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Prince William's hugely successful tour of Australia has caused the support for Australia to become a republic to drop by a whopping 14%. A minority of Australians - 44% - are in favour of becoming a republic and 27% are opposed to ditching the Queen as Head of State. And Aussies look like...

Britain has seven official languages: English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Scots, Ulster Scots and Cornish. All of them are closely related Celtic languages, except English and Scots, which are Germanic languages closely related to German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic...

Today is the last day of Prince Willam's tour of Down Under. Last week he was in New Zealand. Now he is in another British colony - Australia. If there are republicans in Australia, then they were hardly noticeable. William was treated like a rock star. During a speech at Government House...

Stoke City's Rory Delap may think he's very good at launching the ball far whilst taking a throw-in, but he's a lightweight compared to British PE teacher Danny Brooks. Danny can throw a ball 163.32 feet, the equivalent of five double-decker buses. But he uses an unusual technique to throw...

Residents of a northern English village have been left terrorised by a mysterious creature which has been blamed for mauling several deer to death and even leaving a resident's Alsatian dogs - hardly the type of mutts to get easily scared - quivering with fear. Residents of Buckshaw, which is...

Nigel Farage, the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), a political party whose main aim is to withdraw Britain from the EU, has called for Britain to ban the burka. Lord Pearson has now taken over as UKIP's leader, but Farage still heads UKIP's 13 MPs which the...

For any teams who are playing Bristol City this season, I think it's wise to not celebrate a goal anywhere near their manager. Bristol City were up against Cardiff City in the FA Cup, 3rd Round, on Tuesday night at Bristol City's Ashton Gate stadium. After Michael Chopra put Cardiff City 1-0...

Prince William today completed his first day of his tour of New Zealand. Today was the future king's first day of a five-day trip to the British colony (it gained independence from Britain in 1907, but we still know that Britain's in the saddle). The prince - who is still training to be a...

A sign bearing the name of Britain's most famous address is expected to fetch thousands when it goes under the hammer. The 19th century cast iron Downing Street sign was previewed today at Bonhams auctioneers in central London ahead of its sale next Wednesday. It is estimated to fetch...

Probably the most famous castaway of all time was Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), the Scotsman who was marooned on an uninhabited desert island for four years in the early 18th Century. In 1704, Selkirk was navigating an English galley (Scotland would not join the Union until 1707), the Cinque...

Scientists have been left puzzled after a mystery object today whizzed past our planet. It made its closest pass at 1.46pm British time today, passing just 76,000 miles away, just a third of the distance to the Moon. Italian scientists said it may have been a piece of space junk - there are...

Never mind an overweight, middle-aged Scottish woman. Meet Darren the goat. In most cases Darren is a normal goat - except that he can wave. Unlike Susan Boyle, Darren doesn't need to go on Britain's GOAT Talent to find fame, as he's a YouTube star already, with tens of thousands watching him...

Some people are so stupid that they either need to be locked up for their, or other people's, safety or be given a lethal injection to remove them from the gene pool. Two men, along with their dog (who is blameless in the affair), decided it would be fun to drive for half a mile along a frozen...

When Cent the Border Coillie was handed into to an animal shelter in Oldham, Lancashire, staff faced an unusual problem - teaching him English. The staff were puzzled why Cent did not respond to commands. The dog had been owned by a Polish family who only spoke to it in Polish, so it turns out...

King Richard III has gone down in English history as a bit of a villain. When Richard's brother, Edward IV, died in 1483 his young son, Edward, became Edward V. But because Edward was just a child, his uncle Richard was named as England's Protector. But Richard had Edward V and his younger...

Britain has been ranked a paltry 25th in the world for quality of life, lower than countries such as Czech Republic, Hungary and Lithuania. It's bottom of the pile in Europe, despite having won the War (but not, it seems, the peace). But that doesn't matter too much as the rankings aren't...

Ahh, it's so great that Britain is a member of the EU (not). Britain faces a bill of £7 billion to bail out Greece, the Eurozone member worst hit by the economic crisis, despite the fact that Britain is not a member of the Eurozone and despite the fact that Greece's problems arose BECAUSE it...

The straight-talking columnist Richard Littlejohn continues his war against Political Correctness, Climate Change believers, Islamofascists, Elf'n'Safety, politicians and other scourges of modern Britain. In this article he takes on Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, Elf N Safety Nazis who...

As Britain shivers in its coldest winter for 30 years, and much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, even as far south as Cuba, also shivers in a colder than usual winter, could this be the start of a trend of cooling weather likely to last for 20 to 30 years? That's what some of the...

The Sunday Mirror's defence correspondent, Rupert Hamer, has become the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan. The reporter's photographer, Philip Coburn, was seriously injured in the blast. A US Marine and an Afghan soldier were also killed. Hamer and Coburn were...