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The Plague & the Thames A "cartoon" of 1665 showing victims of The Great Plague being buried. The Great Plague caused many deaths in London in 1664 and 1665. In 1666, much of the city was burnt to the ground by the Great Fire. IT was the middle of the Christmas holidays, 1664, when Dr...

PSI Ghostwatch: Wyvern Theatre 09/07/05 Dave Wood (PSI) A 1970s theatre in the middle of Swindon might not be a traditional location for a paranormal investigation, but following eyewitness accounts of unusual activity Paranormal Site Investigators (PSI) went to research the allegedly haunted...

Slaughtered by savages By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor THE full savagery of the slaughter of six Red Caps was revealed in horrific detail yesterday. Families of the massacred Military Police broke down and sobbed as their injuries were listed on the second day of an inquest...

Victims tearing at shirts 'It was like a scene from hell' ... shocked trial volunteer Raste Khan outside hospital yesterday By NICK PARKER, EMMA MORTON and JACQUI THORNTON A VOLUNTEER who escaped the drug test disaster told last night how he saw six healthy young men turn into...

The Times March 16, 2006 Big cats 'are a common sight in the countryside' By Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor Big cat sighting, by county. HUNDREDS of big cats are roaming the wilds of Britain, new evidence suggests, and their numbers are growing. The British Big Cats Society...

Lineker: We're the best By ERIC BEAUCHAMP GARY LINEKER insists England will have the strongest side at the World Cup. The former Three Lions skipper reckons Sven Goran Eriksson has a better squad than even BRAZIL. Match of the Day presenter Lineker said: “Brazil have a great side and...

School's WWII bomb polished off Generations of pupils unknowingly walked past a live World War II shell that had been the centrepiece of a display at a Devon secondary school. The 3ft high, 111lb (50.3kg) German device had been regularly polished at St Peter's High School in Exeter. It...

15th March is the Ides of March - the day when Julius Caesar was stabbed. How appropriate then that several Middlesbrough fans have been stabbed in Rome, where their team play Roma in the 2nd leg of their UEFA Cup tie, in which Middlesbrough lead 1-0 on aggregate. Football fans stabbed in...

Britain accused after day of chaos and kidnaps in Gaza Pullout of UK monitors prompts Israeli attack on Palestinian prison Chris McGreal Jericho Wednesday March 15, 2006 The Guardian Britain was accused of colluding with an Israeli military assault on a Palestinian jail yesterday that...

British Investors in Chamonix Push Up Prices, Spark Tension March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Mickael Colombin says many of his childhood friends can't afford property in their hometown near Chamonix, a ski resort at the foot of Mont Blanc. They have wealthy investors, particularly from Britain, to...

The Guardian, a left-wing, usually anti-Iraq War newspaper, has surprisingly published an article in today's edition SUPPORTING the invasion of Iraq - We were right to invade Iraq The failures of occupation may be legion, but at least we confronted Saddam at a time of our choosing Oliver...

Red Cap murders inquest By VICTORIA RAYMOND Sun Online Red Caps is the nickname of Britain's Royal Military Police. THE families of six Red Caps killed by an Iraqi mob are hopeful that an inquest hearing will get to the truth of what happened. Reg Keys, whose 20-year-old son...

Accelerator jam car hits 135mph A motorist drove for 60 miles at speeds of 135mph after the accelerator on his BMW car jammed and his brakes failed. Kevin Nicolle, 26, was on the A1 near Thirsk in North Yorkshire when the car started to accelerate. "I was in tears most of the time on...

Satellite closes in on Noah's Ark mystery By Leonard David SPACE.com Monday, March 13, 2006 Mount Ararat is in Eastern Turkey. DigitalGlobe's QuickBird commercial remote sensing satellite imaged the Mount Ararat "anomaly" in 2003. High on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a...

The Times March 14, 2006 Pub has to pay a fine for murder from 1664 By Helen Nugent A PUB must pay a fine for a murder on its premises more than 300 years ago. Auditors discovered the long-forgotten penalty for The Swan in Ipswich, Suffolk, while balancing the books for the town’s St...

Loch Lomond wallabies caught on camera 10 March 2006 There have been rumours for years, but the legendary Loch Lomond wallabies have finally been caught on camera. Thirty years after they were introduced to Inchconnan from down under, the marsupials seem to have gladly swapped...

Carving of 'northern god' found The image is thought to be that of Cocidius A 2000-year-old carving of a so-called "northern god", adopted by the Romans for protection and good luck, has been uncovered in Northumberland. The 40cm high figure, holding a shield in one hand and spear or...

The Times March 13, 2006 The next service to arrive at platform twelve will be . . . a flying saucer By Alan Hamilton Patent filed in the 1970s for a passenger spaceship shows British Rail had designs on the final frontier LADIES and gentlemen, because of signalling problems in the...

The Sunday Times March 12, 2006 Kaisers on song for Cup victory Maurice Chittenden THE Kaiser Chiefs, the rock band that swept this year’s Brit awards, are the favourites to record England’s official World Cup song. The Football Association has targeted them and two other hit groups, the...

The Sunday Times March 12, 2006 London to steal Wall St crown Richard Fletcher and David Smith LONDON could overtake New York as the financial capital of the world, according to one of Wall Street’s most respected bankers. James “Jimmy” Cayne, chairman of Bear Stearns, makes the...