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Since it started in 1994, Britain's National Lottery has not known anything like it. British magician Derren Brown last night stunned the nation by correctly predicting the result of the National Lottery. He managed to correctly guess the six numbers before they were drawn out live on...

The tiny Pacific nation of Samoa has switched from driving on the right to driving on the left. It has joined countries such as Britain, India, South Africa and Japan who also drive on the left. During the switchover, alcohol was banned to reduce accidents. The switchover has happened...

Considering that it has flowed through the great metropolis of London for 2000 years, a city which is still the greatest in the EU in population and area (and the third largest in the world in terms of area), it is inevitable that many interesting items are to be found in the Thames. Recently...

Winnie-the-Pooh, the world's most famous British bear, is back after an absence of 81 years. The last we saw of the little yellow fellow was in 1928 in House at Pooh Corner waving goodbye to Christopher Robin in Hundred Acre Wood. Now the first Winnie-the-Pooh sequel since his creator AA...

An RAF man, Corporal Stewart Hefti, performed 14 loop-the-loops to break a new world record, which was part of a fundraising initiative for RAF personnel and their families. But why allow the slight inconvenience of doing loop-the-loop stop you from having a nice cup of tea? And he managed...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. To mark this anniversary, the historian, A.N Wilson, pays tribute to the British people who, just like those elsewhere in Europe, suffered greatly during the war. The war may have been a global conflict, but it was European...

In 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, Winston Churchill wrote three columns in the Daily Mirror newspaper, about the prospect of Britain and France going to war with Germany. When Britain declared war on Germany on 3rd September 1939, to start the deadliest conflict in history...

It has long been believed that the Queen is a fan of north London team Arsenal. In fact, she has let slip that she is a fan of east London club West Ham United. After overhearing her staff talking about the rivalry between West Ham, whose anthem is I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, and their east...

During the dark days of World War II, when Britain was experiencing the greatest threat it has ever faced, a pretty young woman by the name of Vera Lynn - who was 22 years old when the war started - kept the nation's morale up (and with cities being bombed to rubble and the threat of a German...

After coming under atatck from the Taliban, a female medic, Lance Corporal Sally Clarke of 2 Rifles, caught shrapnel. But, ignoring the terrible pain, Sally, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, treated the rest of her platoon. Despite being entitled to get out as soon as she was hit, Sally...

The Scots are a funny lot, with large chips on their shoulders. Last week, after The Sun columnist John Gaunt did his weekly preview of the day's newspapers on Sky News one morning, he attacked Scotland over its release of the Lockerbie bomber. When he appeared on the show again yesterday...

Britain's longest marriage has ended after an incredible 81 years. Frank and Anita Milford met but Frank, 101, has passed away at the residential home where they lived. The couple met each other in 1926 - British engineer John Logie Baird invented television, the British General Strike...

The former Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, is to become the 159th Constable of the Tower of London. Dannatt has stepped down as the professional Head of the British Army (the Queen is the symbolic Head), a job he has held since 2006. General Sir David Richards will be...

In 1497, John Cabot, a Venetian but representing England, was said to have become the first European since the Norseman Leif Ericson in 1003 to discover the mainland of North America (although the spoilsport British and Canadian governments today say that he actually landed on the island of...

Being an island nation, Britain has a long and proud maritime tradition - and none of us lives more than 50 miles from the sea. Great sailors such as Sir Francis Drake, Sir Martin Frobisher, Horatio Nelson, King William IV (known as "The Sailor King"), James Cook, Thomas Hardy, William Bligh...

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has again struck a blow on the face of political correctness. Clarkson admits that it would be a disaster for a woman to present the show. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Clarkson said: "I think a girl would be a disaster. If a girl came in and we...

A girl of nine has been found strangled to death in the back of a lorry with her stepfather found hanged in woods nearby. The incident occurred in Warmington, near Oundle, Northamptonshire. The lorry was found at a service station on the A605. Northamptonshire police have now launched a...

This Thursday, 3rd September marks the 70th anniversary of the Second World War, the six year conflict (or four year conflict if you are American) which saw sixty million deaths. But what if Britain hadn't declared war on Germany on 3rd September 1939 to start the deadliest war in history...

After winning cricket's greatest prize, the Ashes, on Sunday, it is understandable that England's players will be still a little hungover from the success. But, four days on, they were in action again, taking off their Test whites and putting on their bright red One Day International shirts to...

The draw for this season's European Cup (aka Champions League) took place in tiny Monaco today, and the British clubs will be breathing a sigh of release. Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Rangers were handed relatively easy teams in their groups. The English teams -...