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Maggie the magpie returns to rule the roost By DAVID WILKES 9th March 2007 Maggie has now returned to Newton Regis, Warwickshire One of the posters (top), and Rhona Oxford, who owned up to her birdnapping antics When it came to popularity, Maggie the magpie was top of the...

Roman settlement found next to 'devil's hill' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor 10/03/2007 Evidence of a Roman sacred site has been discovered at the foot of a man-made hill created thousands of years before the Romans arrived in Britain, it was announced yesterday. Silbury hill...

Do your fair share in Afghanistan, Nato told By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent 10/03/2007 Britain's Nato allies who refuse to fight in Afghanistan were accused yesterday of causing "huge resentment" and a sense of betrayal among UK forces. With four British soldiers killed...

Pub-goer Prince Charles is new darts champion By Caroline Davies 10/03/2007 Prince Charles wants to save this traditional British pub game that started in England in the Medieval times when soldiers fired arrows at the bottom of wine barrels. The pilgrims, travelling from England...

The draw for the Quarter Finals of the European Cup (aka Champions League) has kept the English teams apart. Of the eight Quarter Finalists, three of the teams are English, two are Italian, one is Spanish, one is Dutch and one is German. The draw for the Semi Finals was also made...

Pro-British Unionists will make up the majority of the next Northern Ireland Executive..... 'First Minister' ... Ian Paisley RELATED STORIES Unionists' 'cabinet' majority March 10, 2007 UNIONISTS will make up the majority of the next Northern Ireland Executive if power-sharing...

IRAQ WAR Andy MacNab is an ex-SAS soldier and is now The Sun newspaper's Security Advisor. In 1991, when he was fighting in the Gulf War, he was captured behind enemy lines. In this article he tells us what it's like as he goes back to Iraq with British soldiers in Basra. His face is hidden...

Harry snubbed by airbase shop staff 9th March 2007 Recognise me? Harry, without the camouflage, had a bad day at the shops - because he isn't American. Being third in line to the throne should mean Prince Harry has no problem queuing in shops - but that was not the case when he...

Scan with 'face of Jesus' shows baby really is a miracle 9th March 2007 A mum-to-be who'd been told she would never have children is convinced she's carrying a real miracle baby - after seeing Jesus's face in her ultrasound scan. Amanda Mclean, 23, from Glasgow, suffers from a condition...

We think it's all over ... The new Wembley has been worth the wait, and stands now as a Colosseum for our times. Jonathan Glancey March 9, 2007 The new Wembley stadium (named after the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Wembalea on which it is built), the home of English - and world -...

You wouldn't want to fight against the British Army's fearsome Gurkha warriors, the toughest soldiers in the world.... Women will be allowed to serve in Gurkhas for the first time By Matthew Hickley, Defence Correspondent 8th March 2007 Royal Gurkha Rifles (part of the Brigade of...

A scene from new UK sci-fi movie Sunshine, in which a group of scientists travel to the dying sun in a gigantic spacecraft with a dark-matter bomb the size of Kansas in order to save it - and humanity. -------------------------------------------------- 'The day the sun went out' - fact or...

Sunshine is a new British sci-fi movie, from the director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, set around 50 years in the future, a time when the Sun is dying and all of mankind is threatened. It is released in Britain in April but, for some reason, it's not released in the US until the...

'Where's Mummy and Daddy?' 8th March 2007 These are the heartwarming pictures of Ivy, Fern and Bracken, the badger triplets being hand-reared at an animal centre after being discovered by a farmer. The orphaned cubs were found by a building site in the early hours of the morning. It's...

Top Tory sacked over Army race row 8th March 2007 Patrick Mercer (above) was sacked today. Party leader David Cameron said his comments were "completely unacceptable" A Tory frontbencher has been forced to stand down after suggesting being called a "black b******" was part and...

Actor John Inman dies aged 71 8th March 2007 John Inman, star of TV sitcom Are You Being Served?, died in hospital early this morning, his manager said today. The actor, 71, died in St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London, at 4am after being ill for some time, Phil Dale said...

Prince William and Kate slope off for a hug 8th March 2007 Pulling her towards him for a tender kiss and cuddle, Prince William shows he is more smitten than ever with girlfriend Kate Middleton. The future king's very public display of affection for the 25-year-old yesterday comes amid...

Fiercely loyal ... British Army Gurkha warrior with rifle and dagger. Victory for the Gurkhas By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON Political Editor March 08, 2007 BRAVE Gurkhas will finally get FULL British Army pensions — nearly 200 years after they started fighting for us. The historic...

The York Helmet heads for London Why are regional museums sending their treasures down south? Alfred Hickling March 6, 2007 Capital stuff... MPs got to handle the most expensive helmet in Europe - the 1200 year old Anglo-Saxon helmet that was probably owned by a warrior named Oshere...

Published Date: 06 March 2007 Location: YorkshireNearly 900 years on, monks walk again in historic abbey's grounds History revisited: Robed monks once again walked through the ancient ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, near Helmsley in North Yorkshire, as English Heritage celebrated the site’s 875th...