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Alton Towers was under fire last night after four thrillseekers were seriously hurt on a rollercoaster with a history of problems. The victims – three of them teenagers – were crushed after their carriage ploughed into an empty cart on the £18million Smiler ride, which has more loops than...

Welcome to Britain in 2020, a confident, successful, free and wealthy nation that is thriving now it is out of the EU.... A vision of Britain outside the EU - confident, successful and free Released from our Eurochains, pessimism withers and the economy grows as we become...

Charles Kennedy, the leader of the Liberal Democrats between 1999 and 2006, has died at his home in Scotland aged 55. His family said they were devastated to lose a "fine man and loving father". David Cameron said politics had lost a man of "immense ability", while Nick Clegg said his...

A special set of commemorative stamps has been issued to mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta in just under a fortnight's time. The six stamps feature text from Magna Carta and other charters, bills and declarations that have developed the rule of law around the world. Magna Carta...

Recently uncovered historical documents have revealed that the nefarious US offered the bounder and cad Old Boney refuge after he was defeated by Britain at Waterloo - and that they thought he would win the historic battle. Letters from the American representative in Paris at the time, Henry...

Police Scotland have announced they are to review the disgraceful scenes at the end of Rangers’ Play-Off Final second leg defeat to Motherwell at Fir Park, resulting in red cards for Ibrox defender Bilel Mohsni and Motherwell players Lee Erwin and Fraser Kerr. TV pictures showed Mohsni...

The BBC (who else?) advertising for disabled weather forecasters, no experience necessary; the Americans going after FIFA; the EU; a funeral for a duck; Ed Miliband; and some dopey female contestant on popular BBC quiz show Pointless. All of these warrant a mention in the latest instalment of...

Archaeologists uncovered what they believed to be the only inscribed tomb and matching remains ever found from Roman Britain earlier this year. But now it appears the stone has no direct link with the skeleton buried beneath it. The honey-coloured headstone bears inscriptions saying it...

Britain's EU in/out referendum could end up becoming a "neverendum", a politician has warned. David Cameron is currently touring Europe and meeting European leaders to try and win support for his EU reforms, which he would like to see implemented before the British people decide, before the end...

As far as team photos go, Zenit St Petersburg's will take some beating. The Russian club, managed by former Chelsea and Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas, won their domestic league with two games to spare last weekend. And just how did Villas-Boas and his...

Arsenal have thrashed Aston Villa to win the FA Cup, the world's oldest football tournament, for the second successive year and for a record 12th time. It is the eighth time that a team has retained the famous old trophy. The London giants found it too easy against their Birmingham rivals, who...

In 1923, the then brand new Wembley Stadium hosted its very first FA Cup Final. Over 100,000 fans - some say it could even as been as high as a mind-boggling 300,000 - crammed into the 82,000-capacity stadium to watch my hometown team Bolton Wanderers play West Ham United. Mounted policemen...

736 teams started this season's FA Cup, and now there are only two left. Saturday's FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Aston Villa at Wembley will be watched by half a billion viewers in more than 120 countries. Close to 90,000 fans will be at Wembley for the 134th final of the world's...

Spanish side Sevilla have won the 2014/15 Europa League tournament after beating Ukrainian side Dnipro in last night's final in Warsaw. It was Dnipro's first appearance in a major European final and they achieved the feat despite playing all their "home" games away from their home stadium due...

Lennart Johansson, former president of European football's governing body UEFA, says the decision to award the World Cup to Russia and Qatar must now be reviewed in the light of the latest corruption allegations. Johansson, who lost the 1998 FIFA presidential election to Sepp Blatter...

Archaeologists excavating a church site in Oxford have found skeletons of nuns who died in disgrace after being accused of 'sex-crazed' behaviour. Discovered during planned construction near Oxford United's Kassam Stadium, the burial ground is over what used to be Littlemore Priory, a...

As today, people in medieval London worried about health, crime, money, the weather and relationships. But of far greater consequence for them was the possibility of going to hell. Here, Toni Mount, the author of Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to...

People have always thronged to centres of civilisation, commerce and culture. But which were the most important in their day? Top 5… history’s greatest cities This article was first published in the May 2015 issue of History Revealed...

Two criminal probes into corruption at football's governing body Fifa are under way, after seven senior officials were arrested in Zurich on US charges. Separately, Swiss prosecutors launched a criminal case into the bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, to be held in Russia and Qatar...

Anxious football fans looking to attend this weekend's FA Cup Final have been told to look to the skies after the FA announced plans to blast two tickets to the edge of space. The FA and Sentintospace.com will launch two tickets from the centre circle of Wembley Stadium into the air at...