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The British public has voted for Nelson as the greatest British military hero of all times. Nelson who, along with Wellington (who finished third in the survey), helped to put an end to Napoleon and his nefarious ways. Others in the Top 10 included Montgomery, Richard the Lionheart, King...

In 1900, Britain was the richest country on Earth, thousands of British schoolchildren's hearts filled with pride at the huge areas of the schoolroom map coloured pink and knowing we were Top Dog, King Edward VII was on the Throne and Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil was Prime Minister...

An amateur treasure hunter armed only with a metal detector has discovered a 1500 year old Anglo-Saxon (early English) cross worth a stonking £25,000. The cross dates from the 600s and was found on a farm in Nottinghamshre... Amateur treasure hunter finds £25,000 bejewelled cross in field...

A statue of the Queen is to be erected on Trafalgar Square's famous (or infamous) fourth plinth after her death. The fourth plinth was erected in 1841 - around the time Nelson's Column was built - and has been empty for 150 years, apart from the odd temporary statue. There have been debates...

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson - famous for his politically incorrect comments - is to launch the American version of the show to be shown on NBC - but the Yorkshireman has turned down an offer of presenting the show full-time as he does not want to leave Britain. The British TV show, about motor...

Eric Smith, of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire has just completed the world's biggest jigsaw puzzle. It has 24,000 pieces and took him six months to complete. It measures 12 foot by 6 foot, features fish, birds, mammals, planets and buildings and has about 10 or 12 jigsaw puzzles inside it...

Several members of the Great Britain Olympics team have posed naked for the camera for a cool photoshoot. Let's hope they win loads of medals. Only the United States and Russia (including when it was USSR) have won more Summer Olympics medals than Great Britain.... Naked ambition: Britain's...

Amazing new computer-generated images show what the Earth look slike stripped bare - without plants, water, topoil and man-made structures. OneGeology is the flagship for UN International Year of Planet Earth 2008.. What the world looks like naked: The amazing image of Earth's geology laid...

Britain's MI5 is using a fleet of sophisticated surveillance aircraft to search for Britons who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan. The aircraft, with eavesdropping equipment, are flying over British cities.... Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters By Jason...

News just coming in is that tragic British honeymooner Ben Mullany has died. Ben Mullany and his new wife Catherine, both 31, were on the last day of their honeymoon on the Carribean island of Antigua when they were both shot in their room. His wife died instantly, but Ben, a former British...

Astonishing secret memo in which Blair accuses Brown of "hubris and vacuity" In a secret memo, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accused current PM Gordon Brown of playing in Tory leader David Cameron's hands by his "lamentable" and vacuous" performance as PM. Despite Brown being...

CRICKET Michael Vaughan today stood down as the captain of the England Test team. Yesterday England were beaten in a Series against South Africa for the first time in England since 1965. Vaughan became captain of England in 2003, taking over from Nasser Hussain. Also, Paul Collingwood has...

"Intolerant" villagers stop "tolerance" festival A village festival of tolerance has been scrapped because of opposition from "intolerant" locals. By Stephen Adams 30 Jul 2008 The Telegraph Queen Mary, queen of England and Ireland (the daughter of Henry VIII), reigned from 1553...

The British are supposed to be a nation of animal lovers. But this reputation has been shattered today after the Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), the world's oldest animal welfare chariry, said the number of people jailed for animal cruelty has increased by 42%...

The King of Tonga (a Pacific nation comprising of 169 tiny islands which gained independence from Britain in 1970), George Tupou V, was crowned today and a massive feast was prepared in celebration. Tonga, the world's most obese nation, celebrated the coronation with a giant meal which...

It's not just plucky little Republic of Ireland which can give the EU a kick in the knackers, as it did recently when it voted against the EU Constitution. Britain, the EU's second-biggest member state, and the most anti-EU of the lot, will probably give the Eurocrats a lot more to worry about...

Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong are an indie band from London. Joe Lean himself hails from the Brixton area, famous for the riots of 1981. Here is the review of their debut album... Album Review: Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong - Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong By Gavin Martin 25/07/2008...

Recent surveys show that Barack Obama is much less popular in Britain than he is in France and Germany. In France, Obama leads McCain in the opinion polls by a whopping 51 points. In Germany, which went over the top when Obama visited a few days ago, Obama leads McCain by 49 points. But in...

A crisp with big "ears" that looks like former England footballer Gary Lineker has been discovered. This is fitting as the crisp was found in a packet of Walkers crisps, a company which the 47-year-old Match of the Day presenter is an ambassador of. Walkers crisps are made in the former...

Prince William is preparing to becoming an "apprentice" on becoming king. His father, Prince Charles, and grandmother, the Queen, have drawn up a two-year training programme on the art of kingship, covering things such as the workings of government and constitutional affairs etc. The Prince...