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Hundreds of Roman huts which housed refugees fleeing turmoil in Scotland have been discovered by archaeologists near Hadrian's Wall. The huts were unearthed earlier this year within the site of the Roman fortress of Vindolanda near the English/Scottish border. Compared with the usual style...

A letter shows how Admiral Nelson clumsily and haplessly tried to hide his steamy affair with Lady Hamilton. The letter, on display at Great Yarmouth's Nelson Museum in Norfolk, Nelson's native county, tells how the British national hero and his mistress pretended to be Mr and Mrs Thompson to...

Up to 200 zombies invaded a city centre and descended en masse on council offices. To the bemusement of Saturday shoppers in Leicester, Britain's 10th largest city, the groaning, bloodstained mob made their way through the city. Thankfully, however, they were not real zombies. The "zombies"...

18,000 revellers gathered at Stonehenge in the early hours of yesterday morning to witness the sun rising on the longest day of the year. English Heritage says the druids, hippies, pagans, tourists and young people looking for an excuse to party descended on the ancient monument on Salisbury...

Wills and Kate have raised over £1 million for charity from their wedding. Before they wed the couple stipulated that guests were not to give them wedding gifts but instead make donations to charity. In so doing, they have raised £1,058,367 which will go to 26 different charitable groups...

A Harry Potter actor is coming to the resuce of one of England's battlefields. 85-year-old Robert Hardy, who plays Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic, in the Harry Potter films, is a member of English Heritage's own panel which advises on how to preserve battlefields. However, he...

If you lived in London in the early 19th Century, the chances are you would have visited Greenwich Fair in the south east of the metropolis. It even attracted the famous. It was Charles Dickens' favourite fair. In Sketches by Boz (1836), he declares “we were a constant frequenter of...

A men who lived in a tent outside the Mother of Parliaments for the last ten years in protest at the Iraq War and wars elsewhere has died. Brian Haw, 62, died over the weekend in Germany after losing his battle with lung cancer. The 62-year-old first pitched his tent on Parliament Square -...

Wills and Kate will have an entourage of just seven when they tour the US and Canada. Seven may seem like quite a lot of support for two people. But the entourage includes two press secretaries and a couple of private secretaries to ensure that royal protocol is followed. The Duke and...

Two fire engines were called out.... to rescue a sheep stuck on the roof of a house. The sheep was spotted scrambling across roof tiles in the remote village of Pontycymer, South Wales. A team from Bridgend Fire and Rescue Service took 40 minutes to bring the animal down from the terraced...

Children are sure of a big surprise if they go down to the woods today. That's because they'll see an 18ft high teddy bear made of straw bales. Farmer Phil Gwilliam made it out of more than a ton of newly-mown straw in the village of English Bicknor in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire to...

This nutty squirrel looks like he was impersonating one of Doctor Who's arch enemies. But all it was doing was eating its favourite snack from a Dalek-shaped bird feeder. The extravagant bird feeder was made by sci-fi fan Chris Balcombe of Purlieu, Hampshire, who made it from an old Dalek...

William and Kate yesterday attended their first state occasion together as a married couple. The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended Trooping the Colour which marks the Queen's official birthday. In fact, the Duke actually took part in the ceremony for the first time. Watched by...

The remake of the classic 1955 British movie Dam Busters is to have the name of the dog changed. The new movie, like the original one, will be based on a true story depicting RAF 617 squadron, which in 1943 destroyed dams in Germany with Barnes Wallis's famous and ingenious bouncing bomb...

A teenager has turned his garden shed into a shrine to the classic BBC comedy series Dad's Army. Dad's Army ran from 1968 to 1977 and was about the Home Guard whose job it was to try and defend Britain if Germany had invaded during WWII. Now dedicated Darren Stride, 19, is hoping his...

When this dinner-suited reveller got thrown of the Savoy Hotel in central London he didn't realise he's to become an internet star. The drunk was ejected from an awards ceremony hosted by Stephen Fry. CCTV then caught him trying to walk down some steps behind the hotel but he ended up falling...

The organisers for the 2012 London Olympics have unveiled the Olympic torch. The torch has 8,000 holes in its gold coloured aluminium frame, representing each of the runners who will transport the Olympic flame for 70 days around the UK and Ireland. It is adorned with a discreet London...

Archaeologists have uncovered a skeleton at the former home of the vaccination pioneer Dr Edward Jenner. A University of Bristol team found the remains at The Chantry in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Jenner lived in the 18th and 19th centuries but the adult skeleton comes from a much earlier...

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the death of Ophelia by drowning is one of the most emotional moments of the play. But could it have been inspired by a real-life tragedy in the Bard's own family? A coroner’s report shows that a Jane Shaxspere drowned aged two-and-a-half while picking corn...

Self-confessed "ugly" couple who met through dating agency for the ugly have split A self-confessed ugly couple who met through an online dating agency for the "aesthetically challenged" have spilt up. Tom Clifford, 37, and Janine Walker, 32, who shared a mutual love of junk food and TV...