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A 19th Century inventor who lost a fortune in legal disputes with Westminster ended up taking the hot air out of government by ventilating the Houses of Parliament. Goldsworthy Gurney: Inventor took hot air out of Parliament BBC News 22 January 2015...

Pupils at a Christian school (and it is mainly Christian schools or schools with mainly white pupils which are picked on, of course) have been branded bigots... after a young boy gave the wrong answer when asked what a Muslim was. Durham Free has been told to close after Ofsted inspectors -...

Wolf Hall, the BBC's lavish new historical drama based on Hilary Mantel's award-winning novel, is starting tonight at 9pm on BBC Two. The new drama, which stars Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn, has exposed several Tudor myths. And here are a few more. Did you know...

The 22nd series of Top Gear starts on BBC One on Sunday and it will see the lads cruising around Australia, Canada and Russia. In October, Clarkson, Hammond and May headed to Australia's Northern Territory to film some of the new series. And now, in a Q&A session with fans called An Evening...

Coronation Street fans and stars are in mourning today after the death, at age 60, of 'national icon' Anne Kirkbride, who played the long-suffering Deirdre Barlow (nee Hunt) in the world's longest-running TV soap since 1972. Her death yesterday has led to an outpouring of grief from thousands...

David Cameron today warned Muslim leaders they had 'a problem' if they objected to being asked to do more to tackle Islamist extremism. The Prime Minister said letters sent to mosques were 'reasonable, sensible and moderate' and ministers were 'absolutely right' to insist everybody had a...

In June, the world will celebrate 800 years since the issuing of Magna Carta. But 2015 is also the anniversary of another important, and far more radical, British milestone in democratic history. Almost exactly 750 years ago, an extraordinary parliament opened in Westminster. For the very...

'He pointed his finger at me. The gas chamber. I threw myself down and kissed his boots': Survivors remember the horrors of Auschwitz 70 years after its liberation Survivors who escaped the gas chambers...

Tomorrow night will be exactly 100 years that Germany's zeppelin raids on Britain began. On 19 January 1915, Britain became one of the very first countries in history to be bombed in an air raid (the first bombing of a city from the air was on the night of 24–25 August 1914, when eight bombs...

A set of "internationally significant" Roman Baths which lay hidden for almost 2,000 years could be opened to the public in a restoration project announced by Exeter Cathedral. The site was discovered in 1971 but due to a lack of funds was reburied under the cathedral green to protect it. A...

Passengers using the Channel Tunnel are still experiencing delays after it reopened following a lorry fire. Services between London, Paris, Lille, Brussels and Disneyland Resort Paris resumed on Sunday morning but passengers have reported being held at the tunnels in both UK and France...

In just the last six years, 61 bodies have been pulled from the waterways of Manchester, one of great cities of northern England. Most people just put these down to tragic accidents - people coming back drunk late at night from a pub or nightclub - and maybe even the odd suicide. But if the...

Britain’s last living person born under the reign of Queen Victoria has died aged 114. Ethel Lang, who was born in 1900, lived to see six monarchs and 22 prime ministers. When she was born, the Tory Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was in power. Her main hobby was dancing, which she...

In this very contemporary and chilling real-time thriller from Channel 4, first broadcast last night, Maisie Williams - from Game of Thrones - stars as a teenager battling with an anonymous, evil cyber-stalker. The plot of Cyberbully is inspired by dozens of real-life cases. Watch it here...

The missing Mars robot Beagle 2 has been found on the surface of the Red Planet, apparently intact. High-resolution images taken from orbit have identified its landing location, and it looks to be in one piece. The UK-led probe tried to make a soft touchdown on the dusty world on Christmas...

"Je suis Charlie", we were all saying. "We must stand up for free speech! We should have the freedom to offend! We musn't let the Islamists destroy free speech!" But then, of course, free speech went out of the window when a French journalist wanted to show the cover of the new edition of...

Trust the British to inject humour into an election campaign, whilst other countries' elections seem like boring, staid matters. Stand up comedian Al Murray's hilarious alter ego The Pub Landlord, who is renowned for his patriotic and xenophobic views, who hates anything non-British and has...

It would have been crushed by the anti-free speech Left. Here's how: What if Charlie Hebdo had been published in Britain? It would have been crushed. Here’s how. 10 January 2015 Spiked...

Nearly 33 years after she liberated them from Argentina, and nearly two years after her death, the Falkland Islands have finally unveiled a statue to Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher is a hero to the Falkland Islanders and yesterday, on what was Margaret Thatcher Day in the islands, her 61-year-old...

British politicians. You know the ones. The gormless numpties who, since the Paris attacks, have come out saying how much they "cherish" free speech and how much it must be "protected". The ones who crowded into Westminster Hall holding up pens and pencils to show "support" for free speech and...