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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has announced today that he is to retire at the end of the season, after being in charge of the club since November 1986, making him the current longest-serving manager in English football. Everton manager David Moyes, a fellow Glaswegian of Ferguson...

A former member of the SS, who was allegedly a guard at Auschwitz, has been arrested in southern Germany. About 1.5 million people were murdered at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland during the War. It was liberated by the Soviets in 1945. Hans Lipschis, 93, was taken into custody after...

When staff at a solicitors' firm kept noticing an unpleasant odour and an infestation of flies at their office, they called in pest control to get rid of what they thought was a pigeon. However, the pest control workers found something they certainly weren't expecting - the decomposing corpse...

An airliner with 180 passengers was involved in a near-miss with a UFO over the Glasgow suburb of Baillieston as it made its final approach to Glasgow Prestwick Airport. The unidentified flying object – described by the flight crew as “blue, yellow and silver” – loomed ahead of the Airbus...

Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti-EU party UKIP, has today said that UKIP have overtaken the Liberal Democrats as the third party of British politics as they made gains in today's local elections. 34 counties in England are holding elections today, and so, too, is the Isle of Anglesey in...

A central London resident has released video footage of the moment when a pavement exploded in central London, narrowly missing a passer by. The blast, which left a crater in the middle of the street, occurred at about 10:25 BST on Thursday and is believed to have been caused by a faulty power...

Sir Winston Churchill is to appear on the back of the new Bank of England £5 note. Elizabeth Fry, the 19th century prison reformer, has appeared on it since 2001, but she is to be replaced by the great wartime leader in 2016. He will become the first politician of the modern era to appear on...

Entire streets of the Roman city of Londinium, which was situated in an area now occupied by the City of London (aka The Square Mile) in central London, have been found on the site where the new European headquarters of Bloomberg are to be built: 'Entire streets' of Roman London uncovered in...

The British love their curries, but this is taking it a step too far... Those eating the Easter egg must wear protective gloves and sign a disclaimer An Indian restaurant in Surrey has created a "not for bunnies" Easter egg using three of the hottest varieties of chilli pepper. India...

The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is to enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral later today. The Most Rev Welby, the 150th Archbishop of Canterbury, is the principle leader of the Church of England and the symbolic head of the world's 85 million Anglicans (including over 2 million...

Warrington is today commemmorating the 20th anniversay of the IRA bombing which killed two children. Bombs which the IRA placed in litter bins on Bridge Street killed 12 year-old Tim Parry and three-year-old Johnathan Ball in the Cheshire town on 20th March 1993. A previous attack the month...

Workmen building a new 73 mile railway have come across a plague pit filled with the victims of the Black Death in one of the busiest areas of London: They have lain unseen for centuries – a carefully arranged group of skeletons deep beneath what became one of the busiest areas of London...

According to legend, when Robin Hood did his stealing from the rich to give to the poor, he did so in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, and his enemy was the Sheriff of Nottingham. But, according to an historian, Robin Hood actually came from Kent. The legendary figure, who is said to have...

The people of the Falkland Islands are today voting in a referendum on their sovereignty. They are choosing whether to remain British, become Argentinian or become a completely independent nation. The result is to be announced tonight and it is thought the islands - which are the size of...

A baby was born on a packed rush-hour train yesterday. Phoebe Stanley decided to enter the world last night on the 18:18 London Victoria to Maidstone East service at West Malling in Kent at 19:30. The baby's parents Allan Stanley, 21, and Sonia Banks, 22, had been to hospital less than an...

The Lincolnshire town of Gainsborough is celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of when it was, for just five weeks, the capital of England and Denmark. On St Brice's Day (13th November) in 1002, the English king Æthelred the Unready ordered the killing of all Danes in England. This became known...

An "Islamic Patrol" is prowling the streets of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in north east London hunting down drinkers, immodestly dressed women and homosexuals: Target: The so-called Muslim Patrol took alcohol from this man and filmed it for a YouTube propaganda video Police are...

Our lovely neighbours to the south are causing a right stink again.... French stench hits southern England after gas leak Five years ago they gave us “le stink” and now the French have struck again with "le pong", as residents of south-eastern England were left choking on the remnants of...

The RAF is sending two planes to Mali to help French efforts against Islamic terrorists in that country. The French military does not have the heavy lifting capabilities that the British military has so the RAF is sending to huge C-17 Globemasters - bigger planes than anything the French...

The man thought be Britain's oldest-surviving and longest-serving World War II PoW has passed away this morning at the age of 98. Harry Fripp visiting Stalag Luft III in March 2009 with other British former PoWs The PoW Association confirmed that Alfie Fripp died in hospital in Bournemouth...