A 220-year-old British flag blown apart at Battle of Waterloo has been found in a shoe box. Military antiques collector Gary Lawrence said the flag is one of the last remaining ones from the ...

Veteran swimmer Mark Foster was "blown away" after learning he will mark his fifth Olympic Games by carrying the British flag during the opening ceremony in Beijing on Friday.

The Welsh flag is not represented on the Union Jack because, at the time of the flag’s development in the early 1600s, Wales was a principality of England and not its own country. The colors on ...