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Thirsk teacher, 21, becomes youngest solo female to row Atlantic BBC News 20th February 2020 Ms Harrison said the experience had been "amazing" and "everything I wanted it to be" A 21-year-old swimming teacher has become the youngest woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Jasmine...

This is the incredible moment a security camera captures a meteor streaking across the sky in Northumberland. Ruth Rose, 25, got a text alert from her security camera after it detected suspicious movement outside her home in Ashington, on Thursday (18/2) night. When she and her partner Mark...

LAST RESTING PLACE Mass grave of 80 British soldiers found in a Dutch castle used as hospital during war against French revolutionaries Hana Carter 18 Feb 2021 The Sun A MASS grave that held the bodies of more than 80 British soldiers has been discovered in a Dutch castle moat. The...

Cambridge Anglo-Saxon graveyard found under King's College halls 1 February 2021 BBC News Archaelogists uncovered the graves after the 1930s halls were demolished An Anglo-Saxon graveyard with "huge potential" has been unearthed beneath former university student housing. King's College...

A14 upgrade: 'Rare' Roman penis carving found in Cambridgeshire Thursday 18th February 2021 BBC News Phalluses were seen as a sign of virility in the Roman world A "highly significant" and rare carved Roman phallus has been discovered by archaeologists working on finds unearthed during a major...

VICTORY 👏 Boris Backs THE VOICE OF REASON 🎉 Sorry Lefties 🍾 MORE FREE SPEECH!!! This is quite wonderful. What a week for free speech and civil liberties. All we need is lockdown to end and we’re almost there!

Marble Arch ‘mound’ plan to lure visitors back to West End with 25m-high hill set to provide sweeping views The summit of the 25 metre high ‘Marble mound’ being created this summer will provide sweeping views of Hyde Park, Mayfair and Marylebone By Jonathan Prynn Consumer Business Editor...

Decimalisation and the coin you really want to find in your change BBC News 15th February 2021 Fifty years ago today, the UK converted to a decimal currency, and one and two new pence coins became the modern way to pay. Now, there is another debate, over the need to keep notes and coins when...

Meghan and Prince Harry expecting second child BBC News 14th February 2021 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their second child, a spokesperson for the couple has said. Harry and Meghan are preparing to welcome a brother or sister for their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who...

Evidence St Kilda was inhabited 2,000 years ago 09 February 2021 BBC Highlands & Islands Archaeologists excavated a site in Village Bay on Hirta Scotland's remote St Kilda archipelago was inhabited as long as 2,000 years ago, according to archaeologists. Pieces of Iron Age pottery were...

Weather: 'Fantastic' ice formations line Welsh roadsides BBC News 12th February 2021 Eight-year-old Violet said she thought the ice formations were the "door to Narnia" Beautiful formations of ice by a roadside have been captured on camera in north east Wales. Alison Best was driving home...

Stonehenge: Did the stone circle originally stand in Wales? BBC News 12th February 2021 Stonehenge was built over many hundreds of years, with work beginning in the late Neolithic Age, around 3000 BC One of Britain's biggest and oldest stone circles has been found in Wales - and could be the...

The Guardian’s hottest takes Ties are racist, temperature is sexist, and poos are feminist… Guardian writers are in a world of their own. 10th February 2021 Spiked The Guardian has declared ‘the phallic necktie’ to be ‘an outdated symbol of white male rule’. This sensational headline...

Princess Eugenie gives birth to baby boy BBC News 9th February 2021 Princess Eugenie, the Queen's grand-daughter, has given birth to a baby boy, Buckingham Palace has announced. The royal baby, who is the Queen's ninth great-grandchild and 11th in line to the throne, was born at 08:55 GMT on...

Rugby union's Six Nations Championship gets under way tomorrow. This year's tournament kicks off at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome with Italy taking on France. Then champions England take on Scotland in the Calcutta Cup match at Twickenham in London, where Scotland haven't won since 1983. Then...

'Mammoth' fossil found on Isle of Wight beach 4th February 2021 BBC News Brothers Luke (left) and Joe (right) Ferguson have been fossil hunting since childhood Two amateur fossil hunters have discovered a huge prehistoric fossilised bone, believed to be from an elephant, on an Isle of Wight...

Has the mystery of 'the Princes in the Tower' finally been solved? King Richard III DID have a hand in the notorious disappearance of King Edward V and the Duke of York in 1483, study claims By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline 02 Feb 2021 King Richard III likely did have King Edward V and Richard...

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: A failed state? How about Scotland under Wee Burney? By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail 25 Jan 2021 Boris Johnson is reportedly flying to Scotland this week ‘to save the Union’. Why? It’s not as if he hasn’t anything better to do, apart from the small matters of...