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Adrian Reeman may not be popular with a bunch of malnourished 18th Century French left-wingers, but I'm sure he'll not be too bothered. Being a proper British eccentric, Mr Reeman has spent 23 years transforming his once ordinary flat in Southampton, Hampshire into the lavish Palace of...

If your idea of fun is smoking an African woodbine, having your hair in dreds, calling everybody "man", listening to The Beatles and wearing trousers so flared that it looks as though your legs aren't moving as you walk, then this car is for you. A businessman has decided to give a hearse a...

One of the few things we can give credit to Prime Minister Gordon Brown (who, despite his faults and his mistakes, IS genuinely patriotic and always tries to put his country first) is his refusal to back the Euro currency. During his ten years as Chancellor of the Exchequer - 1997 to 2007 - he...

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE, is a proper English hero and adventurer, somebody who won't let the small matter of having no fingers on one hand get him down. Just look look at this former SAS man's achievements so far. He travelled the White Nile by hovercraft in...

Liverpool haven't won the title since 1990. If they don't win it again this season they can blame a red beach ball. In one of the more bizarre incident you'll see in the English Premiership, a shot from Sunderland's Darren Bent ricocheted of a red beach ball in the penalty area and went into...

Local rivals Blackburn Rovers and Burnley met in the Premiership today. Burnley were promoted to the Premiership last season, their first time in England's top flight since 1976. Just 11 miles separate these two northern English towns and, as a result, they have one of the fiercest rivalries...

Despite Crystal Palace's stadium, Selhurst Park, being much smaller than that of other London football teams, such as Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and Chelsea's Stamford Bridge, it has been designated by the Metropolitan Police as a terror hotspot, where the bobbies can carry out stop and...

What other country in Europe, other than England, would have 76,897 fans turn up to watch a match which is nothing more than a meaningless friendly? That is what happened at Wembley last night to see England take on Belarus. It may have been a 2010 World Cup qualifier but both teams had...

More than 5000 "Hell's Angels" converged on the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, on Saturday to pay tribute to Britain's fallen service personnel. The National Memorial Arboretum, which opened in 2001, pays tribute to Britain's war dead. The Arboretum is so called as it...

Built in Portsmouth exactly 500 years ago (1509-1510), the Mary Rose was the pride of the English fleet during the reign of Henry VIII. She was originally equipped with 78 guns, but was upgraded in 1536 to 91 guns. In 1545, during the Italian War which involved several European countries...

When Margaret Butcher moved into her home in Norwich, Norfolk five years ago, she came across an apple tree in her garden. Many times since she has eaten the apples and noticed that they taste differently from other apples. Nobody was able to identify the type of apples that they are, so she...

It looks like a scene you'd expect in America's Wild West. But these amazing photos of two wild stallions sparring was taken in the serene, green English countryside, just outside Cambridge. The two stallions are part of a 50-strong herd of Koniks brought over from Holland and which now...

In 1961, Margaret Andrews, now 82, bought a green silk coat from a jumble sale in Epsom, Surrey for £10. Then, a couple of weeks ago, Margaret was flicking through a magazine when, astonishingly, she spotted a photo of the Queen wearing the same silk coat that she had bought at the jumble sale...

Members of Greenpeace can be annoying sometimes. The do-gooders think nothing of lecturing the world about the "evil" of non-existant man-made global warming, yet think it's okay to climb onto private property to cause trouble and sometimes vandalism. Around 30 members of the organisation...

Thomas Cromwell (not to be confused with Oliver Cromwell who was born almost 60 years after Thomas's death) was was Henry VIII's chief minister from 1532 to 1540. Cromwell masterminded the dissolution of the monasteries, in which Henry disbanded England's monasteries, nunneries and friaries...

Eighteenth century London evokes images of fine Georgian buildings, many of which are still standing, and fine art. But in reality, it more of was a modern day Sodom, the biblical city synonymous with sexual depravity, and from which English gets the word "sodomy" (to North Americans, the...

The English FA is to report the Ukraine to FIFA after last night's 2010 World Cup qualifier between England and the Ukraine was delayed several times after Ukraine fans threw flares onto the pitch. The incident further highlights how fans in English stadiums are more "civilised" than those in...

The BBC's "Only Fools and Horses" is the most popular British comedy of all time. It ran from 1981 to 2003 and consistently had high ratings. A 1996 episode, "Time On Our Hands", attracted an incredible 25 million viewers, a British record for any sitcom. The show was set in the London suburb...

With the Labour Government and Prime Minister Gordon Brown about as popular as saveloy at a kibbutz, it is very likely that Tory leader David Cameron will become Britain's 53rd Prime Minister after the 2010 General Election, which must be held in June at the latest. Today was the last day of...

The technology of fighter planes has come a long way since the founding of the RAF, the world's oldest airforce, in 1918. A new camera, which is attached to the underbelly of the RAF Tornado GR4, can spot tiny details up to 75 miles away. That means that it would be able to read the time on...