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Anyone stepping into Peter Saunders' cottage in Nottingham can be excused for thinking they have somehow stepped back in time. Because he has turned his home into how it would have looked like back in the Victorian Era, the time that Victoria was on the Throne, Britain was the world's naval...

The worst civilian tragedy of World War II in Britain occurred on September 10th 1940 when a German bomb landed on a school London's East End killing 600 people. The men, women and children had been sheltering for three days in the school's basement waiting to be evacuated to escape the...

A flypast of two iconic WWII fighter planes flew over the capital today to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Two icons of Great Britain - a Spitfire and a Hurricane - flew over another icon of Great Britain - Westminster Abbey, where the Pope visited on Friday - to...

Republicans often complain (usually wrongly) that royals do not know what it's like to work hard for a living. But that is an argument they definitely cannot use when it comes to Prince William. For, on Friday, the prince graduated as a fully-qualified RAF helicopter co-pilot. The future...

As Pope Benedict XVI today ends the first ever state visit by a Pope to Britain, maybe it's worth knowing a little about the previous 15 Pope Benedicts. From being thrown in the Tiber, poisoned, introducing the rule that said Catholic clergy were not allowed to marry or keep mistresses and...

Pope Benedict XVI made history on Friday by entering three citadels of Britain's Protestantism - Lambeth Palace, Westminster Hall and Westminster Abbey. And in so doing, he may help to finally heal the rift between Protestantism and Catholicism in Britain. At Westminster Abbey, he also became...

Britain is overdue for a major earthquake (major for Britain, anyway), which could kill up to 100 people, a geologist has warned. Dr Roger Musson of the British Geological Survey believes a fracture in the earth's crust beneath the English Channel could 'fail' at any time, sending a tremor...

The remains of Iron Age humans and their animal sacrifices has been unearthed at the construction site of a new school in south west London. Amongst the 2,000-year-old remains found at the site in Carshalton is that of a horse found curled up at the bottom of a ditch. Experts believe the...

A metal detecting enthusiast scouring a field in Cumbria in the far north of England came across something he was probably never expecting to find - a bronze Roman face mask. The beautiful artefact, dating back to the 1st to 2nd century AD, was found in May and would probably have been worn...

A CCTV camera has captured a spooky apparition at a pub that used to be a funeral parlour. A white, mist-like apparition was filmed just after midnight around two weeks ago at the Wolfe Pub in Penrith, Cumbria. The apparition descends from the ceiling. It pulsates as it moves around the pub...

The Pope arrived in Britain this morning in the wake of an attack on the country by one of his cardinals that isn't going to do much to enhance the reputation of a religion which was once persecuted in Britain. Cardinal Walter Kasper, a German like the Pope, accused Britain in a German...

A new poll has shown that Ed Miliband has made a late surge and is now odds on to become the new leader of the Labour Party. There are five Labour MPs campaigning to become the new leader of the party - Ed Miliband, David Miliband, Andy Burnham, Ed Balls and Diane Abbot - with the two Miliband...

A goalkeeper conceded a goal - whilst celebrating SAVING it. FAR Rabat and Moghreb Fes were playing each other in a Morrocan cup match when Moghreb Fes were awarded a penalty. The penalty was saved by FAR Rabat goalkeeper Khalid Askri. He immediately stood up and went over to the fans to...

Prince Charles, known for his sense of humour, was left hysterical with laughter after he came across a man playing a "cat organ" at an eco-festival in London. Henry Dagg played A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square on a saw with a bow and then Somewhere Over The Rainbow on his unusual...

The Scottish Football Association has made an apology to Liechtenstein after Scotland fans booed the nation's national anthem before a Euro 2012 qualifier - because it has the same tune as God Save the Queen. God Save the Queen is the anthem used by Scotland's arch rivals England. George Peat...

When Pope John Paul II visited Britain in 1982 an eight-year-old disabled girl was carried by her mother to receive communion. Now, 28 years later, the girl is to make history again by meeting Pope Benedict XVI during his visit later this week. Rosemarie Stevenson, now 37 and from Glasgow...

In the second half of the 15th Century, civil war broke out in England when two of the three branches of the Plantagenet Royal Dynasty fought for the throne of England. The three branches of the Plantagenet Royal Dynasty were the Lancastrians, the Yorkists and the Angevins. The name...

In the space of just two weeks, British Prime Minister David Cameron has gone from joy to despair. Two weeks ago he became a father for the fourth time when his wife Samantha gave birth, three weeks early, to Florence whilst they were on holiday in Cornwall. But today David Cameron's father...

Yesterday, 70 years on to the day since the start of the Blitz, RAF veterans who bravely sacrificed their lives during the Blitz to repel Hitler's airforce gathered at St Paul's Cathedral in central London to commemorate the anniversary. Joining them at the ceremony were firefighters, nurses...

As Britain commemorates the 70th anniversary of The Blitz, when the Luftwaffe shamefully killed over 43,000 civilians - half of them in London - by bombing British cities, these clever photographs help to merge the horror of Blitz-torn British cities with how they look today. One image...