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World's biggest blimp tours Britain 10th November 2006 Gliding serenely across the city skyline, the world's largest airship began its global tour of the world's most famous landmarks in London yesterday. The airship, The Spirit of Dubai, was beginning a journey from London to Dubai...

Dramatic whale rescue 10th November 2006 The whales were stranded on a beach about 85 miles north of New Zealand's capital Auckland About 40 whales have died on a beach after swimming too close to shore, but beachside residents were able to save about 40 others. The beachings of...

British history - for kids....... Foul Facts Gallery: Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians By Simon Cooper and Terry Deary TERRIBLE TUDORS Terrible Tudors - Nicked © <Mary Queen of Scots had a grisly time of it. She paid the executioner a purse of gold to do a good job. She may have...

Asians thrown off flight Plane drama ... four Asian men attract suspicion at Luton Airport By JOHN TROUP and TOM REILLY November 10, 2006 COPS marched four Asian men off a plane after a passenger said their behaviour made him nervous The men — in Islamic robes — were arguing...

Poppy Appeal joins iPod craze By ALI MARTIN November 09, 2006 Remembrance Day ... now a Podcast THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION has produced a podcast for Remembrance day, designed to encourage a new generation of supporters to pause and remember. The four-minute Act of Remembrance...

The TimesNovember 10, 2006 Britain's booming economy is not only outpacing that of Continental Europe it is also outpacing Japan's....... Why the sun is rising over Britain, not Japan Anatole Kaletsky Britannia depicted on a 2005 £2 coin. After the United States, Britain is the...

Times Online November 10, 2006 Nick Griffin and Nick Collett at court today - it was their second trial on the same charges (Scott Heppell/AFP/Getty Images) BNP leader celebrates acquittal outside race hate trial By Philippe Naughton The leader of the far-Right British...

Made in Britain: the world's most powerful car By PA 09/11/2006 The most powerful production car in the world was today launched by a luxury British manufacturer. The Bristol Fighter T is set to hit Britain's roads next year and boasts a massive 1,012 horsepower. Best of...

Rule Britannia: The famous Americans who would have been British had their ancestors not emigrated. One in five Americans today has ancestors from the British Isles. Campbell's Soups, the Buick and US Steel were also created by the British, as was the US Navy. Britney Spears, Tom Hanks and...

Video: Rocket man injured firing firework from his bottom 9th November 2006 Do not try this at home That must sting a bit: The firework is lit in the man's arsehole To see the video, go...

If the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 actually succeeded then there would probably have been no English Civil War and we would have continued to have an Absolute Monarchy rather than today's Constitutional Monarchy. What If the Gunpowder Plot Had Succeeded? By Professor Ronald Hutton Engraving...

The Percy lion is set to roar again Nov 8 2006 By Tony Henderson, The Journal Work has started on the latest stage of preserving a tower which symbolises the power of a family dynasty. The 14th Century Lion Tower is part of English Heritage's Warkworth Castle in Northumberland. The...

City dig may shed light on Romans The car park is surplus since the Whitefriars centre was built Archaeologists hope a plan to build 20 new houses in the centre of Canterbury will turn up new information about the Roman occupation of Britain. The Rosemary Lane site, which is on top of...

The 21st James Bond movie. Released 16th November (Britain); 17th November (United States and Canada) Our Bond stunt is world record Casino Royale ... tanker smashes through cop cars and bendy bus RELATED STORIES By GRANT ROLLINGS November 08, 2006 WHEN it comes to stunts...

Stem cell cure for heart attacks By JULIE WHELDON Last updated at 23:43pm on 7th November 2006 How it works: The procedure holds out hope of a 'cure' as the stem cells repair damaged heart muscles Emergency heart attack patients will be injected with their own stem cells in a...

Bin Laden pal Barot out at 72 A minimum of40 years ... Dhiren Barot faces life in jail RELATED STORIES By SIMON HUGHES and NEIL SYSON NOVEMBER 08, 2006 AL-QAEDA terror boss Dhiren Barot will rot in jail until he is 72 for plotting a string of murderous attacks. He was...

Three jailed for race-hate murder Victim: Kriss Donald Three Asian men have been jailed for life for the race-hate murder of schoolboy Kriss Donald. Imran Shahid, 29, was ordered to spend at least 25 years behind bars at the High Court in Edinburgh. His brother Zeeshan Shahid...

Industrious Albion: Britannia, and neither France nor Germany, is again the economic and industrial powerhouse of Europe, although France wants to ruin all that. The French have ruined their economy by working just 35 hours a week. They've now tried to make those laws apply to every country in...

The hilarious gap-year emails that never reassure parents 7th November 2006 When intrepid teenagers set off to explore the deepest, darkest and most dangerous parts of the world during their gap years, it is a nail-biting time for their worried parents. But, mothers and fathers...

Forget Europe's giant Airbus (Airbust?) A380 double-decker airliner which is experiencing financial difficulties and technical faults - the future of passenger travel is the British/American SAX-40, which has been developed by Cambridge University and MIT Institute. When the British and...