Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/June 2007

...that the Anstruther Fish Bar (pictured) in Fife has won the accolade "best fish and chip shop" in Scotland, on three occasions?
...that the 101 female Members of Parliament elected in the United Kingdom in Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 were popularly known as Blair Babes?
...that British Postmaster General Reginald Bevins's promise in November 1962 to "do something" about the BBC programme That Was The Week That Was was immediately countered by the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan?
...that the Newgate novels of the 19th century were attacked by the press for glamorizing the criminals portrayed in their stories?