The ultimate WAG-mobile: Premiership star Stephen Ireland splashes £264,000 on  pimped-up Bentley for girlfriend complete with embroidered lovehearts

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They say money can't buy you class - and so it would seem from this pimped up Bentley that Stephen Ireland handed to his Wag girlfriend Jessica Lawlor as a birthday present.

The 23-year old Irish midfielder wanted his girlfriend's 24th birthday to be special but unlike mere run of the mill boyfriends decided not to bother with jewellery, flowers or chocolates.

Instead generous Ireland surprised Jessica by secretly splashing out on an astonishing GTC soft top decked out in the red and white colours of his rival Manchester United.   

No expense spared: Manchester City footballer Stephen Ireland splashed out on a £260k Bentley for his girlfriend's 24th birthday

The £70,000 a week footballer paid a string of extras to make sure she got only the best for Jessica with a new car which now proudly shares the driveway with his fleet of flamboyant cars at their £5m home in Cheshire.  

Material Girl: The Bentley has customised red leather seats with a romantic message stitched into them surrounded by a heart

At least £1,000 was spent to change the Bentley's B winged insignia to Jessica's initals JL.  

Then Ireland spent a further £2,000 on customised red leather seats with the romantic message 'To Jess Love From Stephen' stitched into them surrounded by a heart shape.

A further £5,000 went on modified bright red alloy wheels rims has Jessica's initials.

The car boasts a 6-litre, 552bhp engine with a top speed of 198mph and can go from naught to sixty in just 4.8 seconds.

Ireland got the idea after Jess jokingly suggested she get her a pimped up car similar to his £97,000 Audi R8 in City blue and white colours.  

Ireland initially had his car customised in red and white but after a ribbing from teammates that it was in United colours he spent another £10,000 recustomsing the luxury vehicle to have white and blue trim.

His car has blue petrol cap shaped into the logo of Superman and number sevens on all his alloy wheels to match with his shirt number. In the back seat is a massive stereo car speaker the size of a spare tyre.

One City insider said: 'Stephen has become just as famous for his flamboyant cars as his football and Jess one day jokingly suggested she should get one too so they could have his and hers Pimp My Ride-style cars.

'She never thought in a million years she would ever get one but Stephen being old romantic that he is decided to surprise her and splash out on a Bentley done up in her favourite red and white.

'He never told a soul what he was doing and Jess was absolutely stunned when he presented her with the car. She's as pleased as punch with it and is delighted with all the effort Stephen has gone to in having customised for her every need and wish.

'He's thought of absolutely everything. The other soccer Wags will be jealous for sure when they see Jess cruising around.'

Lovebirds: The couple take a spin in the £260k Bentley

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Good luck to people with money but that car is horrendous!

- Natalie, Hoddesdon, 06/10/2009 14:23

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True footballers car. The mags, crap paint scheme - it smacks the old cliche: money can't buy you style.

- CarlZA08, South Africa, 06/10/2009 13:20

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If they are pleased with the effect that is all that matters. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The thought behind it is great . Many, if offered the car would grab it with both hands.
Enjoy your present, never mind the media.

- Marian, Essex, 06/10/2009 13:08

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Can you imagine this parked in your local Lidl (and I bet it is)
Chaviness at full throttle !!!

- Jane, Essex, 06/10/2009 13:06

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Makes me laugh how they think we are looking at this car in awe..

They have absolutely no class whatsoever and it with dignity comes a level of intelligence, and it is obvious neither of these pair have any.

- Paul, Cheshire, 06/10/2009 12:52

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CRUNCH!!!

- S T, london, 06/10/2009 12:49

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A general view of what Russian officials claim to be a fragment of Adolf Hitler's skull, at an exhibition in Moscow, Wed April 26, 2000. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP

In countless biographies of Adolf Hitler the story of his final hours is recounted in the traditional version: committing suicide with Eva Braun, he took a cyanide pill and then shot himself on 30 April 1945, as the Russians bombarded Berlin.

Some historians expressed doubt that the Führer had shot himself, speculating that accounts of Hitler's death had been embellished to present his suicide in a suitably heroic light. But a fragment of skull, complete with bullet hole, which was taken from the bunker by the Russians and displayed in Moscow in 2000, appeared to settle the argument.

Until now. In the wake of new revelations, the histories of Hitler's death may need to be rewritten – and left open-ended. American researchers claim to have demonstrated that the skull fragment, secretly preserved for decades by Soviet intelligence, belonged to a woman under 40, whose identity is unknown. DNA analyses performed on the bone, now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow, have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut. The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, Hitler's Escape, astonished scientists.

According to Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni, it was clear from the outset that something was amiss. "The bone seemed very thin; male bone tends to be more robust," he said. "And the sutures where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40." In April 1945 Hitler turned 56.

