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A town crier has made a formal complaint after a rival town crier encroached onto his territory. Mike Kean-Price, town crier of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, has complained to the Ancient and Honourable Guild of Town Criers about the actions of Peder Nielsen, the town crier of Bromyard...

The Domesday Book, completed in 1086, was a great survey of England when it was a colony of Normandy undertaken on the orders of England's King William I, or William the Conqueror as he arrogantly preferred to be known (he was previously known as William the Bastard). William, the Duke of...

The oldest known house in Britain has been discovered by archaeologists. At 10,500 years old, it is more than 6,000 years older than Stonehenge - that's three times the length of time since the birth of Jesus to today. The 11 foot wide circular structure has been uncovered at Star Carr, near...

It's already known that London property is amongst the most expensive in the world. But this just takes the biscuit. A two-floor flat in a complex in Knightsbridge, central London, has been sold for a whopping £140 million - that's £6,000 for just each square foot. The property, designed by...

Every division, except the top flight Premier League, in the English league kicked off the new season yesterday. The big boys in the Premier League don't start their campaign until next weekend. But today was the Community Shield, traditionally played the Sunday before the new Premier League...

"Serial killer" Bamber vows to prove his sister carried out murders of family Convicted mass killer Jeremy Bamber, jailed for life for murdering his adoptive family, has vowed to prove that his schizophrenic sister Sheila was behind the 1985 killings. Bamber, 49, who has spent half of his...

A British man who threw his shoes at Pakistan's president yesterday said last night he was proud of his actions. Sardar Mohammed Shamim Khan, 57, who comes from Coventry, West Midlands, but has Pakistani ancestry, said a speech that President Asif Ali Zardari had made in Birmingham so angered...

A new book has revealed that British author Roald Dahl slept with numerous women whilst working as a spy in America. Dahl was a fighter pilot in the RAF during the War and narrowly avoided death after making an emergency landing in the Egyptian desert. He was invalided back to Britain after...

900 years ago, thanks to the Norman Invasion of 1066, England was nothing more than a colony of Normandy. These days, the French like to brag, wrongly, that England was once a French colony (though huge swathes of France were an English colony just a few centuries after the Norman Conquest)...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected Indian calls for the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. The diamond, which is a part of the British Crown Jewels, was seized by the British East India Company in 1849 and was presented to Queen Victoria, who was the Empress of India. The last...

It's not the first time that the British have defeated the arrogant yet cowardly French in a naval battle (or any battle) so it's hardly anything so unusual that the world will take note of it. But that fact doesn't make it any less satisfying. When a British trawler and a French trawler...

Royal fans got a treat on Monday as the British Royal Family returned from their holiday. Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince Philip and some of their children and grandchildren spent two days on a small cruise ship, the Hebridean Princess, sailing around Scotland's western isles. As the...

The Yorkshire Ripper has launched a fresh bid for freedom after a High Court judge ruled that he should die behind bars. Mr Justice Mitting likened the Ripper to a terrorist, saying the 'brutality and gravity' of his crimes meant he should never be freed. But now the serial killer has...

Two crop circles which appear to show the face of Jesus Christ have appeared in Berkshire. The images, which appear to resemble the face of Jesus as he appears in the Turin Shroud (if, indeed, the image in the Turin Shroud IS that of Jesus), have appeared on either side of the M4 motorway in...

A Canadian team has found the wreck of the 19th century Royal Navy ship HMS Investigator in the Canadian Arctic. HMS Investigator left Britain in 1848, captained by Robert McClure, and made two attempts to find the ill-fated Franklin expedition. But its crew abandoned the ship in Mercy Bay...

Iran's ladies' rugby union team bowed onto the European stage in the most unusual of ways - its players wore Islamic veils during matches. Rugby has been growing in popularity in Iran since it was introduced into the country 10 years ago. This week, the team played in Europe - the hotbed of...

Experts have been left baffled by the sighting of what looks like a Loch Ness Monster-type sea creature off the coast of Devon. The long-necked creature, which resembles a supposedly-extinct plesiosaur, was supposedly stalking and snapping at fish, which were so terrified that they ended up...

Just days after showing that Eton's history department is probably not as good as you might think it is by saying that Britain was "the junior partner" to the US in 1940, despite the fact that the US hadn't even entered the war in 1940 and Britain was saving the world by taking on the Germans on...

Isn't the US Senate's hounding of BP nauseating? Two weeks after BP sucessfully capped the leak, there is now little evidence of surface pollution. John Amos, president of environmental pressure group SkyTruth, says: “Oil has a finite life span at the surface. At this point, that oil slick...

Olympic stars Sir Chris Hoy and Michael Johnson helped to mark two years before the start of the London 2012 Summer Olympics yesterday. The 30th Olympiad will commence on 27th July 2012 and end on 12th August. London will then become the city which has hosted the Summer Olympics more times...