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In 2006, Titus Oates was selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 17th century's worst Briton. He ranked the third-equal worst Briton over the last 1000 years (after Jack the Ripper and Thomas Becket). Titus Oates (September 15, 1649 – July 12/13, 1705) was a 17th century perjurer who...

Coins, discovered in a Newcastle bank volt and dating from 32BC, show that Cleopatra and Marc Antony weren't quite as beautiful as some people - especially Hollywood - made them out to be..... Cleopatra, the (not so) beautiful seductress By PAUL SIMS 13th February 2007 Money talks...

Field of the Cloth of Gold King Henry VIII of England King Francis I of France The Field of the Cloth of Gold , or in French Le Camp de Drap d'Or, is the name given to a place in Balinghem, between Guînes and Ardres, in France, near Calais. The solecism Field of the Cloth of Gold has...

The South Sea Bubble All through history, one subject appears again and again. How to make a lot of money quickly! The first recorded case in England was that of a State Lottery in 1569. The tickets were on sale at the west door of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The name of the winner...

Poor Fred! English history records several members of its Royal family dying in peculiar circumstances. For example …King Henry I died from eating a 'surfeit of lampreys' in 1135, and another, William Rufus, was shot with an arrow whilst hunting in the New Forest. Poor Edmund Ironside...

London vs. The Big Apple Globalization comes to the financial services industry. by Irwin M. Stelzer 02/13/2007 London currently has the upper hand over New York THE COMPETITION between New York City and London threatens to get out of hand. New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, a...

Brit girls' boobs are the biggest February 13, 2007 In front ... shapely Brit Kelly Brook BRITISH women have the biggest breasts in Europe, a survey revealed yesterday. The poll for bra maker Triumph found that only in this country did more than half the women need a D cup or larger...

Sir Patrick gets stamps of approval 13/02/2007 A set of six stamps chosen by Sir Patrick Moore, 83, will go on sale today to celebrate 50 years of his astronomy programme The Sky At Night. The BBC show is the longest-running programme in the world still boasting its original presenter...

England cricketers caught up in robbery By Our Foreign Staff 13/02/2007 England's three-month tour of Australia ended with a frightening conclusion when their physiotherapist was robbed at knife-point by a gang in the team hotel in Sydney. Five members of the squad, including batsman...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has attacked US Democrat Presidential hopeful Barack Obama for saying US troops should withdraw from Iraq next year. Australia is America's biggest ally after Britain. After America (population 300 million) and Britain (population 61 million), Australia...

Is the World Cup coming home? Gordon Brown, who will become British Prime Minister this year, with the ball used in the 1966 World Cup Final, which England won 4-2 against West Germany. He will ensure England has the British Government's full backing in the bid. If the bid is successful...

"Cul-de-sac" is a French term meaning "arse/ass of a bag", although the cul-de-sac is a British invention. A cul-de-sac is a dead-end street - usually with houses - with only one inlet/outlet. Now Prince Charles wants to get rid of them....... February 11, 2007 Charles: let’s kill...

Martian moon 'could be key test' By Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News Phobos: The moon's orbit is shrinking and it will eventually be destroyed Mars' moon Phobos could be the target for a technology trial that would seek to return rock samples to Earth. A UK team is...

Gay tourists turned off British holidays by camp campaign By Chris Hastings, Arts and Media Editor, Sunday Telegraph 11/02/2007 It has "outed" a gay English king, highlighted male nudes in London's galleries, and even hired a model to dance through San Francisco clad only in leather...

Revealed: Britain's first victim in the war on terror By Jason Lewis 10th February 2007 MI5 agent Steven Lanham posing in front of military plane. He died in mysterious circumstances in 1999 when not many people had heard of Al Qaeda. Police files record Steven Lanham's death as...

Is it a train...Is it a plane...or is it C.B. Fry? This amazing Englishman played rugby for the Barbarians, football for England, captained the English cricket team, equalled the world long jump record - and was offered the throne of Albania! The Superman, more conventionally...

In 1807, Britain became the first country in the world to ban slavery, thanks to the efforts of Member of Parliament William Wilberforce. This year, Britain will hold a series of events to mark the 200th anniversary. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

February 10, 2007 British soldier shot in the chest during routine patrol in Basra Richard Beeston in Basra The new Rifles Regiment was created just earlier this month and is the largest British Army regiment. A soldier in Iraq has just become the regiment's first casualty...

Ahh ... Bisto gravy granules for every SAS occasion Picture: REX SAS disguise with use of Bisto By VIRGINIA WHEELER February 10, 2007 SAS soldiers who ran out of camouflage cream have been on secret missions — smeared in GRAVY. Our elite troops found the meat sauce worked as...

The man afraid of Grannies WARNING: this page contains a picture of a little old lady. Read with extreme caution Granny phobia ... OCD sufferer Stephen Drake By SAMANTHA WOSTEAR FEBRUARY 10, 2007 BURLY Stephen Drake peers nervously from behind his curtains to check that the coast...