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An American talk show shock jock is to sue the British Government after it banned him from Britain (it doesn't take a lot for an American to sue). This is despite the fact that he has never before even tried to visit Britain. Michael Savage branded Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, whose job it is...

Manchester United showed just why they are probably the best team in Europe last night after overcoming fellow English team Arsenal in the second leg of the Semi Final to reach the European Cup Final for the second successive year. Manchester United - English, European and World champions -...

Needless to say, Top Gear presenter, and The Sun columnist, Jeremy Clarkson was not happy with the recent Budget, such as the incredible 50% income tax rate for people who earn over £150,000 a year (who include Jeremy). In this article, he gives us his funny views on the Budget, attacking...

There's nothing the Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn hates more than the Labour Government, Prime Minister Gordon Brown (who, on Wednesday, started to walk out of the Commons after Prime Minister's Question as he forgot that he had to make a statement which, inevitably, led to howls of laughter...

Elise Tan-Roberts is, in most ways, an ordinary two-year-old girl. The extraordinary thing about her is that she has an IQ of 156, which is higher than that of maths genius Carol Vorderman (who used to co-host numbers and words quiz Countdown), and not far behind Albert Einstein, who had an IQ...

Meet Bubbles, Lilac, Cuddles, Apple, Muffin and Beefy, six showjumping bunnies. The six rabbits have learnt to run an obstacle in their owners' garden in Doncaster, South Yorkshire which features miniature fences. The rabbits will be among the competitors at the Ultimate Pet Show at the NEC...

A young woman made a Skoda become invisible in her university's car park. But she wasn't using a cloaking device like something from Harry Potter. Art student Sara Watson, of the University of Central Lancashire, spray painted the car to give the optical illusion that it had become...

British electro-punk greats The Prodigy are back. "Invaders Must Die" is their first album since 2004 - and it's a noisy one. Since forming in 1990, The Prodigy - who hail from Braintree, Essex and are famous for the huge 1996 hit "Firestarter" - have sold 16 million records worldwide...

Hertfordshire punk band The Gallows are about to release their new album "Grey Britain" tomorrow. The album is an anthem of modern Britain, with songs about knife crime and the recession. Singer Frank Carter recently explained the premise of the album to Kerrang!, saying, "Britain is ****ed...

The Deputy Leader of the far-right British National Party, Simon Darby, has caused outrage after calling the Archbishop of York an ‘ambitious African’ and made ‘spear thrower’ comments about Ugandans. Dr John Sentamu, the 97th Archbishop of York, is the first black Archbishop of York. He...

Carol Ann Duffy has become Britain's new Poet Laureate. And, in keeping with politically correct modern Britain, she is the first female Poet Laureate. She takes over from Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate since 1999. The Poet Laureate is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Government...

In these miserable times of recession, it's always good to have a good chuckle. So that's why The Sun newspaper has launched its Get Britain Laughing campaign. So everyday it is printing lots of jokes to keep us amused - and is getting comedians to give us their views on current events...

One is a city in the north of Italy, and one is a city in the north of England. And there the similarities end. Middlesbrough is famous for its huge Transporter Bridge, Roy Chubby Brown, its chemical works, oil refinery, rubbish football team and the humble Arriva bus service. Venice is...

Ahh, the Great British Pub. It is as quintessentially British as cricket, fish and chips, Marmite, Monty Python or Stephen Fry. Go to other countries, and most bars have ordinary, mundane names. In the US and Canada, bars may be called Bob's Beers or Al's Alehouse. But British pubs have...

A beautiful dish belonging to a wealthy Londoner at the time that Britain was a part of the Roman Empire has been unearthed. The bowl is a rare "millefiori" ("one thousand flowers") and is thought to be the first of its kind to be discovered outside the eastern Roman Empire. The dish was...

You may think that the electric car is a fairly new invention, but a Mr Thomas Parker had one in Victorian Britain. Mr Parker apparently built an electric car in 1884. To make a living, he electrified the London Underground and created overhead tramways in Liverpool and Birmingham. This...

Google Earth finds the "Battle of the Nile trees" which commemorate Nelson's victory In 1798, a British fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson completely destroyed a French fleet anchored near the Egyptian city of Alexandria, stranding Napoleon's army in Egypt. The British took the...

Canadian tourist officials bizarrely used a picture of a beach in Northumberland, England's nothernmost county which borders Scotland, on a website promoting landlocked Alberta. Beautiful Beadnell Beach was used by Alberta's public affairs bureau in a £14 million advertising campaign. The...

Mr De Marco has lived in the same house for 100 years. Mr De Marco, who lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was born in Italy in 1902 but moved to England when he was seven when Edward VII was on the Throne and Manchester United won the FA Cup for the first time. When he turned 100, Mr De...

British comedian Omid Djalili has caused a row at the BBC after making jokes about a Jewish BBC chief. Djalili, who was born in Chelsea, west London and is of Iranian descent, has his own comedy sketch show on the BBC in which he plays a variety of characters. But he left an audience of 200...