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Charlie Hamilton James has been obsessed with the kingfisher since he was just six. And he has spent thousands of hours photographing the beautiful birds in their gorgeous surroundings from a hideaway in his old milworkers' cottage in Bristol. His new book - Kingfisher: Tales From The...

In the wake of the MPs expenses scandal which has resulted in Gorbals Mick becoming the first Speaker of the House of Commons to be forced out of office since 1695, The People newspaper has outlined its remedies for a Greater Britain. The People says we should get rid of Brown and make Johnson...

England have beaten the West Indies by an innings and 83 runs to win the two-match series 2-0 and retain the Wisden Trophy. The match was played in the glorious surroundings of Chester-le-Street in Durham, the world's most northerly Test cricket stadium and situated in the beautiful grounds of...

Former England cricket star Chris Lewis has been jailed for 13 years for trying to smuggle 3.37 kilograms of liquid cocaine, with a street value of about £140,000, into the United Kingdom. Lewis played 32 Tests and and 53 ODIs for England between 1990 and 1998 and has played for Leicestershire...

In typical inter-British Isles banter, the English often mock the Welsh for having an unhealthy fascination with sheep and goats. The Welsh ludicrously think the English are talking a load of rubbish, but the evidence is all around us to show that the English are actually correct. Earlier...

The IMF has praised Britain for its aggressive action in tackling the recession, and said that it has set the stage for economic recovery. Britain has the advantage, which EU countries who have the Euro currency haven't got, of being able to set her own interest rates. The Bank of England...

Thousands of people across the world have experienced it. You are lying in bed, late at night, and all is quiet except for a persistent and annoying (and quite spooky) humming sound. This often keeps the victim awake for hours, and if they venture outdoors to try and discover the source of...

There is a tree at Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire that is no ordinary tree. With a circumference of almost 200yds, it's canopy is the size of London's Royal Albert Hall, where the Last Night of the Proms is held. The tree has the widest canopy of any tree in Great Britain and Ireland, and...

The leader of the far-right British National Party, Nick Griffin, has been invited to the Queen's garden party at Buckingham Palace. All members of the London Assembly (London's "parliament"), of which Griffin is a member, have been invited. Mr Griffin, from Powys in Wales, once called the...

History was made yesterday as Michael "Gorbals Mick" Martin was yesterday forced to resign his job as Speaker of the House of Commons - the first Speaker to be forced out of his job since 1695, and the first since the merger of the English/Welsh and Scottish parliaments to form the British...

Champions! Manchester United won the title yesterday in front of 75,000 fans. Since the Premiership started in 1992, Manchester United have won it 11 times. And now they have equalled Liverpool's record of 18 English titles in total. Yesterday was only the second time that Manchester United...

Merlin, the legenday Arthurian wizard, has for centuries been traditionally regarded as being either English or Welsh. Merlin became the young Arthur's tutor. It was Merlin who met the Lady in the Lake and persuaded her to present King Arthur with the magical sword, Excalibur. Arthur pulled...

Prince Edward (the Earl of Wessex) and his wife, the Countess of Wessex, attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show yesterday, allowing photographers to snap rare pictures of one of the youngest members of the Royal Family. Lady Louise Windsor (born 8th November 2003), who may one day be Queen, is...

Not that long ago, the streets of London, and other British cities, were brutally violent places, with a murder rate which dwarves that today. But to combat this astonishing violence and brutality, offenders were punished with equal violence and brutality, with punishments ranging from hanging...

Today, the 50th birthday of a Great British icon took - that of the Mini. Over 2,500 Minis in a vast assortment of colours took to the streets of London today for the annual 56-mile-long London to Brighton run to celebrate the car's 50th anniversary. The car even featured in the 1969 British...

Whilst filming an episode of the new series of popular BBC motoring show Top Gear, two of the show's presenters decided to gatecrash a wedding. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond had been racing each other the length of the country, from London to Edinburgh, a distance of almost...

Norway last night won the Eurovision Song Contest with a record 387 points. It was also a record winning margin by a song - by 169 points. It is the third time Norway has won it, having previously been victorious in 1995 and 1985. Twenty-five nations took part, and this year's competition...

The body of a wealthy man found buried under the bleak Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire may have been a king. And the treasures he was buried with may have been Britain's first Crown Jewels. The artefacts that the man, dubbed "Tall Stout Man", had been buried with are so rare that they have been...

A church in Uckfield, East Sussex has unveiled its new statue of Christ. The unusual thing about the statue is that Christ is wearing a pair of baggy jeans, depicting him as a man of the 21st Century. The 7-foot high statue cost £35,000 and was sculpted by Marcus Cornish. And it's not like...

One of Britain's newest traditions was carried out again today. Since 2007, the tiny town of Wooton Bassett in Wiltshire turns out to welcome home military heroes from Iraq or Afghanistan. But, sadly, those heroes have all come home in coffins. Since 2007, RAF Lyneham, near the town, has...