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The last surviving Royal Mail coach which was once attacked by a lion that had escaped from a travelling menagerie has gone on sale for an impressive £70,000. The 200-year-old horse-drawn carriage harks back to the golden age of the Royal Mail when town clocks could be set by their...

A hoard of more than 5,000 Anglo Saxon coins has been unearthed, including what may be a unique penny. The discovery, near Lenborough, Buckinghamshire, is said to be the biggest hoard of coins in modern times. It includes a uniquely-stamped coin which may be the results of a mix-up at the...

Wherever Niklas Frank goes he carries a photograph of his dead father. But it is not a snap of a cherished childhood memory – it’s a picture of his corpse. With trembling fingers he holds out the battered black-and-white image taken moments after his dad was hanged for murdering four million...

Trigger-happy Turkey has downed a Russian jet saying it strayed into its airspace, even though it seems that the jet was only in Turkish airspace for a matter of seconds. Russia, however, says its jet was in Syrian airspace and so, too, was the Turkish jet which shot it down. The shooting down...