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A man finds the face of Jesus in his asparagus plant - and his garden is not far away from a ruined mediaeval monastery. News Shopper Divine vegetation in tutor’s garden By Samantha Payne The mysterious roots A GARDENER had a revelation when he dug up his asparagus plant and saw the face...

Gassed by own Corporal By TOM NEWTON-DUNN Defence Editor A SADISTIC Army instructor laughed as he made a video of teenage recruits being GASSED. Corporal Bob Mills — who wears an electronic tag after being convicted of assault — ordered the rookies to breathe CS gas inside a...

Bill Bryson is an American author who has mainly written travel books about his experiences of travelling around Britain, Europe, Australia and his native US. As a huge Anglophile, he emigrated to Britain in the 1970s, married an Englishwoman and had children and became a columnist in The Times...

The English normally wouldn't mind having a Scottish PM as the Scots nearly always have an English PM, but now that Scotland has its own Parliament the English think it would be wrong to have a Scottish PM. And people in other parts of the UK (except mostly Scotland) agree with us... Most...

Britain is going to surpass Germany as Europe's biggest economy for the first time since 1959. 'Sick man' headed for big recovery Britain looks set to pass Germany as No. 1 economy in Europe William Hanley, Financial Post LONDON - Britain, dismissed as the "sick man of Europe" in the...

FA Cup Final. Liverpool 3-3 West Ham United .............................Carragher og 21 Cisse 32...................Ashton 28 Gerrard 54, 90.............Konchesky 64 (After extra time, Liverpool win 3-1 on penalties) This was probably the greatest FA Cup Final for over 50 years. West...

Two Scotsmen - Home Secretary Dr John Reid and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, will battle each other for the job of Prime Minister when Tony Blair steps down - which could be some time this year. Reid 'will challenge Brown to be Premier' By KIRSTY WALKER and JAMES CHAPMAN, Daily Mail...

Foreigners say the British have rotten teeth. But is it any wonder, when SIXTY per cent of the British - instead of using dental floss - just use whatever is at hand...... The tooth about crazy flossing techniques 12th May 2006 "Hi, I'm British. Do you want a kiss?" People are damaging...

Constable murder: Hooded man hunted 13th May 2006 Murdered: Nisha Patel-Nasri Hoodies have been banned in certain places in Britain. The hunt continues today for a man spotted running from the scene of the murder of a female special constable. The suspect who wore a hooded top was...

Scottish champions Celtic find it too easy in Scotland, winning nearly every game they play and finishing light years ahead of everyone else in the SPL. But when it comes to playing English teams from the much stronger English Premiership, they struggle. On Tuesday they lost 1-0 against...

May 12, 2006 Higher Learning in France Clings to Its Old Ways By ELAINE SCIOLINO University of Paris students begin their lesson. NANTERRE, France — There are 32,000 students at the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris, but no student center, no bookstore, no student-run newspaper...

Bucks Free Press, newspaper for Buckinghamshire. Is canal being used for strange rituals? By Alison White Brian Macknish with some of the unusual items discarded in the canal NK3951-03 RESTORATION enthusiasts think they have found evidence of "bizarre" rituals after fishing out 12...

The economy of the Eurozone (the countries of the EU that have the Euro currency) has disappointing economic growth AGAIN this year. Even the Netherlands and Finland and struggling which, despite being in the Eurozone, usually have high growth. Britain, though, which has kept the £ and is...

Scottish girl became pregnant when she was 11 years old, and her mother insists that she is PROUD of her. 12 May 2006 PREGNANT... AT JUST 11 Schoolgirl will be UK's youngest mum By Pete Samson A GIRL who became pregnant at 11 is to become Britain's youngest mum. The schoolgirl, who is...

It's summer. In England that means one thing - the start of the cricket season! (Most North Americans wouldn't care, though) There's nothing better than going to your local cricket stadium, on a boiling hot summer's day, drinking gallons of cider and watching your county's team play. This...

Scots hire Squirrel czar By NICK BOOTH Sun Online Vermin: the ugly North American grey squirrel has invaded the British countryside. The far more beautiful red squirrel, native to Britain. THE Scottish are so concerned about the rampant growth of the Grey American squirrel...

Islamo-France in 2030 by Irwin N. Graulich The first to go will undoubtedly be France. The family of Muslim nations will add another notch to its radical suicide belt by the year 2030, when it translates La Marsellaise into Arabic. If one reads the actual words, the French national anthem...

Farmer's gallows sales attacked David Lucas said the sale of gallows was not "sick" A farmer who builds gallows and has sold them to African countries with poor human rights records has been condemned by Amnesty International. David Lucas, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, said he had been...

BBC theme tune strikes wrong note with Scots By Auslan Cramb Scottish Correspondent (Filed: 10/05/2006) Battle of Culloden 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite Army was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland's Royal Army. The last battle on British soil. The run-up to any World Cup in which...

SHE DIED MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE The Mirror 10 May 2006 Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill is the first British woman to be killed in action since a female undercover agent was killed in Northern Ireland in 1984, and she's the first British woman to be killed in action abroad since World War II...