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Today, the 50th birthday of a Great British icon took - that of the Mini. Over 2,500 Minis in a vast assortment of colours took to the streets of London today for the annual 56-mile-long London to Brighton run to celebrate the car's 50th anniversary. The car even featured in the 1969 British...

Whilst filming an episode of the new series of popular BBC motoring show Top Gear, two of the show's presenters decided to gatecrash a wedding. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond had been racing each other the length of the country, from London to Edinburgh, a distance of almost...

Norway last night won the Eurovision Song Contest with a record 387 points. It was also a record winning margin by a song - by 169 points. It is the third time Norway has won it, having previously been victorious in 1995 and 1985. Twenty-five nations took part, and this year's competition...

The body of a wealthy man found buried under the bleak Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire may have been a king. And the treasures he was buried with may have been Britain's first Crown Jewels. The artefacts that the man, dubbed "Tall Stout Man", had been buried with are so rare that they have been...

A church in Uckfield, East Sussex has unveiled its new statue of Christ. The unusual thing about the statue is that Christ is wearing a pair of baggy jeans, depicting him as a man of the 21st Century. The 7-foot high statue cost £35,000 and was sculpted by Marcus Cornish. And it's not like...

One of Britain's newest traditions was carried out again today. Since 2007, the tiny town of Wooton Bassett in Wiltshire turns out to welcome home military heroes from Iraq or Afghanistan. But, sadly, those heroes have all come home in coffins. Since 2007, RAF Lyneham, near the town, has...

Never mind all that aerobics, badminton or netball nonsense. Pupils at a school in Coventry have a REAL Physical Education lesson. The kids, aged 10 to 12, have to run a gruelling army commando assault course of barbed wire, swamps and even fire. The course is normally taken on by military...

One of the principles of the MoD is to defend Britain's interests. And you would think one of those interests is the right of Our Boys serving in Afghanistan and Iraq to look at Page 3, a Great British institution. But no. MoD bores have decided to ban Our Boys from looking a Page 3, despite...

Catherine Masters, who is 109, wrote to Queen Elizabeth II to complain about the fact that the monarch is wearing the same yellow dress in each of the birthday cards she sent Catherine for the last five years. She suggested to the Queen that maybe it was time to change the colour of her dress...

It's July 1940, 10 months into World War II. Britain has just sustained Nazi Germany's first major defeat in the War, that of Germany's failure to destroy Britain's air defence and its failure to force Britain out of the war by forcing a surrender (the Nazis couldn't have been that clever if...

Both of these teams were defeated in the Semi-Finals of the European Cup in mid-week, Arsenal losing to Manchester United, the best team in the world, and Chelsea undeservedly losing to Barcelona thanks to an incompetent, out-of-his-league Norwegian referee who wrongly turned down FOUR Chelsea...

It comes as no surprise that in Britain, widely regarded as the most anti-EU country, the annual Europe Day goes largely unnoticed (it was on Saturday apparently, and it was celebrated across Europe except in Britain, where millions of people were completely oblivious to it). So to get...

Fans of Rugby League, famed for its eye gouging, often say that their sport is the toughest in the world. But these people obviously haven't watched the Royal Navy's field gun race. Next week, 30,000 spectators at the Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo - including most of the Royal Family and...

The British Armed Forces, which have been shrinking slightly over the last 10 years in terms of manpower, are now growing again and are set to reach full strength in the next 2 years. They are currently at 97.2% of their full strength. This is probably due to the recession making jobs harder...

A new poll has shown that Gordon Brown is the most unpopular British Prime Minister since polling began (it began in 1943). Remarkably, Brown's (and the Government's) approval rating of just 23% is even lower than Michael Foot, who was leader of the Labour Party when it was trounced in 1983 by...

England destroyed the West Indies at Lord's yesterday by a maximum 10 wickets, taking only three days (out of a maximum of five) to do so in this First Test. And it was a brilliant England debut for Graham Onions. The right-arm medium-fast bowler, who plays for English champions Durham, took...

Here is a guy who made jailbreaking look easy. Jack Sheppard was a thief, robber and burglar in 18th century London. Despite being jailed five times, he managed to escape FOUR times, even when manacled. On one occasion he even used a blanket to climb down a wall, and even climbed a...

Prince Charles has launched an internet campaign to save the world's rainforests, backed by his two sons and a South American frog. The three princes star in a 90 second video which was first aired at 6pm last night. The video shows Charles, Wills and Harry together with the frog — one of...

The English language has more words than any other language, and on 10th June it will acquire its one MILLIONTH. The language probably has around twice as many words as French and German. Those in contention to be the one millionth include "defriend", "noob" and "chiconomics." At the...

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson should have been celebrating last night after seeing his side beat Arsenal 3-1 (4-1 on aggregate) in the Semi Final, 2nd leg of the European Cup to reach the Final for the second year in succession. But his celebrations were marred after he was told...