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2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and the 150th anniversary of his book "On The Origin Of Species." To celebrate, the Mail has tracked down 13 of the Great British scientist's 100 living desendants. Darwin had 10 children but, because of Victorian Britain's terrible...

Today, the coastal resort of Blackpool, in Lancashire, in the North West of England, is Britain's biggest seaside resort, with 10 million visitors a year. Its giant fairground, the Pleasure Beach, famous for its Pepsi Max Big One (which was the tallest, steepest and fastest rollercoaster in the...

A giant rabbit led police on a wild goose-chase (or should that be rabbit-chase?) as it managed to escape and cause chaos in a town centre. The rabbit, sarcastically named Tiny, is the size of a small dog and brought traffic to a standstill in Canterbury, Kent. Bunny and Clyde: Tiny the...

The "A Walk In History" site is a website in which the author undertakes historical tours of London and then writes about them. This tour of the great city is all about the Gordon Riots of 1780. The Gordon Riots refers to a number of events in a predominantly Protestant religious uprising in...

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, may be released from the Broadmoor loony bin after having been signed off as low-risk. Sutcliffe was given 20 life sentences in 1981 for the murder of 13 women between 1975 and 1980 across Yorkshire and in Manchester. He also attempted to kill 7 other...

English is the language of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters. And the uninflected Germanic language of England is also the most widespread, being the official language of 53 nations, most of...

Most foxes live in the wild and so usually don't get the chance to watch TV and lounge around on the sofa and usually get by by rummaging for food in people's dustbins if the cocky canines aren't stealing chickens from a nearby farm. But Miss Snooks is different. She's been living in Mr...

Twenty Taliban were killed during a raid in which British soldiers seized £50 million worth of heroin. British snipers and powerful British Army Apache helicopter gunships attacked the base the Taliban were trying to defend... British soldiers seize heroin worth £50m in Afghanistan airborne...

Victor Moses was a Christian youngster in Nigeria playing soccer with a "sticky tape" ball at a time when religious strife between the Muslim majority and Christian minority was rife in that country. After both his parents were murdered by Muslims, Moses was spirited away to safety to England...

King Henry VIII may be viewed as a tyrant who had no problem cutting the head off anybody who angered him (including two of his six wives) but a love letter reveals that the monarch had a softer side. The love letter was written to Anne Boleyn, the mother of Henry's daughter Princess Elizabeth...

Alfie Patten, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, is the father of 7lb 3oz Maisie... and he's just 13-years-old. The baby's mother is 15-year-old Chantelle Steadman. The couple take time off playing on the PlayStation to change their baby's nappies. Britain still has the highest teenage...

In every way, Midsomer is just the typical pretty English village - it has its ancient pub that has been serving the locals for centuries, complete with 19th century photos of the local cricket team; a church; a cricket pitch where villagers can while away the hot summer days drinking cider...

The British Army calls it the "silent assassin" - and the British-made L115A3 Long Range Rifle has killed many Taliban in recent weeks. The British Army is using sniper platoons to target the Taliban and 'The Long', as the snipers call it, can take out insurgents from a mile away. Pictured...

Rugby's annual Six Nations Championship is upon us once again, involving England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy. But why, even if two British teams are playing each other and when it is the British people who pay the BBC's licence fee, does the BBC insist on weighing the players...

Oldham Athletic have stunned the world of football by introducing an all-pink kit. But they aren't turning into a bunch of nancy boys. The team, who are flying high in League One (the third tier out of four tiers of the 92 professional teams of English football) will wear it just once (in a...

A 164 foot tall white horse - about the same height as Nelson's Column - will tower over the English countryside in Kent, the "Garden of England." It will be Southern England's equivalent of Northern England's "Angel of the North" statue but twice as tall (though I think the Angel of the North...

After Dreamy the dormouse's winter hibernation was interrupted after his cosy nest was dug up by a dog, he was taken to the Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre in Somerset to be looked after in safety. However, the little fellow didn't slumber from his months-long nap when he was placed on a...

Holidaymers looked to the sky in awe as a mysterious object hovered above them for 10 minutes. The UFO was spotted over a caravan park in Brean, Somerset near the coast. One tourist managed to film the object. Something strange is definitely happening in Somerset. Last year local...

The rock which Bonnie Prince Charlie used to begin the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 has been found by an English grandmother in her rockery. Many Scots (and people around the world who love Scotland) believe that Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite followers were undertaking a just and noble...

In the wake of the "British Jobs For British Workers" protests at oil refineries and power stations around the country, British Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, suggested that Britons who were protesting about foreign workers in the UK should go abroad to look for employment. This gave...