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AA Milne's world-famous character Winnie-the-Pooh played an unlikely role in the nation's recovery from the traumas of war... How Winnie-the-Pooh helped the country find its feet Feel good: AA Milne found his escape in nostalgia and a return to a simpler age. (Above) A scene from new film...

Two people have been killed in a knife attack at Marseille's Saint Charles train station. The assailant has been shot dead by security forces in the southern French city. The incident is being treated as an act of terrorism, officials say. Marseille: Fatal knife attack at train station BBC...

The Bloodhound supersonic car has been fired up for the first time - and worked a treat. Engineers turned over the vehicle's Eurofighter jet engine in a "tie-down" test at Cornwall Airport Newquay on Friday. It worked flawlessly, sending a big orange flame out of the rear nozzle. The British...

An amateur historian using a metal detector in a farmer's field has told how he found a once-in-a-lifetime hoard of 2,000-year-old silver Roman coins - worth up to £200,000. Some of the metal disks were minted during the era Roman general Mark Antony was allied with his lover Cleopatra in...

Prince Harry says he hopes to expand the Invictus Games in the future, saying the "sky's the limit". He launched the Paralympic-style competition for injured servicemen and servicewomen and veterans in 2014. The prince was joined at the closing ceremony by his girlfriend Meghan Markle and her...

A unique Roman 'licking dog' never before seen in Britain has been found by two metal detector enthusiasts. The exquisite bronze figure, which measures about 8.5-inches tall and 2-inches wide, has minutely detailed eyelashes and teeth. The dog is sticking out its tongue and experts say it is...

A Star Wars request to film on land owned by the Queen was turned down, it has been revealed. The Crown Estate said no to the film franchise when it wanted to film scenes at Windsor Great Park, Berkshire. An estate spokesman said the planned scenes were not suitable for the park, adding: "Our...

Former soldier and policeman Henry Bolton has been elected the new leader of Ukip. Mr Bolton, who saw off challenges from better-known contenders, told UKIP members: "Brexit is our core task. However, it is not the end of the line." Meanwhile, the party has become involved in a row over its...

We have been too accommodating and way too generous so far. It’s time to pull the rug from under their feet. It’s time to tell the pygmies: No Deal... ROD LIDDLE It’s time to stand up to the patronising Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker and do a direct deal with countries which are being...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term in federal elections, exit polls suggest. Her conservative CDU/CSU alliance won 32.5% of the vote, remaining the largest party in Germany's parliament, according to the ARD poll. Its outgoing coalition partner, the social...

A "historically unique" 800-year-old stone coffin was damaged when visitors to a museum put a child inside it. Part of the sarcophagus tumbled over and a chunk fell off at Prittlewell Priory Museum in Southend, Essex, as the Southend Echo reported. Ancient coffin breaks as child put in it at...

An unusual late Bronze Age hoard recently discovered in the west of Cumbria is the first of its kind to be found in the county, it is reported. Comprising a penannular bracelet and three lock rings, all made of gold, as well as a fragment of copper alloy, the hoard was found by two...

It has for centuries been one of the world’s greatest enigmas: how a Bronze Age society with little in the way of technology created Egypt ’s Great Pyramid of Giza – the oldest and only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now archaeologists have discovered fascinating proof...

A "lost" portrait by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens has been rediscovered after almost 400 years. The 17th Century Flemish artist's "head study" of the Duke of Buckingham was identified by Dr Bendor Grosvenor from BBC Four's Britain's Lost Masterpieces. It was in Glasgow Museums'...

Peter Marshall tells the story of the Reformation... The savage Reformation When Henry VIII instituted the break...

The remains of a pre-historic dwelling dating back 6,000 years have been unearthed in a field during engineering work. Archaeologists found post-holes which formed part of a rectangular buildingd as well as fragments of rare Neolithic pottery. The discovery was made while Scottish Water...

“In 1914, they started off with no armaments, in a very gentlemanly war. If they passed a German plane, they waved at each other.” Eventually, the observer pilots realised that if they took a pot shot with a rifle instead, they could down an enemy plane – and one that was monitoring British...

Archaeologists excavating a historic religious retreat have found the grave of a medieval porpoise. The unusual discovery, thought to date from the 13th century, was made after three weeks of digging at the site in Guernsey. The team found evidence of a grave and unearthed a skull and other...

In a new paper in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, the scientists who produce those doomsday reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have finally come clean — the computer models they’ve been using to predict runaway global warming are wrong. The planet has stubbornly...

The bloody bus is back in the news this week after Boris Johnson said he’d like to get our cash back from the EU and possibly give some of it to the NHS. Judging from the reaction to his words — reams of press outrage, a finger-wagging letter of condemnation from the UK Statistics Authority, a...