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FA Cup, Quarter Final replay A Tottenham Hotspur fan stormed onto the pitch at the end of the FA Cup Quarter Final replay (after the first game finished 3-3) between Tottenham and Chelsea and attacked Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard after his team were beaten 2-1. A sublime goal from...

Why life is worse since we joined the EU 19th March 2007 The biggest challenge facing the EU is not how to unite, but how to compete, the Tories have argued As a law student in Lisbon in the late 1960s, Jose Manuel Barroso passed around an illicit copy of "Je t'aime, Moi non...

Mob hindered helicopter crash rescue By Tom Peterkin, Ireland Correspondent 20/03/2007 Hostile crowds stopped an ambulance as the crew tried to take a casualty from an Army helicopter crash in south Armagh to hospital. The Northern Ireland ambulance service said the...

World Cup 2007 - West Indies England: 279-6 (50.0 overs) Canada: 228-7 (50.0 overs) By Oliver Brett Paul Collingwood scored freely during the closing overs against minnows Canada England were some way short of their A game but still did enough to register their first victory of the...

BA apologises for First Class corpse 19th March 2007 British Airways has apologised after First Class passengers on a flight from Delhi awoke to find crew had placed a corpse in their cabin. Businessman Paul Trinder, 54, had dozed off in his £3000 First Class seat on the flight...

Armed police called to toddler with gun in mouth 19th March 2007 Armed police rushed to a supermarket after a toddler was spotted with a gun in its mouth, it has been revealed. The little girl was handed the replica gun by two laughing yobs outside an Asda store in Liverpool earlier...

Last month, a "friendly" game between West London team Queen's Park Rangers, of the lower reaches of the English league, and China ended in a kung-fu brawl with the QPR players sending home at least seven Chinese stars with severe beatings - one of them with a broken jaw? But what does it show...

Britain has a new sporting hero - Lewis Hamilton. In the first Grand Prix of the season yesterday, the Australian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton made his debut - and finished Third. He's the first black driver in Formula One history and the youngest driver ever to stand on the podium...

How I learned to love the Lords Michael Moorcock Lost Pines, Texas When I first moved to America in the early 1990s I arrived as a republican, full of a furious rhetoric about the end of monarchy and the abolition of hereditary privilege. I’d sent a hefty donation to Charter 88, who...

HOW THE ENGLISH/WELSH LONGBOWMEN DEVASTATED THE FRENCH The longbow as we recognise it today, measuring around the height of a man, made its first major appearance towards the end of the Middle Ages. Although generally attributed to the Welsh, longbows have in fact been around at least since...

With several England stars fined for getting drunk - including intoxicated vice-captain Flintoff sinking a pedalo off the coast of St Lucia - this has been an eventful start of the 2007 Cricket World Cup off the field as well as on it. Now Pakistan's coach Bob Woolmer, a former England player...

Outlaw is being tipped to be one of the biggest British movies of the year. It was released on 9th March..... Outlaw Reviewed By: Angus Wolfe Murray Fighting back against the heritage of an illegal war and a corrupt police force in Blair's Britain. Director: Nick Love Writer: Nick...

As only British sports stars can, several of England's players went to bars and drank copious amounts of alcohol, some of them getting drunk. Drunken Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, England's Vice-Captain, even had to be rescued as he got into trouble when he took a pedalo out to sea. All this...

Why can't Americans be grateful for the British colonies in Jamestown and elsewhere? If we didn't colonise America in the first place then America wouldn't exist today..... It's hardly Pocahontas: new exhibits portray Jamestown colonists as killers and rapists By James Langton in...

25th anniversary of the Falklands War. Radio DJ - an unlikely hero of the Falklands invasion By IAN GALLAGHER 18th March 2007 I just did my job: Patrick Watts ran the Falklands Islands Broadcast station for 30 years. In a show of British defiance he continued to stay on air throughout...

Fans give new Wembley the thumbs up at test event 17th March 2007 Football fans today declared themselves more than happy with the new £800 million Wembley Stadium. Local residents and England supporters were allowed into the ground for a "community day" staged as part of the...

World Exclusive: Delighted Duchess to become a grandma By KATIE NICHOLL 17th March 2007 Parents-to-be: Camilla's son and Charles's stepson Tom and his girlfriend Sarah Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have been celebrating the news that they are to become grandparents...

Wembley, England's new national football stadium, is the largest "soccer" stadium in the world with all the seats undercover and the largest in the world with a sliding roof. It has a capacity of 90,000 and its first game - England Under 21s VS Italy Under 21s - is nex Saturday. Today it is...

Bedford Book of Hours to go on display By James Burleigh 17/03/2007 The Bedford Book of Hours, described as "an outstanding work of late medieval manuscript art", is to go on display at the British Library next week. Work on The Bedford Book of Hours probably began between 1410 and...

Italians may be deserting football - the game they love as a religion - for cultural pursuits such as the theatre. This is surprising consider that Italy contributes just £1.2 billion a year to culture, compared to £3 billion a year for England and even more for Great Britain as a whole (the...