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Why English patience, which has remained remarkably steadfast so far, could end up running out if Nicola Sturgeon's Far-Left SNP get their way. Could GK Chesterton's Secret People finally speak out? Despite the SNP's success in Scotland - they look set to win almost every single one, if not...

The English Civil War was one of the bloodiest chapters in Britain's history and wiped out one in 20 of the population. Now, over 360 years after the conflict, its story is being told in a dedicated museum. The conflict from 1642 to 1651 split families as they took up sides with the...

A man has accomplished a 100-mile (160km) morris dance from London to Norwich recreating a journey undertaken by William Shakespeare's clown in 1600. Rick Jones, from Catford, south east London, set off from London Bridge on 23 April (St George's Day and the day Shakespeare is...

Organisers of a "knob throwing" competition in Dorset hope the current champion tossing record will be broken later. The Dorset Knob Throwing and Food Festival event in Cattistock involves participants chucking the locally made, spherical biscuit as far as they can. The record is held by...

The Duke of Wellington may have been a military genius but his love life was far from straight forward, it has been revealed. Behind the back of the wife, who he found unattractive, the Battle of Waterloo hero had a secret harem of lovers. Among the British military commander's adoring...

A woman exploring a derelict hospital was left stunned after a photo she took in the spooky building appeared to show the ghostly figure of a doctor. Jamie-Leigh Brown, 21, was walking the abandoned corridors of St Thomas's Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester - which closed down...

Ed Miliband stumbled as he left the stage last night following a grilling over Labour's record on the economy, immigration and welfare. The Labour leader was taking part in one of three separate Question Time sessions on BBC One in Leeds, along with Prime Minister David Cameron and...

Stonehenge has stood in the English countryside for 5,000 years, but over the millennia its fortunes have repeatedly risen and fallen. After starting life as a religious site, the stones became a crumbling and neglected relic - before becoming one of the world's top tourist attractions...

An obsessive Arsenal fan made his girlfriend sit a test quizzing her about his favourite football club. Marking her answers with red pen, she scored an impressive 43.5 out of 50, to which he commented, 'Well done Saskia! As a result, I will not be dumping you! (Lucky you)'. Saskia posted...

Archaeologists have uncovered a ritual burial of 2,000-year-old human skulls - sparking the theory they could be the remains of Boudicca's rebels - as the London Crossrail excavations continue. The latest discovery of cremated human bones packed neatly into a cooking pot and set off at...

No, not Ming Campbell, who's so old he served as an MP in the Rump Parliament. A 4,000-year-old tree thought to be Britain's oldest living thing (although the Scots will say that the Fortingall Yew, which many believe to be 5,000 years old - although that is disputed - is the oldest living...

It may look like a misshapen disk of metal, but this coin is one of the oldest ever to be found in Britain. The tiny copper coin, which is smaller than a penny, dates from the Iron Age almost 2,300 years ago and suggests there were links between the south west of England and the...

A remote Iron Age fort built by the Picts as a look out post on top of a 20-foot-high sea stack has been uncovered on the coast of Scotland. Archaeologists believe the stronghold, which would have been cut off from the land at high tide, may have been one of a number that lined the east...

Britpoppers Blur release their eighth studio album, "The Magic Whip", tomorrow. It is their first for 12 years. The lads have embarked on somewhat different careers in recent years. One of them is now a criminal lawyer and a Labour Party activist; one is a cheesemonger; one is an opera...

The metropolitain Left-wing elite tried for years to get rid of Clarkson from Top Gear due to the fact that they disagreed with his more Right-wing politics and his non-PC jokes (jokes which, quite frankly, attracted 300 million people around the world to the show every week). So they were...

An "anti-racism" event at Goldsmiths, University of London, has banned white people and men from attending. ‘If you’re a man and/or white PLEASE DON’T COME', a Paki name Bahar Mustafa pleaded (of course, being a white male is not very fashionable and PC these days. The people who successfully...

It's the hallowed turf where the modern day game of rugby was born when one of its pupils picked up a football during a game and ran with it in the early 19th century. Rugby School is known as the spiritual home of the game, with the World Cup trophy named the Webb Ellis Cup in honour...

A minute's silence will be held before all Premier and Football League matches in England later to mark the 30th anniversary of the Bradford City fire. Fifty-six fans died and 265 were injured in the blaze at Valley Parade on 11 May 1985 during a match against Lincoln City. The match had...

Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey are marking the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign. The battle was fought between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire between 25th April 1915 and 9th January 1916. The Queen took part in a two-minute silence before laying a wreath at the...

Freshly-picked asparagus will be driven on a 60-mile journey from Worcestershire to Leicestershire to mark the 750th anniversary of the death of one of the founders of parliamentary democracy, which takes place in August. De Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, helped set up the first English...