Britons are ruder than they were a decade ago, according to a survey on Monday that showed almost three-quarters of people think manners should be taught at school. A third believes bad manners are the catalyst for much of the anti-social behaviour in ...
One of Britain's best-known children's book series, Enid Blyton's Famous Five, has been turned into a 21st century cartoon -- to a mixed reception from purists. The "lashings" of ginger beer and cream buns have gone, replaced with cellphones, laptops, ...
Convicted killer Steve Wright was told by a judge on Friday that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his six-week "targeted campaign of murder" against five prostitutes. Wright (49) killed the five drug-addicted women around the city of ...
LONDON Convicted killer Steve Wright was told by a judge on Friday that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his six-week “targeted campaign of murder” against five prostitutes. Mr. Wright, 49, killed the five drug-addicted women around ...
LONDON - The makers of word game Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove its popular online version "Scrabulous," which they say infringes their copyright. The U.S. and Canada rights to Scrabble are owned by Hasbro Inc, the world's second-largest toy ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The British Army, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is losing the equivalent resources of more than one battalion (500-600 soldiers) a year as a result of illegal drug use, researchers said on Friday. This was more than the number of ...
LONDON -- A huge blaze at a warehouse sent black smoke pouring over east London on Monday but there were no reports of casualties and police ruled out a terrorist attack. Fifteen fire engines and 75 firefighters rushed to the scene, an industrial ...
LONDON London's police force was found guilty on Thursday of putting the public at risk over the killing of an innocent Brazilian police mistook for a suicide bomber in 2005. Police shot electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, seven times in the head ...
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann repaid two instalments of their mortgage with money from the fund set up to help find her, their spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. But Kate and Gerry McCann stopped taking money from the £1-million "Find ...
LONDON Singer Pete Doherty vowed on Wednesday to stay off drugs after a magistrate revoked the remaining months of his compulsory supervision order. Doherty's pledge was made outside court just moments after a magistrate congratulated him on his ...
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