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A musket ball from one of the first shots fired in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 has been found at the site of an ambush in the Highlands. Edinburgh-based expert in historic weaponry, Paul Macdonald, unearthed the projectile at the ruins of Highbridge near Spean Bridge in Lochaber... Musket ball...

Auckland has become the first major city to see in 2017... 2017 is here... in some parts of the world! New Zealand and the Pacific Islands become the first to welcome the New Year with firework spectaculars Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati are among the first countries in the world to see in 2017...

James Delingpole's 10 predictions for 2017... James Delingpole 2017 will be one long vampire scream from the liberal elite James Delingpole...

From snowflake students demanding the removal of a statue of the great Cecil Rhodes to the crazed over-reaction to Brexit and Trump, 2016 was the year in which the once stoic and tolerant British lost their collective marbles... Age of hysteria: We British have always prided ourselves on our...

Welsh Premier League champions The New Saints have broken a 44-year-old world record for the longest winning streak in top-flight football. Friday's 2-0 win at Cefn Druids was their 27th in a row in all competitions - one more than Dutch giants Ajax in 1971-72. TNS have won all 21 of their...

British sporting heroes Andy Murray and Mo Farah are to receive knighthoods in the New Year Honours. Murray won the Wimbledon men's singles title this year for the second time having previously won it in 2013, whilst Farah retained his Olympic men's 5000m and 10,000m titles. A host of...

Remoaners and Clintonites looking forward to seeing the end of 2016 are going to have to wait a little bit longer... New Year delayed by one second BBC News 30 December 2016 A "leap second" will be added to this year's New Year's countdown to compensate for a slowdown in the Earth's...

How much more desperate can the Remain lobby’s propaganda become? Having had its predictions of instant economic doom comprehensively disproved by events, it is dreaming up ever more devious ways of trying the hector the country into thinking that it made a huge mistake on 23 June...

She was just 16 years old when she died, but the skeleton of a young girl living in the Stone Age revealed she lived a tough life. The 4,500-year-old skeleton, named Rosie, was discovered in Germany last year. A study of her bones has created a snapshot of a life that shows she had...

Drinking only beer and cider and eating no vegetables may not seem like the best advice to get in shape. But in Georgian Britain, this was the advice for young gentlemen whose sedentary lives put them in danger of obesity and gout. As the latest new year diets are drawn up for 2017...

Theresa May has attacked the current US administration over its condemnation of the Israeli government, in comments which appeared to align her with Donald Trump. The Prime Minister’s spokesman criticised John Kerry, the outgoing US Secretary of State, after he described the Israeli...

2016 had its fair share of exciting discoveries in the world of archaeology. Together, they reveal the human characteristics that unite us all and expose the impacts that past peoples continue to have on life today. Here's a selection of the most inspiring findings of the year... Big...

After the tumult of 2016, Europe could do with a year of calm. It won’t get one. Elections are to be held in four of the six founder members of the European project, and populist Eurosceptic forces are on the march in each one. There will be at least one regime change: François Hollande has...

David Cameron is being lined up as a contender to be the next secretary general of Nato. Officials believe the former prime minister is the most likely candidate to be successful if Theresa May wants to get a Briton appointed to Europe's top defence job. It comes with a tax-free salary...

A French mayor has named a road in his town Brexit Street to 'pay tribute to the sovereign British people' who voted to leave the EU, it has emerged. Julien Sanchez, the Front National mayor of Beaucaire in the southern Gard département, insists he has received 'lots of support from...

For the third time in recent years, our magnificent Queen has cut through the delusional, self-serving bluster of the British Establishment and has asked one of her simple but devastatingly revealing questions: ‘What’s so bad about leaving the European Union?’ Well said, Ma’am!: As the...

A tribute to pop music superstar George Michael, who died yesterday aged 53... Coffee House Culture House Daily The genius of George Michael, 1963-2016 Fraser Nelson The Spectator 25 December 2016 A couple of weeks ago, George Michael announced he was collaborating with another...

During the EU referendum, The Sun ran a front page story which stated that the Queen backed Brexit. In the days and weeks that followed, the paper received much flak over the legitimacy of the story, with blame being pointed in Brexiteer Michael Gove’s direction. But it turns out the story is...

Up to 54,000 people are being evacuated from the German city of Augsburg on Christmas morning after the discovery of an unexploded RAF bomb. Some 32,000 homes are in the evacuation zone, which was declared following the discovery of the huge unexploded second world war ordnance. The evacuation...

Theresa May has urged Britain to "unite and move forward" after the Brexit vote in her first Christmas message as PM. In the year that saw the UK vote by 52% to 48% to leave the EU, Mrs May said there was an "historic opportunity" to forge "a bold new role". However, UKIP's Paul Nuttall used...