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Comedian, actor and director Ricky Gervais has spoken of his sadness at the demise of the building that featured in the opening credits of The Office. Gervais starred in the BBC comedy series as pompous and snide David Brent, the boss of the Slough, Berkshire branch of the Wernham Hogg Paper...

Stonehenge may have been a prehistoric centre for, literally, rock music, according to a new study. According to experts from London's Royal College of Art, some of the stones sound like bells, drums, and gongs when they are 'played' - or hit with hammers. Archaeologists, who have pondered...

70 sandbags of soil from WWI battlefields has arrived in Britain. The soil, collected by British and Belgian schoolchildren, arrived in London yesterday from just across the Channel aboard the Belgian Navy frigate Louisa Marie. At the Menin Gate, which commemorates all those British and...

Archaeologists have uncovered 18 medieval skeletons at Durham Cathedral, but have been left baffled by their unusual alignment. The team members first thought they had uncovered remains of Durham Cathedral’s medieval cemetery, the boundaries of which may have extended further than the present...

A Muslim convert held a British soldier by the hair and tried to hack off his head 'like a butcher attacking a joint of meat' after knocking him down with a car at 40mph, the Old Bailey heard today. Drummer Lee Rigby was 'mutilated, almost decapitated and murdered' by Michael Adebowale, 22...

Archaeologists have discovered a rare board game piece from the 7th century which casts raucous Anglo-Saxon feasts in a new light. The archaeologists, from the University of Reading, were excavating an Anglo-Saxon royal great hall in Lyminge, Kent when they unearthed the gaming piece in the...

Britain has formally protested to the Spanish authorities after Spanish police opened a diplomatic bag at the border with Gibraltar. The Foreign Office said diplomatic bags were "inviolable" and opening one was "a serious infringement" of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. The...

With ten months to go until the Scottish independence referendum, Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has shown once again that the Scottish nationalists, despite wanting independence from the most successful political, economic and monetary union in history, they still want to keep some of...

Ian Watkins, vocalist of Welsh rock band Lostprophets, has pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to a series of child sex offences, including attempting to rape a baby. The band, who formed in Pontypridd in 1997, spilt up last month. Lostprophets' Ian Watkins guilty of child sex offences...

In his new book, Daniel Hannan, a Europhobe Tory Member of the European Parliament, asks why the English-speaking peoples, who invented freedom, now shy away from the uniqueness of their achievement. He believes that Lefty, liberal self-loathing has made the people of Britain - the nation that...

A Welsh politician and Oxford University are at war over 33,000 year old human remains. Byron Davies, the AM (Assembly Member) for South Wales in the National Assembly for Wales (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru), has asked the university to return the remains of the Red Lady of Paviland, which...

A couple of years ago, Angie and Rhodri Powell were redecorating their 16th Century home in Milverton, Somerset, when they unconvered an almost lifesize mural of King Henry VIII, who ruled England and Ireland from 1509 to 1547. The discovery excited them, particularly when told by an expert...

He may be 87 years old, and he may have been on our screens since 1952, but the great naturalist and TV presenter Sir David Attenborough is showing no signs of retiring. Attenborough is returning to our screens in the New Year with a new programme called Natural History Museum Adventure, in...

On what is the sci-fi show's 50th birthday, millions of Doctor Who fans around the world are awaiting the special episode to mark the occasion. The episode, called The Day of the Doctor is to be broadcast in 90 countries simultaneously at 7.50pm UK time in what is likely to be the largest...

A series of beautiful images have been released showing in great detail how Roman Britain would have looked 2,000 years ago. The CGI images include a Roman ‘motorway’ stretching from Exeter to London, a forgotten port and luxurious-looking barracks for the occupying forces. Another image of...

The British are showing the Canadians how to deal with druggies in power. Whilst the mayor of Toronto is still in his job after his drugs scandal, in Britain the Reverend Paul Flowers has been immediately suspended as a Labour Party councillor and by his church after allegations came to light...

Monty Python are reuniting for a live, one-off show in London in July next year. At a press conference, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones said they wanted to see if they "were still funny". Cleese's trouble in paying off his multi-million pound divorce from...

By examining the preferences of Facebook dating app, researchers have found that black men and black women receive fewer responses to their messages. The research found that women (except black women) prefer white men, and most men prefer Asian women (with the exception of Asian men, who...

Gibraltar last night earned a creditable 0-0 draw against Slovakia in the tiny British territory's first football match as a member of Uefa. The British colony, with a population of just 32,000, was accepted by European football's governing body in May, becoming its 54th and smallest member...

Tory MPs have demanded a show of force against Spain after yet another Spanish vessel entered Gibraltarian waters. The RV Ramon Margalef entered the waters on Monday and was met with Royal Navy patrol boat HMS Sabre, which asked the Spanish ship to leave. However, the Spanish ship refused to...