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Two men who helped the gunman Raoul Moat have been jailed for a combined minimum of 60 years. In the early hours of 3rd July last year, 37-year-old Raoul Moat, recently released from Durham Prison after serving 18 months for assaulting a 9-year-old relative, arrived at the home of his...

Queen Elizabeth II looks stunning in all-white in a new photographic portrait of her which is to be hung in the devolved Scottish Parliament. The picture, taken by photographer Shaun Murawski, 24, shows the 84-year-old monarch resplendent in a white gown and with a cheery smile on her face...

When a member of the public heard what sounded like gunshots coming from a nearby factory, he decided to call the police. Armed cops rushed to the factory in Cheadle, near Manchester, only to discover that the "gunshots" were in fact the sounds of a cricket ball hitting a metal shutter. They...

The little Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett is to be renamed Royal Wootton Bassett by the Queen in honour of its recognition of Britain's fallen soldiers, the first honour of its kind in 100 years. Since 2007, it has been tradition for members of the public, including war veterans, to line...

Back in the 90s, Manchester rockers Oasis were the biggest band on the planet, wowing us with Britpop albums such as "Roll With It", "Wonderwall", and "Don't Look Back in Anger." They have had eight UK number-one singles and eight UK number-one albums, and won fifteen NME Awards, nine Q...

If you are one of the people who have not received an invite to the upcoming Royal Wedding between Wills and Kate (and the chances are that you are) then fear not. Because now you can knit your own Royal Wedding and have a pretend one in your own living room! The usual Royal Wedding souvenirs...

Thousands of people are to be able to celebrate the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton without spending a right royal fortune. A campsite on London's Clapham Common is to be set up for three nights for revellers on a budget. Named Camp Royale, it will be very British...

TV medium Derek Acorah took part in the world's biggest paranormal experiment early this morning and caused a sensation amongst Sun readers. Liverpudlian Acorah, famous for his appearances as the resident medium on British ghosthunting TV series Most Haunted between 2002 and 2005 and then...

Prince William and his fiancee Catherine Middleton marked Pancake Day on Tuesday by flipping pancakes. The future King and Queen, who will marry in front of a worldwide TV audience of billions on Friday 29th April, were in Northern Ireland as part of their trip visiting all four main parts of...

In 1915, the British and the Germans fought each other at the Battle of Loos in France. The battle is known for being the first time that the British used poison gas during World War I. But is also renowned for being a battle in which the British decided to display their bravado and courage...

A rare original King James Bible has been found on a shelf in a village church. The discovery was made by residents researching the history of St Laurence Church in Hilmarton, near Calne, Wiltshire. They read about a "fine chained Bible in a glass case" at the church and then made the link...

The BBC is probably the best in the world when it comes to making science and wildlife documentaries, which is appropriate in a country with such a strong history of scientific discoveries and achievements. Its best science series of 2010 was Wonders of the Solar System, which turned out to be...

Some Chinese workmen have discovered the body of a woman whilst they were preparing to expand a street. The female corpse, which was found in the city of Taizhou, in the Jiangsu Province in eastern China, the hometown of Chinese President Hu Jintao, was wearing some sort of hat and was dressed...

The remains of a 4,500-year-old sauna have been discovered by archaeologists excavating a Stone Age temple. The foundations of the ancient building have been discovered at Marden Henge, near Devizes, Wiltshire. Wiltshire is famous for also being the location of Stonehenge. The sauna was...

For centuries, the breaking of British law was punished under the brutal Bloody Code. In 1660, there were 50 crimes which carried the death penalty. However, that had increased to 160 in 1750 and to a whopping 222 in 1815. Many of these capital offences are what we today would see as trivial...

Fiji is to remove the head of Queen Elizabeth II, its Head of State, from its coins and banknotes after a long-running row with Britain. The Commonwealth, with the support of Britain, removed Fiji from its membership and the tiny South Pacific island nation has been at loggerheads with Britain...

Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton have done a lot of travelling around the country lately. A few days ago they were on the Island of Anglesey, in North Wales, near to where they will live once they are married, to launch a new lifeboat. Yesterday, they were in the town of Fife...

Pictured for the first time in the United Kingdom, a soaring golden eagle clutches a lamb in its talons. The picture, taking whilst the huge bird of prey was swooping low over some mountains on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, is proof that the species is grabbing the...

Larry the cat, the new Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, doesn't appear to be much interested in his new job. He has only held the post of 10 and 11 Downing Street rat catcher for a few weeks or so, but he seems to spend most of his time sleeping on the job. Larry was brought in as the latest in...

Since the 1920s it has been suspected that the Bluestones which form the inner ring of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain in Witshire in the south west of England, actually come from Pembrokeshire, in west Wales, about 150 miles north west of where Stonehenge is located. Now, new research has...