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Rugby's annual Six Nations Championship is upon us once again, involving England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy. But why, even if two British teams are playing each other and when it is the British people who pay the BBC's licence fee, does the BBC insist on weighing the players...

Oldham Athletic have stunned the world of football by introducing an all-pink kit. But they aren't turning into a bunch of nancy boys. The team, who are flying high in League One (the third tier out of four tiers of the 92 professional teams of English football) will wear it just once (in a...

A 164 foot tall white horse - about the same height as Nelson's Column - will tower over the English countryside in Kent, the "Garden of England." It will be Southern England's equivalent of Northern England's "Angel of the North" statue but twice as tall (though I think the Angel of the North...

After Dreamy the dormouse's winter hibernation was interrupted after his cosy nest was dug up by a dog, he was taken to the Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre in Somerset to be looked after in safety. However, the little fellow didn't slumber from his months-long nap when he was placed on a...

Holidaymers looked to the sky in awe as a mysterious object hovered above them for 10 minutes. The UFO was spotted over a caravan park in Brean, Somerset near the coast. One tourist managed to film the object. Something strange is definitely happening in Somerset. Last year local...

The rock which Bonnie Prince Charlie used to begin the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 has been found by an English grandmother in her rockery. Many Scots (and people around the world who love Scotland) believe that Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite followers were undertaking a just and noble...

In the wake of the "British Jobs For British Workers" protests at oil refineries and power stations around the country, British Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, suggested that Britons who were protesting about foreign workers in the UK should go abroad to look for employment. This gave...

Prince Philip today made his first public appearance for two weeks in a bid to end growing speculation over the state of his health. The World War II veteran, 87, joined his wife, the Queen, at church in Sandringham, Norfolk today. Last week it emerged that Buckingham Palace had been forced...

Britain is a nation that stood up to, and defeated, tyranny in the form of the Spanish Armada, Old Boney, the Kaiser and Adolf Hitler. Yet it seems to be terrified of a few flakes of snow, with whole cities grinding to a halt after a light dusting. Does this mean the British are just too...

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, renowned for speaking his mind, has caused controversy after calling British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot." Clarkson is, quite rightly, probably wondering what all the fuss is about. After all, Clarkson is right. Gordon Brown IS...

The stairlift wasn't, as is commonly believed, invented by the American C C Crispen in 1930. He though up the idea 400 years after King Henry VIII. The king invented a stairlift in the 1500s to get his gigantic bulk up and down the stairs. A block and tackle would have been used by...

Queen Victoria is Britain's longest-serving monarch (though Queen Elizabeth II is catching up) as well as one of its most loved. Now a new British movie, released on 6th March, The Young Victoria, hopes to show another side to the Queen and Empress we often view as dour and strait-laced. The...

Carol Thatcher, the daughter of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been sacked from her job as a roving reporter on the BBC1 show "The One Show" over comments about French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Carol, 55, was overheard in the show's green room saying that Tsonga...

Despite being credited for ridding England of the dictatorial Absolute Monarchy (but by making England a dictatorial republic for 11 years) and being the father of British democracy, Oliver Cromwell can also be credited with coining the well-known phrase "warts and all." Cromwell, who ruled...

Just as England is currently ruled by a Scotsman named Gordon Brown (albeit England not being a proper, independent nation), could Germany soon be ruled by a man whose father was Scottish? David McAllister, half-German/half-British, is one of the leading figures in Germany's ruling CDU party...

England's King Henry VIII, who reigned from 1509 to 1547, was quite attractive in his youth. He was a royal pin-up: tall, muscular and extremely fit. He was a talented athlete and jouster, who took part in many great tournaments. His good looks even impressed the Venetian Ambassador. But, as...

Burke and Hare are two of the most infamous felons of British history. The two Irishmen moved to Edinburgh in Scotland to work on the Union Canal (at the time, the whole of the island of Ireland, rather than just Northern Ireland, was part of Britain, so Burke and Hare were very much British)...

At the risk of upsetting a few silly environmentalists, the first steam train to be built in Britain in almost 50 years made her maiden voyage yesterday - and it brought back memories of the golden age of the railways. The Peppercorn Class A1 Pacific 60163 Tornado, based on the locomotives...

THE RECESSION As the recession bites, workers in the four main areas of the United Kingdom - Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland - have downed tools in what is the biggest strike action the country has seen since the Miners' Strike of 1984, when thousands of coal miners lost their...

Wearing balaclavas to protect their identities, they look like a group of cowardly IRA terrorists. But these young men aren't killing innocent men, women and children by putting bombs in litter bins. These are after a much less controversial target. These are vigilantes, armed with a...