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Northern Ireland Loyalists (those who wish for NI to remain part of the UK) have created a pyre made of tyres that will be burnt tonight to mark the Williamite victory in the Battle of the Boyne against the Jacobites in 1690. The Jacobites were supporters of the deposed Catholic King of England...

Bin Laden's son weds grandmother from Cheshire by NICK McDERMOTT 11th July 2007 Daily Mail 'Mrs Bin Laden': Jane Felix-Browne A grandmother from Cheshire has married Osama bin Laden's son following a holiday romance. Jane Felix-Browne, 51, married the scrap metal dealer - 24...

'Al-Qa'eda will punish UK for Rushdie award' By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor. 10/07/2007 The Telegraph Osama bin Laden’s second in command has issued a warning that Britain faces fresh terror attacks as a "punishment" for the knighthood bestowed on Salman Rushdie. Ayman...

Glasgow Jeep Man 'Unlikely To Survive' Tuesday July 10, 2007 Sky News A terror suspect injured in the Glasgow terror attempt is unlikely to survive, one of his doctors has said. Jeep on fire at Glasgow Airport A member of the medical team treating Kafeel Ahmed at the Royal...

Brown's foreign policy is still a mystery By Irwin Stelzer 10/07/2007 The Telegraph Prime Minister Gordon Brown has appointed the anti-American ex-UN official Mark Malloch Brown to the government as the new Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN 'I cannot forecast to you the action of...

Facing jail, juror whose hijab hid an MP3 player 10th July 2007 Daily Mail 'Laughing at the court': Ruhela Khanom in her headscarf A Muslim juror was thrown off a murder trial when she was caught listening to an MP3 music player under her headscarf. Ruhela Khanom, 20, was...

LITTLEJOHN: Saving the planet while the English swim for their supper 9th July 2007 Daily Mail RICHARD LITTLEJOHN When it comes to 'climate change' - what we used to call the weather - I'm with Professor Higgins. In Herefordshire, Hertfordshire and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever...

Arctic Monkey Alex Turner has fallen for a girl who is, appropriately, called Alexa..... Monkey Alex goes ape for Alexa I bet that you look good singing karaoke ... Alex and Alexa hook-up July 09, 2007 The Sun ALEX TURNER has a way with words in his hit songs – but his chat-up...

Charlemagne The two-speed myth Jul 5th 2007 From The Economist print edition Revived threats of a two-speed Europe need not be taken too seriously BRUSSELS has played host to many lost causes over the years. Charlemagne's favourite is the harmlessly dotty rattachiste movement, which...

July 9, 2007 The Times Parisians urged to be nice Adam Sage in Paris In a recent worldwide poll, Paris was voted the third most beautiful city in the world - in terms of architecture, monuments, glamour, etc - after Sydney and London The tourist lost near the Place de l’Opéra in...

Prince Harry is to join one of the British Army's most feared regiment - the Gurkhas. Knife ... how Harry might look as a Gurkha Prince set to be Gurkha Harry By JAMIE PYATT July 09, 2007 The Sun Fearsome: A British Army Gurkha cleaning his deadly Kukri knife SOLDIER...

Guilty ... Ibrahim Guilty verdicts in 21/7 case By ONLINE REPORTER July 09, 2007 THREE men were found guilty today of an extremist Muslim plot to launch a series of suicide bomb attacks on the London transport system exactly two weeks after 7/7. Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Omar and...

The British baby born at a "lucky" time" - 07/07/07 at 7am at, appropriately, Good Hope Hospital......in delivery room 7 Baby born at 7am on 07/07/07...and she's her parents' seventh child 8th July 2007 Daily Mail Some of us, it is said, are born lucky. And there can be few people with...

A World War II codebreaker, who worked at the famous Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, famous for being the location of the world's first computer and where the German Enigma machine was cracked by the British (although a certain Hollywood - U-571) movie shamelessly depicts Americans cracking...

Christopher Booker's notebook By Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph 07/07/2007 EU treaty: the great double deception Many people must have rubbed their eyes in disbelief at Gordon Brown's statement to MPs last Tuesday when, in announcing his new "constitutional settlement", he...

Warnings of 15 years of terror as new security minister calls for some un-British 'snitching' to fight extremists 8th July 2007 Daily Mail Terror warnings: Admiral Sir Alan West Tackling radicalisation could take 15 years, Gordon Brown's new security minister has warned as he...

Ministers eye Her Majesty's swans By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph 07/07/2007 Daily Telegraph Swan-upping on the Thames. Traditionally, the Monarch owns all unmarked mute swans on the River Thames Here the cygnets have been caught and are weighed in a red...

London remembers July 7 Tube bombings 7th July 2007 Daily Mail The second anniversary of the July 7 London bombings will be marked today by survivors and relatives. Hundreds are expected to gather at Kings Cross station shortly before 9am, when the first bomb exploded two years ago...

Live Aid is promoting green to save the planet - what planet are they on? 7th July 2007 Daily Mail As Madonna bounds on to the huge 90,000 capacity Wembley Stadium stage in London to save the planet, how the assembled Greenies will cheer. The superstar is today fronting the massive Live...

The Tour de France gets under way today - but this year the race is also being held in England. The race starts in London and goes through neighbouring Kent before heading across the Channel to France. Our clean pair of wheels By ALEX BANNISTER 6th July 2007 Daily Mail Today's Tour de...