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"Have you tried getting it banned?" ... Prince Charles Prince Charles slams McDonalds By ONLINE REPORTER February 27, 2007 THE Prince of Wales today slammed fast food chain McDonalds as he attended the launch of a public health awareness campaign aimed at fighting diabetes in the...

Women to join Chelsea pensioners The hospital has been home to war veterans for more than 315 years Women are to be admitted for the first time to the Royal Hospital, home to the Chelsea pensioners. The first former servicewomen are expected to be housed at the west London...

Sarah Churchwell: Why do we Americans worship your Queen? It offends me that my compatriots are stumbling over one another to bury this film under hyperbole Published: 27 February 2007 Helen Mirren is by all accounts a gracious and charming person and she is certainly an...

New equipment for troops in Afghanistan By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent and George Jones 27/02/2007 The British force in Afghanistan is to be substantially reinforced with armour and artillery as commanders prepare themselves for a major Taliban offensive, it was announced...

Blair vows: I'll block EU power By MICHAEL LEA Political Correspondent February 26, 2007 Fight ... Tony Blair will fight the EU before he leaves office in the summer. PM-in-waiting Gordon Brown will be more anti-EU than Blair ever was. TONY BLAIR and Gordon Brown have vowed not...

Helen is the Queen Tea Royal-tea ... Oscars star Helen, right, to meet Royal she played By EMILY SMITH in LA and DUNCAN LARCOMBE February 26, 2007 THE Queen has asked Helen Mirren round for tea — as a reward for playing her in the hit movie. They will meet at Buckingham Palace...

Got a bit of a headache this morning then, John? 26th February 2007 True British grit: Chelsea and England captain John Terry parties despite being knocked unconscious and sent to hospital in yesterday's Carling Cup Final against Arsenal. Ouch - Arsenal defender Diaby accidentally...

Creatures from the deep freeze By FIONA MacRAE 26th February 2007 The new species, some of which are pictured below, were found in the west of the continent of Antarctica Hidden for thousands of years, these colourful creatures have come to light because of the fastest-rising...

Incendiary devices found at Oxford College 26th February 2007 Templeton College, Kennington, Oxford - a part of Oxford University. It may have been targeted by animal rights protesters. Two incendiary devices were found today at an Oxford University college, police confirmed...

Why are countries such as France and Germany scared of sending soldiers to warzones? It's countries like these who haven't yet realised that soldiers are SUPPOSED to die for their country, which is one of the things they they agreed to when they put their signature on the contract when they...

Stand-off in Gulf with Iran 'a bit like Cold War' By Damien McElroy in Manama 26/02/2007 Royal Navy warship HMS Cornwall is in the Gulf Britain's most senior naval officer in the Gulf has likened the West's tense stand-off with Iran as being akin to "the height of the Cold...

It's Sodom and Begorrah at the inaugural Father Ted festival By Tom Peterkin on Inis Mor 26/02/2007 The inaugural "TedFest", a festival in honour of Channel 4 comedy show Father Ted, was held on Inis Mor, the island shown on the map in County Galway. Father Ted is one of the...

England captain John Terry was taken to a Cardiff hospital after he was accidentally kicked in the head by an Arsenal player, knocked unconscious and swallowed his tongue in this action-packed Carling Cup Final, the first-ever final of this competition between two London teams. We will have to...

Slavery Breaking the chains Feb 22nd 2007 | CAPE COAST, GHANA From The Economist print edition Britain abolished the slave trade 200 years ago this week. Its landmarks are an abiding legacy of cruelty Mary Evans THE dungeons can still shock, two centuries after their last...

UK doubles naval presence in Persian Gulf By Damien McElroy in Manama, Bahrain 25/02/2007 Britain’s senior naval officer in the Persian Gulf has revealed that Royal Navy deployments in the region have doubled since October in a build-up that matches the rapid escalation of American...

1,300 more sent to war zone By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON Political Editor February 24, 2007 General David Richards visits soldiers from 16th Air Assault in Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, to congratulate them for their work fighting against the Taliban insurgency BRITAIN is being...

Britain, along with Poland and the Czech Republic, want to house US "Star Wars 2" missile systems. The system would protect whatever country it is based in and probably Europe as a whole. Star Wars 2: US missile project By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON Political Editor February 24, 2007...

Slave film turns Wilberforce into a US hero By James Langton in New York and Chris Hastings, Sunday Telegraph 25/02/2007 Due to William Wilberforce's efforts, Britain became the first country in the world to abolish slavery in 1807 - almost sixty years before America. As the...

Revealed: Red Army colonel who dubbed Maggie the Iron Lady ... and changed history by WILL STEWART 24th February 2007 The Iron Lady It is, without doubt, the best known sobriquet of modern politics. Margaret Thatcher was first dubbed the Iron Lady in 1976 - and many believe it was...

Offa, his Dyke and his legendary hospitality! Offa, his Dyke and his legendary hospitality! Offa was King of the Mercians, an Anglo-Saxon warrior tribe from central England, from 757 - 796, and is best remembered for his Dyke, which he had built to act as a defence against the Welsh...