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Archaeologists excavating a historic religious retreat have found the grave of a medieval porpoise. The unusual discovery, thought to date from the 13th century, was made after three weeks of digging at the site in Guernsey. The team found evidence of a grave and unearthed a skull and other...

In a new paper in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, the scientists who produce those doomsday reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have finally come clean — the computer models they’ve been using to predict runaway global warming are wrong. The planet has stubbornly...

The bloody bus is back in the news this week after Boris Johnson said he’d like to get our cash back from the EU and possibly give some of it to the NHS. Judging from the reaction to his words — reams of press outrage, a finger-wagging letter of condemnation from the UK Statistics Authority, a...

Multiculturalism is a faith, and many of its believers seem quite prepared to die for their religion. Quite literally, if the alternative is to embrace racism in any form. It could be argued that it is the third great universalist faith to take hold among Europe’s intellectuals, after...

Rivalries in Orkney more than 4,500 years ago led to competition between communities including over how people were buried, according to new research. Scientists were able to gather much more precise estimates of the timing and duration of events in the period around 3200-2500 BC by examining...

The UK has overtaken France in the manufacturing rankings as the weak pound boosts exports. Our factories produce £184billion of goods a year – the eighth highest in the world. Now British factories are beating the French: UK becomes eighth highest producer in the world with £184billion of...

Our dullard Establishment hates anyone with ‘a vision’. But that is exactly how Boris Johnson described his article which has caused such hyperventilational hand-flapping among Remain snobs. ‘Here’s my Brexit vision,’ said swashbuckling Boris. And what a magnificent, upbeat, tolerant vision it...

Prime Minister Theresa May is due to travel to Canada to discuss plans for a post-Brexit trade deal. She said the two countries held "shared values" ahead of meeting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Theresa May visits Canada for post-Brexit trade talks BBC News 18 September 2017...

Hartlepool is known by many as the place where a monkey was mistaken for a French spy and hanged. As some of the team behind the hit stage show War Horse launch a play based on the story, BBC News asks whether the hanging actually happened. Was a monkey really hanged in Hartlepool? By Duncan...

The Queen had a secret speech prepared in case World War III broke out, startling papers from 1983 have revealed. During one of the most fraught Cold War periods, the monarch was prepared to address the nation in the event of nuclear conflict. In the script for the hypothetical broadcast...

Researchers say a skull in an Italian museum may have belonged to historian and naval commander Pliny the Elder, who died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 after leading evacuation efforts. The Italian city of Pompeii was wiped out when the devastating volcanic eruption struck...

The oldest person in the world who was the last living subject of Queen Victoria and worked for 'masters' on a Caribbean sugar plantation has died aged 117. Violet Mosse Brown died in Jamaica at around 2.30pm yesterday. She became the world's oldest person on April 15 this year at 117...

We must confront the elite’s lies about the killing of Arek Jozwik... A killing in Harlow: the shame of Remainers Brendan O'Neill Editor Spiked We must confront the elite’s lies about the killing of Arek Jozwik. 15 September 2017 207 comments A few days ago, a 16-year-old boy from Harlow...

Over the past centuries, archaeologists have unearthed some extraordinary artifacts that give us a glimpse into human history and help us understand the many secrets of the ancient world. Numerous archaeological expeditions have been undertaken over the years, some of which resulted in...

An expert team will carry out an exhumation to see if a coffin contains the remains of a notorious 18th century clan chief. Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, was a Jacobite sympathiser who nevertheless did deals with enemies of the cause. Nicknamed The Old Fox, he was executed in London for...

The second of the UK's new generation of aircraft carriers, HMS Prince of Wales, has been officially named in a ceremony at Rosyth Naval Dockyard. Prince Charles, who shares a title with the £3bn vessel, watched as his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Rothesay, carried out the duty. The...

A rarely-seen workbook showing how Queen Victoria learned to write Urdu from a cherished Indian servant has gone on public display. The monarch began to take writing lessons from Abdul Karim in 1887. The book is on show at the queen's former residence, Osborne House, Isle of Wight, to...

Thousands of German football fans brought parts of central London to a standstill ahead of their team's Europa League match against Arsenal. Some 20,000 FC Cologne supporters have come to London, and briefly brought the West End to a halt as they marched down Oxford Street. FC Cologne fans...

They were one of the most bloodthirsty tribes on Earth. When the Scythians took to the battlefield, it was claimed the air was so thick with bronze-tipped arrows that the sun was blotted out. Mounted on their lightning-quick horses, they fired volley after volley at their terrified...

Jean-Claude Juncker’s ‘state of the union’ speech dispels the notion that voting Remain would have been a vote to keep things as they are. Remaining in the EU as it now is was not an option on the ballot paper. Voting Remain would have meant being a member of an institution whose leaders...