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Royal News: Prince Harry has grown dreadlocks in order to ‘seamlessly blend in’ during his visit to Jamaica next month, his first solo overseas tour on behalf of the Queen.
A Buckingham Palace source says the Prince has already bought a Red Stripe t-shirt in anticipation of the trip to Jamaica, part of a diamond jubilee tour of the Caribbean and Central America.
Harry has reportedly also learnt...
Poke News: Dear Poke Readers – excuse us while we take a rare break from our usual rubbish to tell you about what happened over the other side of the Channel this week.
France lost it’s triple ‘eh?’ rating on Wednesday when one of our old Poke stories from August 2011 about a fictitious BBC sign interpreter, Leslie Grange, getting sacked for embellishing the news, resurfaced...
Captain News: An investigation has found that the captain of the Costa Concordia, which crashed into rocks off the Italian coast and capsized, has been conforming nicely to lazy stereotypes of Italians.
“Lots of British people have the preconception that all Italians are workshy lotharios who sleep on the job, and we applaud Captain Francesco Schettino for meeting these stereotypes,” said chief...
Tech News: A 24-hour blackout by the site Wikipedia has left millions around the world unable to look up the definitions of the SOPA and PIPA bills that it’s protesting against.
“This proposed U.S Internet legislation poses a very real threat,” said web expert Duncan Bulgar-Pastirma. “And once Wikipedia comes back online I’ll be able to tell you exactly what that threat is.”
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Christmas News: A man without children has reacted blankly when a friend showed him pictures of their child’s recent Nativity play.
“He simply nodded like he understood what he was seeing and said something about the play having high production values,” said Greg Lions, whose son Marc played a shepherd in the performance.
“What kind of monster doesn’t immediately start cooing over Nativity...
The Poke has obtained some breathtaking new footage from David Attenborough’s acclaimed Frozen Planet documentary series.
unearthed by Simon Balch and edited by Nick Pittom
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Murray Latest: At a press conference given just hours before Michael Jackson’s former doctor is sentenced, Justin Bieber broke down in tears, admitting, “Conrad Murray regularly gave me spoonfuls of Tixylix – whether I had a little cough or not. It was hell.”
Defending himself, Murray said, “Justin spooned it in himself and I always sat with him afterwards to make sure he...
Thanks to all of you who sent in your nominations for The Pokes, the first ever awards celebrating the best of UK web comedy.
We received over a thousand nominations, and after a heated argument The Poke’s editorial and technical team have eventually emerged with the various shortlists.
It’s the funniest stuff out there, so please check out the videos, podcasts, tweets, photoshops and...
