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Times Online March 23, 2006 Norman Kember's harrowed appearance on this January video was a low point for his family and supporters (Al Jazeera/AP) Special forces free Iraq hostages, including Briton By Philippe Naughton British and US special forces freed three Western peace...

An intriguing local mystery regarding a sinister murder that happened in the forties around Hagley. The case is unsolved to this day with various theories about the perptrators. Story Location: Hagley, Nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire Date Of Event: Discovered 18 April 1943 - Present An...

Flock of crows terrorises street Warwick Castle - one of the main "touristy" areas of this ancient and beautiful city. The RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) said the crows could be attacking because they are mating A flock of crows is terrorising people living on an...

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has caused another row after he told two businessmen involved in building a key facility for the 2012 Olympics to "go back (to their own country) and see if they can do better under the ayatollahs". But the businessmen aren't from Iran - they were born in...

French Take to the Streets to Preserve Their Economic Fantasy By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, March 22, 2006; D01 Ah, springtime in Paris. The sight of riot police outside the Sorbonne. The smell of tear gas wafting along the Seine. The sweet sounds of hypocrisy floating from the National...

Boozy Britain 'on road to Hogarth's Gin Lane' (Filed: 22/03/2006) William Hogarth's "Gin Lane", painted in 1751, showed what life was like in London's 18th Century streets with its drunks. The around-the-clock availability of cheap alcohol could cause a health crisis reminiscent of the...

Seeing is believing Sightings of mystery 'big cats' in Britain's countryside have snowballed since the 1980s, dividing opinion about their existence Merrily Harpur Wednesday March 22, 2006 The Guardian Angus, a Warwickshire gamekeeper, went to feed his pheasants in a spinney one afternoon...

Marc Knobel, a researcher for the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, says: "This is not just a Jewish question, it's the result of a society that has become totally dislocated and disconnected from republican values. We are in a crisis where people can't live together. "...

UK Islamists 'were ready to start bombing' Staff and agencies Tuesday March 21, 2006 Seven British Islamist terrorists had all the materials in place to start a major bombing campaign in the UK when their plot was intercepted, the Old Bailey heard today. At the start of a trial expected...

Times Online March 21, 2006 The Prince and Duchess in the courtyard of Al Azhar Mosque in Cairo (Khaled El Fiqi/Reuters) Charles criticises cartoons on Middle East tour with Camilla By Philippe Naughton The Prince of Wales took a swipe today at the publication of the Danish...

The Times March 21, 2006 Brown's vision: prepare to head East and sell Britain By Philip Webster, Political Editor EXPERTS from the private sector are to be brought in to help Britain to sell its strengths in China, India and other emerging nations, in an attempt to make it the best...

The Sunday Times March 19, 2006 Christina Lamb British troops arrive in Afghanistan. THE objectives of the British mission to Afghanistan could take as long as 20 years to achieve, according to a confidential Ministry of Defence briefing seen by The Sunday Times. The assessment by senior...

Council to sell 'haunted' castle for £5,000 Publisher: Jon Land Published: 08/03/2006 Haunted: Llantwit Major Castle, Wales, UK. Wales (and, therefore, Britain) has more castles than any other country in Europe. It is known as "The Land of Castles." A "haunted" Elizabethan castle...

Baby monkeys stolen in zoo raid 09:49am 20th March 2006 Stolen: These tiny primates were amongst an entire colony of the threatened black-eared marmosets stolen along with a number of exotic birds from Exmoor Zoo. (In Canada, they probably would have been bludgeoned to death by now.) A pair...

The Times March 20, 2006 Political world mourns a killer named Humphrey By David Sanderson HE WAS a serial killer who attracted fan mail and whose feline nature so offended Cherie Blair that she threw him out; but last week he ran out of lives: Humphrey the Downing Street cat died...

I suppose this could go in the history section. Ireland legalises sheep-poo coffee From: By David Sharrock in Dublin March 14, 2006 WITH the stroke of a legislative pen, the Irish Republic intends to shrug off centuries of colonial rule when it abolishes thousands of bizarre laws dating...

Sunday 12th March 2006 ‘UFO sighting really took my breath away’ By Carron Taylor WAS it a bird? Was it a plane? No, it was a shining silver pyramid, according to two colleagues who spotted a UFO in the skies of Putney, London last week. Michelle Medhat was sitting at her office desk last...

Anglosphere: What about the French? By JAMES C. BENNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- What's the matter with the government, academia and media of France? Since Sept. 11, despite the genuine sympathy of the ordinary French in the street for the victims, the response of the elite elements has too...

(Don't) scatter my ashes on Snowdon Jan 26 2006 Rhodri Clark, Western Mail Snowdon is one of Britain's highest mountains. HAVING your ashes scattered on Snowdon may seem the perfect ending for many mountain walkers, but worried conservation officers are asking them to consider...

London graves desecrated by Boudicca's army Boudicca was Queen of the Iceni tribe, who fought against the Romans. Excavations in the City of London have uncovered possible evidence of the desecration of Roman graves by Boudicca's forces when London was sacked and burned in AD 60/61...