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The IMF has said that Britain will overtake her old rival France next year to become the world's fifth-largest economy and the second-largest in Europe. It predicts growth of 3.2 per cent in the UK this year and 2.7 per cent in 2015, compared with just 0.4 per cent and 1 per cent in France...

Ukip are celebrating after getting their first ever MP - and could now be on the verge of getting into power as a government for the first time next year. Eurosceptic Douglas Carswell who, just a few weeks ago, defected from the Tories to the anti-EU, anti-uncontrolled immigration party in...

Stephen Sutton, the man who invented the World Wide Web, and the Great Britain Invictus Games team were amongst the big winners at the 16th annual Pride of Britain Awards at London's Grosvenor House on Saturday night. The televised awards ceremony awards those British people who have acted...

Britain is to send 750 troops, three Merlin helicopters and an RFA medical support ship to Sierra Leone to help tackle the deadly Ebola outbreak - and has now called on other countries to also "step up to the plate." Troops will head to Sierra Leone as early as next week, where British...

A 1,800-year-old finely carved stone female head has been uncovered by archaeologists in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, in north eastern England. It is thought to represent the Roman goddess Brigantia, who was once worshipped on the banks of the River Tyne. It was discovered by a volunteer on...

How's the ice-free North Pole getting on? Any luck?

Professor Brian Cox, the University of Manchester physicist and former keyboard player with the pop band D:Ream (famous for the 1993 hit Things Can Only Get Better), is back with his fourth major BBC science documentary series - Human Universe. In his latest BBC series, Prof Brian Cox asks...

We used to just forecast the weather on Earth. But now we are to forecast the weather in space, too. The Met Office, the UK's national weather service, is opening its "solar storm" centre today. The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC) in Exeter, Devon, where the Met Office is...

Watched the first episode of the new, very British, BBC sitcom Detectorists last night on BBC Four. Detectorists is all about digging. Mackenzie Crook (who is best known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office, Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and Orell in Game of Thrones), who...

I watched the first episode of the brilliant new BBC documentary series by Simon Reeve - Sacred Rivers - last night. Simon makes travel documentaries in little-known areas of the world and has written books on international terrorism, modern history and his globe-trotting adventures. In his...

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The sandwich was invented by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (a town in Kent), an 18th-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" It is commonly said that Lord...

Have you ever stopped and wonder just WHO it was who INVENTED the sandwich and what country he came from?

You're embarrassing yourself. You seem to forget just what nationality the person was who actually invented the sandwich in the first place.

Don't be silly. Yes I can. Why is the chicken tikka masala butty any different from any other butty on this list? Is the bacon, tomato and fried egg butty a uniquely Canadian thing with no foreign influence at all? You're a complete head the ball.

You can say that about all the posts on here. I was always of the opinion, though, that chicken tikka masala, and the chicken tikka masala butty, were British inventions. And who else, but the British, eats a good old British chip butty with HP brown sauce on it? Do the Frogs and the Yanks...

Chicken tikka masala butties are nice. You can buy them in shops and supermarkets here. Cheese and onion flavour Walkers crisps butties are also good, too. There is nothing, though, NOTHING, which beats a good old British chip butty with plenty of HP brown sauce on.

Two injured Afghanistan War veterans are part of a four-man team which is to take on the route which almost defeated Ernest Shackleton 100 years ago. The team is flying out to Argentina today to begin what promises to be a gruelling five-week trek across one of the most inhospitable...

This remarkable series of pictures shows just how much life has changed in the streets of London surrounding the River Thames in the last 150 years. A unique series of photographs taken in the 1860s, using an early type of camera, showcase life in Victorian London for those living in the...