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Amateur treasure hunter unearths haul of Roman coins with £300 metal detector he bought off a friend Dorset fisherman Jason Hemmings, 41, makes stunning find in field Fifteen-coin find hailed by British Museum as 'very exciting discovery' It is believed a soldier dropped the money about...

A council spent thousands of taxpayers' money building a gate to stop gippos getting into a park - then opened it for Health and Safety reasons, allowing the gippos to enter, because they were concerned that the gippos would injure themselves when attempting to get through illegally. It...

An amateur photographer believes he may have photographed Nessie, the world's most famous cryptid. The image was taken by David Elder at Fort Augustus, at the south-west end of the 23-mile-long body of water in northern Scotland. It shows a long bow wave apparently caused by some sort of...

A woman was taken to hospital with two broken legs after becoming trapped under a three-tonne horse-drawn tram. The 46-year-old was dragged under the 20ft-long tram by her legs after the horse bolted along Middleton Railway, in Britain's third city Leeds, at around 3pm yesterday. Woman...

A new book about the UK's most bizarre surnames has shown that there are Britons going by the name of Crakpot, Halfenaked, Swetinbedde, Crapper and Scrapetrough. Is your name Crakpot, Halfenaked or Swetinbedde? New book reveals the UK’s most bizarre surnames Other amusing examples include...

Further proof, if any were needed, that Britain's ruling crime-loving Liberal Establishment favours the perpetrators of crime over the victims of crime: A businessman who confronted a burglar raiding his premises appeared in court yesterday accused of attacking him. Andrew Woodhouse, 43...

A British soldier has become the first foreigner to receive a Danish bravery award. The soldier was given the award for trying to save the life of a Danish soldier in Afghanistan. Explosives expert Andy Peat of 33 EOD Regiment Royal Logistic Corps went to the aid of Oversergeant Rene Brink...

Four oil workers were killed last night when the Super Puma helicopter they were travelling in ditched into the North Sea off Fitful Head in the far south of the Shetland Islands, in the very far north of the UK. The Super Puma L2 aircraft went down in adverse weather conditions, including...

So often do we hear stories of liberal judges making bizarre decisions which are in favour of the criminal rather than the victim that when one makes the right decision it comes as a bit of a shock. Such as in this case. A judge told a Muslim woman she must remove her burkha in court before...

Why every mother-in-law really is a woman Hitler: It's just one of the hilarious quirks of the English language revealed in a fascinating new book By Dr Rod L. Evans 22 August 2013 Daily Mail English is full of wordplay, witticisms, puns and quirks. Crossword puzzlers will be familiar...

Reaching speeds of up to 100mph and flying only yards apart, these breaktaking photographs show how two nine-year-old girls became the world’s youngest formation wingwalkers. Rose Powell, of Wandsworth, south-west London, and Flame Brewer, of Kensal Rise, north-west London, took to the skies...

A man has become the first person in Britain to have 3D tattoos on his face. His Royal Majesty Body Art King of Ink Land, aged 33 from Stechford, Birmingham, is covered head to toe in skin art. Even the white of one eye has been tattooed black. His first tattoo was a British bulldog, which...

Britain's longest-serving monarch regularly wrote letters using "text speak". Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901 and who was the niece of the two previous monarchs, King George IV (who was Prince Regent before he became king because his father King George III was too ill to reign...

A family dog has had to be put down after being bitten by an adder in my hometown of Bolton. Ted, an 11-year-old bearded collie, was walking in Smithills Country Park, near to the 15th century manor house Smithills Hall, when he was bitten by the adder. Ted was put down on Saturday after...

A swan belonging to the Queen was butchered and barbecued and left on a river bank near Windsor Castle in Berkshire. The mute swan was found on Baths Island in the River Thames on Sunday. Not only can the culprit or culprits be charged with animal cruelty and face a maximum six months jail...

A treasure hunter has unearthed a valuable silver ring that provides tantalising evidence that there were early Christians in Britain before St Augustine arrived on an official mission in 597AD. Were there Christians in Britain BEFORE Augustine? Ring suggests Roman converts existed before...

A movie in which Blackadder and chums are imprisoned in Colditz Castle during WWII may be on its way.... Blackadder to return as film 2 August 2013, 09:00am Rowan Atkinson starred as the intelligent, charming, witty, manipulative and sardonic Edmund Blackadder in the four series of the...

One of those mobs of troublesome Left Wingers that you get from time to time - the usual smelly, jobless, vegetarian, hippy swampies - has set up shop at Balcombe in West Sussex for the last few weeks protesting over the fact that exploratory drilling by fracking company Cuadrilla is taking...

The actress Maxine Peake (from my hometown of Bolton), who has appeared in such top shows as Shameless, Dinnerladies, Silk and The Village, has led the 194th anniversary commemorations of the Peterloo Massacre. The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field in Manchester on 16 August 1819...

It’s certainly not your average scene on the roadside - and would no doubt have livened up a few morning commutes for the passing motorists. Fifty lost Mallard ducks were given a single-file police escort along the hard shoulder of a main road, leading to a build-up of traffic in the morning...