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Nigel Farage has posted a picture of himself having dinner with Donald Trump and his family in Washington after being "squeezed in" at the last moment. The former Ukip leader dined at Trump International Hotel with the US president and a number of his close advisors. It comes as Mr...

A tankard awarded to a smuggler and pub landlord for his "brave and noble actions" following a shipwreck has been sold at auction for £8,100... Tankard awarded to Cornish shipwreck hero fetches £8k 25 February 2017...

A new six-part Channel 4 documentary started this week about the history of Britain's current royal dynasty - the Windsors - 100 years after the dynasty was started. Episode 1 of the series revealed how the dynasty got its name... How the House of Windsor was born: Documentary reveals the man...

Claudio Ranieri says his "dream died" when he was sacked as Leicester City manager nine months after winning the Premier League. Ranieri, 65, guided the Foxes to the title despite them being rated 5,000-1 shots at the start of the campaign. However, this season the champions are fourth from...

The riots on Monday night in Rinkeby, a migrant ghetto known locally as ‘Little Mogadishu’, are a major embarrassment for the Swedish government. They came just two days after Donald Trump, the U.S. President, was widely ridiculed for comments he made at a rally in Florida last...

With the entire political establishment massed against them and the bookmakers giving them no hope, the Leave campaign faced what many thought was an impossible battle to take Britain out of the European Union. But election data published yesterday has provided a window into how Vote...

Tudors are famous for their beautiful and ornate clothing - and it seems their footwear was ahead of the times, too. Archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest hauls of Tudor shoes during digging work on Crossrail. The shoes are similar to today's modern espadrilles, and were found...

Two male Black Death victims who have been holding hands beneath the streets of London for more than 600 years were unearthed by Crossrail diggers. The pair were found facing each other with their hands entwined in a double grave in a 15th century burial ground for victims of the plague...

Hand over a €60 billion ransom or we won’t even start to discuss a trade deal: that, if Jean-Claude Juncker is to be believed, will be the European Union’s opening gambit ahead of Brexit. Bring it on, I say: the best way to expose a very weak adversary who is pretending to be very...

FAKE NEWS! 300,000 protesters gathered in Parliament Square in London against Donald Trump? Parliament’s ‘governing body’ deciding whether President Trump should have a state visit later this year to the UK? That was what the media has been telling us - but the truth is very different...

Two London sides - little Sutton United of the National League and mighty Arsenal of the Premier League - met in the Last 16 of the FA Cup on Monday night. Whilst the unsurprising result of the match didn't make big headlines - a 2-0 victory for Arsenal - the antics of Sutton United's roly-poly...

10 horrors of the 1665-66 Great Plague of London... 10 Horrors Of The Great Plague Of London Elizabeth Yetter February 15, 2017 Listverse Called the last great plague of London, the Great Plague began in the spring of 1665 and ended roughly a year later. Officially, over 68,000 people...

Expecting the House of Lords to be happy about Brexit is like expecting turkeys to be all excited about Christmas. The British people may have voted to leave the EU in greater numbers than we ever voted for anything, but the House of Lords is almost comically unrepresentative of our nation...

British food manufacturers could be able to sell goods in pounds and ounces once laws are repatriated from Brussels after Brexit, Andrea Leadsom, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary, has said. Mrs Leadsom also suggested that, after the UK leaves the European Union in 2019, food...

Up to 1,800 "vulnerable" day-old chicks have been abandoned in a field in Lincolnshire, sparking an RSPCA investigation. Officers of the animal welfare charity were called after the chicks were left in a field near Crowland on Friday. Insp Justin Stubbs of the RSPCA said: "I have never seen...

Lincoln City became the first Non-League side in 103 years to reach the FA Cup quarter finals with a dramatic last-minute win over Premier League side Burnley at Turf Moor. A breathless final few minutes saw the momentum swing both ways before Sean Raggett rose above the Burnley defence...

Cameron Balbirnie discovers who the Vikings really were... The Vikings at home Cameron Balbirnie looks beyond the common image of the savage, pagan plunderers from Scandinavia to discover who the Viking invaders really were... This article appeared in BBC History Magazine's 'The Story of...

The face of a Pictish man who was "brutally killed" 1,400 years ago has been reconstructed by Dundee University researchers. Archaeologists found the man's skeleton buried in a recess of a cave in the Black Isle, Ross-shire. Forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black and her team at the Centre...

The brass neck of Tony Blair. The Brexit vote was 'based on imperfect knowledge', says the man who unleashed barbarism across the Middle East on the basis of a student dissertation he printed off the internet. Who marched thousands into unimaginable horror on the basis of myth and spin. That...