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These photos may look like they show typical drunken hooliganism by a group of drunks who have decided to wreck a bike rack whilst they walk home. But, in fact, they show a group of drunks FIXING a bike rack. The lads were queueing for kebabs - the staple food in Britain for those who have...

A new study has found that watching too much telly can change people's regional accents. Experts have for the first time shown that ‘active and engaged television viewing’ does help to speed up a change in language. The study looked at how watching the television soap EastEnders is altering...

There has been a bit of a witch-hunt against male celebrities in Britain over the last couple of years where they have been arrested - even with little evidence - on suspicion of child sex abuse. One of those was actor Michael Le Vell, who has played garage mechanic Kevin Webster on Coronation...

She was the deadly special agent who charged headlong into occupied territory to fight for her country and the Jewish mother who was killed in a concentration camp. Christine Granville (real name Krystyna Skarbek) - the favourite spy of Winston Churchill - worked for years for British secret...

A British warship which has lain on the seabed for 269 years can now be seen for the first time in unprecedented detail thanks to the first ever "virtual dive". HMS Victory - not to be confused with the later HMS Victory, which was Nelson's flagship during the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and...

A series of letters written by Charles Darwin show that his attitude towards women changed over his lifetime. In 1838, aged 29 and undertaking his third voyage on the Beagle, he wrote that a future wife would be an 'object to be loved and played with - better than a dog anyhow.' But Philippa...

67 Brits lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks, meaning that Britain suffered more fatalities during those attacks than any country in the world other than the US. Most Brits died in 9/11 than died in the 7/7 attacks on London in 2005. To honour the 67 British dead, the US gave Britain a 28ft...