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Tornadoes have struck parts of Wales and the Midlands, causing damage to buildings and cars. Winds of up to 94mph have been recorded in parts of Wales, with the seaside town of Aberystwyth bearing the brunt. Tornadoes hit Wales and Midlands BBC News 17th November 2016 Clarach caravan park...

From Culloden to the Crimea, Salamanca to the Somme, National Army Museum experts offer their opinions on the most significant land battles in British history... 20 battles that shaped Britain From Culloden to the Crimea, Salamanca to the Somme, National Army Museum experts offer their...

In the past few weeks, the no-nonsense Foreign Secretary has managed to upset Italian Foreign Secretary Carlos Calenda, most of Europe's leaders and PM Theresa May... ... Good! ROD LIDDLE At least we know Boris Johnson won’t put up with b*****ks in Brexit proceedings...

It once drew crowds of more than 300,000 to watch chariot races, animal hunts and religious festivals - but there was much more to the Circus Maximus than we ever expected. A six-year restoration has revealed secrets hidden beneath the ancient ruins, including brothels, bars and betting...

A treasure hunter who unearthed a 2,000-year-old Roman ingot on a farm is now set to sell it for £60,000 ($74,000). Jason Baker found the 2ft long lead bar using his metal detector on a routine rally in the Mendip Hills near Wells, Somerset, earlier this year. The stunning 85lb (38kg)...

A WORLD War Two paratrooper passed away in hospital last Remembrance Sunday – as the ‘Last Post’ saluted our heroes at 11am. Ralph Jones, 93, was severely wounded in the Normandy Landings while a member of the 13th Battalion 6th Airborne Division during the Allied invasion in June 1944. He...

Vanessa Collingridge tells the story of that great British national heroine: Boudica... Boudica: scourge of the Roman empire Vanessa Collingridge tells the story of the woman who raised and led a native army in revolt against oppressive Roman rule in Britain in AD 60... This article first...

Cheer up, American millennials! I mean, seriously, CHEER THE **** UP! Oh, I know you’ve had a rough week ever since Donald Trump won the election. But it’s time to get a grip. STOP crying. STOP taking personal days off work to ‘process’ what happened... Memo to millennials, that awful feeling...

FERRIES have been halted after an unexploded WW2 bomb was found in Portsmouth Harbour. Approximately 200 people are stranded on a ferry called the Commodore Clipper. A Condor Ferries spokesman said: "Due to a possible unexploded ordinance found in Portsmouth Harbour, the...

Former Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has claimed an Argentinian airport employee stopped him from boarding a flight from Germany to the UK in a "hate crime". The presenter and his two co-hosts, James May and Richard Hammond, claimed they were "kicked off" the flight from Stuttgart to...

Archaeologists have discovered 81 "extremely rare" tree trunk coffins at a "previously unknown" early Christian Anglo-Saxon community's cemetery. Found at Great Ryburgh in Norfolk, their "remarkable preservation" was due to the waterlogged conditions of the river valley. The Historic...

A new league has been set up for the best Quidditch players in the UK. Eight teams will compete for the title of national champions. England's nine regions - the highest tier of subdivision in England - will compete as eight teams (with the North West and North East regions competing as one...

There’s a video currently going viral starring Yoko Ono, in which she gives her response to Donald Trump’s election as new President of the United States of America. It lasts about 15 seconds and consists of Yoko emitting a long, strangled, mournful, high-pitched scream. Imagine the...

Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death for a "political and/or ideological cause", the Old Bailey has heard. Thomas Mair, 53, allegedly murdered Mrs Cox outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds, on 16 June. He shouted "Britain First" as he carried out the attack and...

Houses collapsed, sheep ran wild, Westminster Abbey shook and the people trembled in fear of armageddon. Andrew Robinson describes what happened when a series of earthquakes struck London in 1750... The earthquakes that rocked Georgian London Houses collapsed, sheep ran wild, Westminster Abbey...

Data has revealed the NATO countries who are not spending enough on defence to warrant Donald Trump using US forces to protect them from an attack. The President-elect caused alarm during his election campaign by suggesting Washington would think twice about coming to the aid of an...

Vit Jedlicka, the president of the tiny eastern European state of Liberland, can no longer enter his country... The man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter By Jolyon Jenkins BBC News 14 November 2016 One man is trying to create a utopia on...

One of the earliest Victoria Cross gallantry medals ever awarded has been recovered from the mud on the banks of the River Thames. The medal, awarded to a hero of the Crimean War and worth at least £50,000 despite being badly weathered, was found by a treasure hunter ‘mudlarking’ on the...

The inquest into Clinton’s defeat is just beginning. But when it is concluded, it will find she lost for the same reason Ed Miliband lost. And Jeremy Corbyn will lose, and his successor will lose, and a procession of liberals will lose: namely, that the progressive Left long ago stopped being...

Britain is to deploy batteries of high precision long range missiles on Russia’s border for the first time since the Cold War. The long range rockets will be moved to Estonia next year amid fears Russian President Vladimir Putin could be planning to invade the country. The rockets are part of...