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The new series of Doctor Who is the "darkest yet", according to the show's boss Steven Moffat. The new series starts on Saturday 23rd April, with the episode "The Impossible Astronaut." The opening episode - which will be the 771st episode in total - sees the Doctor reunited with his...

If you want to see the ultimate in product placement, go to Consett, County Durham. An advertising firm has been blasted after a billboard for new US TV series The Walking Dead was put up next to a funeral parlour. An apology has been issued after the ad appeared on the side of The...

Kate Middleton has been confirmed into the Church of England ahead of her wedding to Prince William, according to St James's Palace. The couple marry in just under a fortnight's time at London's Westminster Abbey in front of an estimated worldwide TV audience of 2 billion. The ceremony was...

New images of a WWII German plane, shot down by the British off the southern coast of England in 1940, show that it is still intact - and therefore may be put on show for the public. During the Battle of Battle, an aerial battle between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the skies of southern England...

After a mysterious object was seen floating in the river running through the pretty town of Bridgwater, Somerset, in England's beautiful South West, a large crowd gathered to try and see it. Hundreds gathered on the Town Bridge over the River Parrett to see the "unidentified floating object."...

Thousands of people have gathered in the town of Omagh, County Tyrone, to mark the death of police officer Ronan Kerr, who was murdered by dissident Irish republicans on 2nd April. The march comes on the 13th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Constable Kerr was the victim of a car...

A farmer was shocked to see three fox cubs welcome a stuffed toy fox as their mother after he gave it to the trio when he found them whimpering and shivering at the bottom of his garden in a hole under his shed. With no sign of the cubs' parents, he brought the three starving creatures into...

On Sunday 3rd June next year, as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, a flotilla of 1,000 ships, seven-and-a-half miles long, will sail down the River Thames in the world's greatest city with the Queen at its head in a gold-encrusted royal barge, as the bells of London's many...

If the current crisis in Libya happened in 2001 rather than 2011 Britain would have been able to send three (albeit small) aircraft carriers - the Invincible Class HMS Ark Royal, HMS Illustrious and HMS Invincible - to the Med as part of the operation against Gadaffi. It also would have been...

Many females love the colour pink, but one woman near Manchester is a little more obsessed than most. 20-year-old mother of two Wanda Matthews, of Bolton, Greater Manchester (where I live) has actually decked out her entire house with it. Her three-bedroom home has pink wallpaper, pink...

The world's attention will be on London next year (just like it will be later this month when around 2 billion people are expected to watch the Royal Wedding on TV) not only because it will be hosting the Summer Olympics for a record third time but also because 2012 is the year of the Queen's...

British Prime Minister David Cameron is at it yet again, putting down the great country which he leads whilst on a foreign visit. Last year the Tory PM caused outrage in Britain when, during a visit to the United States, he described Britain as America’s ‘junior partner’ against Hitler in 1940...

Queen Elizabeth II almost lost her hat on Friday as she went to be shown around a Sea King helicopter by her grandson. The popular 84-year-old monarch looked as beautiful and glamorous as ever as she arrived at RAF Valley on the Isle of Anglesey off the North Wales coast where Prince William...

A Royal Wedding stamp from the tiny Pacific island of Niue which features Wills and Kate has been dubbed "embarrassing" - because it has a perforated line down the middle which spilts up the Royal couple. Together the Royal Wedding stamps are worth 5.80 NZ dollars, but separated Middleton is a...

More than 80% of all the Rolls-Royces ever built can still be traced today, but fewer than 100 Humbers - known as the poor man's Rolls-Royce - have survived. And the largest collection of these beautiful British classic cars doesn't belong to a museum but a potato merchant from Hull, East...

Condemnation came from all directions after a rookie policeman, who graduated just weeks ago, was killed by republican terrorists in Northern Ireland yesterday in a town which suffered the worst terrorist atrocity of the Troubles. PC Ronan Kerr, 25, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland...

The Olympic Stadium in London has almost been completed, with 485 days to go until the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Summer Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. Namibian sprint legend and International Olympic Committee member Frankie Fredericks laid out the last piece of turf on the field of...

Yesterday was a month exactly until the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton and Buckingham Palace officials offered us a glimpse of some of the 19 exquisite rooms where the lucky guests will have access (the Palace has 775 rooms, so 19 is actually just a small fraction...

Yesterday might have been only a month exactly until his brother's wedding to Kate Middleton, but the thought of stuffing himself with quails' eggs with celery salt and horseradish cream canapes in the sumptuous surroundings of his grandmother's London home, Buckingham Palace, was far from...

A thorn from Jesus's crucifixion crown has gone on display at the British Museum in London after spending 200 years at a Lancashire public school. The Crown of Thorns was seized from Constantinople - modern day Istanbul in Turkey - during the Fourth Crusade around 1200 and later sold to...