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2017 has been our best year yet, and 2018 will be even better. I know that’s an unfashionable view. The official line is that we’re all going to hell in a handcart, that Brexit is crashing our economy, that Donald Trump is threatening world peace and that our living standards are stuck. In...

A magnificent manor house which was once home to one of the most powerful men in England is up for sale. The Grade II listed Woodmancote Place, located in the picturesque village of Henfield, West Sussex, boasts ten bedrooms, seven bathrooms, seven reception rooms and 50 acres of land- all...

A giant Bible is returning to Britain after more than 1,300 years to go on display, alongside the oldest surviving will written by a woman, in an exhibition on treasures of the Anglo Saxon world. Codex Amiatinus was made in a monastery in Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria, in the early 8th...

Plans for a United States of Europe by 2025 suffered a damning blow today after a new poll revealed they have little support across the major nations. German politician Martin Schulz - the former President of the European Parliament and domestic rival to Angela Merkel - promoted the plan...

Imagine looking out of your bedroom window and seeing, down below, a Roman temple that was part of Hadrian's Wall... Hadrian's Wall legacy hidden under Newcastle streets BBC News 28 December 2017...

The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and Bee Gees vocalist and guitarist Barry Gibb have been given knighthoods in the New Year Honours. War Horse novelist Michael Morpurgo has also received a knighthood and Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station...

The second aircraft carrier to be built for the Royal Navy in the record-breaking design of the £3.1 billion HMS Queen Elizabeth has passed a major milestone - it floats. As its sister ship undergoes emergency repairs for an embarrassing leak, HMS Prince of Wales rose up overnight as water was...

The former burial place of Richard III, a medieval monastic site which now lies under a car park in Leicester, has been given protected status. The remains of the 13th century Greyfriars, where the last Plantagenet king was hastily laid to rest after his death in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485...

Universities must protect free speech and "open minds, not close them", Universities Minister Jo Johnson (the brother of Foreign Secretary Boris) has said in a speech in Birmingham. He said "no-platforming", the policy of banning controversial speakers, is stifling debate. From next April, a...

On a chilly Christmas Eve three centuries ago, one of the most devastating storms in the history of Europe smashed into the coastlines around the North Sea, killing over 13,000 people, annihilating thousands of houses and wrecking countless farms. The apocalyptic weather caused enormous floods...

A mother has been "overwhelmed" by the response to her photograph of four smiling royals, which appeared on the front of numerous national newspapers. Karen Murdoch, of Watlington, Norfolk, captured a beaming Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Christmas Day at...

The Queen praised the resilience of London and Manchester after 'appalling attacks', in a Christmas message that also paid tribute to her husband, Prince Philip, who retired from regular royal duties this year. The Queen pays tribute to 'strong as ever' Prince Philip in Christmas message: Her...

Royal Family out for Christmas Day in Sandringham Meghan Markle (shown above curtseying to the Queen) has become the first fiancee to join the Royal Family at Sandringham in Norfolk for Christmas - with huge crowds of well-wishers lining the streets in a bid to catch a glimpse of Prince...