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David Cameron has vowed that Jihadi John and his fellow ISIS terrorists will be brought to justice after video emerged last night showing the Briton beheading his fellow countryman David Haines. Mr Haines, 44, an aid worker from Fife in Scotland who had been living in Croatia with his Croatian...

Dan Snow is a historian who has presented many history documentaries on the BBC and other broadcasters and has a regular history slot on BBC One's The One Show. He is also the youngest son of BBC TV journalist Peter Snow; the first cousin, once removed, of Channel 4 news reporter Jon Snow; the...

Whilst the despicable SNP are trying to wrench Scotland from the greatest political union in the history of the world, a great Unionist has, rather ironically, today passed away. The former Protestant preacher and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP, a party which campaigns for...

Everything you know about the legend of Robin Hood may be wrong, after experts have claimed the outlaw was in fact a Yorkshireman. Refuting centuries-old reports that the villain lived in Sherwood Forest in Nottingham, a curator from a Doncaster museum states evidence suggests otherwise. She...

Michael Palin is to narrate the new series of children's TV show The Clangers. The Monty Python member, 71, who is also famous for his popular TV travel documentaries and who was president of the Royal Georgraphical Society betwen 2009 and 2012, is to give his famous voice to the show which...

A fur pelt found in an ancient burial chamber on Dartmoor in Devon suggests brown bears once roamed the area. The pelt was found in a Bronze Age granite cist - a grave - in a peat bog on White Horse Hill in 2011 and experts have confirmed that it is from a brown bear. The bear pelt was...

Britain has the birth of another royal baby to look forward to. The Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant again, Kensington Palace announced this morning. Kate, 32, whose son, Prince George is just a year old, is expecting her second baby with husband Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, next year...

The BBC was hit with 1,217 complaints because it did NOT show a repeat of the hit gameshow Pointless, a leaked document revealed yesterday. Ironically, complaints were exactly what the Corporation was trying to avoid, when it decided to pull episode 60 of series seven of the show. In the...

A family of five have told of the surprise they received at Stonehenge yesterday. James and Janice Raffles and their three sons, who live just a mile from the world's most famous prehistoric monument, were visiting Stonehenge yesterday in the hope of meeting US President Barack Obama after...

For much of the last 100 years the Battle of the Marne has been seen as a mainly France vs Germany affair in which the so-called ‘Miracle of the Marne’ forced the Kaiser’s Imperial Army to abandon its advance on Paris. But, in fact, it was the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the...

A castle tower built to try and woo Queen Elizabeth I has been reopened for people to visit after lying in ruins for more than 350 years. Private chambers were created in Leicester's Building for her visits to Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. It was built by the Earl of Leicester, Robert...

Brian Cox isn’t a man to mince his words. He famously described the belief that the world is 6,000-years-old as ‘b*****ks’ and those who think the planet would end because of the Mayan calendar as ‘morons.’ But, lately, something far more serious has been weighing on the mind of the Oldham...

An atmospheric shot of a greylag goose under a stormy London sky has won this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards. The picture, entitled 'The Tourist', by Lee Acaster from Wortham, Suffolk, captures the goose in close-up by the River Thames with part of the London skyline, including the...

Historians have spent years debating whether Stonehenge was once a complete circle. Despite numerous tests and excavations, the mystery remained unsolved for almost 5,000 years. But staff at the world's most famous neolithic site believe the question has finally been answered - all because a...

Sir Tony "Baldrick From Blackadder" Robinson has a brand new Channel 4 documentary: The Real Mill. The actor, amateur historian and Labour Party activist explores the true story of the factory workers whose blood, sweat and tears forged the Industrial Revolution, focusing on Quarry Bank Mill...

The growth and growth of Ukip as a major new right wing force in British politics continues. For a long time, Britain's ruling Left Wing Establishment has refused to take the anti-EU, anti-unchecked immigration party seriously. Even when Ukip have given the Left Wing Establishment (which even...

A new documentary about domestic cats, narrated by Men Behaving Badly and Doc Martin star Martin star Martin Clunes, was shown on ITV1 last night. The Secret Life of Cats With the balance of a ballerina, senses so acute they can see what is invisible to humans, and their unique social...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000 year old toilet seat at Vindolanda fort on Hadrian's Wall. The wooden toilet seat is perfectly preserved and is thought to be the only one of its kind. It could have been used by Roman soldiers stationed at the northernmost border of the whole of the...

A document signed by Henry VIII granting a loan which helped found the London Stock Exchange has been put on sale by Bristol antiques dealers Paul Fraser Collectibles for £65,000. Addressed to John Heron, the Treasurer of the Chamber, King Henry informs him to loan £637 and 10 shillings -...

Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love has been voted the greatest guitar riff of all time by listeners of BBC Radio 2. The 1969 rock classic came out top from a list of 100 riffs drawn up by a panel of Radio 2 and 6 Music DJs, critics and record producers. Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns 'N' Roses was...