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Prince Charles and Camilla have started a nine day tour of India. The future king and his wife have visited the holy city of Rishikesh on the banks of the sacred Ganges where they joined Hindu worshippers conducting the Aarti ceremony. It is performed every sunset by devotees who wave...

One of the things about the Puritan New Left which runs the Western world today is that they hate anyone having any sort of innocent fun. Anyone seen to be having even the smallest amount of fun will soon find a ton of Left Wing bricks coming down on them. One of the latest victims is the...

Other Europeans may dismiss the British as a race addicted to reality TV and celebrity gossip shows, but a new survey proves otherwise. In actual fact, the British are the most cultured of all Europeans, beating the rest of Europe on nine key cultural measures. The French may believe they...

Another brilliant article from my favourite newspaper columnist Richard Littlejohn, who today has been writing about the fact that stalls selling poppies have been set up at British mosques, in conjunction with the Royal British Legion, and that Julie Siddiqi, the executive director of the...

THE MERMAID OF ZENNOR, CORNWALL The Mermaid of Zennor, by English painter John Reinhard Weguelin (1900) Long ago, a beautiful and richly-dressed woman occasionally attended services at St. Senara's Church in Zennor, and sometimes at Morvah, in Cornwall. The parishioners were enchanted by...

In the 19th Century, London was the greatest city on Earth, a vast, bustling metropolis, the richest and biggest city on the planet, and the centre of an empire so vast that it was impossible for the sun to ever set on the whole of it. In 1877 and 1878, the Scottish photographer John Thomson...

More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the German city of Dortmund after a 4,000 pound World War II bomb was discovered. The 1943 battle saw the British Empire (Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa) attack the Ruhr Area of Germany, which had coke...

When the Metropolitan Police received a silent 999 call, they traced it and were despatched to the address that the call came from, a London flat. After receiving no response from their knocking and ringing of the bell, they knocked down the door and came face to face with the caller - a cute...

A man has been kicked out of a supermarket for wearing a Nazi outfit. Hitler fanatic Paul Dutton went into the Asda store in Cambridge wearing a black SS uniform and cap, with a red armband bearing the swastika, and swastika tattoos on his neck, chest and hand. While a few shoppers in the...

Archaeologists in London have unearthed a Roman eagle statue that is almost 2,000 years' old. The statue is over two feet high with carvings on it that are so crisp the archaeologists originally thought it was a much later copy. But experts at the Museum of London Archaeology confirmed that...

English legal history has been today after TV cameras filmed proceedings in an English court. Filming has been banned in courts in England and Wales - except the Supreme Court, set up in 2009 - since 1925. But now there has been a partial lifting of the ban. And this morning, history was...

I don't know why the aliens are so interested in Reading. Reading may be the UK's largest town but the only thing worth seeing there is The Oracle shopping centre.

Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest TV documentary series of all time - The World At War. The epic 26-episode British documentary series chronicalling the events of WWII was originally shown on ITV in Britain from 31st October 1973 to 8th May 1974, just 29 years after...

It's actually the unbelievers who are the fools and they'll get a pleasant surprise when they die.

I believe in genuine mediums and ghosts, spirits and demons.

It's not everyday that the Queen drives down your street and past your front door. But that is what happened to the residents of Brixton, South London, yesterday. The Queen and the Duchess of Cornwall drove through the rough, gang-ridden neighbourhood, infamous for its race riots of 1981, on...

Mediums CAN clear spirits from homes and other buildings. Anyone who thinks that they can't have never lived in a haunted home and had a medium clear it of spirits, making it a much happier and brighter place.

The brilliant BBC wildlife series Autumnwatch returns tonight for its ninth series, with its usual hosts Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan and Martin Hughes-Games. The show, paired with its spring equivalent Springwatch, charts the fortunes of British wildlife in the autumn. As usual, it is...

Stormont Castle in Belfast has been evacuated following the discovery of a letter bomb. The bomb was addressed to Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers, who is also the Conservative MP for Chipping Barnet. The castle houses the offices of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter...

Prince William has vowed to make his new son, Prince George, an Aston Villa fan like himself. The future king made the vow in a video message released yesterday to mark the 150th anniversary of England's Football Association (FA), of which football-mad William is the President. It was on...