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Tony Barnatt Jose is so obsessed with Ancient Rome that he even dresses as a gladiator and likes to call himself Maximus Decimus Meridius. Tony has even adorned the walls of his terraced home in Durham with shields, helmets, masks, pictures and cuttings. He spends hours poring over books...

The chair, in Westminster Abbey, which has been used to crown English and then British monarchs for 700 years is to be given a £200,000 makeover. King Edward's Chair was commissioned in 1296 by King Edward I (Longshanks), though the chair was not named after him, and was designed to hold the...

Professor Stephen Hawking has warned of the dangers of making contact with extraterrestrials. The Cambridge University theoretical physicist, who has neuro-muscular dystrophy but is still the greatest mind in the world today, has said that intelligent life almost certainly exists elsewhere in...

The first ever survey of postal votes has shown that David Cameron's Conservatives are on course to win the May 6th British General Election. A BPIX poll for The Mail on Sunday shows the Tory leader is on course to win the Election with the highest popular vote and the most MPs. The survey...

It will be news to dishearten English football fans, who don't like seeing the Germans, French, Argentinians and Scots winning matches (although, of course, the Scots don't win that often). But a university professor has developed a mathematical formula which he says shows that Germany will...

Some people probably wonder why the British still hate the French so much, especially since the Entente Cordiale was signed in 1904. But with so many recent instances of the French doing their best to annoy us - such as continuing with the ban on British beef illegally, or sealing off the...

Slapstick comedy is one of the great things about the British General Election campaign. At every election, you can guarantee that at least one politician will be pelted with an egg. In fact, throwing an egg at a politician is probably a democratic right enshrined in the Magna Carta or the...

This year marks the 350th anniversary of the Restoration. That was when England ended years of civil war and internal strife by restoring the monarchy after a period of 11 years in which the country was a republic and a dictatorship. The causes of the English Civil War are numerous and...

It is 70 years ago this year that British cities were devastated by the Luftwaffe. To commemorate, Channel 4 has made a new series called Blitz Street, hosted by Blackadder's "Baldrick", Tony Robinson. In the series, replica terraced houses, similar to those built in the early 20th century...

Before Thursday, anybody saying that Britain will soon have a Liberal government would have probably been sent to Broadmoor and put in a padded cell. But since Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, put in a stunning performance on Thursday in Britain's first ever televised Leaders' Debate...

A row of ancient stones has been uncovered in south west England which are even older than Stonehenge. The nine stones which have been found at Cut Hill on Dartmoor in Devon, 120 miles from Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire where Stonehenge is located, have been found to be 1,000 years older than...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in the middle of a General Election campaign, has called an emergency Cobra meeting to discuss the worsening travel crisis as a giant Icelandic volcano continues to spew its ash over Britain and Europe. Cobra, which stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room...

On 16 October 1834, disaster struck the British parliament. A fire broke out in the Palace of Westminster, the seat of government, after an overheated stove used to destroy the Exchequer's stockpile of tally sticks set fire to the House of Lords Chamber. In the resulting conflagration both...

This month marks the 350th anniversary of the Restoration of the British monarchy and the coming to the Throne of Merrie Monarch King Charles II. To mark the occasion, the Royal Mint plans to issue 150,000 commemorative £5 coins. Throughout the 1650s, in the aftermath of the English Civil...

Britain's BAE Systems has become the world's largest arms dealer. The company, known as British Aerospace until 1999, has £21 billion in sales. This means it has become the first non-American company to top the list. The company does more than half of its business with the US, including a...

A new book has revealed that the sinking of the Titanic almost never happened. As the "unsinkable" British ocean liner left Southampton docks to start its maiden voyage, it narrowly missed crashing into another ship, the SS New York, by a mere 2 feet. Had the collision occurred, the Titanic...

This week, the second week of the British General Election campaign, has been the week that the parties have launched their manifestoes, which set out their "promises" of what they would do should they be elected. And it's been interesting to find out the location where each party launched its...

Tory leader David Cameron has been accused of using his election campaign to plug firms which back his policy on National Insurance. The Labour Government are planning on increasing National Insurance, but Cameron has said that if he wins the May 6th General Election to become Prime Minister...

Portsmouth may be rock bottom of the Premiership, and have already been relegated down to the Championship, the second tier of English football, where they will play next season, but they are having a love affair with the FA Cup. The cash-strapped team from the city which is home to the Royal...

A student is to recreate the infamous journey made over 200 years ago by the Royal Navy's Captain Bligh who, along with 18 of his loyal men, found himself the victim of mutineers onboard his ship. British student Chris Wilde will join Australian Don McIntyre, captain of the Talisker Bounty...