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The monster Tyranno-sea-rus Tyranno-sea-rus ... how extinct fish may have looked By MICHAEL DAY November 29, 2006 MEET history’s scariest fish — a four-ton monster with the bite of a T-Rex. The 33ft terrifying Dunkleosteus terrelli roamed the oceans 400million years ago...

Death threat to Gerry Adams By PETE BELL November 29, 2006 Gerry Adams, leader of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein (the political wing of the IRA terrorist group) has been sent death threats by Loyalists - those allied to the British. This comes just days after Loyalist soldier...

Immigration centre protest Protest ... SOS message Picture: SKY NEWS By ONLINE REPORTER November 29, 2006 SEVERAL fires were lit in Britain’s largest immigration detention centre causing disruption in all four wings. The disturbance at Harmondsworth Immigration Detention...

Sniffer bees set to snare suicide bombers By BARRY WIGMORE 29th November 2006 British scientists say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives. Sniffer bees with a nose for explosives are set to make a major breakthrough in the war on terror. An extraordinary...

HOGFATHER Hogfather is a new British sci-fi/fantasy movie based on one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. One of its stars is Sir David Jason who - if anyone knows their classic BBC comedies - you will remember starred in Only Fools and Horses between 1981 and 2003 as Del Boy. It is a...

Civitas is a British (needless to say) think-tank that thinks the EU would work better without Froggyland as a member.... EU would work better without France The European Union would work better without France, according to a report published by the independent think-tank Civitas. The...

Britain is the tornado capital of the world. It has more tornadoes per square mile than any other country in the world. Luckily for us, our tornadoes are usually smaller than those reported in places such as "Tornado Alley" in the United States, where tornadoes are so huge that the US is often...

England face 'group of death' One vision ... England's Blind World Cup team By ONLINE REPORTER NOVEMBER 24, 2006 ENGLAND's blind footballers have been drawn in the 'group of death' for this weekend's World Cup. They face the daunting task of taking on current World champions...

Early sketch of Stonehenge found Maev Kennedy Monday November 27, 2006 The Guardian The oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, found in a 1440 manuscript, the Scala Mundi They got the date wrong by some 3,000 years, but the oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, apparently based...

Makeshift 'Rorke's Drift' unit of medics and engineers holds out Taliban By MATTHEW HICKLEY in Gareshk 26th November 2006 Local police are trained by soldiers from the Royal Marines in Gereshk, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. When a key strategic town in Afghanistan's Helmand...

THE BORDER REIVERS AND THE RESCUE OF KINMONT WILLIE ARMSTRONG When England and Scotland were both independent nations and frequently at war, the Border Reivers were people - both Scottish and English - who raided lands over the border. The Scots would cross the border and raid areas of...

Brown ... warning Brown warning over nukes By ONLINE REPORTER November 25, 2006 GORDON Brown warned Labour rebels today it was nonsensical to ditch nuclear weapons while North Korea and others were developing atomic warheads. In a move to face down an impending backbench revolt...

Tories' first female Asian says "UK should keep the Pound and restore death penalty" It's good to see Tory members finally talking tough about Europe and crime again just like the good old days. With Britain's "Scottish Socialist Loony Lefty Labour Party" in control, and Tory Leader David...

King Charles I was executed in 1649, heralding in a unique decade in British history - 1649 to 1660 was the only time in the country's history in which we had no Monarchy. The Execution of Charles I By Professor Ann Hughes Bust of Charles I in Whitehall, London How could a nation...

How Britain became the manufacturing giant of the world and the world's FIRST industrialised and urbanised country..... Britain as Workshop of the World By Christine MacLeod A representation of the Great Exhibition of 1851, held at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London The...

A French football fan was shot dead by a black policeman after a gang of French anti-Semitics attacked a Hapoel Tel Aviv fan after the Israeli team beat Paris in the UEFA Cup ----------------------------------------- Attacked black policeman kills football thug By Peter Allen in Paris...

SAS sergeant shot dead by Iraq rebels 25th November 2006 British troops on patrol in Iraq An SAS sergeant died yesterday after being shot by Iraqi insurgents in Basra. He is thought to be the first member of the elite unit killed in action since Iraq was invaded in March...

French presidential candidate Ségolène Royal has told Britain that it must choose between either Europe or the United States. Personally, I would prefer Britain to choose the United States. Britain has more in common with that country than our "allies" across the Channel....... Ségolène...

English wine A novel kind of fizz Nov 23rd 2006 From The Economist print edition English vineyards are making a surprising comeback English wine: Watch out, Frenchies. The British are coming! The British are coming! WHEN Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1536, he put paid to...

Class trip to mosque blocked by parents 22.11.06 Cancelled trip: Children didn't get to see this Croydon (London) mosque Parents have forced a school trip to a mosque to be abandoned because they objected to their children learning about Islam. Atwood Primary in Croydon was...