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Experts studying the incredible Staffordshire Hoard have pieced together thousands of fragments to reveal a rare warrior's helmet and a unique sword pommel. Archaeologists working with the hoard - the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon artefacts ever found - said the two examples of 7th...

The BBC's Springwatch is returning for a brand new series tonight. The hugely popular show, which celebrates British spring wildlife, is now a British institution - and it's also celebrating its tenth birthday! The series began in May 2005 with presenters Bill Oddie (a former Goodie) and Kate...

The government has confirmed that citizens from most EU countries will not be eligible to vote in the referendum in which the people will decide whether or not Britain will leave the EU. Eurosceptics have been concerned that the government will allow all EU citizens resident in the UK who are...

Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson has been admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack. Mr Robinson, 66, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), was taken to the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast, on Monday morning after he became ill. He was then...

Liverpool have been hit for six in what turned out to be a disastrous last match for the club for veteran Steven Gerrard on a dramatic final day of the 2014/15 Premier League season. After nearly 17 years playing for his beloved club Gerrard, 34, is about to leave for LA Galaxy - a decision...

In the bad old days of high infant mortality, any royal family needed an heir and several ‘spares’ – north of the border, James V and his daughter, Mary Queen of Scots, are just two of the many British monarchs with elder brothers who died in infancy. William the Conqueror left England...

Sweden has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, pipping Russia and Italy to victory - with celebrity chef Nigella Lawson dealing the fatal blow to runner-up Russia when she announced the UK was awarding the Scandinavians a maximum 12 points. Heartthrob Mans Zelmerlow, a 28-year-old...

Discovering the body of one king under a car park would be considered an achievement of a lifetime for most historians - but the woman who led the search for Richard III is hoping to find another. Screenwriter and amateur historian Philippa Langley has instigated a search to uncover the...

A Bristol Blenheim bomber said to be the last one flying in the world is taking part in its first air show since its restoration. The World War Two aeroplane will take to the skies at the VE Day Anniversary Air Show at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in Cambridgeshire. It has not flown...

Forget tomorrow night's Eurovision Song Contest. Here's a Euopean contest that Britain has won hands down Here are the results from London: Forget Eurovision, Britain is the runaway winner for new jobs as France gets 'Nul Points' An extra 611,000 people found work in UK last year, official...

An unexploded World War Two bomb uncovered by builders near Wembley Stadium in north west London poses "a genuine risk to life", the Army has said. Homes and businesses have been evacuated and the Army has built a blast wall around the bomb in case it goes off. The 110lb device, thought to...

Veteran socialist MP Dennis Skinner appears to have won his battle to keep his favourite House of Commons seat after Labour accused the Scots Nats of bullying the 83-year-old man. Mr Skinner, who has been the Labour MP for Bolsover in Derbyshire since 1970 and who is renowned for his...

A football pitch on the Western Isles has been recognised by Fifa as one of eight remarkable places to play the game in the world. A match played on the field in Eriskay has been filmed for screening in the football governing body's new museum in Zurich in Switzerland. The Fifa World...

A flotilla of 'little ships' that evacuated Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk set sail for France this morning to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the pivotal Second World War operation. The ramshackle fleet of some 50 yachts, fishing boats and life boats have set sail from...

After a year in which Russia continued to be fiercely condemned for annexing the Crimea and its separatists' seizure of eastern Ukraine, the country remains a pariah through most of Europe. Now, amid fears Russia's Eurovision singer Polina Gagarina will bear the brunt of the ill-will...

A father who was digging a duck pond in a back garden discovered the remains of an ancient grey wolf. Simon Ferguson and his sons Richard and Adam came across the fully preserved skeleton 11 feet beneath Richard and Adam's back lawn in Thornton-Cleveleys, near the seaside resort of Blackpool...

When Andy Green "floors it" in the South African desert later this year, he expects to be able to break his 18-year-old land speed record. His British Bloodhound Super-Sonic Car (SSC) is aiming for 800mph (1,290km/h). To achieve this extraordinary speed, the RAF man will depend on many...

The man who invented the weather forecast in the 1860s faced scepticism and even mockery. But science was on his side, writes Peter Moore. The birth of the weather forecast BBC News Magazine 30 April 2015 Peter Moore FitzRoy's weather forecasts were taken up by Derby race-goers...

In 1464, England's most eligible bachelor, King Edward IV (the grandfather of the future King Henry VIII), shocked the nation by announcing that he had taken a bride: Elizabeth Woodville, an impoverished widow with two young sons. The match brought his queen’s family into the thick of the...

Imagine the year is 2035. Humans have landed on Mars and are about to take their first steps on the surface. After uttering a pre-decided line akin to Neil Armstrong’s on the moon, they set foot and plant a flag in the ground. But this isn’t a US flag, or even a UN flag - instead, it’s...