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Why should the British apologise for the slave trade? We were the first country to do something to stop it. The Sunday Times - Review The Sunday Times September 24, 2006 Er, sorry, but I'm no slave trader Roland White When it comes to the slave trade, Britain has much to be...

It's not only pumas and lynxes, monkeys and wallabies - even creatures as exotic as glis glis and parakeets live wild in the British countryside. Invasion of the glis glis By RICHARD CREASEY 23rd September 2006 The glis glis are causing havoc across Southern England They live in your...

The day I told Robin Hood to drop his tights and join the SAS By COLONEL TIM COLLINS (SAS) 23rd September 2006 Jonas Armstrong as the Robin Hood in the BBC's new Robin Hood series that is being shown on British TV screens during the autumn. Jonas Armstrong — Robin Hood Lucy Griffiths...

England won the Rugby World Cup in 2003, beating Australia in the Final. But the World Champions may wear LONG-JOHNS in the 2007 World Cup when they defend their World Cup crown. The new style kit may look like something that rugby players wore in the 1890s or something that modern American...

2004/05 European Champions Liverpool thrash the North Londoners to move up the Premiership table Anfield roars Liverpool to victory Liverpool 3 Tottenham 0 Liverpool made it two league victories in four days following their comfortable win against Tottenham Hotspur. Rafael Benitez's men...

Cutty Sark in £12m Lotto lifeline The Cutty Sark is a tourist attraction in London The Cutty Sark, the world's sole surviving tea clipper, will receive almost £12 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), it has been announced. The 137-year-old ship, which resides in dry dock in...

Remarkable letters of death row killers revealed 22nd September 2006 Few would win any literary prizes; and none of the authors will get the chance to improve their writing. For these are the last statements of death row prisoners executed in Texas. Since 1982, all 376 prisoners killed by...

The truth about wild life in Borat's homeland 22nd September 2006 Poking fun: The Kazakh president has threatened to sue British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, pictured here as Kazakhstani TV presenter Borat as his movie opened at the Toronto Film Festival The Kazakhs don't like how Borat...

Mystery over slaughter of pregnant seals 22nd September 2006 The Canadians will be proud: Pregant seals were found dead on a beach in the Orkney Islands, an archipelago in the far north of Britain - a traditionally animal-loving country. Viewed from the headland, the heavily...

English-speaking peoples still stand together against tyranny By Andrew Roberts Telegraph London (Filed: 23/09/2006) In 1956 – half a century ago this year – Sir Winston Churchill published the first volume of his A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. He had won the Nobel Prize for...

Through a Glass Darkly In 1978, a student at Mabel Fletcher's College was passing the window of Olivier's Antiques shop, when something caught his eye. He stopped and peered through the window and saw a strange dark mirror next to an old violin. Matthew had read a lot of books on Occultism...

Man unearths 17th century coin horde By Susannah Berry A COLLECTION of 17th century silver coins were found by a man with his metal detector on the site of the largest battle on English soil – the battle of Marston Moor. A Harrogate inquest heard how Colin Roberts, 53, from Newport, South...

BRITAIN OUT OF THE EU Britons could all too soon become slaves of Europe By Simon Heffer We have been lulled into a dangerous sense of complacency towards the evils capable of being inflicted upon us, our country and our way of life by the EU. Our proposed membership of the euro is, it...

Outnumbered and short of food, British troops win six-day battle with Taliban By Tom Coghlan in Kabul "Situation critical." The young British bombardier spoke urgently into the handset of his radio above the crack of small arms around him and the heavier thud of rocket-propelled grenades...

Jesus rocks in the Scottish Highlands by MAUREEN CULLEY 21st September 2006 'Sermon on the Mount' in the Scottish Highlands Arms outstretched and head tilted, it is the very image of Jesus preaching to the masses. But, for all its similarities, this is not a sculpture of Christ, like...

The Bully and the Fly Hannigan and the bully Stoneley In Edwardian times, a curious Irishman named John Hannigan appeared on the Liverpool scene. Nothing about the middle-aged Hannigan was known, except that he came from County Meath in Ireland around 1905. The rest of his background is a...

21 September 2006 LEHMAN SO SORRY FOR SNUB TO FANS USA don't like our food, don't like our weather, don't like practising.. no wonder fans at the K Club are booing them By Neil Mcleman, Golf Correspondent THE US Ryder Cup team were booed at the K Club yesterday after a shambolic practice...

William joins Harry's regiment as he prepares to be King 21st September 2006 Future King William V: Prince William will join the Household Cavalry Prince William is following his brother, Prince Harry, into the Household Cavalry's Blues and Royals, Clarence House announced today. The...

True stories, as told by Tom Slemen The Darkness and the Fear In April 1922, a 50-year-old Liverpool man named William Banks woke up in pitch darkness. At first he thought he was in his bedroom in the middle of the night, until he tried to stretch. He felt hemmed in. He tried to lever...

'Mystery object' delays shuttle Atlantis left the space station on Sunday The US space agency's Atlantis shuttle has had its Wednesday landing postponed after an unidentified object was seen floating near the vehicle. The delay will give engineers an opportunity to investigate the...