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V.V.V.V. big reasons for UK to stay nuclear By Charles Moore 03/03/2007 Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Vengeance. 70% of the British public want the country to keep the nuclear bomb. Every minute of every day since 1969, a British nuclear submarine has been at sea. As you...

SAS stand by after embassy staff are seized in Ethiopia By DAVID WILLIAMS and ROB CRILLY 3rd March 2007 A special forces rescue team is on standby to try to free five Britons kidnapped by gunmen in a remote region of Ethiopia nicknamed the Land of Death. The five - including a woman...

Astonishing pictures of the cub killed for insolence By JANE FRYER 2nd March 2007 At first glance, it looks like a bit of rough and tumble. After all, what better thing to do under the glare of the scorching African sun? In a typical display of juvenile posturing in the middle of...

The Bear's necessities Tear bear brunch ... British adventurer Bear Grylls, a former SAS soldier, rips into a raw dead fish and also drinks the blood from a knifed turtle By CAROLINE IGGULDEN March 02, 2007 MEN don’t come much tougher than daredevil climber and adventurer Bear...

Shouldn't they be banking at 'Barklays?' by IAN DRURY March 2007 As ideas go, it might seem barking mad. But using dogs to withdraw money from the bank is proving a real boon for disabled customers. These animals demonstrating their skills on the ATM machines are so-called 'assistance...

Racism and a very stupid white woman 2nd March 2007 Daily Mail RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Jobs were moved from the town of Corby, Northamptonshire (which is 93.7% white British).... .... to the city of Leicester, Leicestershire (59.6% white British) Just as well the Government...

Cruel Britannia - Britain must pay £31 trillion in damages for its cruelty According to a new book - "The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined The World" (the author obviously not knowing the difference between "England" and "Great Britain") - Britain is an evil nation responsible for many...

Forget sat-nav, this stunning map is about to fetch £1m by ROBERT HARDMAN 1st March 2007 Even from a distance, the shape is instantly recognisable. Closer up, the county lines are spot on. This would be a pretty accurate map of England right up until the 1970s, when the Heath government...

CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007 - THE WEST INDIES The 2007 Cricket World Cup starts this month. England are in Group C with Kenya, New Zealand and Canada. England - who beat the World Cup favourites Australia three times in a row last month to win the Commonwealth Bank Series - have been declared the...

Pretty, witty Nell Nell Gwyn (b 1650 - d 1687) was an actress and also a mistress of King Charles II. Samuel Pepys called her "pretty, witty Nell." King Charles II (reigned 1660 - 1685) "Pray good people be civil, I am the Protestant w**re" was Nell Gwyn's cheeky retort to the...

How the world really shapes up by VICTORIA MOORE 1st March 2007 We all know what the world looks like. But a new series of extraordinary maps shows our planet in a very different light. Rather than defining each country by size, these computer-generated modified maps - or cartograms -...

Power line kills 'fare dodger' By PETE BELL March 01, 2007 A MAN died last night after bursting into flames when he touched power lines while he was travelling on top of a train. Police believe the 26-year-old was trying to hitch a ride for free. British Transport Police (BTP) he was...

Terry's 72hrs of injury time Ouch ... Chelsea and England captain John Terry cops boot in face at 4.19pm Sunday By IAN McGARRY MARCH 01, 2007 JOHN Terry’s Carling Cup Final injury left him with headaches and dizziness over a worrying 72 hours, it emerged yesterday. The...

Day the gangsters buried the hatchet By MICHAEL SEAMARK and DAVID WILLIAMS 1st March 2007 Joey Pyle (left) with Dave Courtney. He was a friend of the Krays and also their rivals the Richardsons Gangsters: The Kray Twins Had they met on the streets of London in their 1960s...

How the Elizabethans viewed their world Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent Elizabethan: Sir Francis Drake's South America An historic copy of the first printed atlas of England and Wales, a landmark in Elizabethan cartography, is coming on to the market for the first time in 200...

Royal cousins fight for defunct Italian throne Italy became a Republic in 1946. It is one of the very few Constitutional Monarchies in recent years to become a Republic. In the referendum, the Republicans won by just 9% of the vote....... By Malcolm Moore in Rome 01/03/2007 Italy...

Queen Anne (b 1665 - d 1714) Reigned 1702 to 1714. She was the first Monarch of Great Britain - England and Scotland unified together as one nation in 1707 during her reign. She had to be carried to her coronation in a sedan chair as she suffered from gout. Queen Anne was the last of the...

The Iron Duke (1769 - 1852) Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS, more commonly known as Wellington or "The Iron Duke." He defeated Frenchie and became Prime Minister. The Duke of Wellington, perhaps Britain's greatest military hero was, in his...

Aristocrat to be exhumed in bird flu fight By Martin Beckford 28/02/2007 The body of an English aristocrat who died almost 90 years ago is to be exhumed in the hope that it could help the fight against bird flu. Sir Mark died in 1919 Sir Mark Sykes, 6th baronet and owner of...

Ribena saves cooked hamster by JOHN HIGGINSON - Thursday, February 15, 2007 Happy hamster: the survivor Bottle of Ribena A hamster was miraculously brought back to life after being cooked by accident. The pet, called Christmas, must have had a gnawing feeling something was...