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Prince William and his fiancee Catherine Middleton marked Pancake Day on Tuesday by flipping pancakes. The future King and Queen, who will marry in front of a worldwide TV audience of billions on Friday 29th April, were in Northern Ireland as part of their trip visiting all four main parts of...

In 1915, the British and the Germans fought each other at the Battle of Loos in France. The battle is known for being the first time that the British used poison gas during World War I. But is also renowned for being a battle in which the British decided to display their bravado and courage...

A rare original King James Bible has been found on a shelf in a village church. The discovery was made by residents researching the history of St Laurence Church in Hilmarton, near Calne, Wiltshire. They read about a "fine chained Bible in a glass case" at the church and then made the link...

The BBC is probably the best in the world when it comes to making science and wildlife documentaries, which is appropriate in a country with such a strong history of scientific discoveries and achievements. Its best science series of 2010 was Wonders of the Solar System, which turned out to be...

Some Chinese workmen have discovered the body of a woman whilst they were preparing to expand a street. The female corpse, which was found in the city of Taizhou, in the Jiangsu Province in eastern China, the hometown of Chinese President Hu Jintao, was wearing some sort of hat and was dressed...

The remains of a 4,500-year-old sauna have been discovered by archaeologists excavating a Stone Age temple. The foundations of the ancient building have been discovered at Marden Henge, near Devizes, Wiltshire. Wiltshire is famous for also being the location of Stonehenge. The sauna was...

For centuries, the breaking of British law was punished under the brutal Bloody Code. In 1660, there were 50 crimes which carried the death penalty. However, that had increased to 160 in 1750 and to a whopping 222 in 1815. Many of these capital offences are what we today would see as trivial...

Fiji is to remove the head of Queen Elizabeth II, its Head of State, from its coins and banknotes after a long-running row with Britain. The Commonwealth, with the support of Britain, removed Fiji from its membership and the tiny South Pacific island nation has been at loggerheads with Britain...

Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton have done a lot of travelling around the country lately. A few days ago they were on the Island of Anglesey, in North Wales, near to where they will live once they are married, to launch a new lifeboat. Yesterday, they were in the town of Fife...

Pictured for the first time in the United Kingdom, a soaring golden eagle clutches a lamb in its talons. The picture, taking whilst the huge bird of prey was swooping low over some mountains on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, is proof that the species is grabbing the...

Larry the cat, the new Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, doesn't appear to be much interested in his new job. He has only held the post of 10 and 11 Downing Street rat catcher for a few weeks or so, but he seems to spend most of his time sleeping on the job. Larry was brought in as the latest in...

Since the 1920s it has been suspected that the Bluestones which form the inner ring of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain in Witshire in the south west of England, actually come from Pembrokeshire, in west Wales, about 150 miles north west of where Stonehenge is located. Now, new research has...

He may be travelling at 500mph in a £68 million fighter jet, but this RAF pilot still had time for a friendly wave. These remarkable pictures were taken by aviation enthusiast Peter Bailey. The RAF Eurofighter Typhoon passed within just 100 yards from him in the Cadair Idris mountains in...

Kate Middleton embarked on her first official engagement with Prince William today giving her a preview of what life will be like for her after she marries William on 29th April and becomes a member of the Royal Family. It's also gives the British public a view of something they'll see many...

British TV presenter Johnny Ball tells us how he has been vilified by the global warming fascists for declaring his belief that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon. Johnny, 72, who presented several TV series of popular science and technology programmes intended for children in...

The velodrome has become the first 2012 London Olympics venue to be completed. Building work began in March 2009 on the 6,000 seater velodrome at the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, and today marks the handover from the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to the London 2012 organisers. It...

"Mad Dog" Deon horrifies loved ones by having a skull tattooed across his face "Mad Dog" Deon, 27, is hardly the only person around who has a skull tattoo. What is unusual in Deon's case, however, is that his skull tattoo covers the whole of his face - and it's not a very good one either...

An English amateur football team has made history by fielding a side made up almost entirely of family members. Ten of the eleven players of Combe St Nicholas' B-team, who play in Somerset's Perry Street League, consisted of four fathers who between them had six sons in a match on Saturday...

Prince William and Kate Middleton have sent around 1,900 gold-embossed wedding invitations around the world for the Friday 29th April ceremony (I checked in my mail box and, unfortunately, I haven't got one) and over a half of the wedding guests - about 1,000 - will be friends of the Royal...

These dramatic pictures show the moment a brave have-a-go hero took on a gun-toting robber. The man risked his life when two robbers fled from a raid on a jewellers in the centre of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and he managed to grab one by the arm. The robber aimed the gun at the man's head...