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The Church of England is threatening legal action against a group of cinema chains which have broken equality laws by banning the screening of a film in which the Archbishop of Canterbury and members of the public recite the Lord’s Prayer – because they say it could be offensive to...

Wembley Stadium's Arch being lit up in the colours of the French flag and England fans being told to sing La Marseillaise on Tuesday night was understandable. After all, England were playing France just four days after the attacks in Paris and it was a nice way of showing solidarity with...

Why a great deal has been revealed by the differing reactions of the British Prime Minister and the US Secretary of State to the Paris attacks. The real clash of civilisation is in the West’s attitude to terror A great deal was revealed by the different reactions to Paris of our...

Prime Minister David Cameron will meet French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Monday to discuss the fight against terror. They will discuss how to co-operate on counter-terrorism and in the fight against Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, UK officials said. Earlier Mr Cameron...

Samuel Pepys never intended his famous diaries to be made public. But without them, we would be denied his very colourful eyewitness accounts of 17th Century London life. How did he manage to be in the right place at the right time? Fire, plague and royalty - as seen by diarist Samuel...

Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the EU, has had its terror alert risen to the highest level fearing an attack "like the one that happened in Paris" last week. The fear was that "several individuals with arms and explosives could launch an attack... perhaps even in several places"...

Sadiq Khan, the MP for Tooting in south London who is Labour's candidate for the London mayoral election on 5th May 2016 (his main rival in the race to be the new Mayor of London will be Zac Goldsmith of the Conservative Party, but candidates from several other parties are also standing), has...

Fourteen months after the nationalists lost the independence referendum, former Scottish First Minister and former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond’s former head of policy has said the SNP case for Scottish independence is dead. Case for independence ‘dead’ - former SNP policy...

A football fan has named his newborn son ‘Bermondsey Millwall Den’ without telling his wife. Millwall supporter Mike Bloomfield, 58, who grew up in Bermondsey, south-east London, where the League One club play their home games at The Den, made the decision. His wife Kellie, 38, told how...

Whilst Wembley Stadium in London was lit up in the colours of the French flag and English fans sang along to La Marseillaise before an impeccable minute's silence was held before the match against France on Tuesday night, 1,500 miles away in Istanbul it was different. The Muslim fans of Turkey...

An historic manor house previously owned by eight British monarchs over the course of a millennium has gone on the market for £2.1million. Arreton Manor on the Isle of Wight dates back to at least 872AD and its earliest known royal owner was King Alfred the Great. Charles I reviewed...

A poignant scrapbook containing a first-hand account of some of the atrocities of the First World War has been discovered in an attic after it lay untouched for 90 years. The seemingly innocuous item, written by nurse Violet Gossett who served in France during the conflict, was about to...

Hundreds of 16th Century coin clippings have been discovered in a Gloucestershire field. The 500 silver clippings, dubbed the Toenail Hoard, were unearthed by Gavin Warren using a metal detector in the Forest of Dean. Shaved from the edges of coins dating back to 1560, the precious metal would...

Former England and Manchester United legend David Beckham last night played in the same team as his son Brooklyn in a good-natured charity match. The forty-year-old was substituted by his and Victoria's 16-year old-son as Great Britain and Ireland beat Rest of the World 3-1 in David Beckham's...

SAS soldiers have been posing as homeless people with sniffer dogs as Britain steps up its secret war with terrorists. ISIS in Britain: Undercover SAS patrolling our streets as Paris mourns terror attack victims Special ops soldiers have posed as homeless people with sniffer dogs as Britain...

Euro 2016 should not be cancelled, says its organiser. The tournament is to be held in France, with the final to be played at the Stade de France in Paris on 10th July. Tournament organiser, Jacques Lambert, speaking on French radio station RTL, said: "Wondering whether Euro 2016 must be...

The England vs France friendly match at Wembley on Tuesday night is to still go ahead. Three suicide bombers died in blasts outside the Stade de France while Les Bleus played Germany. But French Football Federation (FFF) president Noel le Graet said his team will still...

France and Marseille midfielder Lassana Diarra says his cousin was killed in Friday's Paris terror attacks. "It is with a heavy heart that I heard this news," ex-Chelsea, Arsenal and Portsmouth midfielder Diarra tweeted. Several sporting fixtures in France were postponed after...

Why Europe's PC leaders have to start realising that mulitculturalism and mass immigration have failed, and it's time to do something about it. (Because if not, in Britain, Ukip will). Paris terror attacks: Europe must confront failed integration In the wake of the Paris...

Why the swivel-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth, Europhile loonies may be in for a shock come EU in/out referendum time (with rumours circulating that the referendum may take place in June 2016): Europhiles think history is on their side – they could be in for a shock By dismissing...