If the annual cheese roll in England or wife carrying competition in Finland is too boring for you, here are five very strange ones that might be worth visiting, even if it's just to tweet a pic from.

The murky mists of time have thrown up many bizarre tales of legendary Dartmoor, writes Paul Rush.

A jam-maker who found herself locked inside a British church was eventually rescued - after tweeting for help.

The son of a Kiwi mother is recovering from the radiotherapy which he finally underwent despite her fears, with no signs of cancer on his last scan.

In Antwerp, Liz Light explores the icon's world.

A hike on the quieter south side of the legendary loch throws up natural revelations but nothing monstrous.

A former English beauty queen has travelled from her New Zealand home to the scene of a crowning glory that helped launch her glamour career 40 years ago.

A worldwide search for the beauty queen in a 1973 photo discovered in a British mall ended in New Zealand.

Mark Lilley is arrested in his villa near Malaga.

Scotland Yard has admitted undercover police stole the identities of at least 43 dead children, but the force refused to tell the youngsters' families.

Thousands of Kiwis travelling to Great Britain face having their phones seized and personal data downloaded and stored by police.

One of the radio DJs linked to the suicide of a British nurse after a prank call is accusing her employer of failing to maintain a safe workplace.

Aerial trams and cable cars take visitors up mountains, over rivers and above cities, and sometimes these cable cars are the destination themselves.

Cameras 'swanning' around courtrooms in England will see judges 'heckled' the UK's top judge believes, citing NZ as a bad precedent.

With the UK in the grip of royal baby fever, there's never been a better time for families, or expectant parents, to visit Britain, writes Sheriden Rhodes.

Great Britain’s capital has played a central role in a cornucopia of brilliant but underexposed films.

Worshippers at about 500 British mosques have heard sermons condemning the sexual grooming of children after a number of paedophilia cases involving Muslim gangs.

Sydney radio station 2Day FM has been accused of blocking the investigation into the royal prank call which preceded the suicide of a British woman.

The illegitimate daughter of a 19th century British Prime Minister lived and raised a family in New Zealand.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has made an attempt to bounce Russia into supporting a future for Syria without President Bashar al-Assad.

Information on trillions of emails, web chats and Skype conversations carried out by Americans has been harvested along with their phone records.

The Guardian reports the UK spied on its G20 partners in 2009 - tricking some delegates into using fake internet cafes so their email could be read.

Tony Robinson, who played Blackadder's dogsbody Baldrick, has been made a knight in the Queen's birthday honours in Britain.