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It is a very rare, but very British, get together. Ten wealthy men recently gathered for oysters and Dover sole at a swanky London establishment, ten wealthy men who are all distantly related to each other and are each addressed "Your Grace." These ten men are all dukes, and it was the...

On 21st October (what the British now call Trafalgar Day) 1805, 33 Royal Navy ships did battle with a force of 41 French and Spanish ships off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. Despite being outnumbered, the well-trained British comprehensively defeated the poorly-trained French and Spanish. 2,218...

Fifty years ago Scotland prided itself on it high quality education. Now it's a different matter after it has been revealed that Scottish students have fallen behind English students - despite taxpayers spending £1,400 MORE per child in Scotland than in England. Socialist Scotland spends...

A spooked landlady of a Hampshire pub is to call in an exorcist to get rid of a spectre that tops up customers' drinks. The ghost (or should that be spirit?), which haunts the Apsley House in Southsea near the naval city of Portsmouth, apparently tops up people's drinks when they nip to the...

10,000 Roman coins have been unearthed by a metal detector enthusiast on his first ever treasure hunt. Nick Davies found the hoard, dating from between 320AD and 340AD and crammed into a 60lb pot, in a farmers' field in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The coins are from the reign of Constantine I...

A British schoolboy has become one of the world's youngest fathers - aged just 13. The unnamed boy from Manchester was said to have been "chuffed to bits" when his 16-year-old girlfriend gave birth to a girl. The identities of both kids cannot be revealed for legal reasons. Earlier this...

Archaeologists have discovered what has been dubbed Stonehenge's little sister, just a mile from the world famous ancient monument. It has been called Bluehenge because that was the colour of the stones, which are now missing, which once incorporated it. It is thought that the stones of...

A British expedition in Indonesia have spotted the mysterious apeman which supposedly lives there. The Orang Pendek, Indonesian for "short man", was spotted by two members of the team on the vast island of Sumatra - the sixth largest island in the world - in the west of Indonesia. But far...

During the war, the RAF's Lancaster bomber could carry far greater loads than any other bomber in the European theatre of war. Its average load was 12,000lb, but towards the end of the war it was lifting the Grand Slam bomb weighing over 22,000lb, or ten tons. And this is why the British...

Former Monty Python star Michael Palin has said that Britain must stop apologising for its colonial past. Palin, who now hosts TV travel documentaries which include "Pole to Pole", "Sahara" and "Himalaya" told the Royal Geographical Society that we should look at the many benefits that the...

With just months ago until the 2010 General Election, and therefore just months to go until Brown and Labour are kicked out of office and Cameron and the Tories are voted in, Brown still lurches from one blunder to another. The PM had a torrid interview with Sky's Adam Boulton live on TV...

The new British Supreme Court has opened for the first time today. Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls (or "The Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England" - the second most senior judge of England and Wales, after the Lord Chief Justice), said that the new judges...

Gordon Brown today played down claims that he is losing his eyesight and that he is dependent on painkillers. There have been rumours recently that the British Prime Minister is losing the sight in his good eye. He is blind in his left eye after being kicked in the head whilst playing rugby...

A newly unearthed essay written by Paul McCartney as a schoolboy which reveals his love for the monarchy has been revealed. It was found by author Kevin Roach at the Central Library in Liverpool. McCartney wrote the essay in 1953 when he was 10-years-old. It was also the year that Elizabeth...

In 1944, Nazi stormtrooper Heinrich Steinmeyer was caught by the British hiding in a foxhole in Normandy. The British probably expected Steinmeyer to put up a fight. Instead, he surrendered. But Steinmeyer was amazed by the kindness shown by the British soldiers after they had told him to...

It's amazing what you can discover in ancient England's soil. When 55-year-old Terry Herbert searched for artefacts in a Staffordshire field, he wasn't optimistic of finding much. But his £2.50 metal detector discovered what is the largest haul of Anglo-Saxon artefacts ever discovered. The...

A new British movie about Charles Darwin may bomb in the US as it may be too controversial for religious Americans. The film - which marks 200 years since Darwin's birth - is set at the time that Darwin wrote his book On The Origin of Species, which was published in 1859. But US distributors...

A sadistic mother who stabbed to death her two teenaged daughters has been told she must serve at least 31 years behind bars. Rekha Kumari-Baker, 41, stabbed Davina, 16, and Jasmine, 13, a total of 69 times with kitchen knives she had purchased two days earlier. Cambridge Crown Court told...

For 124 years, from 1838 to 1962, it stood proudly at the entrance to Euston Station, even surviving German zeppelin raids and attacks from the Luftwaffe. Then, in 1962, it was controversially demolished to make way for a modern train station. It was 70 feet high and was the world's biggest...

Famous faces in the world of football gathered at the magnificent 11th century Durham Cathedral, one of Europe's great buildings, on Monday to pay respect to one of the sport's most popular men. Former England, Ipswich, Newcastle and Barcelona manager Sir Bobby Robson passed away from cancer...