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When these two English giants were drawn against each other in this year's European Cup quarter final, there were groans from many people. After all, Liverpool and Chelsea have played each other in the latter stages of this competition every year since 2005, with goals in many of the games as...

A bayonet charge undertaken by British soldiers against the Mahdi Army in Afghanistan in 2004 is being used by the US as an example of how to tackle insurgents. Just 20 British soldiers took on 100 insurgents, but when they started running out of ammo the British fixed bayonets and charged...

Thousands gathered today in the cities of Liverpool, Nottingham and Sheffield to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, when 96 Liverpool fans were killed at Hillsborough Stadium, the worst disaster in British sporting history. Fans today gathered at Anfield, Liverpool's...

One of the many advantages of having a constitutional monarchy is that we have an excuse to party every so often. Take jubilees, which celebrate significant anniversaries of monarchs coming to the throne - silver jubilee for 25 years on the throne, golden jubilee for 50 years on the throne and...

The Queen and other members of the Royal Family today attended Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel. Whereas the Pope is Head of the Catholic Church and can therefore only be a Catholic, the British Monarch is Head of the Church of England and can therefore only be...

From the sparsely populated, rocky and hauntingly beautiful Shetland Islands in the far north (closer to Norway than London), to the ancient, abandoned tin mines of Cornwall in the far south; from the stunning beaches and mild temperatures of Devon and the English Riviera to the snow-capped...

Britain has a long and bloody history, and the battlefields that dot the length and breadth of the nation are proof of that. From the Battle of Watling Street (60 or 61, when Boadicea attacked the Romans) and the Battle of Deorham (577, when a Saxon [English] force defeated a native Briton...

19th-century England was a ruthless place. There was no welfare system, and certainly no Chancellor of the Exchequer willing to guarantee your savings or pay dole money to the unemployed. It was a society whose God was money, and being in debt even landed you in prison. Besides this, there...

After Saturday's Grand National, shown live on BBC1, many viewers wrote to the Corporation to complain about presenter Clare Balding's jibes to winning jockey Liam Treadwell. Liam, aged 23, rode 100-1 shot Mon Mome to victory in the Grand National in Liverpool on Saturday, the biggest outsider...

In the 1990s and the early years of this decade, the Republic of Ireland was the fastest-growing economy in Europe, with growth around 8-9 percent for many years. It was because of this that it was known as the Celtic Tiger. But the Republic of Ireland's boom years are over, and it now finds...

The town of Wincanton in Somerset is, in most ways, an ordinary English town. Except the street names have names such as Peach Pie Street and Treacle Mine Road. This is because they have been named after places from the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, from the Sir Terry Pratchett "Discworld"...

There have been numerous sightings of supposed big cats throughout Britain over the years, creating rumours that animals such as panther (also known as puma) and lynx may be living wild in the British countryside. And there have been two more pieces of evidence recently. Firstly, claw marks on...

They have sold a billion albums worldwide, have a world record FIFTEEN number one albums and have been hailed as the greatest band of all time. Now engineers at Abbey Road Studios are digitally remastering all of the Beatles' original albums which are to be re-released in September. This...

British police have, in recent years, had a bit of a reputation for being trigger happy and going after, and killing, the wrong person. The most notorious example of that occurred on 21st July 2005, two weeks after the terrorist attacks in London which killed 52 people, when cops from the...

BBC comedy series Red Dwarf, which originally ran from 1988-1999, returns to our screens this month with three special episodes. The first of those episodes is being aired on Dave (channel 19) on Fiday. The series is set around three million years in the future, and the main characters are...

The Americans may be proud of the seeming popularity of their new President as he gallavants round the world from one country to the next. But he is NOT the world's greatest Head of State. That honour must undoubtedly go to Queen Elizabeth II. While Obama struck awe in most of the people he...

Thanks to its long, violent and bloody history, England is awash with battlefields, from the Roman invasion to the Jacobite Rebellions of the 1710s and 1740s. It is thought there could be as many as 450 battlefields in England (and more throughout the UK as a whole), which is not bad for a small...

A new armour exhibition at the Tower of London shows just how fat King Henry VIII became. Thanks partly to his feasting on huge banquets during his 38 year reign (1509-1547), Henry VIII ballooned in size over the years. The monarch enjoyed banquets so much he extended the kitchen of Hampton...

There is to be a prequel of classic BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses. Only Fools and Horses, which ran from 1981 - 2003, was all about Derek "Del Boy" Trotter who lives in a flat in Peckham, London with his younger brother Rodney and his grandfather (later, grandfather dies and their...

Lovestruck Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi embarrassed himself, and the Italian nation, during the recent G20 summit in London. During a photoshoot in Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, while the 18 Prime Ministers and Presidents, one Chancellor and one King had their photo taken with...