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17th, April 2012

Photos of the day – Ridiculously Photogenic Guy meets Good Guy Greg

Blue-clad hosepipe-wielding Scarborough woman dressed as boy sentenced

To York Crown Court, where Scarborough woman Serena Moon, 36, is in the dock…. Read More »

Strange But True

17th, April 2012

Dog gets parking ticket

When Ingeburg Kaminski, 75, left a shop in Essen, Germany, she noticed that her dog Tessa had given a €35 fixed penalty notice… Read More »

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17th, April 2012

The Simon Cowell Sex Factor: lover stole TV star’s wallet and X Factor secrets but never told anyone

Day Three of Simon Cowell’s orgy of print, according to Tom Bower’s serialised biography. Having not had sex with Cheryl Cole, Natalie Imbruglia and sat next to “brave” Dannii Minogue on the telly, the Sun says the macho TV mogul took a “woman” back to his LA hotel room…. Read More »

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Key Posts

16th, April 2012

Inanimate objects that look like Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband has inspired the mind behind Rather Like Ed Miliband to crete a Tumblr site of things that look like the Labour Party leader… More »

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16th, April 2012

Pistol Pippa Middleton continues her morphing into Prince Andrew (video)

Pippa Middelton may have to stop going commando after one of her party waved a pistol at photographers in Paris… Read More »

Royal Family

Flashback

16th, April 2012

Peter Rand’s faces of the 1960s

Subjects include Ian Holm, Harold Pinter, Fenella Fielding, Dusty Springfield, Sarah Miles, Richard Branson and Mike Sarne, singer, of course, of the number one hit, Come Outside… More »

16th, April 2012

Grace Dent v Mufadal Jiwaji – send for The Women

Dent upset Twitter user Mufadal Jiwaji for being not beautiful on BBC TV’s Have I Got News For You. He tweeted: “@gracedent reminds me of a girlfriend I once had. By girlfriend I mean that time I accidentally made love to an ugly abhorrent horse.”… Read More »

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16th, April 2012

Brian Paddick appeals to every Londoners’ inner hooligan

His poster commands: “You Break It. You Fix It.” Is there anyone out there who can look at this poster and not instantly think of breaking it?… Read More »

Politicians

16th, April 2012

Brad Pitt & Angelina to get married and move their 30,000 children into British schools

After spending their whole relationship sneering about marriage, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going to get hitched… Read More »

Celebrities

16th, April 2012

Six-legged baby born in Pakistan – photos

Imran Sheikh, the father, wants help… Read More »

Key Posts

Photojournalism

16th, April 2012

Photos of the day – I was Hitler’s fish-alike

PHOTOS of the day are presented by Hitler’s Fish-alike… More »

16th, April 2012

Kurt Cobain recorded inevitably awful solo album before he blew his brains up

Of course, the second Cobain pulled the trigger, he became exempt from criticism and ensured that his back catalogue would forever be held in the highest regard…. Read More »

Celebrities

16th, April 2012

Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, eBay: are all tax dodging scumbags

The problem with this is that it’s all entirely bollocks: because we’re in the European Union… Read More »

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16th, April 2012

Lord Ahmed’s little problem with Pakistan’s pet jihadis Lashkar-e-Taiba

Memri reports on an article it spotted in Pakistan’s The Express Tribune. In “Britain’s Lord Nazir Ahmed Offers £10 Million Bounty for Obama, Bush”… Read More »

Politicians

Sports

16th, April 2012

‘It’s a goal!’ (Or is it?) – when the referee scores and misses a sitter

John Terry (lying down) helps block the ball on the line to prevent Chelsea from scoring a second goal in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Spurs… Goal! More »

16th, April 2012

Simon Cowell sex book: quiet Mezhgan Hussainy got £5m home in split

Day of the Simon Cowell and Dannii Minogue mind sex story, as told by Tom Bower for his Sun-serialised unauthorised biography – titled Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell… Read More »

Celebrities