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The Solicitor General, Vera Baird, wants to end the centuries-old male right of succession to the throne. She wants a monarch's daughter to have an equal claim to the throne as a son. She also wants to get rid of the law that bans Catholics from the throne. These laws date back to 1701 when...

Was World War Two just as pointless and self-defeating as Iraq, asks Peter Hitchens By PETER HITCHENS 19th April 2008 Daily Mail Was World War II a miscalculated waste of life and wealth that destroyed Britain as a major power (and ultimately led to loss of Empire) and turned her into a...

20 April 2008 DID YOU NOSE? BLOW ME.. NOT-TO-BE-SNIFFED-AT FACTS ABOUT OUR HOOTERS Rachael Bletchly The People A pregnant rhinoceros, an express train or a chain saw - just a few of the phrases used to describe the nightly curse of SNORING. Blocked noses or collapsed nostrils are a...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution drafts go online By Andrew Pierce 17/04/2008 The Telegraph British scientist Charles Darwin, photographed in 1842 with his eldest son William Erasmus Darwin The first drafts of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, which have never before been seen...

Britain was the world's greatest power before WWII, with a gargantuan empire, the largest the world has ever known and which was at its greatest-ever extent in 1922 under King George VI. After WWII, despite winning that war, Britain never fully recovered from the damages it sustained during...

As British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits America, a Labour Party peer, Lord Desai, says that "Gordon Brown was put on earth to remind people how good Tony Blair was." Lord Desai accuses the British Prime Minister, who is a Scotsman, of being "haggis-like", and says that with Brown as the...

The ancient, medieval village of Denshaw, in the Pennine hills in northern England, has been targeted by jokesters on Wikipedia... Medieval village accused of having tapeworm outbreak becomes latest victim of Wikipedia entry 17th April 2008 Daily Mail It's a quiet Pennine hamlet best known...

Abu Izzadeen, a Muslim fanatic who heckled the then British Home Secretary, John Reid, in 2006, was found guilty today in a Crown Court in Kingston in London of fundraising for terrorists and inciting terrorism overseas. For these offences, Izzadeen faces spending the rest of his life in...

New studies show that Britain was once literally teeming with dinosaurs. Over 100 species of dinosaur once roamed Britain, meaning the country had one of the most diverse concentration of dinosaurs on the planet. It was also the British who discovered dinosaurs. In the 1820s, the British...

An article that shows how Canadians welcome home their soldiers who have been killed in war - whereas the British who, at one time, were incredibly proud of their armed forces, now just seem indifferent when Britain's war dead return..... Pictures that should shame us all reveal the shabby way...

A World War II German mine was detonated by bomb disposal experts on Friday after washing up on a beach on Stert Island in Bridgwater Bay, Somerset. German mine washed up on beach is detonated in front of holidaymakers 12th April 2008 Daily Mail A huge 1,500lb Second World War German...

BBC children's TV presenter Mark Speight has been found dead at Paddington train station in London today. Speight has been inconsolable with grief after his girlfriend Natasha Collins, a fellow BBC children's TV presenter, died earlier this year. He had found her lying in a scalding bath on...

Rock giants Oasis release their new album later this year. The band, which includes the son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, go psychedelic in the new album, thought to be being released in September... Oasis go psychedelic The band record new album at Abbey Road studios Liam Gallagher...

Jeremy Clarkson, one of the presenters of the BBC's popular motoring show Top Gear and a Sun columnist, explains in today's article to ignore those pessimistic and crazy environmentalists... More resilient than first thought ... the planet The Sun Saturday 15th April 2008 FOR...

Boozed up hoodies were scourge of Middle Ages too EXCLUSIVE BOOZED UP HOODIES WITH KNIVES AREN'T NEW ..THEY WERE SCOURGE OF THE MIDDLE AGES By David Edwards 12/04/2008 The Mirror People may think that hooded youths, armed with knives and vicious dogs and who drink copious amounts of...

On the 10th April, London's Big Ben, probably the world's most famous bell and often described as the "sound of Britain", celebrated its 150th birthday. The bell was first cast at the Bell Foundry Yard - Britain's oldest surviving manufacturing firm - in Whitechapel, east London, on 10th...

The Halal Inn, Britain's first Islamic pub, has opened in Oldham, Greater Manchester.... Welcome to the Halal Inn: Britain's first alcohol-free Islamic pub By JAMES TOZER 11th April 2008 Daily Mail The town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, is the home of the Halal Inn, Britain's first...

The London marathon always has its strange contestants. Running in the marathon in the past have been daleks, knights in shining armour, C3PO and even red telephone boxes. This year's contestants include genuine Maasai warriors from west Africa.....and a nine foot tall robot. The man in the...

When it comes to world-dominating superpowers, the 19th century was the British century and the 20th century was the American century. But, with China and India expected to overtake the US economically in the near future (by 2050 China will be the world's largest economy and India will be the...

Brian Cowen will become the new Prime Minister (or Taoiseach) of the Republic of Ireland when Bertie Ahern steps down next month. Cowen will become the Republic of Ireland's 11th Prime Minister since the country seceded from the UK and became a separate, new state in 1922. New PM ...