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A 16-year-old boy from Bristol has become the youngest person ever to trek to the South Pole. Lewis Clarke spent 48 days at temperatures as low as -58F and winds of up to 120 mph. He arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station at 18:00 GMT after completing the gruelling 702-mile journey...

A former aide to Margaret Thatcher, Lord McAlpine of West Green, has died aged 71. He was today hailed as a 'towering' political figure who had been successful within and outside of public life. In 2012 he was wrongly accused by the odious Left of being a paedophile, when allegations were...

Archaeologists believe that some bones found in a box at Winchester City Museum may belong to those of Anglo-Saxon monarch King Alfred the Great. However, there is also a chance the remains could belong to his son, King Edward the Elder. Archaeologists at the University of Winchester carried...

The Queen's granddaughter and British Olympian Zara Phillips gave birth to a baby girl in the early hours of this morning. Zara's husband, England Rugby Union star Mike Tindall, was present at the birth at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The girl, whose name has not yet been confirmed...

Next month archaeologists are to start excavating the remains of a 6th century church which is thought to be Britain's oldest place of Christian worship. St Piran's Oratory, near Perranporth, on the north coast of Cornwall (England's most southerly and most westerly county), has been encased...

A few bones are all that have been found inside a mysterious room in a Scottish castle that was recently opened for the first time in 500 years. The room, measuring just six feet high and six feet across, is located inside the ancient ruins of Mingary Castle near Kilchoan on the bleak and...

Two schoolboys sparked a bomb scare when they returned home from metal detecting in a field - by bringing two WWII anti-tank shells home with them. The boys, Kane Byrne and Alex Taylor, both 12, from Folkestone, Kent, were looking for trinkets and coins when they discovered the shells from...

39 skulls found within the ancient part London 25 years ago are now thought to be those of gladiators killed whilst entertaining Roman audiences. The 39 skulls were found in 1988 beneath the site of the Guildhall within the City of London, central London. The boundaries of the City of London...

Diaries from British soldiers serving on the frontline during World War I have been placed online by the National Archives. Events from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the departure of troops from Flanders and France were recorded in official diaries of each military unit. About 1.5 million...

A film uploaded on the video-sharing site Vimeo shows London in 1927 in colour. The film shows the other side to London - complete with quiet streets, police guiding traffic and tradesman standing on the back of carts as they trundle along the roads. It was shot by an early British pioneer of...

In its 936 year history, the Tower of London has served variously as an armoury, a treasury, the home of the Royal Mint, a public records office, and the home of the Crown Jewels. From about 1251 to 1835, it also served as the Royal Menagerie, and was home to many animals which could be heard...

Today, the area is a £15-a-night caravan park. But a million years ago, it was the birthplace of British civilisation. What is now the Manor Caravan Park in the coastal village of Happisburgh (pronounce "hays-bru"), Norfolk is also the site of the oldest-known human settlement in Britain...

The leader of the Far Right BNP, Nick Griffin, has launched his own cookery show. Mr Griffin, who is a Member of the European Parliament for North West England and was recently declared bankrupt, is trying his hand as a TV chef promising recipes on how to cook ‘traditional British fare’ on his...

The House of Lords is debating a bill that would allow there to be a 2017 referendum on whether or not Britain should leave the EU. PM David Cameron has already pledged to hold a referendum in 2017 if the Tories win the next election. The bill, introduced by Tory MP James Wharton, would write...

RAF Tornado fighter jets have flown with parts made using 3D printing technology for the first time, defence company BAE Systems has said. The metal components were used in test flights from the firm's airfield at Warton, Lancashire, late last month. The parts include protective covers...

For a few nights at the beginning of January since 2011, Stargazing LIVE has been on BBC tv screens. Website: BBC Two - Stargazing LIVE, Series 4 Every year it has been hosted by University of Manchester physics professor Brian Cox and Irish stand up comedian Dara Ó Briain (who presents...

It's good to see someone finally fight the left-wing myths about World War I, and it's no surprise that it's our brilliant Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove. British Education Secretary Michael Gove has attacked "left-wing academics" for using TV series like Blackadder "to feed myths" to...

Just days before Christmas, a fully armed Royal Navy warship was scrambled to challenge a missile-carrying Russian vessel in the waters off Britain. In a calculated test of Britain’s reduced naval capacity in the North Sea, the Russian warship came within 30 miles of the coast. It was...

Could World War III be about to start over eight tiny, uninhabited pimples in the Far East? This week, China's ambassador to London argued that Japan risks 'a serious threat to global peace' by 'rekindling' the bellicose attitude that hastened the expansion of World War II into a global...

British ministers are looking at a change in the sentencing rules to get around a ban imposed by the meddling European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on prisoners in the UK being jailed for the rest of their lives. England & Wales is one of just two places in Europe - the Netherlands being the...