One of the UK’s oldest shipping firms was today said to be setting sail for foreign shores in a multi-billion pound takeover deal.

AS yet another controversy flares in Northern Ireland about who and what is a Nazi, perhaps it is timely to reflect on the actual history and practice of world conquest and the extermination of inferior races.

US Episcopal leaders delayed a vote tonight on whether to confirm the church’s first openly gay elected bishop after allegations emerged that he inappropriately touched a man and posted a pornography link on a youth website, a church spokesman said.

Self-heating crockery, a flying saucer camera and an underwater bike were just three of the wacky British inventions being revealed at a show today.