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Professor Steve Jones, a British scientist at University College London says that human evolution has stopped. People living one million years from now will resemble us as we are now. Evolution stops here: Future Man will look the same, says scientist By David Derbyshire 07th October...

Just what was the strange figure that terrorised the gaslit streets of Liverpool in 1894? Was it a vampire? Or just a crazed, bloodsucking lunatic? Read this and make up your own mind. As related by Tom Slemen, a Liverpudlian paranormal investigator... Araminta A Victorian Vampire...

The English wreck a "Welcome to Scotland" sign that was erected miles from the border A couple of silly women were "shocked" when they discovered that there "Welcome to Scotland" sign was destroyed - even though the sign wasn't on the England-Scotland border and was even further south than the...

Did you know that the English king Richard II invented the handkerchief and that when Henry VIII died he weighed a whopping 30 stone (420 pounds)? Well, you do now. The secrets, loves and scandals of the Royal Family are laid bare A new book of historical trivia lays bare obscure secrets...

Over 68,000 people were at Old Trafford in Manchester on Saturday to see Leeds Rhinos retain their Super League crown, after they defeated St Helens in the Grand Final, English rugby league's equivalent of the Super Bowl. It is the third time in four years they have been crowned English...

The Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips, who is Jewish, says that, however reprehensible Holocaust denial is, we must not allow the EU to make it illegal. In Britain, unlike other European countries, Holocaust-denial is not a crime. Why? Because Britain values free speech. The EU must do so...

Britain's newest forest is to be created. 60,000 native woodland trees are to be planted at an 860 acre site near St Albans, Hertfordshire. The area is awash with hstory. In 1461, the Second Battle of St Albans took place here during the Wars of the Roses. King Henry VI is reputed to have been...

The Daily Mail's Robert Hardman goes behind the scenes at Britain's Royal Mint, the organisation that produces the coins for the Great British pound (£) and pence (p). The Royal Mint is the world's oldest financial institution. Not only does it produce 1.3 BILLION British coins a year, from...

New Bond girl Gemma Arterton comes to a sticky end in the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace which will be released later this year. In a scene reminiscent to that in 1964's Goldfinger, Arterton, who plays an MI6 spy ordered to keep an eye on Bond, is drowned in crude oil with her body lying on...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, trailing the Tories in the polls, decided to have a reshuffle of his Cabinet this week. Nobody could have guessed that he would bring back Peter "Mandy" Mandelson back into the Government. Mandelson has twice before been disgraced thanks to his sleaze and...

Do you think that the Demon Barber, Sweeney Todd, is just a fictional character? If you do, then you are wrong. He was very much real. Sweeney Todd was born in the fetid East End of London in 1756, probably in Spitalfields. There is no disputing the location in London where he became...

British Army Gurkhas, the world's most fearsome and fearless warriors, have won a test case at the High Court in London to be able to settle in the UK. The British Government had shamefully said that Gurkhas who left the Army before 1997 didn't have the right to live in the UK. But this...

Appropriately, with Halloween just a month away, London giants Chelsea are to play in Transylvania, in Romania, today against European Cup new boys CFR Cluj. The pampered millionaire Chelsea stars have caused uproar in Romania by issuing a 35-page list of demands at their five-star hotel -...

Conservative leader David Cameron made a great speech at the Party Conference in Birmingham today, issuing a warning to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Labour Government that the Tories will form the next government with him as Prime Minister. In his speech, Cameron vowed to clean up the...

Why mulitculturalism - and the equal rights and anti-discrimination cultures (which Noo Labour and now even trying, unfortunately, to extend into the Monarchy by bringing in a ridiculous law to allow Catholics to become Monarch) - are destroying British society.... The police, the Crown, and...

Victorian Britain (1837-1901) was the richest country on Earth - yet much of this wealth didn't trickle down to the poorest people of society. In all of Britain's great cities - London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool etc - there were areas of slums where the poor lived in such...

There is fury over two commemorative plaques honouring Peter Piaktow that have been put on two blocks of flats (apartments) in Whitechapel in the East End of London. Piaktow was the leader of an anarchist gang that was responsible for the the murder of three policemen The Sidney Street Siege...

It has been mentioned a few times in recent years, and here's another one - that it was the British, NOT the French, who invented champagne. Champagne was invented by the Englishman Christopher Merritt, who was born in 1614. He devised champagne-making techniques derived from the...

With the Labour Government well behind the Tories in the polls, it is looking likely that they will no longer be in power come the next General Election either next year or in 2009. As the party lies dying, its one last pathetic act is its attempt to destroy the monarchy - that great...

Durham, who have only been a first-class county side since 1991, have become English champions for the first time. They beat Kent in the glorious sunshine of Canterbury yesterday, a result which also means that Kent are relegated down to Division 2. Nottinghamshire needed to beat Hampshire at...