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There has been a rare sighting of Britain's largest wild animal - the Emperor of Exmoor. The red deer stag lives in the Exmoor National Park which straddles the counties of Devon and Somerset in south west England. He weighs 300lb and stands an impressive 9 feet from floor to the top of his...

David Cameron today became the first leader of the Tory party to make a speech to the Tory party conference as Prime Minister since 1996. And, insisting that there are no alternatives to the Coalition Government's planned cuts to services to reduce Britain's national debt, which is the highest...

The Queen has been voted the person which most makes the British proud of their nation. The 84 year old monarch won the popularity survey, closely followed, not surprisingly, by the Queen's former daughter-in-law, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, and Sir Winston Churchill...

Hapless Liverpool's poor start to the season has gone from bad to serious after yet another shock defeat for them this season. Two weeks ago they were sensationally knocked out of the Carling Cup by minnows Northampton Town, who hail from League Two, the lowest division in the English League...

Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in Britain in the early to mid-nineteenth century which campaigned for greater suffrage (amongst men only), a fairer voting system and annual parliaments. It was the first mass working class labour movement in the world. The movement was...

The amount of the UK covered by woodland is at its highest for over 250 years. There is now 11,200 sq miles of woodland in the UK, almost 12% of the country's total land area (the UK is almost exactly the same size as Oregon). British woodland is last though to have been at such levels in...

Writer and director Richard Curtis has withdrawn his pro-climate change viral video that shows schoolchildren being blown up. Curtis, who wrote the classic 1980s BBC comedy series Blackadder, directed the four minute video which also sees X-Files actress Gillian Anderson and former Tottenham...

A pensioner had to be rescued by the coastguard after he put to sea on a dinghy to rescue a wheelie bin. The 81-year-old, who lives on the island of Anglesey in Wales, saw his neighbour's dustbin being swept out to sea after high tides hit the coastline. The man rowed out to sea and managed...

Between 1642 and 1651, England was plunged into civil war, when Parliament fought Monarchy. This bloody conflict had many causes, but the major cause must have been the personality of King Charles I. Charles I came to the Throne in 1625 after the death of his father, James I. James, known...

The world famous, not-to-scale London Underground map, with each line a certain colour, is one of the icons of Britain. But I bet you didn't know that many of the Underground lines take the shape of animals. One man who did is Paul Middlewick. Back in the 1980s he was able to create animal...

Surely the discovery that "we are not alone" by finding, beyond doubt, intelligent life on another planet elsewhere in the galaxy, or in another galaxy, would be the most momentous discovery in the entire history of humanity. Just knowing that there are other intelligent creatures on another...

Life in the Royal Navy centuries ago could have been very harsh indeed. In the 18th and 19th centuries if a ship was short on crew it could sent out the press gangs to traipse the streets of a town or city and capture unsuspecting passers-by, be they men or boys, and force them into a life...

Football fans, particularly British ones, are renowned for their football chants that they sing during games. More often than not, they are humourous put-downs of the opposition team or fans. But now it has been revealed that the person who invented the football chant is someone who you may...

The RAF's most heroic Chinook has been "awarded" its fourth Distinguished Flying Cross. Because of the heroism the helicopter has shown in its 28 year career, Bravo November is undoubtedly Britain's most famous Chinook. Last week, the appropriately named Flight Lieutenant Ian Fortune was...

Britain's oldest working window frame has been unearthed in an ancient church. Incredibly, the window dates back to before the Norman Conquest of 1066 and was found in St Andrew's Church in Boxford, Berkshire. The church was built by the Anglo-Saxons. The window has been hidden for 150 years...

A cat has been handed in to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals after yobs turned it pink and threw it over a garden fence in Swindon, Wiltshire. The normally white cat, which has unsurprisingly been named Pink by the vets caring for her, was covered in a permanent pink...

Ed Miliband was yesterday elected on live television to be the new leader of the Labour Party, beating his older brother David in the final round of voting by just 1.3%. He takes over from Gordon Brown as the party's leader, if you don't include Harriet Harman, who has been the temporary...

Ghosts are probably more deeply embedded in the history and traditions of England than probably every other nation on the planet. Almost ever city, town, village or tiny hamlet in England has its own ghostly apparitions and spooky tales to tell. And there's the surprising statistic that an...

In his first remarks after his recent state visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI says that the country's Christian faith remains very strong. During his four day visit, the first state visit by a Pope to Britain, Benedict XVI made unprecented visits to Lambeth Palace, Westminster Abbey and...

The British Parliament is known as the "Mother of Parliaments." But surely the "Mother of Parliaments" more aptly describes this member of the EU Parliament, who brought her baby into work with her. Licia Ronzulli, who represents Italy's North West District in the EU Parliament, took her...