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Startling new figures highlight just how amazingly quickly Britain's population is growing. New figures show that of last year's 1.4 million increase in the EU's population, Britain contributed to a THIRD of it. The huge amount of immigration into Britain was one factor in Britain's rapidly...

PM says UK should show India some "humility." Should it not be the other way round? British Prime Minister David Cameron has arrived in India with the largest British delegation to visit that country since the British Raj ended in 1947. And, fresh from his gaffe during his recent visit to...

A phenomenon known as a "sun dog" has been spotted in the glorious blue skies over Bournemouth beach. Beachgoers on the Dorset beach gazed upwards on Tuesday to watch the beautiful phenomenon, which occurs when sunlight is refracted by hexagonal-shaped ice crystals in high and cirrus clouds...

The residents of the tiny Dorset hamlet of Shi tterton have decided to take matters into their own hands after the signpost announcing its name was repeatedly stolen by souvenir hunters with a fondness for lavatory humour. In a big nod towards the Coalition Government's "Big Society", in which...

After 173 years of receiving invited guests, Buckingham Palace is about to open its new cafe, open to all. The Queen and several other members of the Royal Family are currently at the start of their two week holiday cruising around the Outer Hebrides on the small cruise ship Hebridean...

Hypocrites Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have both accepted large donations from a BP employees committee. In the donation period ending in 2008, Obama took $71,051, and Clinton $6700 from BP staff in donations. And three out of the four senators who demanded a meeting with British Prime...

British Prime Minister David Cameron made an extraordinary gaffe during his recent visit to the United States by saying, quite wrongly, that Britain was the "junior partner" to the United States in 1940 during World War II. Despite the Tory PM having attended Eton, one of the best schools in...

Brian Cox was once the keyboard player for pop band D:Ream, whose 1993 No1 hit "Things Can Only Get Better" was used by the Labour Party during their 1997 General Election campaign. After attending Hulme Grammar School in Oldham, his home town, he studied physics at the University of...

For several years after WWII, millions of people across the country suffered due to the rationing that was in place. But one man came up with a solution to beat the coal rationing - he built a 40ft mine in his garden out of everyday objects. Bramwell Pashley used a vacuum cleaner to keep...

Joe Cole leaves Chelsea to sign for Liverpool, the "biggest club in England." England midfielder Joe Cole has left Chelsea to join Liverpool. The Londoner left his native city to sign a four-year deal and will be paid £80,000 a week. He also snubbed offers from London teams Arsenal and Spurs...

Soho, in London's West End, is famous for its sex shops, upmarket restaurants, media offices and the Broad Street water pump which was the subject of Dr. John Snow's study of an 1854 outbreak of cholera in the area in which he noted that the victims were mostly people whose nearest access to...

Earlier this month, a Gurkha patrol in Afghanistan was sent out by the British Army's top brass with orders to track down a Taliban warlord described as a 'high-value target'. A fierce battle ensued between the Gurkhas and the Taliban, during which the Taliban warlord was killed. But they...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of someone who they think may have been a British female gladiator. The skeleton of a 'massive, muscular woman' was found in an elaborate wooden coffin with iron straps and copper strips in Credenhill, Herefordshire - close to the headquarters of the...

In 1810, King George III was certified absolutely stark raving bonkers, so completely and utterly mad that anyone who didn't know who he was could have been excused for thinking he spent years making hats as a living. So it was that in that year his son, George, the Prince of Wales, became the...

Next month marks the 70th anniversary of Britain's darkest hour - the Blitz. In August 1940, after much of Europe had been conquered by the Nazis and the British Empire stood alone against them, the Luftwaffe launched its devastating bombing campaign against British cities. From 24th August...

The British Army's Gurkhas have again shown why they are the world's most fearsome fighting force. A Gurkha is facing displinary action after hacking off the head of a Taliban soldier in a fierce firefight between the British and insurgents in the Babaji area of central Helmand Province...

According to legend, King Arthur and his knights gathered around the Round Table at Camelot to discuss ways of battling the invading Saxons. The precise location of the famous city of Camelot of Athurian legend has always been a mystery. But now historians believe that Camelot was the city...

A 200ft crop circle has appeared in a field at Clay Hill, near Warminster, Wiltshire. And the crop circle uses an optical illusion to give the impression that it is a three dimensional cube. The clever perpetrators of this latest design in the crop circle capital of the world are, like most...

Sectarian violence returned to UK streets this week as Catholic rioters, some as young as EIGHT, clashed with cops in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. Ardoyne is a hardline Catholic and nationalist area in the north of the city. Last night, the third night of the clashes, protesters shone a green...

An advertisement for the London Dungeon which features the sudden transformation of Queen Mary I into a zombie has been banned after it frightened children. The digital poster ran on digital screens throughout London Underground stations. The advert shows Mary I sitting on a chair, morphing...