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"A Future Fair For All": Labour's "new" election slogan is 7 years old The Prime Minister this week launched the Labour Party's new General Election slogan that he hopes will propel his party to an unprecented fourth successive term in power. The slogan is "A Future Fair For All" but there's...

A theory has long existed that Queen Elizabeth I's lover, Robert Dudley, killed his wife, Amy, so he could wed the Queen. Amy died aged just 28 in 1560 by breaking her neck after falling down the stairs. At the time, it was rumoured that Dudley had actually killed her to clear the way for him...

The event known as The Anarchy is one of the least known periods of English history but also one of the most interesting. This English civil war has its origins on the fateful night of 25th November 1120, when the White Ship sank in the English Channel off the Normandy coast after its port...

A poll of more than 5000 Brits has found that the Americans are the most attractive people on the planet. However, the British don't find the Germans very attractive - Germany came just 20th on the list. The British also took a look at themselves, with the English coming a respectable 7th...

On Tuesday 30th January 1649, a bitterly cold day, King Charles I was beheaded outside the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace. His last words were, "I shall go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be." This occurred during the English Civil War...

It has often been said that Michael Howard looks like a vampire but, in March 1997, witnesses near his home had a fright in the night for a very different reason. In the run-up to the 1997 General Election, Michael Howard, then the Tory government's Home Secretary, saw a UFO over his home...

The Falklands War II looks more likely as Britain and Argentina once again find themselves in a broil over the Falkland Islands. As Argentina makes efforts to control shipping in the region, Britain has said it has made 'all the preparations necessary' to protect the Falkland Islands. The...

England has been a monarchy for a very long time - over 1000 years, in fact. At one time, what is now England was instead a collection of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, each with their own royal family. These kingdoms often went to war with each other and invaded each other, and a kingdom's ruler...

One of the world's oldest shipwrecks has been found of England's south western coast. The trading vessel was carrying an extremely valuable cargo of tin and hundreds of copper ingots from the Continent when it sank off the coast of Devon around the year 900BC. The find provides new evidence...

Interviews with members of the Royal Family are extremely rare. But, to mark his 50th birthday, Prince Andrew has given an exclusive interview to Sky News in which he talks about topics such as his 1996 divorce to Sarah Ferguson and bankers' bonuses. Prince Andrew, also known as the Duke of...

Fulke Greville (1554-1628 ) was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist and statesman. He was a capable administrator who served the English Crown under Elizabeth I and her successor James I as treasurer of the navy, Chancellor of the Exchequer and commissioner of the Treasury. In 1621, Greville -...

British military chiefs have said that Operation Moshtarak has "gone to plan." Major General Gordon Messenger told a press briefing in central London that commanders on the ground were not complacent but were 'very much of the view this has gone according to plan.' He said some British...

The scientist at the centre of a British university's climate change scandal has admitted that he has trouble keeping track on the raw data which is crucial to the theory of climate change. Professor Jones, of the University of East Anglia, told the BBC yesterday that his colleagues believe he...

Maybe the Germans do have a sense of humour - albeit a very black one - after all. In 1941, whilst British children were being killed in their beds by Luftwaffe bombers or having to suffer food rationing, German kids were playing a board game which taught them the tactics of warfare. Their foe...

Australia has asked the Queen to pardon two of its soldiers who were court-martialled and executed by the British during the Second Boer War. The petition asks Britain to review the trials of lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock who were found guilty of the murder of 12...

It's Valentine's Day on Sunday. And if a woman wishes to have an insight into the type of man she will marry, then tradition has it that the first bird seen by an unmarried woman on Valentine's Day will give her such an insight. This may seem a flight of fancy only believed by bird-brains, but...

British, American and Afghan troops are about to start Operation Moshtarak within the next few days. "Moshtarak" means "Together" in the local Dari language, and 15,000 troops - a third of them British - will join the offensive, which is designed to clear out a hardcore of around 1,000 Taliban...

Keeping Britain out of the Euro was about the only good thing Gordon Brown did for Britain. Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Euro coins and notes went into circulation on 1st January 2002, and ancient and traditional currencies such as the Franc, Peseta, Deutsche Mark and...

England's new away kit has been modelled by rock band Kasabian - in Paris. The indie band from Leicester - who are fans of Leicester City Football Club - performed in front of 250,000 fans in the French capital last night, during which lead singer Tom Meighan put on England's new strip and...

As Britain faces its first defence review in 10 years, one question has been asked: What is the future of the Royal Navy? This one-mighty fighting force which ruled the seas and allowed Britain to get its own way by the use of the world's largest cannon-bristling warships is still the world's...