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Most foxes live in the wild and so usually don't get the chance to watch TV and lounge around on the sofa and usually get by by rummaging for food in people's dustbins if the cocky canines aren't stealing chickens from a nearby farm. But Miss Snooks is different. She's been living in Mr...

Twenty Taliban were killed during a raid in which British soldiers seized £50 million worth of heroin. British snipers and powerful British Army Apache helicopter gunships attacked the base the Taliban were trying to defend... British soldiers seize heroin worth £50m in Afghanistan airborne...

Victor Moses was a Christian youngster in Nigeria playing soccer with a "sticky tape" ball at a time when religious strife between the Muslim majority and Christian minority was rife in that country. After both his parents were murdered by Muslims, Moses was spirited away to safety to England...

King Henry VIII may be viewed as a tyrant who had no problem cutting the head off anybody who angered him (including two of his six wives) but a love letter reveals that the monarch had a softer side. The love letter was written to Anne Boleyn, the mother of Henry's daughter Princess Elizabeth...

Alfie Patten, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, is the father of 7lb 3oz Maisie... and he's just 13-years-old. The baby's mother is 15-year-old Chantelle Steadman. The couple take time off playing on the PlayStation to change their baby's nappies. Britain still has the highest teenage...

In every way, Midsomer is just the typical pretty English village - it has its ancient pub that has been serving the locals for centuries, complete with 19th century photos of the local cricket team; a church; a cricket pitch where villagers can while away the hot summer days drinking cider...

The British Army calls it the "silent assassin" - and the British-made L115A3 Long Range Rifle has killed many Taliban in recent weeks. The British Army is using sniper platoons to target the Taliban and 'The Long', as the snipers call it, can take out insurgents from a mile away. Pictured...

Rugby's annual Six Nations Championship is upon us once again, involving England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy. But why, even if two British teams are playing each other and when it is the British people who pay the BBC's licence fee, does the BBC insist on weighing the players...

Oldham Athletic have stunned the world of football by introducing an all-pink kit. But they aren't turning into a bunch of nancy boys. The team, who are flying high in League One (the third tier out of four tiers of the 92 professional teams of English football) will wear it just once (in a...

A 164 foot tall white horse - about the same height as Nelson's Column - will tower over the English countryside in Kent, the "Garden of England." It will be Southern England's equivalent of Northern England's "Angel of the North" statue but twice as tall (though I think the Angel of the North...

After Dreamy the dormouse's winter hibernation was interrupted after his cosy nest was dug up by a dog, he was taken to the Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre in Somerset to be looked after in safety. However, the little fellow didn't slumber from his months-long nap when he was placed on a...

Holidaymers looked to the sky in awe as a mysterious object hovered above them for 10 minutes. The UFO was spotted over a caravan park in Brean, Somerset near the coast. One tourist managed to film the object. Something strange is definitely happening in Somerset. Last year local...

The rock which Bonnie Prince Charlie used to begin the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 has been found by an English grandmother in her rockery. Many Scots (and people around the world who love Scotland) believe that Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite followers were undertaking a just and noble...

In the wake of the "British Jobs For British Workers" protests at oil refineries and power stations around the country, British Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, suggested that Britons who were protesting about foreign workers in the UK should go abroad to look for employment. This gave...

Prince Philip today made his first public appearance for two weeks in a bid to end growing speculation over the state of his health. The World War II veteran, 87, joined his wife, the Queen, at church in Sandringham, Norfolk today. Last week it emerged that Buckingham Palace had been forced...

Britain is a nation that stood up to, and defeated, tyranny in the form of the Spanish Armada, Old Boney, the Kaiser and Adolf Hitler. Yet it seems to be terrified of a few flakes of snow, with whole cities grinding to a halt after a light dusting. Does this mean the British are just too...

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, renowned for speaking his mind, has caused controversy after calling British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot." Clarkson is, quite rightly, probably wondering what all the fuss is about. After all, Clarkson is right. Gordon Brown IS...

The stairlift wasn't, as is commonly believed, invented by the American C C Crispen in 1930. He though up the idea 400 years after King Henry VIII. The king invented a stairlift in the 1500s to get his gigantic bulk up and down the stairs. A block and tackle would have been used by...

Queen Victoria is Britain's longest-serving monarch (though Queen Elizabeth II is catching up) as well as one of its most loved. Now a new British movie, released on 6th March, The Young Victoria, hopes to show another side to the Queen and Empress we often view as dour and strait-laced. The...

Carol Thatcher, the daughter of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been sacked from her job as a roving reporter on the BBC1 show "The One Show" over comments about French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Carol, 55, was overheard in the show's green room saying that Tsonga...