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When a woman woke in the morning and opened her curtains, she was shocked to discover that around 40 sheep had somehow invaded her garden....... Police called to round up wayward sheep from cul-de-sac By BEN FARMER (appropriately) 30th October 2006 The sheep in the woman's garden in...

British liver patients will benefit greatly as stem cell research - which Britain leads the world in but the American President opposes - allows British scientists to grow the world's first artificial liver.... British scientists grow human liver in a laboratory By FIONA MacRAE, Science...

From the animators who gave us Wallace and Gromit - only this time it's CGI and not plasticine. Flushed Away is a new British CGI animated movie about a posh rat by the name of Roddy living in the rich Kensington area of London whose life is disrupted when a common sewer rat arrives at his...

Zoo celebrating rare dove birth The species was hunted to extinction by feral cats A rare Mexican bird that died out in the wild in the 1970s has been successfully bred at London Zoo. The Socorro dove is native to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands, 600 miles off the west...

New look ... Adam Smith, the father of free trade, on the new English and Welsh £20 note. Despite being a part of Britain, Scotland and Northern Ireland have differently designed notes than the English and Welsh, although coins are exactly the same. Not only are the MAJORITY of the...

The world's largest ship - which is a quarter of a mile long - arrives in Britain from China to deliver goods that were made in that country. China now is to the 21st Century as Britain was to the 19th Century - THE world's manufacturing superpower. In the 19th century, Britain was the...

Cairde na hEireann is an Irish Republican organisation based in Scotland - most of their members are Scots whose parents or grandparents were Irish. 1) Why did Irish Republicans want to march in Scotland when the Scots don't like the Irish very much and where anti-Catholicism - like England in...

For the film footage, go here - http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/armydog.shtml The Tartan of the Royal Highland Fusiliers A HALF-NAKED corporal savagely beats a new recruit to the British Army with a baton, showing no mercy as his teenage victim cowers in terror and begs him to stop...

The Sunday TimesOctober 29, 2006 British police could quiz Khatami on torture claim Mark Macaskill and Mary Braid Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran, is due to collect an honorary degree from the University of St Andrew's in Fife, Scotland. British police from the Met want to...

Police want flag burning outlawed Police want flag burning made illegal in Britain Police chiefs have urged ministers to criminalise flag burning in a move to crack down on extremist protesters. Scotland Yard has submitted the idea to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, alongside...

France is currently going through a rapid decline thanks to its "sick" economy, just like Britain in the 1970s. The British managed to get themselves out of this decline by voting in Thatcher who did all the reforms necessary to transform Britain from the "Sick Man of Europe" of the 1970s to...

Unlike the soldiers of the British Army, who have been fighting probably the most intense battles they've had to fight since the Korean War of the 1950s, the soldiers of the Royal Navy haven't got much to do in Afghanistan. The Royal Navy's Light Infantry instead has to resort to playing games...

Over the last few years, many people have accused the BBC - the largest and most famous broadcasting company in the world - of being dominated by Lefty liberals, who are pro-European, anti-American, anti-Christian and would show footage of a Bible being burned but not of a Koran being burned in...

A collection of famous British legends, some hundreds of years old and other absolutely ancient. The ghost of Herne the Hunter - the huntsman of King Richard II who wore a hat made of deer antlers when he dies - is said to haunt Windsor Great Park next to Windsor Castle, still hunting stag...

* * * (1) Schoolgirl arrested for "racism" when she complained to her teacher that the small group of Muslim classmates that her teacher made her work with couldn't speak English so she couldn't possible work with them properly (2) Muslim female teacher suspended for refusing to remove...

Two British children have died from carbon monoxide in a Greek hotel. The manager of the Corcyra Hotel on the island of Corfu, western Greece, now faces manslaughter charges. Hotel manager faces manslaughter charges over deaths 28th October 2006 Christianne Shepherd, seven, and her brother...

Dangerous cipher that led to the death of a Queen. The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587, where her reported last words were: "Into thy hands O Lord do I commit my spirit". Picture: Getty Images Dangerous cipher that led to the death of a queen In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots...

Loss of the Meridian - one body found · Dead man, believed to be crew, found by searchers ·Scottish village fears loss of a third of its fishing fleet Severin Carrell Scotland correspondent Saturday October 28, 2006 The Guardian They found the trawler's activated distress beacon...

Warships - such as the Royal Navy's old aircraft carriers when it gets its new ones - could be used as prison ships. ------- Is this the first prison ship? Possible prison ship ... vast hulk rusting in Barrow docks - the Bibby Renaissance - could become a prison ship By HARRY...

As British band The Kooks release their new single - "Ooh La" - they do an interview for The Sun. The rockers have been a huge success - their debut album "Inside In/Inside Out" has sold over a million copies and this week they start their US tour, with venues in New York and Los Angeles sold...