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The brilliant Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn takes a look at this year's Christmas TV schedule on the BBC, which denies it has a Left-wing bias..... RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: So the BBC denies it has a Left-wing bias? Just take a look at this austerity-laden Christmas schedule... By...

Grey seals are to be recorded at night for the first time. Pioneering filming techniques are set to be used to capture a record-breaking seal colony in north Norfolk for the new series of the BBC's Winterwatch. Military-grade thermal imaging will be used for the first time to film thousands...

Britain's Skylon air breathing rocket that could power a plane anywhere in the world in four hours and get to space in 15 minutes has moved a step closer to blasting off as a major project review said it was possible to operate the plane. A feasibility study carried out earlier this year as...

Thursday 18th June 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, during which the British, Dutch and Germans defeated Old Boney's French forces. The French defeat led to Napoleon's abdication as French emperor, his surrender to the British and his eventual death in British custody...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released a series of Christmas portraits of their son Prince George. The future king and third in line to the throne, who is now 17 months' old, was photographed in the courtyard of Kensington Palace wearing a sleeveless woolly tank top with toy soldiers...

It was the moment two armies laid down their weapons in friendship for a single day before returning to the slaughter the following day. Now, the Duke of Cambridge has paid tribute to the famous Christmas Day truce of 1914, describing it as 'a message of hope and humanity'. William, who is...

A choral work given to King Henry VIII has gone in at number two in the UK classical album charts, surprising the musicians - Alamire, an English vocal consort specialising in medieval and Renaissance music - who performed it. The piece was created by a duplicitous scribe and double agent who...

Last night, what was probably one of the best ever episodes of the BBC's Question Time was broadcast. The BBC One topical debate series, hosted by David Dimbleby, features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected...

One of the last survivors of the Battle of Britain - one of the last of Churchill's Few - has died aged 98. Wing Commander Roger Morewood, from Rockcliffe in Dumfries and Galloway, was a keen photographer who, during the war, took incredible aerial photos of his wing-mates and their planes...

Britain's first ever sci-fi film, dating back to 1913, has been restored as part of a special project by BBC Arts and the British Film Institute. Britain's first ever sci-fi film 'A Message from Mars' restored 10 December 2014 BBC News Britain's first ever sci-fi film, dating back to...

The Textus Roffensis, which was compiled by a single scribe at Rochester Cathedral in Kent in the 1120s, is seen by some as containing foundation documents of the English state. Safeguarded by the cathedral since its inception, the charter has been digitised by the University of...

Amid the bloodshed and brutality, companies were quick to cash in on the marketing opportunities provided by World War One. In an age before TV bombarded consumers with commercials, newspapers and magazines such as Punch and the Illustrated London News were the battleground for firms...

The BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, has signed a landmark deal with Paramount to open a huge BBC theme park. The development will transform an 872-acre brownfield site on the Swanscombe peninsula in western Kent, near London, and be twice the size of the Olympic Park in East London. It...

British and German school pupils are re-enacting a football game said to have taken place during the 1914 Christmas ceasefire of World War One between Britain and Germany. Seaham School of Technology in County Durham is hosting a match against pupils from Realschule Alpen in Germany to mark...

Former SNP leader and Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond, has announced he is to stand as an MP in the UK Parliament at the General Election on 7th May. Salmond recently stepped down as SNP leader and Scottish First Minister after he lost the Scottish independence referendum in September...

From a ‘pride of lions’ to a ‘misbelief of painters’, many of the terms we use every day have roots in the distant past – specifically, the medieval period. Here, Chloe Rhodes - author of the new book An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns - investigates the origins of 10...

A previously unseen letter by Jane Austen in which she first writes about Pride And Prejudice has gone on public display for the first time. The double folded sheet, sent by Austen to her sister Cassandra in January 1799, makes reference to the novel - 14 years before it was first...

Britain is to establish its first permanent military base in the Middle East since it formally withdrew from the region in 1971. The base, at the Mina Salman Port in Bahrain, will host ships including destroyers and aircraft carriers. The UK said it was an "expansion of the Royal Navy's...

Oliver Cromwell remains an intensely controversial figure - the subject of ongoing debate. But what was it like to be a woman at that time, and especially to be the Lady Protectress - wife of the Lord Protector himself, asks Samira Ahmed. Elizabeth: Oliver Cromwell's 'queen' 5 December...

The new James Bond film is to be called Spectre. British director Sam Mendes revealed the title at a launch event at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, where principal photography is due to begin on Monday. Daniel Craig will play 007 for the fourth time in the film, to be released in the...