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Sark is one of the smaller members of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. The Islands' biggest members are Jersey and Guernsey. Despite being much closer to France than they are to Britain they are British Crown dependencies and Queen Elizabeth II is their Head of State. Their main...

Book reveals dark side of The Blitz 5th October 2006 A new book recalls the horrors that people endured during the German bombing of London. Much of London was destroyed by the Germans during their bombing campaign on the great city from 1940 to 1941 which the British later called "The...

After 100 years, Peter Pan the sequel hits the shops 5th October 2006 Peter Pan In Scarlet. A gala party is being held at The Orangery, in Kensington Palace, London tonight to celebrate the launch of the book in 30 countries. The author with the new Peter Pan book: Geraldine McCaughrean...

On show, the whale who got lost in the Thames Last updated at 12:52pm on 5th October 2006 A nation of animal lovers: The skeleton of the whale which was trapped in the River Thames in January 2006 will go on show at the Natural History Museum. The whale famously swam past the Houses...

300,000 immigrants secure backdoor route into Britain By JAMES SLACK 5th October 2006 A group of Moldovans, from Europe's poorest country, who are about to travel to Great Britain to live. Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Moldova, Europe's poorest country, have secured...

Legal victory for Livingstone The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone: Suspension will be overturned London Mayor Ken Livingstone has had his four-week suspension from office - for likening a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard - quashed. Mr Justice Collins said the...

Crumbling cathedral held together by tape By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 04/10/2006) Canterbury Cathedral in Kent is falling apart at the seams, with chunks of masonry dropping off its walls and a fifth of its internal marble pillars held together by duct tape...

Wills goes to bingo House about that ... Prince at the bar, left, and with elderly fan RELATED STORIES RELATED WEBSITES By JOHN KAY OCTOBER 04, 2006 PRINCE William has spent a night at a BINGO club. He played alongside stunned regulars after registering in the name William Harry...

If you lived in Olde London (or any other British city) - even right up until the 1860s - you would have found the stench absolutely unbearable. In the 1830s to 1850s, London's stench became known as "The Great Stink." LONDON'S SANITATION PROBLEMS London's sanitation problems The first...

Newcastle must do it the hard way By Giles Mole (Filed: 03/10/2006) Newcastle United must play Palermo in UEFA Cup Newcastle have been handed a tough task if they are to progress beyond the group stage of the Uefa Cup after being drawn in Group H alongside Celta...

The TimesOctober 03, 2006 New atlas lets Ireland slip shackles of Britain By David Sharrock Up until around 1922, Great Britain comprised the whole of the island of Britain and the whole of the island of Ireland From 1922 to the present day it comprises of the whole of the island of...

4 marines hold off 200 Taliban The Sun Danger ... Royal Marine commando watches for Taliban in Helmand By VIRGINIA WHEELER SEPTEMBER 29, 2006 FOUR Royal Marine commandos fought off an ambush by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday. The group — who had only...

Our poor bloody infantry By RICHARD PENDLEBURY 2nd October 2006 Courage: UK troops on patrol in the lawless Helmand province World's top 5 defence spending nations (2005) 1) United States - $465 billion 2) Great Britain - $51.1billion 3) Japan - $44.7 billion 4) France - $41.6...

1,000ft high tornado hits Brighton coast by ANDY DOLAN 2nd October 2006 The twister hits the coast of Brighton. Britain has more tornadoes than any other country. Racing across the sea at breakneck speed, this is a 1,000ft-high tornado heading straight for Brighton. The...

The Times A BANNED Scottish terrorist organisation has threatened to poison the public water supply in England, endangering hundreds of thousands of lives. The Scottish National Liberation Army (SNLA), dedicated to establishing an independent Scottish republic, sent the warning to the...

English Heritage Tudor sunken garden revealed at Ashby Castle Garden tower and terrace at Ashby Castle Archaeologists and historians studying the remains of a formal garden at Ashby-de-la-Zouch castle in Leicestershire have begun to reveal clues about how the garden, thought to date...

There are plans to make 23rd April Shakespeare Day in England. 23rd April is the date that the Bard was born and also the date that he died. Not only that, but 23rd April is also St George's Day, England's equivalent of Ireland's St Patrick's Day on 17th March. But St George's Day isn't really...

A new sport has been started in London - urban golf, the Shoreditch Urban Open. Here's a funny article about it. When the perfect golf shot is off a car and into a drain By TOM COX 30th September 2006 Scotland gave the world golf. London has given the world urban golf...

War in Afghanistan: Britain's Vietnam by MARK NICOL 30th September 2006 A British soldier in Afghanistan on a quad bike carrying the bodies of three dead comrades. Watch two amazing videos of the British Army on the frontline in Aghanistan by going here -...

There will be a Britain football team for the Olympics. Unlike in football where each British Home Nation - Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales - has its own team, in the Olympics it's a Great Britain team that we have. So we usually can't enter the soccer competition. But now with a...