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A new survey has revealed that the Queen is the most trustworthy public figure in Britain. 53% of those polled said they believed the Queen would keep her word, a higher figure than any other person and far higher than any politican. Prince Charles was the second-most trustworthy Royal...

2012 will be the year of the London Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. But it could also be the year of an event that we wouldn't be looking forward to. It could be the year that a huge solar storm hits the Earth and, if it does, it could spell disastrous consequences. A similar...

A British soldier in Afghanistan was shot in the head - but just an hour later was back manning his machine gun. When a bullet pierced Pte Leon Wilson's helmet and sent him flying, his buddies naturally thought he was dead. But they were amazed when he got back up without a scratch on him...

Animal lover Richard Lavelle has baffled experts by getting foxes to stand on their hind legs. Every night, Mr Ravelle, an 80-year-old retired GP, gets the animals to perform the feat in his garden in Littleover, Derbyshire, in return for some food. Animal lover baffles experts by training...

During the Edwardian era (1901-1910), Britain still had a great Empire, the largest the world had ever known and whose population dwarved even that of China, and as a result, maps of the world were swathed in pink (though the Empire would get larger still, and would not reach its zenith until...

On Saturday, Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, became Britain's longest-serving consort ever, overtaking Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III, who was consort between 1761 and 1818 (George III died in 1820) - a period of 57 years and 70 days. Prince Philip, who served in...

Ahhh, the glorious British spring and summer. The winter has gone, the sun shines brightly, colourful flowers brighten up our villages and meadows, birds sing merrily in the trees, warm beer is drunk in a pretty garden of an 800-year-old pub - and cricket is back. The new Liverpool Victoria...

A Zimbabwean, Andy Flower, has been named as the new coach of the England cricket team. Flower, the former captain of the Zimbabwe team, has been acting coach of England since January when Peter Moores was sacked. Flower impressed during that stint, leading England to victory in the one-day...

When these two English giants were drawn against each other in this year's European Cup quarter final, there were groans from many people. After all, Liverpool and Chelsea have played each other in the latter stages of this competition every year since 2005, with goals in many of the games as...

A bayonet charge undertaken by British soldiers against the Mahdi Army in Afghanistan in 2004 is being used by the US as an example of how to tackle insurgents. Just 20 British soldiers took on 100 insurgents, but when they started running out of ammo the British fixed bayonets and charged...

Thousands gathered today in the cities of Liverpool, Nottingham and Sheffield to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, when 96 Liverpool fans were killed at Hillsborough Stadium, the worst disaster in British sporting history. Fans today gathered at Anfield, Liverpool's...

One of the many advantages of having a constitutional monarchy is that we have an excuse to party every so often. Take jubilees, which celebrate significant anniversaries of monarchs coming to the throne - silver jubilee for 25 years on the throne, golden jubilee for 50 years on the throne and...

The Queen and other members of the Royal Family today attended Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle's St George's Chapel. Whereas the Pope is Head of the Catholic Church and can therefore only be a Catholic, the British Monarch is Head of the Church of England and can therefore only be...

From the sparsely populated, rocky and hauntingly beautiful Shetland Islands in the far north (closer to Norway than London), to the ancient, abandoned tin mines of Cornwall in the far south; from the stunning beaches and mild temperatures of Devon and the English Riviera to the snow-capped...

Britain has a long and bloody history, and the battlefields that dot the length and breadth of the nation are proof of that. From the Battle of Watling Street (60 or 61, when Boadicea attacked the Romans) and the Battle of Deorham (577, when a Saxon [English] force defeated a native Briton...

19th-century England was a ruthless place. There was no welfare system, and certainly no Chancellor of the Exchequer willing to guarantee your savings or pay dole money to the unemployed. It was a society whose God was money, and being in debt even landed you in prison. Besides this, there...

After Saturday's Grand National, shown live on BBC1, many viewers wrote to the Corporation to complain about presenter Clare Balding's jibes to winning jockey Liam Treadwell. Liam, aged 23, rode 100-1 shot Mon Mome to victory in the Grand National in Liverpool on Saturday, the biggest outsider...

In the 1990s and the early years of this decade, the Republic of Ireland was the fastest-growing economy in Europe, with growth around 8-9 percent for many years. It was because of this that it was known as the Celtic Tiger. But the Republic of Ireland's boom years are over, and it now finds...

The town of Wincanton in Somerset is, in most ways, an ordinary English town. Except the street names have names such as Peach Pie Street and Treacle Mine Road. This is because they have been named after places from the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, from the Sir Terry Pratchett "Discworld"...

There have been numerous sightings of supposed big cats throughout Britain over the years, creating rumours that animals such as panther (also known as puma) and lynx may be living wild in the British countryside. And there have been two more pieces of evidence recently. Firstly, claw marks on...