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The mother of moors murder victim Keith Bennett has died, still not knowing where her son's body is buried. By a tragic coincidence, her death comes just days after revelations that a bombshell letter written by Ian Brady supposedly reveals where he and Myra Hindley buried her 12-year- old son...

The 33rd series of Doctor Who comes to our screens in the autumn and, according to the pictures that have been released, it looks amazing. The first episode, which will be the show's 785th - "Asylum of the Daleks" - sees the Doctor having his work cut out as he battles with every Dalek that...

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali is to lead a parade of sporting greats at the London 2012 opening ceremony on Friday. The parade will include David Beckham and long distance runner Haile Gebrselassie. Spectators attending the opening ceremony rehearsals. They have been asked to keep tight-lipped...

Figures have just been released from last year's UK census and they show a record rise in population for England and Wales. Whitechapel, London: England has Europe's fourth-fastest growing population, mainly due to immigration The census shows that England and Wales now has a population of...

London's new cable cars are to open at midday today in time for the Olympics, which start just under a month from now on 27th July. The cable cars will take passengers across the Thames between the ExCel Arena exhibition centre and the O2 arena, formerly the Millennium Dome. Workers sit in...

The British countryside is being taken to the Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. The opening scenes of the three-hour long opening ceremony on the night of 27th July sees the 80,000 capacity stadium in Stratford, east London, turned into a meadow, complete with...

Manchester City have been crowned the Champions of England for the first time since 1968 in dramatic and almost unbelievable circumstances today. Manchester City and their rivals Manchester United went into today, the last day of the season, level on points at the top of the English Premier...

Ground-to-air missiles are to be sited on the roof of a block of flats (what North Americans call an "apartment complex") as part of a huge security operation to protect the London Olympics. The 700 residents of the Lexington Building residential complex in Bow, east London, near to where the...

In 2010, a skeleton was discovered accidentally at Furness Abbey in Cumbria, northern England, when emergency repairs where being made to the abbey. In the skeleton's grave were treasures which were buried with him. Now, it is hoped that modern technology may unmask the identity of the...

A British woman on death row in Texas has appealed to the British Government for help...

New research has shown that, of the four seasons, summer was the most dangerous for the inhabitants of Tudor England. If you weren't killed by a scythe or falling from a tree you were probably likely to be mangled by a water mill or be suffocated by hay instead. Cart crashes, scythes and...

Services have been held today in Britain and Argentina to mark the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War. The Falklands War began on Friday 2nd April 1982, when Argentine forces invaded and occupied Britain's Falkland Islands and South Georgia. To kick out the invading forces...

The final piece of the EU's tallest skyscraper was finally lifted into place yesterday...

English Premier League giants Arsenal are hoping to cash in - on their new fragrance which smells of their Emirates Stadium...

The Queen has made a new couple's day - by turning up at their wedding. The couple, from Prestwich, Manchester, had booked Manchester Town Hall for their wedding. But, some time later, they received a phone call from the town hall's staff telling them that the town hall was to receive a very...

Queen Elizabeth II today addressed both Houses of Parliament for the first time since 2002. In her speech, which marks her Diamond Jubilee, she paid tribute to her husband, Prince Philip, for the support he has given her over the 60 years she has been on the Throne. She also spoke of her love...

The Duchess of Cambridge made her first public speech today. The future Queen marked the opening of a new Treehouse children's hospice in Ipswich, Suffolk, by making a live televised speech there earlier today. She has done one or two TV interviews before - most notably with Prince William...

English football is in shock today after a young player suffered a cardiac arrest yesterday during a game and collapsed Democratic Republic of Congo-born English player Fabrice Muamba, 23, who plays for Bolton Wanderers (my hometown team), collapsed near the halfway line during the televised...

One of the earliest examples of Christianity taking over the pagan Anglo-Saxons may have been discovered. The skeleton of a 7th Century teenage girl has been discovered at Trumpington Meadows in Cambridgeshire with a gold and garnet cross on her chest. The cross is only the fifth to be...

The six British soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday after their Warrior armoured vehicle was destroyed by a very powerful IED blast have been named by the MoD. Cpl Jake Hartley, 20, Pte Anthony Frampton, 20, and Pte Christopher Kershaw, 19, died in the blast. Pte Daniel Wade...