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Britain is older and, therefore, wiser than the United States. But the ungrateful Americans don't seem to value our "special relationship." Britain can't win. If we weren't America's "poodle" in Iraq we would have been a member of the "Axis of Weasels" alongside France and Germany instead. No...

The Royal Navy's new Type 45's - which include HMS Daring, HMS Dauntless, HMS Diamond and HMS Dragon - are the world's most advanced warships. These huge destroyers (the largest ever operated by the Royal Navy), the new aircraft carriers (the largest warships in Western Europe) and the new...

US actress Gwyneth Paltrow prefers British dinner talk Sat Dec 2 Gwyneth Paltrow, who is married to an Englishman (Chris Martin, singer of rock band Coldplay) and has an English daughter says she likes the British lifestyle much more than the American LISBON (AFP) -...

BRITISH AND AMERICANS GIVE MORE TO GOOD CAUSES THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY Brits gave 0.73% of the country's GDP to good causes, second only to the United States which is WAY out in front. They gave 1.67% of the US GDP to good causes. The People 3 December 2006 WE DO BRIT FOR CHARITY...

Science genius ... Stephen Hawking EXCLUSIVE Hawking invited on Big Brother By CAROLINE IGGULDEN December 02, 2006 SCIENCE genius Stephen Hawking has been invited on to the next series of Celebrity Big Brother. The wheelchair-bound professor, 64, has been offered a...

The Sunday Times December 03, 2006 Anti-enterprise Scotland go it alone? What a hoot Talk of independence is growing but until Scots abandon their love affair with state handouts it will never work, says Tim Luckhurst Anti-enterprise Scotland, with its low levels of...

Bring Me The Horizon: "It's just party music" British "metalcore" (heavy metal/death core) rockers Bring Me The Horizon, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire (a city that has also given us The Arctic Monkeys and Milburn in recent months) have released their debut album "Count Your Blessings"...

Frenchwoman Agnes Poirier says in The Guardian that even though, according to a recent survey, British teenagers are the worst behaved in the whole of the industrialised Western World, it won't be long before the French catch up. She says that, as with most things, France is at least 10 years...

Blair ... emotional EXCLUSIVE Blair 'near tears' on secret trip By JOHN SCOTT December 02, 2006 TONY Blair made a top secret visit to the SAS — on the day the body of a hero sergeant killed in Iraq was flown home. The PM was close to tears during an unscripted speech to the...

'Very ill' ... poisoned professor Scaramella Italian 'inhaled dust of death' By MIKE SULLIVAN, Crime Editor December 02, 2006 ITALIAN Mario Scaramella inhaled dust from the tiny polonium-210 grain that killed Alexander Litvinenko, police believed last night. Detectives are...

With the England and Australia cricket teams doing battle in the Ashes at the moment there is quite a rivalry between the English and the Australians. This rivalry has found its way to British expats living in Australia who now want the world "Pom" banned from advertising. They say it is as...

The Times December 01, 2006 Roman London redrawn after burial find Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent * 4th-century grave in Trafalgar Square * Bones could be link to Saint Martin The Rev Nicholas Holtam with the remains found by his church (Christopher Pledger) An enormous Roman...

Ancient carved rant unearthed By NEIL SYSON December 01, 2006 Seething ... Roman's cloak was stolen AN ancient curse placed by a seething Roman on the thief who stole his cloak has been unearthed by archaeologists. The thin lead tablet — inscribed in the second or third century...

Sterling set to break $2 barrier after hitting 14-year peak 1st December 2006 The pound is twice the size of the American dollar. Britain's currency, the pound sterling (or the pound or £), is the world's most valuable currency. It is soon set to be worth two American dollars. The...

The Times November 30, 2006 Foggy Thinking The Anglo-American link is stronger than some in the State Department assume W. Kendall Myers is an unusual sort of American civil servant. He combines being a senior analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the US...

The chess set designed to help POWs escape 30th November 2006 Clever: This ingenious device was used by British POWs to escape from their German captors. The white bishops aren't all that they appear to be and nor is the label on the tube. They may look like worn pieces of an...

Security lapse at London Eye as staff fail to notice parachute jump 29th November 2006 With amazing coolness, the stuntman jumps off the top of the London Eye, the world's largest ferris wheel, James Bond-style. Daredevil ... the London Eye and Gary, inset Standing atop the...

A piece of Norman wisdom Clever sew and sew ... Annette's work and tribute By JAMES CLENCH November 30, 2006 1066 and all that ... Annette's tapestry and inset, the original TUBE worker Annette Banks has made history — after spending 20 YEARS recreating the Bayeux...

Killer fairies caused four deaths The Sun By GARY O'SHEA November 30, 2006 Scary ... fairies scared people to death in the 17th century. England in the 1600s was a deeply superstitious and often brutal place FOUR people buried 450 years ago in an English parish had...

Ricky Gervais' new jokes Office joker ... British comedian Ricky Gervais, star of hit BBC comedy The Office, is hilarious By MICHAEL DEACON November 29, 2006 RICKY Gervais has performed for the first time the new jokes he'll be telling on his 2007 stand-up tour – and The Sun...