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Prince William and Kate Middleton are asking guests at their April 29th wedding to not bring wedding gifts but donate to charity instead. When William's father and mother, Prince Charles and Lady Diana, married on July 29th 1981, they received more than 6,000 gifts, including a piece of...

English Premier League side Bolton Wanderers are mourning the death of footballing legend Nat Lofthouse, known as The Lion of Vienna, who died yesterday at the age of 85 in a Bolton nursing home. Nat signed for Bolton Wanderers, his hometown club (and mine), on 4th September 1939, just three...

Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish was unveiled last week as Liverpool's caretaker boss until the end of the season following the departure of Roy Hodgson. Hodgson, who took Fulham to the first-ever Europa League Final in 2010, in which they lost 2-1 against Atletico Madrid in Hamburg, took over...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is searching for a sick thug or thugs who chopped a cat in half. The front half of the cat known as Milo was discovered by a member of the public in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, who reported it to a local vets. Staff there believe that...

Just days after England trounced Australia in the final Ashes test of the series, to claim a 3-1 series win and their first Ashes triumph in Australia since 1987, both teams have now ditched their five day Test Match whites and put on their coloured kits for the start of the two-match series...

Former Home Secretary David Miliband is set to become vice-chairman of Sunderland Football Club. Despite being a fan of north London giants Arsenal, Miliband is the MP for Sunderland's neighbouring town of South Shields in the North East of England. The club's chairman, Irishman Niall Quinn...

A student protestor who threw a fire extinguisher off a roof during a riot over tuition fees has been jailed for 2 years and 8 months. During the 10th November protests over the increase in tuition fees for English students, Edward Woollard, aged 18, of Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire, was on the...

England footballer David Beckham and his wife, the former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, are expecting their fourth child in the summer. The glamorous couple are already parents to Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, eight, and Cruz, five, and the three lads are said to be "very excited" about getting a new...

The Queen's head will remain on Royal Mail stamps after the Government decided to amend its controversial privatisation legislation. The Royal Mail, one of the oldest postal services in the world, is up for sale and there were fears that the 170 year old tradition of having the monarch's head...

The 21st Century has truly arrived. British military scientists are planning on developing an army of invisible tanks that could be used by the British Army on a battlefield within the next five years. The tanks will use a system called "e-camouflage" which will give the illusion that there...

The 2nd January 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the Siege of Sidney Street. The siege occurred two and a half weeks after three hero cops were murdered by a group of eastern European anarchists, mostly Latvian, during a botched burglary in Houndsditch, central London on 16th December...

When Dennis Rowsell read in his Daily Mail about a giant 26lb fox, almost twice the size of an averaged-sized fox, that was humanely killed by a vet after it ate a cat sleeping on its front doormat in Maidstone, Kent, he must have been less than impressed. Because Mr Rowsell, who lives on the...

Brazilian megastar Ronaldinho has rejected a move to English Premier League side Blackburn Rovers to sign for his home town team Gremio, for some mysterious reason deciding to opt for the surroundings of the beach and palm trees rather than the grimy Victorian cotton mills of freezing Blackburn...

When Suffolk tourism chiefs held an online poll to find the East Anglian county's most iconic image, they probably expected the winner to be its beach huts, the Newmarket horseracing track, or one of its myriard of ancient churches and other buildings. Instead, in a nod to Cool Britannia, the...

The details of this year's royal wedding have been released. The wedding, between Prince William and Kate Middleton, both 28, takes place at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29th April. It has emerged that Kate, who is allergic to horses, will not take a horse-drawn carriage along the route to...

They say a dog is a man's best friend. But in this case a dog is a girl's best friend. Meet Sandie, a four-year-old pooch who does her owner's housework. Her owner, Sue Line, of Coventry, has been paralysed for the last 40 years when she was thrown from a car in a New Year's Eve smash. But...

Fears have been aroused that giant foxes are roaming Britain after a giant one was caught in Maidstone, Kent. The male urban fox weighed two stones, was four foot long and was twice the size of a normal fox. It was captured in a trap and killed humanely by a vet after a cat was killed, most...

Only two guards were on duty yesterday as forty inmates at an open prison went on a rampage, setting fire to part of the prison and causing £2 million worth of damage. The supposedly low-risk Category D prisoners went on the New Year's Day rampage after staff at Ford open prison in Arundel...

Do not scroll down any further if you think you'll be upset or sickened, as the photo is very graphic, and is like something you'd come across in the 18th Century and not the 21st. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is on the hunt for some sick sadists after the...

The British television series Downton Abbey is to be simplified and be shortened by two hours over fears that Americans will find it too complicated. The eight part ITV show was 2010's TV hit and now it is to be shown on American network PBS next week. However, there are fears that in the...