Do you ever send dirty text messages? If you do, we’re not judging, but we advise that you look at this text message as a cautionary tale about what can happen when you send a sordid message to the wrong number. The first, to the point message simply reads: ‘Ok, how about we have sex?’ […]

The man claims the recipient of the beard toupée had consented to the ‘treatment’ (Picture: Getty Images) A man is facing jail time after he cut off his own hair and beard and tried to glue it to another man’s head in an apparent attempt to create a toupée. The man, who is in his […]

We’re not quite sure how it ended up in there, but this iPod was found in a toaster two and a half years after it went missing – and it STILL works! A picture of the bizarre find was posted on Imgur by the iPod’s owner, and the device appears to be in full working […]

The 10cm-long parasite removed by doctors (Picture: CEN) The lesson here is never eat live frogs. If you do you may need to have a 10cm-long parasite removed from your head when you’re older, like Yin Meng. Surgeons in Zhaoyang County in south-west China’s Yunnan Province cut the organism from the 29-year-old despite fears the operation could […]

It’s pretty tough being a funeral director and having to deal with the emotions of grieving families and dead bodies on a daily basis. But it got even worse for an undertaker in Germany, who passed out with shock when a ‘dead’ woman opened the lid of her coffin and groaned ‘Where am I?’ When […]

Warning: Graphic images Terrifying! (Picture:Eat The Turnbuckle/Facebook) A controversial death metal band who attack each other with baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire have reacted angrily after a show in Glasgow was pulled by promoters. Eat The Turnbuckle attracted the ire of politicians even before their tour had travelled to Glasgow as a result of […]

Harry Styles has been making sure he stays in touch with his spiritual side as One Direction’s mammoth world tour continues. The band haven’t exactly had it easy during the last week, and they’re currently one man down, following Zayn Malik’s decision to fly back to the UK for a week, after being signed off […]

On Friday 13th March, at 4.20pm, fire broke out in one of London’s best loved cultural hubs, destroying the Grand Hall and offices of a 120 year-old building that for over 35 years has been Battersea Arts Centre. Built in 1893 by Edward Mountford as Battersea’s Town Hall, this distinctive landmark has been a focal […]

The estates had changed. I left in 92 and went back 2007. The places I remembered as working class now fell into two distinct camps: the first, a regentrified overtaking of a community. Sold off council housing; the second had fallen off the economic map. Unable to purchase their castle. They had missed out on […]

Some art exhibitions are easy to sell – Impressionist art, Rubens, Rembrandt… These are household names. So when an art gallery – in this case, the Royal Academy – take a risk and put on an uplifting display of works from a comparatively unknown artist – in this case, Richard Diebenkorn – I just want […]

As loyal readers will know, occasionally we get to sit down with an A-lister for a short but sweet five minutes. This week found us having a tiny window of chat with Spanish superstar Antonio Banderas, in London for the release of ‘SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’, in which he plays a pilate Burger […]

The latest chapter in the Divergent series is a film of two halves. The first has all the appeal of wandering around one of those abandoned concrete-filled cities due for demolition. Greyness abounds. Grey skies, grey suits, grey landscapes of steel and stone. Grey people. Grey dialogue. In short, 50 shades of meh. Things pick […]

The reality star has not been seen in public in months.