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The British military is finding new, advanced technology to help ground troops detect threats in urban areas. MoD to launch 'urban challenge' By Paul Rincon Science Reporter, BBC News Technology is vital to meeting future challenges, says the MOD The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)...

Brunel's ship wins eighth award Victorian British engineering at its finest - the SS Great Britain, now based in Bristol, was the world's first iron-hulled, steam-powered ship and is an example of how Victorian Britain lead the rest of the world in engineering British engineer Isambard...

David Blunkett, who was born blind, was Britain's Education Secretary between 1997 and 2001 and the Home Secretary between 2001 and 2004. HMP Lincoln Former Home Secretary David Blunkett told the head of the Prison Service to "machine gun" rioting inmates at a jail, it has been claimed...

A solution has been found to the problem of heavy traffic going past Stonehenge - do nothing. Radical solution proposed for Stonehenge Maev Kennedy Saturday October 7, 2006 Guardian Unlimited National disgrace ... heavy traffic on the A303 near Stonehenge Photograph: Sean Smith...

The majority of Britain's boardroom bosses say Britain should leave the EU - and the majority of the British public would agree with them. Execs: Ditch EU bossy boots October 17, 2006 BRITAIN’s top boardroom bosses want us to quit the European Union, a poll...

On a day of carnage, Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech suffered a fractured skull during Saturday's game against Reading which Chelsea won 1-0. But not only did Cech get injured but their substitute goalkeeper Cudicini - brought on after Cech was taken off and taken to hospital - ALSO suffered a...

Great British Eccentrics England may be a small country (in land area, not population) but it seems to have more true eccentrics than many larger countries. The old aristocracy supplied many of the most bizarre ones, because to have a really odd lifestyle you require a large personal fortune...

NORTH KOREA A JOKE? KIM OFF IT 16 October 2006 The Mirror Tony Parsons North Korea Kim Jong-il is a dictator that definitely DOES have WMD. LAUGHING at dotty despots is all very well but it will never be a substitute for annihilating them. Charlie Chaplin poked merciless fun at...

Extracts from a book written by Tony Robinson - aka Baldrick from BBC comedy series Blackadder - about "Worst Jobs" from the Medieval era. Some were disgusting, some dangerous and others just downright boring. _________________ Worst jobs in Medieval England If you are living in the...

From eating biscuits infested with weevils to drinking so much alcohol that most of a ship's sailors were working whilst almost always drunk and causing fatal accidents like falling from high rigging or being injured by a wayward cannon, life in the Royal Navy in the 18th and early 19th...

The TimesOctober 16, 2006 Americans seek asylum in Britain By David Brown You want to live here?: Americans have been claiming asylum in Britain and saying they have come here because Britain's quality of life is much higher. FIVE Americans applied for asylum in the first six months of...

A Para who died to save his comrades' lives may be given a posthumous VC. If he does, he'll only be the 2nd person in 24 years to have got one. The last one was Sgt Ian McKay who was killed during the Battle of Mount Longdon during the 1982 Falklands War against Argentina. Fallen hero set for...

Blair: British Prime Minister 1997-2007. By keeping Britain out of the Euro, by improving public transport, helping oust Saddan, fighting the Taliban and helping London win the 2012 Olympics, Blair has shown what a great Prime Minister he has been. But perhaps his greatest legacy is helping to...

The 80,000-seater stadium that will be built for the 2012 London Olympics will be the most advanced stadium in the world. It will abe concertina-like, allowing the stadium to become bigger or smaller - and even changing shape - depending on what kind of sporting event is taking place there...

Citizenship test stumps one in three migrants By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor (Filed: 15/10/2006) A third of immigrants are failing the Government's new citizenship test amid complaints that some of the questions are too obscure. New entrants must get 75 per cent of...

Magnificent St Helens become the English Rugby League Champions after they defeated Hull in Super League's Grand Final - English Rugby League's equivalent of the Super Bowl only much better. St Helens have won all of the three domestic trophies and this was also the first time ever that Hull...

Muslims' anger as London Olympics clash with Ramadan By Claudia Joseph 14th October 2006 The Olympics will be held over the Muslim holy month of Ramadan The 2012 London Olympics have been plunged into controversy by the discovery that the Games will clash with Ramadan, the...

Minister demands veiled assistant be sacked A young woman wears the Muslim veil in a classroom - The controversy over Muslim women wearing veils escalated after the Government's race minister demanded the sacking of a Muslim teaching assistant who insisted on the garment. Phil...

British band The Klaxons release their new album "Xan Valleys." Live: The Klaxons, the New Best British Band Ever London's The Klaxons: I guess ugly clothes are pretty rave Studio B is one of those Polish nightclubs in Greenpoint where the owners are beginning to sense that there's...

When it comes to fostering and using technology and skill (and, therefore, the countries that will be the most successful economically) the British and the Scandinavians (Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Finns) are the best in Europe. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the French, Germans and Italians - and...