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Professor Brian Cox, the University of Manchester physicist and former keyboard player with the pop band D:Ream (famous for the 1993 hit Things Can Only Get Better), is back with his fourth major BBC science documentary series - Human Universe. In his latest BBC series, Prof Brian Cox asks...

We used to just forecast the weather on Earth. But now we are to forecast the weather in space, too. The Met Office, the UK's national weather service, is opening its "solar storm" centre today. The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC) in Exeter, Devon, where the Met Office is...

Watched the first episode of the new, very British, BBC sitcom Detectorists last night on BBC Four. Detectorists is all about digging. Mackenzie Crook (who is best known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office, Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and Orell in Game of Thrones), who...

I watched the first episode of the brilliant new BBC documentary series by Simon Reeve - Sacred Rivers - last night. Simon makes travel documentaries in little-known areas of the world and has written books on international terrorism, modern history and his globe-trotting adventures. In his...

Two injured Afghanistan War veterans are part of a four-man team which is to take on the route which almost defeated Ernest Shackleton 100 years ago. The team is flying out to Argentina today to begin what promises to be a gruelling five-week trek across one of the most inhospitable...

This remarkable series of pictures shows just how much life has changed in the streets of London surrounding the River Thames in the last 150 years. A unique series of photographs taken in the 1860s, using an early type of camera, showcase life in Victorian London for those living in the...

It's party conference season in the UK but, unlike most party conference seasons, this one comes in the run-up to a General Election, so this is where the General Election campaign really starts. The Labour Party held their conference in Manchester last week, but the speech made by Marxist Ed...

In her new book Comic, Curious & Quirky: News Stories From Centuries Past, Levin pulls together some of the most bizarre tales to fill the columns of British newspapers as far back as the 1700s – from the woman who in 1830 poisoned her dinner guests, then died, having forgotten she'd used the...

More players are now taking up blind cricket than ever before but why is the sport becoming increasingly popular? Hassan Khan: 'Blind cricket changed my life'...

The northern gannet is the largest seabird in the North Atlantic, and the UK is home to TWO THIRDS of the entire world's population of them. And one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in the UK is seeing these magnificent birds dive into the sea to catch fish. Northern gannets can dive from a...

An amateur metal detectorist has unearthed one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain. Laurence Egerton, 51, made the discovery as he explored land near Seaton, in Devon - and he was so concerned someone would steal it, he camped out for three nights while archaeologists...

Jackanory was a BBC children's TV series that was originally broadcast between 1965 and 1996 that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show's format, which varied little over the decades, involved an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in...

Liverpool progressed to the fourth round of the Capital One Cup at Anfield last night - but only after winning the joint-longest penalty shootout in English football history against Middlesbrough. After the match ended 2-2 after extra time, with young English player Jordan Rossiter, who has...

TV presenter and University of Manchester physicist Brian Cox says he supports the idea that many universes can exist at the same time. The idea may sound far-fetched but the "many worlds" concept is the subject of serious debate among physicists. It is a particular interpretation of quantum...

Sixty years ago exactly, a Roman God was uncovered at a London building site. The excavations for the Temple of Mithras moved around but are now going back to the original site. Tom de Castella asks: How do you reconstruct a Roman temple? Temple of Mithras: How do you put London's Roman shrine...

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, has attended mass in Malta to mark the tiny island country's 50 years of independence from Britain. Leading national figures were also at the mass at St John's Co-Cathedral in the capital Valletta. It is believed to be the first time that the prince, who...

It's funny how, now that the Scottish independence referendum is over, focus has now suddenly shifted from the pampered Scots to the long-ignored English and how to give more powers to them. England, apart from London, which has its own devolved assemly headed by the mayor, is the only part of...

England, which hosted the 1966 World Cup and Euro 96, is to co-host Euro 2020 after UEFA announced that Wembley Stadium will host the tournament's semi-finals and final. Like the World Cup, the European Championships is usually hosted by one nation, with France hosting the next one in 2016...

Recent dry weather conditions have revealed a number of prehistoric and Roman sites across Wales. The discoveries include one prehistoric defended enclosure in Pembrokeshire and another one in Gower. Toby Driver from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales said...

Analysis of Richard III's remains has suggested that the king was surrounded by soldiers and hacked to death after losing his helmet in battle. Medical scanners were used to establish that the king suffered 11 injuries from enemy soldiers at Bosworth Field in 1485. The 32-year-old died after...