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On Christmas Day 1013 - exactly 1000 years ago - Danish ruler Sweyn Forkbeard was declared King of all England and the town of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire its capital. But why is so little known of the man who would be England's shortest-reigning king (he reigned only until his death on 3...

The British economy is on course to overtake France and Germany to become Europe's biggest economy by 2030. Thanks to Britain's Tory/LibDem coalition government's austerity measures (measures which have been derided by the Left) and Britain's refusal to join the Euro (another decision derided...

Between 1309 and 1814, the Thames froze over at least 24 times, giving Londoners the chance to host elaborate Frost Fairs on the ice. This was a period known as the Little Ice Age when the planet went through an exceptionally cold period, leaving it more likely for the Thames to freeze over as...

British computer pioneer and WWII codebreaker Alan Turing has today been given a posthumous royal pardon. During WWII, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire which cracked Nazi codes, including those enciphered on the Enigma...

Christmas has come early for the crew of a Royal Navy ship. The ice patrol ship, originally called Polar Bear, is in the British Antarctic Territory to carry out survey and patrol operations and will be at sea on Christmas Day. So her crew has had Christmas a few days early. They celebrated...

The only Global Warming that has occurred is that natural warming which OF COURSE had to take place when the Little Ice Age ended in the mid-Nineteenth Century.

If Global Warming is what has caused the total vineyard area in England to increase by 75% since 2004, and has caused English wine production to jump from 1.34 million bottles in 2008 to 3.17 million bottles in 2009, and has allowed England to produce sparkling wines which are even better than...

Global Warmists like to point to the fact that, because Frost Fairs are no longer possible on the Thames, then that's proof of Global Warming. In London it used to get so cold at winter that the Thames froze over. They used to hold Frost Fairs on the frozen river. The first recorded frost...

Britain and America are marking the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing. The Lockerbie bombing of 21st December 1988 is Britain's worst ever terrorist attack. Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York was destroyed by a bomb over the small town of Lockerbie in southern Scotland killing...

German U-boat UB 122 has emerged from a British river for the first time in almost 100 years. After the British won the Great War, the Germans surrendered to them over 100 of their U-boats. The British gave some of them to the French Navy, whilst some of the others had their engines removed to...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to visit Australia and New Zealand in April, Kensington Palace has confirmed. It is not yet known for definite whether Prince George will also be going on the trip, although it is thought to be highly likely. If the young prince and future king of both...

Two people are thought to be trapped and around 23 people injured after a double decker bus crashed in Kennington, central London. Of those injured, two are thought to be in a critical condition. The bus was heading to King's Cross when it crashed into a tree near the Ship pub on Kennington...

Rubbish. There is no scientific consensus over Global Warming. Many scientists believe its a load of old hokum.

Nice to know this site values free speech. This is just another example of silencing anyone who has opposing views to any left wing consensus. And there is no Global Warming, by the way. Only gullible fools, like those who run reddit, believe in it.

A European Space Agency (ESA) rocket lifted off from French Guiana this morning carrying the British designed and built Gaia observatory. The satellite was designed and built in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, by satellite manufacturer Astrium, which is the third biggest space company in the world...

The former leader singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets has been jailed for 35 years today for child sex offences, including against two babies. Mr Justice Royce at Cardiff Crown Court told Watkins, 36, that he will have to serve 29 years without parole and the remaining six years on licence...

One of the perpetrators of probably Britain's most notorious crime of the 20th Century has died. Ronnie Biggs died in the early hours of this morning at the Carlton Court Care Home in East Barnet, north London, aged 84. Biggs was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m (the equivalent of...

Visitors can come face to face with a real Neolithic Briton when the new £27 million Stonehenge visitor centre opens tomorrow. The man's face is based on a 5,500 year old skull that was excavated from a long barrow not far from Stonehenge in 1963. It is the most advanced facial reconstruction...

On Christmas Eve night in 1914, soldiers of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) heard the Germans singing Christmas carols from their trenches, and saw that they had adorned their trenches with lanterns and fir trees. Both sides stopped shooting at each...

Cambridge University has unveiled the world's "greenest" supercomputer. Wilkes - named after British computing pioneer Maurice Wilkes - will be used for development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). When complete the SKA will be the biggest radio telescope ever made. The computer's power...