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Kirsty Moore has become the first female pilot to train with the RAF's world famous Red Arrows display team. She's put in more than 1,500 hours of flying and beat 40 other hopefuls. Flight Lieutenant Moore is currently training at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and will join the team proper...

Shoppers at a leather goods store couldn't believe their eyes when an urban fox fell 12 feet through the ceiling. The calamitous canine fell through the ceiling and landed on a pile of luggage in the front window display at the shop in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. The daft animal only...

The fact that the average EU bureaucrat wouldn't know what democracy is even if it strode up to them in the street, introduced itself in the proper way (with the help of a third person) and asked if they would fancy having a few gallons of lagers with it at The Slug and Lettuce isn't the only...

It might have been a game between two giants of the English game battling it out to be crowned champions. But thousands of people have been interested in the clash between Chelsea and champions Manchester United for an entirely different, and bizarre, reason. As Chelsea's Salomon Kalou and...

Not so long ago, British soldiers would have been shot at dawn for desertion or cowardice. Now that capital punishment is, unfortunately, currently banned in Britain, that cannot happen nowadays (though they should bring it back). However, Lance Corporal Joe Glenton still faces 10 years in...

On 12th September 2006, a bomb blast in Afghanistan's Helmand Province left Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson seriously injured. Ben, 25, lost both of his legs, the use of his left arm and was left severaly brain damaged which left him unable to speak. Since then he has had to learn to walk...

The Welsh are "unfriendly" and "rude", finds report by their own tourist board It is known as a land whose national sport is rugby; a land whose inhabitants love singing; a land which is home to Europe's oldest surviving language; a land which gave us the Tudors; a land which didn't have a...

Many Americans have recently protested against Obama's proposals to reform America's health service, fearing that it could become more like Britain's National Health Service (NHS). Scare stories were spread - nearly all of them not true - about Britain's "socialist" health system, including...

Usually, the sight of a rainbow barely warrants a mention. But it does if the rainbow appears at night. Photographer Chris Walker was driving through a storm in Richmond, North Yorkshire, last Sunday when he spotted a rainbow, despite it being 7pm and dark. Most rainbows are seen during the...

England may only be a part of the UK, just as California is a part of the US, Alberta is a part of Canada and Queensland is a part of Australia, but Roy Hattersley considers himself to be English rather than British. The former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Shadow Chancellor, Shadow Home...

The Whitechapel area of east London is not just famous as being the place where Jack the Ripper went on his (or, I suppose, her) bloody killing spree in 1888. It's also the location of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. The foundry is Britain's oldest manufacturing firm, founded in 1570 during the...

The Queen today led the annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph in central London, the first ever in which no First World War veteran has been present. Britain's last two WWI veterans - Henry Allingham and Harry Patch - died earlier this year. Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...

What a hugely eccentric (in a good sort of way) a nation Britain is. A man named Taffy Thomas, from the Lake District county of Cumbria, has been named the country's first storytelling laureate. Taffy, 60, will start his two-year tenure in January and will travel the length and breadth of...

The British military is preparing for its bloodiest year since 1982, when 255 British soldiers were killed in just two months during the Falklands War against Argentina. Since the War in Afghanistan began in 2001, 224 British soldiers have been killed, more than any other nation other than the...

With Remembrance Sunday approaching and people throughout the Commonwealth wearing red poppies, this is a time to remember the brave soldiers who fought for our freedoms in the world wars and other conflicts. Now a diary, written by a British soldier, Sapper John T French, a tin miner from...

It was one of the most momentous events in England's long, colourful and bloody history. An event which ended the Plantagenet Era and saw in the Tudor Era. The Battle of Bosworth was the penultimate battle of the Wars of the Roses, an English civil war which lasted from 1455 to 1485 and which...

The BBC is run by a bunch of Left-Wingers who either think that having a good education is only the preserve of members of the Royal Family and upper class "toffs" (especially Tory toffs) or that to spell words correctly would "offend" dysexics, people with learning difficulties or just plain...

Tony Blair, British PM from 1997 to 2007, is one of the frontrunners to be the first President of Europe. Running the undemocratic EU is just the job for Tony (or should that be Boney?) Blair - he loves getting his snout in the trough, national sovereignty means nothing to him and he can lie...

Despite it being the only English war with the phrase "civil war" in its title, the English Civil War in the 17th Century wasn't the only civil war to have been fought in England. And it wasn't even the first. The conflict known as The Anarchy, or the The Nineteen-Year Winter, which took...

It's no wonder that Horatio Nelson is viewed as a heroic figure by the British, 200 years after he walloped the Frenchies with six sixes over deep fine leg in the same over. According to journals in the National Archive, Nelson was giving orders to his men just 30 minutes after losing his arm...