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British confectionery giant Cadbury is releasing a new chocolate bar to commemorate its staff who fought in World War I. Here is their story... ‘Chocolate soldiers’: the fascinating story of Cadbury during WW1...

Michael D Higgins has been re-elected as Irish president after receiving 56% of the country's election vote...

Five people are feared dead after a helicopter crashed outside Leicester City's King Power Stadium last night...

A hammer-wielding man has been arrested after an attempted smash and grab of a Magna Carta from its display at Salisbury Cathedral. Alarms went off when the would-be thief tried to break through the glass box...

Experts have finally shed a light on the origins of an ancient and mysterious golden relic which has baffled archaeologists for more than a century. The small, flat golden...

The experiments that inspired English author Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein... The experiments that...

Britain should go for a No Deal Brexit and ditch the £39 billion divorce bill, says former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott...

Police searching for a Ross Geller "lookalike" thief believe they have identified the man after being "inundated" with responses. Social media images of the man clutching a crate of...

On the streets of central London with thousands of ill-informed Remainers... COFFEE HOUSE What I learned at...

That Theresa May was allowed to address her fellow EU leaders at their summit last week, but instructed not to dine with them, has to be the final insult. What don't these arrogant, rude, self-serving, mostly...

Road workers building a new bypass have unearthed the Ice Age remains of a woolly mammoth and a woolly rhino. The...

7 bizarre cases in medical history, from the curious case of a knife-swallowing sailor to an epidemic of exploding teeth…...

Yesterday, a bunch of anti-democracy morons turned out in London campaigning to overturn the largest democratic vote in British history...

According to its official line, the so-called "People’s Vote" campaign is neither for nor against Brexit - it merely wants the electorate to “have a say” on the final deal...

In 1819, a troop of sabre-wielding cavalrymen charged into a huge workers' rights protest in Manchester. The carnage that followed is the subject of a new film starring Maxine Peake. But who was the man who ordered the Peterloo Massacre? Peterloo: The man who ordered a massacre...

A Roman clay pot thought to be at least 1,800 years old has been discovered broken into two perfectly fitting halves on a muddy beach. The top half of the jigsaw vessel was initially found just...

History tells us that whenever Europe tries to act in unison, it screws up... Will Brussels EVER learn from 2,000 years of hubris and folly? SIMON JENKINS reveals how megalomaniacs have tried and failed to subjugate Europe's sovereign nations throughout its history...

How unfortunate that the person who once wrote a book called Stupid White Men now sounds an awful lot like a stupid white man. Yes, it’s Michael Moore, the dishevelled American filmmaker, who wasn’t in Britain for five minutes before he was making the most basic of factual errors. ‘You...

Most people today know of the Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell through Hilary Mantel’s inspired, prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. Or through the performance of Mark Rylance...

A 700-year-old parchment letter which gives a “tantalising glimpse” into the life of William Wallace is to go on public display. The letter, one of only two surviving documents with a personal connection to...