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Nigel Farage has said he is going "back on the road" to campaign against the prime minister's Brexit plan. Writing for The Daily Telegraph, the UKIP MEP said Theresa May's Chequers agreement was a "sell-out" because it included regulatory alignment with the European Union. He added he...

A small piece of a flag that is said to have been used to prop up Admiral Lord Nelson's head as he lay dying at the Battle of Trafalgar has emerged for sale. The great British seaman was rushed below decks on HMS Victory after a French sniper shot him in the chest with a musket ball during the...

A well-preserved Roman road and hundreds of fragments of Roman pottery have been unearthed in County Durham. About 60 archaeologists and volunteers spent six weeks excavating the largely undisturbed northern end of Binchester Roman Fort, near Bishop Auckland. Binchester Roman Fort excavation...

An amazing 40,000 year old horse has been found perfectly preserved in a Siberian crater nicknamed the “Mouth of Hell”. The three month old dark brown foal dating from the Palaeolithic era is described as “unique in the world”. The animal had been preserved in permafrost since the Ice Age...

Tiny wooden robots have been found on a beach, sparking a social media appeal to track down their creator. The 6in high figures have been left at Portobello Beach, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, over recent weekends... Mystery over tiny robots left on beach By Angie Brown...

Legendary guitarist Brian May is heading to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to launch an illustrated biography on the Victorian Scottish photographer, George Washington Wilson. Wilson, who became the Queen's official photographer in Scotland, is best known for his photographs...

The uproar from our MPs over Boris Johnson's burka comments - three and a half years after they declared "Je Suis Charlie" - highlights the ridiculousness of our modern political class... Coffee House What happened to Je Suis Charlie, Prime Minister? Gavin Mortimer...

Hundreds of baseball-like sea creatures have washed up on a Cornish beach. The small heart-shaped orbs were sea potatoes, a sea urchin that lives buried in sandy and muddy sea beds all around UK coasts... Hundreds of sea potatoes cover Penzance beach 11 August 2018...

A factory worker thought he'd found a Coke can ring-pull while out metal detecting only to discover it was a rare piece of Elizabethan jewellery worth £10,000. Ben Bishop was searching a farmer's field when he came across the stunning item, a gold signet ring dating back to between 1550...

A rare Chinese tree in Cardiff has flowered for the first time since it was planted more than 100 years ago. The creamy-white flowers on Roath Park's Emmenopterys henryi are thought to be the result of a cold winter followed by heatwave conditions. Roath Park's rare Chinese tree flowers in...

IT was the mega-shark three times the size of a great white, with each of its 270 teeth as big as a hand. Now, 2.5million years after its extinction, the mighty megalodon is being brought back to life on film. The Meg, starring Brit action man Jason Statham, has been described as “Jaws on...

Australians have emailed MPs with dozens of requests for free portraits of the Queen, after the little-known entitlement was publicised this week. Under official rules, citizens may ask for "nationhood" material - things such as Australian flags, anthem recordings, and portraits of the...

A new film that shows Mary, Queen of Scots, meeting rival English queen Elizabeth I has been criticised for its historical inaccuracies. Dr Estelle Paranque said the meeting between the two queens never happened. The historian said the film, starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, was...

The mysterious death of King William II and the discovery of oxygen are two of the things that have happened in August... 6 weird things that have happened in August through history When was oxygen discovered? How did King William II die? And when was the first Guinness Book of World Records...

This is the horrifying moment a giant boa constrictor crushed a pigeon to death in broad daylight on a busy London street. Sickened pedestrians watched on as the fearsome serpent wolfed down the bird on Leytonstone High Road... HISS OF DEATH Incredible moment a boa constrictor swallows a whole...

Gina Miller - the woman made famous for initiating the court case in January last year against the British Government's authority to implement Brexit without the approval of parliament - has really shone a light on what is driving elitist Brexitphobia... Gina Miller’s nasty elitism sums up...

A man put out a fire on the world's longest pleasure pier by urinating on it. Thomas Watson noticed a small fire on the deserted Southend Pier and took matters into his own hands by relieving himself over the flames... Man puts out Southend Pier fire by peeing on it 31 July 2018...

France is said to have been a constant thorn in Queen Elizabeth I's side during her reign. But newly uncovered letters suggest the Tudor monarch was in fact a trusted confidant to King Henri III and broke protocol to warn him of an attempt to steal his crown... Queen Elizabeth I had a...

A grandfather in Derby says praying to his cucumber has helped it grow to a potential world-record size. Raghbir Singh Sanghera, who worked as a farmer in India before coming to the UK in 1991, grew the 51in (129.54cm) ribbed vegetable in his greenhouse. Mr Sanghera said the cucumber -...

Hell, the Remainers think WE’RE gullible. For having believed the “lies” of the Brexit campaign. But it is hard to imagine anyone could be quite so stupid as to really believe we’ll be short of food if we tell our European friends to shove their deal where the sun doesn’t shine... Rod...