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Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age. A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first program at 11am on 21 June 1948. The prototype completed the task in 52 minutes, having run through 3.5 million calculations. The...

An Argyll hotelier has unveiled plans to serve burgers made with midges to his customers. David Keat, who owns the Brander Lodge Hotel near Oban, said he would harvest the blood-sucking insects from the hotel's midge exterminator machines. He said the burgers would be dipped in a coat of...

A bone believed to have come from a woolly mammoth has been discovered on the south of Scotland coastline. The find was made near Stranraer by Nic Coombey, co-ordinator of the Solway Coastwise project. He said he realised straight away that it was an "extraordinary thing" due to its size. It...

Fragments believed to have come from a woolly mammoth have been uncovered at a quarry. Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service said the remains, believed to include a tusk, were found and excavated in Staffordshire. It is one of a number of finds of its kind from across the West...

Prince William is to make the first official royal visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in a five-day tour of the Middle East. The Duke of Cambridge is scheduled to meet both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. He will...

Two baby weasels appeared to pause for a photograph while scampering across a scenic road in the Highlands. Carrie Urquhart, a driver with Ullapool-based Lochbroom Woodfuels Ltd, took the image on Tuesday morning near Achiltibuie, Highland. Wee posers: Baby weasels photographed near...

US President Donald Trump has just pulled his country out of this pointless, fatuous, degrading organisation. Well done, Trump. It is about time someone called the bluff of these scumbags. The US says the UNHRC is “a cesspool of political bias”. Dead right. ROD LIDDLE Trump is right to...

Argentina, Colombia, Denmark and Poland have all lost to, or failed to beat, teams ranked lower than Tunisia in their opening games. Germany have lost to Mexico, Brazil drew with Switzerland; and few teams have played as well as England did for 45 minutes in Volgograd. The second half...

The 1,500-year-old dismembered remains of three men with amputated legs and smashed skulls have been found at an ancient site in Cambridgeshire. Two of the legless corpses were placed at right angles to one another in an ancient rubbish dump with their heads turned away, while the third...

Austin Mitchell was a backbench Labour MP for 40 years before stepping down in 2015. A self-confessed maverick who refused to toe the party line, he has always been fiercely opposed to Britain remaining in the EU. Here, on the second anniversary of the EU referendum, he delivers a...

Senior Cabinet ministers have insisted the UK is prepared to walk away from Brexit talks without a deal, on the second anniversary of the referendum. Liam Fox said Theresa May was "not bluffing" over her threat to quit negotiations, while Boris Johnson called for a "full British Brexit"...

“SUCK it up,” advises Remoaner MP Anna Soubry – three little words that mean so much. “Suck it up” infers that democracy is dead in this country. “Suck it up” means that 17.4 million votes in the EU referendum — the largest mandate in British history — do not mean a damn thing. TONY PARSONS...

Tributes have been paid to renowned physicist Prof Stephen Hawking in a Westminster Abbey memorial service. British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Hawking in a BBC drama, and astronaut Tim Peake were among those giving readings at the ceremony. Prof Hawking died in March, aged 76...

Mia Hansson turned her love of craft-making into a mission to recreate a full scale replica of the medieval artwork. She estimates the project will take more than a decade to complete but says it is for “handicraft interest rather than a historic one”. The 44-year-old started work on the...

The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico after their joint bid beat Morocco's proposal to host it. The 'United 2026' bid was selected by Fifa member nations, winning 134 votes compared to 65 for Morocco. The 2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever...

She came to be known as the Virgin Queen, the commanding female monarch who defeated an Armada and launched England on its imperial adventures. But in this portrait Queen Elizabeth I appears to be little more than a diminutive and shy young woman. Discovered by Philip Mould, the BBC...

Tales of family heroics inevitably become exaggerated and embellished over time. But the descendants of Sir Thomas Noel Harris, a British Brigade-Major in the Battle of Waterloo, can finally rest assured that their ancestor really did play a pivotal and death-defying role in the decisive...

An artwork marking the anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 has been unveiled in Surrey. Writ in Water, by Mark Wallinger, was commissioned by the National Trust. Wallinger drew inspiration from Clause 39 of the charter, which embodies the fundamental principles of justice...

Every president and prime minister would love their boys to win the World Cup but for Macron a victory inspired by Mbappé would be particularly timely. What political capital! Endless photo opportunities and references about the football team mirroring the new diverse, dynamic and...

How does a ruler defeat bloodthirsty invaders, secure a kingdom and lay the foundations for England - and then almost get written out of history? Be a woman, that's how. Exactly 1,100 years after her death Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, is emerging from the shadows. Aethelflaed: The...