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Sympathy for the devil? You must be joking! By PETER STANFORD, Daily Mail 7th August 2006 Talk of the Devil has been brushed under the carpet in our churches in recent times. Once an essential feature of any decent sermon, Satan is now seen as an embarrassing reminder of the Church's...

Beware the wild goats terrorising a Welsh village By Ian Herbert Published: 08 August 2006 Wild goats have lived in Nantgwynant and other mountainous areas of the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales, UK, for hundreds of years. As examples of yobbish behaviour go, few demand a more...

Invisible Vikings How much did the impact of Viking customs change English ways of life? Less than you might think, explains Dawn Hadley The Vikings looted and pillaged England and the rest of the British Isles, but their raids had little effect on the English way of life. Two generations...

Water sight! The Thames turns green By CLAIRE BATES, Mail online 7th August 2006 The Thames has tuend green in Limehouse (appropriately), East London. You could be forgiven for thinking it was a swathe of grassland until you spot the canal boats. A filter off the River Thames has...

Probe launched into 'tumble-dried fireman' 7th August 2006 Reckless: the fireman inside the tumble dryer An investigation was underway today into a dangerous prank which saw a fireman being tumble-dried by laughing colleagues. A video of the deadly incident shows the fireman climbing...

Give the Army more money or lose lives, warns Gulf War colonel 7th August 2006 Gulf War veteran: Colonel Tim Collins The funding of British forces in Afghanistan needs a "radical rethink", a former colonel said today as the latest soldier to be killed in the troubled country was named...

The Times August 07, 2006 This is New Zealand's dark secret Jamie Whyte Now that its record of violence is revealed, there is another painful truth to confront NEW ZEALAND is a little, South Pacific version of 1950s England. People are friendly, trustworthy and hard-working. You can...

The Times, August 7th 2006 Found, the portrait of reluctant heroine By Dalya Alberge This 1850s photograph of Florence Nightingale, who nursed British soldiers during the Crimean War, has been discovered. A MODEST heroine sits quietly reading after overcoming her usual reluctance to...

The Times August 07, 2006 How the world books a break By John Sutherland You can tell what countries are thinking by what the people are reading. Some want to take the real world on holiday with them, others just want to escape THE clichés pop up like mushrooms in the mind: Around the...

Prasutagus was the King of the Iceni tribe and the husband of Boudica. Apparently, he modelled himself on Roman emperor Caligula. The currency of kings In history Boudica outshone her husband: but his name appeared on the coins – or it did until coin specialists revised their reading. Now it...

Britain The Times Stone table of royal power lunch found in seat of democracy By Lewis Smith A section of the King's Table, which was buried beneath Westminster Hall after the Restoration (MUSEUM OF LONDON) SECTIONS of the King’s Table, a symbol of royal power until it...

Fourth British soldier killed in Afghanistan in a week 6th August 2006 British soldiers in Afghanistan A British soldier was killed in an operation against Taliban guerrillas in southern Afghanistan today, the latest NATO soldier to die since the group took over security in the south from...

The Spectator Published: Monday 31st July 2006 First published in The Telegraph A poodle perhaps, but one capable of sniffing out the top dog Matthew d'Ancona Unlike so many of his deluded Continental European counterparts, Tony Blair is not in denial that the US is, by some margin...

The Science of Aliens Film and television have given us plenty of ideas of what alien llfe might look like. Now, a new exhibition imagines how the denizens of strange new worlds – and their ecosysytems – might appear. Jen Ogilvie paid a visit to London’s Science Museum to make first contact...

Platell: Victims? No, two men on the make 5th August 2006 Amanda Platell The two brothers at the press conference Who can forget that press conference when the two Kahar brothers at the centre of the Forest Gate raid in June were tearfully condemning the police shooting? The...

SUBSIDY JUNKY SCOTS The Sunday Times July 23, 2006 Scots given £3bn 'too much' Jason Allardyce It's been known for years that England subsidises Scotland. But it's far worse than we imagined - England is giving Scotland £3 billion a year too much at the expense of England's poorer regions...

Watling Street is a Roman road that runs from Wales to Dover. On this picture, the road goes through the centre of London. The Complete Guide To: Roman Roads When in Britain, why not do as the Romans did? From St Albans to Chester to Hadrian's Wall, follow in legionaries' footsteps, then...

The Times August 05, 2006 England's Monty Panesar and the ball with which he dismissed his hero, batsman Sachin Tendulkar JOHN CASSIDY Sikhs celebrate as England's new cricket icon bowls over the fans By Will Pavia, Steve Bird and Patrick Kidd INSIDE Monty Panesar’s turban, a...

Wayne Rooney got revenge on the Portuguese by scoring in last night's Amsterdam Tournament game against Lisbon team Porto. He then got HARSHLY sent off for catching Pepe in the face as he jumped for the ball. Paul Scholes, who is returning to play for England under new England coach Steve...

'Fastest man on wheels' prepares for another world record 2 Aug 06 The 'fastest man on wheels’ - RAF pilot Wing Commander Andy Green, Officer Commanding Operations Wing at RAF Wittering near Peterborough - has undertaken his final series of test runs in the UK in preparation for his attempt...