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This is the hilarious moment a Shetland pony was chased by police down a residential street. The footage shows the animal evading two police cars in the housing estate in Crawley, West Sussex. Its escape - from an unknown location - prompted Sussex Police to send out four cars to bring it...

A suffragette-themed board game, where players would "dodge the police", is set to go under the hammer. The 109-year-old Pank-a-Squith set, which was designed to raise money for the women's rights movement, was named after its leader Emmeline Pankhurst and the Prime Minister Herbert...

Researchers have discovered the oldest figurative tattoos in the world on two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt. The illustrations are of a wild bull and a Barbary sheep on the upper-arm of a male mummy, and S-shaped motifs on the upper-arm and shoulder of a female. The discovery pushes...

Bread ovens used by invading Roman soldiers are among a treasure trove of ancient artefacts uncovered during excavations in Scotland. Some of the items date back 15,000 years and include prehistoric roundhouses and a cremation complex. Discoveries at several locations along the route of a...

A farmer is helping his lambs survive the Beast from the East by popping them into his oven. Ian O'Reilly, from Rimington, Lancashire, said 10 minutes in his farmhouse Aga can be a life-saver. Lancashire farmer revives freezing lambs in Aga 2 March 2018...

Runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City, arguably the best team in Europe right now, have won English football's first silverware of the season by brushing aside London giants Arsenal in the Carabao Cup Final. Manchester City brush aside Arsenal to win Carabao Cup By Phil McNulty Chief...

It's another demonstration of the power of Big Data - of mining a huge batch of statistics to see patterns of behaviour that were simply not apparent before. Computers have crunched 22 billion identification messages transmitted by sea-going vessels to map fishing activity around the globe...

How being pro-Brexit has lost James Delingpole more friends than being pro-Trump and a climate change sceptic... James Delingpole Even being pro-Trump didn’t lose me as many friends as being pro-Brexit How warped do you have to be to ditch your mates for voting Leave? James...

Throwing kisses as the vast crowd below went wild, the first Englishwoman to fly rose slowly over the Thames in her hot air balloon on a balmy June afternoon in 1785. Early flight was all about showbusiness and no one was more at home in the limelight than Letitia Sage, a voluptuous...

Millions are tuning in on Saturday nights to watch the BBC's epic new historical drama series Troy: Fall of a City, which is based on Homer's Iliad. The fall and sack of the city of Troy at the hands of an avenging Greek army is one that has been told for some 3,000 years, but contained...

A suspected drug dealer who hid a stash of Class A drugs inside his body when he was arrested has been in custody for three weeks because he refuses to go to the toilet, police have said. Essex Police's Operation Raptor West unit arrested the man - thought to be from a London gang - on 16...

Brexiteer Nigel Farage got a hero's welcome in the United States on Friday, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that supporting Donald Trump in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life.' The swashbuckling anti-establishment Member of the European Parliament was on...

The earliest mosaic ever found at the Roman Baths in Bath has been discovered during excavations taking place in advance of the Archway Project, which will extend the public access into a new area of the site. The mosaic was found by local volunteer Fiona Medland who is part of the team...

A young couple have found letters telling the tragic story of a young First World War soldier's death hidden inside a wall in their bathroom. While redecorating, Phil Harbone, 28, found the heart-breaking string of letters between 23 year old soldier Walter Harrison and his parents in a...

DEATH threats, online abuse and fury in the streets: I'm only 18, but these are the sorts of things I put up with every day. I've not committed a crime or tried to be offensive - in fact, all I've done is express my opinion on the biggest political decision most of us will face in our...

A 1,500 year-old tomb containing human remains and armor of a chieftain has been discovered in very good condition. The tunnel-tomb was found in the city of Shibushi on Japan's third largest island, Kyushu, while workers were paving a road along a farm. The tomb contains the most burial...

High street bakery Greggs has been a British favourite since 1939, but one diehard fan has claimed its famous pasties could have been a favourite as far back as the sixteenth century. Twitter user Luke (@goopery), from Manchester, couldn't resist tweeting the baker when he spotted...

Theresa May and 11 senior ministers have been thrashing out the UK's approach to Brexit in an eight-hour discussion at the PM's country retreat. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said everyone is said to have left Chequers happy implying "baby steps forwards not a huge...

Contrary to the traditional view of them as brutes, it turns out that Neanderthals were artists. A study in Science journal suggests they made cave drawings in Spain that pre-date the arrival of modern humans in Europe by 20,000 years. They also appear to have used painted sea shells as...

The secret to how the ancient Egyptians achieved the near-perfect alignment of the Great Pyramid of Giza may have finally been uncovered. Ancient engineers used shadows cast during the equinox to line up the 4,500-year-old structure with the cardinal points, north-south-east-west, an...