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When Kate Arkless Gray was using the London Underground whilst returning home at midnight on Saturday, she certainly didn't expect to see a fox. The fearless canine was spotted at Walthamstow Central in East London using the escalators. It was seen walking down the down escalator, which wasn't...

Considering that cricket is very much India's national sport - no, make that a religion - then it seems hard to believe that this nation of 1 billion people and the world's most powerful cricketing country has never been ranked Number One in the world. But that injustice has today been put...

The British Army are in Afghanistan, but it's not the first time they have been there. The British were also there in the 19th century. In the 1880s, Britain was at the height of her power. In 1878, Britain invaded Afghanistan during the Second Anglo-Afghan war (the First Anglo-Afghan War...

The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has written a modern and gritty version of 12 Days of Christmas. The poem mentions the War in Afghanistas, the MPs' expenses scandal, Global Warming, US President Barack Obama, England manager Fabio Capello and BNP leader Nick Griffin. The 12 verse poem...

The white stag appears several times in British history and mythology. King Arthur once tried, and failed, to catch one. Ancient Britons considered them to be messengers from the otherworld, and the appearance of a white stag signalled that it was time for the knights of the kingdom to pursue a...

In 2011, a British team hopes to break the world land speed record - and hitting 1,000mph - in South Africa using a rocket-propelled car known as Bloodhound. Now another British team is hoping hoping to beat the speed record - in a lawnmower. Don Wales, the grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell...

Once upon a time it was difficult to stop the French and German armies marching into another countries...... illegally. First there was Napoleon in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Despite being so short he would have had to use stepladders to snog a dwarf and the fact he...

There was relief for Fabio Capello today as it was revealed that Fifa HAVE seeded England for the 2010 World Cup. It wasn't made clear until today what system Fifa would use to decide which of the four pots for the World Cup draw each team will be placed in (except South Africa who will...

In 1660, after 11 years of a republic, the monarchy was restored in England with the start of King Charles II's reign. Just as few months after the Restoration, the Royal Society was founded. It is the world's oldest scientific institution, and is a fitting organisation for a country which has...

Britain's politicians are famous for producing a load of s**t, so you would think they would ensure that there is plenty of toilet paper at the Palace of Westminster. But the "Honourable Members" were left desperate yesterday as it emerged that staff responsible for looking after the Commons...

A boy, dubbed the "seven-year-old Picasso" has sold his art for £17,000 in just 14 minutes. Buyers from places such as Canada and Japan paid more than £1,000 each to buy one of Kieron Williamson's 16 watercolours, oils and pastels of the English countryside. Kieron and his parents never knew...

The 19th Century was "Britain's century", just as the 20th Century was "America's century" and the 21st Century is likely to become "China's century." The 1800s saw Britain dominate the world economy. Not only did it have the world's largest economy, it was a mighty manufacturing powerhouse...

The tiny central African nation of Rwanda has become the 54th member of the Commonwealth. Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad & Tobago have admitted Rwanda into the organisation because it has shown "tremendous progress" over the last 15 years. Despite it being a former...

Tomorrow (30th November) may be St Andrew's Day, Scotland's national day, but the event is going to be overshadowed by something which, to the Scots, is something truly horrific: the introduction of an ENGLISH whisky. The malt Chapter 6, made by the English Whisky Co, is England's first new...

It has always been known that Margaret Thatcher got by on just a few hours of sleep a night whilst British Prime Minister, but during the 1982 Falklands War against Argentina she didn't even get that much. Throughout the war, Thatcher stayed up in Downing Street all night and never changed...

14th October 1066 ranks alongside 30th July 1966 as the most famous date in English history. The Battle of Hastings took place on 14th October 1066, when the English took on the invading Normans. When the English king, Edward the Confessor, died on 5th January 1066, it should have seen his...

In 2007, Moira Cameron became the first female Yeoman Warder - or Beefeater - in their 500 year history. At the time, there were those, including fellow Beefeaters, who thought that a woman should not have been allowed to become a Beefeater. Now two Beefeaters have been sacked for harrassing...

British engineers have started building what they hope will be the world's fastest car, capable of reaching 1,000mph. The Bloodhound will be powered by a jet engine from a Eurofighter and a hybrid rocket. This combination should produce 135,000 horsepower — equivalent to the power of 180...

According to William Blake's poem "And Did Those Feet In Ancient Times" or, as it is most commonly known, "Jerusalem", written in 1808, a young Jesus once travelled to what is now England accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea and visited Glastonbury, a town in Somerset which is supposed...

Two men have been arrested after Northern Irish cops exchanged gunfire with Irish republicans as a car bomb was planted outside the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) base. The shooting incident happened in County Fermanagh near the British border with the Republic of Ireland. The car...