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A silver seal used to sign documents in the medieval period belonged to a significantly wealthy owner, a treasure inquest heard. The seal matrix was found near Nayland-with-Wissington...

Human remains thought to be about 4,000 years old and charred have been discovered by builders working on a hotel in rural Northumberland. The Tankerville Arms in Wooler was...

YOU’D be forgiven for watching the chaos in Parliament over the past few weeks and throwing up your hands in exasperated despair...

BRITS were hit by motorway chaos after lorry drivers brought roads to a standstill in protest at the Brexit date being pushed back. There was traffic mayhem in Devon, Cornwall, Lancashire...

Prof Stephen Hawking has been honoured on a new 50p coin inspired by his pioneering work on black holes. The physicist died last year at the age of 76, having become one of the most renowned...

Don't be deceived by the lack of violence or the comparative good manners of those now seizing control. This is a coup, and what is at stake is the nature and legitimacy of Parliament itself...

The UK project to develop a hypersonic engine that could take a plane from London to Sydney in about four hours is set for a key demonstration...

An Anglo-Saxon gold pendant, found near a site where a similar item worth £145,000 was dug up, probably belonged to a woman of "high social status". The Winfarthing Pendant was found in 2014...

England and Scotland yesterday played what was probably the most astonishing international match in rugby's history...

The crew on board the sunken Henry VIII ship the Mary Rose was from the Mediterranean, North Africa and beyond, researchers have found. Bone structure and DNA of 10 skeletons found on...

A "well loved" Saxon brooch fragment has been declared as treasure. The piece, discovered by detectorists in Shropshire, dates from the 8th Century to early 10th Century...

The genitalia on a famous chalk figure have been given a floral makeover. The Cerne Abbas Giant's penis has been adorned with petals and leaves, making it look like a floral stem. It is not known who made the alteration, although a note was left at a local shop explaining the act was an...

Some MPs don’t want Brexit. And they don’t want to respect the Referendum result. And they have a cunning plan. Oliver Letwin, one of the nicest and cleverest people in politics, and another Conservative MP called Nick Boles, plan to support a move to take control of the Commons from the...