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New Zealand has welcomed in 2015 by a blazing fireworks display from Auckland's iconic Sky Tower. Eastern Australia, including big cities such as Sydney, Brisbane and capital Canberra, will also welcome in the New Year in just 15 minutes' time (at 1pm GMT). As usual, Sydney's New Year...

It certainly is: integrity? You speak of integrity... while you drop yet another CPR (Cut & Paste & Run) from serial misinformer "Steven Goddard". We've already dealt with a few of these BS items previously... and yet you persist! Goddard has been refuted over and over again... and yet you...

A new £100 coin featuring London's Elizabeth Tower, which houses the great bell known as Big Ben, has been minted to mark the start of the new year. The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has produced 50,000 of the commemorative pieces. The design was chosen in celebration of the...

It's not only Britain's ruling Establishment which has been overrun by the Lefties. British television has, too. In fact, British TV shows have now become nothing more than vehicles for the Left to get their Left-wing agenda across to the British public. And things have now got so out of hand...

Top Gear presenter James May is back for a one-off episode of his masculine show James May's Toy Stories. The show sees May bring favourite toys of the past into the modern era, by using the toys in real life large scale enterprises. Previous episodes have seen him build a full-sized model of...

The making of the Top Gear Patagonia special has been in the news a lot recently after Clarkson, Hammond and May were driven out of Argentina by a violent Argie mob who didn't look too kindly upon some "offensive" numberplates on the boys' cars. The Argentine ambassador to Britain, Alicia...

Another year has gone by in which Britain has been run by the loony liberal Guardianistas. As a result, the Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn has had to continue his one-man war against Political Correctness, Elf 'N Safety madness and other Left-wing lunacies. Like previous years, 2014 has seen...

In the third volume in his witty history series for adults, Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England, Terry Deary explodes the myths that he believes permeate our understanding of the age of ‘Good Queen Bess’. Here, writing for History Extra, Deary reveals 10 of the gravest dangers faced by...

Britain has overtaken socialist France to become the world's fifth biggest economy and now is on course to overtake Germany by 2030 to become Europe's biggest economy for the first time since 1954. The promising forecast will be an embarrassment to Labour leader Ed Miliband, who is still...

Justin Welby, the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, has pneumonia, Lambeth Palace has said, a day after he pulled out of his Christmas Day sermon. He did not address Canterbury Cathedral after being confined to bed with what was described then as a "severe cold". Lambeth Palace said the...

Shown this morning on BBC1, the brand new On Angel Wings is a magical Christmas tale brought to you by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo: On Angel Wings Magical reworking of the Nativity by Michael Morpurgo. Eight-year-old Rachel joins her brothers and sisters for the first time as...

Last night, the very British comedy adventure The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawn was shown on BBC1. The family programme is based on the Norman Hunter books which were written between 1933 and 1983. With Harry Hill as the eponymous hero, Madeline Holliday as his little sidekick...

Today, the Lincolnshire town of Gainsborough is marking the 1,001st anniversary of its short stint as England's capital. On 25th December 1013, King Sweyn Forkbeard began his short reign, using the town as his capital.... Viking Gainsborough: Former capital promotes Sweyn Forkbeard links 25...

The forgotten role of hundreds of professional footballers who gave up the game to fight in World War One is to be formally recognised by the Government. Hundreds of professional footballers who were killed fighting in World War One will have their graves restored. The move...

A grey seal which somehow ended up 20 miles from the sea has been rescued. The "distressed" animal was found near Newton Brook in Newton-le-Willows in St Helens, Merseyside. Police, firefighters, animal rescue officers and a farmer herded him with brooms and metal fences before...

An undisturbed 6,000-year-old encampment, which was likely home to the forefathers of Stonehenge, has been discovered. Carbon dating last week established the ‘first proof’ of a settlement at Blick Mead in Wiltshire, which predates the famous monument nearby. A spokesman for the project...

It's that time of year again when a bunch of unwashed, benefit scrounging, anti-social, left wing, anti-capitalist, weirdo, sub criminal social misfits - or "druids" as we have to call them for PC reasons - descend on Stonehenge to mark the rising of the Sun at the winter solstice...

The Daily Mail's Peter Hitchens takes the opposite view that many of us have and argues that it is the EU, not Russia, who are the bad guys... PETER HITCHENS: Forget 'evil' Putin - we are the bloodthirsty warmongers By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday 21 December 2014 Daily...

Twelve people dressed as Father Christmas invaded the pitch during a football match between Cheltenham Town and Portsmouth. The fans ran on to the pitch at Cheltenham's Whaddon Road ground during half time of the League Two match. Father Christmases invade Cheltenham Town pitch 21 December...

From 1642 to 1651, the English Civil War, fought between the King and Parliament, raged. England was divided between those areas supporting Charles I's forces (the Royalists; or Cavaliers) and those supporting Cromwell's forces (the Parliamentarians; or Roundheads). But, as the year 1645...