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ILLUSTRIOUS and GLOUCESTER welcomed home after Lebanon operation 3 Aug 06 Sailors onboard the aircraft carrier HMS ILLUSTRIOUS and the destroyer HMS GLOUCESTER returned to a rapturous welcome from over 2,000 of their loved ones at Portsmouth Naval Base today, Thursday 3 August 2006. In...

A Pom (Australian slang for a Brit) will tomorrow become the first woman to ride a horse right across the vast expanse of the Australian Outback. Pommie girl becomes Queen of the Outback in epic 2,000 mile ride By Nick Squires in Cairns Vast: Australia is 32 times bigger than Britain and...

'Sick' hen lays one of world's largest eggs 4th August 2006 The Pascoe family compare their hen's egg to a normal size egg A sickly hen has stunned its owners by laying one of the world's largest eggs. Pet chicken Gertie's huge egg weighed seven ounces and measured ten inches around...

Scripps poll: One-third see U.S. hand in 9/11 Conspiracy beliefs reflect anger with government More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle...

British Army - the best in the world. A British Army sniper, known only as The Man Who Never Misses, has killed 39 Taliban single-handedly - 5% of the 700 Taliban killed by the British Army so far. All 38 infantry battalions of the British Army will be required to have an 18-man platoon of...

The Domesday Book is going online. Internet upgrade for Domesday Book By Mario Cacciottolo BBC News website Holborn, London was the site of a vineyard in 11th Century England The Domesday Book has embarked on many varied journeys in its 920-year lifetime. Its latest stop is now the...

Anti-terror raid shooting 'was an accident' By BEN TAYLOR, Daily Mail 3rd August 2006 The uniform and gun used by officers in the Forest Gate raid The shooting of Forest Gate terror suspect Mohammed Abdul Kahar during a police raid at his terraced home was ' accidental', an independent...

Army three died as heroes By VIRGINIA WHEELER and TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor It's war: the Paras in action. THE three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan were part of an ATTACK force launching their fiercest offensive against the Taliban, The Sun can reveal. Initial...

Canadian citizenship I'm a lumberjack, and you're not Aug 3rd 2006 | OTTAWA From The Economist print edition Who is a real Canadian? The evacuation from Lebanon prompts a debate IN A country composed almost entirely of immigrants or their descendants, defining what it means to be Canadian is...

All Blacks in sight as Jonny bids to end wait By PETER JACKSON, Daily Mail 2nd August 2006 The moment all of England went delerious: England's Jonny Wilkinson scores the winning drop goal in the 2003 rugby World Cup Final against Australia during extra time and with just seconds remaining...

Times Online August 03, 2006 Abul Kahar Kalam, right, during a press conference about the police raid in Forest Gate (Richard Pohle/The Times) Terror raid victim arrested on child porn charges By Adam Fresco and agencies A man shot by police during a controversial anti-terror raid...

I was savaged by a Squirrel Nutcase By KUSHWANT SACHDAVE, Daily Mail 2nd August 2006 Scarred: Martine Browne with Reece As Martine Browne strolled in the park with her two children, she stopped to point out what she thought was a friendly grey squirrel. The result was carnage. First...

The Times August 03, 2006 Bath hopes its spa will ease painful memories By Simon de Bruxelles The £45 million attraction is finally ready after years of bitter wrangling. Our correspondent dips into the relaxing waters The spas in the city of Bath, Avon, were built by the Romans so the...

The Times August 03, 2006 It's Ron, not Harry, who has the magic touch for Hermione By Jack Malvern, Arts Reporter The movie "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" will be released in 2007. Helena Bonham Carter will play Bellatrix Lestrange, a death eater, and Imelda Staunton will...

The Royal Anglian Regiment celebrated Minden Day yesterday in honour of a famous battle. Next year, they are off to Afghanistan. ----------------------------------------------------------- Regiment marks Minden Day 02 August 2006 | 07:56 WILL GRAHAME-CLARKE A salute to past heroes on...

A new 10-part TV programme about Britain's "Seven Wonders Made by Man", which were nominated by the British public, has been made. Seven nominations had to be made for each region. For the South West, four of the seven were from Cornwall. Cornwall was once the world's biggest tin mining area...

Be proud of our troops By TOM REILLY Matthew Cornish was a Yorkshireman and a member of the Light Infantry Brigade. He died on the 1st August which is Yorkshire Day and also the anniversary of 1759’s Battle of Minden when the Light Infantry recalls its battle honour. THIS is Matthew...

GRANITE CITY IN A SPIN OVER 'FLYING SAUCERS' CHRIS MARSHALL 08:50 - 02 August 2006 Aberdeen ("the Granite City"): why would extraterrestrials travel millions of light years to visit one of Britain's most northerly, and therefore coldest, cities? The truth, so they say, is out there and...

Tiger spotted in N Yorkshire? Monday July 31 North Yorkshire, England's biggest county. Police have been searching fields in North Yorkshire after two separate tiger sightings. A farmer and another local resident phoned police to say they had seen the big cat in fields in the Church...

People from poor and impoverished EU nations such as Poland, Latvia, the Czech Republic and France have been coming to booming Britain in their thousands to earn money. But some Poles want their people to come home. Poland wants its workers back by LAURA ROBERTS, Daily Mail 1st August 2006...