Category: News

Bothersome Brits

Andorra, Sweden, Luxembourg, Guatemala, Tajikistan and Mongolia head a 22-strong list of countries which Britain has never, knowingly, invaded according to author Stuart Laycock. Of

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High Times

The US state of Colorado is set to legalise the sale of recreational marijuana from 1 January 2014. One of Colorado’s leading newspapers, the Denver

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Red All Over

The most red-headed part of Britain and Ireland is the South East of Scotland with Edinburgh as a red-hotspot. 40 per cent of people in

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The Lincs Effect

150 years ago yesterday, 19th November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave the celebrated Gettysburg Address at the Soldier’s National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a

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Think ‘tanks’

Ninety-six years ago this week 476 British tanks, the largest assembly until then, were massing for the Battle of Cambrai in Flanders. While the English-speaking

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You’re Fired!

The number of Britons dying in fires in the home has fallen by 60 per cent compared to the 1980s. Car fires fell from 77,000

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