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Oasis' Definitely Maybe has been voted the Greatest Album of All Time, beating Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. 17 of the Top 20 Greatest Albums of All Time are by British acts, and were voted for by fans worldwide. The Times June 02, 2006 Definitely the greatest album (maybe) By...

The Times June 02, 2006 Banned by half-baked bureaucracy By Simon de Bruxelles A home-made birthday cake for a 96-year-old man has fallen foul of health and safety police HE WAS born before the discovery of antibiotics and survived the Depression and two world wars, yet staff at a...

(Remember that's it's 10am in Britain now, just in case you are confused over the time) Times Online June 02, 2006 Police at the scene in Forest Gate this morning. Road surrounding the incident have been sealed off Man shot in early morning London anti-terror raid By Philippe...

BBC to take on Google and AOL 20:49pm 31st May 2006 The BBC has outlined the scale of its global ambitions after the director-general said its aim was to rival internet giants Google and AOL. Mark Thompson said the BBC was the only European brand with the clout to take on the American...

US 'falling behind' in stem cell research Liz Ford Thursday June 1, 2006 Britain: world-beater in stem cell research. A lack of state support for stem cell research in the US has resulted in the country falling behind other nations in this area of science, a group of American politicians...

FRENCH Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has launched a desperate bid to stem France’s brain drain, which has seen hundreds of thousands of its brightest citizens leave for the UK. De Villepin has announced 40 modest measures designed to make it easier for French expatriates to return, as...

The English Champions have signed Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko from AC Milan for £30million. This comes just a few weeks after they also sign Michael Ballack - and manager Jose Mourinho has said that he now intends to sign Roberto Carlos. --------------------------------------- Blues net...

Scottish tennis "star" Andy Murray, has said that he will wear a Paraguay shirt on June 10th. He's also said that he will support all of England's opponents in the World Cup. (The Scots love to support England's opponents during the World Cup if Scotland don't qualify - which is nearly every...

Haunting caught on photograph May 28 2006 By The Sunday Sun This scary shadow may not look like much to the untrained eye, but ghost hunters believe it could prove that spooks exist. And it was taken right here in the North of England. The apparent apparition was snapped during a...

In the US and Canada, being married for 78 days is a long time. But this couple have been married for 78 years....... The secret of our 78-year marriage? Argue every day 31st May 2006 A couple who celebrated their 78th wedding anniversary yesterday have been named as Britain's...

The Times May 31, 2006 Trapped in a tunnel on night train to nowhere By Will Pavia Almost 150 Tube passengers were left to sweat for two hours IT WAS hot, it was dark and it was not where they had planned to end their Bank Holiday weekend. Yesterday Transport for London began an...

Britain's shocking knife culture. On May 18th, Kiyan Prince, a promising footballer for Queens Park Rangers, was stabbed to death outside his school. Policewoman Nisha Patel-Nasri was also killed when she was stabbed outside her home. These led to a nationwide knife amnesty. But, since then...

Sail of the 18th century By JEROME STARKEY HMS Resolution sank off the coast of Southern England in the 1703 hurricane that is the strongest storm ever recorded in England claiming 8000 lives STUNNED divers have stumbled across the wreck of a warship that sank 300 years ago. Naval...

Mayor targeted as youths fight police near Paris 2 hours, 51 minutes ago al-Reuters Tuesday May 30, 2006 Youths clashed with police in a Paris suburb overnight and attacked the home of the local mayor in disturbances one police union said were the worst since a wave of urban riots shook...

Hard cheese for rollers Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3000 spectators watch as the contestants tumble down a hill as they chase a cheese. This traditional adrenaline-fuelled race relies on stamina – and plenty of cheese. Daredevil athletes slipped, somersaulted and tumbled down a 200m hill...

Top scientist gives up on creationists James Randerson, science correspondent Tuesday May 30, 2006 The Guardian A leading British scientist said yesterday that he had given up trying to persuade creationists that Darwin's theory is correct after repeatedly being misrepresented and, he said...

The Times May 30, 2006 If only Britain had thought of something like Magna Carta . . . By Alan Hamilton The Magna Carta. THE Americans have Independence Day, the French have Bastille Day and every year on November 28 the Albanians commemorate liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1912...

Why the US, with its protection of its ports from P&O, the notoriously protectionist France, which even protected a yogurt company, the rest of Europe and maybe Canada, should take note..... Why Britain welcomes foreign takeovers Even London's 300-year-old stock exchange is up for sale, but...

The Celtic nations of the UK - Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - and the North of England are so dependent on public money that it is causing a "sovietisation" of many parts of the country. They now have even more bloated welfare states than France. The Celtic nations and parts of...

Two more British soldiers have died in Iraq. It brings the total number of deaths of British military personnel so far to 113. ----------------------------------------------- Times Online May 29, 2006 Two British troops killed by roadside bomb in Basra By Times Online and agencies Two...