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Thankfully, a British author has been chosen to write the secret about the British hero..... Briton to write Peter Pan sequel Geraldine McCaughrean has won numerous awards for her work British author Geraldine McCaughrean has been chosen to write the official sequel to the story of...

As the French retire at 50 and work just 35 hours a week here's a guy who has worked for 90 years and he is still working at the age of 100....... 100 years old... and still hard at work 1st September 2006 Mr Martin, who's 100 years old, says he would like to keep working until he's...

A British TV drama will show the fictional assassination of president bush. But what if it had really happened? by MARK ALMOND 1st September 2006 Bush is shot by a sniper in a scene from British drama Death of a President. Held up by a Secret Service bodyguard in his dying moments...

EU membership costs every Briton £873 a year By JAMES CHAPMAN 31st August 2006 Every man, woman and child is paying £873 a year for Britain to be a member of the European Union. Lots of our money goes to French farmers. As a result, they become rich, thanks to the British taxpayer...

Lord of the Rings New Zealand director Peter Jackson is making a re-make of the Dam Busters. ------------ The Times September 01, 2006 Dam Busters bounce back with Lord of the Rings at the controls By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent Bouncing bomb: A British Dam Buster in action in...

Not even little Accrington Stanley, down in England's League 2 (the fourth tier of English football below the Premiership, the Championship and League 1) wanted England's ex-manager Sven as their new manager. This year, Accrington Stanley came back into the English football league after an...

Times Online August 31, 2006 Protesters gather near the Drax power station (Owen Humphreys/PA) Eco-warriors march on Yorkshire power station By Philippe Naughton and PA News Police made at least 28 arrests today as hundreds of eco-warriors marched on Britain's biggest...

31 August 2006 SCOTS TOP SUICIDE LIST The Celts The English SCOTS are twice as likely to kill themselves as the English, figures show. Between 2002/04 30 men in every 100,000 committed suicide compared with 16.7 in England. For women, 10 took their own lives in every 100,000. In...

Germans Leave in Record Numbers, Fleeing Unemployment By Rainer Buergin Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Thomas Koerber, an engineering technician from Viernheim, Germany, was looking for a new job. He found it -- 4,700 miles away, in Canada. ``I looked around, found a job I liked in Canada, and...

City's charter party will run for a year Eight centuries of growth to be celebrated Leeds is the 3rd-biggest city in Britain after London and Birmingham with a population of 750,000. This year it celebrates its 800th birthday. 800 years ago, it had a population of just 200. RUINED...

Nun study reveals God's flickering effect on the brain 30th August 2006 A study, which subjected nuns to brain scans, found that several areas of their brain flickered into life when they felt the presence of God. The study, conducted by reasearchers at the University of Montreal, Canada...

Smellies and Bottoms named in surname list of shame 30th August 2006 Surname: Beckhams like to travel - David moved to Spain and other clusters have been found as far away as New Zealand The nation's most embarrassing surnames have been revealed today with experts showing Cocks come...

Brussels is using terrorism to further its federal ambitions By Daniel Hannan, Member of European Parliament (Filed: 29/08/2006) Telegraph London The European Union is a solution in search of a problem. Whatever the question, the answer is invariably "more Europe". War in Lebanon? We need...

The pavement Picasso chalks up another success By LUCY BALLINGER 29th August 2006 Julian Beever's remarkable Batman and Robin artwork. Hanging from a wire, Batman and Robin clamber up the wall of a burning building to save a victim from the flames burning inside. Policeman stand...

The Times August 30, 2006 As you bomb, you will be bombed, says video 'martyr' By Sean O’Neill MARTYRDOM videos found by police investigating the alleged airline terrorist plot contain chilling statements made by young men who are apparently willing to die as suicide bombers. Seven...

The debut single of Sheffield band Ape Drape escape is called "200 Angry Bikers!" It is released from their debut album "Fracture Clinic." Martin Clark - Vocals Helen Clark - Guitar Rachel Crosby - Synth Ian Turley - Bass Dan Harrison - Drums James Ape - Guitar Hand picked from the...

To the 15 million people who live in Greater London, this story just sounds unbelievable. London transporation system has been voted the best in the world. London's taxi drivers, famed for knowing the maze of streets of Europe's largest city like the back of their hand, have been voted the...

I've gone from right-wing to right-on in the space of a week By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN who has just come back from holiday (those Guardian readers and Lefties really get on his nerves) He always tells it like it is. 28th August 2006 They say a week is a long time in politics, but this...

Have you heard the one about the Irishman and the perpetual motion machine? Have scientists unlocked the secret of perpetual motion? By MICHAEL HANLON, Science Editor 28th August 2006 Has this scientist in Dublin found the Holy Grail of Science? Or is his claim to have found free energy...

Holiday Britons defy the bombers By Catriona Davies (Filed: 29/08/2006) Britons continued to fly out to Turkey on holiday last night despite the fifth bomb aimed at tourists in less than 24 hours. Tour operators said that holidays were going ahead "as normal" and the Foreign Office did...