December 2005... We came up with some Christmas Gift ideas, had an exclusive on Santa Claus and noticed a film called King Kong was released... This is how we reported it...

November 2005... George Bush continues to slide in the opinion polls, riots erupt in France. The trial of Saddam begins and is adjourned. In entertainment, Christina Aguilera gets married... This is how reported it all...

October 2005... Hurricane Season 2005 continues to cause havoc with Wilma the latest (and thankfully the last of the season). In other news, Tom Cruise is to become father, it's Halloween season and Bird flu is the panic of the moment. This is how we reported it...

September 2005... Hurricane Season 2005 is one of the worst ever for the USA with Hurricane Rita threatening the Gulf of Mexico again, thankfully not delivering what it could have. But the fallout from Hurricane Katrina sees the sacking of the head of FEMA. In lighter news, Britney Spears had a baby boy, Kate Moss was spotted apparently taking cocaine, and the head of FEMA was replaced. This is how we reported the month...

August 2005 will forever be remembered as the month in which Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans. Clearly, at this time we couldn't think of any jokes about that... so we joked instead about... Sean Combs who announces his fourth professional name change this time to Diddy, a tenth planet is discovered further out than Pluto, Dukes of Hazzard, the movie, reaches cinemas around the world, Emenem pulls out of his European tour and is then admitted to hospital, John Bolton is appointed by president Bush as ambassador to the UN and ...

In July 2005 it was a horrible month for Londoners with the worst terrorist atrocity since the Second World War, we mostly steered clear of that story for obvious reasons. Elsewhere in the news, Bob Geldof's Live 8 concert to raise awareness of poverty in Africa and put additional pressure on the G8 leaders (meeting in Scotland) was a sensational success. The next book in the Harry Potter series hit the bookshelves, and the new Charlie and the Chocolate factory opened in cinemas worldwide. This is how we reported it...

In June 2005, Maria Sharapova sets a new world grunting volume record at Wimbledon, Deep Throat (the famous Watergate informer) is named, Michael Jackson is acquitted of child abuse charges after the jury takes 6 days to reach a verdict and Russell Crowe is arrested for an incident in a hotel with a phone... This is how we reported it...