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A 13-year-old Lancashire schoolboy has become the youngest person in the world to carry out nuclear fusion. Jamie Edwards, a pupil at Penwortham Priory Academy in Penwortham, Lancashire, created the project from scratch with help from his school. "I can't quite believe it - even though all...

It's not just modern walkers who need the aid of GPS when hiking through the Brecon Beacons in Wales. So, too, did their ancient ancestors. Archaeologists have found what they believe to be a 4,000 year old GPS system in the Brecon Beacons. An ancient standing stone - whose exact location...

12 bottles of rum dating back to 1780 were found in a cellar in a country house near Leeds - and then were sold by Harrogate Fine Wine Company for a whopping £80,000 at Christie's in London. The bottles - which were covered in cobwebs and layers of dust when found - were valued at £600-£800 per...

Scotland's new away kit looks like it has been designed by gay rights group Stonewall. But, according to the Scottish Football Association (SFA), the kit is in honour of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, the British Prime Minister between March 1894 and June 1895. Apparently the kit is...

London has evolved incredibly since it was merely a series of villages spanning the length of the Thames. But during the 18th century, shortly before the industrial revolution, the city was far grittier, and yet some would describe it as far more regal. These amazing pictures, shared on the...

A spree killer has become just the third woman in Britain to be sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison. Joanne Dennehy, a diagnosed psychopath who randonly murdered three men, yesterday joined serial killer Rose West and serial child killer Myra Hindley (who died in 2002) as women...

The world's longest aicraft has today been unveiled in Bedfordshire. The machine - which looks like an airship but isn't - is called an Airlander. It has a length of 302ft (92m) and is about 60ft longer than the biggest airliners, the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8. It is also almost 30ft...

Today Blyth Spartans, based in the little town of Blyth, Northumberland, are a small football team playing in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football. But during WWI, as six million British men were away fighting a war which made Britain go from being...

New ancient rock art has been found in the desolate wilds of northern Scotland. Archaeologists made the discovery in the Highlands in Ross-shire while moving a boulder decorated with ancient cup and ring marks to a new location in Ross-shire (a now defunct county which is now part of the vast...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making a visit to Britain today to speak to both the Head of Government and the Head of State. The leader of Europe's richest country is to address both Houses of Parliament and have tea with the Queen during a one-day visit to the UK. Mrs Merkel will...

Protesters, including the EDL, are currently protesting outside the Old Bailey in central London as Drummer Lee Rigby's killers are awaiting their sentencing. According to tweets from Sky News presenters outside the Old Bailey the murderers are to be sentenced at 4.30 pm, around 15 minutes'...

Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg, who was lauded by the left wing media, such as the BBC, The Guardian and the Independent as a poor, little, innocent victim of the Americans after his release without charge, has been arrested over Syria-related terror offences. The 45 year old...

How a great British invention - the tank, a metal monster which terrified the Germans - not only helped the British win WWI but how it was designed, in little over two months, by two men working in a small hotel room in Lincoln, Lincolnshire: "The panic started, everyone from 1st and 3rd...

The oldest known survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, Alice Herz-Sommer, has died in London at the age of 110. Born into a Jewish family in Prague in 1903, Ms Herz-Sommer spent two years in a Nazi concentration camp in Terezin. She was an accomplished pianist and music teacher and taught at the...

Ray Ellis, the last survivor of the 1942 Battle of Knightsbridge, who was also the last soldier to fire on advancing German troops in the battle, has died in Nottingham aged 94. The battle - one of the most celebrated acts of bravery in the Royal Artillery’s history - saw the 107th Regiment of...

Scotland's footballers have today been drawn against new boys Gibraltar and next door neighbours Republic of Ireland in the qualifiers for Euro 2016. It is the first time Gibraltar are to play in the qualifiers of any major tournament. Last year the tiny British territory, which borders Spain...

The MoD has confirmed that the Queen will officially name one of the Royal Navy's new 65,000-tonne Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth at a ceremony on Friday 4th July. The event will be held at Rosyth dockyard in Fife where work to assemble the vessel is being...

A woman who died almost 4,000 years ago was suffering from toothache. The Bronze Age woman was found by archaeologists from Glasgow-based Guard Archaeology after a cist – a stone burial chest – was inadvertently disturbed by construction workers during landscaping of an access track through...

A good thing that WWI did was enrich the already rich English language. The conflict gave rise to British English expressions and slang such as "Blighty" ("Britain"), "cushy" ("undemanding", "easy", "secure", "comfortable") and "Boche" ("German"), but only some are still used, says Kate Wild...

An ancient forest has emerged after the recent storms. The 5,000 year old tree stumps, from the Bronze Age, emerged when the peat which once covered and preserved them was washed away by torrential rain and strong waves. Now they cover a whole beach near the village of Borth, Ceredigion, on...