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War on Drugs: woman smuggled cocaine in her breast implants
TO Barcelona airport, where a woman from Panama on a flight from Bogota, Colombia, is carrying drugs. The 1.38 kilograms (3 pounds) of cocaine is secreted in her new breast implants.
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Posted: 13th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Kansas City Star wants reporters Karen Dillon or Dawn Bormann to pick which one of them gets fired?
WHO’D be Karen Dillon or Dawn Bormann? It’s been reported that the two reporters on the Kansas City Star have to decide which one of them gets fired. The clear move would be to sack the indecisive / sadistic jerk who thought of this pre-Christmas wheeze.
KC Confidential reports:
They brought in two reporters – Karen Dillon and Dawn Bormann – and told them that one of them had to go. And that they had to decide which one would stay and they had until next week to figure it out. Sort of like ‘The Hunger Games.’ That’s the scuttlebutt anyway.
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Blind man runs over girlfriend after 5 bottles of wine
GALLOWS humour is something that drags every one of us through the day because, without it, we’d spend our entire lives sobbing at work.
And so, let us laugh at a story about a man who is registered blind, running over his partner in a car, after drinking five bottles of wine… because the reality of it could very well be far too depressing to contemplate.
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CCTV footage of fools in train stations released
BEING drunk on a train is the single most soul-destroying experience a human can suffer. Sat on a wobbling, hot carriage with a headache, reeking of ale and needing the toilet every 10 minutes. If you’re going to be drunk on a train, at least have the clout to have been on a good night out beforehand, rather than just getting trolleyed on a choo-choo.
That said, if you do end up tottering through a train station when you’ve had a few, you might end up on a video put out by a train company.
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Israeli Spy Vulture downed in Sudan – first they came for the corpses
TO Kereinek, a town in the Darfur region of western Sudan, where locals have down an Israeli spy vulure. The bird has been fitted with a GPS device. It carries a solar-powered gadget to broadcast images via satellite. And that is not all. The vulture’s leg bears a tag with the legend “Israel Nature Service” and “Hebrew University, Jerusalem”.Curse those muderous Israelis! First they kill and kill some more with glee and bloodlust, then they send covert troops to devour the evidence.
1967 Boston Marathon: Kathrine Switzer breaks the sex race
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Posted: 11th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, Sports | Comment
Turkey: Apocalypse hotspot
THE end of the world is clearly nigh. Badgers are trying to kill us and catfish will almost certainly be eating us whole very soon. Even the Australian PM has warned us of an imminent end-game. The only thing left for us to do is grab the popcorn and watch the horror unfurl.
And where’s the best place to do it? TURKEY! How seasonal.
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Daily Mail monsters frugal, black, single mother from an estate in Croydon
ROSIE Taylor has read Closer magazine. She has read about Leanna Broderick, an unemployed, black, single mum who brings up two young children on her own in Croydon. So resourceful and selfless is Leanna that she saves the small sums she gets in benefits and is thus able to give her kids a few treats.
Taylor takes a different line:
While many families are worrying about how to afford Christmas this year, one jobless single mother has revealed she receives so much in benefits she has £2,000 to spend on designer gifts, clothes and partying.
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Posted: 11th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Niamh O’Doherty and Maureen Johnson explain how the Daily Mail and HuffPost work
HOW the Daily Mail and Huffington Post work. That card advising 13-year-old girls to get bigger breasts his the news cycle. was spotted by the Mail. Niamh O’Doherty wrote:
American novelist Maureen Johnson was travelling though the UK when she came across the card. She took a picture and posted it to Twitter with the message: ‘Dear @HallmarkPR, SERIOUSLY???? #letsmessgirlsupearlywithcards’.
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Posted: 11th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
South Yorkshire Police buy 280 uniformly white coppers
PLASTIC coppers are so un-eco friendly that South Yorkshire Police have spent £7,000 on 280 cardboard police officers. These coppers are biodegradable and can be recycled as police cars (you’ll need six; and ask your mum for scissors).
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Menacing Lancashire police sing Santa Claus is Coming to (a Lancashire) town!
WHAT are Lancashire Police doing to prepare for the Holiday Season? They’re singing Santa Claus is Coming to (a Lancashire) town! He’s an illegal immigrant hauling contraband and importing rabid beasts.
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Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch: Duchess to name baby after Jacintha Salanha
KATE Middleton Pregnancy Watch – Day 10 of the Duchess of Cambridge’s womb news: Can we honour Jacintha Salanha by naming the Royal baby after her? Will DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian make a pilgrimage to see Lord Leveson on holiday in Australia? Who will win the PR fight for the nurse’s soul?
The front pages:
Who’s the most upset?
The Sun: “Hoax two in tears at nurse’s suicide”
Daily Mail: “Anguish of the Suicide Nurse’s family”
The Scotsman: “Family miss ‘Royal hoax nurse’ every moment of every day”
The Mirror: “Daughter’s tears for victim of Kate prank”
The Guardian: “A mother mourned”
i: “Australian DJs ‘gutted’ over hoax nurse death”
Daily Star: “DJ Mel Sobs for Royal Nurse”
The Star’s front page has Mel looking teary eyed up to image of Jacintha’s family.
