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An article about how Britain's MoD (Ministry of Defence) covered up its involvement in UFOs. Is there anybody out there? How the men from the ministry hid the hunt for UFOs · MoD tried to cover-up secret investigation unit · 10,000 eyewitness reports 'mostly due to weather' James...

Britain The Beautiful Game: School attendances and exam results in the British Isles have improved thanks to Premiership soccer. Most of England's Premiership teams offer children lessons in subjects such as science and geography. The Times September 25, 2006 Football club classes...

Outrage over ads depicting Blair as Hitler 25th September 2006 Controversial: The advert showing Tony Blair with a bar code moustache. Tony Blair is being compared to Hitler in an advertising campaign against ID cards. The advert - sponsored by the Lib-Dem party and Labour MP Diane...

Mauled baby's grandfather stabbed Forensic police officers at the scene of the stabbing The little girl was girl by two rottweilers on the roof of a pub The grandfather of a baby mauled to death by Rottweilers has been stabbed and his partner killed in a separate attack hours later, a...

British children playing a game of marbles, circa 1850s. Ahhh, Victorian Britain. The good old days. 1837-1901. It covered an era when Britain was the mightiest power that the world had ever known. It commanded a huge Empire. Its navy ruled the waves. Its industrial might - such as the...

If you got into a time machine and travelled back to Tudor England, here's the basic information that you would need to take with you about that time period - Population - England 2 million (1520); 4 million (1600) (nowadays, the population of England is 50 million and the UK is 60...

One is not amused by Prince Harry's smokebomb prank By Lucy Ballinger 24th September 2006 Prince Harry caused havoc at a friend's 21st birthday party by throwing smoke bombs into a marquee full of revellers. Guests dancing inside the tent were forced to flee onto the lawn, bringing what...

Why should the British apologise for the slave trade? We were the first country to do something to stop it. The Sunday Times - Review The Sunday Times September 24, 2006 Er, sorry, but I'm no slave trader Roland White When it comes to the slave trade, Britain has much to be...

It's not only pumas and lynxes, monkeys and wallabies - even creatures as exotic as glis glis and parakeets live wild in the British countryside. Invasion of the glis glis By RICHARD CREASEY 23rd September 2006 The glis glis are causing havoc across Southern England They live in your...

The day I told Robin Hood to drop his tights and join the SAS By COLONEL TIM COLLINS (SAS) 23rd September 2006 Jonas Armstrong as the Robin Hood in the BBC's new Robin Hood series that is being shown on British TV screens during the autumn. Jonas Armstrong — Robin Hood Lucy Griffiths...

England won the Rugby World Cup in 2003, beating Australia in the Final. But the World Champions may wear LONG-JOHNS in the 2007 World Cup when they defend their World Cup crown. The new style kit may look like something that rugby players wore in the 1890s or something that modern American...

2004/05 European Champions Liverpool thrash the North Londoners to move up the Premiership table Anfield roars Liverpool to victory Liverpool 3 Tottenham 0 Liverpool made it two league victories in four days following their comfortable win against Tottenham Hotspur. Rafael Benitez's men...

Cutty Sark in £12m Lotto lifeline The Cutty Sark is a tourist attraction in London The Cutty Sark, the world's sole surviving tea clipper, will receive almost £12 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), it has been announced. The 137-year-old ship, which resides in dry dock in...

Remarkable letters of death row killers revealed 22nd September 2006 Few would win any literary prizes; and none of the authors will get the chance to improve their writing. For these are the last statements of death row prisoners executed in Texas. Since 1982, all 376 prisoners killed by...

The truth about wild life in Borat's homeland 22nd September 2006 Poking fun: The Kazakh president has threatened to sue British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, pictured here as Kazakhstani TV presenter Borat as his movie opened at the Toronto Film Festival The Kazakhs don't like how Borat...

Mystery over slaughter of pregnant seals 22nd September 2006 The Canadians will be proud: Pregant seals were found dead on a beach in the Orkney Islands, an archipelago in the far north of Britain - a traditionally animal-loving country. Viewed from the headland, the heavily...

English-speaking peoples still stand together against tyranny By Andrew Roberts Telegraph London (Filed: 23/09/2006) In 1956 – half a century ago this year – Sir Winston Churchill published the first volume of his A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. He had won the Nobel Prize for...

Through a Glass Darkly In 1978, a student at Mabel Fletcher's College was passing the window of Olivier's Antiques shop, when something caught his eye. He stopped and peered through the window and saw a strange dark mirror next to an old violin. Matthew had read a lot of books on Occultism...

Man unearths 17th century coin horde By Susannah Berry A COLLECTION of 17th century silver coins were found by a man with his metal detector on the site of the largest battle on English soil – the battle of Marston Moor. A Harrogate inquest heard how Colin Roberts, 53, from Newport, South...

BRITAIN OUT OF THE EU Britons could all too soon become slaves of Europe By Simon Heffer We have been lulled into a dangerous sense of complacency towards the evils capable of being inflicted upon us, our country and our way of life by the EU. Our proposed membership of the euro is, it...