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The news came as a shock to all those who have failed - yet again - to understand the feelings of regular Americans – people who want to work hard, keep their family safe and secure for the future. Real people. Not the loud voices in wealthy cities. Not the multicultural mafia in the liberal...

There has been "some loss of life" and dozens of people have been injured after a tram overturned in south London, police have said. British Transport Police (BTP) said it was "too early to confirm numbers" and two people remain trapped. It has arrested the tram driver but would not confirm...

Undemocratic bitter Remoan losers are threatening to go to court again! What insidious crime have the Brexiteers been accused of? It is alleged that the Leave campaigners exercised "undue influence" on the electorate during the referendum by using a "fraudulent device or contrivance" to...

Prince Harry has confirmed US actress Meghan Markle is his girlfriend, in a statement from Kensington Palace attacking the media for subjecting her to a "wave of abuse and harassment". The statement said the couple were "a few months into a relationship" and it was "not right" that Ms...

Apart from it seriously annoying the BBC and the Guardian, here are reasons why a Trump presidency will be good for Britain... A Donald Trump presidency would be better for Britain Rod Liddle 7 November 2016 The Spectator If Trump wins, I wonder if the BBC will be as exultant as it was in...

The Government is already preparing the first draft of a Brexit bill after the shock legal decision ruling Theresa May cannot trigger Article 50 without approval by MPs, it has emerged. It is being reported that officials are already preparing the legislation so Parliament can vote to...

Henry VII, who reigned from 1485 to 1509, was the father of Henry VIII and the grandfather of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I: he set the blueprint for a dynasty that was to make England a global power... Henry VII: survivor and stabiliser He may not win many popularity contests but, says...

Just watch as the havering and infighting continues about the triggering of Article 50 and the suspicion rises that the Leavers are being sold out. And watch as immigration continues to rise. A competent Ukip would make a killing... Ukip is missing an amazing opportunity Ukip doesn’t need...

A hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure, including a pendant worth over £50,000, which is believed to have belonged to an important ruler, has been discovered in a potato field. A gold pendant, two bronze bowls and iron weaponry, including a spear head, two arrow heads and the fragments of a sword...

He is one of the most famous kings of England, remembered for marrying six times, for breaking with the papacy in Rome and establishing the Church of England. A king of this magnitude, then, surely enjoyed a regal burial and was laid to rest in the magnificent tomb that Henry himself had...

An ancient well that legend says carried a miraculous healing power before its waters were cursed has been uncovered by archaeologists. Religious pilgrims used to flock to St Anne's Well, located near Liverpool, in order to reap the benefits of the well's supposed abilities to free...

Careful with that, your Highness! Charles joins in with traditional sword dancing after he is serenaded with bagpipes as he begins tour of the Middle East with Camilla in Oman Prince Charles and Camilla are in Oman as part of a seven day tour of the Gulf region...

On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the remote Derbyshire village of Eyam. Their fate had been sealed four months earlier when the entire village made the remarkable decision to quarantine itself in...

Here are eight things you probably didn't know about King Cnut: King of England from 1016 to 1035; King of Denmark from 1018 to 1035; and King of Norway from 1028 to 1035... 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about King Cnut A fierce Danish warrior king who conquered vast swathes of northern...

An NHS worker provoked fury last night after she wished illnesses on the children of Brexiteers live on BBC One's Question Time show. Nicola Gorb, 47, a language and speech therapist at Great Ormond Street children's hospital, now faces calls to be sacked. Introduced by David Dimbleby as...

Britain has soared into the ranks of the top 10 most prosperous countries – leapfrogging most other European nations. A global index of the best places to live in the world puts the UK near the top, ahead of Germany, France and Spain. Rankings are based on income as well as ‘wellbeing’...

Stella Tillyard looks at Britain's Regency period... Uncertainty and unrest: the madness of the Regency period In...

From the window of her flat overlooking the canal path in a suburb of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, a blonde woman watches two female figures walking past as they chatter in a foreign tongue. Both the passers-by are covered in black Islamic gowns, only a glimpse of their eyes show from...

Poems written in "forgotten" Lancashire dialects have been uncovered as part of an academic research project. Simon Rennie from Exeter University made the discovery while trawling for "moving poetry" written about the 1861-65 cotton famine in Lancashire. People used their local language to...

New scientific research suggests we have intercepted messages transmitted by aliens from beyond our solar system. A paper entitled "Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars" published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of...