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Lord Lucan and a "gorilla": 36 hours in the life of Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth Trafalgar Square in central London, the world's most famous square, was completed in 1845 and is named after the famous naval battle in which the British heavily defeated the French forty years earlier. It was...

It is probably the most iconic image of the 7/7 bombings in London of 2005 - a photo of a woman wearing a burns mask on her face as she flees the Edgware Road bombing. She is accompanied by Paul Dadge, a former firefighter who had set up a makeshift triage unit at the back of a nearby Marks...

Everybody in Britain will be vaccinated against swine flu by the middle of next year. Britain has the third highest number of confirmed swine flu cases in the world (9,718 ) after Mexico (10,262) and the United States (33,902), and is the only country outside of the Americas to have swine flu...

During the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship was wrecked on the eastern English coast near Hartlepool around 1803. The only survivor of that shipwreck was a monkey. The people of Hartlepool hadn't seen foreigners that often and were unsure as to what a Frenchman looked like and, after questioning...

CRICKET Today is the day that the 2009 Ashes started. Before I tell you what happened, you should know what the Ashes is all about. It goes back to 1882 when Australia beat England at The Oval cricket ground in London - the first time England had been beaten by the Aussies on English soil...

One of the great things about the British summer is the many bizarre crop circles which mysteriously appear in farmers' fields. This year we have already had crop circles depicting a dragonfly, a hummingbird and a phoenix rising out of the ashes. Now we have a 350 foot crop circle of an...

Women players should NOT get paid the same as men at Wimbledon or any of the other tennis Grand Slams. Women, the PC Brigade and feminists may not agree - but the stats certainly do. People who argue for women tennis stars to be paid the same as men must not notice (or just ignore) one...

Former England goalkeeper David Seaman, 45, has moved in with a Dancing on Ice professional skater just three months after leaving his second wife Debbie. He has moved into the £500,000 Buckinghamshire home of Frankie Poultney, who he met whilst appearing on the show in 2006. Seaman appeared...

Pictured here is justice, Yemen-style. Yemen, a country of 23 million people which borders Saudi Arabia, is one of 59 countries which operate the death penalty. This paedophile - a barber - is accused of murdering and raping an 11-year-old boy, and cutting his body into pieces. His...

On Thursday 7th July 2005, 52 people were killed after three bombs exploded on the London Underground and on the Number 30 double-decker bus in Tavistock Square in London. At 8:50am, three bombs exploded on the Underground within 50 seconds of each other at King's Cross, Edgware Road and...

England and Germany are football's two biggest rivals, so it's not often that one compliments the other. So it's come as a big surprise that Germany legend Franz Beckenbauer believes that England would be fit to host the World Cup "tomorrow." England, which is the world's richest football...

When Mr Lloyd Hefferman decided to have a pint at The Botolph Arms in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, he didn't realise that he would become a potentially rich man. After buying a pint, he was handed a 20p coin with his change, after which he discovered that it is a rare 20p worth £7000. After...

England star Michael Owen has made a surprise move to English champions Manchester United. Predatory striker Owen, 29, has played for Newcastle United since 2005, and they were relegated from the Premiership this year. His contract with Newcastle has just run out, so United were able to sign...

Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs, may be a frail old man of 79 clinging on to life, but that hasn't stopped Britain denying him his release from jail. Biggs, along with his accomplices, stole £2.6 million (equivalent to £38 million today) from the Glasgow to London Royal Mail train in 1963...

The Clink - described in 1761 as "a very dismal hole" - was a notorious prison in Southwark, south-east London, which operated from the 1100s until it was burned down by rioters during the Gordon Riots of 1780. It housed both Catholic and Protestant religious non-conformists - depending on who...

Six people, including three children, have been killed after a fire ripped through a tower block in Camberwell, south London, on Friday. One of the children who died was just three weeks old. The 12-storey tower block, Lakanal House, which is occupied by around 94 flats and was built in the...

The Franklin Expedition set sail from England in 1845. Its mission was to traverse the Northwest Passage above Canada. The Royal Navy ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were assigned this task. After a few early fatalities the two ships became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island...

For years, the British have been complaining about the EU's barmy ban on bent bananas (which are naturally bent, of course) and other fruit and veg that the EU has deemed too wonky. EUphiles just dismissed all this as typical "EUphobe Britain" and its "EUphobe press inventing silly myths about...

According to the famous saying:" An Englishman's home is his castle" and, like anyone in a castle facing an external enemy, he will defend it by any means possible. But nobody told that to burglar Gregory McCalium. McCalium decided to break into his neighbour Frank Corti's home in Oxford...

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most famous crimes in history. On 8th August 1963, the Glasgow to London travelling post office was robbed at Bridego Railway Bridge at Ledburn, near Mentmore, Buckinghamshire. A 15-strong gang, led by Bruce Reynolds and which included Ronnie...