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All roads lead to Rome, the saying goes. Well, all roads except for the Roman road of Watling Street, which at one end takes you to Dover (Dubris) and at the other Wroxeter (Viroconium) in Shropshire...

World Cup semi-finalists England were too good for the USA on Thursday night in a game in which England fans bade farwell to Wayne Rooney. It was the D.C. United striker's last game for England after nearly 16 years, in an international career which has seen him become England's all-time leading...

I always shudder when I hear people say ‘Let’s stop Brexit’. They say it so casually, so cavalierly. It rolls off the tongue as if it were no big deal. They seem utterly unmoved by what ‘stopping Brexit’ would entail and the consequences it would have. It would mean blocking the largest act...

Theresa May's pathetic 585-page Brexit deal is too lengthy for most people to want to read it all from beginning to end. So here's a list of the top 40 horrors lurking within it...

Some athletes blame poor performances on the state of the pitch. Others blame it on tactics, or perhaps just a bad day at the office. But blaming your opponent for farting is definitely a new...

An amateur metal detector enthusiast from Dorset has unearthed a 500-year-old gold ring worth £10,000. The immaculate piece of jewellery was buried under several feet of mud and is set to be...

A box of poppies believed to date back almost 100 years has been found in an old suitcase. Bernie Axtell found them while looking for paperwork in his home in Cardiff on Sunday, a week before Armistice Day. The 77-year-old was given them by his friend Vic Luckhurst about 30 years ago while...

There is something mystifying and creepy about some churches - especially the ones that are home to the likes of a mummified corpse and thousands of human bones...

A two minutes silence was held across the UK at 11:00 GMT marking 100 years since the end of World War One...

We are repeatedly told that there are ‘too many unanswered questions’ about what’s happening with Brexit. But it’s worse than that. As the UK and EU elites try to stitch-up a final sell-out of Leave voters and seal a deal that will ensure Remain-by-another-name, some important questions...

A school in Newcastle is attacked by thugs? It's Brexit's fault... Coffee House Steerpike...

It was thought Roman influence during the Roman Empire in Britain did not stretch beyond south-west of Exeter. But archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a Roman town in...

Collapsing retailers. A looming far-left government threatening nationalisation. And perhaps most significantly of all, our potentially chaotic rupture with our largest, closest and most significant trade partner. It doesn’t seem to matter what you throw at it, the British economy...

The 2,000-year-old remains of a dog with its fur still intact have been found at a Roman fort. The rare find...

Europhiles tend to belittle trade with distant lands. Australia, they scoff, is our 16th export destination, behind Germany, France, Italy and Spain. But they are begging the question. Of course EU countries are our major trading partners: since 1973, we have been in a customs union with them...

Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace are amongst the contenders to appear on the new England and Wales £50 note. Bank of England governor Mark Carney has announced that a British scientist will...

A British soldier is attempting to be the first man in history to cross Antarctica solo - unsupported, unassisted and using muscle power alone...

An adventurer from Grantham, Lincolnshire, has become the first person to swim 1,780-miles around Great Britain...

Four hundred years ago, Sir Walter Raleigh, the poet, soldier and favorite courtier of Elizabeth I had his head chopped off after he was convicted on charges of conspiring against the monarch's successor, James I. Legend has it that Raleigh’s widow, Bess, was so distraught that she took...

Flooded chambers inside an historic bridge have been opened for the first time in more than 250 years, revealing their eerie secrets...