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Trevor Wainwright was off duty the day that a loner brought tragedy to his sleepy Berkshire town. As the local PC, he knew everyone on his beat; but who could have had any inkling that 27-year-old Michael Ryan - an unemployed handyman, who lived with his mother - would commit mass...

A rare 6th Century gold pendant created from a Byzantine coin has been found by a metal detectorist more than 1,500 years after it was made. The coin is imprinted with an image of Emperor Justinian and is thought to have been made in Constantinople, which is now known as Istanbul in...

Big Ben's famous chimes will fall silent from next week until 2021 to allow essential repair works to take place. The bongs will sound for the final time at midday on Monday before being disconnected to allow the clock and surrounding tower to be restored. The Great Bell has sounded on the...

I, for one, am more sure now than I was on June 24, 2016, that the British people did the right thing. My one anxiety as I placed my cross on the paper was that Project Fear might be half right if only for self-fulfilling reasons, and that I might be helping to inflict severe short-term...

India marks 70 years of independence from Britain on Tuesday. What do modern Indians think about the British? Independence: Do Indians care about the British any more? Justin Rowlatt South Asia correspondent 13 August 2017 BBC News Seventy years since India gained its independence from...

On Saturday night an emotional Mo Farah broke down in tears after missing out on a fairytale finale at the World Championships. And this morning he waved farewell to track athletics in Britain in the most dramatic of fashion - atop the London Eye. The four-time Olympic champion failed to mount...

With the Queen now into her 92nd year, and with the hard-working Duke of Edinburgh choosing to retire last month at the age of 96, plans are afoot which, if implemented, would see Charles appointed King in all but name. Palace sources have indicated that the Queen has told her inner circle...

The maritime might of Britain and the US was on show last week as HMS Queen Elizabeth took part in exercises with American warships off the coast of Scotland. Among the US carrier strike group was the USS George H W Bush, which is hosting more than 60 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines as...

There is something almost heroic about the refusal of Britain’s hard Left to infer anything from actual results. The routine is always the same. Revolutionaries seize power somewhere and are hailed in Islington as heroes until their regime leads (as socialist regimes invariably lead) to squalor...

The Irish Government under its latest lippy Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, continues the Irish tradition of being bloody difficult and is used like de Valera by the Germans. Varadkar sees Brexit as an opportunity to be a pain in the situpon. He has said the country will not “design a border for the...

Asian grooming gangs' targeting of white teenage girls should be treated as “racially aggravated crimes”, MPs and campaigners have demanded. The government said that “political and cultural sensitivities” must not stand in the way of rooting out the “sickening crime”... 'THIS IS A RACIST...

The majority of Remain voters now agree that Britain should take control of its borders after Brexit, end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and pay little or nothing to leave the EU. A major survey of more than 20,000 people revealed that an overwhelming majority of voters...

An historian has exonerated the Black Prince for a massacre that took place more than 600 years ago, after discovering it was actually committed by vengeful French soldiers... English prince who was blamed for 637 years for a massacre is finally exonerated by historian who says it was actually...

Human bones discovered in Somerset reveal how cannibal cavemen feasted on each other. Now a beauty spot for tourists, Cheddar Gorge was populated by cannibals 14,700 years ago, who decapitated their dead, filleted the flesh from their bodies and made drinking cups from their skulls. Cannibals...

Britain is one of the few nations putting more money into the European Union’s coffers than it takes out, making an annual net contribution of around £10 billion. EU leaders are only happy for one of the club’s biggest benefactors to leave as long as it saves them from picking up the bill. Yet...

You might be surprised by how many friendly nations have totally different takes on shared moments in their pasts. 10 Historic Events Friendly Countries See In Totally Different Ways Morris M. August 2, 2017 Listverse The saying goes that history is written by the winners, but what happens...