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Builder Derek Burden thought it would be a good idea to take a photograph of England's great capital city whilst on the 16th floor of a building in Covent Garden, in the West End of London. His magnificent shot of the London skyline took in famous structures such as the Houses of Parliament...

Google Earth has revealed an ancient fish trap made from rocks off the western coast of Britain. The fish trap was used close to Poppit Sands on the Teifi Estuary off the coast of Dyfed during the time of the Norman Conquest. Stretching more than 280 yards along the sea bed, the V-shaped...

Scotsman sues an Englishman who correctly said: "Your country's a welfare state." A Scottish pilot is suing his English colleague who told him: "Your country's a welfare state paid for by the English middle classes." The Scotsman, British Airways Captain Douglas Maughan is, amazingly, suing...

The Chelsea Pensioners are amongst the greatest of Britain great and ancient institutions. A Chelsea pensioner is an in-pensioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement home and nursing home for former members of the British Army located in Chelsea, west London. The Royal Hospital was...

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall have visited the Charles Darwin Research Station on the Galapagos island of Santa Cruz, a tortoise breeding centre where the world's largest tortoises inhabit. Whilst there, Charles and Camilla also welcomed a new member of the Royal Family - a baby tortoise...

RUGBY UNION, SIX NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 Rampant England played probably their best rugby since 2003 today as they destroyed France in the Six Nations Championship. In 2003, England were undeniably the best team on the planet, beating every team who came up against them, and thenwent on to...

Experts are inviting members of the public to send in their photos of ghostly phenomena for a dossier they are compiling in a bid to solve the mysteries of the paranormal. Hundreds of paranormal pictures are expected to be submitted online as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival in Scotland...

On the morning of 9th February 1855, the people of about five villages in Devon, in south west England, awoke to find that mysterious footprints had appeared in the snow. The strange footprints stretched for about 100 miles, and passed through the villages of Topsham, Lympstone, Exmouth...

Prince Charles, an ardent environmentalist, and his wife Camilla are in Brazil for the culmination of a tour of South America which has seen the Prince highlight the global problems of climate change and the deforestation of rainforests. On Thursday, Charles told business leaders in Rio de...

As civil war looks like it may once again return to the British Isles, Republican thugs wearing balaclavas and armed with molotov cocktails riot in the streets of the town of Antrim as police arrested the son of of former IRA terrorist over last week's murder of two British soldiers. The...

"I've met one of the men said to be behind the Ulster killings. He is a psychopath." Patrick Mercer, Tory Mp And Chairman Of The Commons Counter-terrorism Sub-committee, has said that he has met one of the Irish republicans thought to be behind some of the recent killings in Northern Ireland...

How does the RAF ensure that its Eurofighters can survive a lightning strike whilst travelling at Mach 2? By zapping one with 200,000 amps at a top-secret bunker in Warton, Lancashire. At the Electronic Warfare Testing Facility military as well as commercial aircraft are zapped with artificial...

At the moment the earliest true photograph that has been discovered was that of a leaf taken in the 1790s by two British scientists. But a 16th century Italian painter may have experimented with photography in his masterpieces. His paintings were not true photographs, but were some sort of...

The village of Linkenholt, Hampshire, is a quinessential English village. It has its pretty little cottages, some of them thatched (with the village's thatcher ensuring they keep in top condition), a village shop, a blacksmiths, an ancient manor house, a 12th century church and a cricket club...

The remains of the first Shakespearian Globe Theatre have been unearthed by archaeologists in Shoreditch, East London. The theatre was built in 1576 and was where Romeo and Juliet was debuted. The remains were discovered underneath a less-than-romantic modern lock-up garage, although the...

Thousands of people, both Protestants and Catholics, gathered across Northern Ireland today to show unity against, and condemn, the Real IRA and Continuity IRA terrorists (who delude themselves by thinking that Northern Ireland will one day secede from the UK and unify with the Republic of...

The Continuity IRA has said it was behind the fatal shooting of a police officer in Craigavon, County Armagh. This group is not to be confused with the Real IRA who shot dead two British soldiers on Saturday night. Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham and Patrick Azimkar, 21, from...

There were minor scuffles in Luton, Bedfordshire yesterday as Islamic extremists, waving placards saying ‘Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basra,’ and ‘Anglian soldiers: cowards, killers, extremists' clashed with ordinary members of the public who welcomed home British soldiers of the 2nd...

They've been making music for almost 30 years, and it's hard to believe that British synthpop band Depeche Mode are still with us. They are one of the longest-lived, most successful and influential bands to have emerged from the New Wave era. They have had forty-five songs in the UK Singles...

The BBC, which is famed for its gaffes, some comical and some more serious, has made anther boob. This may be the coldest winter in Britain for 20 years, but viewers were still shocked when a weatherman wrongly predicted that temperatures in Kent were set to plunge to a record low of -99C...