The life-size cutouts of a uniformed officer, which cost £25 each, will be deployed across Yorkshire Police's patch to make up for the staff currently working on the Jimmy Savile investigation.
"So far," Det. Chief Superintendent Bill 'Skid' Marks...
The online poll of 2,000 Brits carried out by EndPoll for online movie provider 'blankbox', revealed that 57% of people were aware of the Mayan prophecy of the apocalypse and 13% confessed to being worried.
More than one in four respondents put th...
Detectives working on Operation Yewtree have received several tip-offs relating to the stars and are set to arrest six more 'names'.
The sheer volume of allegations, some as old as 130 years, are currently flooding into Police Stations up and down...
Despite the news being less than a day old, a Staffordshire pottery firm has begun producing a commemorative mug for the royal baby.
The Emma Bridgewater firm, in Stoke-on-Trent, started work on the blue, red and white mugs late last night, and th...
Freddie Flintoff led the way. Loveable pisshead and cricket all-rounder Andrew Flintoff entered the ring a former England cricketer but left a heavyweight boxer after overcoming a second-round knockdown to beat lardarse American Richard Dawson on his...
For most of us, unsolicited emails advertising Viagra and other sexual paraphernalia are simply a part of life. Most of us receive them in our 'Spam' folder and delete them without ever looking at them.
But for Marv Kuntz the story has taken a ver...
Prime Minister's Questions took a turn for the worse today where an under-performing David Cameron resorted to cliche rather than avoidance.
Generally speaking it is an M.P.'s right not to answer questions directly. Even the simplest requests for...
The current state of the UK weather is hardly news. Each day we are regaled (literally) with more accounts of torrential rain, howling winds and damaged property.
But to research a story that may well have slipped under the radar, The Spoof has be...
It hasn't been the most edifying of weeks for the Church of England.
First they introduce Archbishop of Canterbury-to-be Justin Webbeleyebbely for our appraisal. Webbeleyebbely has an interesting past, only being ordained in 1991. He had previous...
It started as just another day in the Queen's Jubilee year: a visit to Bristol. Her Majesty and the ubiquitous Phil began their tour at the Bailey caravan factory, marking its own 65th anniversary.
What they were unaware of was that Her Maj had a...
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, he of the croaky voice and bumbling appearance, has told The Spoof that he has a second job. By day he masquerades as a politician, but at night his alter-ego is known as Baldness Boy.
"I wanted to keep this sid...
Yesterday we reported on the mysterious case of Sandy Island, supposed to lie in the South Pacific between the eastern Australian coast and French-governed New Caledonia yet last week proven not to exist.
Despite appearing on Google Earth and othe...
The Government have, this morning, unveiled plans to raise billions of pounds to support the fragile economy. It was widely expected that they were to introduce an increase in VAT, but in a shock, and massively controversial, move, Government spokesp...
In the light of the Sunday Times revelations that the Tory party are taking money in exchange for access to David Cameron the Prime Minister has come out fighting.
Far from distancing himself from the whole sorry debacle he has announced that he i...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own.
Professor Mike Alidascope told us, "This is the planetary equivalent of Barnsley. In fact, we think it might be Barnsley. We...
Swearing at police is no longer a crime because officers hear foul-mouthed abuse too often to be offended, a High Court judge has ruled.
The landmark judgement came as Mr Justice Bean overturned a public order conviction of a young suspect who rep...
There has never been a lot of love lost between Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh, but recently things have taken a turn for the worse.
With a string of manufactured boy and girl 'bands' linked to their respective names, the rivalry has been simmering...
THERESA May gave the green light to the relaxation of border controls which may have allowed criminals and extremists into Britain. And further shocking revelations today show that, in an unprecedented demonstration of 'Christmas Goodwill' Border Off...