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A mountain in Scotland is six inches shorter than previously thought, meaning it is no longer classified as a Munro Top. In Scotland, Munros and Munro Tops are mountains which are over 3,000ft. Knight's Peak on the Isle of Skye had been listed as 3,0002ft. However, surveyors using GPS...

Europe's Goce satellite has been seen burning up through the atmosphere by some Falkland Islanders. The European Space Agency's (Esa) Goce satellite - which has been dubbed "the Ferrari of space" due to its sleek looks - was the first European satellite to make an uncontrolled re-entry into...

Plans for a new six-runway airport that could be built within seven years have been released. The proposed airport would sit on an artificial island off the Isle of Sheppy in Kent in the Thames Estuary. But the £47.3 billion airport - dubbed "Boris Island" after London Mayor Boris Johnson...

You'll have to try hard to find a more beautiful, more feel-good story than this one. When Harold Jellicoe Percival died last month aged 99, he had no family or close friends to attend his funeral except a handful of care home staff. It seemed as if there would be nobody to mourn the WWII...

The wreck of a mysterious boat has been seen for the first time after fierce winds shifted the sand it was buried in. The wreck is situated just off a beach in the shadow of the mighty Bamburgh Castle in the far north of England and it first appeared in June. Since then a team of...

A group of riders dressed in red have created the world's largest poppy for Remembrance Sunday. About 15,000 bikers travelled along the M25, which is Europe's busiest road and which circles London. The road is 117 miles in circumference. The event raised £2,300 for the Royal British Legion...

Jellied eel has been a great delicacy in London for centuries, and there are shops dotted around London selling the great Cockney dish of jellied eel pie and mashed potato. But, for the first time, sales of jellied eels are now soaring elsewhere in the UK. Tesco has seen its jellied eel...

What is not commonly known is that Charles Darwin wasn't the only person to come up with the Theory of Evolution. His fellow British scientist Alfred Russel Wallace came up with the theory at the same time as Darwin, and both co-published their theory in 1858. Now, to mark 100 years since...

Have you ever wanted to travel back in time and wonder the streets of a town or city in a previous century? Now you can, thanks to a new video game. The 3D game has been developed by De Montfort University in Leicester and allows gamers to wander the tightly packed streets of London just...

Prince Charles and Camilla have started a nine day tour of India. The future king and his wife have visited the holy city of Rishikesh on the banks of the sacred Ganges where they joined Hindu worshippers conducting the Aarti ceremony. It is performed every sunset by devotees who wave...

One of the things about the Puritan New Left which runs the Western world today is that they hate anyone having any sort of innocent fun. Anyone seen to be having even the smallest amount of fun will soon find a ton of Left Wing bricks coming down on them. One of the latest victims is the...

Other Europeans may dismiss the British as a race addicted to reality TV and celebrity gossip shows, but a new survey proves otherwise. In actual fact, the British are the most cultured of all Europeans, beating the rest of Europe on nine key cultural measures. The French may believe they...

Another brilliant article from my favourite newspaper columnist Richard Littlejohn, who today has been writing about the fact that stalls selling poppies have been set up at British mosques, in conjunction with the Royal British Legion, and that Julie Siddiqi, the executive director of the...

In the 19th Century, London was the greatest city on Earth, a vast, bustling metropolis, the richest and biggest city on the planet, and the centre of an empire so vast that it was impossible for the sun to ever set on the whole of it. In 1877 and 1878, the Scottish photographer John Thomson...

More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the German city of Dortmund after a 4,000 pound World War II bomb was discovered. The 1943 battle saw the British Empire (Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa) attack the Ruhr Area of Germany, which had coke...

When the Metropolitan Police received a silent 999 call, they traced it and were despatched to the address that the call came from, a London flat. After receiving no response from their knocking and ringing of the bell, they knocked down the door and came face to face with the caller - a cute...

A man has been kicked out of a supermarket for wearing a Nazi outfit. Hitler fanatic Paul Dutton went into the Asda store in Cambridge wearing a black SS uniform and cap, with a red armband bearing the swastika, and swastika tattoos on his neck, chest and hand. While a few shoppers in the...

Archaeologists in London have unearthed a Roman eagle statue that is almost 2,000 years' old. The statue is over two feet high with carvings on it that are so crisp the archaeologists originally thought it was a much later copy. But experts at the Museum of London Archaeology confirmed that...

English legal history has been today after TV cameras filmed proceedings in an English court. Filming has been banned in courts in England and Wales - except the Supreme Court, set up in 2009 - since 1925. But now there has been a partial lifting of the ban. And this morning, history was...

Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest TV documentary series of all time - The World At War. The epic 26-episode British documentary series chronicalling the events of WWII was originally shown on ITV in Britain from 31st October 1973 to 8th May 1974, just 29 years after...