Put EU stickers on your passports – British tourists told

British tourists are to be told to put stickers on their passports proclaiming the rights of “European nationals”.
All new UK passports issued from 1st July 2009 will contain the Article 20 of the EU’s founding treaty. Whilst this is being prepared, the European Commission has told the British government to produce stickers quoting the article [...]

Government calls for focus on ethnic tensions

The government will call for councils to work harder to target hotspots caused by increasing immigration.
The Department for Communities is to launch guidance on monitoring local tension, and has said that more work needs to be done to prevent local disturbances.
Areas which have never experienced mass immigration before are now on the frontline of tensions [...]

Florence Nightingale

The latest feature in the Greatest Britons series by Louise Scott looks at nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale – the Lady with the Lamp.
Early Life
Florence Nightingale was born on 12th May 1820 in the Italian city of Florence, to well-connected English parents. She was named after the city of her birth, her parents, William Edward Nightingale [...]

Sir George Cayley

The latest in the Greatest Britons series by Louise Scott looks at Sir George Cayley, the Father of Aviation.
Introduction
Contrary to popular belief, aviation did not begin on the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in December 1903.
No – the first manned, heavier-than-air flights in a fixed wing (albeit unpowered) aircraft took place in [...]