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We all know that America and Britain, enemies 200 years ago, are now best buddies. Such good buddies in fact that it's now got to the point where a politician from one country fancies a politician from the other. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has revealed in an interview for...

Spain has accused the Royal Navy of using the Spanish national flag for machine gun target practice. Britain's ambassador to Spain, Giles Paxman (the brother of the BBC's "Newsnight" presenter Jeremy Paxman), was forced to apologise after sailors onboard HMS Scimitar fired at a red-and-yellow...

The heaviest rainfall ever recorded in England has caused severe flooding in the county of Cumbria, leaving a least one person dead. Parts of the county - which is the location of the Lake District - have seen almost 11 inches of rainfall, possibly almost 13 inches in some areas, in just two...

The 13th February 1692 witnessed one of the most infamous events in British history. In 1688, the Protestant William of Orange arrived in England with his army. His aim was to overthrow the Catholic, and unpopular, King James II and make himself king. James II clearly hadn't heeded events...

A marriage is usually seen as a happy occasion, an event where you hope the married couple will have many years of life and happiness together. So it seems unusual to be married in a church. But that's was Samantha Smyth and Paul Adams, a pair of Goths, have done. It is against the law to be...

The Channel Tunnel - also know as the "Chunnel" - opened in 1994 and links Britain to the Continent of European for the first time since the last ice age. Whenever our workshy French neighbours go on strike (which happens around 100 times a year), French lorry drivers have an annoying habit of...

We've all seen the pictures of London's skyline - great edifices such as the Palace of Westminster, St Paul's Cathedral, Nelson's Column, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge and the Tower of London alongside more modern structures such as the Gherkin skyscraper, the London Eye and Canary Wharf...

Today is the day in which Britain's great "unwritten" constitution is on display in all its glory. It is the day in which the Queen opens Parliament, amid all sorts of pomp and ceremony (many people assume today's ceremonies are ancient, but in fact many of them date back only to the 20th...

Most people have ducks in their bathrooms, but they are usually made of rubber. But these nine little fellas are very real, very fluffy and very cute. They were born six months before most broods, and at a time of freezing weather. Fearing they would die outdoors, they were rescued by a...

Stars from the world of sport, film and TV braved the terrible weather on Friday night for the first Heroes Cup, held at the Madejski Stadium, home of Reading football team (the Royals) and London Irish rugby union team. The game was in aid of the Help the Heroes charity. The charity was...

The bravery of British soldiers can be absolutely breathtaking. Olaf Schmid is a perfect example. Bomb disposal expert, Staff Sergeant Olaf "Oz" Schmid of the Royal Logistic Corps and who was serving with 2 Rifles Battle Group, defused 64 bombs in Afghanistan in just 5 months, each time...

Britain's Chinook fleet is to increase in size by over 40% after the Government has ordered another 20. The public, including the families of soldiers serving in Afghanistan, have been concerned that a helicopter shortage is to blame for the deaths of many British troops. The beleagured...

In 1999, Scotland got its own parliament, albeit with limited powers, for the first time since 1707. The Scottish Government is currently the Scottish National Party - who wish Scotland to secede from the Union, but polls show that the majority of Scots wish to remain in the UK - who have been...

Kirsty Moore has become the first female pilot to train with the RAF's world famous Red Arrows display team. She's put in more than 1,500 hours of flying and beat 40 other hopefuls. Flight Lieutenant Moore is currently training at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and will join the team proper...

Shoppers at a leather goods store couldn't believe their eyes when an urban fox fell 12 feet through the ceiling. The calamitous canine fell through the ceiling and landed on a pile of luggage in the front window display at the shop in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. The daft animal only...

The fact that the average EU bureaucrat wouldn't know what democracy is even if it strode up to them in the street, introduced itself in the proper way (with the help of a third person) and asked if they would fancy having a few gallons of lagers with it at The Slug and Lettuce isn't the only...

It might have been a game between two giants of the English game battling it out to be crowned champions. But thousands of people have been interested in the clash between Chelsea and champions Manchester United for an entirely different, and bizarre, reason. As Chelsea's Salomon Kalou and...

Not so long ago, British soldiers would have been shot at dawn for desertion or cowardice. Now that capital punishment is, unfortunately, currently banned in Britain, that cannot happen nowadays (though they should bring it back). However, Lance Corporal Joe Glenton still faces 10 years in...

On 12th September 2006, a bomb blast in Afghanistan's Helmand Province left Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson seriously injured. Ben, 25, lost both of his legs, the use of his left arm and was left severaly brain damaged which left him unable to speak. Since then he has had to learn to walk...

The Welsh are "unfriendly" and "rude", finds report by their own tourist board It is known as a land whose national sport is rugby; a land whose inhabitants love singing; a land which is home to Europe's oldest surviving language; a land which gave us the Tudors; a land which didn't have a...