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The Irish have just celebrated St Patrick's Day and the Welsh have just celebrated St David's Day. Next up it's the England's St George's Day on 23rd April. But with the English probably being the world's most politically correct nation, many attempts of ordinary English people to celebrate...

England yesterday defeated the useless Scots in front 81,000 fans to finish second in this year's Six Nations Championship. It also means that England have won the Calcutta Cup, the trophy that either England or Scotland win if they beat each other in this tournament. In this year's Six...

RUGBY UNION, SIX NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 Ireland made history yesterday by winning the Six Nations Championship Grand Slam (which is when you win every match in the tournament) for the first time since 1948 and for only the second time in their history. It is the 10th time they have won the...

England women's cricket team, the overwhelming favourites to win this year's Women's Cricket World Cup, have eased into the World Cup Final after easily beating West Indies. That means England are the only team to have gone unbeaten so far in the tournament. England gave the West Indies a...

Blinded by their obvious hatred, animosity and jealousy towards English football (jealous because of the fantastic wealth it has at its disposal and jealous becase, for a second season in succession, four of the eight European Cup quarter-finalists are Englush teams), UEFA President Platini and...

The British often view their nearest neighbours the Irish as a people who are a bit.... how shall we say? Dimwitted and stupid. The amount of Irish jokes is testament to that. Whether or not there is actually any substance in that belief or if it is just a stereotype has been open to question...

Manchester band The Stone Roses are set to reform and have a comeback tour in Britain and the US. The band, part of the "Madchester" scene of the late Eighties and early Nineties which also gave us bands such as Oasis and established Manchester as a great musical centre, are singer Ian Brown...

Builder Derek Burden thought it would be a good idea to take a photograph of England's great capital city whilst on the 16th floor of a building in Covent Garden, in the West End of London. His magnificent shot of the London skyline took in famous structures such as the Houses of Parliament...

Google Earth has revealed an ancient fish trap made from rocks off the western coast of Britain. The fish trap was used close to Poppit Sands on the Teifi Estuary off the coast of Dyfed during the time of the Norman Conquest. Stretching more than 280 yards along the sea bed, the V-shaped...

Scotsman sues an Englishman who correctly said: "Your country's a welfare state." A Scottish pilot is suing his English colleague who told him: "Your country's a welfare state paid for by the English middle classes." The Scotsman, British Airways Captain Douglas Maughan is, amazingly, suing...

The Chelsea Pensioners are amongst the greatest of Britain great and ancient institutions. A Chelsea pensioner is an in-pensioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, west London. The Royal Hospital was...

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall have visited the Charles Darwin Research Station on the Galapagos island of Santa Cruz, a tortoise breeding centre where the world's largest tortoises inhabit. Whilst there, Charles and Camilla also welcomed a new member of the Royal Family - a baby tortoise...

RUGBY UNION, SIX NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 Rampant England played probably their best rugby since 2003 today as they destroyed France in the Six Nations Championship. In 2003, England were undeniably the best team on the planet, beating every team who came up against them, and thenwent on to...

Experts are inviting members of the public to send in their photos of ghostly phenomena for a dossier they are compiling in a bid to solve the mysteries of the paranormal. Hundreds of paranormal pictures are expected to be submitted online as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival in Scotland...

On the morning of 9th February 1855, the people of about five villages in Devon, in south west England, awoke to find that mysterious footprints had appeared in the snow. The strange footprints stretched for about 100 miles, and passed through the villages of Topsham, Lympstone, Exmouth...

Prince Charles, an ardent environmentalist, and his wife Camilla are in Brazil for the culmination of a tour of South America which has seen the Prince highlight the global problems of climate change and the deforestation of rainforests. On Thursday, Charles told business leaders in Rio de...

As civil war looks like it may once again return to the British Isles, Republican thugs wearing balaclavas and armed with molotov cocktails riot in the streets of the town of Antrim as police arrested the son of of former IRA terrorist over last week's murder of two British soldiers. The...

"I've met one of the men said to be behind the Ulster killings. He is a psychopath." Patrick Mercer, Tory Mp And Chairman Of The Commons Counter-terrorism Sub-committee, has said that he has met one of the Irish republicans thought to be behind some of the recent killings in Northern Ireland...

How does the RAF ensure that its Eurofighters can survive a lightning strike whilst travelling at Mach 2? By zapping one with 200,000 amps at a top-secret bunker in Warton, Lancashire. At the Electronic Warfare Testing Facility military as well as commercial aircraft are zapped with artificial...

At the moment the earliest true photograph that has been discovered was that of a leaf taken in the 1790s by two British scientists. But a 16th century Italian painter may have experimented with photography in his masterpieces. His paintings were not true photographs, but were some sort of...