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A 70-year-old radio at a former RAF base in Scotland is picking up broadcasts from the 1940s despite not having any power. The Pye wireless plays music from Glen Miller and speeches from Winston Churchill. Montrose Air Station in Angus became Britain's first operational military airfield when...

The Stig, one of the stars of the cult BBC series Top Gear, has been unmasked as 35-year-old Ben Collins. The BBC took legal action to prevent the publication of The Stig's new autobiography in which the racing driver reveals his identity. But today the BBC lost the battle, allowing The Stig...

Despite England just having what statistics show was their worst ever World Cup, the morale in the team at a low, half the players missing through injury and a manager fighting to stay in his job, the FA still thought it was a good time to launch yet another new England home kit. England's...

The actions of a British newspaper has meant that a Nazi World War II criminal spends facing the rest of his life in prison. In July, a journalist from The Sun, Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, found Dutch-born SS executioner Klaas Faber, 88, strolling around a German park with his wife...

Hundreds of thousands of revellers today descended on Notting Hill in west London for Europe's biggest street festival - the Notting Hill carnival. The carnival has been held each August Bank Holiday since the glorious summer of 1966, when the people of England really had an excuse to hit the...

Pakistan were booed off the pitch by their own fans at Lord's today amidst match-fixing allegations in the Fourth Test against England. The team's captain Salman Butt, bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif and wicket keeper Kamran Akmal have all been questioned by Scotland Yard. Mazhar...

Rome's legendary Ninth Hispanic Legion - one of the oldest and most feared legions in the Roman Empire - mysteriously vanished in 108AD never to be seen again (and it may have been the Britons who were responsible). Now, whilst a road was being upgraded in the area, archaeologists have...

The first pictures of the British Prime Minister's baby daughter have been released. Little Florence was born around midday, British time, on Tuesday at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. David Cameron and his wife Samantha were on holiday in the seaside county when Samantha gave birth a...

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has hailed England's 2018 World Cup bid as "unbeatable." Clegg, standing in for PM David Cameron and who now faces an extra two weeks at the helm after Cameron's wife yesterday gave birth to a girl whilst the couple were on holiday in Cornwall, met a...

Most people know that the colour red makes a bull's blood boil. So if you are in the crowd watching a contest involving an enraged bull, it's wise not to wear red. Maybe someone should have told that to the burke wearing the England football team's bright red shirt. The England fan was one...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken of his joy after becoming a father for the fourth time - whilst on holiday in Cornwall. Cameron is on the second week of a two week holiday with his wife Samantha Cameron (Sam Cam) and their children, consisting of a week at the British Prime...

Scots hope £250,000 "Metal Mermaid" monstrosity will outshine Angel of the North Fresh from releasing a mass murderer convicted of Britain's worst ever terrorist attack, the Scots are now using £250,000 of public (i.e. mainly English) money to pay for what it hopes will be its equivalent of...

There are many great mysteries in life. Why does the Universe exist? How will it end, if it will end at all? Is time travel really possible? What happened to the Princes in the Tower? But the most important question of all is: Who (or even what) is the Stig? The Stig is one of the stars of...

As a professional wildlife photographer, it is usually Simon Czapp's job to take photos of animals. But this fox had other ideas, and thought that it would be a good idea if it took a photo of the wildlife photographer instead. Simon Czapp visited the New Forest in Hampshire, which is also...

It is generally believed that, even though the last battle of any type in Britain was the Battle of Britain in 1940, the last pitched battle was the 1746 Battle of Culloden when Government forces crushed Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army. But, in actual fact, the last pitched battle to be...

Veterans and vintage planes mark 70th anniversary of Churchill's "Few" speech Hundreds of members of the public, proudly waving Union Flags (not an EU flag in sight), WWII fighter pilots, Dame Vera Lynn and Winston Churchill's daughter Lady Soames gathered in London on Friday to mark the 70th...

Earlier this year Britain had its first Hung Parliament since 1974, resulting in Britain being run by a Tory/Liberal Democrat coalition. Now Britain's colony of Australia has followed suit. Yesterday's General Election, like Britain's in May, produced no clear winner after 78% of the votes had...

New British Prime Minister David Cameron, who currently has a high approval rating amongst voters, has said that the British tourist industry should focus on Britain's great culture and heritage rather than just "Cool Britannia." Cameron has attacked the previous Labour administration of not...

Tomorrow, Thursday 19th August, marks the 100th day of Britain's new Tory/Liberal Democrat coalition government. To mark that milestone a Guardian/ICM poll has been conducted to see what the British people think about the government. And it's good news for the Government and bad news for the...

Archaeologists have discovered the skeletons of over 100 Roundheads from the English Civil War. The skeletons, buried in mass graves, of 113 of Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarian soldiers were discovered in York. The location, in the Fishergate area of the city, is the site of the "lost" 11th...