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British Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has said that British troops will be amongst the last to leave Afghanistan. Both the United States and Canada have said that they will start bringing home their forces from next year, but Fox has said that British troops are unlikely to be in that first...

Thanks to Google Earth, we now know that an inverted Centaur is roaming Britain's streets. Russel Moffat, from Ellon, Aberdeenshire, was searching for an optician's shop in the city of Aberdeen using Google Earth when he spotted a man with a horse's head standing on the pavement in the...

Stonehenge may be Europe's most famous prehistoric monument, but it's certainly not the biggest. It's not even the biggest stone circle. Avebury, nearby Stonehenge in Wiltshire, is much larger than its more famous cousin. But even bigger than both Stonehenge AND Avebury is Marden Henge...

A beautiful country house has gone onto the market for the first time in almost 1,000 years. But you'll need to have a bit of money to buy it. Shakenhurst Hall, in Cleobury Mortimer, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire, which is older than many of the world's countries, has an asking price...

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has apologised to England and to Mexico after two refereeing blunders. On Sunday, England found themselves 2-0 down against Germany after 30 minutes in their Last 16 match of the World Cup. But England scored two goals in just one minute just before half time that...

There were two parallels in today's Last 16 match in the World Cup between England and Germany with the 1966 World Cup Final played between the two nations. Like 1966, England played in red and Germany in white and also like 1966 there was a controversial "Did it or didn't it cross the line?"...

Cheering crowds and scorching weather greeted British troops yesterday, the 26th June, during only the second Armed Forces Day. The new national day, which started last year, looks like being a permanent fixture in Britain's calendar thanks to its success. This year, the main focal point of...

With the British Army taking the brunt of the Taliban's fight in Afghanistan, with a death rate four times that of the wussy US Army, the more protection available to British soldiers the better, especially with it looking like the British Army being in Afghanistan for another 5 years. Now the...

A farmer's field in Britain has been suspected of once being a Roman brothel - where nearly 100 unwanted prostitutes' babies were slaughtered by the Romans. The site, near Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, identified as a high status Roman villa, was excavated in 1912 and the remains of 97 children...

Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall, today met 650 troops from 11 Light Brigade after they returned from to Britain's to a hero's welcome after a six month tour of Afghanistan. In what was Britain's biggest ever homecoming parade, the troops marched two miles through the centre of...

Football crazy England came to a standstill today to watch their team take on Slovenia in the crucial Group C match in the World Cup. Shopping centres and busy roads were deserted, and public transport and city centres were eerily quiet as millions of people across the nation watched their...

Usually, the start of the Glastonbury Festival is accompanied by torrential downpours leaving revellers sinking in the mud. This year, though, the start is accompanied by glorious sunshine, blue skies and sweltering heat - it's the weather which has made the government introduce a hosepipe ban...

How fitting it is that on the summer solstice, a time of peace and love, that a crop circle has appeared in a farmer's field right next to a heart-shaped wood. However, the farmer wasn't in the mood for love and pleace - he has said that the crop circle is an act of vandalism. The crop circle...

Clever students at one of the few Cambridge University colleges not set on the river have created a 200m canal to allow them to punt to their May Ball. Students from the breathtakingly beautiful 400-year-old Sidney Sussex spent a week building the canal, which is filled with 88,000 gallons of...

Sweden has just had what has probably been the biggest royal wedding in Europe since Charles and Diana married in 1981. More than 1000 guests, include royalty from across the world, gathered at Stockholm Cathedral to see Crown Princess Victoria, the daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf, marry her...

Whilst Barack Obama and many Americans continue to display their sickening anti-Britishness at a company that's about as British as Mount Rushmore following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it's sobering to learn that British soldiers are dying at FOUR times the rate American soldiers in...

An England football fan was today charged with trespass by South African police after he entered the England team's dressing room on Friday night following their woeful display against Algeria in the second match of their World Cup campaign to give the team a piece of his mind. England took on...

Never mind Superman, Spiderman or the Incredible Hulk. The greatest comic strip character in the world, of all time, is without doubt Roy of the Rovers. The power of x-ray vision or superstrength is nothing compared to the magic of a powerful left foot. Fictional footballer Roy Race first...

Why the French worship Napoleon as a hero is beyond me (though, come to think of it, they ARE French, so what do you expect?) because more proof has come to light as to just what a madman he was and that he was no more of a hero than Kaiser Bill and Hitler. After his defeat by Great Britain in...

An archaeologist has discovered what she hopes will be a lucky charm for the England lads at the World Cup in South Africa. Caroline Rann, an archaeologist for the county of Warwickshire, found a coat of arms which is believed to date back to the 1200s, featuring the Three Lions, England's...