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British artist Banksy (no-one knows what his real name is but it may be Robert Banks) from Bristol specialises is painting on walls and the sides of buildings. Most of us call it grafitti, but his work is usually more artistic than ordinary grafitti. GALLERY: Swept under the carpet ... Red...

MoD's latest propaganda weapon ... Harry, the war movie By MARK NICHOL 13th May 2007 Defence chiefs are planning to let a camera crew follow Prince Harry during his tour of duty in Iraq. The Ministry of Defence crew will film him while on operations, with footage being released to...

Mother-of-two's transformation in Afghanistan from burka to bikini By HEIDI KINGSTONE in Kabul 12th May 2007 Daily Mail There is a quiet buzz of happy conversation as the students at the world's most unlikely hairdressing academy practise the arcane arts of perms, tints and extensions on...

Queen and Brown join forces to save Union By JONATHAN OLIVER 12th May 2007 Daily Mail The Queen is to join forces with soon-to-be-Prime Minister Gordon Brown to prevent the break-up of the Union between Scotland and England/Wales. Mr Brown (a Scotsman), who shares the Queen's grave...

Napoleon always lived like an emperor By Malcolm Moore on Elba 12/05/2007 The Telegraph Napoleon: the tiny dictator was forced into exile on the island of Elba by the British in 1814 The island of Elba, off the west coast of Italy, is a part of Tuscany Napoleon's will to...

Jail's luxury food scandal Gourmet diners ... from left, Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), Ian Kay, Peter Bryan and Kenneth Erskine By JAMIE PYATT May 12, 2007 The Sun PAMPERED murderers at Broadmoor Hospital have cooked up a row over the amount of CHICKEN in their tikka...

From the creators of BBC television's QI, a quietly intriguing new column The Daily Telegraph's Quite Interesting homepage The stars of the BBC gameshow QI (Quite Interesting) Quite Interesting has just got more interesting. From today, this column will bring you a mixture of freshly...

Shakespeare gets comic treatment By Gary Eason Education editor, BBC News website The appetite of publishers for comic book - or graphic novel - versions of Shakespeare plays seems undimmed. But is this a valid way of introducing the Bard to new readers? One new UK publishing...

Paris meeting boosts Franco-British links By Henry Samuel in Paris 12/05/2007 The Telegraph Tony Blair became the first foreign leader to see the newly-elected French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, when the two men met yesterday in Paris. The outgoing British prime minister meets the...

If Brown lives up to yesterday's promise, he could become a truly great Prime Minister By PETER OBORNE 11th May 2007 Daily Mail Whatever the reason, for the past 15 years, Gordon Brown has cultivated a dark, scowling, aloof and suspicious public image. While extremely warm to a...

Gordon Brown will almost certainly become British Prime Minister on 27th June. His policies include more economic development in Iraq, continuing the close relationship with the US (and, being much more Europhobic than Blair, he'll not let the EU boss him around the way Blair did) and change the...

As usual, this year's competition has its normal collection of cheesy songs - "Europop" - in languages you can't understand. Even the UK which - along with Republic of Ireland - has a world-beating popular music scene (they're also the two most successful countries in Eurovision) usually...

Tunnel open again at Silbury hill BBC English Heritage is conducting stabilisation work at the site The huge Silbury Hill in Wiltshire is as old and as large as the pyramids of Egypt. The road running alongside it gives an idea of its vast size. Engineers have reopened a tunnel...

Trafalgar Square to be covered with grass 11th May 2007 Daily Mail Never before has Trafalgar Square looked anything like this. Lush green turf has replaced the broad paving slabs while picnicking couples and deckchairs have taken the place of tourists and office workers. While it may...

Will Nicolas Sarkozy's oui vote be French with tears? 10th May 2007 Keith Waterhouse Daily Mail He that is without a Oui vote for Nicolas Sarkozy, let him cast the first cobblestone. And don't think he won't. The first fusillade of cobbles was being uprooted from the Place de la...

MAGIC MOMENT ... Peruvian player Vasquez - of Swedish team Gothenburg - has his left foot behind his right foot as he uses it to kick - and score! They don't call it the Beautiful Game for nothing. Is this the best goal ever? By GRANT ROLLINGS May 11, 2007 The Sun FOOTBALL is buzzing...

The great British horror movie company - Hammer - is being revived. The film company has been renowned for making horror movies written by classic British horror writers, such as "Dracula" (Bram Stoker), "The Curse of Frankenstein" (Mary Shelley) and mystery movies such as "Sherlock Holmes"...

The England senior team might not be playing too well at the moment, but the England Under 17s team has reached the Final of European Championships for the first time ever, beating France in the semi-Final. Their opponents will be Spain, who beat Belgium in the other game. Who will be...

Moore statue unveiled at new Wembley Stadium 11th May 2007 Daily Mail The new Wembley Stadium - England's national stadium and the home of the England football and Rugby League teams - has a capacity of 90,000, making it the 2nd-largest stadium in Europe after Barcelona's Nou Camp in Spain...

With Britain's most recent civil war between the Loyalists and the Republicans in Northern Ireland over - the Loyalists (pro-British) and Republicans (pro-Irish) laying down their weapons - Stephen Glover talks about Northern Ireland's two new leaders (the Republican McGuinness and the Loyalist...