Britain's Prince Charles has criticized the poor standards of English grammar in the United Kingdom. The prince - who was speaking at the Georgian Group awards in London's The Ritz hotel Wednesday - insisted people need to concentrate on using apostrophes properly and constructing sentences correctly. He said: "It seems to me that you need to remind people every now and then that you can't communicate to people in a language unless you know the grammar and the syntax and, indeed, the punctuation. "

The British government will publish Wednesday a proposal that would impose stiff penalties on customers of women forced into prostitution. Among the sanctions eyed is a charge of rape, which has a potential life sentence for males caught having paid sex with women who were trafficked or handled by a pimp. The measure seeks to curb prostitution in the United Kingdom. According to the Metropolitan police, 70 percent of 88,000 women prostitutes in England and Wales are under the control of traffickers.

A British pilot has avoided a fatal crash after going blind while flying his small plane over England as a Royal Air Force (RAF) plane and pilot guided him to a safe landing. Businessman Jim O'Neill, 65, revealed his death defying ordeal from his hospital bed in Romford, East London Friday and thanked the RAF for saving his life. He is recuperating from the temporary blindness caused by the swelling of a blood vessel in his eyes due to a stroke.

Swedish researchers said that an extra hour of sleep may reduce the likelihood of having a heart attack as most countries, including the United States, shift from daylight saving time to normal standard times. The extra hour of sleep brought about by shifting of the clocks back an hour may prevent the risk of a heart attack, compared with the heart attack risks during the first week of DST's implementation in spring, which were higher.

A former U. S. Air Force pilot based at Britain's Royal Air Force station in southeastern England confirmed a recently declassified report stating that he was ordered but failed to shoot down an unidentified flying object in 1957. Retired U. S. airman Milton Torres confirmed that he and a co-pilot were ordered to intercept the UFOs that appeared on the radar of the RAF airfield in Manston in Kent, England.