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Romans invaded Britain earlier than previously thought - This Roman villa was discovered by archaeolgists in Hampshire. New Roman finds could turn history on its head SHAN ROSS Key points • Roman artefacts found dated decades older than accepted arrival in UK • History records invasion...

British indie band The Guillemots release their first album this month. From left to right: Fyfe Dangerfield, Rican Caol, MC Lord Magrão, and Aristazabal Hawkes. Fyfe Dangerfield (a.k.a. Fyfe Hutchins) - singer and keyboard MC Lord Magrão - guitar Aristazabal Hawkes - double bass Rican...

The Sunday Times March 19, 2006 Getting the sack really would help French workers Protesting French students need an economics lesson, says Diana Furchtgott-Roth Last week thousands of students rioted in France to protest about regulations that would allow employers to sack workers...

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS? GHOSTS SPOTTED AT OPTICAL MUSEUM IN LONDON By Richard Moss 16/03/2006 The Sutcliffe Gallery Room. A decorator had a ghostly encounter here with a man wearing a tricorn hat. © The College of Optometrists Staff at one of London’s smaller museums, the British Optical...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The old misalliance Adam Thorpe on That Sweet Enemy, a continuing drama of Franco-British relations by Robert and Isabelle Tombs Saturday March 18, 2006 The Guardian That Sweet Enemy: The French and the...

Wales Beware the Welsh Teggie, witches and more Feb 27 2006 Tryst Williams, Western Mail WALES' legendary monsters will be in the spotlight this week, in a new television programme. Beasts like "Teggie" - the nation's answer to the Loch Ness Monster, and ghoulish phenomena such as...

Here's a poser for you: you're a member of a highly-advanced alien civilisation and have just travelled to Earth in your hyperdrive-powered craft intending to enjoy a long-weekend break. The trouble is, you can't decide whether to: a) nip over to rural Idaho, abduct a farmhand and anally probe...

Put Troubles behind you with a trip down the IRA heritage trail By Tom Peterkin in Crossmaglen (Filed: 18/03/2006) County of Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK. "The people here are the friendliest in the world," said Tommy McKenna as he sipped his pint of Guinness in an upmarket hotel bar in the...

Chirac blamed for the failings of France by Colin Randall in Paris (Filed: 18/03/2006) Jacques Chirac: 'In mourning for himself' As the sun begins to set on the era of Jacques Chirac, students rampage in the Latin Quarter, the unions are restless and opinion polls reveal a nation that...

Australia, England and Canada have won the most medals so far in the Commonwealth games. Australia, England and India have won the most golds. Correct at end of day two. ................Gold ....Silver.... Bronze.... Total 1. Australia ....12 ......9 ..........8 .............29 2. India...

French kept Europe in dark about infected wild duck by Dominic Kennedy and Adam Sage The Times March 17, 2006 Brussels was given the wrong date for the discovery of a bird flu case. FRANCE kept quiet about the discovery of a wild duck with bird flu while it encouraged the EU to soften its...

British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott (who once ate a meal of curry with baked beans piled on top), says he hates foreign food - Prezza hates foreign muck Jabba: Deputy PM John Prescott. A snail: The French love eating them - dipped in garlic. By TONY BEANNICI (sorry...

PROOF OF THE WILD PANTHER? 16 March 2006 A Gruesome attack in which a pregnant sheep was stripped to the bone could be conclusive proof that a big cat is prowling the Tamworth area. Helen Machin News Reporter The savage incident comes in the same week as the Herald was passed pictures...

Britain has the lowest debt burden of the G8 nations. But spare a though for America - The Times March 17, 2006 US spends its way to 28 Eiffel towers: made out of pure gold From Tim Reid in Washington IF YOU are worried about how much you owe on your credit cards, this might put...

In the darkly-lit streets of 19th Century London, there was a bodysnatching craze......... Whitechapel bodysnatchers The thought of corpses being dug up from a cemetery in the middle of the night makes the blood run cold. But it often happened in the Victorian East End. In ill-lit streets...

The Plague & the Thames A "cartoon" of 1665 showing victims of The Great Plague being buried. The Great Plague caused many deaths in London in 1664 and 1665. In 1666, much of the city was burnt to the ground by the Great Fire. IT was the middle of the Christmas holidays, 1664, when Dr...

PSI Ghostwatch: Wyvern Theatre 09/07/05 Dave Wood (PSI) A 1970s theatre in the middle of Swindon might not be a traditional location for a paranormal investigation, but following eyewitness accounts of unusual activity Paranormal Site Investigators (PSI) went to research the allegedly haunted...

Slaughtered by savages By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor THE full savagery of the slaughter of six Red Caps was revealed in horrific detail yesterday. Families of the massacred Military Police broke down and sobbed as their injuries were listed on the second day of an inquest...

Victims tearing at shirts 'It was like a scene from hell' ... shocked trial volunteer Raste Khan outside hospital yesterday By NICK PARKER, EMMA MORTON and JACQUI THORNTON A VOLUNTEER who escaped the drug test disaster told last night how he saw six healthy young men turn into...

The Times March 16, 2006 Big cats 'are a common sight in the countryside' By Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor Big cat sighting, by county. HUNDREDS of big cats are roaming the wilds of Britain, new evidence suggests, and their numbers are growing. The British Big Cats Society...