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Two 6,000-year-old "halls of the dead" have been found in Herefordshire Professor Julian Thomas said the find was of "huge significance to our understanding of prehistoric life" Two 6,000-year-old "halls of the dead" found in Herefordshire have been called "the discovery of a lifetime" by...

The British government is trying to stop US singer Kelly Clarkson taking a rare turquoise and gold ring once owned by Jane Austen out of the country. Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen (1775-1817) The 2002 winner of the American Idol TV show bought the jewellery at auction last year for...

I suppose I'd better say that the following contains images which some people may find upsetting. A man has been jailed for eight weeks after taking out a cat's eye by firing a marble at it from a catapult. CCTV cameras caught Craig Nunn, 28, cycling up to the cat named Misty and firing the...

The words are full of warmth, hope and comfort. But fortunately for history, the Queen never had to say them. Deep in the corridors of Whitehall at the height of the Cold War civil servants prepared a speech for the monarch to deliver at the outbreak of World War Three between a nuclear-armed...

The world’s fastest man Usain Bolt has confirmed he would be prepared to take on British track star Mo Farah in a 600 metres race for charity. Bolt and Farah, who struck up a special connection during the London 2012 Olympic Games where both won two gold medals in individual races, could raise...

This is hilarious: Sent to clear up some unwanted graffiti, this man couldn't have imagined he would be the inspiration for the next work on the very same wall. But this is the moment an artist decided to turn an image of the man sent to remove his artwork into art. Stencil artist - who...

By Neil Bowdler Science and health reporter, BBC News 24th July 2013 A team of scientists from Imperial College London discusses how we could put a human on Mars Scientists at Imperial College London have designed a concept mission to land astronauts on Mars. The plan envisages a...

Prepared: Sir Benjamin Slade with his rifle and Bolly, his hunting companion You can probably tell from the intrepid get-up and the rifle at his side, but Sir Benjamin Slade is a man on a mission – a mission to protect the public from a big cat that he says is stalking his estate. He’d also...

The phrase 'dying for a cuppa' has never been so true. CCTV has captured boxes of teabags floating down the aisles, in what appears to be a spirit haunting a corner shop. The startling footage from inside the small store seems to show boxes of tea levitating from the shelves before falling...

The site of a lost battlefield where King Charles I is supposed to have slept with his troops under a hedge during the 1644 Battle of Lostwithiel during that bloody campaign in which Parliament fought the King, known as the English Civil War, has been found. The fighting lasted for ten days...

A stone coffin that was unearthed at the same site as the remains of King Richard III - a car park in Leicester - may be opened by archaeologists. The coffin was unearthed during the first excavation work of Richard III's remains in September 2012. The lead-lined coffin was discovered when...

Horse in McDonald's: Rider fined after 'drive-thru' refusal A girl riding a pony also went through the McDonald's 'drive-thru' A woman has been fined for taking her horse into a McDonald's restaurant in Manchester. Police said the woman, who has not been named, was in the saddle when...

Kensington Palace has announce that Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is in the early stages of labour and was admitted to hospital at just before 6am today as she prepares to give birth to the future king or queen. Prince William is with his wife at the private Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital...

A girl who is one of just a handful of people in the world to have survived 90% burns was cheered on by friends and family as she arrived for her school prom in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce. Terri Calvesbert, 16, was just 23 months old when she suffered horrific burns by a fire which broke...

JK Rowling's "secret" crime novel has topped book charts after it was revealed she had written it under a pseudonym. The Harry Potter novelist published the book - The Cuckoo's Calling - as Robert Galbraith. The book had sold less than 500 copies before the secret emerged in the Sunday...

A British woman collapsed just a mile short of swimming the English Channel for charity and later died in hospital, it emerged today. Susan Taylor, 34, had set off from Samphire Hoe near Dover at 1am on Sunday morning and got into serious difficulty at around 6pm as she entered Wissant Bay...

The skyline of one of the UK's major cities has been reshaped as its Protestants prepare to celebrate a battle in which a Protestant king defeated his Catholic predecessor who wanted his throne back.... Dwarfing houses and trees, these enormous bonfire stacks have completely reshaped...

Lincoln Castle skeleton 'could be Saxon king or bishop' A skeleton found in Lincoln Castle could belong to a Saxon king or bishop, according to archaeologists. The skeleton was in a stone sarcophagus believed to date from about AD900. Although the sarcophagus has not yet been opened...

A teenage archaeology student on only his second ever dig unearthed the find of a lifetime when he discovered a 1,800-year-old relic. Undergraduate Alex Kirton, 19, suddenly came across the carved stone head of a possibly Geordie Roman God at the site of an ancient settlement. The stunning...

More proof, if any were needed, that Britain is slowly being turned into an Islamic state: Channel 4 is to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan this year, it revealed yesterday. It is believed to be the first time a mainstream British television channel has broadcast the...