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What other country in Europe, other than England, would have 76,897 fans turn up to watch a match which is nothing more than a meaningless friendly? That is what happened at Wembley last night to see England take on Belarus. It may have been a 2010 World Cup qualifier but both teams had...

More than 5000 "Hell's Angels" converged on the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, on Saturday to pay tribute to Britain's fallen service personnel. The National Memorial Arboretum, which opened in 2001, pays tribute to Britain's war dead. The Arboretum is so called as it...

Built in Portsmouth exactly 500 years ago (1509-1510), the Mary Rose was the pride of the English fleet during the reign of Henry VIII. She was originally equipped with 78 guns, but was upgraded in 1536 to 91 guns. In 1545, during the Italian War which involved several European countries...

When Margaret Butcher moved into her home in Norwich, Norfolk five years ago, she came across an apple tree in her garden. Many times since she has eaten the apples and noticed that they taste differently from other apples. Nobody was able to identify the type of apples that they are, so she...

It looks like a scene you'd expect in America's Wild West. But these amazing photos of two wild stallions sparring was taken in the serene, green English countryside, just outside Cambridge. The two stallions are part of a 50-strong herd of Koniks brought over from Holland and which now...

In 1961, Margaret Andrews, now 82, bought a green silk coat from a jumble sale in Epsom, Surrey for £10. Then, a couple of weeks ago, Margaret was flicking through a magazine when, astonishingly, she spotted a photo of the Queen wearing the same silk coat that she had bought at the jumble sale...

Members of Greenpeace can be annoying sometimes. The do-gooders think nothing of lecturing the world about the "evil" of non-existant man-made global warming, yet think it's okay to climb onto private property to cause trouble and sometimes vandalism. Around 30 members of the organisation...

Thomas Cromwell (not to be confused with Oliver Cromwell who was born almost 60 years after Thomas's death) was was Henry VIII's chief minister from 1532 to 1540. Cromwell masterminded the dissolution of the monasteries, in which Henry disbanded England's monasteries, nunneries and friaries...

Eighteenth century London evokes images of fine Georgian buildings, many of which are still standing, and fine art. But in reality, it more of was a modern day Sodom, the biblical city synonymous with sexual depravity, and from which English gets the word "sodomy" (to North Americans, the...

The English FA is to report the Ukraine to FIFA after last night's 2010 World Cup qualifier between England and the Ukraine was delayed several times after Ukraine fans threw flares onto the pitch. The incident further highlights how fans in English stadiums are more "civilised" than those in...

The BBC's "Only Fools and Horses" is the most popular British comedy of all time. It ran from 1981 to 2003 and consistently had high ratings. A 1996 episode, "Time On Our Hands", attracted an incredible 25 million viewers, a British record for any sitcom. The show was set in the London suburb...

With the Labour Government and Prime Minister Gordon Brown about as popular as saveloy at a kibbutz, it is very likely that Tory leader David Cameron will become Britain's 53rd Prime Minister after the 2010 General Election, which must be held in June at the latest. Today was the last day of...

The technology of fighter planes has come a long way since the founding of the RAF, the world's oldest airforce, in 1918. A new camera, which is attached to the underbelly of the RAF Tornado GR4, can spot tiny details up to 75 miles away. That means that it would be able to read the time on...

It is a very rare, but very British, get together. Ten wealthy men recently gathered for oysters and Dover sole at a swanky London establishment, ten wealthy men who are all distantly related to each other and are each addressed "Your Grace." These ten men are all dukes, and it was the...

On 21st October (what the British now call Trafalgar Day) 1805, 33 Royal Navy ships did battle with a force of 41 French and Spanish ships off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. Despite being outnumbered, the well-trained British comprehensively defeated the poorly-trained French and Spanish. 2,218...

Fifty years ago Scotland prided itself on it high quality education. Now it's a different matter after it has been revealed that Scottish students have fallen behind English students - despite taxpayers spending £1,400 MORE per child in Scotland than in England. Socialist Scotland spends...

A spooked landlady of a Hampshire pub is to call in an exorcist to get rid of a spectre that tops up customers' drinks. The ghost (or should that be spirit?), which haunts the Apsley House in Southsea near the naval city of Portsmouth, apparently tops up people's drinks when they nip to the...

10,000 Roman coins have been unearthed by a metal detector enthusiast on his first ever treasure hunt. Nick Davies found the hoard, dating from between 320AD and 340AD and crammed into a 60lb pot, in a farmers' field in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The coins are from the reign of Constantine I...

A British schoolboy has become one of the world's youngest fathers - aged just 13. The unnamed boy from Manchester was said to have been "chuffed to bits" when his 16-year-old girlfriend gave birth to a girl. The identities of both kids cannot be revealed for legal reasons. Earlier this...

Archaeologists have discovered what has been dubbed Stonehenge's little sister, just a mile from the world famous ancient monument. It has been called Bluehenge because that was the colour of the stones, which are now missing, which once incorporated it. It is thought that the stones of...