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To mark 90 years since the end of World War I, Britain's Royal Mail has released a commemorative stamp. On the stamp is a poppy which features the face of an unknown soldier who was killed in 1918... The Remembrance Poppy stamp which contains the subtly haunting face of an unknown soldier...

British soldiers are renowned throughout the world for their great bravery and skill on the battlefield, and are probably the best in the world. Though many British Army leaders, such as its generals, are often not viewed in the same way. During World War I, one foreigner said of the British...

Royal Marine, Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, proudly received his George Cross from the Queen on Thursday - and now he claims to be the first person ever to hold both the George Cross and the Victoria Cross. However, the Victoria Cross is his girlfriend! Lance Cpl Croucher was initially...

Staff at a firm of solicitors in Britain's second largest city are so spooked at working there thanks to its ghostly goings-on that they refuse to work late at night. LAC Solicitors, in Birmingham, West Midlands, is riddled with unexplained phemonena, including ghostly shadows, mysterious...

Yesterday, it snowed in London for the first time in October since 1934. Londoners have not experienced snow in October since the year that King Leopold III came to the throne in Belgium, the first Flash Gordon comic strip was published, the Soviet Union joins the League of Nations and...

Meet Peter Buckley, the world's worst boxer. The Brummie is calling a day after suffering 156 defeats - more defeats than any other boxer on the planet. Buckley has sparred with several impressive opponents including 42 future British, Commonwealth, European or World champions, such as Duke...

A Plymouth couple are bottling spring water and selling it after discovering a natual spring in their garden, reminiscent of an episode of BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses. In the 1992 episode of Only Fools and Horses (which was voted by the public as the greatest British comedy series...

The 593rd anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt occured on 25th October. Last week, French academics, at a conference at the Medieval History Museum in Agincourt, said that the English were war criminals during that battle, setting fire to prisoners and killing French noblemen who had...

Next month marks the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War, a mainly European conflict in which great empires, such as the British Empire (with the world's largest navy), Russia (with the world's largest army) and the Ottoman Empire, clashed. There are just two British survivors of this...

A house once lived in by Shakesperean actor David Garrick was damaged in a fire yesterday. Garrick, who lived from 1717 to 1779, bought the home in 1754. It is situated in Hampton Court in south west London and it took 70 firefighters to tackle the blaze..... Pictured: Grade I listed home...

Prince Philip has shown what a national treasure he is again during his and the Queen's state visit to Slovenia. In these days of political correctness, it is good to have an ambassador for Britain who isn't afraid to say what he - and probably the majority of people - thinks. This week, the...

The French have claimed that the English were war criminals during the Battle of Agincourt which took place in 1415. Yesterday was the battle's 593rd anniversary. The French are probably just sore losers..... French claim English were war criminals at Agincourt By Peter Allen...

A mysterious pink light appeared in the dark sky over Mayfair in London on Monday night. But it probably wasn't aliens - the Meteorological Office said it was probably the lights of the metropolis reflected in a cloud... Pictured: The mystery pink light that appeared over London By Daily...

There have been many eccentric and macabre British executioners over the years. Jack Ketch, who performed his duties during the tumultuous 1680s, was notoriously clumsy. During the beheading of Lord Russell in 1683, it took several hacks with Ketch's axe to finally sever the head from the...

Only four women have ever appeared on British banknotes (the current monarch, Elizabeth II; Britannia; prison reformer Elizabeth Fry; and soldiers' nurse Florence Nightingale). Britain has 20% of the entire world's CCTV cameras. Britain's Penny Black was the world's first postage stamp...

Unlike other EU countries, Britain is, thankfully, independent of the European Central Bank in Germany. Britain's central bank is the Bank of England, affectionately known as "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" (up until the early 19th Century, Threadneedle Street was actually called Gropec**t...

The Queen's favourite horse, Monarch, died last week. The horse lived in the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace, the stable and the garage of the Royal Family. The horses live there, and the great coaches of state are kept there. King Richard II established the King's Mews in 1377 to keep his...

The Duchess of Cornwall is to give her husband, Prince Charles, 60 gifts for his birthday - one for every year of his life. Camilla Parker-Bowles, 61, will present Charles with the gifts over his birthday weekend next month (his birthday is 14th November). The gifts will include a 60-year-old...

The FA are investigating an incident in which a 50p coin was thrown at assistant referee Phil Sharp during the 0-0 draw between Aston Villa and Portsmouth at Villa Park yesterday. Sharp suffered a nasty cut to his head. FA probes Villa Park coin attack BBC Assistant referee Phil Sharp...

A town or city having its own town cryer is an ancient British tradition which goes back centuries and is loved by millions of peope - so no doubt the EU will soon try to ban this "outdated" custom, with anyone caught working as a town cryer jailed for 6 months and fined £12,000. In Medieval...