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Unique-looking dog seeks new home The dog was either lost or abandoned Forget the old joke which starts 'my dog has got no nose...' - Duo the Staffordshire bull terrier has two. Staff at Newcastle Dog and Cat Shelter are having problems finding a home for the three-year-old because of...

New glacier theory on Stonehenge Archaeologists have said the stones came from the Preseli Hills in Western Wales. The debate over how the stones arrived at Stonehenge continues A geology team has contradicted claims that bluestones were dug by Bronze Age man from a west Wales quarry...

3300 British soldiers are in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, fighting the "Opium War", an anti-narcotics campaign. However, the poppy harvest in Helmand is to grow larger this year. Afghan province to provide one-third of world's heroin · Poppy harvest to double in British-patrolled...

The Times June 14, 2006 World Cup snub by Scots leader 'fuels anti-English racism' By David Lister, Scotland Correspondent Jack McConnell, the leader of Jockland. AN ENGLAND football fan living in Scotland blamed the country’s First Minister yesterday for stoking anti-English racism...

Are these the future towers of London? 13th June 2006 The future towers of London? Will the capital's skyline be transformed? While cities like Manhattan and Shanghai are renowned for their soaring skyscrapers, London has managed to avoid having its views littered with multi-storey tower...

Germany's biggest newspaper - Bild - has launched an unacceptable attack on the England captain David Beckham's wife, mother and children. It called his defenceless children "dwarfs" (what size does he expect young kids to be?) and says that his wife, former Spice Girl Victoria, has a "peasant...

A mad woman in Kent believes Grey aliens told her that England won't win the World Cup. She has been in the news before, as this isn't the first time that extraterrestrials have spoken to her. ============================================ This is Local London. Aliens think England won’t win...

Eriksson may play Rooney against Trinidad By MATT LAWTON and CHARLES SALE, Daily Mail 07:38am 12th June 2006 Rooney in training. Sven-Goran Eriksson is ready to risk another nuclear row with Manchester United and hand Wayne Rooney his World Cup debut against Trinidad and Tobago on...

31 million people in England (plus another couple of million if you count the people in the other areas of the UK) tuned in yesterday to watch England's opening World Cup game against Paraguay. The streets were deserted as the game was played. 31 million is equal to the entire population of...

Five mile police chase over toy gun By TOM KELLY, Daily Mail 9th June 2006 Like most little boys, Alfie Marshall loves playing cowboys and Indians with his friends. But when the five-year-old left his toy gun in the back of his father's car, the game suddenly took a very serious turn...

Tough: Royal Marines in Afghanistan. Twenty-one Taleban fighters have been killed in a clash with British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, the BBC has been told. The six-hour battle took place in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday. Reports say the troops came under fire from the...

World Cup 2006 England VS Paraguay Saturday, 2pm British time. --------------------------------------------------- How the lifestyle of Montiel, Paraguay's teenage sensation, compares with the multi-millionaires of England. --------------------------------------------------- The poor man's...

12ft sharks spotted off Cornish coast by DAVID WILKES, Daily Mail 8th June 2006 A surfer watches intently as the shark swims just metres from him It was spotted at Porthcurno, near to the southernmost point of the island of Britain. Beneath the surface of the clear blue sea, the...

Dark secret squirrelled away in a churchyard By KRISTINA PEDERSEN, Daily Mail 9th June 2006 Standing out from the grey: The black squirrel forages in the churchyard at Meppershall These days spotting a red squirrel is something of a rarity. But churchgoers in a Bedfordshire village...

8 June 2006 RIP UXB: GRAVEDIGGERS FIND BOMB Gravediggers find huge WW1 bomb By Patrick Mulchrone TWO gravediggers feared death when their shovel hit a 2ft-long unexploded bomb. Steve Shaw and Stephen Spedding thought at first it was a stone and kept on digging the 3ft-deep grave. It...

England's best player Wayne Rooney broke a metatarsal in Manchester United's 3-0 defeat against Chelsea on April 29th and looked like he could miss the World Cup. This caused fans around the country to feel suicidal. Yesterday, the nation held its breath as Rooney flew from Germany to a...

666 woman's car-free birthday June Dumas said she would not be driving on her birthday A woman born weighing 6lbs 6oz on 6 June at 0600 BST, and who is 66 on 6/6/06, is refusing to drive on her birthday to help avoid accidents. Retired East Sussex nurse June Dumas said despite her...

Britain, the world's largest importer of wine and the only significantly growing market in Europe, has sparked crisis for European wine producers, particularly France and Italy, because it prefers wines from the New World - California, Australia, South Africa, Chile - to those from France and...

Times Online June 08, 2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a video posted on the internet Al-Zarqawi killed, says Iraqi PM By Philippe Naughton and agencies in Baghdad Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda terror leader who led the brutal insurgency against US forces in Iraq, has been...

In the week when a Gloucestershire car thief, throwing bricks and tiles from a roof of a house, was given a KFC meal to "protect his human rights", an ex-New York police officer, now living in Britain, has been given the sack from the probation service for daring to put the rights of victims and...