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The Tories massacred Labour in the English and Welsh Local Elections on 1st May, inflicting Labour's heaviest defeat in Local Elections in 40 years. London was no different. Almost 2.5 million Londoners (out of an electorate of almost 5.5 million people) voted in the London Mayoral Elections...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party suffered its worst electoral performance for at least 40 years in the English and Welsh local elections. The Government had a net loss of 331 seats and their projected share of the vote at 24% was the lowest recorded and left them in third place...

British defence giant BAE Systems is creating a series of tiny electronic spiders, insects and snakes that could become the eyes and ears of soldiers on the battlefield, helping to save thousands of lives. Prototypes could be on the front line by the end of the year and will be used by the...

Archaeologists working in beautiful Gloucester, Gloucestershire, have uncovered a Roman grave dating to the 100s or 200s containing the remains of 91 men, women and children who were hurriedly buried there after an outbreak of disease. Not only that, but theburial site is now occupied by...

The world's oldest and greatest democracy cranks into action today as local elections are held in Britain. Local elections are being held throughout England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland can hold their local elections seperately though, of course, a General Election has to be held...

British soldier Prince William, currently serving with the RAF on detachment, made a secret visit to British soldiers in Afghanistan earlier this week. On the way back, the future King William V, who leanred how to fly during his time at the RAF, took the controls of a huge RAF C-17 Globemaster...

Italy is renowned for probably being the most beautiful country in the world. It has probably the most beautiful architecture and food of any country and its 58 million people probably speak the world's most beautiful language. It has more history and historical artefacts in any small village or...

Drinkers at a pub in Darlington, County Durham, were amazed when the face of Jesus appeared on a bottle of Bulmers cider... Face of Jesus appears on cider bottle to amazement of pub drinkers By PAUL SIMS 1st May 2008 Daily Mail It may have been made from the Forbidden Fruit but for...

The moving pictures of the five daughters of Britain's oldest soldier killed in Afghanistan walking hand-in-hand at his funeral 1st May 2008 Daily Mail The five daughters of the oldest soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq supported their mother at his funeral today. Gary Thompson...

European Cup finalists Manchester United have overtaken Real Madrid to become the world's richest football team....again. Like they dominate Europe, English teams also dominate the 25-team rich list. Arsenal are the 3rd richest team in the world, with Liverpool in 4th. Chelsea are 8th richest...

Like the late Seventies and early Eighties when English teams such as Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa won the European Cup (aka Champions League) on several successful years, English teams are once gain dominating European football. There has been at least one English team in the...

Three and Out is a new British movie and is a dark comedy (nearly ALL big British movies are comedies) about a tube driver named Paul Callow (played by Mackenzie Crook who is famous for starring in The Office) on the London Underground who accidentally runs over, and kills, someone with his...

Top Gear's politically incorrect Jeremy Clarkson moans that unlike the olden days, many of today's Cabinet members of the Government are virtual unknowns, unlike the household names of Thatcher's Cabinet, for example. Jeremy helps the impressionist and comedian Rory Bremner to get to know the...

Thanks to Labour making the Britain's rich become super-rich, Britain has more billionaires than every country on Earth after the US and Russia.... Hey big spender ... Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich. He is worth over $11 billion. Only the US has more billionaires than Russia...

Does reincarnation exist? The chances are that if you are a Christian (especially a Catholic), a Muslim or a Jew then you won't believe in it, but if you are a Hindu or a Buddhist then you will. But there seems to be a lot of evidence for reincarnation and the Daily Mail's Danny Penman was...

Ahhhh. Britain in the first decades of the 20th Century. The country was about a third larger than it is now (315,093 km² compared to 244,820 km² as it is now) and the Empire was still growing (it didn't reach its biggest extent until 1922). In 1900, Queen Victoria was on the Throne and she...

Chelsea recorded their 81st game unbeaten at home - a run stretching back to February 2004 - to draw level on 81 points with their opponents Manchester United with just two games remaining to keep the Premier League title race alive. Though in the wake of this defeat, several Manchester United...

Teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with BRITISH soldier is murdered by her own father in honour killing 27th April 2008 Daily Mail Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, was killed by her father after falling in love with a British soldier A teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with a British soldier...

The man who KO'd ranting, Left-wing Scottish MP George Galloway after throwing a stress ball at him in London (Galloway was Saddam's best friend and in his Daily Record article this week accused the Royal Family of being "sectarian" as it bans Catholics from become Monarch even though the...

Yesterday, 23rd April, was not only St George's Day - England's national day - but also the birthday (and the date of the death) of William Shakespeare, England's greatest playwright. So it's two celebrations on one day. But now some of Shakespeare's greatest plays have been re-written so that...