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Monster shark is frill killer Bite ... Frilled Shark has razor teeth and is elongated like an eel January 25, 2007 THIS scary looking monster of the deep looks like a huge eel — but is actually a SHARK. The 5ft-long Frilled Shark is rarely seen because its natural habitat is...

THE Grenadier Guards have appointed the son of an African chief as the first black officer in the regiment’s 350-year history. The Grenadier Guards are the Queen's personal bodyguard. Guards' first black officer By JOHN KAY Chief Reporter January 25, 2007 THE Grenadier Guards have...

History of the high seize The way they were ... old-style south-coast wreckers load up their loot Picture: JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775-1851) By TIM SPANTON January 24, 2007 SHIPWRECK! It’s a cry that has made the blood run cold since men first took to the sea. But for...

Devon The scavengers of Branscombe beach by PAUL HARRIS 23rd January 2007 They swarmed down the valleys and over the clifftops – an army of treasurehunters heading jauntily off to the beach. Some came in pick-up trucks or on tractors with trailers. Others sported bags and...

Helping hand ... builder Steve covers Sun journalist Nick who was brave enough to wear the man leggings, and inset, Milan model struts in his pants Inset Picture: MATRIX First sarongs, now men in tights By NICK FRANCIS January 23, 2007 AS fashion disasters go, this one makes even...

Tuesday 23 January 2007 Department for Culture, Media And Sport (National) The Antonine Wall runs through central Scotland and was built by the Romans when much of Britannia was a part of the Roman Empire. It was completed in 144 AD and built by Quintus Lollius Urbicus. It is so-named...

Disrepute ... Royal Green Jackets badge EXCLUSIVE Probe into sick Army initiation By JOHN KAY Chief Reporter January 23, 2007 TWO teen rookie soldiers were forced to lick a urine-soaked floor in a sick initiation ceremony, it was revealed yesterday. They were among a group of...

War force boost in Afghanistan By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON Political Editor January 23, 2007 The Sherwood Foresters are to go to Afghanistan TONY Blair is to send hundreds more troops to Afghanistan to crush a Taliban spring offensive. The Sherwood Foresters have been put on...

For the last couple of weeks there has been the story of Jade Goody and two friends "racially abusing" an Indian woman on Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother. Jade Goody was accused of calling Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty "Shilpa Poppadum". Another woman said Shilpa should "f**k off back to her...

Five men arrested in terror raids Armed police have arrested two men in Halifax Five men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after police raids, Scotland Yard says. Two men, aged 25 and 29, were held in Halifax, West Yorkshire, "on suspicion of the commission, preparation...

GRASSE, France — Tucked in the hills outside this small southern French town, high among the terraced olive groves, sits a peaceful stone Mediterranean villa once acquired for the family of Saddam Hussein. Today, the villa is abandoned: its fish pond overgrown with reeds, its rooms ransacked...

New Maximo Park album 'out in March'? Paul Smith reveals new songs and plans "Britain's favourite new band" - that's what the critics said about the Newcastle band's 2005 album "A Certain Trigger." Tom English - Drums Duncan Lloyd - Guitar Paul Smith - Vocals Archis Tiku - Bass Lukas...

Enter Shikari are a St Albans, Hertfordshire post-hardcore rock band with an experimental electronic twist. The band formed in 2003 as an evolution from an earlier band, Hybryd and are notable for combining elements of trance and post-hardcore in many of their rock songs. The BBC have them...

Mika Penniman is an Lebanese-born British singer who is set to become a HUGE star in 2007. Where's it all gone wrong?... The British singer currently has No1 album and a big bucks fashion deal Mika shall inherit the earth January 22, 2007 NEW star MIKA is shaping up to be...

Luck of the Irish pays off big time By Tom Peterkin 22/01/2007 The "Celtic Tiger" - The Republic of Ireland, once an economic backwater, is now one of the richest countries in the world per capita, richer than the likes of the United States and Switzerland. Now an independent nation...

The Times January 22, 2007 Police attend a simulated terror in central London. The SAS can now provide support from a permanent base in the capital (Sean Dempsey/PA) SAS unit moves to London in terror fight Michael Evans, Defence Editor * Troops called in after police errors *...

Whale Skeleton On Show Sunday January 21, 2007 The "Thames Whale" famously swam passed the Houses of Parliament in January 2006 after becoming stranded in the Thames. Despite a rescue attempt to get it back into the sea, it sadly died. Hundreds of people lined a bridge to watch the...

Fight to stem cargo ship oil leak The ship is stricken off the south coast of Devon, in Lyme Bay, in the South West of England An anti-pollution operation is under way after a stricken cargo ship off the Devon coast began leaking oil and lost some 200 containers overboard...

Pictures: Marines strap themselves to chopper for daring rescue By CHRISTOPHER LEAKE 20th January 2007 These are the astonishing images of the moment four heroic Royal Marines set off to rescue a fallen comrade - strapped to the wings of two Apache helicopters. In pictures seen here...

In this article in The Observer (the Guardian's companion newspaper) Nick Cohen condemns Left-Wingers and the anti-Iraq War crowd. The Guardian/Observer is also a notoriously Left-Wing newspaper. Don't you know your left from your right? As a child of politicised parents, Observer...