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BNP criticised over Prophet cartoon lealfets 2nd March 2006 The British National Party has been criticised for distributing leaflets containing one of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that has caused controversy worldwide. The far-right party is thought to have handed out about...

How a Royal Navy warship is conducting security operations in the Gulf - HMS Montrose helping protect the "life blood" of Iraq 27 Feb 06 HMS Montrose is conducting maritime security operations with coalition forces in the Northern Arabian Gulf as part of Operation Telic. Now well into...

Giant sea creature goes on display Alok Jha, science correspondent Wednesday March 1, 2006 The Guardian It is one of the most mysterious animals on the planet - no one knows how it moves, where it lives, what it eats or how it reproduces. And now members of the public can see one for...

Blaming the British From cabbies to shahs, most Iranians believe political events can be traced back to English interference, writes Robert Tait Wednesday March 1, 2006 Watching his fellow countrymen observe the annual Shia Islamic mourning ceremony of Ashura, the disaffected Tehran taxi...

It's not that often that the French praise the British, or vice versa. So one French designer has obviously been eating too much French poultry and has caught bird flu of the brain...... French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac paid tribute to famous Britons in his collection at the Paris...

Navy ship damage probe By SUN ONLINE REPORTER The Sandown-class HMS Grimsby. AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a Royal Navy mine-hunting ship was damaged on a training exercise in Norway, the Ministry of Defence said today. The Clyde-based vessel HMS Grimsby will have to...

Ancient refuge found by workmen County Down is in the South East of Northern Ireland. Workmen have unearthed 1,000 years of history on a County Down building site. They have come upon an underground stone-built tunnel in Raholp, where our ancestors might have hidden from the Vikings or...

Ten crocodiles found in car boot Ten baby crocodiles were found in a car boot - not in Australia, but in Omagh. An animal welfare charity has recovered 10 crocodiles and a variety of poisonous reptiles from a car boot. Backed by police, officers of the Ulster Society for the Prevention...

Poodunnit: UK uses DNA testing to fine dog mess owners Daily Mirror, UK Jan Disely The Isle of Man A NEW weapon has been unveiled in the war against dog mess - DNA testing. Poo dumped in public will be scooped up and analysed. Results will be compared to DNA taken from the doggie...

Monkeys: Our crazy year By CORINNE ABRAMS and LOUISE COMPTON THE ARCTIC Monkeys scored a hat-trick at the NME Awards last night, scooping gongs for best new band, best British band and best track. Speaking exclusively to Sun Online, the Sheffield foursome – who beat off competition...

Henges years older than pyramids Each henge consists of circular earth banks and ditches An ancient North Yorkshire monument has been recognised as being almost 1,000 years older than the pyramids of Giza. Researchers at Newcastle University have found the Thornborough Henges are one of...

The Times February 27, 2006 Try the 92 per cent weapons-grade whisky that will take your breath away. Literally By David Lister, Scotland Correspondent A 17TH-CENTURY firewater, more than two spoonfuls of which was said to be enough to kill a grown man, is to be revived by a...

Are the Argies desperate to go to war with Britain again? Argentina 'arrests' British squid trawler Oliver Balch in Buenos Aires (Filed: 26/02/2006) Argentina has impounded a British trawler in a dramatic escalation of a dispute over squid fishing rights off the Falkland Islands, raising...

With her beautiful voice and West Indian looks, West Yorkshire singer Corinne Bailey Rae is destined to become a huge star. Love letters straight from the heart (Filed: 25/02/2006) Heart and soul: Bailey Rae's album tackles the difficulties of married life The Doc Martens and stripy...

Welcome to the Alamo By TOM NEWTON-DUNN in Helmand Province, Afghanistan British soldiers in Afghanistan. BLOODTHIRSTY drugs gangs, al-Qaeda suicide bombers, floods, flesh-eating scorpions — and no allies for 100 miles. Welcome to “Camp Alamo”, the most dangerous place in the world...

The Sunday Times February 26, 2006 Diana driver was secret informer David Leppard THE chauffeur of the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales died was working for the French secret service, the British team reinvestigating her death has been told . The inquiry — headed by Lord Stevens...

A child worker at a 19th Century Liverpool cotton spinning mill. Children as young as 9 and 10 worked in British cotton spinning mills during the Victorian era - jobs that were very dangerous and often resulted in the loss of limbs. England at the Turn of the Century At the beginning of the...

A Sioux indian came to Salford, a city near Manchester, in 1903 when he was a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Circus. He ended up settling there and his descendants still live in England. 25 February 2006 THE SIOUX OF SALFORD EXCLUSIVE American Indian Charging Thunder came to England with...

The Nissan factory in Sunderland is the most productive car factory in Europe. Its workers went on a wrecking spree in a row about overtime. Nissed off about overtime By ROBIN PERRIE ANGRY car workers at motor giant Nissan went on a £200,000 wrecking spree in a row about overtime...

IRA supporters attack police in Dublin Associated Press Saturday February 25, 2006 Several hundred IRA supporters attacked police on Dublin's central boulevard and near the parliament building today to prevent an unprecedented Protestant parade. In riotous scenes rarely seen in the...