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The Queen was at Lord's cricket ground in London yesterday to watch England take on her Penal Colony. The Queen has been something of a good luck charm to the England team over the years. More often than not, England go on to dominate matches on the rare occasions the Queen - more of a...

People from across the world, even as far afield as Malawi, have gathered in Congham, Norfolk, for the world snail racing championships. Some of the French people there are a bit confused as they thought it was some sort of takeaway. The championships have been happening at the annual...

Rifleman Aminiasi Toge, 26, was killed in Afghanistan whilst on patrol on Thursday. He is the 185th British soldier to be killed in the Afghanistan War. Rugby fanatic Aminiasi was known as Togey by his friends, and was born in Fiji. Sixteen British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan...

British World War I veteran Henry Allingham died in his sleep yesterday aged 113. He was the world's oldest man. Henry was the last surviving founding member of the RAF, the world's oldest airforce. He was also the last surviving man to have fought in the 1916 Battle of Jutland, in which a...

Meet a military veteran, who has been serving in the Royal Air Force for 27 years and has seen action in the Falklands War and now in Afghanistan. This is no actual airman, but a trusty old Chinook known as Bravo November. It first saw action in the Falklands War in 1982, when it carried...

England star Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff to retire from international Test cricket England cricket star Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff is to quit international Test cricket after this summer's Ashes series against Australia. The 31-year-old all-rounder has had four ankle operations and knee surgery...

Francis Evans was lying comfily cosily in his bed watching TV when a storm brew up outside. It started thundering ad lightning and so the 63-year-old decided to try and photograph a bolt. When a bolt of lightning hit neighbour's boat on the Tresillian River in Truro, Cornwall, the...

First, their deluded cricketers come over here thinking they can retain the Ashes, despite the fact they've never won a Series in England under the captaincy of Ricky Ponting. Then their motorcyclists come over here thinking they can perform deathdefying stunts on one of our most famous...

Britain's newest, and also most sombre, tradition took place again yesterday. Since 2007, when British troops have been killed in Afghanistan, their bodies have flown back to to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire. Each body is then placed in a hearse and the cortege makes its way along the A3102...

Officially, Britain has a population of 61 million. But the ACTUAL population is more likely to be at least 63-64 million, a legacy of the poll tax days under Thatcher when many people did not want to be counted on official censuses, and also of the fact that hundreds of thousands of foreigners...

When a 300 foot crop circle appeared in a farmer's field causing thousands of pounds of damage, the farm workers were understandably enraged. So it wasn't a good idea for a group of Norwegian crop circle spotters to visit the field. A farm employee decided to dress in full combat gear and...

At just 5 inches high or thereabouts, the Ashes urn may be the smallest trophy in world sport but, if you're an English or Australia sportsfan, it's the most priceless. Whenever England and Australia cricket teams play each other in a Test Series (not one day matches) they compete for the...

With the worst recession since the Norman Conquest of 1066, and unemployment at its highest levels since the Great Plague of 1665, jobs are hard to find. But if you are good at cackling, not allergic to cats, and do not mind living in a cave, then why not become a witch? A job is on offer to...

Lord Lucan and a "gorilla": 36 hours in the life of Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth Trafalgar Square in central London, the world's most famous square, was completed in 1845 and is named after the famous naval battle in which the British heavily defeated the French forty years earlier. It was...

It is probably the most iconic image of the 7/7 bombings in London of 2005 - a photo of a woman wearing a burns mask on her face as she flees the Edgware Road bombing. She is accompanied by Paul Dadge, a former firefighter who had set up a makeshift triage unit at the back of a nearby Marks...

Everybody in Britain will be vaccinated against swine flu by the middle of next year. Britain has the third highest number of confirmed swine flu cases in the world (9,718 ) after Mexico (10,262) and the United States (33,902), and is the only country outside of the Americas to have swine flu...

During the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship was wrecked on the eastern English coast near Hartlepool around 1803. The only survivor of that shipwreck was a monkey. The people of Hartlepool hadn't seen foreigners that often and were unsure as to what a Frenchman looked like and, after questioning...

CRICKET Today is the day that the 2009 Ashes started. Before I tell you what happened, you should know what the Ashes is all about. It goes back to 1882 when Australia beat England at The Oval cricket ground in London - the first time England had been beaten by the Aussies on English soil...

One of the great things about the British summer is the many bizarre crop circles which mysteriously appear in farmers' fields. This year we have already had crop circles depicting a dragonfly, a hummingbird and a phoenix rising out of the ashes. Now we have a 350 foot crop circle of an...

Women players should NOT get paid the same as men at Wimbledon or any of the other tennis Grand Slams. Women, the PC Brigade and feminists may not agree - but the stats certainly do. People who argue for women tennis stars to be paid the same as men must not notice (or just ignore) one...