Bellantoni had flown to Moscow to inspect the gruesome Hitler trophies at the State Archive, which included the skull fragment as well as bloodstains from the bunker sofa on which Hitler and Braun were believed to have committed suicide. He was allowed only one hour with the Hitler trove, during which time he applied cotton swabs and took DNA samples. "I had the reference photos the Soviets took of the sofa in 1945 and I was seeing the exact same stains on the fragments of wood and fabric in front of me, so I knew I was working with the real thing."

The samples were then flown back to Connecticut. At the university's centre for applied genetics, Linda Strausbaugh closed her lab for three days to work exclusively on the Hitler project. "We used the same routines and controls that would have been used in a crime lab," she said. To her surprise, a small amount of viable DNA was extracted. She then replicated this through a process known as molecular copying to provide enough material for analysis. "We were very lucky to get a reading, despite the limited amount of genetic information," she said.

The result was extraordinary. According to witnesses, the bodies of Hitler and Braun had been wrapped in blankets and carried to the garden just outside the Berlin bunker, placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol and set ablaze.

But the skull fragment the Russians dug up outside the Führerbunker in 1946 could never have belonged to Hitler. The skull DNA was incontestably female. The only positive physical proof that Hitler had shot himself had suddenly been rendered worthless. The result is a mystery reopened and, for conspiracy theorists the tantalising possibility that Hitler did not die in the bunker.

For decades after the war the fate of Hitler's corpse was shrouded in secrecy. No picture or film was made public. As the Soviet Army secured control of Berlin in May 1945, Russian forensic specialists under the command of the counterintelligence unit Smersh (an acronym for "Death to Spies") dug up what was presumed to be the dictator's body outside the bunker and performed a post-mortem examination behind closed doors. A part of the skull was absent, presumably blown away by Hitler's suicide shot, but what remained of his jaw coincided with his dental records, a fact reportedly confirmed when the Russians showed his surviving dental work to the captured assistants of Hitler's dentist. The autopsy also reported that Hitler, as had been rumoured, had only one testicle.

But Stalin remained suspicious. In 1946 a second secret mission was dispatched to Berlin. In the same crater from which Hitler's body had been recovered, the new team found what it believed was the missing skull fragment with a bullet exit wound through it. The Russians also took fragments of Hitler's bloodstained sofa.

Even this failed to satisfy Stalin, who clamped a secrecy order on all matters related to Hitler's death. Unknown to the world, Hitler's corpse was interred at a Smersh centre in Magdeburg, East Germany. There it remained long after Stalin's death in 1953. Finally, in 1970, the KGB dug up the corpse, cremated it and secretly scattered the ashes in a river. Only the jawbone, the skull fragment and the bloodstained sofa segments were preserved in the deep archives of Soviet intelligence. The bunker was destroyed in 1947 and eventually paved over. Then, in 2000, the Russian State Archive in Moscow staged an exhibition, The Agony of the Third Reich. The skull fragment was displayed, but only photographs of Hitler's jawbone were on view. The head of the archive, Sergei Mironenko, said he had no doubt the skull fragment was authentic. "It is not just some bone we found in the street, but a fragment of a skull that was found in a hole where Hitler's body had been buried," he said.

In the wake of Bellantoni and Strausbaugh's findings, Mironenko's confidence was clearly misplaced. But could the fragment of skull belong to Eva Braun, who died at 33 and was laid alongside her beloved Führer in the same crater? "We know the skull corresponds to a woman between the ages of 20 and 40," said Bellantoni, but he is sceptical about the Braun thesis. "There is no report of Eva Braun having shot herself or having been shot afterwards. It could be anyone. Many people were killed around the bunker area."

Sixty-four years later, the world is still in the dark about what really happened in Hitler's bunker on 30 April 1945.

Uki Goñi is author of The Real Odessa (Granta), about the escape of Nazi war criminals from Europe

Hello, history books ? Yeah, you'll need to be rewritten. Maybe.

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Mexican TV announced in 2007 that an alien baby was found alive by a farmer in Mexico. Now, it has been two years since it was found, and scientists finally announced the results of their tests on the alien baby: the creature indeed resembles nothing like humans.

According to the scientists' report, the alien baby can stay underwater for a long time, has the skeleton of a lizard, and has rootless teeth which are totally unlike humans' teeth. However, it does have some similar joints to human. The brain of the alien baby is huge, particularly the rear section, which makes the scientists believe that the creature had very high intelligence.

Mexican UFO expert Jaime Maussan (56) was the first to break the story. He claimed it was not a hoax. Farmers also told him that there was a second creature but it ran away when they approached.

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Mexican farmer Marao Lopez first spotted the sinister-looking carcass two years ago, and he said that it took him three attemps to drown the creature before ditching it out of fear. Adding to the suspense, Lopez has mysteriously died upon the discovery.

According to American UFO expert Joshua P. Warren (32), the farmer burned to death in a parked car at the side of a road. The flames apparently had a far higher temperature than in a normal fire! Now there are rumours that the parents of the creature Lopez drowned were the ones who in turn killed him out of revenge.

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