Search results

Football: English Premier League Portsmouth ("Pompey") and Reading ("The Royals") created a new Premier League record yesterday. Their game was the highest scoring game ever in the English Premier League since it first started in 1992. There were an amazing 11 goals in the game, breaking the...

The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular rising in Northern England in 1536, in protest against England's break with Rome and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, as well as other specific political, social and economic grievances. Although the Pilgrimage was a specific uprising around York, the...

English Heritage, which looks after England's ancient treasures, stately homes, castles and other wonders (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each have their own heritage organisations), has created a "new Domesday Book" online which has hundreds of images of some of England's greatest...

Meet British soldier Kayleigh Thewlis, 22, who has served in hotspots such as Northern Ireland and Iraq - and who has now won a modelling contract... From Basra to cover-girl: Blonde army beauty wins modelling contracts 26th September 2007 Daily Mail Stunner: soldier Kayleigh Thewlis...

Magna Carta 2007 - an updated version to protect us from an overweening State By PETER OBORNE 27th September 2007 Daily Mail One of the very few surviving copies of the Magna Carta - the famous document that is the foundation of British liberty - has come up for sale in New York. Experts...

Troops in Burma are now being used to clear the streets of pro-democracy demonstrators. Burma, which gained independence from Britain in 1948, has been ruled by a military junta since 1962. This is the biggest pro-democracy demonstration in Burma since 1988 and Buddhist monks, revered in that...

London's mega-mosque The crescent and the very cross Sep 13th 2007 From The Economist print edition Why plans for a giant new mosque have upset Christians—and Muslims The largest religious venues in Britain for each religion A FEAST of religiously-inspired architecture awaits...

Drastic Fantastic is the second album by British alternative singer KT Tunstall. It will be released on 10th september in Britain and Europe, 15th September in Australia and 18th September in the United States and Canada. The album is expected to chart inside the top 5 on its release...

British songstress Annie Lennox is to release her fourth solo album "Songs of Mass Destruction" on 1st October in the UK and 2nd October in the US. Annie Lennox is famous for being the lead singer of the mighty Eurythmics, a band who are still together despite being formed way back in 1980...

Argentina fury at UK bid for Falkland seas By Oliver Balch in Buenos Aires and Colin Freeman 23/09/2007 The Telegraph The Falkland Islands have been ruled by Britain since 1833 and are part of what remains of the British Empire. Britain still rules the islands as there is no desire for...

Shocking pictures of another victim of Violent Britain... The pupil bloodied and battered beyond recognition by teenage girls By PATRICK SAWER 23rd September 2007 Daily Mail Her face bloodied and battered, this is Bethany James, the latest victim of the pupil-on-pupil violence blighting...

An article on Lincoln Cathedral, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in eastern England, which has the fantastic record of being the world's tallest building way back between around 1300 to 1549, when its extremely tall spire blew down in a storm. It was the first building on the planet to exceed the...

End of Belgium should be a warning to Gordon By Boris Johnson (the Tory Party's candidate to be the new Mayor of London) 20/09/2007 Daily Telegraph Former French President Charles de Gaulle once said that Belgium had been invented by the British to annoy the French. In 1830, the Great...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that he will boycott an EU summit if Zimbawean dictator Robert Mugabe attends. The EU Presidency, which rotates between states every six months, is curently held by Portugal and the summit is to be held in Portugal's capital Lisbon. Zimbabwe in...

Jose Mourinho has quit as Chelsea manager. The Portuguese quit (or maybe was fired from) the West London team in the early hours of this morning, over 24 hours after Chelsea drew 1-1 against Norwegian team Rosenborg in their opening game of this season's Champions League. Chelsea's owner, the...

You may think it would hurt eating nettles, but boiled properly they are harmless. In fact, nettle pudding was one of the favourites dishes of the British thousands of years ago prior to the arrival of the Romans. Nettle pudding is, in fact, Britain's oldest recipe, eaten in Britain around...

This comes as no surprise in the world's most politically correct country. The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics have snubbed the RAF's Red Arrows display team in case they offend other nations. The Red Arrows have performed nearly 4,000 displays world-wide, in over fifty countries, and...

World War I claimed the lives of over 700,000 British soldiers. At the time, the British Army numbered almost 3 million soldiers. Around the same number of British soldiers were injured in the war. This obviously left over a million British women at home with a dilemma...... Condemned to be...

EURO 2008 QUALIFICATION Deadly Michael Owen is now back on form for both club and country. After being out of the game for months after suffering a dreadful injury during the World Cup in June 2006, he is now back and scoring goals both for Newcastle United and England. After scoring a goal...

A man in Cornwall was attacked by a woman from Cornwall's "racism and equality council" for telling "anti-Irish" jokes. The silly thing about all this is that the man telling the jokes is an Irishman...... LITTLEJOHN: Good evening, I'm from ethics, in case you couldn't tell! 13th September...