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12th, October 2011 Reviews 4

News In Photos: October 12 2011

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12th, October 2011 Reviews 2

Lottery Winner Angela Dawes's Son Demands More Than £101Million To Mend His Heart

When Angela Dawes and Dave Dawes win £101mllion on the lottery, the tabloids set about seeing if they could expose them as undeserving of fortune... More »

12th, October 2011 Key Posts 1

Joanna Yeates Murder Trial: Tabloids Corrupt Facts As Nigel Lickley Persuades Jury

Anorak’s look at the Vincent Tabak’s trial in the news.... More »

12th, October 2011 Strange But True 3

Motorcyclist Breaks Speed Limit Without His Bike

To Switzerland, where a 38-year-old motorcyclist has been caught speeding without a motorbike... More »

12th, October 2011 Strange But True

Did Harry Hill Fan Knife Husband In Row Over TV?

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12th, October 2011 Strange But True

Bank Robber Handwriting Fail: Teller Can't Read Demand Note

Thomas J. Love, 40, intedend to rob the WSFS bank in the Crossroads Shopping Center on New Castle Avenue Delaware... More »

12th, October 2011 Strange But True

Man Asks Police To Return His Dropped Marijuana

Bennet says the bag of marijuana police officer Dwayne Ausbrooks has found on the tarmac outside a Pittsburgh shop is his. Bennett says he accidentally dropped the weed... More »

12th, October 2011 Strange But True

Police Arrest Mullets For Amish Hair Crimes (Photos To Cherish)

Amish men can rest easy- their beards too - in the knowledge that a splinter Amish group who were going about chopping off their brethren's beards and hair have bene captured.... More »

12th, October 2011 Key Posts 2

National Coming Out Day Cards: For The Secret Gay In You

If you get a card, you might well be gay - but just the last to know... More »

12th, October 2011 Reviews 3

Gilad Shalit: Hamas Release The One Jew In Gaza

Gaza is not occupied by Israel. There is only one Jews in Gaxa. This name: Gilad Shalit.. More »

12th, October 2011 Celebrities

Beyonce Names Baby Ikea

By now you will have read all about Beyonce’s flat-packed baby bump that she showcased on Molly Meldrum’s Sunday Night program... More »

12th, October 2011 In Pictures

Steve Jobs: The Best Tributes

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12th, October 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Steve Jobs Face Plant

Ouch! That looks like it must have hurt... More »

11th, October 2011 Technology

Twitter Can Get You Sacked: Reporter's Rob Crilly's Tonto Tweets Go Global

Rob Crilly knows that Twitter can get you sacked. We say was because when Crilly got into a row with the news desk over their working of his story on Libya, things went awry.... More »

11th, October 2011 Key Posts

Mug Shot: Popeye Arrested For Fatal Shooting

Popeye has been arrested in Minnesota. Popeye, going under the name of 81-year-old Delbert Huber... More »

11th, October 2011 Money 1

Dave And Angela Dawes Win £102,203, 600.70: Chelsea Fan Might Yet Save Club

Dave, 47, and Angela Dawes, 43, plan to continue living in their £70-a-week one-bedroom flat; she will continue her volunteer work for the British Heart Foundation; he will continue to work 12-hour shifts as a forklift truck driver for Premier Foods... More »

11th, October 2011 TV & Radio

ITV Introduces A Licence Fee Tax, Say BBC Workers

The BBC News Quiz is something that challeges the listener to stick with it... More »

11th, October 2011 In Pictures

Occupy Wall Street: The Best Signs

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11th, October 2011 Key Posts

Daily Mail And Daily Telegraph Save Doubting Thomas The Tank Engine From Anti-Christians

They've only gone and banned Christmas on Thomas the Tank Engine! The Daily Mail says Thomas has been “forced to carry 'decorated tree' for 'winter holidays' as Christmas is banned on Sodor”... More »

11th, October 2011 Politicians

President Herman Cain Will Bomb All Countries Ending In 'Stan'

If Herman Cain becomes president of the USA, he may well bomb a country he can't even be bothered to name... More »

11th, October 2011 TV & Radio

Trampolining On The Walls: Video

Trampolining is better than taking the stairs... More »

11th, October 2011 Politicians

Bill Clinton Has A Photographic Memory For Things He Wants To Remember

According to an article from the Washington Post, Clinton "stunned a friend visiting the White House by saying, 'Let's call your parents!' and then reciting a number he hadn't dialed in more than a decade"... More »

11th, October 2011 Reviews

Daily Mail Health Scare Tuesday: Autumn Makes You Bald

It's Health Tuesday in the Daily Mail: brace yourself for misery and pain... More »

11th, October 2011 Celebrities 2

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Wants To Eat Your Puppies

"I have no objection to a high-welfare organic puppy farm. You can’t object, unless you also object to the farming of pigs..." More »

11th, October 2011 Flashback

On This Day In Photos: Saturday Night Live Is Born

On this Day In Photos: October 11 1975 – Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol’s Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC TV, with George Carlin as the host... More »