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Meet Bubbles, Lilac, Cuddles, Apple, Muffin and Beefy, six showjumping bunnies. The six rabbits have learnt to run an obstacle in their owners' garden in Doncaster, South Yorkshire which features miniature fences. The rabbits will be among the competitors at the Ultimate Pet Show at the NEC...

A young woman made a Skoda become invisible in her university's car park. But she wasn't using a cloaking device like something from Harry Potter. Art student Sara Watson, of the University of Central Lancashire, spray painted the car to give the optical illusion that it had become...

British electro-punk greats The Prodigy are back. "Invaders Must Die" is their first album since 2004 - and it's a noisy one. Since forming in 1990, The Prodigy - who hail from Braintree, Essex and are famous for the huge 1996 hit "Firestarter" - have sold 16 million records worldwide...

Hertfordshire punk band The Gallows are about to release their new album "Grey Britain" tomorrow. The album is an anthem of modern Britain, with songs about knife crime and the recession. Singer Frank Carter recently explained the premise of the album to Kerrang!, saying, "Britain is ****ed...

The Deputy Leader of the far-right British National Party, Simon Darby, has caused outrage after calling the Archbishop of York an ‘ambitious African’ and made ‘spear thrower’ comments about Ugandans. Dr John Sentamu, the 97th Archbishop of York, is the first black Archbishop of York. He...

Carol Ann Duffy has become Britain's new Poet Laureate. And, in keeping with politically correct modern Britain, she is the first female Poet Laureate. She takes over from Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate since 1999. The Poet Laureate is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Government...

In these miserable times of recession, it's always good to have a good chuckle. So that's why The Sun newspaper has launched its Get Britain Laughing campaign. So everyday it is printing lots of jokes to keep us amused - and is getting comedians to give us their views on current events...

One is a city in the north of Italy, and one is a city in the north of England. And there the similarities end. Middlesbrough is famous for its huge Transporter Bridge, Roy Chubby Brown, its chemical works, oil refinery, rubbish football team and the humble Arriva bus service. Venice is...

Ahh, the Great British Pub. It is as quintessentially British as cricket, fish and chips, Marmite, Monty Python or Stephen Fry. Go to other countries, and most bars have ordinary, mundane names. In the US and Canada, bars may be called Bob's Beers or Al's Alehouse. But British pubs have...

A beautiful dish belonging to a wealthy Londoner at the time that Britain was a part of the Roman Empire has been unearthed. The bowl is a rare "millefiori" ("one thousand flowers") and is thought to be the first of its kind to be discovered outside the eastern Roman Empire. The dish was...

You may think that the electric car is a fairly new invention, but a Mr Thomas Parker had one in Victorian Britain. Mr Parker apparently built an electric car in 1884. To make a living, he electrified the London Underground and created overhead tramways in Liverpool and Birmingham. This...

Google Earth finds the "Battle of the Nile trees" which commemorate Nelson's victory In 1798, a British fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson completely destroyed a French fleet anchored near the Egyptian city of Alexandria, stranding Napoleon's army in Egypt. The British took the...

Canadian tourist officials bizarrely used a picture of a beach in Northumberland, England's nothernmost county which borders Scotland, on a website promoting landlocked Alberta. Beautiful Beadnell Beach was used by Alberta's public affairs bureau in a £14 million advertising campaign. The...

Mr De Marco has lived in the same house for 100 years. Mr De Marco, who lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was born in Italy in 1902 but moved to England when he was seven when Edward VII was on the Throne and Manchester United won the FA Cup for the first time. When he turned 100, Mr De...

British comedian Omid Djalili has caused a row at the BBC after making jokes about a Jewish BBC chief. Djalili, who was born in Chelsea, west London and is of Iranian descent, has his own comedy sketch show on the BBC in which he plays a variety of characters. But he left an audience of 200...

A new survey has shown that British women are the biggest in Europe but, paradoxically, worry the LEAST of all Europeans about their size. On the other hand, Frenchwomen are the smallest in Europe but worry the MOST about their size. This could be due to the fact that French men pressure...

Scotland, Wales and Ireland are "feeble little nations", says historian David Starkey English historian David Starkey caused outrage in the Celtic nations on Thursday after describing Scotland, Wales and Ireland as "feeble little nations." David Starkey appeared on the BBC's Question Time...

For over 350 years, between 43 and 410, the Romans ruled Britain. But they only ruled the southern and middle part of the island - what they called Britannia - or what is modern day England and Wales. But they failed to rule over the northern part of the island, what they called Caledonia -...

Wimbledon, a suburb of south west London, is the home of world tennis (the modern rules of the game were drawn up in Britain in the late 1800s) and the location of the world's oldest, and most prestigious, tennis tournament. It is also the only one of the four major Grand Slam tennis tournments...

Until as recently as the early twentieth century, Britain was a harsh, unforgiving and poverty-stricken place to live (some people say that it stil is). It wasn't that long ago that a person - even a young child (huge crowds would still attend the public execution of 10 year old boys or girls...