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Sectarianism between Catholics and Protestants reared its ugly head in Britain again last night after Catholic thugs threw a lighted firework at a footballer in Belfast. Cliftonville, which is supported mainly by Catholics, played Linfield, which is supported mainly by Protestants. After the...

Britain has a World Championship. Lewis Hamilton has just become the youngest-ever Formula 1 World Champion - and the first black person to win it. It was looking like it was going to be a disaster for the 23 year old Englishman (who was recently the subject of sickening racist abuse on a...

With Britain (unlike many other European countries) unafraid to send her soldiers, sailors and airmen into war, it's vital that they have the best modern equipment that money can buy, especially when Britain spent $60 billion on defence in 2008, more than any other nation except the United...

There will be a green centrepiece to the 2012 London Olympics - the 30th Olympiad - in the form of a half-mile long garden inspired by Britain’s five centuries of collecting plants from around the world. The riverside rival to Kew Gardens will be divided into four geographic zones...

The first ever Stanford Super Series was played last night. The Stanford Super Series is the brainchild of Texan billionaire Allen Stanford, a fan of the Twenty20 format of cricket (just one innings played and each team bats for just 20 overs). The match was between Allen's Stanford...

It's not LBW (Leg Before Wicket), but more like L-Bee-W in the current Test match between Australia and India. A deadly swarm of bees invaded the pitch during the Third Test, leaving the Australian and Indian cricketers diving for cover at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi. A swarm...

To mark 90 years since the end of World War I, Britain's Royal Mail has released a commemorative stamp. On the stamp is a poppy which features the face of an unknown soldier who was killed in 1918... The Remembrance Poppy stamp which contains the subtly haunting face of an unknown soldier...

British soldiers are renowned throughout the world for their great bravery and skill on the battlefield, and are probably the best in the world. Though many British Army leaders, such as its generals, are often not viewed in the same way. During World War I, one foreigner said of the British...

Royal Marine, Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, proudly received his George Cross from the Queen on Thursday - and now he claims to be the first person ever to hold both the George Cross and the Victoria Cross. However, the Victoria Cross is his girlfriend! Lance Cpl Croucher was initially...

Staff at a firm of solicitors in Britain's second largest city are so spooked at working there thanks to its ghostly goings-on that they refuse to work late at night. LAC Solicitors, in Birmingham, West Midlands, is riddled with unexplained phemonena, including ghostly shadows, mysterious...

Yesterday, it snowed in London for the first time in October since 1934. Londoners have not experienced snow in October since the year that King Leopold III came to the throne in Belgium, the first Flash Gordon comic strip was published, the Soviet Union joins the League of Nations and...

Meet Peter Buckley, the world's worst boxer. The Brummie is calling a day after suffering 156 defeats - more defeats than any other boxer on the planet. Buckley has sparred with several impressive opponents including 42 future British, Commonwealth, European or World champions, such as Duke...

A Plymouth couple are bottling spring water and selling it after discovering a natual spring in their garden, reminiscent of an episode of BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses. In the 1992 episode of Only Fools and Horses (which was voted by the public as the greatest British comedy series...

The 593rd anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt occured on 25th October. Last week, French academics, at a conference at the Medieval History Museum in Agincourt, said that the English were war criminals during that battle, setting fire to prisoners and killing French noblemen who had...

Next month marks the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War, a mainly European conflict in which great empires, such as the British Empire (with the world's largest navy), Russia (with the world's largest army) and the Ottoman Empire, clashed. There are just two British survivors of this...

A house once lived in by Shakesperean actor David Garrick was damaged in a fire yesterday. Garrick, who lived from 1717 to 1779, bought the home in 1754. It is situated in Hampton Court in south west London and it took 70 firefighters to tackle the blaze..... Pictured: Grade I listed home...

Prince Philip has shown what a national treasure he is again during his and the Queen's state visit to Slovenia. In these days of political correctness, it is good to have an ambassador for Britain who isn't afraid to say what he - and probably the majority of people - thinks. This week, the...

The French have claimed that the English were war criminals during the Battle of Agincourt which took place in 1415. Yesterday was the battle's 593rd anniversary. The French are probably just sore losers..... French claim English were war criminals at Agincourt By Peter Allen...

A mysterious pink light appeared in the dark sky over Mayfair in London on Monday night. But it probably wasn't aliens - the Meteorological Office said it was probably the lights of the metropolis reflected in a cloud... Pictured: The mystery pink light that appeared over London By Daily...

There have been many eccentric and macabre British executioners over the years. Jack Ketch, who performed his duties during the tumultuous 1680s, was notoriously clumsy. During the beheading of Lord Russell in 1683, it took several hacks with Ketch's axe to finally sever the head from the...