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If you want to leave this life in style, rather than in a traditional plain coffin, then Colourful Coffins is the company you might want to contact. This company, based in Oxfordshire, has coffins in all colours and styles.... Going out in style: The coffins that carry you off in a riot of...

The customers of the Lord Clyde, a pub near to where I live, have all placed bets on when they think Barack Obama will be assassinated. Remember, whereas the British Empire abolished slavery in 1807 (meaning Britain was the first country in the world to abolish slavery, one of the many good...

Despite her age, the Queen again once again was at The Cenotaph in central London to lay a wreath in honour of the British and Commonwealth soldiers who have died in every conflict since WWI. She's 82 years old but still serves her country well. Other members of the Royal Family - such as...

At the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in La Targette, northern France, a team is lovingly restoring the gravestones of those soldiers from Britain and her Empire who fell during the Great War. There are so many gravestones that need repairing that the whole process will take 28...

With tonight being Guy Fawkes Night, with fireworks exploding, Guy Fawkes effigies being burned on top of bonfires and people eating treacle toffee all over the country to celebrate the foiling of a Catholic plot to assassinate the King in 1605, the BBC (always one to stick up for the rights of...

There was also democracy in action in Britain on Monday as beekepers took to the streets. Hundreds of beekeepers from around Britain have marched on Parliament and 10 Downing Street to present a petition to the Prime Minister to fund £8 million of bee diseases and health. They are concerned...

The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854 was one of the most glorious failures in British military history. The incident took part during the Battle of Balaclava against the Russians during the Crimean War. The incident happened after the British advanced down a different valley from the one...

The Queen has asked economists: "Why didn't anyone see the credit crunch coming?" Today she revealed her concern during an academic briefing on the financial crisis at the London School of Economics where she opened its £71million New Academic Building. She is the first monarch to visit the...

Sectarianism between Catholics and Protestants reared its ugly head in Britain again last night after Catholic thugs threw a lighted firework at a footballer in Belfast. Cliftonville, which is supported mainly by Catholics, played Linfield, which is supported mainly by Protestants. After the...

Britain has a World Championship. Lewis Hamilton has just become the youngest-ever Formula 1 World Champion - and the first black person to win it. It was looking like it was going to be a disaster for the 23 year old Englishman (who was recently the subject of sickening racist abuse on a...

With Britain (unlike many other European countries) unafraid to send her soldiers, sailors and airmen into war, it's vital that they have the best modern equipment that money can buy, especially when Britain spent $60 billion on defence in 2008, more than any other nation except the United...

There will be a green centrepiece to the 2012 London Olympics - the 30th Olympiad - in the form of a half-mile long garden inspired by Britain’s five centuries of collecting plants from around the world. The riverside rival to Kew Gardens will be divided into four geographic zones...

The first ever Stanford Super Series was played last night. The Stanford Super Series is the brainchild of Texan billionaire Allen Stanford, a fan of the Twenty20 format of cricket (just one innings played and each team bats for just 20 overs). The match was between Allen's Stanford...

It's not LBW (Leg Before Wicket), but more like L-Bee-W in the current Test match between Australia and India. A deadly swarm of bees invaded the pitch during the Third Test, leaving the Australian and Indian cricketers diving for cover at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi. A swarm...

To mark 90 years since the end of World War I, Britain's Royal Mail has released a commemorative stamp. On the stamp is a poppy which features the face of an unknown soldier who was killed in 1918... The Remembrance Poppy stamp which contains the subtly haunting face of an unknown soldier...

British soldiers are renowned throughout the world for their great bravery and skill on the battlefield, and are probably the best in the world. Though many British Army leaders, such as its generals, are often not viewed in the same way. During World War I, one foreigner said of the British...

Royal Marine, Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, proudly received his George Cross from the Queen on Thursday - and now he claims to be the first person ever to hold both the George Cross and the Victoria Cross. However, the Victoria Cross is his girlfriend! Lance Cpl Croucher was initially...

Staff at a firm of solicitors in Britain's second largest city are so spooked at working there thanks to its ghostly goings-on that they refuse to work late at night. LAC Solicitors, in Birmingham, West Midlands, is riddled with unexplained phemonena, including ghostly shadows, mysterious...

Yesterday, it snowed in London for the first time in October since 1934. Londoners have not experienced snow in October since the year that King Leopold III came to the throne in Belgium, the first Flash Gordon comic strip was published, the Soviet Union joins the League of Nations and...

Meet Peter Buckley, the world's worst boxer. The Brummie is calling a day after suffering 156 defeats - more defeats than any other boxer on the planet. Buckley has sparred with several impressive opponents including 42 future British, Commonwealth, European or World champions, such as Duke...