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From the sparsely populated, rocky and hauntingly beautiful Shetland Islands in the far north (closer to Norway than London), to the ancient, abandoned tin mines of Cornwall in the far south; from the stunning beaches and mild temperatures of Devon and the English Riviera to the snow-capped...

Britain has a long and bloody history, and the battlefields that dot the length and breadth of the nation are proof of that. From the Battle of Watling Street (60 or 61, when Boadicea attacked the Romans) and the Battle of Deorham (577, when a Saxon [English] force defeated a native Briton...

19th-century England was a ruthless place. There was no welfare system, and certainly no Chancellor of the Exchequer willing to guarantee your savings or pay dole money to the unemployed. It was a society whose God was money, and being in debt even landed you in prison. Besides this, there...

After Saturday's Grand National, shown live on BBC1, many viewers wrote to the Corporation to complain about presenter Clare Balding's jibes to winning jockey Liam Treadwell. Liam, aged 23, rode 100-1 shot Mon Mome to victory in the Grand National in Liverpool on Saturday, the biggest outsider...

In the 1990s and the early years of this decade, the Republic of Ireland was the fastest-growing economy in Europe, with growth around 8-9 percent for many years. It was because of this that it was known as the Celtic Tiger. But the Republic of Ireland's boom years are over, and it now finds...

The town of Wincanton in Somerset is, in most ways, an ordinary English town. Except the street names have names such as Peach Pie Street and Treacle Mine Road. This is because they have been named after places from the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, from the Sir Terry Pratchett "Discworld"...

There have been numerous sightings of supposed big cats throughout Britain over the years, creating rumours that animals such as panther (also known as puma) and lynx may be living wild in the British countryside. And there have been two more pieces of evidence recently. Firstly, claw marks on...

They have sold a billion albums worldwide, have a world record FIFTEEN number one albums and have been hailed as the greatest band of all time. Now engineers at Abbey Road Studios are digitally remastering all of the Beatles' original albums which are to be re-released in September. This...

British police have, in recent years, had a bit of a reputation for being trigger happy and going after, and killing, the wrong person. The most notorious example of that occurred on 21st July 2005, two weeks after the terrorist attacks in London which killed 52 people, when cops from the...

BBC comedy series Red Dwarf, which originally ran from 1988-1999, returns to our screens this month with three special episodes. The first of those episodes is being aired on Dave (channel 19) on Fiday. The series is set around three million years in the future, and the main characters are...

The Americans may be proud of the seeming popularity of their new President as he gallavants round the world from one country to the next. But he is NOT the world's greatest Head of State. That honour must undoubtedly go to Queen Elizabeth II. While Obama struck awe in most of the people he...

Thanks to its long, violent and bloody history, England is awash with battlefields, from the Roman invasion to the Jacobite Rebellions of the 1710s and 1740s. It is thought there could be as many as 450 battlefields in England (and more throughout the UK as a whole), which is not bad for a small...

A new armour exhibition at the Tower of London shows just how fat King Henry VIII became. Thanks partly to his feasting on huge banquets during his 38 year reign (1509-1547), Henry VIII ballooned in size over the years. The monarch enjoyed banquets so much he extended the kitchen of Hampton...

There is to be a prequel of classic BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses. Only Fools and Horses, which ran from 1981 - 2003, was all about Derek "Del Boy" Trotter who lives in a flat in Peckham, London with his younger brother Rodney and his grandfather (later, grandfather dies and their...

Lovestruck Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi embarrassed himself, and the Italian nation, during the recent G20 summit in London. During a photoshoot in Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, while the 18 Prime Ministers and Presidents, one Chancellor and one King had their photo taken with...

Forty horses yesterday ran the Grand National in Liverpool, the world's biggest, most famous and most valuable horse race. Despite coming under attack from various animal rights groups for its high rate of horse fatalities, the race is as popular as ever before. The race is 4 miles 4 furlongs...

It's that time of year again for one of the oldest sporting fixtures in the British sporting calendar. Today was the 155th University Boat Race between the dark blues of Oxford and the light blues of Cambridge, and it was watched by a crowd of over 250,000. It was Oxford who were the victors...

A group of drunken students thought it would be a good idea to steal a model triceratops from a local museum. The gang, who had been out celebrating the end of their course, tried to take the dinosaur to a road to place it in the middle of a roundabout, in Dorchester, Dorset. It took ten of...

Former RAF member Henry Allingham, 112, is not only Britain's oldest man and Europe's oldest, he's also the oldest British man in HISTORY. Mr Allingham turned 112 years and 296 days today, surpassing Welshman John Evans who died in 1990 aged 112 years and 295 days. He is one of only two...

It may have been just a meaningless friendly, but a crowd of over 85,000 packed into Wembley Stadium in London last night to watch in-form England's game against Slovakia, a large number that would probably never be matched anywhere else in Europe for just a friendly. England dazzled in their...