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Metal detecting tourists from the US are paying thousands of pounds to join treasure hunting tours in Britain in the search for ancient artefacts...

The widower of an Auschwitz survivor has accused SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford of ‘ignorance’ by comparing EU withdrawal arrangements to the Holocaust. Ezra Golombok, 96, said...

Liberal German writer Jochen Buchsteiner admires the British for having an argument which Germans shirk, the former Australian prime minister John Howard, or American constitutional experts who wonder why a free country like Britain ever submitted its laws to the ultimate arbitrament of...

With his absurd gesture of turning the bust of Oliver Cromwell to face the wall in the Commons, Labour MP Stephen Pound was presumably trying to make a cheap political point about the ill-treatment of Catholic Irishmen in Cromwell’s campaigns. Yet if it had not been for Cromwell – the...

Archaeologists have unearthed the mosaic-like floors of a number of Roman homes next to a theatre complex. The finds were part of an excavation next to the Mercury Theatre in Colchester, Essex...

In medieval times thousands of people flocked to Britain's cathedrals to celebrate saints. The majestic buildings competed for the largest audience. The rivalry between two of Britain's most beautiful cathedrals became ugly, a historian has found - and even led to arson...

A show on Radio 4 on Saturday confirms a disturbing BBC policy of preaching to us about the way we live — from a highly selective, left-wing text...

Nobody knows what might happen with Brexit next week. So all forecasts for 2019 should be taken with a kilo of salt (if the Remainiac survivalists haven’t stockpiled all of the white stuff already). That said, here are three possible outcomes anyway: a best-case scenario, worst-case scenario...

Today's Lotto entrants long for the multi-million pound jackpot: but how about a set of sparkling gold jugs, a tapestry and freedom from arrest for seven days? (Small print - pirates and traitors excluded)...

Unrepentant Remain-supporting Sadiq Khan defends 'spectacular' New Year fireworks after he was accused of 'politicising' event by transforming London Eye into an EU flag in tribute to Brussels...

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Stone carvings which had been hidden from view for 600 years have been discovered on a tomb at a cathedral. Conservationists found at least a dozen unrecorded carved saint-like figures on the back of...

Thousands of starlings left birdwatchers stunned after appearing to form the shape of a bird during a murmuration. Starlings form bird-shaped murmuration at Attenborough BBC News 30 December 2018...

It is one of the world’s most familiar landmarks and has been a spectacular feature of London's skyline for almost 160 years...

Archaeologists in Scotland have unearthed a large stone ball which is thought to have been launched from a powerful medieval catapult during a siege of Edinburgh Castle...

Why all you've been told about these polar bears could be WRONG: Animals driven to the edge of their natural habitat by shrinking ice have become one of the defining images of climate change, but Inuits who know the predators have a very different story...

Why us? Why is the UK the first – and only – country to decide to leave the EU? Greenland, Algeria (when it was part of the French empire) and the French Caribbean island of St Barthélemy have all been in the EU and are no more, but the UK is the first full member country to hold a...

Built by Abraham Darby in 1779, the Iron Bridge in the small town of Ironbridge, Shropshire, is the world's oldest iron bridge and a major tourist attraction...

What are the main things that won’t happen? Here are five to be starting with... Coffee House...

There is plenty of fault on the EU side, for leaving the UK with a draft treaty so one-sided that it seems inevitable that Parliament will reject it. Even then the EU refused to compromise at all when Theresa May asked for some wiggle room. Many helped push the EU and Juncker in this...