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The Queen today played the role of dinner lady whilst attending church during the last day of her winter break. The Queen has been staying at her family's home in Sandringham, Norfolk, where she traditionally spends Christmas, the New Year and her winter break. Attended by her husband, the...

For centuries, the White Cliffs of Dover, one of the great symbols of England, have been a great symbol of English pride. But now, thanks to Britain's SCOTTISH Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, the White Cliffs of Dover are to be sold to England's ancient enemy and great rival - France. Brown is...

The UK is an unusual country in that it has four national teams, despite the best efforts of FIFA who have been expressing their wishes for years for there to be a Great Britain football team. Two of those British teams have been drawn together in the same group for the Euro2012 qualification...

John Terry was sacked as England captain just 12 minutes after meeting Fabio Capello on Friday. The showdown talks occurred in Capello's office at Wembley on Friday afternoon. Terry arrived at the national stadium confident he will remain as skipper, but it took just 12 minutes for Capello...

Buckfast, a fortified wine, may be made by the monks of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, but it's the Scots (obviously) who are the world leaders in its consumption. We all know that Scotland has a drink problem. Annually, they drink much more than their English neighbours. In the 12 months...

With a long history of crushing defeats to their English rivals, in wars such as the Hundred Years' War, the Seven Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars (despite the English often being vastly outnumbered), this has got to be the most humiliating for the French (though the pasting at Trafalgar...

A close friend of Prince Harry is one of two more British soldiers to be killed in Afghanistan. The third-in-line to the throne trained with Corporal Liam Riley, 21, during a military exercise in Canada two and a half years ago where the pair posed for a photo together. Prince Harry, who is...

The chances of cracking open a double yoked egg are pretty slim - one tenth of one per cent. So the chances of cracking open SIX double yoked eggs are almost infinitesimal - a trillion-to-one chance to be pedantic. But that's exactly what happened to Fiona Exon. The art gallery owner...

The 2010 Rugby Union Six Nations Championship - featuring, as ever, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy - gets underway this weekend. Saturday sees Ireland take on Italy in this year's opening match, and then England take on Wales at Twickenham. On Sunday, Scotland face France...

A HISTORY OF FOOTBALL It has been revealed that the current Chelsea and England captain, John Terry, had an affair with the French girlfriend of his best friend, Manchester City's Wayne Bridge. So let's look at some of England's other captains throughout the team's history. England's first...

Today's English Premier League match between north London giants Arsenal and Manchester United was significant in two ways: it was a battle between two of this season's title contenders, and it was the first sporting event in the world to be shown in 3D. Sky Sports broadcast the match in nine...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that Britain will increase is spending on the War in Afghanistan by £1.5 billion over the next 12 months to take its total to £5 billion next year. The extra cash will give the British military more helicopters, more unmanned drones and more Jackal and...

The Shetland Islands may be a part of Scotland and the UK, but rather than having Celtic, Saxon or Norman heritage like the vast majority of the UK's 61 million inhabitants, they have a Viking one. And every year, Shetlanders celebrate their Norse heritage in spectacular fashion. The Up Helly...

Either this Danish soldier was so excited at the prospect of meeting members of his country's Royal Family, or the hat he wore was too heavy. But he fell flat on his face at the arrival ceremony of a gala dinner hosted by the Danish monarch, Queen Margrethe II. The incident happened at...

Welcome to the "Tough Guy" contest: eight miles of mud, barbed wire, broken glass and fire. Thousands of competitors from around the world have bravely took on the gruelling assault course in Perton, Staffordshire. Some of them did it in fancy dress, in costumes such as Robocop and Superman...

Just 5 months before the 2010 World Cup, John Terry's role as England captain is in doubt after his affair with his best friend's girlfriend has been revealed. It has been revealed that Terry - who is also Chelsea captain - had an affair behind his wife's back with the girlfriend of his best...

John Constable's The Stour Valley and Dedham Village, painting either in 1814 or 1815, is a stunning and accurate depiction of the beautiful English countryside from the days before photography. But for almost 200 years, the exact spot which Constable painted in that picture has remained a...

The 1970s BBC comedy series "Fawlty Towers", starring John Cleese as Basil Fawlty, the snobbish owner of a Torquay hotel, may be truer to life than originally believed. According to visitors to the TripAdvisor website, Britain has Europe's dirtiest hotels. An incredible 8 of Europe's 10...

At first it looks as though Elf'n'Safety really gave gone over the top. An entire street completely wrapped in bubble wrap. But, thankfully, the stunt, carried out by car insurance comparison website Confused.com, was to highlight the dangers of driving in winter. The street was picked as it...

Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has warned that Britain faces decades of warfare in faraway lands. In a major speech, Ainsworth backed the interventionist approach of Blair and Bush and said that British citizens could only be protected by 'projecting military power beyond our borders'...