Britannia ruled from the roof of the GPO Building. Credit: John Simpson from Beecroft purchased the statue when he discovered it unloved among bramble bushes at the Hornsby house auction in the ...

A 30ft (9.1m) wooden sculpture of Britannia has been set alight in an East Sussex village to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Three weeks of work and three lorry loads of wood went in to making ...

Mr Simpson said: “We both agreed the parts of Britannia should be put back together but I am not going to muck up my garden so that the statue is complete in his garden. It needs to be in the ...

A 30ft (9.1m) wooden sculpture of Britannia is set alight in an East Sussex village to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Britannia statue set on fire for Diamond Jubilee - BBC News We've updated ...

RULE Britannia is a British patriotic song originating from a poem from the 1700s, which is performed at the Last Night Of The BBC Proms. In a U-turn, the BBC has decided that the song – whic… ...

On the final night of the Proms, a classical music festival in London, people usually sing the "Rule, Britannia!" song. But in the wake of anti-racism protests, the song was almost cut from the show.

A permanent memorial to football legend Sir Stanley Matthews was unveiled at the Britannia Stadium in Stoke-on-Trent on 27th October 2001. This gallery shows the sculptors at work, and the statue ...

Like Hollywood itself, the Oscar statue’s sparkling exterior conceals its no less meritorious, but certainly less glamorous interior: britannia metal. Or at least that was the case until this ...

The bronze statue by British artist Marcus Harvey has been unveiled at Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, East Sussex, as part of Marcus' Inselaffe exhibition. ... Margaret Thatcher/Britannia ...

A familiar profile along the Thames-side skyline in London is the sooty statue of Britannia, bearing a trident, atop the Victorian baroque pile that is the Tate Gallery. Britannia grasps her ...

Footage also showed flares on to the statue of Winston Churchill nearby in Parliament Square.. A few hundred protesters chanting “Rule Britannia”, “save our kids” and “stop the boats ...