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With several England stars fined for getting drunk - including intoxicated vice-captain Flintoff sinking a pedalo off the coast of St Lucia - this has been an eventful start of the 2007 Cricket World Cup off the field as well as on it. Now Pakistan's coach Bob Woolmer, a former England player...

Outlaw is being tipped to be one of the biggest British movies of the year. It was released on 9th March..... Outlaw Reviewed By: Angus Wolfe Murray Fighting back against the heritage of an illegal war and a corrupt police force in Blair's Britain. Director: Nick Love Writer: Nick...

As only British sports stars can, several of England's players went to bars and drank copious amounts of alcohol, some of them getting drunk. Drunken Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, England's Vice-Captain, even had to be rescued as he got into trouble when he took a pedalo out to sea. All this...

Why can't Americans be grateful for the British colonies in Jamestown and elsewhere? If we didn't colonise America in the first place then America wouldn't exist today..... It's hardly Pocahontas: new exhibits portray Jamestown colonists as killers and rapists By James Langton in...

25th anniversary of the Falklands War. Radio DJ - an unlikely hero of the Falklands invasion By IAN GALLAGHER 18th March 2007 I just did my job: Patrick Watts ran the Falklands Islands Broadcast station for 30 years. In a show of British defiance he continued to stay on air throughout...

Fans give new Wembley the thumbs up at test event 17th March 2007 Football fans today declared themselves more than happy with the new £800 million Wembley Stadium. Local residents and England supporters were allowed into the ground for a "community day" staged as part of the...

World Exclusive: Delighted Duchess to become a grandma By KATIE NICHOLL 17th March 2007 Parents-to-be: Camilla's son and Charles's stepson Tom and his girlfriend Sarah Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have been celebrating the news that they are to become grandparents...

Wembley, England's new national football stadium, is the largest "soccer" stadium in the world with all the seats undercover and the largest in the world with a sliding roof. It has a capacity of 90,000 and its first game - England Under 21s VS Italy Under 21s - is nex Saturday. Today it is...

Bedford Book of Hours to go on display By James Burleigh 17/03/2007 The Bedford Book of Hours, described as "an outstanding work of late medieval manuscript art", is to go on display at the British Library next week. Work on The Bedford Book of Hours probably began between 1410 and...

Italians may be deserting football - the game they love as a religion - for cultural pursuits such as the theatre. This is surprising consider that Italy contributes just £1.2 billion a year to culture, compared to £3 billion a year for England and even more for Great Britain as a whole (the...

Bin Ha-den ... Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean in the new Brit movie "Mr Bean's Holiday" released later this year. He is also to play terrorist, inset Rowan is Osama Bean Laden March 17, 2007 MR BEAN actor ROWAN ATKINSON may be about to spark World War Three — by playing Osama Bin...

Red Nose Day 2007 See best Borat mankini pics Eeeza nice!!! ... Sun readers brave the cold MORE TOP The Sun By DAVE MASTERS March 17, 2007 JAGSHEMASH! Three barmy Sun readers join the Borat pack - by hitting a beach in skimpy green mankinis (the "male bikini" that Borat likes...

Friday was Red Nose Day in Britain, which is held every two years to raise money for the Comic Relief charity which helps poor children in Africa. It's tradition for people to buy comedy red noses to wear, with the proceeds going to Comic Relief and also for people, and celebrities, to host...

Saddam judge flees to seek asylum in UK by GWYNETH REES 17th March 2007 The Iraqi judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death has fled to seek asylum in Britain. Raouf Abdel-Rahman, who headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal, arrived in Britain with his family on a visitor's...

Many centres of British towns and cities are infested with thousands upon thousands of pigeons - what many people call the "rats of the bird world." Now one city has come up with a solution - Robo-bird....... Beware...the Robo-bird 16th March 2007 As the peregrine falcon is one of...

British Legion accuses defence chiefs of hiding true scale of war casualties by MATTHEW HICKLEY 16th March 2007 Charity workers have accused the Defence Ministry of using data protection laws to "cover up" the true scale of casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Royal British Legion...

Devonians, The Rumble Strips, may make it into the big time this year.... Rumble Strips: Will they be one of 2007's breakthrough bands? British band Rumble Strips are poised on the brink of success - but they won't let it go to their heads, they tell Elisa Bray 16 March 2007...

Is this the world's shortest double yellow line? By CLAIRE BATES 16th March 2007 It's a challenge that would stump even the worst offending driver. A council has painted double yellow lines on a road in East Sussex, which restricts parking 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But to...

CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007 Solid start: Australia's Hayden Scotland's Dougie Brown celebrates the wicket of Adam Gilchrist Rain stopped play: Ricky Ponting (l) and Colin Smith walk off World Champions Australia inflicted the second-heaviest defeat in World Cup history as they...

Amazing: An enemy in Afghanistan fires a missile at a Royal Marine at 130 metres per second - and the Royal Marine just jumped over it! He then blasted the attacker with a mortar..... Marine's Elvis jump saves life All shook up... how Garry, inset, dodged rocket by doing an...