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18th, August 2011 Celebrities

Beautiful Helen Mirren Doesn't Like Ugly Young People Getting Plastic Surgery

Basically, she can't understand why young people have cosmetic surgery to alter their ''pure'' beauty. In fact, she thinks its "horrific", which isn't emotive at all... More »

18th, August 2011 Sports

Manchester City Make Samir Nasri Their Third Signing (Fourth From Arsenal)

Nasri - all the facts... More »

18th, August 2011 The Consumer

Tesco's Salford Makes Riot Hit Staff Make Up Lost Hours: Mammon Laughs

"Staff have been given a number of reasonable options to make up their hours. One staff member at Salford is making time back at just 10 minutes a day." What an utter ****... More »

18th, August 2011 Key Posts

Daily Mail: Santa Claus Has Cancer

"Can a change in solar activity increase the risk of cancer for frequent flyers to the U.S.? More »

18th, August 2011 Reviews 6

David Starkey V Rastamouse - White Working Class Just Looking For Fun

Starkey V Rastamous. It's a TV celebrity Smack Down. David Starkey is the historian who says "whites have become black”. Rastamouse is a children's telly hero... More »

18th, August 2011 Money

Are Women Being Unfairly Denied Jobs?

No, I don't mean the usual feminist whinge that women are discriminated against because none of them have been hired as FTSE chief executives immediately after 15 years of raising sproglets. No, rather, the general difference in unemployment rates that we're seeing... More »

18th, August 2011 Politicians

Anna Hazare Is Like Gandhi Only More Alive And Fatter: India Anti-Corruption Protest Photos

Anna Hazare is not just man with a girl's name. He's the anti-corruption activist staging an indefinite fast... More »

18th, August 2011 TV & Radio

OK! Scoops Rivals To Big Brother Top Secret Shocker

Big Brother is on Channel Five and in OK! magazine. In this week's OK!, the Big Brother house gets showcased... More »

18th, August 2011 Celebrities 2

Former East 17 Singer Brian Harvey And The Day The Police Arrived To Change His Meter - Video Epic

Harvey will now show you around the front of his house in Walthamstow, East Seventeen. Yeah, it's the former East 17 Singer Brian Harvey. The video is entitled 'Brian Harvey And The Day The Police Arrived To Change His Meter'. It is brilliant... More »

18th, August 2011 Politicians 1

John Prescott Cheers His Role In '7/11' And The Asian Tsunami While Applying Double Standards To David Cameron

Prescott is a ubiquitous presence on the telly. Recently the walking Spitting Image puppet was talking about how terrible it as that David Cameron was on holiday in Italy when the riots broke out. .. More »

18th, August 2011 Key Posts

The Hornsey High Street Riot That Should Have Warned The Police What Would Come Next

Youths armed with glass bottles, bricks and stones turned a high street into warzone over the weekend as they fought a running battle with police. At one stage bottles and bricks rained down on riot police... More »

18th, August 2011 TV & Radio 1

X Factor 2012: Let Cynicism And Tulisa Contostavlos' New Teeth Rule (Launch Party Photos)

Tulisa Contostavlos, the NDubz singer who is now so street that she's got new teeth, shiner hair and an orangey tan. It's not only the acts who go through the Cowell processing plant… More »

18th, August 2011 Gifs

Gifs Of The Week: The Wheelbarrow Football Face Kick

To brighten up your day - gifs of sporting excellence... More »

18th, August 2011 Sports

Real Madrid Jose Mourinho Gouged, Tugged And Murdered Barcelona Coach (Video And Photos)

It's Barcelona v Real Madrid. Fabregas v Ronaldo. Guardiola v Mourinho. And Mourinho is getting involved in a fight. He's sneaking up behind a Barcelona man and…Well, what did he do? More »

18th, August 2011 Key Posts

A-Levels Are Sexy: Media Photos Of Pretty Shaggable A-Level Students

The media is responding to the call sent out by schools looking to showcase their most shaggable pupils. We at Anorak will compile a gallery of the most photogenic.... More »

18th, August 2011 Strange But True 6

Cow Gets Head Stuck In Ladder: Photos And Pun Challenge

The cow has got her head stuck in a ladder in South Ayrshire. The cow is now free. The tale is moo-ving... More »

18th, August 2011 Strange But True

Amazing Photo Of Fairy Captured In Mexico

ose Maldonado, an unemployed 22-year-old bricklayer, has captured a live fairy... More »

18th, August 2011 Strange But True

Police Seek Robber With Knickers On Head (Video)

The suspect was last seen wearing a black and white flower dress with white boots. On his he he wore a flowery pair of knickers... More »

18th, August 2011 TV & Radio

Woman Uses Lawnmower To Power Wheelchair? ( Video)

What's happening here..? More »

18th, August 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Windscreen Licker

To lighten the mood... More »

18th, August 2011 Key Posts

Ian Redmond's Death By Shark Could Have Been Worse, Says Daily Mail

Ian Redmond has been killed on his honeymoon in the Seychelles. His death is on the front pages of the Sun (the treasure hunt - "Find my Ian's wedding ring"), the Mirror (Mrs Shark's view - "SHARK'S WIDOW SPEAKS") and... More »

17th, August 2011 Celebrities

Salma Hayek's Nuance Takes Years Off Your Camera Lens

Hayek is fit. She has great hair, wonderful thruppeny bits and not a single line nor imperfection on her face. And you too can look like Salma thanks to her range of cosmetics called Nuance... More »

17th, August 2011 Reviews 4

Rats Did Not Cause Black Death Says Boffin With Book Out

History time now as we learn that rats did not carry the flea that carried the Black Death in London back in1348 and 1349... More »

17th, August 2011 Reviews 2

Richmond Council Houses Young Offender In Premier Inn Hotel

Has Richmond council housed an alleged young offender on remand in a…Premier Inn hotel? More »

17th, August 2011 Strange But True

Thieves Steal And Hide Woman's Remote Control Again And Again (Video)

The thieves may well be part of the same shadowy international gang that keep stealing my mobile phone... More »