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Celebrations broke out across London today to mark exactly one year until the start of the 2012 London Olympics. The day saw the opening of the stunning, brand new Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. Britain's double Commonwealth diving gold medallist and London...

This photo records the moment a beautiful church in a quintessential English village appeared to receive a heavenly blessing. Amateur photographer, Ian Peters, 63, captured the moment that the 12th Century Holy Trinity Church in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire is caught in a rainbow beaming...

When a car owner failed to move their vehicle before Tarmacking work began, council workmen simply Tarmacked around it. People watched in disbelief as workers from Worcestershire County Council dug up 300ft of road and laid fresh Tarmac - but left a neat, rectangular island around one car in...

A woman has celebrated her divorce by asking her new partner to tattoo her ENTIRE body. Jacqui Moore, 41, from Oxford, Oxfordshire, has had 85 per cent of her flesh inked with a continuous black and grey 'full body-suit' tattoo, a process which has taken eight years. Just her left armpit...

Major stores in London's West End are experiencing a boom thanks to the French ban on burkas. West End stores like Selfridges are cashing in as Middle Eastern tourists from places such as United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia snub Paris to shop in London instead. According to the West End...

The Queen was left spooked on Friday by a headless mannequin which was wearing Kate's wedding dress. Kate was with her grandmother-in-law in the Buckingham Palace ballroom to view the dress which is part of an exhibition. The Queen warily approached the scene with Kate, then raised her voice...

At the start of the Battle of Agincourt of 1415, the English - led by King Henry V - were outnumbered six to one by the French. But at the end of the battle the French had been annihilated, suffering 10,000 fatalities. The English, meanwhile, had just 112 soldiers killed. Why, despite their...

Amazing colour images have emerged showing the destruction caused to London by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz of WWII. The images were released to mark the 70th anniversary of the launch of Winston Churchill's 'V for Victory' campaign on July 19, 1941. The genesis for the campaign began in...

A couple walking their dogs on a beach were shocked when they came across the body of a mysterious sea creature. Margaret and Nick Flippence made the incredible at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, in eastern Scotland. Curled up by the foot of sand dunes was the 30ft-long body of the unidentified...

The Queen is turning green after deciding to power Windsor Castle using power generated by the River Thames. Underground cables will carry electricity directly to the Berkshire castle - the world's largest inhabited castle - from hydroelectric turbines at the river’s Romney Weir. And any...

Daleks - the most famous and evil foes of Doctor Who - were outside the Houses of Parliament and even crossed Westminster Bridge earlier today after invading Britain's capital. But there's really no need to panic as the Dalek "invasion" was a re-staging of a famous scene from a 1964 episode...

A new BBC drama, The Night Watch, tells of people's lives and loves during The Blitz of 1940/41. One of the characters includes Kay, a brave member of the wartime London Auxiliary Ambulance Service (LAAS). But apart from this new drama, the contributions of the brave women of the LAAS has...

Commuters and pedestrians passing through east London's Canning Town couldn't believe their eyes as they saw road markings, obviously done by someone who didn't concentrate in school, which read "SUS STOP" rather than "BUS STOP." Taxi driver Raj Ahmed, 26, who spotted the glaring error, told...

The British Sunday newspaper The News of the World - the biggest-selling newspaper of the English-speaking world - came to an end today after it was closed in the wake of phone hacking scandals. Today's edition of the newspaper, which was founded in 1843, is its last. More News of the Worlds...

Steve Jones always has a rubbish holiday - literally. This is because the former binman travels around Britain and Europe to watch dustcarts in action - and even offers to work with them temporarily for free! Steve, from Lake, Isle of Wight, became obsessed with the rubbish collecting...

246 years after she was built, HMS Victory is to undergo a ten year restoration to restore her to her former glory. The Victory, Nelson's flagship during the 1805 defeat of the French in the Battle of Trafalgar which made Nelson a national hero, was taken out of fighting service in 1812 and...

Jeremy Clarkson, the host of the popular BBC motoring show Top Gear, has come under fire for making a "racist" joke about black comedian Lenny Henry. Clarkson, not renowned for his political correctness, complained in his Saturday morning newspaper that that an energy-saving mode on his new TV...

Fish and chips is, of course, the British national dish. The dish, consisting of battered fried fish and big chunky chips (fries) covered in salt and vinegar is a national favourite, so it's only too fitting that a group of Brits have entered the record books for the world's largest portion of...

When a couple of pagans moved to a quaint and ancient market town and open a shop they probably thought they'd lead peaceful lives. What they probably didn't expect was for them to be targetted by Christians calling for them to be burned at the stake. Father-of-one Albion and his partner...

Not so long ago it was the Luftwaffe which flew menacingly over London. Now, it appears that instead of an attempted German invasion there may be an attempted alien invasion. A new video has emerged purporting to show 'a mothership and its fleet' zipping around in the clouds above a BBC...