A study of 13 countries found that 37 per cent of adult Britons said they weren’t getting enough sleep, with long hours and ‘meagre’ lunch breaks blamed as the cause.

Nigel Scutt, from Dover, embarked on the mission to spot the Admiral Kuznetsov this morning on the boat Maverick. The photographer set sail with friends Chris Webb and Thomas Packman.

The 93-year-old (pictured), who was the first man to break the sound barrier when he worked as a US test pilot, said Brits were nasty to Americans ‘when we were over there saving them’.

The bus was on its way to Barcelona airport from the Spanish coastal resort of Lloret de Mar when it overturned on a ring road by an industrial park just after 3am this morning.

Lord Howell, president of the Royal Commonwealth Society, has called on the Government to ‘remove the obstacles’ preventing citizens from Australia, Canada and New Zealand moving here.

With the possible exception of Tony Blair, I can’t think of one British politician who would make it even into the top half of a global league table of the 500 most dishonest public office-holders of our age.

Val D’Isere, once known as ‘Polzeath-on-Piste’, after the quaint Cornish seaside village, is now overrun with teens and 20-somethings enjoying cheap package holidays – and the raucous nightlife.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The UK authorities in an updated travel advisory on Saturday urged its citizens in Israel to remain up to date with advice of local security forces and take precautions while traveling in the region amid heightened tensions …

An estimated 30 million shoppers will hit high streets across Britain today to in a blitz on Boxing Day sales. Queues of hundreds lined the streets in Tyneside, Manchester and Edinburgh this morning.

Forget Christmas pudding – some Brits were going for ice cream (pictured in Somerset) as temperatures were within touching distance of the record for the hottest Christmas Day ever.