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Britain's spookiest roads The M6 motorway is Britain's longest motorway. It's also the most haunted. It runs from Warwickshire right up to near the English/Scottish border. Some of the ghosts seen on this road include Roman soldiers. Platt Lane in Manchester, the site of a coal mining...

Old Bailey scuffle before race-hate trial 1st November 2006 Fisty cuffs: police and pro-Muslim demonstrators fight outside the Old Bailey A scuffle broke out between police and pro-Muslim demonstrators outside the Old Bailey today as a man was due to go on trial accused of a race...

WAR IN AFGHANISTAN British soldiers showed just how brave, professional and stoic they are in the face of the enemy when they held off hordes of Taliban rebels for an incredible 107 days. Their epic feat is the longest defence in modern British military history and beats all records dating...

1300 medieval skeletons have been found by archaeologists in the centre of one of Britain's biggest cities. Medieval graves found during dig The skeletons were found during a dig near the Shires shopping centre Archaeologists have discovered a huge medieval cemetery next to a "lost...

That have been reports of people collapsing and even running screaming from the cinema whilst watching gruesome horror movie saw III......... Health warning over horror flick October 31, 2006 A HORROR flick is so gruesome that movie-goers have fainted watching it, an ambulance trust...

Derek Acorah, ex-footballer and now a medium and the star of British TV show "Most Haunted Live" - in which Derek and his colleagues visit famous haunted buildings around Britain and investigate them at night with the lights turned off whilst TV viewers watch it live as it happens - tells us...

Hi-tech gizmos to tackle terror By VINCE SOODIN October 31, 2006 Reid ... announced new technology NEW anti-terror technology launched today included the latest version of a machine which can see through clothes to detect weapons and explosives. The Tadar machine uses...

When a woman woke in the morning and opened her curtains, she was shocked to discover that around 40 sheep had somehow invaded her garden....... Police called to round up wayward sheep from cul-de-sac By BEN FARMER (appropriately) 30th October 2006 The sheep in the woman's garden in...

British liver patients will benefit greatly as stem cell research - which Britain leads the world in but the American President opposes - allows British scientists to grow the world's first artificial liver.... British scientists grow human liver in a laboratory By FIONA MacRAE, Science...

From the animators who gave us Wallace and Gromit - only this time it's CGI and not plasticine. Flushed Away is a new British CGI animated movie about a posh rat by the name of Roddy living in the rich Kensington area of London whose life is disrupted when a common sewer rat arrives at his...

Zoo celebrating rare dove birth The species was hunted to extinction by feral cats A rare Mexican bird that died out in the wild in the 1970s has been successfully bred at London Zoo. The Socorro dove is native to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands, 600 miles off the west...

New look ... Adam Smith, the father of free trade, on the new English and Welsh £20 note. Despite being a part of Britain, Scotland and Northern Ireland have differently designed notes than the English and Welsh, although coins are exactly the same. Not only are the MAJORITY of the...

The world's largest ship - which is a quarter of a mile long - arrives in Britain from China to deliver goods that were made in that country. China now is to the 21st Century as Britain was to the 19th Century - THE world's manufacturing superpower. In the 19th century, Britain was the...

Cairde na hEireann is an Irish Republican organisation based in Scotland - most of their members are Scots whose parents or grandparents were Irish. 1) Why did Irish Republicans want to march in Scotland when the Scots don't like the Irish very much and where anti-Catholicism - like England in...

For the film footage, go here - http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/armydog.shtml The Tartan of the Royal Highland Fusiliers A HALF-NAKED corporal savagely beats a new recruit to the British Army with a baton, showing no mercy as his teenage victim cowers in terror and begs him to stop...

The Sunday TimesOctober 29, 2006 British police could quiz Khatami on torture claim Mark Macaskill and Mary Braid Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran, is due to collect an honorary degree from the University of St Andrew's in Fife, Scotland. British police from the Met want to...

Police want flag burning outlawed Police want flag burning made illegal in Britain Police chiefs have urged ministers to criminalise flag burning in a move to crack down on extremist protesters. Scotland Yard has submitted the idea to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, alongside...

France is currently going through a rapid decline thanks to its "sick" economy, just like Britain in the 1970s. The British managed to get themselves out of this decline by voting in Thatcher who did all the reforms necessary to transform Britain from the "Sick Man of Europe" of the 1970s to...

Unlike the soldiers of the British Army, who have been fighting probably the most intense battles they've had to fight since the Korean War of the 1950s, the soldiers of the Royal Navy haven't got much to do in Afghanistan. The Royal Navy's Light Infantry instead has to resort to playing games...

Over the last few years, many people have accused the BBC - the largest and most famous broadcasting company in the world - of being dominated by Lefty liberals, who are pro-European, anti-American, anti-Christian and would show footage of a Bible being burned but not of a Koran being burned in...