espite heavy overnight rain and clouds obstructing the sun rise, tens of thousands of revellers gathered at Stonehenge for an all-night party to celebrate the longest day of the year this morning.English Heritage said that 18,000 revellers descended on the site that is usually roped off to the public to witness dawn at exactly 4.43am and that the atmosphere had been 'peaceful and good natured'
New report shows that falf of Glastonbury ticket websites are bogus
The Glastonbury Festival is famed throughout the world for being the muddiest and wettest of the festival circuit and 2011 is set to be no different.
The family of a six year old boy who was hit and left to die on the road by a hit and run motorist have pleaded for the driver to turn himself in
The United Nation's nuclear agency's decision to hold talks over the Fukushima nuclear meltdown behind closed doors has prompted anger and frustration over both the United Nations and the Japanese Governments reaction to the worst nuclear disaster in twenty five years
The Anglican Church is to set approve controversial guidelines allowing openly homosexual clergy to become bishops
Susan Boyle's meteoric rise in fame since she came in second on Britain's Got Talent will be brought to life in a new stage musical
Zombie enthusiasts are planning to "attack" Leicester a week after the city council admitted it was unprepared for an invasion of the living dead.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has launched a website to promote a secretive new project.
On what was supposed to be a day of marvelling at one of Britain's greatest traditions - ladies day at Ascot, a brawl sparked off by a group of male thugs has threatened to over shadowed the grand day
Saudi women are set to defy a ban on driving, one month after Manal al-Sharif was jailed for taking the wheel and posting footage of her rebellious act online.
Japan's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters finally admitted earlier this month that reactors 1, 2, and 3 at the Fukushima plant experienced full meltdowns.
Even before the diffusion of its documentary "Killing Fields of Sri Lanka', Channel 4 insisted the film would shed a new light in terms of ground-breaking evidence regarding the incidents related to the end of the war in Sri Lanka in 2009. However two days after the documentary first aired, it appears that the film has had different impact on different factions of the public.
Six children were hospitalised in France with E. coli infections after eating meat that manufacturers said could come from Germany, where an outbreak of the bacteria has killed 38 people.
A man is on trial in London for using internet social networking sites to shame a man who he claims had a long running affair with his wife
Prince Harry to return to Afghanistan
Over 750,000 civil servants are set for strike action in support of the teacher's strike which will cause disruption to a million school children. The strike planned by teachers which now has the full support of civil servants is planned for Thursday June 30, with the dispute over public sector pensions.
Cameron and Miliband clash over Welfare reform
US solar physicists announced yesterday evening that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earth, far from facing a global warming problem, is on the opposite headed heading into a mini Ice Age.
Greece has been pushed ever closer to the harsh reality of default after Wednesday's general strike all but shut the country down. The strikes have closed schools, central and local government offices around the country, while hospitals were operating on skeleton staff. Port and public transport services were disrupted, while a walkout by journalists forced most morning news programming off the air.
Britain has renewed calls for Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of war crimes after video footage apparently showing the summary execution of naked and bound prisoners was broadcast on UK television, in the documentary Sri Lanka's Killing Field.
On the opening day of the trial of the nine men, a court heard how seven teenage girls, the youngest of them is 13 years old, were groomed into child prostitution with offers of alcohol, drink and cash by nine men in a sex-trafficking ring.
A Derby music promoter is planning a multiculturalism music festival on the same day as an English Defence League (EDL) march in the city.
The harbour master's office in St Ives, Cornwall has confirmed today that two people on separate boats called in reports of sightings of an oceanic whitetip shark around two weeks ago. The sightings were both made by fishermen, only a mile offshore from St Ives.
Ed Miliband has delivered a 'key note' speech which was designed to put Labour on a path for electoral success and to try and put the embarrassing headlines of the weekend to one side. It has been a highly uncomfortable week for the Labour leader; starting with the leaks of Ed Balls' private emails and letters to Gordon Brown and culminating with the rumours that David Miliband has been plotting against him. The Labour leader is tasked with putting his party back on course, with a lack ...
The news that Leicestershire City Council had received a Freedom of Information request from a "concerned citizen who was wondering if the city council would be prepared in the case of a Zombie invasion", has sent the web on a hysteria craze, it seems that more than one person is anxious of the consequence that a Zombie attack would bring about.
Ed Miliband's has tried to use his speech this afternoon to detract away from the controversies of the last week. It has no doubt been the toughest of week in his short political career with questions over his relationship with David Miliband and his own performance as leader, Ed Miliband was keen to talk about policy and show the Labour Party was standing up for people. The speech was designed to give us an insight into what the future of the Labour Party will look like under his leadership ...
BBC 2 will air 'Choosing to Die' at 9pm on Monday evening sparking widespread condemnation from officials and licence payers. The film 'Choosing to Die' is a documentary about Peter Swedley, a motor neurone suffer who is chosen to take his own life in Switzerland. The film shows the last breath of Peter Swedley before he passes away. The film is designed to highlight the suffering of people with terminal disease and to illustrate the tremendous heart break and strain such diseases pl...
The student behind a hoax blog which claimed to be written by a gay woman in Syria has defended his actions.
Following the 6.3-magnitude quake that killed 181 people on Feb. 22, the New Zealand city of Christchurch was struck on Monday by a 5.2-magnitude aftershock before also suffering an hour later, a 6.0 hit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Other smaller quakes were also recorded. In the central city and nearby suburbs, several buildings were damaged.
