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A seagull has denied a Middlesex Panthers batsman smashing the ball for six runs during a NatWest t20 Blast match on Friday against Sussex Sharks in Hove, East Sussex. The seagull seemed to be supporting his county team. You can see now why the local football team, Brighton & Hove Albion, are...

Is this another sign that Britain is moving towards the exit of the hated anti-democracy EU which, yet again, is completely and utterly ignoring the public? As usual, it seems to be only the British protesting about the EU's casual disregard for election results. Britain's 24 new UKIP MEPs...

The Bayeux Tapestry, designed and constructed in England by Anglo-Saxon artists and stitched by Anglo-Saxon seamsters, who were famous across Europe, is arguably the most famous piece of embroidery (it's not actually a tapestry) in history. Yet, when it was rediscovered 300 years ago, the...

A green fireball meteor was seen over the UK this morning: Fireball meteor caught on camera BBC News 30 June 2014 Wtch video: meteor on Vimeo A green fireball meteor seen over the UK has been captured on camera by an observatory in Devon. The "bolide" meteor was seen in the West...

Judy Murray, the mum of British sporting hero Andy Murray, has slammed Scotland's nationalist First Minister Alex Salmond for unveiling a Scottish Saltire inside the Royal Box on Centre Court when Andy won the Wimbledon men's singles title last year. Tennis coach Judy Murray who, like Andy...

Californian heavy metal band Metallica shook the genteel English countryside (and a few middle-aged hippies and a lot of left-wing, middle-class, BBC-type snobs) last night when they became the first metal band ever to play Glastonbury, the world's biggest music festival, since its inception in...

The joint-oldest international football teams in the world are England and Scotland, who played the first ever official international football match in front of 4,000 spectators at the West of Scotland Cricket Club's Hamilton Crescent ground in Partick, Glasgow, on St Andrew's Day (30th...

You may think that trolling is a modern phenomenon, but it's actually far more ancient than is often thought. Centuries before computers and social media, the Romans wrote messages wishing ill of others on so-called "curse tablets". The nasty messages were written on pieces of lead by...

ITV Studios have released a sneak preview of the new Thunderbird 1 which will feature in their hotly anticipated new show Thunderbirds Are Go! Set against the backdrop of the Hollywood sign the rocket maintains its distinctive silver bullet style which many fans will remember from the...

British actress Patsy Byrne, best known for playing the kind but dim-witted nursemaid to Elizabeth I in Blackadder II, has died at the age of 80. She died on Tuesday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors, in Hillingdon, north-west London. The Kent-born actress joined the...

The Duchess of Cambridge has today reopened a WWII codebreaking centre where her grandmother once worked. The future Queen, 32, reopened to the public a restored Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. The Duchess's paternal grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, who married the...

Archaeologists who have been excavating Easter Ross, a region in Scotland's Northern Highlands which is thought to have been a major heartland for the Pictish civilisation, are encouraging locals to join in. Archaeologists have found mounting evidence of their extensive occupation with recent...

It is commonly thought that if Earth suddenly stopped turning, everything would go floating off into space. But Michael Stevens has made a terrifying video on what will REALLY happen. The London-based scientist has outlined the devastating impact that a sudden halt to the Earth’s rotation...

The cockpit for the British Bloodhound supersonic car has been built and fitted out. Driver Andy Green, who will use the vehicle to try to break his own World Land Speed Record, calls it "my 1,000mph office". Bloodhound is about a year away from full assembly. The plan is to take it to...

Today is the Queen's official birthday, the second of her two birthdays a year. The occasion falls in either the first, second or, more rarely, the third Saturday in June, and this year it is today. And, as usual, the Trooping the Colour ceremony celebrated the occasion on Horse Guards Parade...

An Anglo-Saxon coin has fetched £78,000 at auction - because it could be a clue to a 1,200 year old murder mystery. It was struck in the reign of East Anglian ruler Æthelberht II (Old English: Æðelbrihte) and describes him as king – the only time this title has been found on a coin of his...