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A 1996 episode of the classic British comedy series Only Fools and Horses, in which the show's two stars dress as Batman and Robin, has been named as Britain's most memorable Christmas TV moment. The episode, called "Heroes and Villains", was originally broadcast on Christmas Day 1996 and was...

Tomorrow FIFA announces who it is who will host the 2018 World Cup. The three frontrunners on the final full day of bidding are England, Russia and the joint bid front Spain and Portugal. And England have decided to bring out its three big guns to finally destroy the opposition. Prince...

A family have adopted a hare which is too scared to go outside and instead prefers to stay in the house watching TV and sleeping on their beds. The Naylor family found the hare, which they have named Frances, after it was abandoned by its mother and narrowly avoided being killed by a farmer's...

A big cat is feared to be on the prowl in Yorkshire after a sheep was found stripped of its flesh. All that was left of the unfortunate woolly creature was its skeleton. Now, police have warned ramblers and farmers to be on their guard. Experts believe the killing has all the hallmarks of a...

A man with a metal detector has found what are believed to be fragments of guns used during the bloodiest battle in English history - the 1461 Battle of Towton. The man, Simon Richardson, also once unearthed the world's oldest known medieval bullet. The finds, near Towton in North Yorkshire...

There were several famous events which occurred in the year 1954. On 4th July that year, food rationing finally ended in Britain, nine years after WWII ended (rationing lasted longer in Britain than any other country); also in Britain, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in...

Queen Elizabeth II yesterday looked like she had joined Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as she nears the end of her five-day tour of the Gulf. Whilst watching a horse show in Oman, she wore an outfit reminiscent of the type worn by the Beatles on the cover of their iconic 1967 album. It...

Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have been to a Stig farm to find themselves a brand spanking new Stig. The BBC has raised a whole herd of Stigs on a 'free-range, GM-free' farm somewhere in the countryside. The Stigs come in a whole range of colours, such as...

Millions of men can only dream about having their home filled with thousands of beer cans, even though the British are big alcohol drinkers. For one man, though, it's real life. Nick West, of Clevedon, Somerset, started collecting beer cans in December 1975 when his wife bought him a book...

Londoners on their way to work yesterday morning got a shock of their lives when they saw the evil Cybermen, the nemesis of Doctor Who, marching through the capital city. The scary cyborgs marched past St Paul's Cathedral and even got a lift on the Tube (I bet they didn't have to pay). But...

Next year's Royal Wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton will be held on Friday 29th April - which, appropriately, is St Catherine's Day (and also the day on which Hitler married Eva Braun). St Catherine is Italy's patron saint. And the wedding will be held at Westminster...

Prince Charles must be on such a high after the heir to his future Throne announced on Tuesday that he is to marry next year that he has abandoned centuries of Royal protocol by signing an autograph. The Prince of Wales (who is also the Duke of Cornwall) was in Cornwall on Wednesday to visit...

How the British Monarchy - the oldest surviving and most successful political institution in Europe - is changing. At one time, a future king married a woman not because he loved her, but because of political reasons. He might have married a princess of a foreign country to help forge closer...

Search and rescue pilot Prince William helped to rescue a hill walker just 48 hours after announcing his engagement to Catherine Middleton. The future King - known in the RAF as Flight Lieutenant Wales - was part of a four man crew who helped to rescue Greg Watkins who was stuck 3,000ft up...

An old army veteran was searching for army medals on a market bric-a-brac stall when he spotted an old bugle. Despite being dirty and tarnished, he paid £5 for it. But when 73 year old Maurice Green took the bugle home and cleaned it, he uncovered the army service number of the original...

A 3 year old boy using a metal detector for the first time found a 500 year old gold locket worth £2.5 million. James Hyatt, who has now reached the grand old age of four, was metal detecting with his father and grandfather in a field in Hockley, Essex, last year when the metal detector began...

A Roman settlement has been discovered in London on the site of a new luxury hotel. An incredible 11,000 Roman items, which are around 2,000 years old, have been found buried just one and a half feet below the surface at the building site at Syon Park. A new hotel is being built on the spot...

The French usually don't like complimenting other countries - especially Britain - as they think their nation is the centre of the entire universe and that all planets, stars and entire galaxies revolve around it. But they have now shocked mankind (except the British) by declaring that London...

Next year's royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton couldn't have come at a better time - as it will give Britain's beleagured, recession-hit economy a £1 billion boost and, at the same time, show the world why the British monarchy is a real asset to the country. Income from...

The mighty New Zealand rugby union team is nicknamed the All Blacks because of the way they play in black shirts, black shorts and black socks. The new nickname for England, though, could be the Almost Blacks. Yesterday, England broke 139 years of tradition - during which they have worn...