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There was action in the 4th Round of the Carling Cup last night. Blackburn Rovers, who are missing a few players as they have swine flu, thrashed lower division Peterborough United (whose manager Darren Ferguson is the son of the Manchester United manager Sir Alex) 5-2. A beleagured...

When it comes to alcohol, North Americans can be very strict indeed. A traditional British lemonade drink, Fentimans Victorian Lemonade, enjoyed in Britain for more than 100 years, has sparked uproar in the US after a teenager in Maine had the drink confiscated from him as he is under the...

The British are very good at colourful pomp and pageantry, and that was demonstrated again yesterday as the Queen welcomed the visit by the Indian president. The visit by President Pratibha Patil, India's first female Head of State since independence from Britain, was the first by an Indian...

Several new skyscrapers are currently being built in London, which will make London the skyscraper capital of Europe and probably rival cities like Los Angeles in terms of the number of high rise buildings. But the London Mayor, the Tory Boris Johnson, who succeeded Labour's Ken Livingstone...

It is famous throughout Britain for being the most haunted village in supposedly the world's most haunted country. And this year, spooky Pluckley, in Kent, is cancelling Halloween. The residents of Pluckley have had enough of ghost-hunting revellers causing chaos every 31st October. So this...

"One fan told me to get my coffin ready": Liverpool beach ball boy reveals his hell It was one of the most bizarre things you'll ever see in a football match. Last week, in an English Premier League match between Liverpool and Sunderland at Sunderland's Stadium of Light, just five minutes had...

The religious celebration of Diwali, known as the "festival of lights", usually passes by unnoticed by politicians at Westminster. But this year, with a General Election looming, it is different. Politicials have been clammering to host parties for Britain's 1.5 million Hindus, Sikhs and...

The population of Britain in 1675 was 5 million and there were no cars or lorries on the roads, just the odd horse, or horse and carriage or horse and cart. Today, the population for Britain is 61 million and there are over 26 million cars, which are able to travel on over 29,000 miles of...

Probably not since the huge Poll Tax riots of 1990 against Thatcher's Conservative Government have the British public vented their anger in such a way against a political party. Tonight, hundreds of anti-fascists have descended on the BBC Television Centre in the (ironically named) White City...

British author Roald Dahl was one of the greatest children's authors of all time, selling over 50 million books worldwide. His stories include "James and the Giant Peach", "The Twits", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "The Witches." Now one of his stories has hit the big screen. A new...

Monday 6th July 2009 is a day that a police officer will probably never forget. The police officer, who was off-duty at the time, said he saw three aliens examining a freshly made crop circle near Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. The humanoid figures, whic h were dressed in white, were very tall...

A statue immortalising a black SAS war hero who single-handedly held off 250 rebels in Oman in a forgotten 1972 battle is to be unveiled at the SAS headquarters in Hereford in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday. In 1972, British forces took on Communist rebels in the Middle Eastern state of...

The only surviving Union Jack from the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar is to stay in Britain, thanks to the Government. Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has imposed an export curb on the 11ft 7ins by 7ft 4ins emblem, which flew onboard HMS Spartiate. The crew of that ship stitched it from 31 panels...

Adrian Reeman may not be popular with a bunch of malnourished 18th Century French left-wingers, but I'm sure he'll not be too bothered. Being a proper British eccentric, Mr Reeman has spent 23 years transforming his once ordinary flat in Southampton, Hampshire into the lavish Palace of...

If your idea of fun is smoking an African woodbine, having your hair in dreds, calling everybody "man", listening to The Beatles and wearing trousers so flared that it looks as though your legs aren't moving as you walk, then this car is for you. A businessman has decided to give a hearse a...

One of the few things we can give credit to Prime Minister Gordon Brown (who, despite his faults and his mistakes, IS genuinely patriotic and always tries to put his country first) is his refusal to back the Euro currency. During his ten years as Chancellor of the Exchequer - 1997 to 2007 - he...

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE, is a proper English hero and adventurer, somebody who won't let the small matter of having no fingers on one hand get him down. Just look look at this former SAS man's achievements so far. He travelled the White Nile by hovercraft in...

Liverpool haven't won the title since 1990. If they don't win it again this season they can blame a red beach ball. In one of the more bizarre incident you'll see in the English Premiership, a shot from Sunderland's Darren Bent ricocheted of a red beach ball in the penalty area and went into...

Local rivals Blackburn Rovers and Burnley met in the Premiership today. Burnley were promoted to the Premiership last season, their first time in England's top flight since 1976. Just 11 miles separate these two northern English towns and, as a result, they have one of the fiercest rivalries...

Despite Crystal Palace's stadium, Selhurst Park, being much smaller than that of other London football teams, such as Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and Chelsea's Stamford Bridge, it has been designated by the Metropolitan Police as a terror hotspot, where the bobbies can carry out stop and...