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England is a nation of "overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex-and-celebrity obsessed television addicts", according to a travel guide The latest edition of the Rough Guide to England also warns potential visitors that the hearts of many towns "consist of identikit retail zones". But it praises...

Prince Harry: Send me to war or I quit by CHRISTOPHER LEAKE, Mail on Sunday 23rd April 2006 Prince Harry has threatened to quit the Army if commanders refuse to send him to the front line. He told senior officers before recently passing out of Sandhurst as a Second Lieutenant: ‘If I am...

Frenchman: Comet will hit Earth (and it's America's fault) The French love to blame everything on America. According to a Frenchman, a comet will hit Earth on 25th May - and it'll be America's fault. Last year, the French Government also declared that it was America's fault that thousands...

French health service savaged over safety Susan Bell in Paris April 21, 2006 The Scotsman NEARLY a quarter of French operating theatres should be closed because they do not meet safety standards, a report commissioned by the government warned this week in a blistering attack on a health...

For years, Spain has wrongfuilly tried to claim Gibraltar as its own. But now it's given up on the claim.... The Times April 22, 2006 Hopes of deal on future of Rock By Edward Owen Spain drops demands for sovereignty in more pragmatic approach to Gibraltar AGREEMENTS on the use of...

The Times April 22, 2006 Making sense of Britain's great mystery By Roger Boyes YE HARTE and Garter had not seen such a flurry of activity since Shakespeare’s day. Then it was the Windsor hostelry where a drunken Falstaff recovered from his dunking in the Thames. Yesterday it was the...

The Anglo-French War, part 37,890,483. I wondered how long it would be before the French whining starts..... The Telegraph. Chirac: Wasn't as good as Blair was at supporting his country's bid and "wooing" the IOC members. Downing Street reacted furiously last night after Tony Blair was...

As it is St George's Day on Sunday......... Let's Have Home Rule For The English. Fergus Shanahan, Deputy Editor of The Sun and a proud Englishman. England needs to get its independence from Scotland. There's a great line in Braveheart where the slippery King Edward says: "The trouble with...

At least 20,000 people lined the streets of Windsor to wish the Queen a happy 80th birthday. A triumphant burst of Happy Birthday greeted the Queen as she walked out of Windsor Castle. Cheers erupted from the crowd of 20,000 as the Queen moved down Castle Hill, starting off her landmark...

The French Prime Minister wants to try and rival Britain and America and their big modern art shows by opening a French version of Tate Britain or the Whitney Museum in New York. Contemporary art is overwhelmingly dominated by London and New York, and de Villepin thinks Paris should also be a...

The French Government a week ago caved in to student and union protestors who vowed to disrupt Paris and accept no compromise. President Jacques Chirac announced that he would cancel plans to enforce a new law that allowed companies to fire for any reason new workers under age 26 during the...

Fact, fiction or a hoax? The Fens is a mostly empty area of Eastern England and has many windmills. As a spooky place to be during the night, there are many ghost stories and legends associated with the region. The police dossier on the elusive Fen Tiger shows it has been spotted 38 times -...

Man dies after freak accident Apr 19 2006 A FREAK accident at Hartfield, near Forest Row, has cost the life of a businessman who hit a badger while riding his motorbike on a country road. Keith Goldsmith, 53, sustained what at first appeared to be minor injuries and was taken by...

How a clever cyclist managed to get his bicycle through a railway station's ticket barriers.... The Times April 20, 2006 It's a wrap: how the clever cyclist can get round train ban By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent A CYCLIST left stranded by a train company’s ban on...

The Times April 20, 2006 Royal recipe for 100 birthday parties By Alan Hamilton THERE are about 330,000 octogenarians in the country and the Queen is about to become one of them. Yesterday she invited 99 others who share her precise age to lunch at Buckingham Palace in...

Arsenal are on course to become the 2nd English team in successive seasons to reach the European Cup Final after they beat Villarreal 1-0 in the 1st leg of this Last 4 game. It means that Arsenal only need a draw in the 2nd leg in Spain to take them to the Final. This was the last European...

London is experiencing a filmmaking boom. WOODY ALLEN has abandoned plans to shoot his next film in Paris this summer and will instead come to Britain for a third time. One of the industry’s most original film-makers has cancelled his flight to the French capital weeks before filming was due...

British brigadier attacks America's John Wayne generals By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 19/04/2006) "Yeah. I'm John Wayne, dude. Yeah! Woo!" A three-star US general steps out to meet the press in Iraq A senior British officer has criticised "shoulder-holster" American...

Patient Engulfed in Cigarette Fireball Smoking kills: The patient died after lighting a cigarette while covered in a flammable gel. An investigation has been launched after a hospital patient being treated with a flammable gel for a skin condition died after being engulfed in flames as...

The Times April 18, 2006 HM at 80. Simply majestic Libby Purves Brave, loyal, kind - the Queen's bedrock values put our Grumpy Old Men (and women) to shame Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phillip. THE QUEEN will be 80 this week, and it is not hard to predict an...