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Harriet Harman apologises for her "ginger rodent" attack on Government minister Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has apologised after calling a political rival a "ginger rodent." Harman, nicknamed "Hattie Harperson" because of her politically correct views and who was Equalities Minister...

Just 70 years ago, Britain experienced its darkest hour after Germany unleashed “totaler krieg” - total war - on Britain with the bombing of its cities by the Luftwaffe. Hitler thought, wrongly, that by destroying British cities - which he most certainly did - British morale would sink so low...

He is probably the world's most famous meerkat - although almost nobody outside of Britain will have heard of him. Aleksandr Orlov, a Russian, cravat-wearing aristrocrat, is a CGI meerkat who is the star of a British television commerical for car insurance website comparethemarket.com. In...

The 16th century was a time of religious upheaval caused, in part, by the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. As the aftershocks of religious division extended across Europe, fear spread that the Day of Judgment was nigh. Catholics viewed the rift as a sign that the...

Manchester United have bought Nobby Stile's 1966 World Cup winners' medal. United, who midfielder Stiles played for between 1960 and 1971, paid £188,200 for the medal at an auction of football memorabilia in Scotland (where's there a better place to show off items of England's 1966 World Cup...

The football world is in mourning today over the death of one of its most beloved stars. Paul the psychic octopus was found dead at his home yesterday morning. He shot to fame during this year's World Cup by correctly guessing the outcome of Germany's six matches and the Final. Two boxes...

The Labour Party were left embarrassed yesterday after newly-released figures showed that the UK economy has grown at the fastest rate for ten years, more than double the rate that Labour and their supporters were predicting. Between July and August this year, the UK economy grew at 0.8%...

A man has spent 10 years creating a 'matchstick armada.' Retired oil rig worker Dave Reynolds, from Southampton, Hampshire, has made a fleet of 20 legendary ships from matchsticks, including models of the Titanic, the Queen Mary and Nelson's HMS Victory. A quarter of a million matchsticks...

Just several weeks ago he hit the headlines after some lucky photographer managed to take some photos of him. At nine feet tall, the Emperor of Exmoor, or the Exmoor Emperor, was Britain's largest wild land animal. The giant red deer stag weighed as much as two men - a whopping 24 stone - and...

A British paranormal investigator has said that ghosts are trying to make contact with the living using mobile phones. Phil Hayes, of Paranormal Research UK, has said that the number of phonecalls to mobiles by ghosts has increased by 43% over the last four years. The calls often feature...

Future Queen, Kate Middleton, has appeared in public for the first time in three months. Yesterday she was with her boyfriend, Prince William, at the wedding of William's friend Harry Meade in Northleach, Gloucestershire. This has further fuelled speculation that a royal marriage is not too...

Five British siblings are set to enter the records books as the world's oldest family The Bartletts were born during the reigns of Edward VII and George V and have lived through 19 PMs and five monarchs. The five - Kathleen, 102, Gladys, 100, Lillian, 94, Leonard, 92, and Courtney, 86 - have...

Tony Blair's sister-in-law converts to Islam after "holy experience" in Iran The sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to Islam. Lauren Booth, who is the sister of Blair's wife Cherie and was a vocal critic of the Iraq War, said she now wears a hijab head...

It is a very British road accident - a runaway traction engine, with a top speed of 5mph, crashes into a garden wall. The driver of the 130-year-old vehicle lost control on a steep hill in Ford, Gloucestershire, and the vehicle bounced off a parked car before colliding with a garden wall...

Two English football fans are in an Italian hospital after being stabbed by Italian football hooligans in Naples. The two men - a 53 year old and a 27 year old - were amongst hundreds of Liverpool fans in the southern Italian city to watch tonight's Europa League game between Napoli and...

Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton are to get married next year. Their formal engagement will be announced early in 2011 followed by a summer wedding - which will be a national holiday. It'll be the greatest royal wedding since the marriage of William's parents, Charles and...

The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, has become a YouTube hit after he lost his cool when heckled by some annoying, bad-mannered left-wingers. Robinson was heckled by some placard-waving anti-war protestors whilst doing a live television broadcast outside the Houses of Parliament. So...

Three "primeval" thugs who murdered an IT expert after they stole his girlfriend's Halloween hat were jailed for life at the Old Bailey yesterday. Ben Gardner, 30, was on a Saturday night out in Sutton, Surrey with his girlfriend Allana, 28, on 31st October last year to celebrate Halloween and...

Henry may be a bull, but he actually thinks he's a dog. The Aberdeen Angus-Belgium Blue cross was taken in by farmer Ben Bowerman when he was born and grew up with border collies Algy and Arthur on Ben's farm near Swanage, Dorset. Now, despite being weaned and put out with the herd, Henry...

A campaign is underway in Britain to build a truck-sized, prototype computer that was conceived back in the early nineteenth century. In 1837, when Victoria came to the Throne and Britain was an industrial and entrepreneurial behemoth populated by people coming up with clever ideas and then...