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An angry swan didn't fancy sharing its space on the Thames with a young deer which wanted to cool down in the sweltering temperatures. So, with an angry peck, the swan showed the deer who's boss and threw it out. These photos weren't taken in the countryside, but in Richmond Park in London...

Chelsea yesterday beat Everton to win the FA Cup for the fifth time. Over 500 million people across the globe watched this match on TV - incredibly, that's more than watched the recent European Cup Final. Everton made a blistering start in the blistering heat at Wembley - it was 107 degrees...

Welcome to a land whose leader's birth was supposedly greeted by a double rainbow along with birds that sang in human voices. A land where the people all wear boiler suits. A land where the "Great Leader" correctly managed to guess the number of fruit on the Great Leader's Pomegranate Tree...

Mothers are usually prepared to put their bodies on the line to save their young, and mother birds are no different. A thrush has saved her chicks from being washed away after she used her body as a dam in an overflowing drainpipe. The scene has been captured on camera by an amateur...

They say that when it comes to Marmite, you either love it or you hate it. Jesus must be one of those who loves it, because a woman in Rhondda, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has found him in one of her jars! The Marmite messiah: How a mother found Jesus in a jar By Daily Mail Reporter 28th May 2009...

Buckingham Palace - and people in both Britain and Canada - expressed their outrage earlier this week after France snubbed the Head of State of both those two nations - the Queen - over next week's D-Day commemorations. Aides said senior royals had repeatedly made clear their eagerness to...

On Monday, little Burnley were back in England's top flight for the first time since 1976 (before the creation of the Premiership in 1992, England's highest division was the First Division, which is now known as the Championship and is now the second tier. There are 92 teams in the English...

The two best sides in the world met each other yesterday to decide who will claim the greatest prize in club football and to decide who will undoubtedly be the best team on the planet and who will be no2. It was also a battle between Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel...

England have just beaten West Indies in the Test Series. Now the two teams go head for head in a different format of the game - the one day, rather than five day, match. One innings with each team bowling 50 overs. Both teams took off their whites and donned their coloured kits and headed to...

If any terrorists are thinking of causing trouble at the 2012 London Olympics, then they'd better not. The British military which deploy some of its most hi-tech and powerful weapons to take on any potential terrorists. One of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 destroyers - the most advanced in...

In terms of land area, London is the third largest city on Earth, and has a population of 14 million. And now it has topped a new table. Despite the economic downturn, it has topped a global survey of cities. In recent years, London has taken over New York as the world's financial...

He has the gloriously British name of Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet OBE. And he's also a very British hero - a fearless explorer, someone who loves nothing more than exploring some of the world's most inhospitable landscapes; someone who cut off their own frostbitten...

Royal Navy warships have come up against a Spanish ship off Gibraltar. The Royal Navy didn't have to fire at it because the Spanish warship moved away as soon as the British warships approached (it'd be good to see how the Spanish would fare in all-out war against the British). In 1982...

Charlie Hamilton James has been obsessed with the kingfisher since he was just six. And he has spent thousands of hours photographing the beautiful birds in their gorgeous surroundings from a hideaway in his old milworkers' cottage in Bristol. His new book - Kingfisher: Tales From The...

In the wake of the MPs expenses scandal which has resulted in Gorbals Mick becoming the first Speaker of the House of Commons to be forced out of office since 1695, The People newspaper has outlined its remedies for a Greater Britain. The People says we should get rid of Brown and make Johnson...

England have beaten the West Indies by an innings and 83 runs to win the two-match series 2-0 and retain the Wisden Trophy. The match was played in the glorious surroundings of Chester-le-Street in Durham, the world's most northerly Test cricket stadium and situated in the beautiful grounds of...

Former England cricket star Chris Lewis has been jailed for 13 years for trying to smuggle 3.37 kilograms of liquid cocaine, with a street value of about £140,000, into the United Kingdom. Lewis played 32 Tests and and 53 ODIs for England between 1990 and 1998 and has played for Leicestershire...

In typical inter-British Isles banter, the English often mock the Welsh for having an unhealthy fascination with sheep and goats. The Welsh ludicrously think the English are talking a load of rubbish, but the evidence is all around us to show that the English are actually correct. Earlier...

The IMF has praised Britain for its aggressive action in tackling the recession, and said that it has set the stage for economic recovery. Britain has the advantage, which EU countries who have the Euro currency haven't got, of being able to set her own interest rates. The Bank of England...