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The Queen has handed out Maundy money to 178 pensioners at a Maundy Thursday service in Sheffield Cathedral. It is the first time South Yorkshire has played host to the service, which recognises the work of elderly people to their community and church. This year, 89 women and 89 men - one...

The bed in which Henry VII and Elizabeth of York may have conceived Henry VIII, and which was dumped in a hotel car park a few years ago, could be worth £20 million. Henry VII's four-poster bed dumped in a hotel car park and sold for £2,200 - but now it's confirmed as the real thing and could...

More than 2,000 workers were forced to flee their offices when a fierce fire broke out beneath a street in central London. Fire crews were called after thick black smoke was seen billowing up from a manhole cover on Kingsway, in Holborn, shortly after midday today. The blaze is thought...

You have to excuse the ludicrous and unintelligible PC speak that no real person uses (it is the Gruaniad after all and no real person reads it) But it seems that Jeremy Clarkson has become a changed man since being sacked from Top Gear by the PC Brigade. Following what he described as a...

Ghostly faces and snatches of text have been found hiding in one of Wales' oldest and most important books. The 750-year-old Black Book of Carmarthen is the first Welsh text to include medieval figures such as King Arthur and Merlin. But for hundreds of years never-before-seen poetry and...

One of the largest medieval hospital burial grounds in England has been uncovered under Cambridge University, archaeologists have said. More than 400 complete skeletons were found together with parts from about 1,000 bodies during work on St John's College in 2010 to 2012. The remains...

Not only were the Anglo-Saxons good at turning their England into the wealthiest and most advanced country in Europe, but they were also a dab hand at medical matters it seems. A 1,000-year-old treatment for eye infections could hold the key to killing antibiotic-resistant superbugs, experts...

A 'medieval' musician who appealed for goose bones to make a unique flute has said he has had a great response. Al Garrod wanted to recreate the Norman flute in time to play at the 1 April reopening of Lincoln Castle, where its original fragments were found. A £22m revamp of the castle...

Archaeologists are to start digging for another of Britain’s ‘lost’ kings - this time under a school playing field. The team searching for medieval monarch King Stephen, who died in 1154, hope to follow in the footsteps of those who found Richard III in Leicester in 2012. The fresh...

A memorial to murdered soldier Lee Rigby is due to be opened in his home town in Greater Manchester later. The 25-year-old fusilier was killed outside his barracks in Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, south east London, on 22 May 2013 by Islamist extremists. The father-of-one was a...

Two statues of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were unveiled at Canterbury Cathedral today - the first royal sculptures to be installed there during her reign. The monarch arrived at Capel-le-Ferne in Kent this afternoon to open a new £3.5million visitor centre that honours the...

The Scots Nats are perpetual trouble-makers who will do anything and everything to aggravate the English. It's about time we turned the tables on them..... A way to save the Union from the cunning Nats The Scots Nats are perpetual trouble-makers who will do anything and...

Nigel Farage and his family have been chased out of a pub in Greater London and had their car attacked by childish, Left-wing thugs demonstrating against the UK Independence Party (Ukip) The Ukip leader labelled the demonstrators, who were dressed as migrants and breastfeeding mothers...

A student at Oxford University has discovered that a coronation medal was personally designed by Isaac Newton and includes a hidden political message. Postgraduate student Joseph Hone found a manuscript which revealed the scientist had designed the medal for Queen Anne's coronation in 1702...

Millions across Britain turned out this morning to watch a spectacular solar eclipse. The eclipse started not long after 8pm this morning when the top right hand portion of the Sun appeared to have a chunk bitten out of it. At about 9.30am the partial eclipse was at its greatest extent and the...

Today marks one week exactly until King Richard III is to be reburied with great pomp and ceremony in Leicester Cathedral. To prepare for the ceremony, which will see the cortege travel through Leicestershire, his remains have been sealed inside a lead-lined coffin - 530 years after he died...

Clarkson and Top Gear producer Oison Tymon have now given evidence to the BBC enquiry, led by Ken MacQuarrie, over their "fracas" in a North Yorkshire hotel. But could this whole Top Gear debacle, which has led to the remaining three episodes of the current series being pulled - with Hammond...

One of the oldest human brains ever to be discovered was probably preserved for more than 2,000 years thanks to mud, archaeologists claim. The intact Iron Age organ was discovered inside a decapitated skull in York seven years ago and since then experts have conducted tests to explain...

Afghanistan veteran Prince Harry is to join five wounded service personnel for part of their 1,000-mile (1,609km) trek around Britain later this year. The Walk of Britain is designed to raise awareness of Walking with the Wounded - the charity, set up in 2010, helping injured...

The ancient mound of Silbury Hill was built as a lighthouse and harbour to help Neolithic traders navigate waterways, an expert has claimed. Archaeologists have long speculated that the enormous manmade structure in Wiltshire, which was built around 2,750BC, was an ornate grave or a...