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Most people think that the Great Fire of London of 1666, at the time the greatest blaze ever to hit a city since Roman times, was started accidentally by Thomas Farriner at his bakery in Pudding Lane. But many Londoners at the time thought otherwise, as is shown in a new Channel 4 documentary...

China is to become urbanised within the next five years. China, the world's largest nation, which is expected to overtake the US as the world's biggest superpower within the next couple of decades, is experiencing an industrial revolution - with its manufacturing might, entrepreneurship and...

They may look like photographs of the beautiful British countryside of the type you'd get on picture postcards or biscuit tin lids. But if you look closely, you'll find that there's more than meets the eye. These "photographs" are, in fact, embroideries and they were created by Suffolk artist...

The waxwork of British Prime Minister David Cameron was unveiled at Madame Tussauds on Friday. Cameron's pregnant wife, Samantha Cameron, or SamCam, was at the unveiling, and she gushed: 'They've done the most incredible job,' she said. 'He looks so real.' Also unveiled at the famous London...

Roy Hodgson was this morning confirmed as the new manager of Liverpool after signing a three year deal. This comes a month after previous manager, Rafael Benitez, quit the club following a poor season. Liverpool finished only 7th in the Premier League, despite finishing 2nd the previous...

British Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has said that British troops will be amongst the last to leave Afghanistan. Both the United States and Canada have said that they will start bringing home their forces from next year, but Fox has said that British troops are unlikely to be in that first...

Thanks to Google Earth, we now know that an inverted Centaur is roaming Britain's streets. Russel Moffat, from Ellon, Aberdeenshire, was searching for an optician's shop in the city of Aberdeen using Google Earth when he spotted a man with a horse's head standing on the pavement in the...

Stonehenge may be Europe's most famous prehistoric monument, but it's certainly not the biggest. It's not even the biggest stone circle. Avebury, nearby Stonehenge in Wiltshire, is much larger than its more famous cousin. But even bigger than both Stonehenge AND Avebury is Marden Henge...

A beautiful country house has gone onto the market for the first time in almost 1,000 years. But you'll need to have a bit of money to buy it. Shakenhurst Hall, in Cleobury Mortimer, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire, which is older than many of the world's countries, has an asking price...

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has apologised to England and to Mexico after two refereeing blunders. On Sunday, England found themselves 2-0 down against Germany after 30 minutes in their Last 16 match of the World Cup. But England scored two goals in just one minute just before half time that...

There were two parallels in today's Last 16 match in the World Cup between England and Germany with the 1966 World Cup Final played between the two nations. Like 1966, England played in red and Germany in white and also like 1966 there was a controversial "Did it or didn't it cross the line?"...

Cheering crowds and scorching weather greeted British troops yesterday, the 26th June, during only the second Armed Forces Day. The new national day, which started last year, looks like being a permanent fixture in Britain's calendar thanks to its success. This year, the main focal point of...

With the British Army taking the brunt of the Taliban's fight in Afghanistan, with a death rate four times that of the wussy US Army, the more protection available to British soldiers the better, especially with it looking like the British Army being in Afghanistan for another 5 years. Now the...

A farmer's field in Britain has been suspected of once being a Roman brothel - where nearly 100 unwanted prostitutes' babies were slaughtered by the Romans. The site, near Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, identified as a high status Roman villa, was excavated in 1912 and the remains of 97 children...

Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall, today met 650 troops from 11 Light Brigade after they returned from to Britain's to a hero's welcome after a six month tour of Afghanistan. In what was Britain's biggest ever homecoming parade, the troops marched two miles through the centre of...

Football crazy England came to a standstill today to watch their team take on Slovenia in the crucial Group C match in the World Cup. Shopping centres and busy roads were deserted, and public transport and city centres were eerily quiet as millions of people across the nation watched their...

Usually, the start of the Glastonbury Festival is accompanied by torrential downpours leaving revellers sinking in the mud. This year, though, the start is accompanied by glorious sunshine, blue skies and sweltering heat - it's the weather which has made the government introduce a hosepipe ban...

How fitting it is that on the summer solstice, a time of peace and love, that a crop circle has appeared in a farmer's field right next to a heart-shaped wood. However, the farmer wasn't in the mood for love and pleace - he has said that the crop circle is an act of vandalism. The crop circle...

Clever students at one of the few Cambridge University colleges not set on the river have created a 200m canal to allow them to punt to their May Ball. Students from the breathtakingly beautiful 400-year-old Sidney Sussex spent a week building the canal, which is filled with 88,000 gallons of...

Sweden has just had what has probably been the biggest royal wedding in Europe since Charles and Diana married in 1981. More than 1000 guests, include royalty from across the world, gathered at Stockholm Cathedral to see Crown Princess Victoria, the daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf, marry her...