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Britain will be offered a free trade deal before the rest of the European Union if the Republicans win the US presidential election, Donald Trump's trade adviser has said. Dan DiMicco said Britain was "a friend" of America and was leaving the EU for the right reasons. Both presidential...

This year's Christmas Day episode of Doctor Who will see the Doctor team up with a comic book superhero. The Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, will work with the superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat... Doctor Who Christmas show to feature Doctor Mysterio BBC News 7 October...

Taking the dog for a walk seems like a tradition as old as time itself. But now we are one step closer to finding out exactly when the special connection between a man and his dog began. Archaeologists have found evidence of the oldest known ‘walkies’. And not only was it roughly 7,500...

The Rolling Stones have confirmed they will release a new album of blues covers in December. Blue and Lonesome was recorded over just three days in London earlier this year, and features new versions of songs by Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed. