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Thousands of people across the world have experienced it. You are lying in bed, late at night, and all is quiet except for a persistent and annoying (and quite spooky) humming sound. This often keeps the victim awake for hours, and if they venture outdoors to try and discover the source of...

There is a tree at Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire that is no ordinary tree. With a circumference of almost 200yds, it's canopy is the size of London's Royal Albert Hall, where the Last Night of the Proms is held. The tree has the widest canopy of any tree in Great Britain and Ireland, and...

The leader of the far-right British National Party, Nick Griffin, has been invited to the Queen's garden party at Buckingham Palace. All members of the London Assembly (London's "parliament"), of which Griffin is a member, have been invited. Mr Griffin, from Powys in Wales, once called the...

History was made yesterday as Michael "Gorbals Mick" Martin was yesterday forced to resign his job as Speaker of the House of Commons - the first Speaker to be forced out of his job since 1695, and the first since the merger of the English/Welsh and Scottish parliaments to form the British...

Champions! Manchester United won the title yesterday in front of 75,000 fans. Since the Premiership started in 1992, Manchester United have won it 11 times. And now they have equalled Liverpool's record of 18 English titles in total. Yesterday was only the second time that Manchester United...

Merlin, the legenday Arthurian wizard, has for centuries been traditionally regarded as being either English or Welsh. Merlin became the young Arthur's tutor. It was Merlin who met the Lady in the Lake and persuaded her to present King Arthur with the magical sword, Excalibur. Arthur pulled...

Prince Edward (the Earl of Wessex) and his wife, the Countess of Wessex, attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show yesterday, allowing photographers to snap rare pictures of one of the youngest members of the Royal Family. Lady Louise Windsor (born 8th November 2003), who may one day be Queen, is...

Not that long ago, the streets of London, and other British cities, were brutally violent places, with a murder rate which dwarves that today. But to combat this astonishing violence and brutality, offenders were punished with equal violence and brutality, with punishments ranging from hanging...

Today, the 50th birthday of a Great British icon took - that of the Mini. Over 2,500 Minis in a vast assortment of colours took to the streets of London today for the annual 56-mile-long London to Brighton run to celebrate the car's 50th anniversary. The car even featured in the 1969 British...

Whilst filming an episode of the new series of popular BBC motoring show Top Gear, two of the show's presenters decided to gatecrash a wedding. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond had been racing each other the length of the country, from London to Edinburgh, a distance of almost...

Norway last night won the Eurovision Song Contest with a record 387 points. It was also a record winning margin by a song - by 169 points. It is the third time Norway has won it, having previously been victorious in 1995 and 1985. Twenty-five nations took part, and this year's competition...

The body of a wealthy man found buried under the bleak Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire may have been a king. And the treasures he was buried with may have been Britain's first Crown Jewels. The artefacts that the man, dubbed "Tall Stout Man", had been buried with are so rare that they have been...

A church in Uckfield, East Sussex has unveiled its new statue of Christ. The unusual thing about the statue is that Christ is wearing a pair of baggy jeans, depicting him as a man of the 21st Century. The 7-foot high statue cost £35,000 and was sculpted by Marcus Cornish. And it's not like...

One of Britain's newest traditions was carried out again today. Since 2007, the tiny town of Wooton Bassett in Wiltshire turns out to welcome home military heroes from Iraq or Afghanistan. But, sadly, those heroes have all come home in coffins. Since 2007, RAF Lyneham, near the town, has...

Never mind all that aerobics, badminton or netball nonsense. Pupils at a school in Coventry have a REAL Physical Education lesson. The kids, aged 10 to 12, have to run a gruelling army commando assault course of barbed wire, swamps and even fire. The course is normally taken on by military...

One of the principles of the MoD is to defend Britain's interests. And you would think one of those interests is the right of Our Boys serving in Afghanistan and Iraq to look at Page 3, a Great British institution. But no. MoD bores have decided to ban Our Boys from looking a Page 3, despite...

Catherine Masters, who is 109, wrote to Queen Elizabeth II to complain about the fact that the monarch is wearing the same yellow dress in each of the birthday cards she sent Catherine for the last five years. She suggested to the Queen that maybe it was time to change the colour of her dress...

It's July 1940, 10 months into World War II. Britain has just sustained Nazi Germany's first major defeat in the War, that of Germany's failure to destroy Britain's air defence and its failure to force Britain out of the war by forcing a surrender (the Nazis couldn't have been that clever if...

Both of these teams were defeated in the Semi-Finals of the European Cup in mid-week, Arsenal losing to Manchester United, the best team in the world, and Chelsea undeservedly losing to Barcelona thanks to an incompetent, out-of-his-league Norwegian referee who wrongly turned down FOUR Chelsea...

It comes as no surprise that in Britain, widely regarded as the most anti-EU country, the annual Europe Day goes largely unnoticed (it was on Saturday apparently, and it was celebrated across Europe except in Britain, where millions of people were completely oblivious to it). So to get...