayson will not be used to illustrate how irony is dead in the age of the internet and soundbites... More »

27th, October 2011 Key Posts 6

Daily Mail Says Deaths Of Fayz Uddin And Sara Rylance Is All About Muslims

"Muslim boy and non-Muslim girl in 'forbidden love' relationship die after falling into canal." Not Christian girl and non-Christian body… Not "Teenage boy and…". The emphais is on "Muslim"... More »

27th, October 2011 Strange But True 1

Have Your Heart Warmed By Biker Saving Drowning Calf (Video)

When you think of bikers, do you think of oil-stained hoodlums with long-forked hogs, terrorising small towns with their rowdy drinking, pillaging and fistfights?... More »

27th, October 2011 Sports 6

Why Is The Daily Mail In A Rush To Find Chelsea's John Terry Guilty Of (Alleged) Racism?

Terry (Chelsea and England) V The Media and, apparently, QPR's Anton Ferdinand. How a newspaper story works... More »

27th, October 2011 Celebrities 1

Jeremy Clarkson Places Sex Gag On Ex-Wife: Each To His Own

Unwholesome image of the day... More »