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On Sunday 3rd June next year, as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, a flotilla of 1,000 ships, seven-and-a-half miles long, will sail down the River Thames in the world's greatest city with the Queen at its head in a gold-encrusted royal barge, as the bells of London's many...

If the current crisis in Libya happened in 2001 rather than 2011 Britain would have been able to send three (albeit small) aircraft carriers - the Invincible Class HMS Ark Royal, HMS Illustrious and HMS Invincible - to the Med as part of the operation against Gadaffi. It also would have been...

Many females love the colour pink, but one woman near Manchester is a little more obsessed than most. 20-year-old mother of two Wanda Matthews, of Bolton, Greater Manchester (where I live) has actually decked out her entire house with it. Her three-bedroom home has pink wallpaper, pink...

The world's attention will be on London next year (just like it will be later this month when around 2 billion people are expected to watch the Royal Wedding on TV) not only because it will be hosting the Summer Olympics for a record third time but also because 2012 is the year of the Queen's...

British Prime Minister David Cameron is at it yet again, putting down the great country which he leads whilst on a foreign visit. Last year the Tory PM caused outrage in Britain when, during a visit to the United States, he described Britain as America’s ‘junior partner’ against Hitler in 1940...

Queen Elizabeth II almost lost her hat on Friday as she went to be shown around a Sea King helicopter by her grandson. The popular 84-year-old monarch looked as beautiful and glamorous as ever as she arrived at RAF Valley on the Isle of Anglesey off the North Wales coast where Prince William...

A Royal Wedding stamp from the tiny Pacific island of Niue which features Wills and Kate has been dubbed "embarrassing" - because it has a perforated line down the middle which spilts up the Royal couple. Together the Royal Wedding stamps are worth 5.80 NZ dollars, but separated Middleton is a...

More than 80% of all the Rolls-Royces ever built can still be traced today, but fewer than 100 Humbers - known as the poor man's Rolls-Royce - have survived. And the largest collection of these beautiful British classic cars doesn't belong to a museum but a potato merchant from Hull, East...

Condemnation came from all directions after a rookie policeman, who graduated just weeks ago, was killed by republican terrorists in Northern Ireland yesterday in a town which suffered the worst terrorist atrocity of the Troubles. PC Ronan Kerr, 25, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland...

The Olympic Stadium in London has almost been completed, with 485 days to go until the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Summer Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. Namibian sprint legend and International Olympic Committee member Frankie Fredericks laid out the last piece of turf on the field of...

Yesterday was a month exactly until the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton and Buckingham Palace officials offered us a glimpse of some of the 19 exquisite rooms where the lucky guests will have access (the Palace has 775 rooms, so 19 is actually just a small fraction...

Yesterday might have been only a month exactly until his brother's wedding to Kate Middleton, but the thought of stuffing himself with quails' eggs with celery salt and horseradish cream canapes in the sumptuous surroundings of his grandmother's London home, Buckingham Palace, was far from...

A thorn from Jesus's crucifixion crown has gone on display at the British Museum in London after spending 200 years at a Lancashire public school. The Crown of Thorns was seized from Constantinople - modern day Istanbul in Turkey - during the Fourth Crusade around 1200 and later sold to...

Scientists have been left baffled after the perfectly preserved remains of a 2,500 year old human brain were unearthed in York. Archaeologists were digging at a site before a new campus of the University of York is built when they discovered a human skull. When a researcher reached inside the...

A TV psychic has been called out to banish a poltergeist terrorising a family. Former Most Haunted medium Derek Acorah was called out to a house in Coventry after bizarre occurrences eventually caused the family to flee in terror. Lisa Manning, 34, and her children Ellie, 11, and Jaydon...

A serial rapist and burglar who sexually assaulted elderly men and women for 17 years has been sentenced to die in prison - a sentence which replaces the actual death penalty. Delroy Grant, 53, dubbed The Night Stalker, stalked elderly men and women in south London, Surrey and Kent before...

A burglary suspect chased away from the the scene of the crime was nabbed by cops - after he fell down a 30ft deep well. The hilarious incident occurred this morning and the 21 year old man had to call the emergency services himself after falling down the 5ft wide hole in Halifax, West...

When 30 Taliban decided to attack a British Army checkpoint in Helmand Province, they didn't realise, to their peril, that the British soldier manning it was a Gurkha, a member of the world's deadliest, most fearsome and bravest soldiers. But, despite being vastly outnumbered, the Gurkha...

After a decade of refurbishment, the railway hotel in central London that the poet Sir John Betjeman once described as "too beautiful to survive" is about to open its doors to the public again. Opened in 1873, the magnificent Midland Grand, which overlooks St Pancras, one of the world's great...

When American astronaut Colonel Alvin Drew became the 200th man to walk in space recently he decided, during the procedure, to phone a British aristocrat who resides in an ancient and mysterious castle. Modern met ancient. Colonel Drew once met space enthusiast, the Dowager Countess of...