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Dangling from a 25,000 volt cable, is this the luckiest (or most stupid) man in Britain? 20th November 2006 Luckily for him, the drunkard - who drank a few too many ciders - decided to dangle from the power cable at one of the rare moments that it was switched off Bare-chested...

Group of praying imams ordered off American flight Last updated at 12:49pm on 21st November 2006 Six imams, who had been saying their evening prayers on a plane, were removed from a US Airways flight yesterday and questioned for hours before being released. The Muslim scholars were...

Modern day Robin Hoods prove internet hit Former Chelsea and Italy footballer Gianfranco Zola poses as Robin Hood A video of three mysterious Britons dressed as Robin Hood and his Merry Men giving away 4,000 dollars (£2,100) in New York has become an internet hit. The footage...

Jack the Ripper's face is revealed An e-fit of Jack the Ripper The face of Jack the Ripper, the 19th-century killer whose identity still remains a mystery, has been revealed for the first time. Using state-of-the-art profiling, investigators have created a vision of what the...

The first patron saint of England, within East Leeds Heritage Centre at Cross Gates Library Saints alive... let's remember our Edmund! By DAVID MARSH MANY a proud Englishman knows the story of St George, the patron saint of England, and his dragon-slaying feats. And every April 23 –...

A spooky photo that was taken in a British park..... Sheffield Park, Sussex spook or spoof? Christopher Petty and his brother decided to spend a day outdoors, enjoying the warm Sussex sunshine. Little did they know when they started out that they would be joined by someone... or...

Times Online November 20, 2006 Tony Blair at Camp Bastion today: he arrived for a morale-boosting visit for British troops (Stefan Rousseau/PA) Tony Blair pledged Britain's continuing support for war-torn Afghanistan until after the Taleban is defeated during a press conference in...

Craig's Bond is set to be biggest earner of them all 20th November 2006 Big hit: Daniel Craig's first appearance as the suave spy has won rave reviews and racked up £13 million in ticket sales Casino Royal is on course to become the most successful Bond movie ever after...

For hundreds of years, until 1783, a common punishment in England was to be hanged at the dreaded Tyburn in London. These gallows were tripod-shaped - with 3 beams - to hang many criminals at once. The people executed here were usually imprisoned in Newgate Gaol, around 3 miles away. So, on the...

Why Britain is better off buying military equipment from the US rather than Continental Europe..... Euromangling British defenses EUreferendum has an excellent (but appalling) list of taxpayer money wasted by the British Ministry of Defense on joint European weapons projects. It is a...

A soldier's eye view of front-line Afghanistan By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph 19/11/2006 In a remarkable series of pictures obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, a unique insight into life of British soldiers on the front line in Helmand, southern...

Fury at American contempt for British war dead By SIMON WALTERS, Mail on Sunday 18th November 2006 Video of British soldiers storming towards the enemy with their bayonets fixed - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=414531&in_page_id=1770...

As Depeche Mode release their "Best Of" album..... It's all gong wrong for Dave November 18, 2006 Depeche Mode's new album "Depeche Mode, The Best Of, Vol 1" The British synthesizer band are still very popular in Europe and the United States but think their own countrymen aren't as...

The Sun, Britain's biggest-selling newspaper Saturday 18th November 2006 Barking mad ... yesterday's story in The Sun November 18, 2006 DOCTOR Dolittle would be rubbing his eyes in shock. Our story yesterday about the cat which had pups after mating with a dog has ruffled a...

The West Country Duking Days One of the most harrowing episodes in the history of England's West Country began on 11th June 1685. <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This day can be called the first of the Duking days: - so called because that was the day that Charles II's illegitimate son...

The Times November 18, 2006 Sausages affected by draconian trade laws By Simon de Bruxelles The dragon is a symbol of the British Principality of Wales, and features on its flag A SPICY sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers...

Queen honours the lost of the Mohegans By REBECCA ENGLISH 17th November 2006 Two hundred and seventy years ago one of the greatest of all native American Indian chieftains bravely made his away across the 'great water' - the Atlantic - to plead for the lives of his tribe...

Schoolboys rewrite cricket's record book By Peter Foster in New Delhi 17/11/2006 Two schoolboys have won a place in India's cricketing folklore after they amassed 721 runs in a single stand. Manoj Kumar and Shaibaz Tumbi both made unbeaten triple centuries and ran up a...

The joke is on the racists, says relaxed Borat By Catherine Elsworth in New York Last Updated: 2:22am GMT 17/11/2006 British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. The Cambridge-educated actor is his normal self, and not his alter-ego Borat, as he explains that Borat should not be taken...

Are these babies cogs or dats? Crazy cat ... Mimi with her offspring, and inset, with the doggie survivors By TOM (CAT) REILLY November 17, 2006 SCIENTISTS have gone barking mad over this cat — which appears to have had PUPPIES. Owner Cassia Aparecida de Souza says her moggie...