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Prince Philip today made his first public appearance for two weeks in a bid to end growing speculation over the state of his health. The World War II veteran, 87, joined his wife, the Queen, at church in Sandringham, Norfolk today. Last week it emerged that Buckingham Palace had been forced...

Britain is a nation that stood up to, and defeated, tyranny in the form of the Spanish Armada, Old Boney, the Kaiser and Adolf Hitler. Yet it seems to be terrified of a few flakes of snow, with whole cities grinding to a halt after a light dusting. Does this mean the British are just too...

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, renowned for speaking his mind, has caused controversy after calling British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot." Clarkson is, quite rightly, probably wondering what all the fuss is about. After all, Clarkson is right. Gordon Brown IS...

The stairlift wasn't, as is commonly believed, invented by the American C C Crispen in 1930. He though up the idea 400 years after King Henry VIII. The king invented a stairlift in the 1500s to get his gigantic bulk up and down the stairs. A block and tackle would have been used by...

Queen Victoria is Britain's longest-serving monarch (though Queen Elizabeth II is catching up) as well as one of its most loved. Now a new British movie, released on 6th March, The Young Victoria, hopes to show another side to the Queen and Empress we often view as dour and strait-laced. The...

Carol Thatcher, the daughter of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been sacked from her job as a roving reporter on the BBC1 show "The One Show" over comments about French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Carol, 55, was overheard in the show's green room saying that Tsonga...

Despite being credited for ridding England of the dictatorial Absolute Monarchy (but by making England a dictatorial republic for 11 years) and being the father of British democracy, Oliver Cromwell can also be credited with coining the well-known phrase "warts and all." Cromwell, who ruled...

Just as England is currently ruled by a Scotsman named Gordon Brown (albeit England not being a proper, independent nation), could Germany soon be ruled by a man whose father was Scottish? David McAllister, half-German/half-British, is one of the leading figures in Germany's ruling CDU party...

England's King Henry VIII, who reigned from 1509 to 1547, was quite attractive in his youth. He was a royal pin-up: tall, muscular and extremely fit. He was a talented athlete and jouster, who took part in many great tournaments. His good looks even impressed the Venetian Ambassador. But, as...

Burke and Hare are two of the most infamous felons of British history. The two Irishmen moved to Edinburgh in Scotland to work on the Union Canal (at the time, the whole of the island of Ireland, rather than just Northern Ireland, was part of Britain, so Burke and Hare were very much British)...

At the risk of upsetting a few silly environmentalists, the first steam train to be built in Britain in almost 50 years made her maiden voyage yesterday - and it brought back memories of the golden age of the railways. The Peppercorn Class A1 Pacific 60163 Tornado, based on the locomotives...

THE RECESSION As the recession bites, workers in the four main areas of the United Kingdom - Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland - have downed tools in what is the biggest strike action the country has seen since the Miners' Strike of 1984, when thousands of coal miners lost their...

Wearing balaclavas to protect their identities, they look like a group of cowardly IRA terrorists. But these young men aren't killing innocent men, women and children by putting bombs in litter bins. These are after a much less controversial target. These are vigilantes, armed with a...

In the city of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy, lies one of Europe's most macabre tourist attractions. In the catacombs beneath the Capuchin monastery lie mummies up to 400 years old - but, many with flesh still intact and wearing their clothes, it looks like many of them have been dead just a few...

The new Royal Hospital in Derby, Derbyshire, is calling in an exorcist after sightings of a creepy spook. The figure, which wears a cloak, has been seen stalking the wards and corridors of the hospital. Many believe it may be the ghost of a Roman soldier as the hospital was, controversially...

One of the advantages of having a constitutional monarchy is that during times of crisis like the recession that Britain is currently experiencing, the monarch provides a neutral, NON-political focal point that the people can rally around instead of a probably much-maligned president or any...

The Royal Navy's newest warship, HMS Daring, arrived at her new home of Portsmouth for the first time ever today. HMS Daring is the first of six new Type 45 destroyers for the Royal Navy, the largest and most powerful air defence destroyers ever operated by the Royal Navy. She is the eighth...

Greater Manchester Police have released video footage of one of its officers being kicked and stamped on by Scottish football hooligans last year. The fans of Scottish team Glasgow Rangers rioted in the Piccadilly area of central Manchester after seeing their team lose 2-0 against Russian side...

London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, has appointed its new commissioner. Sir Paul Stephenson takes over from Sir Ian Blair as Britain's top cop. Sir Ian Blair was mired in controversy, with his embarrassing politically correct views and his obvious support for the...