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Urban population to exceed 50 per cent By Charles Clover, Environment Editor L27/06/2007 The Telegraph The world crosses a threshold next year when more than half of its population, some 3.3 billion people, will live in urban areas for the first time, a UN report has said. Over the...

First female Home Secretary as Brown wields axe in radical reshuffle 28th June 2007 Daily Mail Chancellor of the Exchequer: Alistair Darling HOW SOME OF GORDON BROWN'S NEW CABINET LOOKS IN ALISTAIR DARLING New post:Chancellor The former Trade Secretary, a close ally of Mr...

The Mummy Returns: archaeologists discover remains of Egypt's first female pharaoh By FIONA MacRAE 27th June 2007 Daily Mail The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphynx, two of the great historical treasures in this very ancient country (founded 3150 BC) which has a population of 78 million...

Gordon Brown is new British Prime Minister By George Jones, Political Editor, and Matthew Moore 27/06/2007 The Telegraph 360 degree view of the Blairs leaving Downing Street - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ETHtml/content/promotions/podcast/360_blair02.jhtml Grumpy Gordon is Britain's 52nd...

Blair signed off 10 years and 55 days in power as British Prime Minister by giving a speech to the House of Commons, which ended with the words, "And that is that, the end." He then took his seat, looking very emotional, as the whole house rose to their feet to give him a standing ovation. He...

Historic day as Blair surrenders power and Brown finally moves into No 10 27th June 2007 Daily Mail Gordon Brown today becomes Great Britain's 52nd Prime Minister Stepping down: Tony Blair Tony Blair surrendered on his own terms today as Gordon Brown ushered in a new radical era of...

THE TRUE POTENTIAL OF MONARCHY It's great having a constitutional monarchy A letter written to the Daily Mail newspaper by a Brit living in the United States, describing how he thinks having a monarchy is preferable to having a republic: "As an expat, I find it distressing to read that...

Tony Blair will today go to Buckingham Palace to tell Queen Elizabeth II that he is stepping down as her Prime Minister. Then will go Gordon Brown and she will make him the next Prime Minister. Constitutionally, the monarch can invite whoever she pleases to be Prime Minister. However...

GRISLY LONDON HISTORY Everyone has heard the horror stories of botched executions with victims running screaming around the scaffold etc. The story of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, is one of the authentic examples of such horror. Her only crime was that she was the mother of a Cardinal...

Somme survivor's diary emerges after 91 years By CHRIS BROOKE 25th June 2007 Sgt Hubert Harding's diaries start in April 1915 He witnessed, and astonishingly survived, the bloodiest battles of the Great War. After a long day risking life and limb to tend wounded comrades, Hubert...

A new video shows BBC reporter Alan Johnston wearing an explosives belt and it was released by his captors, the Palestinian militant group Army of Islam. What makes it embarrassing for the Left-wing BBC is that the BBC usually sides with the Paleosimians and is anti-Israeli. But how do they...

Gardener digs up veggie patch to find WW2 bunker 26th June 2007 Daily Mail A home gardener was stunned when he dug up his vegetable patch - and found an enormous secret room underneath! Andy Lewis, 36, and partner Fiona Marks, 27, were clearing a section of their garden when they...

Schoolboy skewered to death by mob 'baying for blood' 25th June 2007 Daily Mail A boy of 16 was killed in a mob attack involving more than 40 teenagers who were "baying for blood" - after he was turned away from a schoolgirl's house party in South London Ben Hitchcock: victim of gang...

As record rains fell across Britain (and remember that this is supposed to be summer) this year's Glastonbury turned out to be an absolute mudfest. Today, a month's worth of rain fell across Britain in just a few hours leaving chaos and devastation, but the weekend's rain brought enjoyment to...

This treaty plumbs new depths of mendacity, democracy itself is at stake 24th June 2007 Daily Mail Melanie Phillips Well, what an amazing surprise. Tony Blair is reported to have protected all his 'red lines' at the Brussels summit. Gordon Brown, who previously promised that he...

The smallest - and cutest - creatures you will ever see 25th June 2007 Daily Mail As a 4.9 inch chihuahua is named the world's smallest dog, meet some more of the smallest - and quite frankly the most ridiculously cute - animals you will ever see. When his owner shouts "Heel!" Ducky...

Britain is now the largest cultural export in the world - surpassing even the United States. Cultural exports include music, television shows and video games. With cool bands such as Arctic Monkeys, the Kooks and Maximo Park, the manufacture of computer games, books as as the Harry Potter series...

Meet the British-made Supacat Weapons Mounted Installation Kit (manufactured in Honiton, Devon) which will be unleashed by the British Army early next year and will be deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq to take on the baddies. The British Army will have at least 130 of them.... The 80mph 'Mad...

Only in Britain... Police 'arrest' scarecrow - for impersonating a traffic officer By KEITH BEASBY 24th June 2007 Daily Mail A scarecrow dressed to look like a traffic cop didn't go down too well with real police officers. In fact they took the matter so seriously when they heard...

World Exclusive: Wills and Kate are dating again By KATIE NICHOLL 24th June 2007 Daily Mail Prince William and Kate Middleton have been seeing each other again – and shared a passionate kiss at a decadent Army party before disappearing to the Prince's private quarters. The party and...