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Nasa climate scientists: We said 2014 was the warmest year on record... but we're only 38% sure we were right The claim made headlines around the world, but yesterday it emerged that GISS's analysis is subject to a margin of error. Nasa admits this means it is far from...

Tomorrow night will be exactly 100 years that Germany's zeppelin raids on Britain began. On 19 January 1915, Britain became one of the very first countries in history to be bombed in an air raid (the first bombing of a city from the air was on the night of 24–25 August 1914, when eight bombs...

A set of "internationally significant" Roman Baths which lay hidden for almost 2,000 years could be opened to the public in a restoration project announced by Exeter Cathedral. The site was discovered in 1971 but due to a lack of funds was reburied under the cathedral green to protect it. A...

Passengers using the Channel Tunnel are still experiencing delays after it reopened following a lorry fire. Services between London, Paris, Lille, Brussels and Disneyland Resort Paris resumed on Sunday morning but passengers have reported being held at the tunnels in both UK and France...

And don't forget that the records don't stretch very far back. Saying it's "The hottest year on record" means it's just the hottest year in the last 100 years or so. But there have been approximately 4.54 billion years on Earth.

In just the last six years, 61 bodies have been pulled from the waterways of Manchester, one of great cities of northern England. Most people just put these down to tragic accidents - people coming back drunk late at night from a pub or nightclub - and maybe even the odd suicide. But if the...

It's snowing here right now. I'm watching it fall outside on the road. It's freezing.

The Global Warmists are still trying to fool us, people. Don't listen to a word they say: Scientists balk at ‘hottest year’ claims: Ignores Satellites showing 18 Year ‘Pause’ – ‘We are arguing over the significance of hundredths of a degree’ – The ‘Pause’ continues Climate Depot's...

Britain’s last living person born under the reign of Queen Victoria has died aged 114. Ethel Lang, who was born in 1900, lived to see six monarchs and 22 prime ministers. When she was born, the Tory Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was in power. Her main hobby was dancing, which she...

In this very contemporary and chilling real-time thriller from Channel 4, first broadcast last night, Maisie Williams - from Game of Thrones - stars as a teenager battling with an anonymous, evil cyber-stalker. The plot of Cyberbully is inspired by dozens of real-life cases. Watch it here...

The missing Mars robot Beagle 2 has been found on the surface of the Red Planet, apparently intact. High-resolution images taken from orbit have identified its landing location, and it looks to be in one piece. The UK-led probe tried to make a soft touchdown on the dusty world on Christmas...

A day's ride. By car or by plane? You can travel from the UK to the Falklands in a day by aeroplane.

There's nothing wrong with those polar bears or their ice. There's plenty of it, and growing. Also, without counting Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, you can't get further north than Canada. Canada is the world's most northerly country. I was also surprised, when...

"Je suis Charlie", we were all saying. "We must stand up for free speech! We should have the freedom to offend! We musn't let the Islamists destroy free speech!" But then, of course, free speech went out of the window when a French journalist wanted to show the cover of the new edition of...

Trust the British to inject humour into an election campaign, whilst other countries' elections seem like boring, staid matters. Stand up comedian Al Murray's hilarious alter ego The Pub Landlord, who is renowned for his patriotic and xenophobic views, who hates anything non-British and has...

It would have been crushed by the anti-free speech Left. Here's how: What if Charlie Hebdo had been published in Britain? It would have been crushed. Here’s how. 10 January 2015 Spiked...

Nearly 33 years after she liberated them from Argentina, and nearly two years after her death, the Falkland Islands have finally unveiled a statue to Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher is a hero to the Falkland Islanders and yesterday, on what was Margaret Thatcher Day in the islands, her 61-year-old...

British politicians. You know the ones. The gormless numpties who, since the Paris attacks, have come out saying how much they "cherish" free speech and how much it must be "protected". The ones who crowded into Westminster Hall holding up pens and pencils to show "support" for free speech and...

A brilliant article from historian Max Hastings, which all those (mainly the Left) who supports the traitors Snowden and Assange should read: MAX HASTINGS: Why the liberals who defended traitors like Snowden and Assange should look at this photo and admit: We were deluded fools By...

The Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn looks at one of the consequences of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in his usual no-nonsense, non-PC style. Just bloody saying it as it is, as usual. (WARNING: Do not read if you love the Muslims).... This is how freedom is killed off. Little by little, piece...