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The far-right British National Party (BNP) has been embarrassed after it used a picture of an iconic British fighter plane on a leaflet for it anti-immigration campaign. Its manifesto for the upcoming elections to the European Parliament includes a ban on Eastern European migrants, such as...

Queen Victoria came to the British Throne in 1837 and reigned until 1901, Britain's longest-reigning monarch. The nation of which she was Head of State was the world's richest, with a manufacturing industry larger than the rest of the world put together, and it was also the most powerful country...

An ancient book containing strange medical remedies that was recently re-discovered is to go under the hammer at Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, tomorrow. The 17th Century book contains ingredients such as ragwort, nightshade, venis turpentine, ferne roots...

Yesterday, terrorists attacked the Sri Lanka cricket team's bus as they were on their way to start the third day of their Second Test match against Pakistan in Lahore. Seven of the Sri Lanka players, household names in all cricket-playing nations, were injured and so was their British...

Former England cricket star Chris Broad was the hero yesterday after terrorists, probably Islamic, attacked the Sri Lanka team's bus as it was on its way to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore to play the third day of the Second Test against Pakistan. Broad, who is now a referee and way on his was...

Princess Beatrice has become the first British Royal to appear in a movie after having a cameo appearance in a new British movie released on 6th March. And the movie is about Princess Beatrice's great-great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. Princess Beatrice, aged 20, the daughter of...

The British have traditionally not been very good at making great films. We leave that to Hollywood, whilst instead we make and export great music. It seems that great British movies come along every 25 to 30 years or so. 1981 gave us Chariots of Fire. 2008 gave us Slumdog Millionaire, which...

The old gentlemen at Lord's (England's national cricket stadium) in London may not be too happy to hear this. But, according to an academic, the ancient sport of cricket wasn't invented in England but was, in fact, invented in Continental Europe. He points to a 16th century work, attributed...

Britain has the worst air pollution from traffic in Europe, according to a government report. The fumes on certain stretches of British roads breach safety levels in a whopping 95% of cities and regions in the UK, compared with 82% in Austria, 52% in Germany and just 21% in France. This...

This is only the third year that Croke Park in Dublin has hosted rugby union's Six Nation's Championship. It is usually a stadium for gaelic football, the Republic of Ireland's national sport. However, with Landsdowne Road having been demolished to make way for the new Aviva Stadium, the...

A man has spent 30 years building a scale model of Herod's Temple in his garden - and it's still not completed. Mr Garrard has constructed the huge model in his garden in Norfolk using thousands of clay bricks and tiles, each one he baked and painted himself. His model has so impressed...

A famous photograph taken in 1940 shows plumes of black smoke surrounding London's St Paul's Cathedral (which miraculously, and thankfully, survived as all around it was being razed) as German bombers nightly discharged hundreds of bombs and incendiary devices causing devastation across the...

Only the British are probably eccentric enough to play a game of football which has HUNDREDS of players taking part and the nets are three MILES apart. But that is what happened yesterday when the annual Shrove Tueday football matches took place the length and breadth of the nation. The...

Millions of people have had their computers infected with a virus or a worm that, for example, can be transmitted through unexpected emails that trigger the worm when they are opened. However, Mark Taylor from Yeovil, Somerset, had a REAL worm in his computer. After seeing an error message...

The most famous mutiny in history was probably that which occurred onboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty in 1789 when Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers rose up against the captain, William Bligh, and 18 of his loyal men. But at least those men were allowed to be cast adrift in a...

A new statue of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was unveiled yesterday in London. The Queen Mother was the Queen during World War II (before, of course, she became the Queen Mother) and was married to King George VI, or Bertie as she called him. George VI and Queen Elizabeth famously...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has sent his condolences to Tory leader David Cameron after his son died today, aged six. Ivan Cameron suffered cerebral palsy and epilepsy and died this morning at St Mary's Hospital in London after falling ill during the night. Cameron and his wife Samantha were...

Michel Platini, the UEFA president, has for a long time given people the suspicion that he is anti-English (and there has always seemed to be a bit of an anti-English agenda at UEFA, European football's governing body, as a whole). The Mirror's Brian Reade used to be dubious about these...

The town of Hartlepool on the eastern coast of England has an interesting history. In 1914, during World War I, the town was partially destroyed by the German Navy. Tragically, 86 civilians were killed. In 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship sank in the area. Its only survivor, a...

What can be more quintessentially British than helping in the war effort..... by making buns to keep troops' morale up? And if British soldiers in Afghanistan are enjoying their fruit cakes, they have a mum to thank. Louise Bennett, who lives near Glasgow in Scotland, has a son in the Royal...