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These photos may look like they show typical drunken hooliganism by a group of drunks who have decided to wreck a bike rack whilst they walk home. But, in fact, they show a group of drunks FIXING a bike rack. The lads were queueing for kebabs - the staple food in Britain for those who have...

A new study has found that watching too much telly can change people's regional accents. Experts have for the first time shown that ‘active and engaged television viewing’ does help to speed up a change in language. The study looked at how watching the television soap EastEnders is altering...

There has been a bit of a witch-hunt against male celebrities in Britain over the last couple of years where they have been arrested - even with little evidence - on suspicion of child sex abuse. One of those was actor Michael Le Vell, who has played garage mechanic Kevin Webster on Coronation...

She was the deadly special agent who charged headlong into occupied territory to fight for her country and the Jewish mother who was killed in a concentration camp. Christine Granville (real name Krystyna Skarbek) - the favourite spy of Winston Churchill - worked for years for British secret...

A British warship which has lain on the seabed for 269 years can now be seen for the first time in unprecedented detail thanks to the first ever "virtual dive". HMS Victory - not to be confused with the later HMS Victory, which was Nelson's flagship during the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and...

A series of letters written by Charles Darwin show that his attitude towards women changed over his lifetime. In 1838, aged 29 and undertaking his third voyage on the Beagle, he wrote that a future wife would be an 'object to be loved and played with - better than a dog anyhow.' But Philippa...

67 Brits lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks, meaning that Britain suffered more fatalities during those attacks than any country in the world other than the US. Most Brits died in 9/11 than died in the 7/7 attacks on London in 2005. To honour the 67 British dead, the US gave Britain a 28ft...

Flag Fen Bronze Age boats older than was first thought 8th September 2013 BBC News Experts have discovered the boats are made of oak, lime and field maple The eight Bronze Age boats were discovered in Cambridgeshire in 2011 Eight Bronze Age boats discovered in a deep Cambridgeshire...

Liam Fox, the British Defence Secretary from May 2010 to October 2011, who has links with the US Neocons, gives us ten global nightmares that should keep us awake at night, including why Pakistan is the most dangerous country on earth, why water could kill us and why the euro is as explosive as...

A suspected burglar has been arrested after being discovered in a royal state room at Buckingham Palace. Police said the man was found 'in an area currently open to the public during the day' after scaling a 12ft fence to get into the palace. A security review has now been launched following...

Scientists believe they have discovered the remains of Britain's oldest-known northerner in a cave in Cumbria. Analysis of a leg bone fragment unearthed from a cave in Cumbria suggests it is more than 10,000 years old, making it the earliest human bone from northern Britain on record...

Over 200 people have been injured in a massive pile-up which lasted ten minutes and involved a hundred vehicles. The incident happened at 7:15am on the New Sheppey Crossing bridge connecting the Isle of Sheppey with mainland Kent. The accident occurred in thick fog with some witnesses saying...

A medal awarded to a dog who extinguished an incendiary bomb by urinating on it during the Blitz has been discovered in a house clearance. Juliana the Great Dane leapt into action after the device fell through the roof of her owner’s house in 1941. It is thought she put out the flame on...

King Richard III, whose remains were found last year under a car park in Leicester, suffered from roundworm, analysis has revealed. Scientists found roundworm eggs in a soil sample taken from the pelvis of the skeleton of the king, which was discovered last year by archaeologists at the...

By Hugo Duncan 3 September 2013 Daily Mail Britain will have the best-performing major economy in the developed world for the rest of the year, an international watchdog said yesterday. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said it expects growth of more than 0.9 per...

On 9th October 2012, 16-year-old Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban whilst returning home on a school bus for championing women's rights and for promoting education for girls. She was flown to Britain to be treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Britain's...

London has been voted the top city in Europe and second only to New York in the world by people in 24 countries. London and New York were the only two out of 48 cities to make the top five in each of the categories in the survey. Britain was also voted the third-best country in the world in...

Archaeological dig begins to unearth scale model of one of World War One's bloodiest battlefields created by German prisoners to help train British troops Model was built as a training aid for soldiers and in recognition of the fallen Battle of Messines took place around the Belgian...

In September 1513 Scotland invaded England and declared war on her to honour the Auld Alliance with France by diverting Henry VIII's English troops from their campaign against the French king Louis XII. Henry VIII had also opened old wounds by claiming to be the overlord of Scotland which...

This collection of eerie photos shows London in the grip of fog and smog in the early 20th Century. In the early decades of the 20th Century London was the world's biggest and richest city, the capital of a country that was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (the whole of) Ireland...