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John Bercow, the MP for Buckingham, has been elected as the new Speaker of the House of Commons. Despite being a Tory, he is a popular choice amongst Labour MPs and not popular amongst Tory MPs. This is due to the fact that the once right-wing Mr Bercow has in recent years become more...

Meet 19-year-old Nazanin. This young Iranian woman has emailed Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper to give us an amazing insight into what life is like for young people inside Iran under the leadership of the tyrranical Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who would have lost the recent election if the Iranian...

The England women's cricket team have surpassed even the feat achieved by the England football lads back in 1966 - winning TWO World Cups in the same year. Earlier this year, the England women's cricketers won the World Cup, winning every match on their way to be crowned World Champions...

Earlier this year, the Sri Lanka cricket team's bus was shot at by terrorists in Pakistan as they travelled to a stadium to play Pakistan in a Test match. Several Sri Lankan players were shot but none were killed. The bus driver was shot dead. Since that incident, Pakistan has been banned...

Prince William, who is celebrating his 27th birthday today, says we must learn lessons from violent street gangs. In his first major newspaper interview, which he wrote for The Sunday Telegraph (and which you can read in full by clicking on the blue link below), Prince William writes about how...

Richard Littlejohn's columns attack the things which blight modern Britain: it's obsession with political correctness, Health and Safety and Global Warming. His latest column talks about Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein (the political wing of the IRA terrorist group) condemning the recent racist...

Chicken Tikka Masala, a hot and spicy curry-like dish invented in London's curry houses in the 1960s, has overtaken fish and chips as Britain's favourite dish. Cate Barratt, of St Austell, Cornwall, decided to make some for herself and her boyfriend, so she went to her local Asda supermarket...

RUGBY UNION The British national team - which plays for the whole of the British Isles including Southern Ireland - took on the South Africans in their own backyard yesterday and did themselves proud. It was the First Test of the Series between South Africa (the Springboks) and the British...

The fixtures for next season's Premier League came out today. The new season kicks off on Saturday 15th August. Premier League newcomers Burnley - in the top-flight for the first time since 1976 - play Stoke City on the opening day. Fellow newcomers Wolves and Birmingham play West Ham and...

For football fans, pre-season (i.e. now) is the worst time of the year (except if the year ends in an even digit). No football for weeks and weeks! Soon fans will be getting withdrawal symptoms. But one of the few good things about pre-season is the fact that we can look forward to when next...

The remains of a British soldier who died during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, which was fought between the British Empire and the villainous Zulus, have been identified. The Zulu Kingdom was a small state in southern Africa in what is now South Africa. The British defeated the Zulus during...

Poor Dyno the cocker spaniel pup was flushed down the toilet after little Daniel Blair decided he needed a wash. Thankfully, the puppy survived. Hapless Dyno travelled 20 yards along a sewage pipe before he was lifted out of a manhole, in Northolt, Middlesex. Dyno-Rod was called out to...

With Health and Safety going completely over the top in Britain, this latest story isn't too much of a surprise. An eco-warrior is being evicted from his cave in Brighton......because it doesn't have a fire exit. Hilaire Purbrick is now claiming that the decision is in breach of his human...

Over 100 Romanians were forced to shelter in a church in Belfast, Northern Ireland after locals subjected them to vile racist abuse. About 20 families were moved to safety from their homes in the Lisburn Road area of the city last night as it emerged there had even been threats to cut a...

English psychedelic rock band Kasabian have released their third album, "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum." It was released on 5th June and had already shot to number 1 in the UK album charts. The band, who are from the Leicestershire vilages of Blaby and Countesthorpe, have based the...

Gordon Brown may be the most unpopular Labour Prime Minister of all time. Indeed, he may be the most unpopular Prime Minister of any party of all time. In the recent EU Elections, in which each Member State elects politicians to represent it in the EU Parliament, the Labour Government in...

England made a poor start to the Super Eights stage of the World Twenty20 after losing by seven wickets to South Africa, who are starting to show that they are the best team in the tournament. England batted first, and you knew things wouldn't go right for them when they scored 111 which, in...

A 2000 year old war grave containing dozens of headless bodies has been found by workers digging an £87 million road for the 2012 London Olympics (it's amazing what you can find in Britain when you start digging). The mass grave was discovered in Thomas Hardy country on Ridgeway Hill, near...

British soldiers used to be called lobsterbacks by their American enemies because of the bright red uniforms they wore. Now lobsterback is an appropriate term for this British soldier in Afghanistan. Lobsters are protected by their hard shells. And in this instance, the body armour the...

The Avro Vulcan is a delta wing subsonic jet bomber that was operated by the Royal Air Force from 1953 until 1984. It is almost as iconic, and almost as beautiful, as another great RAF icon - the Spitfire. The Vulcan initially carried Britain's first nuclear weapon, the Blue Danube gravity...