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The discovery of the earliest complete Bronze Age wooden wheel ever found in Britain has confounded experts and challenged previous understanding of the available technology and the way families lived 3,000 years ago. The unprecedented find was made at a site dubbed the “Peterborough...

World War I soldiers spent less than half their time on the front line, according to researchers. A study led by Goldsmiths, University of London, found British army infantry troops spent less than 47% of their time on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. While there, they spent one...

It's exactly 500 years today since the birth of Queen Mary I, a monarch best known for the executions of Protestants that led to her posthumous sobriquet "Bloody Mary". To mark the anniversary, we've tracked down the capital's most notorious public execution sites. London's 11 most...

By leaving the EU, Britain would become once again a self-governing democracy, with a genuinely global rather than a little European perspective, argues former Chancellor Nigel Lawson... Britain outside the EU would stand tall as a free and prosperous nation The Prime...

Fifteen years ago, the UK was devastated by a mass outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Throughout 2001, there were 2,000 cases of foot-and-mouth throughout the country. Each of those cases meant a farm having all of its livestock killed and burned. By the time the last case was confirmed at...

Nearly 20 feet (6 meters) below the streets of London, archaeologists discovered a fragile Roman painting featuring deer and birds that may have once decorated the wall of a wealthy citizen's home. Excavators from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) were carefully digging for Roman...

A person with a metal detector has discovered a 1,800-year-old copper brooch, engraved with the letters "RMA," on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. It contains wordplay that is, quite literally, "lovely," scientists have found. The letters on the brooch, which dates to a time when the...

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has claimed Jeremy Corbyn is a bigger threat to the Falklands than Argentina. Mr Fallon, who is visiting the islands, was referring to the Far-Left Labour leader's recent suggestion the UK and Argentina should discuss their future. Labour said his...

From an umbrella to keep ladybirds dry in the rain to hooks to retrieve Pringles from the bottom of the tube, check out these kids' inventions that have been made real.... Kids' wacky inventions made real CBBC The Official Home of CBBC - CBBC - BBC Newsround 26 February 2016 Imagine coming...

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Apparently, Call Me Dave has invited Obummer to Britain to try and persuade the British people to vote to remain in the EU in the upcoming referendum. So, that'll be a lot more British people deciding to vote to LEAVE the EU, then.... DOMINIC LAWSON: An ear-bashing by Obama on Europe will just...

They're even telling us now that a Brexit would lead to more global warming. Talk about scaremongering.

A visitors' book from a tea room in Peterborough has helped reveal the extraordinary story of probably the first soldier of World War One to be accidentally killed by one of his own men... The first 'friendly fire' victim of World War One By Andrew Bomford, BBC...

A centuries-old tradition of recording copies of Parliament's laws on calf skin will continue, a minister has said, after peers signalled its end. Matt Hancock said the technique was "cost-effective" and the Cabinet Office would look at how to pick up the bill. The Lords had said switching...

No, they haven't. Sea levels aren't rising. End of.

As romance beckons for lovers on Valentine's Day, there is the rare chance to see part of the saint "himself". A relic - purported to be a fragment of bone from St Valentine's finger - is on display at a church in Coventry. But what is it doing there? St Valentine's finger beckons lovers...

Five British nationals have died in a car crash in Sweden, the Foreign Office has said. It is understood the members of the indie band Viola Beach were killed in the accident, which happened on Saturday in the Swedish capital Stockholm. The car plunged more than 82ft from a highway bridge...

A load of rubbish those things. It's almost impossible to any decent, proper drawings on them. Although one or two people are pretty good. Goodness knows how a Mr Vlosich managed to do this:

Two recently-discovered hoards of Roman and Iron Age treasure have been put on display for the first time in a Liverpool exhibition. The artefacts, found in Cheshire, include rings, brooches and dozens of coins issued some 2,000 years ago. Known as the Knutsford and Malpas Hoards, the...

Sea levels aren't rising at all. It's a myth.