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A competition to design a new £4million footbridge linking the Cornish castle thought to be King Arthur's birthplace with the mainland has been launched. Six designs for the 285ft (87m) high structure at Tintagel Castle have been unveiled, which will help reconnect the castle's divided...

Heavy rain and flooding have caused water to tumble down the most famous cliff in the Yorkshire Dales for "the first time in living memory". Water flowed over the top of the white limestone rocks of Malham Cove on Sunday, briefly making it England's highest unbroken waterfall. It may be...

Just three weeks after the gruesome terrorist attacks that took the lives of 130 people and injured 351, Britain has joined France's campaign to bombard the nest of thieves, butchers, slavers and rapists that is the Islamic State (Isil) in Syria. It is a decision that has touched our hearts...

The army has been called out to evacuate homes after Storm Desmond caused severe flooding in parts of the UK. It was sent in to Cumbria and the Scottish Borders, where hundreds of homes are under water and nearly 50 severe flood warnings remain. The floods minister said the storm had "broken...

We are living through great moments in history. For the first time since 1945 Britain, Russia and America are ­united in fighting a common enemy. At the Yalta conference in the Crimea, which met to divvy up the postwar world, the Big Three were Winston Churchill, America’s Franklin D Roosevelt...

Why lefties, liberals and warmists are like a different species... Lefties, liberals and warmists behave like a different species They are capable of emotion, but only when it suits their predetermined agenda of things that matter...

A Stoke City FC flag is due to be blasted into orbit later, in a supply ship destined for the International Space Station. Lifelong Potters fan Andrew Rushton persuaded British astronaut Tim Peake to pack the emblem. The Orbital Resupply Services Flight is due to leave Florida at 17:55 local...

We know, or think we know, quite a lot about Robin Hood – the heroic archer in English folklore who supposedly robbed the rich and gave to the poor – but hard facts about him are decidedly thin on the ground. Here, historian David Baldwin busts some of the most popular myths surrounding the...

The skeleton of a young Viking woman found in an intact timber coffin has gone on display for the first time. The skeleton was unearthed during a large-scale excavation of the Swinegate area of York in 1990. The York Archaeological Trust (YAT) said more than 100 burial sites were discovered...

David Cameron is making the case for air strikes against IS in Syria, saying the aim is to "keep the British people safe" from terror attacks. He faced calls to apologise for reportedly saying opponents of action were "terrorist sympathisers". Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the comment...

To kick off its Myths and Legends Week on History Extra, Eugene Byrne explores the tales of eight of Britain’s most famous mythical figures… 8 British mythical figures...

Chelsea have submitted a planning application to rebuild Stamford Bridge into a 60,000-seat stadium. The Premier League champions have consulted over the redevelopment of their west London home, which currently has a capacity of 41,600. And a statement on the club's official website on...

So what could be wrong about the world’s nations getting together to prevent such a disaster before it is too late? In fact, in more recent years scarcely a single point in this “consensus” theory has not been questioned by a growing array of independent experts, including some of the...

Labour are running scared of Ukip at the moment, thinking that the anti-EU, anti-immigration party may well take Oldham West and Royton off them during the by-election on Thursday. The first by-election of the 56th UK Parliament is taking place due to the death of the sitting Labour MP Michael...

A football fan who became a terrace favourite by wearing only swimming trunks at matches has vowed to continue despite the cold weather. Everton supporter Michael Cullen and his royal blue swimwear have become a regular fixture at home and away games. And in spite of dipping temperatures...

As a Muslim cleric has to deny saying it’s OK to eat your wife, the BBC and the liberal establishment just cringe with appalling liberal bias Why don’t the French bomb Belgium? As a Muslim cleric has to deny saying it’s OK to eat your wife, the BBC and the liberal establishment just cringe...

Great Britain have won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 after Andy Murray beat Belgium's David Goffin to clinch the decisive point in the final in Ghent. Murray won 6-3 7-5 6-3 to give the visitors an unassailable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five tie. Britain have now won the team...

Almost 420 years since Shakespeare's lavish and magnificent house was razed to the ground, archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be the Bard's demolished kitchen. Uncovered in the remains of New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon - the site of his family home - the experts found...

A large chunk of an American space rocket has been found in the sea off the Isles of Scilly. A large section of a spacecraft, measuring about 32ft by 13ft, was spotted on the surface between the islands of Bryher and Tresco. Coastguards believe it is from the unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 which...

A hoard of silver coins, some of which were issued by Roman general Mark Antony, has been discovered in a Welsh field more than 2,000 years after it was buried. While they have yet to be valued, the 91 coins have been hailed by history experts as 'a significant find' and could be worth...