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In another case of members of the public dealing with criminals, a paedophile has been found strangled in woods in Great Witchingham, Norfolk. Gordon Boon, 73, was jailed for six years in 2001.... Convicted paedophile found strangled and dumped in woods after suspected vigilante attack...

Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Nationalists, the SNP, once used Iceland and the Republic of Ireland as models for what an independent Scotland, in the event that it becomes independence, should aspire to. But have recent events in these two countries shattered the Scottish...

Another great article from the Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn (who should be Prime Minister)... Iceland's Banki Hankipanki goes belly-up! 09th October 2008 Daily Mail Richard Littlejohn On reflection, we should have realised something wasn't altogether kosher when an obscure...

Nursery rhymes, such as "Humpty Dumpty", "Jack and Jill" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" are enjoyed by children in most English-speaking countries. But did you know that many of them are derived from real-life events in British history? Humpty Dumpty was, in real-life, a powerful cannon used by...

A crowd urged a suicidal teenager to jump to his death in Derby, Derbyshire. Shaun Dykes, aged 17, had been suffering from depression for months. Whilst threatening to jump from the roof of a multi-story car park, the watching crowd below urged to jump, and shouted things such as: "How far can...

Princess Eugenie, 18, donned a nurse's uniform during a night out with pals. The Queen's granddaughter, who is sixth in line to the British Throne, was at the posh Prefects' Party at £23,000-a-year Marlboprough College in Wiltshire. How lucky we are to have a monarchy..... Eu asked for a...

A man who shot dead former boxer James Oyebola was yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 28 years by the Old Bailey. Kanyanta Mulenga shot dead James - who won a boxing bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games - after he told Mulenga to stub out his cigarette in a nightclub in Fulham, west London...

British Prime Minister Gordon brown, and the Chancellor Alistair Darling, yesterday unveiled a staggering £500 billion injection to rescue British banks - equal to a £20,000 bill for every British taxpayer. The Sun, as only a British newspaper can, dubbed it "Thundersplurge is go...

In what sounds like something that would happen in Communist China or NAZI Germany, a woman gets criminal record - for selling fruit and vegetables on her market stall in Imperial measures. She was charged under the Weights and Measures Act - even though the EU said that Britain is allowed to...

The Daily Mail's Stephen Glover lists ten reasons why the recession may bring some benefits to Britain. These benefits include less immigration to Britain, Scots ignoring the pro-independence Scottish Nationalists by concluding that Scotland would be better off riding the storm as part of a...

A thief who stole £850 (US$1,623) was frogmarched through the streets by his boss with a humiliating sign round his neck. The incident happened in Witham, Essex. This is not the only recent example of public humiliation of a felon in the UK. Last year, a criminal was tarred and feathered...

Tim and Jackie Ferrier love to have donkeys roaming around their home in Bude, Cornwall. They love eating French toast, bananas and biscuits - and even join the Ferriers for lunch at the kitchen table... Ee-aagh: The donkeys free to wander around a family's home... and indulge their...

Many people assume the last successful invasion of England was in 1066. But in actual fact, the last invasion of England occured in 1688 - by the Dutch. Perhaps the reason why many British people alive today don't consider this a proper invasion is because it is was a "glorious" invasion, a...

For a team ranked just 131st in the world, Kazakhstan have high ambitions. They are England's next opponents in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. The match takes place at Wembley on Saturday. Despite their lowly ranking, this country of just 15 million people - but which is nine times the size...

London team Tottenham Hotspur have many things in common with the Titanic this season. Spurs are having their worst start to a season since 1912, the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic was expected to be successful, instead it lies at the bottom of the sea. Spurs were expected to be...

Little Britain star David Walliams often dresses as a woman in the TV show, but he's now dressing up as a woman for a strange photoshoot... He really is a laydee: David Walliams shows his feminine side in a startling photoshoot By Daily Mail Reporter 08th October 2008 Daily Mail...

A very poisonous, and ugly, fish has been found in the River Thames. The weever, which can cause swelling and pain for up to a fortnight, was found in the river at Tilbury in Essex - the place where Elizabeth I rallied her troops as Spain's mighty Armada was on its way to invade England...

Shares on the London Stock Exchange, the world's third-largest stock exchange, plummeted today after the Great Crash of 2008 is about to send Britain, Europe's second-biggest economy, into its first recession since the early 1990s. Shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) tumbled 40% in at...

FA Cup holders Portsmouth must face AC Milan in the UEFA Cup group stages. It is Portsmouth's debut season in Europe. Manchester City must face Steve McClaren's FC Twente, Tottenham Hotspur face Spartak Moscow (Spurs striker Roman Pavlyuchenko's former club), and Aston Villa play Ajax. There...

The Royal Navy's new Astute Class submarines are currently being built in Britain. These submarines are the largest and most powerful submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy - and they are also the world's most technologically advanced submarines. Together with its new Type 45 destroyers -...