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The 26th December and yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Rendlesham Forest incident, which has been described as "Britain's Roswell incident." Very early in the morning on Boxing Day 1980, at the height of the Cold War, USAF personnel John Burroughs and Jim Penniston were on guard...

A skull once thought to have belonged to notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly may in fact have belonged to a British murderer who was once thought to have been Jack the Ripper. Frederick Deeming was hanged in Australia in 1892 for killing women and children, 12 years after Ned Kelly, who was...

England's victorious cricketers performed their "sprinkler" dance earlier today after retaining the Ashes for the first time since the 1986/87 Ashes series. England's innings and 157 run win on Day Four of the Fourth Test against the Aussies in Melbourne was their biggest win against them...

Many Britons believe that, in 2025, men will be walking on Mars, China will have surplanted the US as the world's greatest power, King William V will be on the Throne and that, of course, technology will be a bit more advanced than it is now. A survey of 100,000 Britons shows that a majority -...

Elizabeth II used her traditional 3pm Christmas Day speech yesterday to highlight the importance of playing sport. Broadcast from Hampton Court Palace for the very first time, the Queen said: "In the parks of towns and cities, and on village greens up and down the country, countless thousands...

The Australian players must have eaten so much turkey on Christmas Day they all became turkeys, because this morning, on the first day of the Fourth Test against England in the Ashes, they were well and truly stuffed. On the ground, in Melbourne, where the first ever match was played between...

The creator of the Wombles, fictional, pointy-nosed, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways, has died. Elisabeth Beresford died on Christmas Eve at the Mignot Memorial Hospital on Alderney in the...

A friendly little robin has charmed staff and customers at a furniture shop by visiting the premises to get food. The staff of the Granary Pine furniture shop in Bradford Upon Avon in Wiltshire provide the little bird, which they've named Rory, with regular meals of bread, biscuits and his...

Tory MPs last night denounced a plan by Labour for a statue of Tony Blair as "preposterous." Labour want there to be a life-sized statue of the man who was British PM between 1997 and 2007 in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons alongside the one of Winston Churchill, PM during most of...

Britain is set to get its 1,000th TV channel in the New Year, which means it'll have more TV channels than any other country apart from the US. Britain, the country which gave the world television, currently has 948 channels, ranging from the Sikh Channel to Body in Balance TV, and Dave to...

A man who is so addicted to Christmas that he has celebrated it every day for the last 17 years is so in love with his Christmas tree that he wants to marry it. Amazingly, this isn't in America but in Melksham, Wiltshire. Andy Park's addiction to Christmas started when he got bored during...

An image of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer has been seen in a human brain. Staff at Newcastle University scanned a brain to study the inner workings of neurons in the hippocampus region, which is responsible for spatial awareness and long-term memory. However they were amazed when the blood...

A couple have decided to celebrate the festive period by cutting a 20ft tall conifer tree in their front garden into the shape of a Christmas pudding. Roger and Valerie HOLLEY have turned it into something of a landmark in Yeovil, Somerset because they have created the giant pud for the last...

A 30 second earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale hit the Lake District last night, sending people running into the streets. The US Geological Survey confirmed that a small quake hit Coniston in Cumbria just before 11pm which was also felt in the neighbouring counties of Lancashire...

Leeds Crown Court yesterday sentenced the Crossbow Cannibal to die in jail. Deranged Stephen Griffiths, 40, murdered prostitutes Susan Rushworth, 43, Shelley Armitage, 31, and Suzanne Blamires, 36 with a crossbow before eating some of their body parts. Susan disappeared on 22nd June 2009...

Kate Middleton yesterday joined the Queen for the Royal family's pre-Christmas dinner. The invitation to the dinner is a further sign of how she is now well and truly a member of the Royal establishment. Kate will become a princess, and the newest member of the Royal family, when she marries...

Prince Harry today paid tribute to those who were killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall into West Germany from East Germany. The third in line to the Throne laid a wreath in Berlin's Bernauer Strasse - which contains one of the few remaining sections of the barrier. Between 1961 and 1989...

With "The Good Food Guide" saying last year that British restaurants are better than their French counterparts, with its editor Elizabeth Carter saying "I have just come back from France and I spent the whole time wondering why it is that Britain has a repution for poor restaurant food. France's...

Like a scene straight out of Tom and Jerry, this daft young moggy got stuck up a Christmas tree after chasing a mouse. Bumble really did bumble when he leapt onto the tree to get the rodent. Instead, hapless Bumble got tangled up in the branches and tinsle whilst the jubilant mouse just...

After featuring in YOU magazine earlier this year, the cute micro pigs, the current must have pet, are back by popular demand. These brilliant photos of a group of micro pigs, which grow to knee height, enjoying the run up to Christmas were taken by Jane Croft who runs The Little Pig Farm in...