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We may think of binge drinking as a distinctly modern phenomenon, but these extraordinary mugshots remind us that police have been attempting to tackle alcohol abuse for decades. The images from the early 1900s show a succession of women who were banned from their local pubs in Birmingham...

Blackadder star Tony Robinson has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Sir Tony, as he is now to be known, who played Blackadder's disgusting servant Baldrick in the classic 1980s BBC comedy series, admitted he was ‘a little gob-smacked’ at being honoured and joked that he would...

The birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby next month will be announced on an historic easel at the gates of Buckingham Palace. As soon as the future king or queen is born, a proclamation signed by doctors will be taken to the gates of the Palace and displayed on the easel within...

An IT contractor was accused of racism and refused a £1,000-a-week NHS job after innocently offering to buy an Asian recruitment consultant a bacon sandwich. Clive Hunt, 58, had already been given the eight-month contract – worth £32,000 – and was invited to recruitment firm Reed’s office...

Fans of US series Game of Thrones will probably like the lavish new British historical drama The White Queen. Set in England in 1464 against the backdrop of the Wars Of The Roses, The White Queen is a multimillion-pound, ten-part BBC adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s bestselling historical...

One-eyed cop killer Dale Cregan - who is believed to have had his eye plucked out with a knife, leading to him wearing a false black onyx eye - has today been sentenced to die in prison for murdering four people, including two police officers. The judge at Preston Crown Court told him he will...

A heavily pregnant Duchess of Cambridge blessed a new 1,082ft cruise ship at Southampton today in what was her last solo public appearance before she gives birth to the future monarch next month. Sporting a £169 dalmatian print coat from high street retailer, Hobbs, which she wore over a...

BNP leader Nick Griffin has called ailing Nelson Mandela a "murdering old terrorist" on Twitter. He said: ‘Saint #nelsonmandela on last legs it seems. ‘Make sure to avoid BBC when the murdering old terrorist croaks. It’ll be nauseating.’ In another message Mr Griffin wrote...

A EUROPEAN UNION handbook setting out migrants’ rights to benefits, asylum and avoiding deportation was last night condemned as a “disgrace”. The taxpayer-funded document – free on the internet – was published yesterday as the “first comprehensive guide” to border and immigration rules across...

The usual assortment of scruffy, ponytailed, pot-smoking left-wingers are rioting in central London as a week of protests against the G8 summit, which the UK is hosting, began. Masked squatters threw missiles and shouted 'freedom' as around 50 officers used angle grinders to tear down...

A masked, bare-chested protester waving a lit flare ran onto the court at the men's final of the French Open tennis in Paris earlier today but was restrained by security before he could interrupt the match. A few minutes earlier, two bare-chested men stood up in the front rows, holding a...

A poll of 44,000 single men and women in the US has found that American single women think British men are the sexiest in the world. American single men think Colombian women are the world's sexiest. American men are the fifth-sexiest in the world, according to almost 31,000 American single...

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Britain on 2nd June 1953 was a very different place than it is now. "I Believe" by Frankie Laine was No1 in the UK Singles Chart ("La La La" by Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith is now No1); Wolverhampton Wanderers were the...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and to mark the occasion a couple of photographic portraits - said to be the most romantic ever of the Queen - have been published. The Monarch, dressed in the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle – the...

A passenger has described how 'big flames' were visible from the cabin of a British Airways plane before it was dramatically forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport in west London this morning. The Airbus A319, which was carrying 75 passengers on its journey to Oslo, was forced...

From the BBC: Two men have been arrested after RAF Typhoon jets were launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian aircraft within UK airspace earlier this afternoon. A Pakistan International Airlines plane had been diverted from Manchester to Stansted Airport in Essex (30 miles...

A serving British soldier has been hacked to death by two Muslim men 200 yards from his barracks in Woolwich, south east London, this afternoon in a suspected terrorist attack. A dramatic video tonight emerged of a man with bloodied hands, carrying knives and ranting 'We swear by almighty...

Wednesday marked the 70th anniversary of the raids on dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley by the RAF's famous "Dambusters" of 617 Squadron using their ingenious bouncing bombs. To mark the occasion, Britain's last Lancaster bomber flew over Derbyshire's Derwent reservoir and its dam, where Guy...

This is yet another fine example of the hypocritical Scots attacking the UKIP nationalist party and calling them "racists" and "Nazis" whilst devolved Scotland itself is ruled by a bunch of nationalists - the SNP, who want Scottish independence from the UK. The Scots see it this way...

Birmingham heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath release their nineteenth studio album, 13, on 10th June. The album was recorded between August 2012 and January 2013. It should have been recorded in Los Angeles but, because guitarist Tony Iommi was diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma...