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A winning design has been chosen for the memorial to honour Britain's most iconic aircraft and the most beautiful fighter plane to have ever flown our planet's skies - the Spitfire. The design, by London-based Australian architect Nick Hancock, was chosen from hundreds of entries and is of a...

Some German tourists got more than they bargained for when they tried to have their photo taken with an armed St James's Palace guardsman. Two young German boys went to stand next to the bayonet-carrying Scots guard so that their parents could take a photo. But this enraged the British...

The players of Birmingham City and West Ham United had a very early bath during a Premiership game yesterday - as the sprinklers in the turf came on during the match. Just three minutes into the game two sprinklers erupted into life, drenching the players under fountains of water and causing...

Queen Elizabeth II may be 84 years old but she is not averse to embracing modern technology. Earlier this year the Monarchy opened an account on the photo-sharing website Flickr, which to date hosts more than 1,400 royal pictures. Last year a Royal Twitter account known as @BritishMonarchy...

Did anorexia indirectly lead to England's break with Rome in 1534 and the creation of the Church of England? The reason why King Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, so he could marry Anne Boleyn was because Catherine failed to produce him a male heir. This divorce led to...

Thanks to England's long and eventful history, it's amazing just what stories, stretching back centuries, can be unearthed even in the smallest of villages and hamlets. And one of the most successful BBC documentaries of the year - a good example of how the corporation makes some of the best...

The British Army's Gurkhas are, without doubt, the bravest and most fearsome soldiers on the planet. This has been proved again with one Gurkha fighting off a dozen Taliban in Afghanistan with a Rambo-style hail of fire. Sergeant Dipprasad Pun hoisted a giant machine gun - weighing 30lb -...

The two queens of Coronation Street were given their MBEs yesterday at Buckingham Palace - by the real Queen. Barbara Knox, 77, who plays kindly shop owner Rita Sullivan, and Eileen Derbyshire, 79, who plays Emily Bishop, put on their best hats, clothes and pearls to meet the Queen who gave...

Britain probably has a greater variety of landscapes than any other country of comparable size. From the mountains of Scotland, northern Wales and northern England, the wet flatlands of East Anglia and the lonely moors of Yorkshire, Exmoor and Dartmoor, Britain has a lot of geographical and...

A Muslim woman has been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years for the attempted murder of Labour MP Stephen Timms. Roshonara Choudry, 21, stabbed Mr Timms - the Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury - on 14th May this year at his constituency surgery in East Ham, east London over his...

Battle of Britain veterans are to be thanked by the nation on national television at the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards. To mark the 70th anniversary of the World War II battle between Britain and Germany, surviving members of The Few, who went through extreme danger in the air to...

One of the areas of television that Britain excels in is the period drama - for example, we gave the world greats such as Pride and Prejudice. Beautiful costumes, pretty settings, stately homes and the brilliant acting draw in millions of viewers around the world. They are the most...

Harriet Harman apologises for her "ginger rodent" attack on Government minister Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has apologised after calling a political rival a "ginger rodent." Harman, nicknamed "Hattie Harperson" because of her politically correct views and who was Equalities Minister...

Just 70 years ago, Britain experienced its darkest hour after Germany unleashed “totaler krieg” - total war - on Britain with the bombing of its cities by the Luftwaffe. Hitler thought, wrongly, that by destroying British cities - which he most certainly did - British morale would sink so low...

He is probably the world's most famous meerkat - although almost nobody outside of Britain will have heard of him. Aleksandr Orlov, a Russian, cravat-wearing aristrocrat, is a CGI meerkat who is the star of a British television commerical for car insurance website comparethemarket.com. In...

The 16th century was a time of religious upheaval caused, in part, by the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. As the aftershocks of religious division extended across Europe, fear spread that the Day of Judgment was nigh. Catholics viewed the rift as a sign that the...

Manchester United have bought Nobby Stile's 1966 World Cup winners' medal. United, who midfielder Stiles played for between 1960 and 1971, paid £188,200 for the medal at an auction of football memorabilia in Scotland (where's there a better place to show off items of England's 1966 World Cup...

The football world is in mourning today over the death of one of its most beloved stars. Paul the psychic octopus was found dead at his home yesterday morning. He shot to fame during this year's World Cup by correctly guessing the outcome of Germany's six matches and the Final. Two boxes...

The Labour Party were left embarrassed yesterday after newly-released figures showed that the UK economy has grown at the fastest rate for ten years, more than double the rate that Labour and their supporters were predicting. Between July and August this year, the UK economy grew at 0.8%...

A man has spent 10 years creating a 'matchstick armada.' Retired oil rig worker Dave Reynolds, from Southampton, Hampshire, has made a fleet of 20 legendary ships from matchsticks, including models of the Titanic, the Queen Mary and Nelson's HMS Victory. A quarter of a million matchsticks...