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Lincoln Castle skeleton 'could be Saxon king or bishop' A skeleton found in Lincoln Castle could belong to a Saxon king or bishop, according to archaeologists. The skeleton was in a stone sarcophagus believed to date from about AD900. Although the sarcophagus has not yet been opened...

A teenage archaeology student on only his second ever dig unearthed the find of a lifetime when he discovered a 1,800-year-old relic. Undergraduate Alex Kirton, 19, suddenly came across the carved stone head of a possibly Geordie Roman God at the site of an ancient settlement. The stunning...

More proof, if any were needed, that Britain is slowly being turned into an Islamic state: Channel 4 is to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan this year, it revealed yesterday. It is believed to be the first time a mainstream British television channel has broadcast the...

Last night veteran rockers The Rolling Stones performed on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, the world's biggest greenfield music and performing arts festival, in rural Somerset. Despite the fact the festival has been going since 1970 this was, believe it or not, the first time...

The curse of Tutankhamen is said to have claimed more than 20 lives. By contrast, the curse of Neb-Senu amounts to little more than an occasional inconvenience for museum curators. Over several days, the ten-inch Egyptian statuette gradually rotates to face the rear of the locked glass...

TV archaeologist Mick Aston, who starred in long-running archaeology series Time Team from when it started in 1994 until 2011, has died at the age of 66. Close friend and former colleague Phil Harding, who worked on the popular Channel 4 series with Professor Aston, said he had received the...

We may think of binge drinking as a distinctly modern phenomenon, but these extraordinary mugshots remind us that police have been attempting to tackle alcohol abuse for decades. The images from the early 1900s show a succession of women who were banned from their local pubs in Birmingham...

Blackadder star Tony Robinson has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Sir Tony, as he is now to be known, who played Blackadder's disgusting servant Baldrick in the classic 1980s BBC comedy series, admitted he was ‘a little gob-smacked’ at being honoured and joked that he would...

The birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby next month will be announced on an historic easel at the gates of Buckingham Palace. As soon as the future king or queen is born, a proclamation signed by doctors will be taken to the gates of the Palace and displayed on the easel within...

An IT contractor was accused of racism and refused a £1,000-a-week NHS job after innocently offering to buy an Asian recruitment consultant a bacon sandwich. Clive Hunt, 58, had already been given the eight-month contract – worth £32,000 – and was invited to recruitment firm Reed’s office...

Fans of US series Game of Thrones will probably like the lavish new British historical drama The White Queen. Set in England in 1464 against the backdrop of the Wars Of The Roses, The White Queen is a multimillion-pound, ten-part BBC adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s bestselling historical...

One-eyed cop killer Dale Cregan - who is believed to have had his eye plucked out with a knife, leading to him wearing a false black onyx eye - has today been sentenced to die in prison for murdering four people, including two police officers. The judge at Preston Crown Court told him he will...

A heavily pregnant Duchess of Cambridge blessed a new 1,082ft cruise ship at Southampton today in what was her last solo public appearance before she gives birth to the future monarch next month. Sporting a £169 dalmatian print coat from high street retailer, Hobbs, which she wore over a...

BNP leader Nick Griffin has called ailing Nelson Mandela a "murdering old terrorist" on Twitter. He said: ‘Saint #nelsonmandela on last legs it seems. ‘Make sure to avoid BBC when the murdering old terrorist croaks. It’ll be nauseating.’ In another message Mr Griffin wrote...

A EUROPEAN UNION handbook setting out migrants’ rights to benefits, asylum and avoiding deportation was last night condemned as a “disgrace”. The taxpayer-funded document – free on the internet – was published yesterday as the “first comprehensive guide” to border and immigration rules across...

The usual assortment of scruffy, ponytailed, pot-smoking left-wingers are rioting in central London as a week of protests against the G8 summit, which the UK is hosting, began. Masked squatters threw missiles and shouted 'freedom' as around 50 officers used angle grinders to tear down...

A masked, bare-chested protester waving a lit flare ran onto the court at the men's final of the French Open tennis in Paris earlier today but was restrained by security before he could interrupt the match. A few minutes earlier, two bare-chested men stood up in the front rows, holding a...

A poll of 44,000 single men and women in the US has found that American single women think British men are the sexiest in the world. American single men think Colombian women are the world's sexiest. American men are the fifth-sexiest in the world, according to almost 31,000 American single...

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Britain on 2nd June 1953 was a very different place than it is now. "I Believe" by Frankie Laine was No1 in the UK Singles Chart ("La La La" by Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith is now No1); Wolverhampton Wanderers were the...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and to mark the occasion a couple of photographic portraits - said to be the most romantic ever of the Queen - have been published. The Monarch, dressed in the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle – the...