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Henry may be a bull, but he actually thinks he's a dog. The Aberdeen Angus-Belgium Blue cross was taken in by farmer Ben Bowerman when he was born and grew up with border collies Algy and Arthur on Ben's farm near Swanage, Dorset. Now, despite being weaned and put out with the herd, Henry...

A campaign is underway in Britain to build a truck-sized, prototype computer that was conceived back in the early nineteenth century. In 1837, when Victoria came to the Throne and Britain was an industrial and entrepreneurial behemoth populated by people coming up with clever ideas and then...

Hundreds of left-wing protestors yesterday did what left-wing protestors are good at doing - causing misery, mayhem and unnescessary disruption to thousands of people who just want to get on with their lives. The climate change protestors - from the group Crude Awakening (all kids who look...

Passengers at a Buckinghamshire train station were a bit bemused when the ticket machine had stopped working, causing delays to their journeys to work. And when customer service manager Mark Cooper opened the ticket machine at Little Kimble station in Aylesbury, he discovered the cause of the...

With Britain just recovering from a devastating recession and the new Coalition Government having to make necessary cuts due to the high debt left to us by the previous Labour Government, it was hoped in England that Scotland's preferential treatment and all the great freebies given to the...

The ancient Uffington White Horse may actually be a dog, a vet has said. Olaf Swarbrick has said that the 3,000 year old, 374 foot long carving filled with crushed white chalk on top of White Horse Hill in Oxfordshire has more canine-like rather than horse-like features. But the National...

Work has started on the £36 million state-of-the-art Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth which will house the flagship of Henry VIII's navy. The Mary Rose, England's first gunship, was lauched in 1511, just two years into Henry's reign, but was sunk by a French ship (or so the French say) in the...

Princess Beatrice has been left shaken after being involved in a car crash on one of London's most notorious roundabouts. The 22-year-old granddaughter of the Queen crushed her BMW between a double decker bus and a coach at Hyde Park Corner, just yards from her grandparents' home Buckingham...

Thousands of rioting Serbian football hooligans have left 14 people injured. And the Euro 2012 qualifier between Serbia and Italy in Genoa was abandoned. The match was abandoned at 0-0 by the Scottish referee after just six minutes after Serbian thugs threw flares onto the pitch and at Italian...

The residents of the Kent town of Royal Tunbridge Wells will have to keep their guard - after a PUMA was spotted wandering the town. Two women spotted the five foot beast roaming near bins at a leisure park. And staff at the complex have heard terrifying growls coming from the nearby woods...

Argentina's mad president, Cristina Kirchner, has accused the Royal Navy of behaving like pirates and accused Britain of behaving like an imperial power when it comes to the Falkland Islands. On Twitter, Kirchner - hated by Falkland Islanders - criticised the MoD over plans to carry out...

The new leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, has announced his new Shadow Cabinet - and there is one major surprise. It was thought that the post of Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer would go to either Ed Balls or his wife Yvette Cooper. Instead, Miliband decided to give the job - the...

A single mother has at last won the right to be called a miner after having her case discussed in Parliament. Since 1838, when a law was passed to protect local coal and iron reserves, 4,500 men have been bestowed with the title of Free Miner in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire...

British comedy legend Sir Norman Wisdom died laughing, his family has revealed. Norman died on the Isle of Man on Monday aged 95, and his daughter-in-law revealed: "He joked to the very end of his 95 years." Norman's death has also plunged Albania into national mourning. It was there that...

A gloating paedophile has been sentenced to die in prison for raping and killing his 12-year-old niece. John Maden, 37, a father of one, lured Tia Rigg to his home in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, telling her that he wanted her to babysit for him. The youngster had just watched some...

There has been a rare sighting of Britain's largest wild animal - the Emperor of Exmoor. The red deer stag lives in the Exmoor National Park which straddles the counties of Devon and Somerset in south west England. He weighs 300lb and stands an impressive 9 feet from floor to the top of his...

David Cameron today became the first leader of the Tory party to make a speech to the Tory party conference as Prime Minister since 1996. And, insisting that there are no alternatives to the Coalition Government's planned cuts to services to reduce Britain's national debt, which is the highest...

The Queen has been voted the person which most makes the British proud of their nation. The 84 year old monarch won the popularity survey, closely followed, not surprisingly, by the Queen's former daughter-in-law, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, and Sir Winston Churchill...

Hapless Liverpool's poor start to the season has gone from bad to serious after yet another shock defeat for them this season. Two weeks ago they were sensationally knocked out of the Carling Cup by minnows Northampton Town, who hail from League Two, the lowest division in the English League...

Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in Britain in the early to mid-nineteenth century which campaigned for greater suffrage (amongst men only), a fairer voting system and annual parliaments. It was the first mass working class labour movement in the world. The movement was...