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A man who unearthed a £145,000 Anglo-Saxon pendant has found more treasure dating back about 800 years. Tom Lucking's latest find saw him dig up a brooch dating back to between 1200 and...

Blackadder star Sir Tony Robinson has quit as a member of the Labour Party after 45 years for its anti-Semitism and its stance on Brexit...

The hypocrisy of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his stance over Trump's State Visit... LEO MCKINSTRY Hypocritical Jeremy Corbyn isn’t for the many and certainly NOT for the Jew...

There have been loocal elections for 248 English local councils and all 11 Northern Irish local councils - and it seems as though voters are telling politicians to deliver Brexit...

The carnage in Sri Lanka which left more than 300 dead may have been carried out by ‘Buddhists’, according to the BBC Today presenter Nick Robinson on the morning after those hideous bombings. We all grope slowly towards meaning, don’t we? We look for precedent, we search for clues. I did both...

Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek is to play a villain in the 25th official James Bond film - but the movie still does not have a title. The cast and creative team have been unveiled at a...

That didn't last long, did it? After a brief respite the Stop Brexit circus is back in town, bonkers as ever. MPs are returning to Westminster two weeks older, but none the wiser...

Yep. We're living in weird times... RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Trump protests, cream ads, Anne of Green Gables...

Rod Liddle on the big issues of the week: Trump's impending State Visit to the UK, the Brexit Party, the Sri Lanka bombings, the UAE, ships at a Scottish museum no longer being referred to as "she", Greta Thurnberg, goats in trees, Saudi Arabia and cultural appropriation...

The Beast of Beddau has joined the Maerdy Monster as a new bug species found at old coal mine sites in the UK...

The remains of 3,000-year-old skeletons have been discovered while a water company worked to save a rare chalk stream in Oxfordshire...

The birth of British identity began 5,000 years ago when the country found itself secluded from the continent in a ‘late Neolithic Brexit’ archaeologists believe. A new study suggests that monuments like Stonehenge and Avebury acted like prehistoric focal points, drawing Britons from the far...

ANGRY voters today warn Theresa May she has five weeks to deliver Brexit — or face a giant backlash in the Euro elections. Two-thirds want the PM to get the UK out of the EU by any means to avoid the cost...

An incredibly rare Tudor shield once used by King Henry VIII and his men has been put up for sale at auction for £50,000. The remarkable 'gun shield' dates back to the 16th century were used by the king's bodyguards to protect the monarch. The metal armour, around the size of a dustbin lid...

The Queen has attended an Easter service at Windsor Castle on the day she celebrates her 93rd birthday. She was presented with flowers and a crowd sang "Happy Birthday" as she left St George's Chapel. In an Easter message, Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK "must stand up for the right of...

I braced myself for the response to the deeply shocking Notre-Dame fire this week, fully expecting cries of solidarity to become cries about how we’re all European. And that’s exactly what happened. It was immediately clear that the tragedy was being seized on as a chance to advance a pro-EU...

Rabbits have been hopping around the UK since Roman times, experts have been able to prove for the first time. Scientific tests on a rabbit bone, found at Fishbourne Roman Palace in West...

On Thursday, the Queen handed out Maundy Money to 186 pensioners - 93 men and 93 women, 93 being the age she becomes tomorrow - in a centuries-old Easter tradition...

Around 20,000 worshippers gathered in Trafalgar Square yesterday for the annual Passion of Jesus celebration, which depicts the Easter story...

The National Wallace Monument has reopened following a refurbishment of its exhibition galleries to celebrate the landmark's 150th anniversary. Work to transform all three floors of the...