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The Duchess of Cambridge made her first public speech today. The future Queen marked the opening of a new Treehouse children's hospice in Ipswich, Suffolk, by making a live televised speech there earlier today. She has done one or two TV interviews before - most notably with Prince William...

English football is in shock today after a young player suffered a cardiac arrest yesterday during a game and collapsed Democratic Republic of Congo-born English player Fabrice Muamba, 23, who plays for Bolton Wanderers (my hometown team), collapsed near the halfway line during the televised...

One of the earliest examples of Christianity taking over the pagan Anglo-Saxons may have been discovered. The skeleton of a 7th Century teenage girl has been discovered at Trumpington Meadows in Cambridgeshire with a gold and garnet cross on her chest. The cross is only the fifth to be...

The six British soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday after their Warrior armoured vehicle was destroyed by a very powerful IED blast have been named by the MoD. Cpl Jake Hartley, 20, Pte Anthony Frampton, 20, and Pte Christopher Kershaw, 19, died in the blast. Pte Daniel Wade...

This is hilarious. A group of pals in Dorset had a PROPER stag night. Schlong arm of the law Cops Taser stag do pals over 6ft willy gag Willy get a cab looking like that? ... groom Stewart Roberts during his stag do Exclusive By JAMIE PYATT 4th May 2012 The Sun GROOM Stewart...

Up until recently, the last sighting of Spring Heeled Jack - who, with his strange suit, goldfish-bowl like helmet and abilty to spit blue flames and leap great distances, terrorised the people of London and other great British cities since the 1830s - was in 1986. In Herefordshire, not far from...

A "unique" medieval coin from the reign of William the Conqueror has been discovered in a field near Gloucester. The hammered silver coin was found by metal detectorist Maureen Jones just north of the city in November. Experts from the Portable Antiquities Scheme said the find "filled in...

Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and other royals attended church today, the day before the Queen's 60th anniversary as monarch. Tomorrow will not only be 60 years to the day that Elizabeth came to the Throne but, rather emotionally for the monarch, the 60th anniversary of her father, King...

"At least we have our own currency": Prince Andrew pokes fun at the euro nations Prince Andrew has poked fun at those EU nations which use the Euro. The Duke of York - the Queen and Prince Phillip's second-youngest child - told entrepreneurs at the Davos summit in Switzerland that foreign...

Vital samples of DNA on the corpses of savaged animals could provide key clues in deciding whether or not a 'big cat' is behind the killings of two deer. Tests: DNA samples from this roe deer corpse could help experts track down the 'big cat' responsible for its death The 'beast of...

The eyes of the world will be on Britain later this year for two reasons: the 2012 London Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, which mark Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the Throne. The main celebration of the Diamond Jubilee will be the Thames flotilla, which will take...

Experts at the British Museum in London have finally pieced together a Roman helmet, ten years after its discovery. The helmet was unearthed in Hallaton, Leicestershire, after a metal-detecting enthusiast came across buried coins with his second-hand £260 metal detector. Retired design and...

A Manchester skyscraper howls whenever it is windy. The Beetham Tower, which houses both offices and apartments, is the tallest skyscraper in Britain outside London, but now it has been identified as the source of an eerie howling sound keeping the city's residents awake at night: Beetham...

A murder investigation is under way after a woman's body was discovered by a dog walker on the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, eastern England, on New Year's Day. The body was discovered in the village of Anmer, on the 2,000 acre estate, and less than a mile from Sandringham House which...

Britain will be the biggest economy in Europe with one of the wealthiest populations in the world by the middle of the century, according to leading economists. Long-term forecasts by investment bank Goldman Sachs suggest the UK will fare better than its neighbours on the Continent over the...

A Viking hoard discovered by a metal detector enthusiast in northern England has been hailed as one of the most important Viking finds in recent times. Darren Webster discovered them lying just 18 inches below the surface of a field in Silverdale in the city of Lancaster, Lancashire. The 201...

An emotional song based on the letters that British troops serving in Afghanistan sent to their loved ones, and the letters their loved ones sent to them, is bidding to be Christmas No1. "Wherever You Are", sung by the Military Wives Choir, which consists of the wives and girlfriends of...

I had four egg butties this morning.

A student mugged in the devastating London riots, which left parts of the capital ablaze, needs surgery after having his jaw broken. Ashraf Haziq, a Malaysian student who has only been in Britain a month, was with a friend in Barking, east London, on Monday - the worst day of the violence so...

A hapless horse had to be rescued by lifeboat crews after swimming half a mile out into the English Channel. The spooked animal threw off his female rider while going for a walk along the beach at Sandwich, in Kent. It then ran into the sea and was chased by his owner who eventually had to...