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Judy Murray, the mum of British sporting hero Andy Murray, has slammed Scotland's nationalist First Minister Alex Salmond for unveiling a Scottish Saltire inside the Royal Box on Centre Court when Andy won the Wimbledon men's singles title last year. Tennis coach Judy Murray who, like Andy...

Californian heavy metal band Metallica shook the genteel English countryside (and a few middle-aged hippies and a lot of left-wing, middle-class, BBC-type snobs) last night when they became the first metal band ever to play Glastonbury, the world's biggest music festival, since its inception in...

The joint-oldest international football teams in the world are England and Scotland, who played the first ever official international football match in front of 4,000 spectators at the West of Scotland Cricket Club's Hamilton Crescent ground in Partick, Glasgow, on St Andrew's Day (30th...

You may think that trolling is a modern phenomenon, but it's actually far more ancient than is often thought. Centuries before computers and social media, the Romans wrote messages wishing ill of others on so-called "curse tablets". The nasty messages were written on pieces of lead by...

The British have had steak and ale pies for donkey's years (lovely with big fat chunky chips). Good to see the Canadians finally catching up and putting beer in their pies, too. I love the steak and ale pie you get from Morrisons with Black Sheep Ale in it, an ale that packs a punch with...

ITV Studios have released a sneak preview of the new Thunderbird 1 which will feature in their hotly anticipated new show Thunderbirds Are Go! Set against the backdrop of the Hollywood sign the rocket maintains its distinctive silver bullet style which many fans will remember from the...

British actress Patsy Byrne, best known for playing the kind but dim-witted nursemaid to Elizabeth I in Blackadder II, has died at the age of 80. She died on Tuesday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors, in Hillingdon, north-west London. The Kent-born actress joined the...

The Duchess of Cambridge has today reopened a WWII codebreaking centre where her grandmother once worked. The future Queen, 32, reopened to the public a restored Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. The Duchess's paternal grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, who married the...

Archaeologists who have been excavating Easter Ross, a region in Scotland's Northern Highlands which is thought to have been a major heartland for the Pictish civilisation, are encouraging locals to join in. Archaeologists have found mounting evidence of their extensive occupation with recent...

It is commonly thought that if Earth suddenly stopped turning, everything would go floating off into space. But Michael Stevens has made a terrifying video on what will REALLY happen. The London-based scientist has outlined the devastating impact that a sudden halt to the Earth’s rotation...

The cockpit for the British Bloodhound supersonic car has been built and fitted out. Driver Andy Green, who will use the vehicle to try to break his own World Land Speed Record, calls it "my 1,000mph office". Bloodhound is about a year away from full assembly. The plan is to take it to...

Today is the Queen's official birthday, the second of her two birthdays a year. The occasion falls in either the first, second or, more rarely, the third Saturday in June, and this year it is today. And, as usual, the Trooping the Colour ceremony celebrated the occasion on Horse Guards Parade...

An Anglo-Saxon coin has fetched £78,000 at auction - because it could be a clue to a 1,200 year old murder mystery. It was struck in the reign of East Anglian ruler Æthelberht II (Old English: Æðelbrihte) and describes him as king – the only time this title has been found on a coin of his...

Harrison Ford has been taken to hospital after breaking his ankle on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. The Hollywood actor, 71, who starred as Han Solo in the original three Star Wars films and is currently filming the new Episode VII sequel, was...

A couple of years ago my brother got me a little vodka lollipop with a real scorpion in it. I managed to suck all the lolly away from the scorpion so it was just the scorpion remaining and then I shoved it in my mouth and ate it. It was quite crunchy and chewy but it wasn't too bad. The great...

World War II veteran Prince Philip has spoken publicly for the first time of how he saved a Royal Navy ship from a German bomber in 1943. And the 93-year-old was typically phlegmatic about his exploits. The Queen's husband told how the destroyer he was serving on during the Allied invasion of...

Football-mad Brazil is about to host the 2014 World Cup, the first time it has hosted the World Cup since 1950. It is said that football may have been invented in England, but Brazil - which has football as its national religion in the same way that India has cricket as its - is where its...

Australia and Canada have invited the UK to join them in a "like-minded" alliance of conservative-run countries against "left-liberal" Obama. The two countries have each rolled back green policies in recent months, and want others to join them to resist a legally-binding international deal...

Comedy actor Rik Mayall, famous for his roles in classic comedies such as The Young Ones, Bottom, Blackadder and The New Statesman, has died aged 56. His body was found by his wife Barbara Robbin at their home in Barnes, south west London, early yesterday afternoon. A Scotland Yard spokesman...

School deemed "too white" forced to visit non-white pupils to "learn" about them Pupils at a school in rural Devon which has been described as being "too white" by school inspectors Ofsted have been forced to visit and "mix" with ethnic pupils at a school in the ethnically diverse Isleworth...