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World Cup 2007 - West Indies England: 279-6 (50.0 overs) Canada: 228-7 (50.0 overs) By Oliver Brett Paul Collingwood scored freely during the closing overs against minnows Canada England were some way short of their A game but still did enough to register their first victory of the...

BA apologises for First Class corpse 19th March 2007 British Airways has apologised after First Class passengers on a flight from Delhi awoke to find crew had placed a corpse in their cabin. Businessman Paul Trinder, 54, had dozed off in his £3000 First Class seat on the flight...

Armed police called to toddler with gun in mouth 19th March 2007 Armed police rushed to a supermarket after a toddler was spotted with a gun in its mouth, it has been revealed. The little girl was handed the replica gun by two laughing yobs outside an Asda store in Liverpool earlier...

Last month, a "friendly" game between West London team Queen's Park Rangers, of the lower reaches of the English league, and China ended in a kung-fu brawl with the QPR players sending home at least seven Chinese stars with severe beatings - one of them with a broken jaw? But what does it show...

Britain has a new sporting hero - Lewis Hamilton. In the first Grand Prix of the season yesterday, the Australian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton made his debut - and finished Third. He's the first black driver in Formula One history and the youngest driver ever to stand on the podium...

How I learned to love the Lords Michael Moorcock Lost Pines, Texas When I first moved to America in the early 1990s I arrived as a republican, full of a furious rhetoric about the end of monarchy and the abolition of hereditary privilege. I’d sent a hefty donation to Charter 88, who...

HOW THE ENGLISH/WELSH LONGBOWMEN DEVASTATED THE FRENCH The longbow as we recognise it today, measuring around the height of a man, made its first major appearance towards the end of the Middle Ages. Although generally attributed to the Welsh, longbows have in fact been around at least since...