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Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre, in which a crazed gunman burst into a school in Scotland and shot dead 16 children, aged around 5 years old, and their teacher before turning the gun on himself. After the massacre, the British public demanded a ban on handguns, and...

The Sunday Times March 12, 2006 Revealed: UK develops secret nuclear warhead Michael Smith BRITAIN has been secretly designing a new nuclear warhead in conjunction with the Americans, provoking a legal row over the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The government has been pushing...

Depeche Mode try a new style: en dough cheeky-a-vunch Mark Brown Saturday March 4, 2006 The Guardian Deh dah do. Misbalah. Que-moh-nuzhnee? Esta booka-dee schvallow en dough cheeky-a-vunch.* Don't quite recognise it? It's Simlish, allegedly a combination of fractured Ukrainian and Tagalog...

Slobodan Milosevic Dies in Prison Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has died in The Hague, it has been confirmed. Milosevic, 64, who was on trial for war crimes, was found in his prison cell at the UN detention centre near The Hague, the UN tribunal said. A spokesman said he...

Fagin would be proud - a gang known as Fagin's Kitchen crew are committing a spate of robberies around the great city. Fagin's Kitchen crew, the smash and grab scooter raiders plaguing London · Gang targets expensive City and West End stores · Hauls in past year add up to millions of pounds...

Postcards made by British PoWs during the Great War demonstrate the famous British stiff upper lip and keeping calm in a crisis.... Wish you were here? It’s a PoW camp! But we're keeping a stiff upper lip . . . By Jack Malvern, Arts Reporter JAUNTY postcards showing off a theatre, a...

The Archbishop of Canterbury is expected to make his first formal visit to Pope Benedict XVI in a bid to heal the hatred between the Anglican (Protestant) and the Catholic churches. The Times March 11, 2006 Canterbury and Rome on road to heal rift of centuries By Ruth Gledhill, Religion...

New Jersey's 'Bermuda Triangle' refuses to give up its dead Written by WAYNE PARRY Thursday, 09 March 2006 CLINTON, N.J. (AP) _ Authorities call it ``New Jersey's Bermuda Triangle,'' a watery place where people disappear, never to be seen again. The description held true...

Record set for hottest temperature on Earth Scientists produce gas more than 100 times hotter than the sun Because of the high voltage involved, the Z machine is submerged in oil and water. This image shows lightning arcs beneath the liquid surface. March 8, 2006 Scientists have produced...

Another cool British movie, starring Ant and Dec, a comedy duo (who are totally inseperable and have been best friends since they were little kids) who usually host Saturday night entertainment shows on TV. [/img] The movie is based on a true story about two men who, in 1995, made a "home...

'Scandal' minister Profumo dies aged 91 10th March 2006 Scandal: John Profumo's affair with Christine Keeler eventually led to the downfall of the Conservative government John Profumo, the former government minister at the centre of the biggest sex scandal of the 20th century, has died at...

Hurst's England Elf* (* That's German for eleven) By GEOFF WEBSTER DON’T panic – this isn’t Sven’s final XI for the World Cup this summer. Footie fans across the country are still trying to recover from the shock news that England idol Sir Geoff Hurst has gone and signed for the...

Britain has the safest roads in the Western World. Quite amazing, considering we have so many women drivers...... LONDON (Reuters) - North Wales police couldn't believe their eyes when a camera at a notorious accident spot caught a driver using both hands to put on her make-up. Donna...

Blair's Britain, Case Number 187467362 - Fine for binning rubbish By JOHN ASKILL A TOWN hall chief today promised to investigate after a man was fined £50 for throwing his junk mail in a street litter bin. Baffled Andy Tierney blasted council busybodies over his £50 litter bin fine...

Red rain that fell in South Western India could prove that aliens have landed Amelia Gentleman and Robin McKie Sunday March 5, 2006 The Observer There is a small bottle containing a red fluid on a shelf in Sheffield University's microbiology laboratory. The liquid looks cloudy and...

Scientists Hope for Life on Saturn's Moon Life possible: Scientists have found the 'smoking gun' pointing to water on the moon The Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of liquid water spewing from geysers on one of Saturn's icy moons, raising the tantalising possibility that the...

A list of some of the many battles that have taken place on British soil over the centuries - Battle of Barnet during the War of the Roses, 1471 ----------------------- The Battle of Bannockburn June 23-24, 1314 Bannockburn, Stirlingshire Scots under Robert Bruce vs. English under King...

Times Online March 09, 2006 Three arrests in organised crime raids By Times Online and agencies More than £140,000 as well as fuel and cigarettes were seized today as part of a huge cross-border police operation against organised crime along the Irish border. Two men and a woman were...

Catholicism shows how evil it can be.... 100 Dublin priests accused of abuse since 1940 · 350 children in one archdiocese affected · Church may sell property to pay compensation Owen Bowcott Ireland correspondent Thursday March 9, 2006 The Guardian The full extent of child abuse scandals...

By JOHN COLES HERO Kenneth Cummins has reached the age of 106 — after surviving fighting in BOTH World Wars. Kenneth witnessed the horrors of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 conflicts while serving at sea. He survived German torpedo attacks and a sinking before going on to become a cruise liner...