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The creator of the Wombles, fictional, pointy-nosed, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways, has died. Elisabeth Beresford died on Christmas Eve at the Mignot Memorial Hospital on Alderney in the...

A friendly little robin has charmed staff and customers at a furniture shop by visiting the premises to get food. The staff of the Granary Pine furniture shop in Bradford Upon Avon in Wiltshire provide the little bird, which they've named Rory, with regular meals of bread, biscuits and his...

Tory MPs last night denounced a plan by Labour for a statue of Tony Blair as "preposterous." Labour want there to be a life-sized statue of the man who was British PM between 1997 and 2007 in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons alongside the one of Winston Churchill, PM during most of...

Britain is set to get its 1,000th TV channel in the New Year, which means it'll have more TV channels than any other country apart from the US. Britain, the country which gave the world television, currently has 948 channels, ranging from the Sikh Channel to Body in Balance TV, and Dave to...

A man who is so addicted to Christmas that he has celebrated it every day for the last 17 years is so in love with his Christmas tree that he wants to marry it. Amazingly, this isn't in America but in Melksham, Wiltshire. Andy Park's addiction to Christmas started when he got bored during...

An image of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer has been seen in a human brain. Staff at Newcastle University scanned a brain to study the inner workings of neurons in the hippocampus region, which is responsible for spatial awareness and long-term memory. However they were amazed when the blood...

A couple have decided to celebrate the festive period by cutting a 20ft tall conifer tree in their front garden into the shape of a Christmas pudding. Roger and Valerie HOLLEY have turned it into something of a landmark in Yeovil, Somerset because they have created the giant pud for the last...

A 30 second earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale hit the Lake District last night, sending people running into the streets. The US Geological Survey confirmed that a small quake hit Coniston in Cumbria just before 11pm which was also felt in the neighbouring counties of Lancashire...

Leeds Crown Court yesterday sentenced the Crossbow Cannibal to die in jail. Deranged Stephen Griffiths, 40, murdered prostitutes Susan Rushworth, 43, Shelley Armitage, 31, and Suzanne Blamires, 36 with a crossbow before eating some of their body parts. Susan disappeared on 22nd June 2009...

Kate Middleton yesterday joined the Queen for the Royal family's pre-Christmas dinner. The invitation to the dinner is a further sign of how she is now well and truly a member of the Royal establishment. Kate will become a princess, and the newest member of the Royal family, when she marries...

Prince Harry today paid tribute to those who were killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall into West Germany from East Germany. The third in line to the Throne laid a wreath in Berlin's Bernauer Strasse - which contains one of the few remaining sections of the barrier. Between 1961 and 1989...

With "The Good Food Guide" saying last year that British restaurants are better than their French counterparts, with its editor Elizabeth Carter saying "I have just come back from France and I spent the whole time wondering why it is that Britain has a repution for poor restaurant food. France's...

Like a scene straight out of Tom and Jerry, this daft young moggy got stuck up a Christmas tree after chasing a mouse. Bumble really did bumble when he leapt onto the tree to get the rodent. Instead, hapless Bumble got tangled up in the branches and tinsle whilst the jubilant mouse just...

After featuring in YOU magazine earlier this year, the cute micro pigs, the current must have pet, are back by popular demand. These brilliant photos of a group of micro pigs, which grow to knee height, enjoying the run up to Christmas were taken by Jane Croft who runs The Little Pig Farm in...

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson used the Chilean miners' story to inspire his team to victory over Arsenal on Monday night. The Scot, who has been United boss for an incredible 24 years, used their story in his team talk. United and the Gunners met at Old Trafford in a game which saw...

Meet HMS Ambush, the Royal Navy's newest hunter-killer submarine. Due to be launched this week, she is one of seven new Astute-class submarines for the Royal Navy, each costing over £1 billion - and they'll be the biggest and most powerful submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy, as well as...

In 1888, when mighty Britain, the greatest civilisation ever to exist on this planet, bestrode the world like a colossus - in the late 1800s, Britain was at the most powerful it has ever been, either before or since, when it ruled a quarter of the world and commanded a quarter of its trade and...

This week marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most shameful sporting events in British sporting history. Two boxers came face to face for the British heavyweight title on 18th December 1810. In one corner was the champion Tom Cribb, a man standing 6ft tall - a giant for those days - who...

From a Nazi grave in London, to a train for the dead, and from a reverend who preached to a paper congregation to a 15th Century earl haunting a store's sportswear department. Britain truly is a strange and mysterious nation. And these strange but true tales are amongst many related in a new...

Prince William and Kate Middleton have released their official engagement portraits. The photos were taken in the Cornwall room and the Council Chamber in the State Apartment in St James's Palace, London, by Mario Testino. Testino described the couple, both 28, as "brimming with happiness."...