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A memorial to murdered soldier Lee Rigby is due to be opened in his home town in Greater Manchester later. The 25-year-old fusilier was killed outside his barracks in Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, south east London, on 22 May 2013 by Islamist extremists. The father-of-one was a...

Two statues of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were unveiled at Canterbury Cathedral today - the first royal sculptures to be installed there during her reign. The monarch arrived at Capel-le-Ferne in Kent this afternoon to open a new £3.5million visitor centre that honours the...

The Scots Nats are perpetual trouble-makers who will do anything and everything to aggravate the English. It's about time we turned the tables on them..... A way to save the Union from the cunning Nats The Scots Nats are perpetual trouble-makers who will do anything and...

Nigel Farage and his family have been chased out of a pub in Greater London and had their car attacked by childish, Left-wing thugs demonstrating against the UK Independence Party (Ukip) The Ukip leader labelled the demonstrators, who were dressed as migrants and breastfeeding mothers...

A student at Oxford University has discovered that a coronation medal was personally designed by Isaac Newton and includes a hidden political message. Postgraduate student Joseph Hone found a manuscript which revealed the scientist had designed the medal for Queen Anne's coronation in 1702...

Millions across Britain turned out this morning to watch a spectacular solar eclipse. The eclipse started not long after 8pm this morning when the top right hand portion of the Sun appeared to have a chunk bitten out of it. At about 9.30am the partial eclipse was at its greatest extent and the...

Today marks one week exactly until King Richard III is to be reburied with great pomp and ceremony in Leicester Cathedral. To prepare for the ceremony, which will see the cortege travel through Leicestershire, his remains have been sealed inside a lead-lined coffin - 530 years after he died...

Clarkson and Top Gear producer Oison Tymon have now given evidence to the BBC enquiry, led by Ken MacQuarrie, over their "fracas" in a North Yorkshire hotel. But could this whole Top Gear debacle, which has led to the remaining three episodes of the current series being pulled - with Hammond...

One of the oldest human brains ever to be discovered was probably preserved for more than 2,000 years thanks to mud, archaeologists claim. The intact Iron Age organ was discovered inside a decapitated skull in York seven years ago and since then experts have conducted tests to explain...

Afghanistan veteran Prince Harry is to join five wounded service personnel for part of their 1,000-mile (1,609km) trek around Britain later this year. The Walk of Britain is designed to raise awareness of Walking with the Wounded - the charity, set up in 2010, helping injured...

The ancient mound of Silbury Hill was built as a lighthouse and harbour to help Neolithic traders navigate waterways, an expert has claimed. Archaeologists have long speculated that the enormous manmade structure in Wiltshire, which was built around 2,750BC, was an ornate grave or a...

Has the Duchess of Cambridge hinted that there might be a new princess on the way? The tabloids are in a froth over Kate’s reported visit to a Chelsea baby boutique where the expectant mother was reported to be “drawn to the girls’ clothes”. Of course, this is not the first time the media...

He was the quintessential good old-fashioned local bobby - friendly, fair and never far away in times of need. So when much loved PC Andy Hocking died unexpectedly while off duty last week, locals in his hometown thanked him for his years of service in the only way they knew how - by...

China has kicked off a bid to become a global power in.... not ice hockey or baseball or gridiron.... but, yes, you guessed it, football, the greatest sport on Earth. The world's largest nation has ambitious plans to build tens of thousands of pitches, a "tenacious" national team able to "win...

The Christmassy robin redbreast is poised to become Britain's national bird. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is running an online poll in which members of the public can vote which birds, from a list of 60 candidates, they want as Britain's national bird. The red-breasted...

Nigel Farage has revealed his radical plans for Ukip to support a minority Conservative government after the next election. The UK Independence Party leader says that he is willing to make a deal with the Tories on the condition that they hold an EU in/out referendum before Christmas...

A "beautifully-carved" limestone head, believed to date from the 11th Century, has been discovered "hidden" at the top of a Grade II* church tower. The decorative water spout was found embedded in stonework during £140,000 restoration work at St Margaret's Church, Hopton-on-Sea...

On the same day that, coincidentally, England and Afghanistan played each other in the Cricket World Cup (a match which didn't matter for either side as they are both already out at the group stage) the Royals, politicians and military personnel gathered at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of...

Ukip have, once again, been talking common sense on extreme Islam and the need to prioritise British citizens in the jobs market. In fact, they've been talking so much common sense that the arrogant liberal left-wing establishment are now coming out accusing them of being ‘RAAY-CIST!’...

More proof, if any were needed, that the Church of England has, like the BBC, the Conservative Party and other former great British institutions, has now been taken over by a cabal of woolly-minded liberals. A Church of England vicar is facing a storm of protest from traditionalist Christians...