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From 2009, controversial images will welome visitors arriving at London's St Pancras Station. The friezes are supposed to depict modern Britain - a copulating couple, a vagabond carrying a bottle, and a hoodie expressing himself with his middle finger. Welcome to Britain? The shocking frieze...

The very English humorist, writer, wit, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television presenter Stephen Fry - who starred in BBC comedy series Blackadder as Melchett and the Duke of Wellington - gives his view on the US Presidential race. Since he discovered that his father was offered a job in...

The British are said to be a nation of animal lovers, and it also seems that we like taking photographs of the fellow creatures that share our land. A beautiful photo showing a puffin flying with a meal in its beak has won the BBC's Countryfile Photographic Competition. The photo was taken on...

The Ministry of defence has unveiled the British Army's devastating new weapon that will be used against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The lurker bomb, which is manufactured in Britain, can stalk a target before picking the perfect moment to strike. It can also shadow British soldiers for up...

The Credit Crunch has even caused bodies to not be buried, in an echo of the foul Winter of Discontent that blighted Britain in the winter of 1978/79, when rubbish was piled high in the streets causing a great stink, nurses ond doctors went on strike and even dead bodies were not buried due to a...

Motorbike fanatic Barend Hemmes, from Bermondsey, south London, teamed up with designer Lee J. Rowland to create a motorbike in the shape of the logo from a famous English luxury car manufacturer. Pictured: The ultimate PURRING machine - a motorbike in the form of the pouncing Jaguar logo...

They say that football is a game of two halves. And it wasn't more noticeable than at Wembley tonight. A fairly dire first half from England (but no so dire as to make you want to go and stick your head in the food blender) and 0-0 and half-time. The second half was the exact opposite, with...

Borat has said that he couldn't be at Wembley today to sing his counry's national anthem before the game with Englad. However, he did give us an A-Z of Kazakhstan, instead.... With England playing Kazakhstan at Wembley here is a guide to the country by BORAT By David Thomas 10th...

A racist, anti-English tourist attraction in Scotland has caused outrage after it banned English visitors and encouraged people from other countries cto bring with them typically English objects to destroy. English tourists are allowed into the event but only if they sign a scroll swearing...

Manchester rock giants Oasis have released their seventh studio album - "Dig Out Your Soul." Liam and the lads had a bit of a kerfuffle during a show recently when a crazed Canadian fan jumped on stage and pushed Noel over, causing Liam to give the fan a few punches. The Manc rockers may be...

Some England fans will probably be dressing up as Borat today as their team plays his homeland in today's sell-out Wembley match. However, fans have been banned from wearing Borat's "mankini".... Borat's mankini banned at Wembley England fans have been banned from wearing Borat's "mankini"...

A.N. Wilson says that times may ahead may be tough, as we enter a recession, but the people of Britain today have got it nowhere as bad as our grandparents did. Think about those who still suffered rationing years after the War. Rationing did not end in Britain until 1954. Compared with...

American actor Robert Downey Jr is starring in a new British movie about Sherlock Holmes. The actor plays the world's most famous detective and British actor Jude Law plays his trusty sidekick Dr Watson. Robery Downey Jr is one of only a few Americans in the film. It is directed by Guy...

The world's seven richest countries have agreed a plan to stem the world's financial crisis. Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Canada could follow Britain and America's lead in buying up equity shares in struggling banks with taxpayers' money. Britain announced earlier this week that it...

A shop in Accrington, Lancashire, is just like something from Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop." The shop has probably been closed since the late 1970s - and all its contents from that time have been left intact. Stepping into the shop is like stepping back in time. The shop is...

Geoff Hurst's shirt is to return to Wembley for the first time since 1966, when England won the World Cup there. He wore the shirt in the 1966 World Cup Final, when England beat West Germany 4-2. The shirt is insured for £1 million and is owned by property investor Andrew Leslau. Geoff...

The world's most famous Kazakhstani, Borat, has turned down offers of adding a bit of humour to the England VS Kazakhstan game at Wembley tomorrow. More than 10,700 people signed a petition on facebook to have Borat, played by eccentric British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, singing the...

A toy hedgehog has been found in a child's grave at Stonehenge in Wiltshire. The toy is around 3000 years old and was placed in the 3-year-old child's grave when they died as it was probably their favourite possession. Prehistoric child is discovered buried with 'toy hedgehog' at Stonehenge...

In another case of members of the public dealing with criminals, a paedophile has been found strangled in woods in Great Witchingham, Norfolk. Gordon Boon, 73, was jailed for six years in 2001.... Convicted paedophile found strangled and dumped in woods after suspected vigilante attack...

Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Nationalists, the SNP, once used Iceland and the Republic of Ireland as models for what an independent Scotland, in the event that it becomes independence, should aspire to. But have recent events in these two countries shattered the Scottish...