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The Times November 17, 2006 Darwin got it right - it's survival of the fastest By Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter Once again, the great Charles Darwin has been proved to be correct. Not only that, but scientists have found that evolution can take place much faster than previously...

London's Burning: The Great Fire By Bruce Robinson In September 1666 the heart of England's capital, the City of London (now London's financial district), was devastated by fire. Everyone knows the Great Fire of London started in a baker's shop in the aptly named Pudding Lane, but was it...

The Times November 16, 2006 Long life, aliens and a chat with fish – forecasts for the year 2056 By Lewis Smith, Science Reporter FIFTY years ago scientists were predicting the little-known study of genetics would, in time, develop into one of the most productive areas of...

Two of Britain's biggets icons prepare to do battle at box offices across the world. The battle: Bond v Borat November 16, 2006 JAMES BOND comes face to face with his strangest enemy this weekend as he takes on Borat at the box office. Sacha Baron Cohen’s creation broke...

It's easy to find 50 great things about Britain. All you have to do is give us a list of 50 great things about YOUR country. Here are Britain's fifty..... Fifty great things about Britain 1. Football We invented humanity's most popular sport and our top teams are followed across...

Queen heralds blitz on crime By PETE BELL November 15, 2006 THE Queen today announced tough new powers for the police and probation services which the Government insists will put victims at the heart of the law and order system. Amid the pomp and ceremony of the state...

Roman tombstone mysteries revealed A warrior's internationally-important tombstone is being restored in Preston's new St Mary's Conservation Centre. The mysterious cavalry officer serving in the Roman army probably had good connections and was buried close to the A6 in Lancaster about...

Roman tombstone to stay in city The stone is tentatively dated to the year 100 AD A Roman gravestone which was unearthed by builders in Lancashire is to go on display near the site where it lay for almost 2,000 years. The 6ft (1.8m) stone shows a mounted soldier holding a sword...

With the Ashes only a week away, here are some of the best insults the England and Australia cricket teams have thrown at each other over the years...... 150 years of verbal warfare By IAN TUCKEY A great moment in sport: Australia's two batsmen look depressed just seconds after...

Drug use 'behind crumbling euros' Oh vell, back to ze dravingboard: Euro banknotes CRUMBLE shortly after withdrawal from cash machines Users of the drug crystal methamphetamine may be causing euro banknotes to disintegrate, German police have told Der Spiegel magazine...

The TimesNovember 14, 2006 Scots believe the twinning arrangement will draw thousands more tourists to Glamis Castle, supposedly one of Britain's most haunted buildings. The castle was the childhood home of the Queen's mother - who was Scottish - and the Queen's sister was born there (Nigel...

A woman has been jailed for 6 months after wrongly accusing an innocent man of raping her. Woman jailed for false rape claim By Matthew Moore and PA 13/11/2006 A teenager whose false rape allegations led to an innocent man spending 10 weeks in prison has been jailed for six...

ng mourns death of Desert Orchid 13th November 2006 The mighty Desert Orchid won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1989. The horse, loved throughout Britain, died today aged 27. Desert Orchid, the ever-popular Cheltenham Gold Cup winner of 1989, died peacefully this morning at the age of...

WAR ON TERROR Sunday, 12 November 2006 Four British servicemen killed in Iraq on Remembrance Sunday MoD HELPLINE 08457 800 900 Four British servicemen have been killed following an attack on a patrol boat in southern Iraq. Another three suffered serious injuries in the...

Princess Beatrice, fifth in line to the Throne, accepts American boyfriend's offer to make their romance an intergalactic affair By Katie Nichol 11th November 2006 British entrepreneur Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic craft she will board Princess Beatrice is set to become...

Borat film 'tricked' poor village actors By BOJAN PANCEVSKI and CARMIOLA IONESCU, Mail on Sunday 11th November 2006 (Top) Borat introduces his sister, a 'prostitute'. (Bottom) One-armed Nicu Tudorache feels ashamed. When Sacha Baron Cohen wanted a village to represent the...

Outrage at London sting by US spies By CHRISTOPHER LEAKE, Mail on Sunday 11th November 2006 It seems as if George Bush's secret agents can now arrest Britons here in our own country and fly them over the Atlantic to face trial. Undercover American agents are staging secret...

A rhino in the living room: how Empire is coming out of the shadows By Chris Hastings, Arts and Media Editor 12/11/2006 For nearly 50 years, everybody has tiptoed around the subject but hardly dared to mention it by name. Rupert the rhino, who was rescued from Lake...

The Sunday Times November 12, 2006 Henry was wrong. Put religion back in its box Our outdated link between church and state is dangerous in a fundamentalist era, says historian David Starkey King Henry VIII - Father of the Church of England I adore much about the Church of England...

The Sunday Times November 12, 2006 Church supports baby euthanasia Peter Zimonjic THE Church of England has joined one of Britain’s royal medical colleges in calling for legal euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies. Church leaders want doctors to be given the right to...