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Fiji is to remove the head of Queen Elizabeth II, its Head of State, from its coins and banknotes after a long-running row with Britain. The Commonwealth, with the support of Britain, removed Fiji from its membership and the tiny South Pacific island nation has been at loggerheads with Britain...

Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton have done a lot of travelling around the country lately. A few days ago they were on the Island of Anglesey, in North Wales, near to where they will live once they are married, to launch a new lifeboat. Yesterday, they were in the town of Fife...

Pictured for the first time in the United Kingdom, a soaring golden eagle clutches a lamb in its talons. The picture, taking whilst the huge bird of prey was swooping low over some mountains on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, is proof that the species is grabbing the...

Larry the cat, the new Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, doesn't appear to be much interested in his new job. He has only held the post of 10 and 11 Downing Street rat catcher for a few weeks or so, but he seems to spend most of his time sleeping on the job. Larry was brought in as the latest in...

Since the 1920s it has been suspected that the Bluestones which form the inner ring of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain in Witshire in the south west of England, actually come from Pembrokeshire, in west Wales, about 150 miles north west of where Stonehenge is located. Now, new research has...

He may be travelling at 500mph in a £68 million fighter jet, but this RAF pilot still had time for a friendly wave. These remarkable pictures were taken by aviation enthusiast Peter Bailey. The RAF Eurofighter Typhoon passed within just 100 yards from him in the Cadair Idris mountains in...

Kate Middleton embarked on her first official engagement with Prince William today giving her a preview of what life will be like for her after she marries William on 29th April and becomes a member of the Royal Family. It's also gives the British public a view of something they'll see many...

British TV presenter Johnny Ball tells us how he has been vilified by the global warming fascists for declaring his belief that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon. Johnny, 72, who presented several TV series of popular science and technology programmes intended for children in...

The velodrome has become the first 2012 London Olympics venue to be completed. Building work began in March 2009 on the 6,000 seater velodrome at the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, and today marks the handover from the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to the London 2012 organisers. It...

"Mad Dog" Deon horrifies loved ones by having a skull tattooed across his face "Mad Dog" Deon, 27, is hardly the only person around who has a skull tattoo. What is unusual in Deon's case, however, is that his skull tattoo covers the whole of his face - and it's not a very good one either...

An English amateur football team has made history by fielding a side made up almost entirely of family members. Ten of the eleven players of Combe St Nicholas' B-team, who play in Somerset's Perry Street League, consisted of four fathers who between them had six sons in a match on Saturday...

Prince William and Kate Middleton have sent around 1,900 gold-embossed wedding invitations around the world for the Friday 29th April ceremony (I checked in my mail box and, unfortunately, I haven't got one) and over a half of the wedding guests - about 1,000 - will be friends of the Royal...

These dramatic pictures show the moment a brave have-a-go hero took on a gun-toting robber. The man risked his life when two robbers fled from a raid on a jewellers in the centre of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and he managed to grab one by the arm. The robber aimed the gun at the man's head...

Larry the cat moved into his new home yesterday, completely oblivious to the fact that he is living at Britain's most famous address. Larry is the latest in a long line of cats, going back decades, which have lived at the Prime Minister's residence for the purpose of getting rid of unwanted...

US President Barack Obama is to make a state visit to Britain later this year after accepting an invitation from the Queen. Both Buckingham Palace and the White House announced simultaneously that the President will visit the UK from 24th-26th May, a few weeks after the wedding of Prince...

It is already known that ancient Brits were cannibals. But now it's emerged that they also drank out of cups made from their victims' skulls. The world's oldest known skull cups, discovered in Gough's Cave more than 20 years ago in Somerset's Cheddar Gorge, were abandoned about 14,700 years...

Most foxes have to be content with living in a tunnel that they have dug in a field somewhere, and have to go out and hunt for their food. But one pampered fox has a more cosy life. Miss Snooks lives in her own one-bedroom flat above a pet shop. She spends all day dozing on the sofa in...

The Loch Ness Monster isn't the UK's only lake-inhabiting beastie. Another supposedly exists in Lake Windermere in the Lake District. At 11 miles long, Lake Windermere is the largest lake in England but not the largest in the whole of the UK (to Canadians, though, any British lake is nothing...

It has been revealed that more British soldiers have died in Afghanistan than all the other TWENTY-SIX nations of the EU put together. Britain has so far suffered 356 deaths in the conflict, whereas the combined losses for the other EU forces total 298. The figures have led to British...

A memorial statue of Charles Dickens is to be erected in his home town of Portsmouth, despite the author saying he didn't want one. Dickens, the most successful British novelist of the Victorian era, famous for works such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Great...