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British Prime Minister Gordon brown, and the Chancellor Alistair Darling, yesterday unveiled a staggering £500 billion injection to rescue British banks - equal to a £20,000 bill for every British taxpayer. The Sun, as only a British newspaper can, dubbed it "Thundersplurge is go...

In what sounds like something that would happen in Communist China or NAZI Germany, a woman gets criminal record - for selling fruit and vegetables on her market stall in Imperial measures. She was charged under the Weights and Measures Act - even though the EU said that Britain is allowed to...

The Daily Mail's Stephen Glover lists ten reasons why the recession may bring some benefits to Britain. These benefits include less immigration to Britain, Scots ignoring the pro-independence Scottish Nationalists by concluding that Scotland would be better off riding the storm as part of a...

A thief who stole £850 (US$1,623) was frogmarched through the streets by his boss with a humiliating sign round his neck. The incident happened in Witham, Essex. This is not the only recent example of public humiliation of a felon in the UK. Last year, a criminal was tarred and feathered...

Tim and Jackie Ferrier love to have donkeys roaming around their home in Bude, Cornwall. They love eating French toast, bananas and biscuits - and even join the Ferriers for lunch at the kitchen table... Ee-aagh: The donkeys free to wander around a family's home... and indulge their...

Many people assume the last successful invasion of England was in 1066. But in actual fact, the last invasion of England occured in 1688 - by the Dutch. Perhaps the reason why many British people alive today don't consider this a proper invasion is because it is was a "glorious" invasion, a...

For a team ranked just 131st in the world, Kazakhstan have high ambitions. They are England's next opponents in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. The match takes place at Wembley on Saturday. Despite their lowly ranking, this country of just 15 million people - but which is nine times the size...

London team Tottenham Hotspur have many things in common with the Titanic this season. Spurs are having their worst start to a season since 1912, the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic was expected to be successful, instead it lies at the bottom of the sea. Spurs were expected to be...

Little Britain star David Walliams often dresses as a woman in the TV show, but he's now dressing up as a woman for a strange photoshoot... He really is a laydee: David Walliams shows his feminine side in a startling photoshoot By Daily Mail Reporter 08th October 2008 Daily Mail...

A very poisonous, and ugly, fish has been found in the River Thames. The weever, which can cause swelling and pain for up to a fortnight, was found in the river at Tilbury in Essex - the place where Elizabeth I rallied her troops as Spain's mighty Armada was on its way to invade England...

Shares on the London Stock Exchange, the world's third-largest stock exchange, plummeted today after the Great Crash of 2008 is about to send Britain, Europe's second-biggest economy, into its first recession since the early 1990s. Shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) tumbled 40% in at...

FA Cup holders Portsmouth must face AC Milan in the UEFA Cup group stages. It is Portsmouth's debut season in Europe. Manchester City must face Steve McClaren's FC Twente, Tottenham Hotspur face Spartak Moscow (Spurs striker Roman Pavlyuchenko's former club), and Aston Villa play Ajax. There...

The Royal Navy's new Astute Class submarines are currently being built in Britain. These submarines are the largest and most powerful submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy - and they are also the world's most technologically advanced submarines. Together with its new Type 45 destroyers -...

Professor Steve Jones, a British scientist at University College London says that human evolution has stopped. People living one million years from now will resemble us as we are now. Evolution stops here: Future Man will look the same, says scientist By David Derbyshire 07th October...

Just what was the strange figure that terrorised the gaslit streets of Liverpool in 1894? Was it a vampire? Or just a crazed, bloodsucking lunatic? Read this and make up your own mind. As related by Tom Slemen, a Liverpudlian paranormal investigator... Araminta A Victorian Vampire...

The English wreck a "Welcome to Scotland" sign that was erected miles from the border A couple of silly women were "shocked" when they discovered that there "Welcome to Scotland" sign was destroyed - even though the sign wasn't on the England-Scotland border and was even further south than the...

Did you know that the English king Richard II invented the handkerchief and that when Henry VIII died he weighed a whopping 30 stone (420 pounds)? Well, you do now. The secrets, loves and scandals of the Royal Family are laid bare A new book of historical trivia lays bare obscure secrets...

Over 68,000 people were at Old Trafford in Manchester on Saturday to see Leeds Rhinos retain their Super League crown, after they defeated St Helens in the Grand Final, English rugby league's equivalent of the Super Bowl. It is the third time in four years they have been crowned English...

The Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips, who is Jewish, says that, however reprehensible Holocaust denial is, we must not allow the EU to make it illegal. In Britain, unlike other European countries, Holocaust-denial is not a crime. Why? Because Britain values free speech. The EU must do so...

Britain's newest forest is to be created. 60,000 native woodland trees are to be planted at an 860 acre site near St Albans, Hertfordshire. The area is awash with hstory. In 1461, the Second Battle of St Albans took place here during the Wars of the Roses. King Henry VI is reputed to have been...