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It's that time when the people of Britain get to partake in an event which people in many other countries would give their two legs for, a General Election. The election MUST be held this year, and the PM gets to choose the date at which it to be held. Gordon Brown travelled to Buckingham...

Members of the English Defence League have clashed with police today during a protest over the building of a mosque. About 2,000 members of the EDL descended on Dudley in the West Midlands Some of the protesters broke out of a pen in a car park, breaking down metal fences and throwing the...

You'll be forgiven for thinking that it was still April Fool's Day, but like the recent stories about the world's oldest hot cross bun (baked in 1821) and the council workers who painted KEER CLEAP on the road instead of KEEP CLEAR, this story is, in fact, true, no matter how unlikely it sounds...

Usually, physics is viewed as a boring and unfathomable subject for many people, and physicists as nerdy types wearing NHS glasses and patched up Aran sweaters. But thanks to a former pop star, the subject is being made more accessible to the British people. Brian Cox is not only the former...

Eight million people in the UK tuned in on Saturday evening to watch the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who. The episode, titled "The Eleventh Hour", sees the "new" Doctor (he's actually the same Doctor as he's always been but with a different face) having just 20 minutes to save...

Not so long ago, the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe were bitter enemies, bombing each other's countries (which the Germans started) and battling each other in the skies over Britain in 1940, the last battle to have taken place in Britain. And there remains a degree of animosity that is...

Britain is awash with many unique and ancient ceremonies which, put together, make the nation great. And one of them is the issuing of Maundy Money. Every Maundy Thursday - the last Thursday before Easter - the British monarch hands out specially minted coins, known as Maundy Money, to the...

Prince William has pledged to help give the head of an Australian Aborigine warrior back to his people. 200 years ago, when the British started colonising Australia not long after it was discovered by Captain Cook, Pemulwuy led a fierce war of resistance against the British. The British...

This cannot be a good advert for Britain's education system. Council officials have been left red-faced after writing "Keer Cleap" instead of "Keep Clear" on a road. Officials from Hertfordshire Highways had to correct the mistake after it was first spotted in Royston, Hertfordshire, by...

If you fancy eating a hot cross bun over the Easter period, don't eat this one - it's the world's oldest. Grandmother Nancy Titman was given the ancient bun by her mother. Nancy's great, great, great grandfather, William Skinner, who owned a bakery in London, made the bun in March 1821. It...

Two brothers have today revealed their reconstruction of the largest Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. And, like Dr Johnson's Dictionary, it took ten years. The Woodward brothers used 1.6 million pieces to reproduce the Orpheus pavement. The original mosaic, which depicts the ancient Greek...

The new series of Doctor Who returns to the screen this weekend, Saturday 3rd April. The previous series ended on New Year's Day when the 10th Doctor, played by David Tennant, regenerated in the Tardis into the 11th Doctor, played by Matt Smith, after receiving a massive dose of radiation when...

The relationship between Britain and America has been something of an on-off affair. Just over 200 years ago, a group of people representing Britain's 13 colonies in what is now the United States started telling the British that they would like their "freedom", which was a bit rich coming from...

Willard Wigan has made a sand sculpture of a church. This normally wouldn't be too remarkable - except that the sculpture is made from just ONE grain of sand. Mr Wigan, of Birmingham, West Midlands, was challenged to do this amazing feat by his girlfriend, who lives at the foot of Chosen...

Prince Charles has shown that he may make a great King one day by donning full combat gear and visiting British soldiers in Afghanistan. He could have just visited several commanders at the British base Camp Bastion, or even just sent the lads and lassies a video message through the internet...

Steven Gerrard has given himself five years to achieve the two biggest targets in his career - win the Premiership and the World Cup. The Liverpool and England midfielder turns 30 on 30th May, the day that England play Japan in a pre-World Cup friendly. So, as he starts to see the end of his...

Today's Budget, delievered by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, has been so disappointing that it's left the Tories huge 1-7 favourites to triumph at the upcoming General Election. And that's not the only good news for the Tory leader. Samantha Cameron (known as SamCam), the wife...

FIFA has admitted that 650,000 tickets out of almost 3 million for this year's World Cup in South Africa are still unsold. That'll mean that that it'll be the first modern World Cup in which all the tickets haven't been bought. Over 50% of the total number of tickets bought so far have been...

He may not be one of Britain's most famous monarchs, but the main reason for that was that his short reign of just nine years - 1901 - 1910 - was overshadowed by that of his mother and predecessor, Queen Victoria, who is Britain's longest-reigning monarch, having been on the Throne from 1837 to...

Move over NASA (especially with Obama Barack all but dismantling it). Here comes the UK Space Agency (UKSA), based in Swindon! The wealthy Wiltshire town, famous for its steam locomotive museum, has been named as the home of Britain's first space agency (although maybe it should have been...