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British rockers The Arctic Monkeys release their new album, "Humbug", on 24th August. It is their third album in the space of four years, which isn't a bad rate for releasing new music, following 2006's "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" and 2007's "Favourite Worst Nightmare"...

The British are supposed to be a nation of animal lovers, but even they would think twice about having this weird-looking creature in their homes. It is known as the Equicanigattus, and is made up of the body parts of the nation's favourite pets. A survey of 2,000 British pet lovers revealed...

A 9,000 year old house discovered on the Isle of Man is Britain's oldest. The Isle of Man is a British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between England and Ireland. Queen Elizabeth II is its Head of State though to its people, the Manx, she is known as Lord of Mann (with two n's). The...

Physicist Stephen Hawking has defended Britain's health service after it came under attack from America's Republican Party who branded it "socialist." Politicians in the US are currently debating whether there should be reforms to the US health service. Hawking suffers from Lou Gehring's...

The two nations of England and Holland have quite a connection. Dutch is the most closely related MAJOR language to English (though the little language of Frisian, also spoken in Holland, is the most closely-related to English); Holland's Queen Beatrix and England's Queen Elizabeth II are fifth...

When pretty Louise Fairburn got married, she decided that just any old wedding dress wouldn't do. Louise, a shepherdess, married her fiance Ian in a dress made from wool, sheared from her own sheep. The couple own a farm in Risby, Lincolnshire, and Louise took wool from her favourite sheep...

A fifth of the population of the European Union, which currently stands at around 500 million, will be Muslim by 2050, an investigation by The Telegraph has revealed. That's four times greater than the Muslim population of the EU now. At the moment, only around 5 per cent of people in the...

He may be only 17, but Chris Morgan weighs an incredible 19 stone 10 pounds (around 280 pounds). Lifting a Ford Fiesta, which weights almost a ton, is easy-peasy for Chris, of Willenhall, West Midlands. Because of this, Chris has been named Britain's strongest teenager. He spends hours in...

Yesterday, 8th August, at 11.35am, was the 40th anniversary of when The Beatles walked across a zebra crossing in an unremarkable north London street giving rise to arguably the most famous album cover in history. To mark the occasion, hundreds of fans gathered at the spot, in St John's Wood...

After doing the right thing by invading Iraq to rid the country of a brutal dictator and invading Afghanistan to rid it of the Taliban, the question now being asked by some people is: "Should Britain invade Zimbabwe to get rid of Mugabe?" Zimbabwe gained its indepence from Britain in 1980 -...

Norfolk, a county is south east England is, like Holland, famous for being flat and full of ancient windmills. Like Alabama in the US, its inhabitants are often derided by outsiders for being inbred mutants with webbed fingers. But, according to William Rees-Mogg, Norfolk has a lot going for...

Guinness, the famous "black" Irish beer, was first made in 1759, meaning that this year marks its 250th birthday. The drink is produced at the St James's Gate Brewery in Dublin. In 1914, when all of Ireland was part of Britain, it was the world's largest brewery, covering 64 acres...

We all think of lasagne as being Italian, cricket as being English and tulips as being Dutch. But last week, the Scots found out that their national dish of haggis was actually invented by the English. But haggis isn't the only one whose origins are not from where you might think. Lasagne...

Due to recent historical events, poking fun at the Germans - who the British think of as possessing no sense of humour - is a great British pastime. Jeremy Clarkson is no exception. Jeremy, the presenter of the BBC motoring series Top Gear, must be taunting the Germans at least once a month...

If you're interested in old photography, take a look at these photos. These old photos of London were taken back in the 1800s. There's one from way back in 1844 showing the construction of Nelson's Column just 39 years after the Battle of Trafalgar at a time when the Bloody Code reigned...

Savernake Forest in Wiltshire is where King Henry VIII courted his soon-to-be third wife Jane Seymour - the mother of the future King Edward VI - beneath the trees. It's also the location of the Belly Oak. According to legend, the Devil appears to anyone who dances around it anti-clockwise and...

Motorists travelling along the A51 in Cheshire between Chester and Nantwich may think they are seeing things when they see Big Ben in a field. But they're not. Local businessmen Chris Sadler and Mike Harper built a straw replica of London's great icon in a field by the side of the road to...

In 1895, British poet and author Rudyard Kipling - the man who wrote The Jungle Book in 1894, giving us characters such as Mowgli and Shere Khan - wrote a poem about the hellish conditions British troops face in Afghanistan. Now, just like in the 19th Century, British soldiers are fighting a...

It was revealed last week that haggis, Scotland's national dish, was actually invented in England. Food historian Catherine Brown (who is Scottish, so it wasn't an English person making these claims) has found a reference to haggis in an English cooking guide from 1615. The earliest mention...

Who would be Scottish? They didn't beat the English many times in battles and nowadays they don't beat the English many times in football or rugby. Scotland and England may nowadays be unified as one nation as they have been for 300 years, but there are still reasons for the hapless Scots to...