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Veteran British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete the gruelling desert endurance event the Marathon des Sables. The 71-year-old crossed the finish line in Morocco at 19:37 BST after running 159 miles over six days in temperatures in excess of 122F...

I'm not normally interest in women's sport apart from its comedy value, and I don't think women should be playing men's sports. But I think this is worth a mention. The England Women's U19s football team has qualified for the European Championships in Israel this summer in what must surely be...

Australian cricketing great and commentary legend Richie Benaud - known to fans as "The Voice of Cricket" - has passed away at the age of 84, just under a fortnight since his beloved Australia won the Cricket World Cup. He had been receiving radiation treatment for skin cancer since November...

A children's story written by Queen Victoria when she was just 10 years old is to be published for the first time. The short story was penned by the future monarch in 1829-30 and tells the story of a 12-year-old girl, Alice Laselles, who was sent away to boarding school after her mother...

He is one of England’s most popular kings, famed for leading England to victory over France at the Battle of Agincourt. Shakespeare also wrote a play about him. Yet surprisingly little is known about Henry V. Now, in the 600th anniversary year of the famous battle, Teresa Cole explores...

Football fans know all about the collectable Panini football stickers. And now a couple who completed a World Cup sticker album with their own DRAWINGS of players have turned their hands to politics - sketching party leaders ahead of May's election. Dubbed the "Panini Cheapskates", Alex...

Two fishermen who went to sea in a homemade boat they built for £9 had to be rescued when their oars broke. The pair, in their 20s, became stranded in the 8ft vessel about 650ft off the Essex coast at 14:30 BST on Monday. Clacton RNLI said the boat, made from insulation boards, had been "held...

Big beat/dance/rave/electro masters The Prodigy have stormed to the top of the Official UK album chart with their new studio album, The Day Is My Enemy. The album, described as "a full-throated return to form" by The Guardian, outsold the competition - including Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran. The...

The UK's biggest purpose-built air raid shelter gives a glimpse at wartime life on the Home Front in Britain. Tunnels dug into sandstone cliffs, running alongside the River Mersey in Stockport, could hold up to 6,500 people and were state of the art - with electric lighting and flush...

Scottish midfielder Charlie Adam surely scored what will be remembered as one of the Premier League's greatest ever goals yesterday, a sublime shot which rocketed in from 66 yards out, showing once again why football is dubbed the Beautiful Game. In the match between league leaders Chelsea and...

The history of Hampton Court Palace will be retold in one evening as part of celebrations to mark its five hundredth anniversary. Live period music and a banquet prepared in the Tudor kitchens are just some of the events being held later to mark the event. Actors will also be performing...

The Queen has handed out Maundy money to 178 pensioners at a Maundy Thursday service in Sheffield Cathedral. It is the first time South Yorkshire has played host to the service, which recognises the work of elderly people to their community and church. This year, 89 women and 89 men - one...

The bed in which Henry VII and Elizabeth of York may have conceived Henry VIII, and which was dumped in a hotel car park a few years ago, could be worth £20 million. Henry VII's four-poster bed dumped in a hotel car park and sold for £2,200 - but now it's confirmed as the real thing and could...

More than 2,000 workers were forced to flee their offices when a fierce fire broke out beneath a street in central London. Fire crews were called after thick black smoke was seen billowing up from a manhole cover on Kingsway, in Holborn, shortly after midday today. The blaze is thought...

You have to excuse the ludicrous and unintelligible PC speak that no real person uses (it is the Gruaniad after all and no real person reads it) But it seems that Jeremy Clarkson has become a changed man since being sacked from Top Gear by the PC Brigade. Following what he described as a...

Ghostly faces and snatches of text have been found hiding in one of Wales' oldest and most important books. The 750-year-old Black Book of Carmarthen is the first Welsh text to include medieval figures such as King Arthur and Merlin. But for hundreds of years never-before-seen poetry and...

One of the largest medieval hospital burial grounds in England has been uncovered under Cambridge University, archaeologists have said. More than 400 complete skeletons were found together with parts from about 1,000 bodies during work on St John's College in 2010 to 2012. The remains...

Not only were the Anglo-Saxons good at turning their England into the wealthiest and most advanced country in Europe, but they were also a dab hand at medical matters it seems. A 1,000-year-old treatment for eye infections could hold the key to killing antibiotic-resistant superbugs, experts...

A 'medieval' musician who appealed for goose bones to make a unique flute has said he has had a great response. Al Garrod wanted to recreate the Norman flute in time to play at the 1 April reopening of Lincoln Castle, where its original fragments were found. A £22m revamp of the castle...

Archaeologists are to start digging for another of Britain’s ‘lost’ kings - this time under a school playing field. The team searching for medieval monarch King Stephen, who died in 1154, hope to follow in the footsteps of those who found Richard III in Leicester in 2012. The fresh...