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Britain is gearing up for great TV entertainment when Nick Clegg takes on Nigel Farage in a televised TV debate. The debate, which will be aired on BBC Two and on London LBC Radio on Wednesday 2 April, will see the leader of the left wing, pro-EU Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg, who is also the...

A ceremony to commemorate the Great Escape, the famous breakout of mainly British airmen from German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III on 24-25 March 1944, has taken place in Poland. Survivors, families and UK and Polish officials gathered in Zagan in western Poland, 70 years after the...

The Neolithic Britons buried their dead in specially-built stone long barrows. Now, modern Britons are to do the same. The first long barrow to be built for 5,000 years is taking shape at All Cannings in Wiltshire, a county dotted with ancient structures, such as Stonehenge, Avebury and the...

Today, there's often a perception that Asian children are given a hard time by their parents. But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home. Not surprisingly, the children didn't always like it. What...

It's not that often that we hear the Queen giving her opinions on anything. But that's what happened during her visit to Royal Holloway, University of London ten days ago. She said: ‘Poor people and their problems don’t get reported often, and they need all the assistance they can be given.’...

The Royal Navy's newest submarine - a miniature sub which can launch underwater that James Bond would be proud of - has been spotted moored off Gibraltar. The submarine is intended to launch underwater in order to carry Special Boat Service (SBS) commandos to their destinations covertly so...

The earliest example of Roman irrigation in Britain, dating back almost 2,000 years, has been discovered in Cambridge - and it may have been used to produce wine. A network of ditches and ridges was found on the site of a proposed new £1 billion development on farmland at the edge of the town...

CCTV has captured footage of a flickering ghost standing by the bar of a pub in the centre of my hometown. Manager Tony Dooley discovered the spectre after heading downstairs in the early hours of the morning on Valentine's Day and stumbling upon a broken glass lying on the floor. Thinking...

British scientists have successfully revived mosses that have been frozen under the Antarctic ice for 1,500 years. The researchers thawed out the ancient vegetation and were surprised to see new shoots rapidly appear. While bacteria of a similar age have been recovered before, the...

Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, which helped to destroy a Franco-Spanish fleet during the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, may be about to show her true colours following a new discovery. The ship which, despite her age, is still a commissioned Royal Navy warship, the oldest commissioned warship in...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is asking people to choose a name for British astronaut Tim Peake's next mission. Citizens and residents of all the Agency's member nations are eligible to enter the competition. The 20 member nations of ESA are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark...

Most young lefties shake off their bizarre beliefs as they get older. But one man who that didn't apply to was WWII veteran Tony Benn. His left wing beliefs just kept getting stronger. The pipe-smoking, pizza-loving socialist, friend of Arthur Scargill and leader of the Stop The War...

Twenty British soldiers have been laid to rest with full military honours, 98-and-a-half years after they were killed in battle. The remains of the 20 heroes who perished in the 1915 Battle of Loos between Britain and Germany were found in 2010 during clearance work for a new prison near...

Keeley Hawes is to appear in an episode of the new series of Doctor Who. The actress, who has appeared in popular dramas such as Ashes to Ashes and Spooks and has voiced Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video games, is to appear as a villain in the new series and, in the modern politically...

The £3 million Anglo-Saxon treasure known as the Staffordshire Hoard has been brought together to allow experts to shed more light on the Dark Ages. Found by a (now rich) man with a £2.50 metal detector in a (now rich) farmer's field near the village of Hammerwich in Staffordshire on 5th July...

The inventor of the World Wide Web has marked the 25th anniversary of his creation by calling for a 'Magna Carta' bill of rights to protect its users. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web in 1989 whilst working as a scientist for CERN, told BBC Breakfast the issue could be compared to...

The remains of a young monk who lived 800 years ago have been found sticking out of a sea cliff in South Wales. Mandy Ewington was enjoying a stroll along the beach at Monknash, Vale of Glamorgan, when she looked up and saw two leg bones poking out of the cliff. She took a picture of the leg...

A portrait of Prince Edward with his family has been released to mark his 50th birthday, which is today. The Earl of Wessex, the youngest child of the Queen and Prince Philip and who is now eighth in line to the Throne, was photographed with his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and their...

The bed in which one of England's greatest monarchs, Henry VIII, was conceived has been found in a hotel car park. The bed was found dismantled and dumped in the car park of the Redland Hotel in Chester, which was being turned into flats. It was later bought at auction by Ian Coulson, a...

Headlines are dominated by talk of the Ukraine crisis, as EU leaders decide how to respond to Russia's troop deployment in the country’s Crimea region. Members from eastern Europe are calling for tough sanctions, while others, led by Germany, seek mediation. But how does the current crisis...