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These pictures capture the dramatic moment a 10-year-old boy was rescued as he sank into mud. Callum Currie was walking below cliffs on Charmouth beach in Dorset on the English Channel Coast looking for fossils (the coast of Devon and Dorset is abundant in fossils and is known as the Jurassic...

The RAF (the world's oldest and best airforce) has become the first airforce to use the new Eurofighter Typhoon in combat - and the world's most advanced fighter plane has been praised by RAF pilots. The RAF has ordered 160 of the planes and so far has received 71 of them. In addition, Germany...

A bicycle is the first in the world to be made by printing it out on a computer. The Airbike is made of nylon, is as strong as steel and aluminium but weighs 65 per cent less. The bike is the creation of British scientists at the European Aeronautic Defence and Space group (EADS) in Filton...

When a streaker wearing a Borat-style mankini ran on to the football pitch during an English lower league match between Dorchester Town and Havant and Waterlooville, Dorchester Town's player/manager Ashley Vickers thought it would be a good idea to stop him as the middle-aged stewards who were...

Just like the 1969 British movie Kes, this young boy and a bird are such good friends they are inseparable. When the jackdaw started appearing at the gates of St Mary's RC Primary School in Sunderland in December, parents and pupils complained of being bullied by the little bird. It got so bad...

Two men who helped the gunman Raoul Moat have been jailed for a combined minimum of 60 years. In the early hours of 3rd July last year, 37-year-old Raoul Moat, recently released from Durham Prison after serving 18 months for assaulting a 9-year-old relative, arrived at the home of his...

Queen Elizabeth II looks stunning in all-white in a new photographic portrait of her which is to be hung in the devolved Scottish Parliament. The picture, taken by photographer Shaun Murawski, 24, shows the 84-year-old monarch resplendent in a white gown and with a cheery smile on her face...

When a member of the public heard what sounded like gunshots coming from a nearby factory, he decided to call the police. Armed cops rushed to the factory in Cheadle, near Manchester, only to discover that the "gunshots" were in fact the sounds of a cricket ball hitting a metal shutter. They...

The little Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett is to be renamed Royal Wootton Bassett by the Queen in honour of its recognition of Britain's fallen soldiers, the first honour of its kind in 100 years. Since 2007, it has been tradition for members of the public, including war veterans, to line...

Back in the 90s, Manchester rockers Oasis were the biggest band on the planet, wowing us with Britpop albums such as "Roll With It", "Wonderwall", and "Don't Look Back in Anger." They have had eight UK number-one singles and eight UK number-one albums, and won fifteen NME Awards, nine Q...

If you are one of the people who have not received an invite to the upcoming Royal Wedding between Wills and Kate (and the chances are that you are) then fear not. Because now you can knit your own Royal Wedding and have a pretend one in your own living room! The usual Royal Wedding souvenirs...

Thousands of people are to be able to celebrate the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton without spending a right royal fortune. A campsite on London's Clapham Common is to be set up for three nights for revellers on a budget. Named Camp Royale, it will be very British...

TV medium Derek Acorah took part in the world's biggest paranormal experiment early this morning and caused a sensation amongst Sun readers. Liverpudlian Acorah, famous for his appearances as the resident medium on British ghosthunting TV series Most Haunted between 2002 and 2005 and then...

Prince William and his fiancee Catherine Middleton marked Pancake Day on Tuesday by flipping pancakes. The future King and Queen, who will marry in front of a worldwide TV audience of billions on Friday 29th April, were in Northern Ireland as part of their trip visiting all four main parts of...

In 1915, the British and the Germans fought each other at the Battle of Loos in France. The battle is known for being the first time that the British used poison gas during World War I. But is also renowned for being a battle in which the British decided to display their bravado and courage...

A rare original King James Bible has been found on a shelf in a village church. The discovery was made by residents researching the history of St Laurence Church in Hilmarton, near Calne, Wiltshire. They read about a "fine chained Bible in a glass case" at the church and then made the link...

The BBC is probably the best in the world when it comes to making science and wildlife documentaries, which is appropriate in a country with such a strong history of scientific discoveries and achievements. Its best science series of 2010 was Wonders of the Solar System, which turned out to be...

Some Chinese workmen have discovered the body of a woman whilst they were preparing to expand a street. The female corpse, which was found in the city of Taizhou, in the Jiangsu Province in eastern China, the hometown of Chinese President Hu Jintao, was wearing some sort of hat and was dressed...

The remains of a 4,500-year-old sauna have been discovered by archaeologists excavating a Stone Age temple. The foundations of the ancient building have been discovered at Marden Henge, near Devizes, Wiltshire. Wiltshire is famous for also being the location of Stonehenge. The sauna was...

For centuries, the breaking of British law was punished under the brutal Bloody Code. In 1660, there were 50 crimes which carried the death penalty. However, that had increased to 160 in 1750 and to a whopping 222 in 1815. Many of these capital offences are what we today would see as trivial...