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Group formed to save battlefield Hundreds of English and Welsh soldiers perished in the battle An action group has been formed to save a battlefield where Welsh rebel Owain Glyndwr's army and English soldiers clashed more than 600 years ago. The 30-acre hillside pasture is part of the...

Fierce pheasant has farmer on run The angry pheasant has been nicknamed "My mate" An aggressive pheasant is locked in a vicious territorial battle with the farmer who owns the field he lives in. The brutal bird dives on cattle farmer Ted Cull every time he tries to go into the field at...

Driver flung in air fending off car thief 4th May 2006 Standing in the middle of the road, and in the path of the oncoming car, its owner tries desperately to prevent the vehicle being stolen. © PA ------------------------ Other motorists seem oblivious as the stolen car speeds towards its...

For years, we have been taught that the Universe is around 14 or 15 billion years old. In fact, it couild be 986 billion years older than that according to a British scientist at Cambridge University. One Big Bang, or were there many? · New theory tries to solve problem Einstein raised ·...

In the elections that took place just in England and not the whole of the UK , Labour have been battered. The Tories gain 249 seats in the English elections, while Labour lose 251. The Lib Dems gain 18. Overall, Labour only finished THIRD - the main parties' share of the vote were projected...

Reuters May 3, 2006 Americans and Britons are the most critical of the news media's balance, with 69 and 64 percent, respectively, disagreeing that the media reports all sides of a story. A similar proportion, 68 percent, thought the US media covered too many "bad news" stories...

Four soldiers - all of whom are serving with Scottish or Irish regiments - are on trial over the death of an Iraqi. I saw my friend drown after British soldiers beat us up, says Iraqi By Kim Sengupta Published: 04 May 2006 A young Iraqi told a court martial how he could do nothing to save...

'Cloaking device' idea proposed By Paul Rincon BBC News science reporter The work brings science fiction closer to science fact - just a little The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed...

The Washington Post reports on the sudden rise of the far right British National Party (BNP), the party that hates foreigners moving to Britain, wants Britain to pull out of the EU (which is a good policy) and is "wholly opposed to any form of racial integration between British and non-European...

Most Brits prefer staying at home to holiday in the most beautiful country in the world rather than holidaying in Johnny Foreigner Land.... Most Britons still take holidays at home by SEAN POULTER, Daily Mail 4th May 2006 Popular: The 2000 year old Roman baths in the ancient city of Bath...

A list of the world's greatest sh*tholes has been published - and is topped by Sudan. Iraq is in 4th place. The LEAST vulnerable states in the world, those that came bottom of the list, were three Scandinavian nations - Finland, Sweden and Norway. Hell hole - Sudan tops the list...

A man parked his car in a street where it was legally allowed to be parked. A week later, when he returned, he found that double yellow lines had been painted along the edge of the road - except where his car was parked - and had three parking tickets on his windscreen..... This is Local...

Tsunami Warnings After Massive Quake Tonga A magnitude-8.1 earthquake has struck near the South Pacific nation of Tonga - triggering tsunami warnings for New Zealand and Fiji. The quake, classified as a "great'' quake, struck 95 miles south of Neiafu, Tonga, and 1,340 miles north-northeast...

Second man dies after shop firebombing Press Association Wednesday May 3, 2006 A second man has died following an arson attack on a convenience store in south London last Thursday, Scotland Yard said today. The victim was named as 31-year-old Hamidi Hamidullah, an Afghan who worked at...

Snatched body 'found near cemetery' 3rd May 2006 Activist: John Ablewhite was one of three people convicted of taking part in a long-running terror campaign which culminated in the theft of Gladys Hammond's remains Detectives searching for the body of a pensioner which was stolen from a...

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu - ranked No3 in the Anglican church after Queen Elizabeth II and the Archbishop of Canterbury - has sprung to the defence of hoodies (hooded tops), underlining his support by wearing one himself. Hoodies have been banned from certain places in Britain -...

A Danish prince consort, but who was born in France (the nation that also eats frogs, horses and snails), has said he likes eating fried or grilled dogs.......... I like my dogs grilled or sautéed, reveals Danish prince By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 03/05/2006) Prince Henrik, the...

France's Crackpot Comedian By Steven Plaut FrontPageMagazine.com | May 2, 2006 Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala - a Frenchman of British and Cameroonian ancestry. France, formerly the nation of Balzac and Voltaire, is today best represented by Dieudonné, an anti-Semite and self-styled "comic."...

The Mirror. 2 May 2006 British healthier than Americans in middle age - study Eat a good old English breakfast and stay healthy. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Considerably more middle-aged Americans suffer from chronic illnesses than their British counterparts, probably because more Americans are...

After a disastrous week for New Labour, in which Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt declared that this has been "the best year ever" for the crippled National Health Service (and was then heckled by nurses at a major speech a few days later), Home Secretary Charles "Jug Ears" Clarke accidentally...