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A bomb disposal expert has become only the second female British soldier to die in the Afghanistan conflict. Brave Captain Lisa Jade Head, 29, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, had just disabled one homemade bomb in an alleyway in Helmand Province when a second blew up leaving her with...

Kate Middleton has unveiled her new Coat of Arms. The design features three acorns, representing Kate and her two siblings. The oak tree is also a traditional symbol of England and strength and is a feature of west Berkshire, where the Middletons have lived for 30 years. The gold chevron in...

At the weekend, 16 vicars auditioned to conduct a special 'Extreme Easter' service at two theme parks by testing their nerves on several white knuckle rides. The vicars were at Alton Towers in Staffordshire and Thorpe Park in Surrey. Whilst on the rides, they could be seen clasping their hands...

Thursday marked the 540th anniversary of the Battle of Barnet, one of the most famous battles of the Wars of the Roses, an English civil war fought between the rival Lancastrian and Yorkist branches of the royal House of Plantagenet. Nowadays, Barnet is an area of north London. But back in 1471...

Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez was in tears on Friday as the football club and the city paid their respects on the 22nd anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. The Spaniard, who was manager of Liverpool from 2004 to 2010, during which time they won the European Cup in 2005 for the...

A family of daredevil birds have made themselves a new home - on the top of a 75ft rollercoaster. The birds built their nest on the Rage rollercoaster at Adventure Island in the coastal resort of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The nest is just inches from where the track plunges in an almost...

A Royal fan has spent two months KNITTING a three-tiered wedding cake in homage of the upcoming wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton. Retired greengrocer's Sheila Carter's cake has more than 100,000 stitches and 300 hand-sewn flowers. It is even adorned with woolly icing. At the...

Dramatic police pictures from a cop car's CCTV show the moment a getaway driver diced with death. Police were chasing 20-year-old Terence Fowler through the streets of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on 20th June last year when they reached a level crossing with its barriers down, indicating...

The new series of Doctor Who is the "darkest yet", according to the show's boss Steven Moffat. The new series starts on Saturday 23rd April, with the episode "The Impossible Astronaut." The opening episode - which will be the 771st episode in total - sees the Doctor reunited with his...

If you want to see the ultimate in product placement, go to Consett, County Durham. An advertising firm has been blasted after a billboard for new US TV series The Walking Dead was put up next to a funeral parlour. An apology has been issued after the ad appeared on the side of The...

Kate Middleton has been confirmed into the Church of England ahead of her wedding to Prince William, according to St James's Palace. The couple marry in just under a fortnight's time at London's Westminster Abbey in front of an estimated worldwide TV audience of 2 billion. The ceremony was...

New images of a WWII German plane, shot down by the British off the southern coast of England in 1940, show that it is still intact - and therefore may be put on show for the public. During the Battle of Battle, an aerial battle between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the skies of southern England...

After a mysterious object was seen floating in the river running through the pretty town of Bridgwater, Somerset, in England's beautiful South West, a large crowd gathered to try and see it. Hundreds gathered on the Town Bridge over the River Parrett to see the "unidentified floating object."...

Thousands of people have gathered in the town of Omagh, County Tyrone, to mark the death of police officer Ronan Kerr, who was murdered by dissident Irish republicans on 2nd April. The march comes on the 13th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Constable Kerr was the victim of a car...

A farmer was shocked to see three fox cubs welcome a stuffed toy fox as their mother after he gave it to the trio when he found them whimpering and shivering at the bottom of his garden in a hole under his shed. With no sign of the cubs' parents, he brought the three starving creatures into...

On Sunday 3rd June next year, as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, a flotilla of 1,000 ships, seven-and-a-half miles long, will sail down the River Thames in the world's greatest city with the Queen at its head in a gold-encrusted royal barge, as the bells of London's many...

If the current crisis in Libya happened in 2001 rather than 2011 Britain would have been able to send three (albeit small) aircraft carriers - the Invincible Class HMS Ark Royal, HMS Illustrious and HMS Invincible - to the Med as part of the operation against Gadaffi. It also would have been...

Many females love the colour pink, but one woman near Manchester is a little more obsessed than most. 20-year-old mother of two Wanda Matthews, of Bolton, Greater Manchester (where I live) has actually decked out her entire house with it. Her three-bedroom home has pink wallpaper, pink...

The world's attention will be on London next year (just like it will be later this month when around 2 billion people are expected to watch the Royal Wedding on TV) not only because it will be hosting the Summer Olympics for a record third time but also because 2012 is the year of the Queen's...

British Prime Minister David Cameron is at it yet again, putting down the great country which he leads whilst on a foreign visit. Last year the Tory PM caused outrage in Britain when, during a visit to the United States, he described Britain as America’s ‘junior partner’ against Hitler in 1940...