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The former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis cruised to victory in last night's Haltemprice and Howden by-election. The Tory quit as an MP last month after Labour - the government - won a vote in the House of Commons to lock terror suspects up for 42 days without charge, something which Davis...

A complete new species of slug has been discovered in Britain. The white creature - dubbed "Ghost Slug" - was discovered in a garden in Caerphilly, Wales. This slug has sharp teeth and eats worms. The only other places were similar creatures are found are Turkey and the eastern European...

New British band Stone Gods are essentially The Darkness, minus frontman Justin Hawkins and with Toby MacFarlaine as a new member. The Darkness split in 2006, causing Justin Hawkins to become depressed and seek counselling. Meanwhile, his brother - guitarist Dan hawkins - asked the band's...

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, aged 61, has run away with an 18-year-old Russian waitress he met 3 months ago in London's Leicester Square at the premiere of the new Rolling Stones movie. The British band, who had their first hit back in 1964 and are famous for the song "Satisfaction"...

New documents show that France's military is falling apart, with MOST of its tanks, helicopters and jet fighters unusable. France is the world's third-biggest defence spender after the United States and Britain though, unlike the US and Britain, spnding on the police force is included as part...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may be more inactive on the world stage than his predecessor Tony Blair (being the former Chancellor of the Exchequer he seems interest only in the economic side of foreign policy), but this isn't necessarily a bad thing.... Britain and the world...

Britain's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has said that Britain will continue to urge the UN to put further pressure on tyrant Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe Cricket Team has pulled out of next year's Twenty20 World Cup, which is being held in England...

The National Health Service (NHS) is Britain's health service. It is the largest health service in the world in terms of the number of personnel: with 1.5 million people working in the NHS, it is the world's third-largest employer, after the Chinese Army and the Indian Railways. It was born...

The author, Frederick Forsyth, explains in his Daily Express column why the constitutional monarchy is the best form of governance in the world today..... By author Frederick Forsyth 5th Jully 2008 The Daily Express Our Queen is better value than a republican nonentity Would you rather...

10 million people - almost one-sixth of Britain's population - tuned into BBC1 yesterday evening to watch the final episode of the current series of Dr Who. The Doctor and his friends were battling to save the Universe of the evil Davros and the Daleks, who tried to wipe out every species in...

A British politician was at the centre of a storm last night after it was claimed that he made anti-German remarks at a Japanese nightclub. Graham Stuart said "Britain does not support the ****ing Germans" as he watched the Euro 2008 Final between Germany and Spain. Stuart (and probably most...

A British girl has won Wimbledon's Girls' title for the first time since 1984. Laura Robson, who lives just a minute away from the All England Club in south west London, beat Thailand's Lertcheewakarn in yesterday's Final. Around 10,000 mostly British fans packed into Centre Court to watch...

William Hargood was captain of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Belleisle during the Battle of Trafalgar against the French and Spanish. The ship was "dismasted" during the battle, and a quarter of the ship's crew were killed. Ironically, the HMS Belleisle used to be a French ship, until it was...

There is speculation amongst Dr Who fans that one of the Doctor's companions will be killed in the final episode of the curent series (season) to be shown on Saturday. Many believe that Donna may be killed by the Daleks and their evil creator Davros, who is back after a twenty year absence...

Mysterious people with no faces - featureless masks - have been spotted at the Wimbledon tennis championships in south west London. Who these people are, and their purpose, is a mystery. People escaped from a local loony bin? Some sort of mysterious government officials who don't want to be...

A rocket scientist at Salford University in Greater Manchester hopes that his rocket, the Nova 2, Britain's biggest-ever space rocket, will help Britain to cross the final frontier in 2013.... Toothpaste technician turned rocket engineer could help UK cross the final frontier By Fiona...

In 1974, a mysterious event occurred which has been dubbed "Britain's Roswell." UFO enthusiasts believe a UFO crashed in the Berwyn Mountains in Denbighshire and the bodies of the occupants taken to a military base in Wiltshire. In January 1974, an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter...

Prince William, despite being a British Army officer, is currently serving in the Royal Navy, onboard the frigate HMS Iron Duke. This is so he can get experience in each major branch of the British Armed Forces before he becomes King. Hi ship on which he was serving has been involved in a...

Archaeologists discover Britain's first "shopping centre" in dig in Monmouthshire Archaeologists have discovered what is being dubbed as Britain's first "shopping centre" - a Roman street that was lined with shops that is 1800 years old. The street, discovered near Caerwent, Monmouthshire...

Canada is currently undertaking a campaign to lure British people to go and live there. The campaign keeps telling us about how great it is to live in Canada. However, one British man -the Daily Mail's Philip Delves Broughton - has lived in Canada before, and he says that it is definitely...