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So often do we hear stories of liberal judges making bizarre decisions which are in favour of the criminal rather than the victim that when one makes the right decision it comes as a bit of a shock. Such as in this case. A judge told a Muslim woman she must remove her burkha in court before...

Why every mother-in-law really is a woman Hitler: It's just one of the hilarious quirks of the English language revealed in a fascinating new book By Dr Rod L. Evans 22 August 2013 Daily Mail English is full of wordplay, witticisms, puns and quirks. Crossword puzzlers will be familiar...

Reaching speeds of up to 100mph and flying only yards apart, these breaktaking photographs show how two nine-year-old girls became the world’s youngest formation wingwalkers. Rose Powell, of Wandsworth, south-west London, and Flame Brewer, of Kensal Rise, north-west London, took to the skies...

A man has become the first person in Britain to have 3D tattoos on his face. His Royal Majesty Body Art King of Ink Land, aged 33 from Stechford, Birmingham, is covered head to toe in skin art. Even the white of one eye has been tattooed black. His first tattoo was a British bulldog, which...

Britain's longest-serving monarch regularly wrote letters using "text speak". Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901 and who was the niece of the two previous monarchs, King George IV (who was Prince Regent before he became king because his father King George III was too ill to reign...

A family dog has had to be put down after being bitten by an adder in my hometown of Bolton. Ted, an 11-year-old bearded collie, was walking in Smithills Country Park, near to the 15th century manor house Smithills Hall, when he was bitten by the adder. Ted was put down on Saturday after...

A swan belonging to the Queen was butchered and barbecued and left on a river bank near Windsor Castle in Berkshire. The mute swan was found on Baths Island in the River Thames on Sunday. Not only can the culprit or culprits be charged with animal cruelty and face a maximum six months jail...

A treasure hunter has unearthed a valuable silver ring that provides tantalising evidence that there were early Christians in Britain before St Augustine arrived on an official mission in 597AD. Were there Christians in Britain BEFORE Augustine? Ring suggests Roman converts existed before...

A movie in which Blackadder and chums are imprisoned in Colditz Castle during WWII may be on its way.... Blackadder to return as film 2 August 2013, 09:00am Rowan Atkinson starred as the intelligent, charming, witty, manipulative and sardonic Edmund Blackadder in the four series of the...

One of those mobs of troublesome Left Wingers that you get from time to time - the usual smelly, jobless, vegetarian, hippy swampies - has set up shop at Balcombe in West Sussex for the last few weeks protesting over the fact that exploratory drilling by fracking company Cuadrilla is taking...

The actress Maxine Peake (from my hometown of Bolton), who has appeared in such top shows as Shameless, Dinnerladies, Silk and The Village, has led the 194th anniversary commemorations of the Peterloo Massacre. The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field in Manchester on 16 August 1819...

It’s certainly not your average scene on the roadside - and would no doubt have livened up a few morning commutes for the passing motorists. Fifty lost Mallard ducks were given a single-file police escort along the hard shoulder of a main road, leading to a build-up of traffic in the morning...

Iron Age settlement discovered in Devon is 'most significant Roman discovery for decades' Archaeologists now working at the site in Ipplepen, near Newton Abbot It followed discovery of coins dating back to 117BC Several round houses, a Roman road and pottery also discovered By...

Scotland Yard last night said they were assessing the credibility of new information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed including an allegation that they were murdered by a member of the British military. It said it was 'scoping' the information, which surfaced in the...

A couple were left shocked when they saw this massive, puma-like creature on their early morning walk - and believe it may have been the infamous 'Beast of Trowbridge'. Herbert and Doreen Smith saw the unusual animal while walking in Murhill Woods, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire last week. Mr...

The burying of 6,000 bodies at Bath Cathedral in the city of Bath in south west England may cause it to collapse.... Burial site: An estimated 6,000 bodies were 'jammed in' to shallow graves under the stone flooring of Bath Abbey (pictured) which is now beginning to collapse because the...

A mummy found in County Laois in the Republic of Ireland may be the world's oldest bog body. It has been dated to 2000BC and is 700 years older than the famous mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. The young adult male is believed to have been a victim of ritual sacrifice. Many bog bodies...

Despite having just under half a million people, the great Northern English city of Manchester has 200 languages spoken within it. These languages include Nahuatl, the ancient language of the Aztecs, Zulu, from South Africa, and Dari, from Afghanistan. Also spoken in Manchester are Acholi...

The man who parachuted into the Olympic Stadium dressed as James Bond, with another man parachuting into it pretending to be the Queen during the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, has been killed. Mark Sutton, 42, from Surrey, died while wingsuit flying near Martigny, Switzerland...

The beleagured leader of Britain's Labour Party, Ed Miliband, was today pelted with eggs at a south London market. The day after polls show that the British people trust the ruling Tory Party (which is in a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats) more with the economy - which is now...