Britain is set to honour its revered wartime leader Winston Churchill with a banknote featuring his portrait and famous declaration "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat".
She has dark eyes, full lips and short hair in one of the favourite styles of London in the "swinging 60s" but who is she?
Plans to erect a statue of a giant, electric blue French cockerel in the shadow of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square have ruffled feathers among British heritage enthusiasts.
Pornography is all set to be banned from Britain's public Wi-Fi networks by the year-end, Prime Minister David Cameron's children's czar has announced.
Dozens of devotees are flocking a makeshift temple set up by a caterer in Leicester after he found an aubergine that looks like the Hindu God Ganesh, the elephant-headed Hindu diety.