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We live in age of cave-ins. Recanting is all the rage. Go off-message, be off-colour, wonder out loud if men really can become women, crack a joke better suited to 1977 than 2017, and a Twitterstorm will form around you. A thousand unforgiving fingers will jab in your face. You’ll be warned to...

A female polar bear at a Scottish animal park has given birth to a cub, says the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS). It is the first polar bear to be born in the UK in 25 years. The mother bear, Victoria, is one of three adult polar bears at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig...

How the lives of eight major figures from history could have turned out better had they changed their ways... The New Year’s resolutions Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and Josef Stalin should have made…...

Let’s have a brand new start for Heseltine, Blair and Osborne, for Nick Clegg, Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Vince Cable and anyone else who thinks they have the right to veto democracy. In 2018, resolve that you will finally accept the result of the EU referendum... TONY PARSONS Wise...

An ancient temple constructed by a mysterious cult in northern England may have been built to align with sunrise on Dec. 25, to ‘recall the birth’ of the light god Mithras. A new analysis using satellite maps and a software that can plot the direction of sunrise and sunset revealed that...

The Queen will share memories of her coronation when she makes a rare appearance in a television documentary. In the hour-long BBC programme - The Coronation - the Queen talks with royal commentator Alastair Bruce about the ceremony in 1953. She also discusses the day in 1937 when, aged 11...

An amateur treasure hunter was left shaking with excitement after unearthing a 15th century bishop's ring in a farmer's field. Metal detectorist Adam Day, 30, was astonished to make the discovery and knew immediately it was something special. The 20-carat gold ring, engraved with St George...

Pro-Brexit rallies are to he held nationwide from 14th to 18th January, in cities including Cardiff, London, Belfast and Nottingham. Arch-Remainer Anna Soubry is MP for Broxtowe, near Nottingham.

Thirteen monkeys have died in a fire at Woburn Safari Park. It started in the patas monkey house within the drive-through enclosure of the Bedfordshire park in the early hours of Tuesday. Three appliances from Bedfordshire fire brigade attended the blaze. A spokesman for the safari park...

Camperdown wildlife centre in Dundee has closed its doors for four days after the death of a monkey. The centre announced that a baby lion-tailed macaque had passed away on Friday morning. Due to their sociable nature, the pack are still grieving the loss. Their grieving process includes...

Bristolians are entitled to live in Dublin thanks to an 846-year-old charter written by King Henry II which has never been revoked. The charter was written during an 1171-72 visit to assert his authority over a troublesome nobleman in Ireland, who the King was concerned would declare...

A rare prehistoric fossil found on a Scottish island could significantly advance scientists' understanding of the area. The 170 million-year-old jawbone from a dog-sized crocodile-like creature is one of a few found anywhere in the world. The small fossil, measuring just over 3.5cm in length...

Whilst most were raising a glass this New Year's Eve, 45 men in a small Northumberland town were raising burning barrels in an age old tradition. The Tar Bar'l fire festival in Allendale got underway just before midnight as the colourful procession lit up the town in the black of...

This is the horrifying moment a horse collapsed in the street during London's spectacular New Year's Day parade. Hundreds of thousands of people had lined the streets to watch the annual event on Monday, featuring 8,000 performers from all over the world - including dancers, acrobats...

People across the UK reported seeing a large greenish light streak across the sky on Sunday evening. The source is likely to be a meteor – space matter disintegrating as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. Large meteor spotted in skies across UK - BBC News

Elizabethans' attempts at piety often got them to meet their maker sooner than they expected... The perils of piety in Tudor England Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski, who are researching thousands of 16th-century coroners’ inquests reports, reveal how Elizabethans’ attempts to get closer to...

Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from. These are the decorated boxes into which the wrapped body of the deceased was placed before it was put in a tomb. They are made from scraps of papyrus which were...

The New Year has officially begun, as midnight passed in Samoa, Tonga and Christmas Island/Kiribati, the first places in the world to welcome in 2018. Eastern parts of Australia see in the New Year in just under 15 minutes' time. New Year's Eve celebrations: world welcomes 2018 Helena...

In their hysteria over Britain returning to traditional, blue, non-EU passports, elite Remainers show how much they despise ordinary people... The revealing hysteria over blue passports Brendan O’Neill...

Starving, dehydrated and, in many cases, dying, hundreds of African slaves are crammed on to the deck of a British ship. Taken in the early days of photography, this picture gives a disturbingly contemporary feel to one of history's bleakest chapters. No wonder the National Archives...