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A 400-year-old botany book contains what could be the only known portrait of Shakespeare made in his lifetime, according to an academic expert. Botanist and historian Mark Griffiths cracked an "ingenious cipher" to identify the playwright in an engraving in the 16th-Century work. "This...

The boss of digger giant JCB says Britain leaving the EU won’t ‘make a blind bit of difference’ to trade with Europe, it was reported last night. Chief executive Graeme Macdonald said cutting ties with Brussels would be better for Britain if Prime Minister David Cameron fails to...

British spooks at GCHQ have decided to show us all how right-on and progressive they are when they aren't spying on our emails, texts and telephone calls by lighting their "Doughnut" building in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire into a rainbow to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia...

In the late 17th Century, an impoverished Kingdom of Scotland, which was then an independent country, was looking at the Kingdom of England (modern England & Wales), also then an independent country, jealously. Scotland was jealous of England's successes, including the burgeoning English...

David Cameron rejected a trio of core SNP demands during 'frank' face-to-face talks with Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in Edinburgh yesterday. The Prime Minister ruled out granting Scotland a second independence referendum and also refused Nicola Sturgeon's request for a...

Prince Harry helped capture a saltwater crocodile during his tour of Australia last month, newly-released pictures have shown. The 30-year-old looked relaxed while sitting on the 10ft crocodile, removed from a trap in Darwin Harbour. The pictures, which also show him hauling in the catch, were...

Britain’s longest-serving poppy seller has been found dead amid concerns that she was struggling to manage her finances after being besieged with begging letters from dozens of charities. Olive Cooke, 92, who has sold as many as 30,000 poppies for the Royal British Legion over the past...

A giant conger eel weighing in at 131lb and measuring 21ft has been caught off the coast of Devon. The monster - which was just 2lbs off the British record - was landed at Plymouth Fisheries, Devon, by the inshore trawler 'Hope'. Proud fishermen posted a picture of them posing with their...

The Scottish government has described talks between David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as "constructive and helpful". The discussions in Edinburgh were dominated by the issue of further powers for the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish government said Mr Cameron...

An impressive stone circle in Dartmoor is the first to be discovered in a century, archaeologists have revealed. The ancient circle would have formed part of a 'sacred arc' of sites on the moor, suggesting a high level of coordination between Bronze Age communities. And the remote...

The 1998 Human Rights Act, which incorporates into UK law the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights, which Britain must be a part of as part of the EU, has been nothing but a criminals' charter which has prevented Britain from deporting foreign criminals and illegal...

Treating gout by drinking ‘plain water with a little good sherry in it’ may not seem like good medical practice in this day and age. But this is just one of the tips given by a physician to patients in the 18th century - among other remedies for common ailments, such as a trip to...

Initiatives are underway in British universities to clamp down on "lad culture" - that thing which the people who run our major institutions, including the BBC, now hate. It's what has caused the BBC to destroy "laddish" Top Gear (be prepared for some blonde bimbo to host that once-great show)...

Kent Police are making inquiries into a report of electoral fraud in the Thanet South seat, contested in the general election by Ukip leader Nigel Farage. Days before the election, Farage had a healthy nine-point poll lead in the seat, with it looking like a foregone conclusion that he...

Between 2010 and 2015, when he was head of a Tory/Liberal Democrat coalition, David Cameron said that, should he be re-elected in 2015, he will promise the British people an EU in/out referendum in 2017. He also made it clear that he wanted the EU to implement certain reforms to make it a...

It was the Bafta Television Awards on Sunday, that annual ceremony in which a bunch of right-on, self-righteous, Left-wing actors slap each other on the back, attack "the Tories" and pick up awards, not for making the best television, but for making the most PC television. Actress Jessica Hynes...

As Left-wing student types graffiti a WWII memorial outside Downing Street to protest the Conservative Party's shock majority, why the Left are such bad losers... Stop your whinging: why the Left are such bad losers Labour voters should be ashamed of all the boohooing - and I...

The "mystery" remains of a Saxon child have been found buried on land next to Hereford Cathedral, archaeologists say. The child, who is believed to have been aged between 10 and 12, was found buried in Hereford Cathedral Close, at the site of a possible Saxon Palace. The discovery was...

The Left-wing BBC has been left sweating nervously after David Cameron appointed an anti-BBC Right-winger who has, in the past, criticised the BBC's Left-wing bias and its unpopular licence fee, as his new Culture Secretary. Tory MP John Whittingdale, who has produced a string of damning...

Good news, smegheads. Coronation Street actor Craig Charles is quitting the soap after ten years to film two new series of cult sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf. The iconic show will be filming a further two series - Red Dwarf XI and Red Dwarf XII - at the end of the year, with 50-year-old Craig's...