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The Bombardment of London By Walter Besant THE BOMBARDMENT OF LONDON IN 1471 MARKED THE END OF THE "WARS OF THE ROSES", FOUGHT BETWEEN THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE PLANTAGENET ROYAL HOUSE - THE LANCASTRIANS AND THE YORKISTS. THE WARS OF THE ROSES House of...

A new Charles Dickens theme park that will open soon will show the ghoulish side of life in Dickensian Britain...... Expectations great for Dickens the theme park By Laura Clout 10/04/2007 Workers put the finishing touches to Dickens World Centre The river is brown and pungent...

The Roma team's managing director, Rosella Sensi, and a Rome police chief said that Roma's fans will behave "impeccably" and "with maturity" at tonight's game. They've been proven to be wrong.... Rome fans clash with police at Man Utd Roma fans clashed with police outside Manchester...

The extraordinary rap version of Wordsworth - performed by a squirrel 10th April 2007 A rapping squirrel has been enlisted to make William Wordsworth's most famous poem exciting to teenagers. Cumbria tourist chiefs, who have released the extraordinary version of I Wandered Lonely As A...

How did an 18ft python end up dead on a country road? By CHRIS BROOKE 9th April 2007 The snake's body was found by a dog-walker This 18ft python should be slithering through the jungle. But yesterday on a country road in North Yorkshire it was going nowhere fast. A man out...

New Huguenots with a love of danger Agnès Poirier Published 09 April 2007 The New Statesman Agnès Poirier explains why so many French have moved to London For many young French people, London stands for dynamism, excitement, audacity, the idea that everything is possible. Protected and...

A beautiful bacon buttie Perfect ... Is this the best bacon sarnie? By TOM HARVEY April 09, 2007 British scientists believe they have come up with a formula to create the perfect bacon buttie (sandwich). The two most important aspects are crispiness and crunchiness, according...

Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops 9th April 2007 Daily Mail Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week. The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop...

Roma's Ultra yobs to wear "Invasion of Manchester" shirts for game against United Threat ... an 'Invasion' shirt on sale in Rome and, inset, injured Man U fan Ultra yobs get shirty for clash April 09, 2007 The Ultras - "fans" of Roma who are nothing but an organised gang of football...

"Today I will go to church in full body armour and dog collar," says vicar of Baghdad A British man who is the vicar of Baghdad tells us about his life in Iraq..... Today I will go to my church in full body armour and dog collar. But our hymns will be full of hope by THE VICAR OF...

2007 Malaysian Grand Prix New British Formula 1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton, the first black Formula 1 driver, finished 2nd in today's Malaysian Grand Prix - only his SECOND ever Grand Prix. In his first ever Grand Prix, which was in Australia, a couple of weeks ago he finished third...

Europe: Majority supports strike on Iran By GEORGE CONGER, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT 68% of Danes support a military strike against Iran and so do 53% of the French, 51% of the British and 45% of the Germans. 71% of the British think militant Islam poses a serious threat, and so do 66%...

50% of all the world's major inventions since 1945 are by the British. ------------------------------------------------- The flying saucer snapped up by US army 7th April 2007 The age of the British amateur inventor toiling away in his humble garden shed lives on - and Geoff Hatton is...

A benign growth Apr 4th 2007 | KAZAN AND MOSCOW From The Economist print edition Russia's fastest-growing religious group is its Muslims. But they are not much like their counterparts in other countries A Russian mosque: Muslims make up around 10% of Russia's population Russia...

Anti-gay church condemns Swedish royals By Bruno Waterfield 05/04/2007 King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden has reigned since 1973 Sweden's royal family has consulted lawyers over an abusive website set up by a fanatical American sect of fundamentalist Christians who style themselves...

The light blues of Cambridge University are victorious against the dark blues of Oxford University in the 153rd University Boat Race, finishing in a time of 17 mins 49 secs ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race The idea for a...

Wheelchair fan's Euro ordeal Battered by cops ... Spurs fan Carl, and inset, Spanish cops charge at Spurs fans Picture: ROGER CRUMP By NEIL SYSON April 07, 2007 A WHEELCHAIR-bound Spurs fan battered by Spanish cops in the battle of Seville said: “I thought I was going to die.”...

Joan of Arc relics 'from an Egyptian mummy' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor 06/04/2007 The 19 year old Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake by the English in 1431 after England invaded France durig the Hundred Years War. The excution took place at Rouen, the English seat of...

Polish ponies to the rescue 07/04/2007 Konik horses are saving meadows in Kent, writes Robert Bullard The horses have been put onto Whitehall Meadows in the city centre of historic Canterbury Kent, on the far southeastern tip of England First it was builders, then it was...

Marines swoop into Taliban 'heart of darkness' By Tom Coghlan in Sangeen, Afghanistan 07/04/2007 Daily Telegraph Probably the biggest raid by the Royal Marines since the Falklands War in 1982 An armoured column of 250 Royal Marines smashed into Sangeen yesterday down the main road...