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RUGBY UNION The British national team - which plays for the whole of the British Isles including Southern Ireland - took on the South Africans in their own backyard yesterday and did themselves proud. It was the First Test of the Series between South Africa (the Springboks) and the British...

The fixtures for next season's Premier League came out today. The new season kicks off on Saturday 15th August. Premier League newcomers Burnley - in the top-flight for the first time since 1976 - play Stoke City on the opening day. Fellow newcomers Wolves and Birmingham play West Ham and...

For football fans, pre-season (i.e. now) is the worst time of the year (except if the year ends in an even digit). No football for weeks and weeks! Soon fans will be getting withdrawal symptoms. But one of the few good things about pre-season is the fact that we can look forward to when next...

The remains of a British soldier who died during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, which was fought between the British Empire and the villainous Zulus, have been identified. The Zulu Kingdom was a small state in southern Africa in what is now South Africa. The British defeated the Zulus during...

Poor Dyno the cocker spaniel pup was flushed down the toilet after little Daniel Blair decided he needed a wash. Thankfully, the puppy survived. Hapless Dyno travelled 20 yards along a sewage pipe before he was lifted out of a manhole, in Northolt, Middlesex. Dyno-Rod was called out to...

With Health and Safety going completely over the top in Britain, this latest story isn't too much of a surprise. An eco-warrior is being evicted from his cave in Brighton......because it doesn't have a fire exit. Hilaire Purbrick is now claiming that the decision is in breach of his human...

Over 100 Romanians were forced to shelter in a church in Belfast, Northern Ireland after locals subjected them to vile racist abuse. About 20 families were moved to safety from their homes in the Lisburn Road area of the city last night as it emerged there had even been threats to cut a...

English psychedelic rock band Kasabian have released their third album, "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum." It was released on 5th June and had already shot to number 1 in the UK album charts. The band, who are from the Leicestershire vilages of Blaby and Countesthorpe, have based the...

Gordon Brown may be the most unpopular Labour Prime Minister of all time. Indeed, he may be the most unpopular Prime Minister of any party of all time. In the recent EU Elections, in which each Member State elects politicians to represent it in the EU Parliament, the Labour Government in...

England made a poor start to the Super Eights stage of the World Twenty20 after losing by seven wickets to South Africa, who are starting to show that they are the best team in the tournament. England batted first, and you knew things wouldn't go right for them when they scored 111 which, in...

A 2000 year old war grave containing dozens of headless bodies has been found by workers digging an £87 million road for the 2012 London Olympics (it's amazing what you can find in Britain when you start digging). The mass grave was discovered in Thomas Hardy country on Ridgeway Hill, near...

British soldiers used to be called lobsterbacks by their American enemies because of the bright red uniforms they wore. Now lobsterback is an appropriate term for this British soldier in Afghanistan. Lobsters are protected by their hard shells. And in this instance, the body armour the...

The Avro Vulcan is a delta wing subsonic jet bomber that was operated by the Royal Air Force from 1953 until 1984. It is almost as iconic, and almost as beautiful, as another great RAF icon - the Spitfire. The Vulcan initially carried Britain's first nuclear weapon, the Blue Danube gravity...

One of the youngest members of the British Royal Family attended the Trooping the Colour yesterday to celebrate the Queen's official 83rd birthday. Lady Louise, the daughter of Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, is a spitting image of her auntie, the Princess Royal, and a spitting image...

London is the world's most visited city, with 16 million vistors annually. Now three of those are Michelle Obama and her two daughters. Yesterday, the Obamas visited Westminster Abbey, the site where British monarchs have been crowned for centuries. But America's First Lady looked...

Robin Hood is England's most famous, and most loved, outlaw. The green-clad fellow and his Merry Men (there were between 20 and 140 of them, including Little John, Much the Miller's Son, Will Scarlet, Arthur a Bland, David of Doncaster, Will Stutely, Friar Tuck, Alan-a-Dale and Maid Marian)...

How it is good to gloat at the Aussies sometimes. When England suffered a shock defeat against Holland in the opening match of the World Twenty20, Australia - who are England's biggest rivals - admitted that they laughed and cheered back at their hotel. That was before the Aussies suffered a...

Anyone who thinks that the archetypal British student is a stinky, skint, obnoxious, spotty punk rocker who lives in a scruffy bedsit with no furniture and eat and drinks nothing but Pot Noodles and Special Brew are right - except if the student goes to Oxford, Cambridge, Eton, St Andrews or...

England suffered the embarrasment of losing against minnows Holland in the opening game of this year's Cricket World Cup of the 20 overs version of the game. Their biggest rivals, the Australians, laughed and cheered in their hotel when England suffered the shock loss, but the fact that...

David Beckham is to make his first competitive start for England for two years tonight as England take on tiny Andorra. But fans have been struggling to get to the game - which kicks of at 8.15pm British time - due to a London Underground strike. London Underground workers began a 48-hour...