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Charles's new holiday home haunted after five horrific deaths by LUKE SALKELD 28th December 2006 Previous occupants have reported seeing ghosts in Charles's new house, Llwynywormwood estate in Myddfai, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. Llwynywormwood is Welsh for "Wormwood Grove"...

This is a bit long but it's an interesting read.... Is the E.U. America's Friend or Foe? December 22, 2006 by John Blundell Heritage Foundation On May 1, 2004, ten new countries, with a combined population of 74 million, became members of the European Union, bringing the total E.U...

January 1st 2007, 6.20pm, BBC One The Wind in the Willows is a classic British story written by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. The characters were originally proper animals such as Rat, Toad and Mole, but in this new BBC series the characters are more humanoid. Toad...

The BBC's "Dracula" is shown on British TV tonight. Marc Warren stars as Count Dracula in a stylish, sexy and erotic re-working of British writer Bram Stoker's classic chiller. Thursday 28 December 2006, 9pm, BBC One Lord Holmwood (Dan Stevens) is due to marry his sweetheart, Lucy...

On the 10th July 1985 the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), sank the Rainbow Warrior ship in New Zealand - not French, but New Zealand - waters after the Greenpeace ship tried to stop them from conducting nuclear...

French doctors are learning how to care for British patients. Due to cultural differences they find British patients much different than French patients. For example, the British, thanks to their famous Stiff Upper Lip and stoicism, are less likely to go and see the doctor than the French are...

Former members of the IRA are suspected as being the cause of a huge surge of violence in the Irish Republic's largest city. There have been 63 violent deaths in the Republic of Ireland this year, a huge amount in a tiny nation of just 4 million people. ------------------------- The Times...

The TimesDecember 28, 2006 Fighter jets scramble over airline terror alert Michael Evans, Defence Editor * RAF Tornados make monthly interceptions * Ministers can order planes to be shot down RAF Tornados Tornado jet fighters are being scrambled on intercept counter-hijacking...

Hunt for seventh victim after helicopter crash at sea 28th December 2006 A Royal Air Force rescue helicopter prepares to continue the search for the seventh victim The helicopter crashed innto the Irish Sea, 20 miles off Morecambe Bay in the North West of England One person is...

Graffiti vandals leave unwanted Christmas decoration By IAN DRURY 27th December 2006 For a gang of graffiti louts, it was an opportunity too good to be missed. With the London Underground network closed down on Christmas Day, they crept in and had several hours undisturbed to...

Bits and Pieces - whatever became of them? It is quite amazing how many parts of the body belonging to famous people in history somehow become separated from the body itself and turn up again, many years or even centuries later. Let me give you some examples... Queen Anne Boleyn...

Foxhunting with hounds may have been banned since February 2005 but that didn't stop more than 300,000 people - a record turnout - to enjoy the annual Boxing Day (26th December) hunts. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says that the reason why record crowds turned out to...

Gibraltar, a British territory in the Mediterrenean, wants to become a proper footballing "nation" by becoming a member of UEFA. It faces opposition from the Spanish who still think Gibraltar should belong to them despite 99% of Gibraltareans wanting to remain British. Rocky road for...

Military team follows steps of Captain Scott By Graeme Paton 27/12/2006 A British military team today became the first service personnel to reach the South Pole since Scott of the Antarctic’s ill-fated assault almost 100 years ago. The group comprising of Royal Navy sailors and...

Prince Harry will be sent to Iraq - girlfriend Prince Harry wants to serve with his unit in Iraq Prince Harry will be sent to Iraq in the spring, according to reports quoting his girlfriend Chelsy Davy. Ms Davy, 21, had told friends she was going to travel to take her mind off the...

Well, it may not be "massive" on international scales, but it was the biggest earthquake to have hit Britain in 2006.... Quake 'biggest in UK this year' Press Association Tuesday December 26, 2006 An earthquake that has shaken a Scots town is the biggest in the UK this year...

Thanks to the British/American invasion of Iraq, Saddam will probably be hanged within 30 days. Saddam death sentence upheld Saddam Hussein in court Iraq's highest appeals court has upheld the death sentence for Saddam Hussein, Iraq's national security adviser. "The appeals...

You know that things are going bad for the French at the moment and things are going well for the British when Froggy's arch-enemies across the Channel are now starting to outperform them in winemaking Perhaps not suprisingly, the alcoholic, heavily-drinking British are the second-biggest...

The Tories have compiled a list of the 12 most influential Britons of all time, but for some reason they have left out Sir Winston Churchill who, in 2002, was voted the Greatest Briton of all time by the British public. Included on the list is Sir Robert Peel who created the world's first police...

Prince William's new royal admirer By IAN DRURY 25th December 2006 The future King holds hands with his young second cousin Margarita Armstrong-Jones as they walk to the Royal Famlily's traditional Christmas Day church service at Sandringham. But she wasn't the only female admirer of...