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Sterling set to break $2 barrier after hitting 14-year peak 1st December 2006 The pound is twice the size of the American dollar. Britain's currency, the pound sterling (or the pound or £), is the world's most valuable currency. It is soon set to be worth two American dollars. The...

The Times November 30, 2006 Foggy Thinking The Anglo-American link is stronger than some in the State Department assume W. Kendall Myers is an unusual sort of American civil servant. He combines being a senior analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the US...

The chess set designed to help POWs escape 30th November 2006 Clever: This ingenious device was used by British POWs to escape from their German captors. The white bishops aren't all that they appear to be and nor is the label on the tube. They may look like worn pieces of an...

Security lapse at London Eye as staff fail to notice parachute jump 29th November 2006 With amazing coolness, the stuntman jumps off the top of the London Eye, the world's largest ferris wheel, James Bond-style. Daredevil ... the London Eye and Gary, inset Standing atop the...

A piece of Norman wisdom Clever sew and sew ... Annette's work and tribute By JAMES CLENCH November 30, 2006 1066 and all that ... Annette's tapestry and inset, the original TUBE worker Annette Banks has made history — after spending 20 YEARS recreating the Bayeux...

Killer fairies caused four deaths The Sun By GARY O'SHEA November 30, 2006 Scary ... fairies scared people to death in the 17th century. England in the 1600s was a deeply superstitious and often brutal place FOUR people buried 450 years ago in an English parish had...

Ricky Gervais' new jokes Office joker ... British comedian Ricky Gervais, star of hit BBC comedy The Office, is hilarious By MICHAEL DEACON November 29, 2006 RICKY Gervais has performed for the first time the new jokes he'll be telling on his 2007 stand-up tour – and The Sun...

The monster Tyranno-sea-rus Tyranno-sea-rus ... how extinct fish may have looked By MICHAEL DAY November 29, 2006 MEET history’s scariest fish — a four-ton monster with the bite of a T-Rex. The 33ft terrifying Dunkleosteus terrelli roamed the oceans 400million years ago...

Death threat to Gerry Adams By PETE BELL November 29, 2006 Gerry Adams, leader of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein (the political wing of the IRA terrorist group) has been sent death threats by Loyalists - those allied to the British. This comes just days after Loyalist soldier...

Immigration centre protest Protest ... SOS message Picture: SKY NEWS By ONLINE REPORTER November 29, 2006 SEVERAL fires were lit in Britain’s largest immigration detention centre causing disruption in all four wings. The disturbance at Harmondsworth Immigration Detention...

Sniffer bees set to snare suicide bombers By BARRY WIGMORE 29th November 2006 British scientists say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives. Sniffer bees with a nose for explosives are set to make a major breakthrough in the war on terror. An extraordinary...

HOGFATHER Hogfather is a new British sci-fi/fantasy movie based on one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. One of its stars is Sir David Jason who - if anyone knows their classic BBC comedies - you will remember starred in Only Fools and Horses between 1981 and 2003 as Del Boy. It is a...

Civitas is a British (needless to say) think-tank that thinks the EU would work better without Froggyland as a member.... EU would work better without France The European Union would work better without France, according to a report published by the independent think-tank Civitas. The...

Britain is the tornado capital of the world. It has more tornadoes per square mile than any other country in the world. Luckily for us, our tornadoes are usually smaller than those reported in places such as "Tornado Alley" in the United States, where tornadoes are so huge that the US is often...

England face 'group of death' One vision ... England's Blind World Cup team By ONLINE REPORTER NOVEMBER 24, 2006 ENGLAND's blind footballers have been drawn in the 'group of death' for this weekend's World Cup. They face the daunting task of taking on current World champions...

Early sketch of Stonehenge found Maev Kennedy Monday November 27, 2006 The Guardian The oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, found in a 1440 manuscript, the Scala Mundi They got the date wrong by some 3,000 years, but the oldest detailed drawing of Stonehenge, apparently based...

Makeshift 'Rorke's Drift' unit of medics and engineers holds out Taliban By MATTHEW HICKLEY in Gareshk 26th November 2006 Local police are trained by soldiers from the Royal Marines in Gereshk, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. When a key strategic town in Afghanistan's Helmand...

THE BORDER REIVERS AND THE RESCUE OF KINMONT WILLIE ARMSTRONG When England and Scotland were both independent nations and frequently at war, the Border Reivers were people - both Scottish and English - who raided lands over the border. The Scots would cross the border and raid areas of...

Brown ... warning Brown warning over nukes By ONLINE REPORTER November 25, 2006 GORDON Brown warned Labour rebels today it was nonsensical to ditch nuclear weapons while North Korea and others were developing atomic warheads. In a move to face down an impending backbench revolt...

Tories' first female Asian says "UK should keep the Pound and restore death penalty" It's good to see Tory members finally talking tough about Europe and crime again just like the good old days. With Britain's "Scottish Socialist Loony Lefty Labour Party" in control, and Tory Leader David...