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A young father had his face sliced open by a racist Asian thug whilst walking with his 5-year-old son. Reece Johnson was walking past the entrance of Bobby Heywood Park with his young son in Bolton, Greater Manchester, at around 11.45pm on Saturday night when he bumped into a group of twenty...

Tory leader David Cameron visited Belfast yesterday to give a speech at an Ulster Unionist rally. The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Conservative Party have formed a loose alliance known as the "Conservatives and Unionists." The two parties will field joint candidates for elections to...

Britain goes to the polls tomorrow in the 2010 General Election, so today is the last day of campaigning for the party leaders. The leaders of the three main parties have been travelling the country yet again hoping to grasp a few more precious votes, in what is turning out to be the closest...

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to experience a slice of Tudor life, then Henry VIII's grand Hampton Court Palace, which still stands on the banks of the Thames in London, is now the place to go. A replica wine fountain, similar to those used by Henry VIII at the palace, has been...

After saying last week that intelligent extraterrestrials almost certainly exist and Earthlings should avoid making contact with them, Cambridge University astrobiologist Stephen Hawking now says that it is possibly for humans to travel millions of years into the future - but not into the past...

The great British Army has earned a place in the record books by killing two Taliban machine gunners from more than a mile and a half away. The record-breaking sharpshooting, by sniper Craig Harrison of the Household Cavalry, felled the insurgents with consecutive bullets - even though they...

As the British people prepare to go to the polls on Thursday in the 2010 General Election, Lord Tebbit, the former Tory Secretary of State for Employment and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, tells us what he thinks are the ten greatest British General Elections in history. Tebbit...

What a great country Britain must be, and what a healthy state Britain's democracy must be in, when a 65-year-old woman, on her way to buy a loaf of bread from her local shop, inadvertently bumps into the Prime Minister and probably brings about the downfall of him and the Government. That...

In January 1879, 140 heroic and brave British redcoats successfully defended their garrison, a former mission station and trading post, against an intense assault by 4,000 uncivilised Zulu savages at Rorke's Drift in South Africa (it's a shame the 260 Texans couldn't do the same against only...

On the day that's it's been revealed that one million Brits have signed up for the 2012 London Olympics, cameras have been invited into the Olympic Village to see how construction is getting on. The 80,000 capacity Olympic Stadium, in the Lower Lea Valley in Stratford, east London, is due for...

For centuries, portraits of monarchs usually capture the subject in regal prose, amidst an explosion of colour. But the newest portrait of Queen Elizabath II is a more subdued affair, with an absense of jewellery or make-up. The portrait is the masterpiece of Rupert Alexander. Rupert...

Election uproar: Brown calls voter who quizzed him on immigration a "bigoted woman." Many have said that if the leftie Labour Party wish to win this year's General Election they'll have to get rid of Gordon Brown and find a new leader. Many observers, both in the Labour Party and other parties...

Tony Barnatt Jose is so obsessed with Ancient Rome that he even dresses as a gladiator and likes to call himself Maximus Decimus Meridius. Tony has even adorned the walls of his terraced home in Durham with shields, helmets, masks, pictures and cuttings. He spends hours poring over books...

The chair, in Westminster Abbey, which has been used to crown English and then British monarchs for 700 years is to be given a £200,000 makeover. King Edward's Chair was commissioned in 1296 by King Edward I (Longshanks), though the chair was not named after him, and was designed to hold the...

Professor Stephen Hawking has warned of the dangers of making contact with extraterrestrials. The Cambridge University theoretical physicist, who has neuro-muscular dystrophy but is still the greatest mind in the world today, has said that intelligent life almost certainly exists elsewhere in...

The first ever survey of postal votes has shown that David Cameron's Conservatives are on course to win the May 6th British General Election. A BPIX poll for The Mail on Sunday shows the Tory leader is on course to win the Election with the highest popular vote and the most MPs. The survey...

It will be news to dishearten English football fans, who don't like seeing the Germans, French, Argentinians and Scots winning matches (although, of course, the Scots don't win that often). But a university professor has developed a mathematical formula which he says shows that Germany will...

Some people probably wonder why the British still hate the French so much, especially since the Entente Cordiale was signed in 1904. But with so many recent instances of the French doing their best to annoy us - such as continuing with the ban on British beef illegally, or sealing off the...

Slapstick comedy is one of the great things about the British General Election campaign. At every election, you can guarantee that at least one politician will be pelted with an egg. In fact, throwing an egg at a politician is probably a democratic right enshrined in the Magna Carta or the...

This year marks the 350th anniversary of the Restoration. That was when England ended years of civil war and internal strife by restoring the monarchy after a period of 11 years in which the country was a republic and a dictatorship. The causes of the English Civil War are numerous and...