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Two British soldiers are being investigated after they were photographed doing a Nazi-style gesture in Afghanistan. The pair were photographed in front of a Union Flag and a Northern Irish flag whilst making the salute at a British Army base in Helmand Province. MPs and ex-military leaders...

Meet Red Dress Manor, one of the most mysterious houses in Britain. The derelict dairy farm was built in 1725 but the last owner of the property, Ellen Jones, died in the 1970s and nobody has lived there since. Ellen left her red dress hanging in her wardrobe, hence the nickname for the...

That's the thing about the Global Warming idiots. They tell us not to drive cars or travel by planes or go on ships because of the myth that they are harming the planet, yet tell them that that would mean that they would have to therefore walk and swim when they attend their next Climate...

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This set of stunning photos offers an insightful glance behind the scenes at the dangerous work carried out every day by servicemen and women in one of the world's greatest airforces. Showing a glimpse of life on operation, training, as well as giving a look at the high-tech equipment and the...

Cambridge University is one of the world's best universities - a total of 89 Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with - and is notorious for its odd and difficult interview questions for those trying to join. Cambridge candidates are said to have been posed a number of mind-twisting questions...

The site of one of the most important battles of the Wars of the Roses may become a rubbish tip for a golf course. The Battle of Barnet took place on 14th April 1471 between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians. The Lancastrians supported Henry VI's claim to the throne, who was deposed as...

London's Natural History Museum has set up its own X-Files unit to investigate bizarre phemonema. The Identification and Advisory Service has been tasked with identifying a host of bizarre items discovered by the British public. Amongst those is a mysterious slime, which has left the...

A tornado has struck an island off the south coast of England, damaging 100 homes. The twister struck Hayling Island near Portsmouth, in Hampshire, at around 8am this morning. Nearly 100 houses had their roofs damaged by the high winds and rain and several cars have been damaged by fallen...

Stonehenge's builders may have built the famous monument where they did because of the presence of warm pools nearby. A small series of shallow pools close to Stonehenge, in Amesbury, have remained undisturbed for tens of thousands of years. Hidden in a private estate and surrounded by...

This is not good news for the atheist minority. Their attempts to impose their silly beliefs onto everyone else don't seem to be working. At least, not in Britain. A new poll shows that, whilst organised religion - i.e. actually going to church or other religious establishments and worshipping...

Prince Harry celebrated the England football team qualifying for the 2014 World Cup by going to Nando's. The prince attended the Portuguese restaurant outlet in Fulham, west London, with a friend and his security staff. He ordered a chicken breast fillet in lemon and herb sauce, cheese, and a...

British sporting hero Andy Murray has been awarded an OBE by Prince William at Buckingham Palace, who was performing his first ever investiture. This summer, Andy became the first Briton to win Wimbledon since Virginia Wade in 1977, and the first British man to win it since Fred Perry in 1936...

One of the few remaining survivors of "The Great Escape" team who escaped from a German POW camp during WWII, immortalised in the 1963 film, has died aged 91. Frank Stone, who was then an 18-year-old RAF gunner, was taken to Stalag Luft III after his bomber crashed in Germany in 1940. Stone...

A three-week-old Sumatran tiger cub has been found drowned in London Zoo. On Saturday morning keepers in the Tiger Territory, which was only opened by Prince Philip in March, noticed that the cub could not be seen on the den cameras and raised the alarm. The cub's lifeless body was found...

A series of events is taking place today to mark the 100th anniversary of Britain's worst-ever pit disaster. On 14th October 1913, 440 men and boys were killed when an explosion ripped through the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd in Caerphilly county in south Wales. The explosion was caused by...

Finally, an MP with balls. British immigration minister Mark Harper and a five-time failed Iraqi asylum seeker clashed live on air yesterday. The two confronted each other on Sunday Politics West, the west of England's regional version of the national Sunday Politics. Harper, the Tory MP...

Conservators looking after a 1588 painting of Sir Walter Ralegh believe they have uncovered a small painted sea which they believe reveals the depth of his devotion to Queen Elizabeth I. A team at the National Portrait Gallery, just off Trafalgar Square, has discovered a small section of navy...

Britain's greatest treasures from the mysterious golden Age of Stonehenge are to go on display for the first time. It will be the largest collection of Early Bronze Age gold ever put on public display. The Wiltshire Museum in Devizes, 15 miles north of Stonehenge, is exhibiting 500...

The 7th Armoured Brigade, aka the Desert Rats (not to be confused with the 7th Armoured Division, which was also known as the Desert Rats, of WWII), are to be the last major British force sent to Afghanistan. The Rats will be responsible for packing away forces' equipment ahead of the final...