Search results

Is this a joke? London Olympics new £500,000 logo unveiled - to widespread derision 4th June 2007 Daily Mail The new logo for the 2012 London Olympics was unveiled today - to widespread derision. Olympics chief Sebastian Coe hailed the £500,000 design as "the vision at the heart of...

Dutch courage in Brazil By Hugh O'Shaughnessy BBC News, Brazil Queen Beatrix of Holland has visited Brazil as the two countries attempt to preserve their historical connection Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, husband of Holland's Queen Beatrix Brazil's history might...

A schoolboy obsessed with BBC comedy series Dad's Army has created a little bit of Wartime Britain in his home.... Dad's Barmy: Schoolboy's amazing shrine to classic BBC comedy by ANDREW LEVY 31st May 2007 Daily Mail BBC comedy series Dad's Army was about Britain's 1.8 million-strong...

A lamb belonging to celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has been savaged to death in the grounds of David and Victoria Beckham's Hertfordshire mansion. The culprit is believed to be a large cat - possibly a puma or a lynx - many of which are sighted throughout Hertfordshire and Britain each year...

Blair in Africa A white man’s burden Jun 2nd 2007 From Economist.com Tony Blair has been good for Africa Welcome: Blair gets a guard of honour in Sierra Leone, a country where he is hugely popular “A SCAR on the conscience of the world” is how Tony Blair, Britain’s departing...

A new look for the first-class design By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter and Tom Williams, Sunday Telegraph 03/06/2007 The Telegraph It is the world's most widely used image: the timeless picture of the Queen's head that has appeared on 200 billion stamps in Britain and the...

Canada:Linguistic melting pot that would tax the Bard himself By Beryl Paintin 31/05/2007 The Telegraph When I first came to Canada in 1975, the least of my concerns was having to learn to speak a language other than English. 'Can you imagine how some of the Bard's famous quotes would...

Found: Aloysius the Brideshead bear By EWAN FLETCHER 2nd June 2007 Daily Mail Oxford: the "City of Dreaming Spires" He's not in the Priory, he's not doing panto at Weston-super-"Bear"... our man in the cravat and Sebastian Flyte three-piece tracks down the Olivier of TV teddies just...

Parents' fury as channel Five screens advert for Mormons in middle of children's show by GLEN OWEN and OLIVER WADESON 2nd June 2007 Daily Mail Channel Five is facing angry protests after it screened a Mormon recruitment advert in the middle of programmes watched by infants. Under UK...

The only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated was Spencer Perceval in 1812...... The Assassination of Spencer Perceval The assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812 Spencer Perceval was one of the younger sons of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont who first sought a career in...

Our forgotten war 02/06/2007 The Telegraph In one year, the Afghanistan war has claimed the lives of 51 British soldiers - the latest this week. But as our forces secretly begin their biggest ever offensive, morale is at an all-time low. Thomas Harding, the only journalist with the troops...

The Leftist BBC, which often sides with the Palestinians against the Israelis, must have embarrassed itself when it was a group of Palestinians, not Israelis, who abducted one of their men. But what if it was the Israelis who had abducted the BBC man? Would the BBC have been more vocal in its...

How an exhibition at Renishaw Hall - the Derbyshire home of the Sitwell family for almost 400 years and which is, of course, haunted - demonstrates British eccentricity at its greatest.... Bizarre exhibition at the spiritual home of British eccentricity By ROBERT HARDMAN 2nd June 2007...

An eccentric English aristocrat went searching for the heir to his 13th Century mansion in Somerset, someone who shares the same ancestor as him - it turns out the heir is an American, the leader singer of rock band The Fray...... The eccentric English aristocrat with no heir and the American...

Remarkably, Brazil have played more often in London recently than England have.... Capital to see you - London is home from home for Brazilians By JEFF POWELL 2nd June 2007 England 1-1 Brazil (Wembley. Attendance: 88,745) Football was coming home. Not just Becks back on the wing...

England were unlucky to win last night as the world's two biggest football nations came head-to-head in the world's most expensive sporting arena. Former England captain Beckham whipped in a free kick into the Brazilian penalty area allowing current captain John Terry to head in a goal from...

Anglophile Gilberto is looking for a passport to success at Arsenal 1st June 2007 Daily Mail ENGLAND VS BRAZIL, friendly, tonight 8pm BST, Wembley Gilberto, the most successful Brazilian import English football has seen, revealed today that he loves life in England so much that he is...

Here's a fact: Britain has 20% - yes, 20% - of all the world's CCTV cameras. This may seem like Big Brother, the British are quite happy with it.... Big Brother's watching: The secret CCTV bunker that monitors our every move 1st June 2007 Daily Mail In a bunker beneath the bustling...

Welcome to Blair World - it's all gone Mickey Mouse 31st May 2007 Daily Mail Richard Littlejohn always tells it as it is Following the opening of Dickens World, in Chatham, Kent, and the unveiling of a Harry Potter theme park, at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, this column can...

Red-headed family forced to move after 'ginger' hate campaign 1st June 2007 Daily Mail A family of red-heads say they have been hounded out of three homes by gingerist yobs. Flame-haired couple Kevin and Barbara Chapman and each of their children sport fine heads of copper coloured...