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London team Tottenham Hotspur have many things in common with the Titanic this season. Spurs are having their worst start to a season since 1912, the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic was expected to be successful, instead it lies at the bottom of the sea. Spurs were expected to be...

Little Britain star David Walliams often dresses as a woman in the TV show, but he's now dressing up as a woman for a strange photoshoot... He really is a laydee: David Walliams shows his feminine side in a startling photoshoot By Daily Mail Reporter 08th October 2008 Daily Mail...

A very poisonous, and ugly, fish has been found in the River Thames. The weever, which can cause swelling and pain for up to a fortnight, was found in the river at Tilbury in Essex - the place where Elizabeth I rallied her troops as Spain's mighty Armada was on its way to invade England...

Shares on the London Stock Exchange, the world's third-largest stock exchange, plummeted today after the Great Crash of 2008 is about to send Britain, Europe's second-biggest economy, into its first recession since the early 1990s. Shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) tumbled 40% in at...

FA Cup holders Portsmouth must face AC Milan in the UEFA Cup group stages. It is Portsmouth's debut season in Europe. Manchester City must face Steve McClaren's FC Twente, Tottenham Hotspur face Spartak Moscow (Spurs striker Roman Pavlyuchenko's former club), and Aston Villa play Ajax. There...

The Royal Navy's new Astute Class submarines are currently being built in Britain. These submarines are the largest and most powerful submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy - and they are also the world's most technologically advanced submarines. Together with its new Type 45 destroyers -...

Professor Steve Jones, a British scientist at University College London says that human evolution has stopped. People living one million years from now will resemble us as we are now. Evolution stops here: Future Man will look the same, says scientist By David Derbyshire 07th October...

Just what was the strange figure that terrorised the gaslit streets of Liverpool in 1894? Was it a vampire? Or just a crazed, bloodsucking lunatic? Read this and make up your own mind. As related by Tom Slemen, a Liverpudlian paranormal investigator... Araminta A Victorian Vampire...

The English wreck a "Welcome to Scotland" sign that was erected miles from the border A couple of silly women were "shocked" when they discovered that there "Welcome to Scotland" sign was destroyed - even though the sign wasn't on the England-Scotland border and was even further south than the...

Did you know that the English king Richard II invented the handkerchief and that when Henry VIII died he weighed a whopping 30 stone (420 pounds)? Well, you do now. The secrets, loves and scandals of the Royal Family are laid bare A new book of historical trivia lays bare obscure secrets...

Over 68,000 people were at Old Trafford in Manchester on Saturday to see Leeds Rhinos retain their Super League crown, after they defeated St Helens in the Grand Final, English rugby league's equivalent of the Super Bowl. It is the third time in four years they have been crowned English...

The Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips, who is Jewish, says that, however reprehensible Holocaust denial is, we must not allow the EU to make it illegal. In Britain, unlike other European countries, Holocaust-denial is not a crime. Why? Because Britain values free speech. The EU must do so...

Britain's newest forest is to be created. 60,000 native woodland trees are to be planted at an 860 acre site near St Albans, Hertfordshire. The area is awash with hstory. In 1461, the Second Battle of St Albans took place here during the Wars of the Roses. King Henry VI is reputed to have been...

The Daily Mail's Robert Hardman goes behind the scenes at Britain's Royal Mint, the organisation that produces the coins for the Great British pound (£) and pence (p). The Royal Mint is the world's oldest financial institution. Not only does it produce 1.3 BILLION British coins a year, from...

New Bond girl Gemma Arterton comes to a sticky end in the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace which will be released later this year. In a scene reminiscent to that in 1964's Goldfinger, Arterton, who plays an MI6 spy ordered to keep an eye on Bond, is drowned in crude oil with her body lying on...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, trailing the Tories in the polls, decided to have a reshuffle of his Cabinet this week. Nobody could have guessed that he would bring back Peter "Mandy" Mandelson back into the Government. Mandelson has twice before been disgraced thanks to his sleaze and...

Do you think that the Demon Barber, Sweeney Todd, is just a fictional character? If you do, then you are wrong. He was very much real. Sweeney Todd was born in the fetid East End of London in 1756, probably in Spitalfields. There is no disputing the location in London where he became...

British Army Gurkhas, the world's most fearsome and fearless warriors, have won a test case at the High Court in London to be able to settle in the UK. The British Government had shamefully said that Gurkhas who left the Army before 1997 didn't have the right to live in the UK. But this...

Appropriately, with Halloween just a month away, London giants Chelsea are to play in Transylvania, in Romania, today against European Cup new boys CFR Cluj. The pampered millionaire Chelsea stars have caused uproar in Romania by issuing a 35-page list of demands at their five-star hotel -...

Conservative leader David Cameron made a great speech at the Party Conference in Birmingham today, issuing a warning to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Labour Government that the Tories will form the next government with him as Prime Minister. In his speech, Cameron vowed to clean up the...