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Pilots eject as RAF Tornado crashes into sea 24th October 2006 The Tornado is considered to be the RAF's primary attack aircraft An RAF Tornado on a routine weapon training session crashed into the sea off the UK today but both air crew ejected to safety. The Tornado GR4 from...

Here's a creepy story from the book "Ghosts", written by Lily Seafield, J Aeneas Corcoran, and Patricia Godwin. This is from my own typing as copied from the book so there is no website link to it. It's a true story that occured in the 1700s. It's best read on your own with the lights off...

Despite being 85 years old and has just been on a tour of the Baltic countries Prince Philip, the Queen's husband, still found enough energy to visit the Queen's Royal Hussars in Iraq..... Prince Philip in visit to Iraq Royal support ... Prince Philip with the Queen's Royal Hussars and...

1st SAS girl: My blood and tears Superfit ... Rachel in her combat gear - and civvies. The SAS undergo the toughest training of any army in the world. To join the SAS, you have to be THE very best. At the end of the third week of training, she was one of only just 20 remaining Pictures...

Iraq Dep PM: Don't leave us Talks ... British PM Tony Blair and Iraqi Deputy PM Barham Salih in Downing Street By VINCE SOODIN October 23, 2006 IRAQ’S deputy prime minister today urged the international community not to “cut and run” from his country. Barham Salih was...

English player Jermaine Defoe bit Argentinian player Javier Mascherano on the arm during Saturday's Premiership game between London teams Tottenham and West Ham that Tottenham won 1-0 at their White Hart Lane. Tottenham's Defore had a face contorted with anger after Mascherano fouled him -...

Foreigners make fun of the British in the way that we allow foreigners to easily take over our companies. But, as The Economist explains, the British are doing an intelligent thing in doing this and is allowing London to dominate the world....... How to protect an industry Oct 19th 2006...

English and Irish women are - by a great distance - the biggest binge alcohol drinkers not just in Europe but in the world. There are ELEVEN times as many women aged 17-30 who binge drink - meaning not drinking just for leisure but drinking far too much in order to get very drunk - than there...

TV historians unearth village's Roman past Oct 19 2006 By Mark Davison mark.davison@trinitysouth.co.uk HISTORY books will have to be rewritten after it has emerged that a Roman settlement has been unearthed at Godstone, Surrey. The discovery has been filmed for Channel 4's Time Team...

Just over 100 years ago, a German called Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz said that England is a nation without music. He couldn't have been more wrong, says Tory MP Boris Johnson........ A land without music? Parry, Holst and Elgar to you, Schmitz By "Bonking" Boris Johnson, Tory MP of...

Ahmadinejad's speeches have caused outrage Britain An 'Enemy Of Iran' Friday October 20, 2006 Iran's president has branded Britain and America "enemies of the Iranian nation" during a scathing speech in Tehran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said Europe and other supporters of Israel "may...

What will people hundreds of years from now make of the British of the early 21st Century? Last week, 40,000 people in Britain made history by logging a day in their life on the web. Some of them are funny and others were painfully honest. The Sunday Times October 22, 2006 Our...

The Sunday TimesOctober 22, 2006 Very unBritish way of becoming a Brit Candice Gifford has just become a UK citizen. It wasn’t easy, she says, but the system is open to abuse and lets applicants eschew customs such as shaking hands Good old Blighty: A former South African - who has now...

Britain is going back to Georgian times again as it uses prison ships. England & Wales' prisons have become full so the Government has a bit of a crisis on its hand trying to figure out where to put all our new prisoners (why didn't they just build new gaols?) Now the it's thinking about using...

Matt Lucas, who stars as Davydd - the "Only Gay In The Village" - in BBC comedy series Little Britain is now starring as Toad in the BBC's new production of Wind in the Willows to be screened on Boxing Day (26th December). The Wind in the Willows - popular with British children - is a classic...

Charles Darwin's works go online Charles Darwin photographed in 1854 - the complete works of one of the world's greatest scientists are being published online at darwin-online.org.uk The complete works of one of history's greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published...

Today is 21st October - that means it's Trafalgar Day in Britain, the day that the country celebrates Nelson's victory against that little short-arse Napoleon during the Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805. Last year's Trafalgar Day was extra special as it was the 200th anniversary. Every...

Envoy: 'German Jews feel unsafe' Michael Regener was convicted of spreading racial hatred The Israeli ambassador to Germany has said he is concerned for Jews in Germany, against the background of what he says is rising anti-semitism there. In a newspaper interview, Shimon Stein said...

Faulty towers They make Mötley Crüe look like the Proclaimers and are the subject of a hilarious new TV series. Sarah Dempster meets Towers Of London, the rock'n'roll reprobates fast becoming the most notorious band in Britain Saturday October 21, 2006 The Guardian Nice guys, really...

Experts from the UN are visiting the Tower of London to see if the 900 year old historic treasure is in danger of being overshadowed by skyscrapers and other modern buildings. London is currently going through a period of mass skyscraper-building and its skyline will look very different in...