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Keeley Hawes is to appear in an episode of the new series of Doctor Who. The actress, who has appeared in popular dramas such as Ashes to Ashes and Spooks and has voiced Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video games, is to appear as a villain in the new series and, in the modern politically...

The £3 million Anglo-Saxon treasure known as the Staffordshire Hoard has been brought together to allow experts to shed more light on the Dark Ages. Found by a (now rich) man with a £2.50 metal detector in a (now rich) farmer's field near the village of Hammerwich in Staffordshire on 5th July...

The inventor of the World Wide Web has marked the 25th anniversary of his creation by calling for a 'Magna Carta' bill of rights to protect its users. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web in 1989 whilst working as a scientist for CERN, told BBC Breakfast the issue could be compared to...

The remains of a young monk who lived 800 years ago have been found sticking out of a sea cliff in South Wales. Mandy Ewington was enjoying a stroll along the beach at Monknash, Vale of Glamorgan, when she looked up and saw two leg bones poking out of the cliff. She took a picture of the leg...

A portrait of Prince Edward with his family has been released to mark his 50th birthday, which is today. The Earl of Wessex, the youngest child of the Queen and Prince Philip and who is now eighth in line to the Throne, was photographed with his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and their...

The bed in which one of England's greatest monarchs, Henry VIII, was conceived has been found in a hotel car park. The bed was found dismantled and dumped in the car park of the Redland Hotel in Chester, which was being turned into flats. It was later bought at auction by Ian Coulson, a...

Headlines are dominated by talk of the Ukraine crisis, as EU leaders decide how to respond to Russia's troop deployment in the country’s Crimea region. Members from eastern Europe are calling for tough sanctions, while others, led by Germany, seek mediation. But how does the current crisis...

A 13-year-old Lancashire schoolboy has become the youngest person in the world to carry out nuclear fusion. Jamie Edwards, a pupil at Penwortham Priory Academy in Penwortham, Lancashire, created the project from scratch with help from his school. "I can't quite believe it - even though all...

It's not just modern walkers who need the aid of GPS when hiking through the Brecon Beacons in Wales. So, too, did their ancient ancestors. Archaeologists have found what they believe to be a 4,000 year old GPS system in the Brecon Beacons. An ancient standing stone - whose exact location...

12 bottles of rum dating back to 1780 were found in a cellar in a country house near Leeds - and then were sold by Harrogate Fine Wine Company for a whopping £80,000 at Christie's in London. The bottles - which were covered in cobwebs and layers of dust when found - were valued at £600-£800 per...

Scotland's new away kit looks like it has been designed by gay rights group Stonewall. But, according to the Scottish Football Association (SFA), the kit is in honour of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, the British Prime Minister between March 1894 and June 1895. Apparently the kit is...

London has evolved incredibly since it was merely a series of villages spanning the length of the Thames. But during the 18th century, shortly before the industrial revolution, the city was far grittier, and yet some would describe it as far more regal. These amazing pictures, shared on the...

A spree killer has become just the third woman in Britain to be sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison. Joanne Dennehy, a diagnosed psychopath who randonly murdered three men, yesterday joined serial killer Rose West and serial child killer Myra Hindley (who died in 2002) as women...

The world's longest aicraft has today been unveiled in Bedfordshire. The machine - which looks like an airship but isn't - is called an Airlander. It has a length of 302ft (92m) and is about 60ft longer than the biggest airliners, the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8. It is also almost 30ft...

Today Blyth Spartans, based in the little town of Blyth, Northumberland, are a small football team playing in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football. But during WWI, as six million British men were away fighting a war which made Britain go from being...

New ancient rock art has been found in the desolate wilds of northern Scotland. Archaeologists made the discovery in the Highlands in Ross-shire while moving a boulder decorated with ancient cup and ring marks to a new location in Ross-shire (a now defunct county which is now part of the vast...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making a visit to Britain today to speak to both the Head of Government and the Head of State. The leader of Europe's richest country is to address both Houses of Parliament and have tea with the Queen during a one-day visit to the UK. Mrs Merkel will...

Protesters, including the EDL, are currently protesting outside the Old Bailey in central London as Drummer Lee Rigby's killers are awaiting their sentencing. According to tweets from Sky News presenters outside the Old Bailey the murderers are to be sentenced at 4.30 pm, around 15 minutes'...

Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg, who was lauded by the left wing media, such as the BBC, The Guardian and the Independent as a poor, little, innocent victim of the Americans after his release without charge, has been arrested over Syria-related terror offences. The 45 year old...

How a great British invention - the tank, a metal monster which terrified the Germans - not only helped the British win WWI but how it was designed, in little over two months, by two men working in a small hotel room in Lincoln, Lincolnshire: "The panic started, everyone from 1st and 3rd...