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The Daily Mail's Robert Hardman goes behind the scenes at Britain's Royal Mint, the organisation that produces the coins for the Great British pound (£) and pence (p). The Royal Mint is the world's oldest financial institution. Not only does it produce 1.3 BILLION British coins a year, from...

New Bond girl Gemma Arterton comes to a sticky end in the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace which will be released later this year. In a scene reminiscent to that in 1964's Goldfinger, Arterton, who plays an MI6 spy ordered to keep an eye on Bond, is drowned in crude oil with her body lying on...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, trailing the Tories in the polls, decided to have a reshuffle of his Cabinet this week. Nobody could have guessed that he would bring back Peter "Mandy" Mandelson back into the Government. Mandelson has twice before been disgraced thanks to his sleaze and...

Do you think that the Demon Barber, Sweeney Todd, is just a fictional character? If you do, then you are wrong. He was very much real. Sweeney Todd was born in the fetid East End of London in 1756, probably in Spitalfields. There is no disputing the location in London where he became...

British Army Gurkhas, the world's most fearsome and fearless warriors, have won a test case at the High Court in London to be able to settle in the UK. The British Government had shamefully said that Gurkhas who left the Army before 1997 didn't have the right to live in the UK. But this...

Appropriately, with Halloween just a month away, London giants Chelsea are to play in Transylvania, in Romania, today against European Cup new boys CFR Cluj. The pampered millionaire Chelsea stars have caused uproar in Romania by issuing a 35-page list of demands at their five-star hotel -...

Conservative leader David Cameron made a great speech at the Party Conference in Birmingham today, issuing a warning to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Labour Government that the Tories will form the next government with him as Prime Minister. In his speech, Cameron vowed to clean up the...

Why mulitculturalism - and the equal rights and anti-discrimination cultures (which Noo Labour and now even trying, unfortunately, to extend into the Monarchy by bringing in a ridiculous law to allow Catholics to become Monarch) - are destroying British society.... The police, the Crown, and...

Victorian Britain (1837-1901) was the richest country on Earth - yet much of this wealth didn't trickle down to the poorest people of society. In all of Britain's great cities - London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool etc - there were areas of slums where the poor lived in such...

There is fury over two commemorative plaques honouring Peter Piaktow that have been put on two blocks of flats (apartments) in Whitechapel in the East End of London. Piaktow was the leader of an anarchist gang that was responsible for the the murder of three policemen The Sidney Street Siege...

It has been mentioned a few times in recent years, and here's another one - that it was the British, NOT the French, who invented champagne. Champagne was invented by the Englishman Christopher Merritt, who was born in 1614. He devised champagne-making techniques derived from the...

With the Labour Government well behind the Tories in the polls, it is looking likely that they will no longer be in power come the next General Election either next year or in 2009. As the party lies dying, its one last pathetic act is its attempt to destroy the monarchy - that great...

Durham, who have only been a first-class county side since 1991, have become English champions for the first time. They beat Kent in the glorious sunshine of Canterbury yesterday, a result which also means that Kent are relegated down to Division 2. Nottinghamshire needed to beat Hampshire at...

Newgate Gaol was London's - and probably the world's - most notorious gaol in its heyday. Prisoners were kept there in extremely squalid conditions. Those awaiting execution at the dreaded Tyburn Triple Tree were imprisoned here. And crowds gathered at the gaol until as late as the 1860s to...

The EU often wonders why the British (the public, at least) don't seem particularly keen on being members of the EU. Maybe it boils down to one, several or all these main theories: 1) The British are proud of their great, ancient nation and fiercely defend their country's sovereignty. If...

The first steam train to be built in Britain since 1960 took to the tracks yesterday. The Peppercorn class Tornado cost £3 million to build and she carried her passengers on the Great Central railway in Loughborough, Leicestershire. The last Peppercorn A1 in Britain was scrapped in 1966...

Britain is a country blessed with beautiful and glorious ancient building, an absolute treasure trove. One of its finest jewels must be Salisbury Cathedral, the great landmark of the city f Salisbury in Wiltshire. It was built in 1258 during the reign of King Henry III. It has an incredibly...

With the Labour Government trailing David Cameron's Tories in the polls, the last thing Prime Minister Gordon Brown wanted was more bad news. That bad news is the news that Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, who is also the MP for Bolton West, has quit, saying her decision was because she wanted...

Photographer Kevin Hehir is the only known person ever to have seen a black fox in Britain - and he may regret it. The creature is supposed to bring doom and disaster to anyone who sees it. According to British tradition, the black fox is able to hide in a person's shadow and never be seen...

Russell Brand was brilliant when he hosted the recent MTV Awards in the US - but Americans (who aren't exactly renowned in Britain for their sense of humour) don't think so. Maybe American music fans are just more formal and prissy than their British counterparts... Bide your time, Russell...