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Sat navs are sending tourists and lorry drivers trying to find Wales 186 miles off course to a Yorkshire village due to a post code mix-up. Foreign visitors expecting the beautiful rolling countryside and lush Welsh valleys, are...

To have a second referendum before the result of the first referendum has been fully enacted and given the time and space to take effect would not be an act of democracy, but of anti-democracy. It would be an attempt to usurp the largest democratic vote in British history... The terrible...

This is the hilarious moment a driver noticed a pair of legs sticking outside of a clothes recycling bin. Ashley Kerr came across a man who was stuck head first in the bin at around 8am Friday morning in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Bizarre moment driver discovers man stuck HEAD FIRST in a...

Hair scraped back, wearing a dress so modest it even covered her neck, she is the ultimate respectable Victorian lady — married to the Queen’s own doctor, no less. But she is also jack the Ripper, according to an expert convinced that all evidence points away from a man being the infamous...

A clan seal dating from the bitter feud between the Campbells and MacDonalds has been found in ruins on an island off the west coast of Scotland. The 425-year-old seal, which bears the name Sir John Campbell of Cawdor, was found under a collapsed wall at Dunyvaig Castle on the Isle of...

A controversial giant balloon of London Mayor Sadiq Khan dressed in a bikini has been flown over Parliament Square. The 29ft blimp is part of a campaign that is trying to get him removed from office. Sadiq Khan giant balloon: London mayor bikini blimp...

More than 2,000 years ago, the famous Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero once accused his enemy Clodius of incest with his brothers and sisters. But far from being shocking to people living at the time, this type of insult was just a part of normal everyday life, according to one...

Funding for the UK's own satellite navigation system to rival the European Union's Galileo project is expected to be announced. It comes after the UK was told it would not be able to access the EU-wide programme after Brexit next March. At least £92m has been promised by the Treasury to...

Rugby league club Catalans Dragons pulled off one of Wembley's biggest upsets as the unfancied French side beat Warrington Wolves to win their first Challenge Cup yesterday. No team from outside England had ever won the trophy in its 122-year history. The Perpignan club is the only club from...

After just realising that the Labour Party has been taken over by a "leftist clique", Blackadder actor Sir Tony Robinson should quit, treat himself to a consolatory turnip and just leave Corbyn to destroy that once-great party with his Stalinist purges... ROD LIDDLE Baldrick, here’s my cunning...

Let's explore eight of Britain's most intriguing ruins... 8 of Britain’s most mysterious ruins From haunted castles to cursed, crumbling manor houses, Britain is home to hundreds of ruins steeped in spooky and supernatural history. Here, David Hamilton, author of Wild Ruins, explores eight of...

A shortage of food and medicine; the break-up of the UK; the Grand National being hit; the collapse of British science; an outbreak of super-gonorrhoea. These are all the scare stories the Remainers have come out with in recent days in the event of a No Deal Brexit. What are they going to warn...

Nine of britain's best castles, including medieval fortresses and clifftop ruins... 9 of Britain’s best castles From medieval fortresses to dramatic clifftop ruins, Britain boasts countless awe-inspiring castles. Here we round up nine of the best and explore their fascinating histories... By...

An amateur treasure hunter has stumbled across a hoard of Bronze Age items that could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in a Norfolk field. David Lovett, a 64-year-old from Smallburgh, unearthed the precious haul of ancient goods when walking through the field in Barton Turf, Norfolk...

A new record has been set at a national competition for stone skimmers in the Lake District. The 10th annual All England Open Stone Skimming Championships took place at Fell Foot Park on Lake Windermere. Record set at 10th stone skimming event on Windermere BBC News 19th August 2018 Alex...

A gold ring that was lost in a vegetable garden 12 years ago has been found on a carrot dug up for dinner. Lin Keitch, 69, from Monkton Heathfield near Taunton, Somerset, noticed it while washing her home-grown vegetables. Somerset lost gold ring found on carrot dug up for dinner 17...

Laying a wreath on the graves of the terrorists who committed the Munich Olympics attacks shows just how contemptible Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who, in the past, has shown his support for other terrorist organisations - is... DOMINICK SANDBROOK: Contemptible Jeremy Corbyn hasn't even got...

Excavation work has started in a bid to find out what is left of a castle where Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned. A series of trial trenches will be dug in previously uninvestigated areas where Sheffield Castle once stood. The dig, said to be the first comprehensive survey of the...

Sir Patrick Stewart quits Labour Party after "awkward" encounter with Corbyn Sir Patrick Stewart, one of Labour’s most high-profile members, has abandoned the party he has supported for 73 years after saying he no longer knows “what it stands for”. The Star Trek actor, who attended his...

The UK's new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is to set sail to the US where fighter jets will land on its flight deck for the first time. The Royal Navy's £3.1bn future flagship is expected to leave Portsmouth Naval Base at about 18:00 BST. During the 65,000-tonne carrier's trip it...