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Posted: 11th, December 2012 | In: Reviews, Royal Family | Comment (1)
The story of the Klu Klux Klan in pictures: racism, civil rights and murder
THE Klu Klux Klan was once powerful. The Far Right, anti-immigration, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jew, anti-anything not white and Protestant and lately pro-Nazi group has been a fixture of the US political lanscape ever since it was founded in 1865.
This is a history of its members and those who opposed its racism in photos. The captions are of their time:
Ku Klux Klan members parade past the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, D.C. in 1925. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 10th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comments (3)
1931: State Superintendent closes American Union Bank New York
FLASHBACK: Depositors gather outside the closed doors of the American Union Bank in New York City, Aug. 5, 1931. It is one of the smaller city banks which experienced a depreciation of their assets and were closed by order of the state superintendent of banks. (AP Photo)
Posted: 10th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, Money | Comment
Jacintha Saldanha: Austereo CEO Rhys Holleran tries to make things worse
CAN the Jacintha Saldanha story get worse? Well, yes:
Austereo CEO Rhys Holleran has admitted the station attempted to contact the hospital after recording a prank phone call involving a nurse who later took her life.
In an interview with Melbourne radio station 3AW this morning, Mr Holleran said his team had tried to liaise with London’s King Edward VII Hospital before airing the controversial call.
“We rang them up to discuss what we had recorded. Absolutely (before it went to air). We attempted to contact them on five occasions… because we wanted to speak to them about it,” he said.
“It is absolutely true to say that we did attempt to contact those people.”
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1971: the Mars selection box
FLASHBACK to 1971: the Mars Christmas Selection Box offers a packet of Treets (chocolate-coated peanuts), a Twix, a Mars Bar, a Marathon (now called Snickers), Milky Way and a tube of Spangles. It came with free Optical Illusion Cards! to make today’s non-super-sized confectionary look larger.
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Posted: 10th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
1957: ‘Build Throbbing Vibrato’ with Popular Electronics
IT’S 1957 and all the young cats are buying Popular Electronics to create that “Throbbing Vibrato”:
Police flash mob raid 93 Feet East Gets – the video
TO Brick Lane, London, where the police are raiding 93 Feet East. Like most of you, last Friday night I noticed that burglars, money launderers and tax dodgers were doing all right. Meanwhile, 175 police officers as part of Operation Condor were getting on down to 93 Feet East. They were looking for drugs were being sold on the premises.
No. Really. Drugs in an East Lodnon club. Next week, 200 hundred coppers shoot fish in a barrel.
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Posted: 10th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (8)
The biggest Christmas Trees of 2012 – from New York and Washington to London, Bussels and Hong Kong
WHO has the biggest, flashiest, most God-fearing, greenhouse gas emitting Christmas tree of 2012?
WASHINGTON DC
Look out Iran!
Workers deliver the 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree, a 73 foot Engelmann Spruce from the White River National Forest, near Meeker, Colo., at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. The 74 year-old tree will be decorated with more than 5,000 handmade ornaments and will be illuminated on Dec. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 9th, December 2012 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment
Warning: This Daily Express story could ‘potentially cause harm to people with cancer’
THE Daily Express has a question: “DO CANCER ALTERNATIVES REALLY WORK?”
Well, if alternatives did work surely people suffering from the hideous disease would use them, no? Or is the medical profession so stubbon and stupid that it does not consider alternative “remedies” in the face of proof that they work? Jane Warren reports:
THE YOUNG mother who disappeared with her seven-year- old son to prevent him receiving cancer treatment for a brain tumour was motivated by an understandable desire not to see him suffer any more than he needs to, says the seven-year-old boy’s father.
After a frantic nationwide search both Neon and Sally Roberts have now been found and the youngster has been temporarily placed in protective care and will be given the emergency treatment he needs.
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Posted: 9th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Kate Middleton pregnancy watch: Did the Duchess of Cambridge kill Jacintha Saldanha?
KATE Middleton Pregnancy Watch: Day 7 of the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy – Jacintha Saldanha and 2Day FM presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian continue to occupy minds:
The front pages:
The Sun: “First Pic of Hoaxed Suicide Nurse”
“Husband tells of his grief – MY ANGEL”
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Posted: 9th, December 2012 | In: Reviews, Royal Family | Comments (7)
Local News: The Sheffield Star finds a tomato surprising
LOCAL news of the Week: The Sheffield Star has news:
Pathetic Australian journalist implicates ‘laughing’ Prince Charles in radio prank
JACINTHA Saldanha has died. Pranked on air by two Australian DJs, the nurse who worked at the hospital where Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, was being treated, seems to have committed suicide. You might have thought their hoax call funny. Wendy Harmer “Co-Founder of the Aussie women’s online mag, The Hoopla. Journo. author, stand-up, bigmouth, mum” thought it was great.
She tweeted:
“Those two kiddos are legends!”
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Posted: 8th, December 2012 | In: Reviews, Royal Family | Comments (4)
