With calls already for a knighthood after his exploits in the Tour de France, a shadow has been cast over sports superstar Bradley Wiggins after he was told to 'get on your bike' by members of London's elite Pickwick Club.
Fresh from his victory a...
With less than 60 days to go to the world's greatest sporting event, The London 2012 Paralytic Games, there were few surprises as Great Britain's final team was announced today.
The squad was named at the official unveiling of their new training...
A Dorking resident was so frustrated he couldn't water his lawn under the current hosepipe ban that he deliberately set fire to a neighbour's hedge, in the hope that the emergency services - by extinguishing it - would simultaneously water his grass.
London Underground have chosen a Tourette's syndrome sufferer to voice all their station and train announcements throughout the two weeks of this year's Summer Olympics.
In conjunction with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOC...
A pensioner had to be taken to hospital after they caught their testicles in a shower seat last week.
Dorking fire crews were called out to the pensioner's house in Dorking on April 6th to help cut them free after getting their private parts trapp...
Surviving inhabitants of a Hertfordshire village bulldozed to make way for London's orbital motorway in 1973 have been given the green light to hold a reunion Diamond Jubilee street party - on the M25.
The tiny hamlet of Botting was demolished and...
A local man who was reported missing four days ago has been located, "safe and unsound", after an astonishing tip-off to his whereabouts from a 'remote-viewer' thousands of miles away in the USA, say Dorking police.
Paul Twist, of 23 Abercorn Stre...
The actions of a father of two who drove 200 miles the wrong way along a Monza race-track while five times over the drunk-with-power limit has been 'ignored' by race stewards.
Michael Schumacher, 42, of Gland, Switzerland, performed a U-turn and d...
As speculation runs rife and Britain's tabloid press outbid each other in offering huge rewards as to the identity of the mysterious 'Mystery Blonde' - who has been spotted at several English locations in the last day - singer and rhyming slang star...
A random urine sample taken from Sebastian Vettel less than an hour after his victory in the Valencia Grand prix has proved positive for a controlled substance.
A statement reads; "As part of our ongoing policy of random drug testing a sample was...
It was first unveiled to great controversy four years ago. It has been accused of spelling out the word 'Zion', described as a 'distorted Swastika' and 'Lisa Simpson performing fellatio'. Now, with just over a year until the opening ceremony, 99.99%...
[Monaco] Reigning World Champion Sebastian Vettel has stunned the Formula 1 community by walking away from the sport saying 'What's the point?'.
Touted by many knowledgeable pundits as 'Schumacher but with a sense of humour', Vettel, at just 23 th...
Self-abuse, coffee, blowing your nose and straining to defecate could increase the risk of of a fatal stroke similar to Elvis Presley's, say researchers in Madrid.
Eight risk factors were linked to bleeding on the brain. They all increase blood pr...
British lives were saved by the use of information obtained from terrorist suspects by "surfboarding", according to former US President George W Bush. In his memoir, he said the simulated drowning technique helped break plots on various targets in th...
[ALABAMA - PSE) After research from Oxford University scientists published this week found that applying a tiny electrical current to the brain can make people better at learning maths, evidence has now emerged from the USA that the last few moments...
Notorious multi-millionaire artist Damien Hirst is making the streets and parks of London a little more colourful by painting miniature pictures on pieces of dog excrement.
"My whole career has consisted of polishing turds." says Brit Art's 'Bad L...
Barely 50 years after the USSR and USA first put a human into space, the UK yesterday finally achieved the same giant leap in rocket technology - when 97 year old Edith Pickles became the first British astronaut put into permanent orbit by a wholly B...
Ex Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher lost a testicle during an operation because the surgeon cut it off by mistake, a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing has been told. Dr Omar Ghulees was only supposed to cut out a cyst, but removed the whole right...