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Daily Star shares Big Ron "exclusive" with all its rivals 27 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
After a long summer spent plugging Big Brother for its sister channel and their shared owner Richard Desmond, the Daily Star is now forced to plug Channel 5's definition-defying "Celebrity" version of...
L'Equipe celebrates Twitter milestone in print 26 Aug 2013 | 01:51 pm
Newspapers tend not to mess with their mastheads lightly but French newspaper L'Equipe obviously considered passing one million followers on Twitter a milestone worth making an exception for. The pape...
Mail decides Harper Beckham is "all grown up" at two 23 Aug 2013 | 05:38 pm
Not content with branding an eight-year-old girl a "leggy beauty" the Daily Mail has now decided that at just two years old Harper Beckham, the daughter of David and Victoria Beckham, is old enough to...
Mail readers demand answers in Peru drugs case 21 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm
You have no doubt seen the story this week of two British women detained in Peru on charges of drug trafficking. The media have covered the story extensively and photos of the pair being led into cour...
Silly season update: Game, Set and Match 'Sugarpova' 21 Aug 2013 | 01:28 pm
This week a host of media outlets pounced enthusiastically upon news that tennis player Maria Sharapova was planning to change her name to "Sugarpova" in an effort to promote a range of sweets carryin...
A grim royal family memento from the Daily Express 20 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Here's a heartwarming family portrait for fans and members of the royal family to treasure, courtesy of the Daily Express. Look, there's Kate and Wills and baby George. And there's Grandma Diana and a...
Silly season update: So Bad it's good? 20 Aug 2013 | 01:54 am
This silly season we've already been treated to the cloud that looked like the UK and the Virgin Mary bubble, now The Sun brings us Michael Jackson in the foam on a pint glass: (Hat tip Howard Wheeler...
The People's great white shark story is a bit fishy 18 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
It wouldn't be summer without a newspaper trying to scare holidaymakers and tourist boards with claims that there's a killer shark off the coast of Britain and The People has duly obliged with this ef...
There's 'silly season', then there's this... 17 Aug 2013 | 01:07 am
The Nottingham Post today posed the following question: No, of course it hasn't. But what sparked this question? The story tells us that reader David Miller sent in a picture of an unidentified object...
Newsnight strips "porn user" of her PhD 15 Aug 2013 | 01:43 pm
Spare a thought for academic Dr Jude Roberts who admitted on Newsnight on Wednesday night that she uses porn. A minute or so later the caption writers at the BBC had made the necessary changes to her ...
