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4th, September 2011 Reviews

Gaddafi Stiches Up Lying Tony Blair By Revealing Truth About Abdelbaset Al Megrahi's Release And British Greed

Documents have been found. On the floor of the British Ambassador’s former residence in Tripoli are papers marked "UK secret: UK/Libya Eyes Only". Indeed, readers. Secret paper were not properly filed or shredded. They were just left there intact. On the floor. For the media to find... More »

4th, September 2011 Reviews

Vanessa Redgrave's Dad Did Not Shag Her Husband: Daily Mail Correction

Quite possibly the greatest newspaper correction of the year... More »

4th, September 2011 TV & Radio

Bomb Does Not Blow Up Big Brother House: Tara Reid And Stars Remain Alive To Job Offers

It's not just the show that's bombing. Ed Gleave reports: "Fans fled in terror and staff were left injured when a bomb scare hit Big Brother"... More »

4th, September 2011 Strange But True 3

Car Thieves Help Pregnant Women Change Tyre Before Stealing Her Car

Charlotte Baker is 28. She is nine months pregnant. That's her on the Northants country road between Byfield and Boddington. A tyre on her Porsche 911 has burst... More »

4th, September 2011 Strange But True

Man Molested Vending Machine

It is said that he “maliciously molested, opened, broke, injured, damaged and inserted his body parts” into a vending machine... More »

3rd, September 2011 Celebrities

Billy Joe Armstong Buys Comfi-Slax Reversi Jeans For A Better In-Flight Experience

Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer of punk rock band Green Day, is 39. He tweets that he has been removed from a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland-to-Burbank for wearing his trousers too low... More »

3rd, September 2011 Film 1

Madonna's Frozen WE Proves That Wallis Simpson Was Misunderstood - And So Was Hitler (Photos)

Stuff Botox, just catch Madonna's new film and experience a face freeze... More »

3rd, September 2011 Film

Emma Stone Serves The Canapes At The 37th American Film Festival: Photos

This is how you invigorate a seaside report on grey day in September. Over the waves in Blighty, they've got ice-creams, ketchup in sachets and bits of sandblasted coloured glass... More »

3rd, September 2011 Photojournalism

News In Photos: Assad's Mug, Valencia's Flaming Bull Run And The Afghan Pirates Head Count

News in Photos - what the mainstream media might well have missed... More »

3rd, September 2011 The Consumer 2

How Russia Target Young Smokers - Cigarettes that Taste Like Lollipops

One brand called Kiss boasts that their ciggies taste of burnt lollipops and toasted ice cream. Another advert for the Sweet Dreams label features packaging with happy cartoon girls doing fun stuff... More »

3rd, September 2011 Photojournalism

Photos of The Day: The Cuban Dog Tongue Can Taste America

The photos that make you see life has meaning... More »

3rd, September 2011 Sports 1

England v Bulgaria: Monkey Chants And Why Lothar Matthaus Knows Racism Is Never A Gas

The brains trust direct monkey chants at Ashley Young, Ashley Cole and Theo Walcott. It is appalling. Should the team leave the pitch?... More »

3rd, September 2011 Key Posts 2

Animal Rights Hero Steven Seagal 'Rides Tank Over' 100 Chickens And Fellow Cocks

You are about to see Steven Seagal, the actor, break up a cock fighting ring at the home of unarmed 42-year-old Jesus Sanchez Llovera by driving a tank over a fence and, reportedly, also over lots of live birds... More »

3rd, September 2011 Reviews

Local News Photo Of The Week: The Massive Doodhis Of Ilford

When you're big in Ilford... More »

3rd, September 2011 Key Posts 1

Alien Monster Pig Born In Guatemala: Photos Of The Visitation

Have your seen the alien pig of Santa Cruz El Chol, Guatemala? Locals says the pig is the result of a visitation from outer space... More »

3rd, September 2011 Strange But True

Man Arrested For Eating Live Python With His Bare Teeth

Senk is out Mug Shot of The Day. He's been arrested in Sacramento on animal cruelty charges. He's accsused of biting a live python and ripping off chunks of its flesh... More »

2nd, September 2011 Celebrities

John Cleese To Play Silvio Burlusconi In Bunga Bunga Towers The Film

Back in July, Silvio was heard telling an associate: "I'm leaving this shitty country of which I'm sickened." And then Cleese happened along... More »

2nd, September 2011 Key Posts 5

How The Tabloids Monstered Rebecca Leighton Over The Stepping Hill Hospital Deaths

Rebecca Leighton is free. The nurse was arrested suspicion of murder in July. Her arrest followed the deaths of two men and a woman at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital. The theory was that insulin was deliberately injected into 36 saline containers... More »

2nd, September 2011 Celebrities

Peter Andre And Gavin Henson Destined For Reality Romance

This week's OK! features the words of Peter Andre and Gavin Henson... More »

2nd, September 2011 Sports

Jamie Redknapp's Not In The Least Bit Homoerotic Appreciation Of Fulham's Bryan Ruiz

"I watched a lot of him last year for Twente and he really does have the lot; he's a tall, good-looking boy with the long hair..." More »

2nd, September 2011 Sports

Talking Hairy Balls With Steve Howard, Manchester United's Wayne Rooney And 'Dodgy' Women

More insight from the Sun's man with Sky TV, Steven Howard. Today he's been looking at Manchester United's Wayne Rooney... More »

2nd, September 2011 Politicians 1

Anti-Colonel Moammar Gaddafi Graffiti: A Photo Gallery Of Libyan Racism And Rebellion

Moammar Gaddafi is not dead. He says he and his forces will fight a guerilla war. Is he now the rebel? All around Tripoli and other parts of Libya no longer under his control graffiti festoons the walls... More »

2nd, September 2011 Reviews

White Stephanie Knights Aided And Abetted Gang Rape Of Two Blackburn Girls

Is Knight another victim? She is white. Is her skin colour relevant? No.... More »

2nd, September 2011 Key Posts

Boris Johnson Bans Poor Children From Watching Olympic Shooting: Etonians Can Fire At Will

London schoolchildren can claim 125,000 subsidised Olympic tickets but are banned from watching the shooting in case they go out and shoot people More »

2nd, September 2011 Celebrities

Lindsay Lohan Gets Billy Joel Tattooed Under Her Boobs: Photos

he's doing exactly what a famous person should. And that includes... um... getting Billy Joel lyrics tattooed just under her boobies. That's right! She's got some words inked onto her ribs. They says: More »