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A British Challenger II tank, probably the strongest and most impenetrable in the world, has been badly damaged for the first time ever...... Challenger 2 tank hit in roadside blast By Martin Beckford 23/04/2007 A heavily armoured British tank has been badly damaged for the first time...

How English are you really? Fan-tastic ... English supporters fly the flag for their country By SAM WOSTEAR April 23, 2007 TODAY Englishmen and women should hold their heads high and fly the flag. If you hail from England and didn’t realise today is St George’s Day, hang your head...

As tomorrow is St George's Day, a story about the birth of England and its founding father - King Alfred the Great... Detail of an engraving of Alfred (artist unknown). King Alfred is known by the English today as the "Father of England" as he may have helped to unify the seven warring...

Torture? It's all a laugh now for Mr Bean ... By GEOFFREY LAKEMAN and DANIEL BOFFEY 21st April 2007 Iran hostage Arthur Batchelor's admission that he cried himself to sleep after his captors likened him to Mr Bean and stole his iPod was scorned as a national embarrassment. Yet just...

Maharajah's bomber spreads its wings again By Nigel Reynolds and Stephanie Condron 20/04/2007 A rare First World War bomber which was discovered rotting in the elephant stable of a maharajah's palace was unveiled in its fully restored glory yesterday. The RAF de Havilland DH9 is rolled...

Secret £1million payout to SAS soldier crippled by US helicopter By MARK NICOL 21st April 2007 The Ministry of Defence has secretly paid £1million to a wounded SAS soldier in the first case of compensation for injuries sustained on the battlefield during wartime. After a five-year legal...

Stumpy the duck is down to three legs By Sally Peck 20/04/2007 Stumpy, the duck that entered the limelight after being born with four legs, has lost one of his extra limbs after getting it caught in his pen. Stumpy was born with four legs... Stumpy was born at the Warrawee Duck Farm...

£2bn Navy ships get the OK Awesome .. the Royal Navy's new giant carriers - the Queen Elizabeth Class - will be twice the size of its current ones. They'll be the largest warships in Western Europe and the largest ever built in Britain. By JOHN KAY Chief Reporter and TOM NEWTON-DUNN...

Inside dog-fighting Britain By DAVE MASTERS April 20, 2007 AN EVIL thug who converted the downstairs of his home into an illegal dog fighting venue was today jailed for four months after a major RSPCA investigation. Vile Adio Clarke, 22, from Birmingham, pleaded guilty to four...

The great deception: Immigration 25 times higher than ever before by SIR ANDREW GREEN 21st April 2007 Daily Mail For many years now, the Government and the liberal Left's case for mass immigration has rested partly on their repeated assertion that Britain is a melting pot of different...

Today is Queen Elizabeth II's 81st birthday, which she is celebrating by a dinner at Windsor Castle. Click on the link below to sign her online birthday card..... ********************** Reign and shine ... the Queen is 81 today, so leave your message on our website Give the Queen a...

Campaigning to become the new Mayor of London in 2008 is starting soon, with one of the candidates being Richard Fairbrass, former member of pop group Right Said Fred who sang "I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt" in 1991. Charles Moore says it's time to make London part of Britain again.... Make...

Meet the extremely eccentric Welsh politician, Dai Llewellyn, a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), the party that wants Britain out of the EU. He is standing in the Cardiff North constituency for UKIP and shows that Britain still has its crazy eccentrics..... Would you...

The Beatles were the most talked about British band of the 60s, The Sex Pistols of the 70s, The Smiths of the 80s, Oasis of the 90s and now it's The Arctic Monkeys of the 0s. The Sun's Simon Cosyns, writing in the newspaper's "Something For The Weekend" magazine, talks to the Monkeys to tell...

Discovered: 'New' poem from Shakespeare dedicated to Elizabeth I 20th April 2007 Daily Mail A 'new' poem by William Shakespeare has been published for the first time A 'new' poem by William Shakespeare has been published for the first time. 'To the Queen' is just 18 lines long...

Queen honours Princess Anne By staff and agencies 20/04/2007 The Princess Royal has been appointed Grand Master of the Royal Victorian Order (RVO) by the Queen, Buckingham Palace has said. The Queen Mother held the position before Princess Anne Anne, the monarch's eldest and only...

Britain wants to put her own astronauts on the Moon - and to send the first-ever spacecraft to the Moon's South Pole.... Britain leaps from Stevenage to space By Roger Highfield, Science Editor 20/04/2007 Britain has taken a giant leap towards sending UK landers and astronauts to...

It's St George's Day on Monday (maybe Canadians should forget about St Patrick and celebrate St George on April 23rd as he is also the patron saint of Canada). The English are suddenly learning how to be patriotic again. By George, it's time to raise the flag! 21/04/2007 The Telegraph April...

Footballer heads miracle goal Head of God ... Graham Capstick, who plays for amateur Holker Old Boys, scored from behind halfway line with his head By ALASTAIR TAYLOR April 19, 2007 FOOTBALLER Graham Capstick’s team-mates went nuts when he headed a goal — from 57 YARDS. Defender...

Guernsey in the English Channel is a tiny state that comprises of the main island of Guernsey as well as the much smaller islands of Alderney, Sark (which has the very last feudalism in Europe), Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and other islets. It is closer to France than it is to Britain...