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Most Britons would agree that there have been a view filthy rodents living in Downing Street over the years. But this time, there is a real filthy rodent living in Downing Street, and it's been spotted on TV. The rat appeared on BBC News a week ago when a presenter standing outside Number 10...

Meet Eeyore the donkey who, at 54 years of age, is probably the oldest in the world. The life expectancy of most donkeys is between 25 and 30 years, so Eeyore is around twice that. And the grand old man is celebrating his latest birthday with his favourite diet of hay and carrots. Owner...

Two young mothers today spoke of their humiliation after being kicked out of a British playgroup - for being British. Emma Knightley, 25, and her daughter Imogen, 21 months, and her best friend, Kimberley Wildman, 27, and her daughter Olivia, 18 months, turned up at the Making Links sessions...

The British Army has broken the record for the number of IEDs made safe on a single operation. 12 IEDs were found within 300 metres of each other on a route known as Bandi Barq Road in the Gereshk area of Helmand province. The devices ranged in size from 5 kg to 15kg. All 12 were cleared by...

The family of British WWI poet Wilfred Owen fear that his Military Cross has been stolen. A silver cigarette case believed to have been given to the poet on his 21st birthday, is also missing, presumed stolen. Owen was one of the leading WWI poets and wrote with shocking realism about the...

The Queen has given permission for a film clip of her and her family, which was supposedly banned decades ago by the Royals, to be shown as part of an exhibition for her Diamond Jubilee. The 1969 film, entitled Royal Family, was watched by an incredible two-thirds of the British population...

The first device we would now call a computer was the steam-powered Analytical Engine, designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage in 1837. But the first practical ELECTRONIC computer was the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) which was built at the University of...

Children's TV star Paddington Bear is so dismayed at the decline of marmalade consumption in his adopted country that he is to tour the nation to spread the word on the benefits of his favourite food. The Peruvian bear, who was sent to Britain by lifeboat by his Aunt Lucy, who had gone to live...

Prince William and Kate Middleton are asking guests at their April 29th wedding to not bring wedding gifts but donate to charity instead. When William's father and mother, Prince Charles and Lady Diana, married on July 29th 1981, they received more than 6,000 gifts, including a piece of...

English Premier League side Bolton Wanderers are mourning the death of footballing legend Nat Lofthouse, known as The Lion of Vienna, who died yesterday at the age of 85 in a Bolton nursing home. Nat signed for Bolton Wanderers, his hometown club (and mine), on 4th September 1939, just three...

Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish was unveiled last week as Liverpool's caretaker boss until the end of the season following the departure of Roy Hodgson. Hodgson, who took Fulham to the first-ever Europa League Final in 2010, in which they lost 2-1 against Atletico Madrid in Hamburg, took over...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is searching for a sick thug or thugs who chopped a cat in half. The front half of the cat known as Milo was discovered by a member of the public in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, who reported it to a local vets. Staff there believe that...

Just days after England trounced Australia in the final Ashes test of the series, to claim a 3-1 series win and their first Ashes triumph in Australia since 1987, both teams have now ditched their five day Test Match whites and put on their coloured kits for the start of the two-match series...

Former Home Secretary David Miliband is set to become vice-chairman of Sunderland Football Club. Despite being a fan of north London giants Arsenal, Miliband is the MP for Sunderland's neighbouring town of South Shields in the North East of England. The club's chairman, Irishman Niall Quinn...

A student protestor who threw a fire extinguisher off a roof during a riot over tuition fees has been jailed for 2 years and 8 months. During the 10th November protests over the increase in tuition fees for English students, Edward Woollard, aged 18, of Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire, was on the...

England footballer David Beckham and his wife, the former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, are expecting their fourth child in the summer. The glamorous couple are already parents to Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, eight, and Cruz, five, and the three lads are said to be "very excited" about getting a new...

The Queen's head will remain on Royal Mail stamps after the Government decided to amend its controversial privatisation legislation. The Royal Mail, one of the oldest postal services in the world, is up for sale and there were fears that the 170 year old tradition of having the monarch's head...

The 21st Century has truly arrived. British military scientists are planning on developing an army of invisible tanks that could be used by the British Army on a battlefield within the next five years. The tanks will use a system called "e-camouflage" which will give the illusion that there...

The 2nd January 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the Siege of Sidney Street. The siege occurred two and a half weeks after three hero cops were murdered by a group of eastern European anarchists, mostly Latvian, during a botched burglary in Houndsditch, central London on 16th December...

When Dennis Rowsell read in his Daily Mail about a giant 26lb fox, almost twice the size of an averaged-sized fox, that was humanely killed by a vet after it ate a cat sleeping on its front doormat in Maidstone, Kent, he must have been less than impressed. Because Mr Rowsell, who lives on the...