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On Thursday, the Queen handed out Maundy Money to 186 pensioners - 93 men and 93 women, 93 being the age she becomes tomorrow - in a centuries-old Easter tradition...

Around 20,000 worshippers gathered in Trafalgar Square yesterday for the annual Passion of Jesus celebration, which depicts the Easter story...

The National Wallace Monument has reopened following a refurbishment of its exhibition galleries to celebrate the landmark's 150th anniversary. Work to transform all three floors of the...

Before you empty your car boot in preparation - yes, the offer of free booze at a Torfaen supermarket really is too good to be true. A sign in Cwmbran's Asda for the alcohol-free section...

Every year during Easter Week Rod Liddle draws up a chart of his least favourite countries and distributes the list to close friends and relatives... My least favourite countries in the world...

Ancient Britons travelled to huge feasts near Stonehenge from all over the country more than 4,000 years ago, experts have found. It made the prehistoric stone circle the...

These are tumultuous times. Across Europe and the West, the old political allegiances are disintegrating and populism is on the rise. Comparisons have been made to the 1930s, an era of economic depression and political instability so extreme it became known as the Devil’s Decade – years...

The head of a Neolithic dog has been recreated using a skull discovered in a cairn tomb in Orkney. A forensic artist used 3D images of the 4,000-year-old animal to build the model - complete...

A bricked-up window containing 15th Century glass and a Georgian baker's oven have been found during restoration work on a city's "hidden gem". Tunwell's Court has two shopfronts...

A prehistoric monument that boasts the world’s largest stone circle and now stands among the World Heritage Sites may have been designed to commemorate a single, humble house when it was built more than 5,000 years ago...

Glasgow's wild parakeet flock is colourful and popular with the locals but their days may be numbered. About...

New research has shown where William Shakespeare lived in London when he was writing Romeo and Juliet. It was...

We rejoin Sir Toby Amadeira, the MP for the West Country seat of Crumblybottom, after a rather bruising encounter with his local party officers. He decides to visit the famous Crumblybottom market... The messages MPs will be getting from their local Market Square...

Nigel Farage has vowed to bring together prominent business people and academics to stand in the 2019 European Parliament elections as members of his new pro-Brexit party. The former Ukip leader confirmed his Brexit Party will be contesting all 73 seats. His bombshell announcement comes amid...

Cambridge have won the 165th University Boat Race on the Thames in London, winning in a time of 16 minutes and 57 seconds, not far short of the course record of 16 minutes and 19 seconds set by Cambridge in 1998...

Tiger Roll won a thrilling Grand National to become the first horse since Red Rum 45 years ago to win the Aintree race back-to-back...

I’ve never felt European. We are a more globally minded people, more likely to emigrate to other English-speaking countries than to France or Spain, and our history would seem to have set us on a different course to those nations that haven’t got over defeat or devastation during the...

Seventy years ago this month, a prime minister led a divided nation towards the exit from what was then one of the world’s most important organisations. On that occasion, Ireland was the country wanting to leave and there was no backstop to hold things up. Despite the pleas of the other...

An amateur metal detectorist scouring the grounds of a field in Kent has discovered a perfectly preserved gold coin dating back almost 2,000 years. It is emblazoned with...

The first British passports without the words European Union on the front cover have been issued to the public, despite the delays over Brexit...