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The village of Linkenholt, Hampshire, is a quinessential English village. It has its pretty little cottages, some of them thatched (with the village's thatcher ensuring they keep in top condition), a village shop, a blacksmiths, an ancient manor house, a 12th century church and a cricket club...

The remains of the first Shakespearian Globe Theatre have been unearthed by archaeologists in Shoreditch, East London. The theatre was built in 1576 and was where Romeo and Juliet was debuted. The remains were discovered underneath a less-than-romantic modern lock-up garage, although the...

Thousands of people, both Protestants and Catholics, gathered across Northern Ireland today to show unity against, and condemn, the Real IRA and Continuity IRA terrorists (who delude themselves by thinking that Northern Ireland will one day secede from the UK and unify with the Republic of...

The Continuity IRA has said it was behind the fatal shooting of a police officer in Craigavon, County Armagh. This group is not to be confused with the Real IRA who shot dead two British soldiers on Saturday night. Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham and Patrick Azimkar, 21, from...

There were minor scuffles in Luton, Bedfordshire yesterday as Islamic extremists, waving placards saying ‘Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basra,’ and ‘Anglian soldiers: cowards, killers, extremists' clashed with ordinary members of the public who welcomed home British soldiers of the 2nd...

They've been making music for almost 30 years, and it's hard to believe that British synthpop band Depeche Mode are still with us. They are one of the longest-lived, most successful and influential bands to have emerged from the New Wave era. They have had forty-five songs in the UK Singles...

The BBC, which is famed for its gaffes, some comical and some more serious, has made anther boob. This may be the coldest winter in Britain for 20 years, but viewers were still shocked when a weatherman wrongly predicted that temperatures in Kent were set to plunge to a record low of -99C...

This could only happen in modern Britain. The Foreign Office has decided to get rid of its stuffy image by using a female cartoon character that looks suspiciously like Foreign Secretary David Miliband. The initiative rewards diplomats, which it treats as though they are kids, with stickers...

Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), surely one of the greatest of all Englishmen, is famous for creating the world's first English dictionary. This is the dictionary in which he warned us that 'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel'; that 'no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for...

The liquid jade. A brew. A cuppa. Char. Or just plain old tea. The British have several names for their favourite drink, and they drink 150 million cupfuls of it every DAY, or almost 55 billion a year. But we probably wouldn't be enjoying as much tea today if it wasn't for a British botanist...

The Daily Mail's Andrew Roberts says that Britain giving US senator Ted Kennedy an honorary knighthood (only Commonwealth citizens can be given actual knighthoods) is nothing short of obscene. This was a man (of Irish ancestry, as his Irish great-grandfather emigrated to the US in 1849) who...

The peace process in Northern Ireland is under threat, and the spectre of civil war returning to the UK is raising its ugly head, after two British soldiers were shot dead in a drive-by shooting by suspected IRA dissidents last night. Four others, including two civilian pizza delivery men...

Anti-Englishness in football usually comes from Michel Platini, the Head of UEFA (European football's governing body), and his colleagues. This is usually down to Platini and UEFA's inferiority complex and jealousy towards English football whose teams have reached the European Cup Final every...

Cannons discovered from a Royal Navy warship that sunk off the Channel Island of Alderney in 1592 have been dubbed "Britain's first WMD." What has interested historians is that all the cannons that were retrieved from the wreck are identical, whereas just four years previously, when the Royal...

The far-right British National Party (BNP) has been embarrassed after it used a picture of an iconic British fighter plane on a leaflet for it anti-immigration campaign. Its manifesto for the upcoming elections to the European Parliament includes a ban on Eastern European migrants, such as...

Queen Victoria came to the British Throne in 1837 and reigned until 1901, Britain's longest-reigning monarch. The nation of which she was Head of State was the world's richest, with a manufacturing industry larger than the rest of the world put together, and it was also the most powerful country...

An ancient book containing strange medical remedies that was recently re-discovered is to go under the hammer at Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, tomorrow. The 17th Century book contains ingredients such as ragwort, nightshade, venis turpentine, ferne roots...

Yesterday, terrorists attacked the Sri Lanka cricket team's bus as they were on their way to start the third day of their Second Test match against Pakistan in Lahore. Seven of the Sri Lanka players, household names in all cricket-playing nations, were injured and so was their British...

Former England cricket star Chris Broad was the hero yesterday after terrorists, probably Islamic, attacked the Sri Lanka team's bus as it was on its way to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore to play the third day of the Second Test against Pakistan. Broad, who is now a referee and way on his was...

Princess Beatrice has become the first British Royal to appear in a movie after having a cameo appearance in a new British movie released on 6th March. And the movie is about Princess Beatrice's great-great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Princess Beatrice, aged 20, the daughter of...