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Archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the world's only well-preserved Roman gladiator cemetery - not in Rome but in the English city of York. Around 80 skeletons were found in a residential area of the ancient city and are believed to be 2,000 years old. The horrific injuries...

The Queen is to visit Ground Zero in New York next month during an eight-day stay in the US. Whilst there, she will also give her first address to the 192 members of the United Nations General Assembly since 1957. The monarch will also visit Wimbledon this summer for the first time since...

Joe Cole, probably England's most technically skillful player, has said that his World Cup experience means he deserves a place in England's starting line-up for their opening match of this year's World Cup, which is against the United States in Group C on Saturday at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium...

Twin baby girls are being treated in hospital after being savaged by an urban fox. Nine-month-olds Lola and Isabella Koupparis were sleeping in their cots in the Stoke Newington district of the London borough of Hackney on Saturday night when the fox crept in through the rear patio doors after...

The fact that Wednesday's gun spree, in which taxi driver Derrick Bird travelled 45-miles around the Lake District in Cumbria killing 12 people and injuring 25 took place in a rural area should hardly be surprising - after all, there are just 1.4 million legally registered shotguns in the whole...

England may only have been playing relative minnows Bangladesh, who are the world's lowest ranked Test team and who only became a Test team ten years ago, but the nature of their win will still make the other nations - especially Australia, who will soon battle against England in the forthcoming...

Blinking in the sunshine, the rabbit surveys its surroundings. But the creature isn't in the relative safety of a field or desolate moorland, but at the side of a busy road. The cute little bunny isn't going to get squished. Instead, it's going to cross the road by going through the drains...

Cumbria Constabulary face a number of questions over their handling of the Cumbria shootings, in which maniac Derrick Bird killed 12 people and injured 25. Taxi driver Bird travelled on his 45-mile murderous journey along Cumbria's mountainous countryside in his taxi with two guns, a .22 rifle...

The fabled British stiff upper lip and ability to keep calm in a crisis may help us to win most wars we fight, but they were taken a tad too far in this incident. When the barrister couple Sophie and Nick unearthed an unexploded WWI bomb in the Moseley area of Birmingham, they decided to not...

Daredevils ignored Britain's silly Health and Safety Brigade by taking part in an unofficial cheese-rolling contest after the original was banned because it was deemed too dangerous - despite it having taken place for centuries. The eccentric tradition takes place at Cooper's Hill near...

A crown has been carved out of a half-ton block of Cheddar cheese to celebrate the 57th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Cordon Bleu chef Tanys Pullin spent 90 hours crafting it out of a 1,322lb block of Farmhouse Cheddar, one of the most quintessentially British of cheeses...

At least five people are dead - but possibly as many as 10 according to some reports - and 25 injured after a gunman went on a shooting spree in Cumbria, the most beautiful of England's counties. The normally peaceful rural county - the home of the Lake District which inspired William...

Britain's new science minister, David Willetts, has declared that space is an important growth sector for the UK economy and that the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government will do all it can to support it. Willetts told the BBC: "I believe in the space industry." Willetts was speaking...

The uncertainty over who was going to form the next British Government when this year's General Election resulted in Britain's first hung parliament since 1974 proved once again that Britain's constitutional monarchy is the best form of governance in the world today. When Cameron and Clegg...

Shops and businesses closed in Newcastle city centre yesterday as members of the English Defence League (EDL) clashed with members of the left-wing Unite Against Fascism (UAF). The EDL, an anti-Islamist organisation, marched through the city draped in English flags. Children were also included...

Up to 40 World War II veterans, who took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, yesterday gathered to commemorate the event's 70th anniversary. 50 of the original "little ships" which helped to rescue over 300,000 Allied troops from the advancing Germans also attended the ceremony at Dunkirk...

Manchester rock giants Oasis have changed their name to Beady Eye following the depature of lead guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher from the band. Noel announced his depature from the band on 23rd October last year after a bust-up with his brother, lead singer Liam, following a gig in...

Firefighters were faced with an unusual problem after being called to an emergency - how to get a stag's antlers untangled from a child's swing. The animal was so distressed at its predicament at the appropriately named Hook in Hampshire that a fireman had to use a pole to place a towel over...

A monument the location of an English Civil War battle may be in the wrong place. The Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold took place in March 1646, and was the last major battle of the first English Civil War. The English Civil War was actually a series of three civil wars all taking place...

A new poll shows that the left-wing Diane Abbott, the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, is out in front to become the new leader of the Labour Party and, therefore, Leader of the Opposition and possible future Prime Minister. Abbott who, in 1987, became Britain's first black female MP...