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The population of Britain in 1675 was 5 million and there were no cars or lorries on the roads, just the odd horse, or horse and carriage or horse and cart. Today, the population for Britain is 61 million and there are over 26 million cars, which are able to travel on over 29,000 miles of...

Probably not since the huge Poll Tax riots of 1990 against Thatcher's Conservative Government have the British public vented their anger in such a way against a political party. Tonight, hundreds of anti-fascists have descended on the BBC Television Centre in the (ironically named) White City...

British author Roald Dahl was one of the greatest children's authors of all time, selling over 50 million books worldwide. His stories include "James and the Giant Peach", "The Twits", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "The Witches." Now one of his stories has hit the big screen. A new...

Monday 6th July 2009 is a day that a police officer will probably never forget. The police officer, who was off-duty at the time, said he saw three aliens examining a freshly made crop circle near Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. The humanoid figures, whic h were dressed in white, were very tall...

A statue immortalising a black SAS war hero who single-handedly held off 250 rebels in Oman in a forgotten 1972 battle is to be unveiled at the SAS headquarters in Hereford in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday. In 1972, British forces took on Communist rebels in the Middle Eastern state of...

The only surviving Union Jack from the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar is to stay in Britain, thanks to the Government. Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has imposed an export curb on the 11ft 7ins by 7ft 4ins emblem, which flew onboard HMS Spartiate. The crew of that ship stitched it from 31 panels...

Adrian Reeman may not be popular with a bunch of malnourished 18th Century French left-wingers, but I'm sure he'll not be too bothered. Being a proper British eccentric, Mr Reeman has spent 23 years transforming his once ordinary flat in Southampton, Hampshire into the lavish Palace of...

If your idea of fun is smoking an African woodbine, having your hair in dreds, calling everybody "man", listening to The Beatles and wearing trousers so flared that it looks as though your legs aren't moving as you walk, then this car is for you. A businessman has decided to give a hearse a...

One of the few things we can give credit to Prime Minister Gordon Brown (who, despite his faults and his mistakes, IS genuinely patriotic and always tries to put his country first) is his refusal to back the Euro currency. During his ten years as Chancellor of the Exchequer - 1997 to 2007 - he...

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE, is a proper English hero and adventurer, somebody who won't let the small matter of having no fingers on one hand get him down. Just look look at this former SAS man's achievements so far. He travelled the White Nile by hovercraft in...

Liverpool haven't won the title since 1990. If they don't win it again this season they can blame a red beach ball. In one of the more bizarre incident you'll see in the English Premiership, a shot from Sunderland's Darren Bent ricocheted of a red beach ball in the penalty area and went into...

Local rivals Blackburn Rovers and Burnley met in the Premiership today. Burnley were promoted to the Premiership last season, their first time in England's top flight since 1976. Just 11 miles separate these two northern English towns and, as a result, they have one of the fiercest rivalries...

Despite Crystal Palace's stadium, Selhurst Park, being much smaller than that of other London football teams, such as Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and Chelsea's Stamford Bridge, it has been designated by the Metropolitan Police as a terror hotspot, where the bobbies can carry out stop and...

What other country in Europe, other than England, would have 76,897 fans turn up to watch a match which is nothing more than a meaningless friendly? That is what happened at Wembley last night to see England take on Belarus. It may have been a 2010 World Cup qualifier but both teams had...

More than 5000 "Hell's Angels" converged on the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, on Saturday to pay tribute to Britain's fallen service personnel. The National Memorial Arboretum, which opened in 2001, pays tribute to Britain's war dead. The Arboretum is so called as it...

Built in Portsmouth exactly 500 years ago (1509-1510), the Mary Rose was the pride of the English fleet during the reign of Henry VIII. She was originally equipped with 78 guns, but was upgraded in 1536 to 91 guns. In 1545, during the Italian War which involved several European countries...

When Margaret Butcher moved into her home in Norwich, Norfolk five years ago, she came across an apple tree in her garden. Many times since she has eaten the apples and noticed that they taste differently from other apples. Nobody was able to identify the type of apples that they are, so she...

It looks like a scene you'd expect in America's Wild West. But these amazing photos of two wild stallions sparring was taken in the serene, green English countryside, just outside Cambridge. The two stallions are part of a 50-strong herd of Koniks brought over from Holland and which now...

In 1961, Margaret Andrews, now 82, bought a green silk coat from a jumble sale in Epsom, Surrey for £10. Then, a couple of weeks ago, Margaret was flicking through a magazine when, astonishingly, she spotted a photo of the Queen wearing the same silk coat that she had bought at the jumble sale...

Members of Greenpeace can be annoying sometimes. The do-gooders think nothing of lecturing the world about the "evil" of non-existant man-made global warming, yet think it's okay to climb onto private property to cause trouble and sometimes vandalism. Around 30 members of the organisation...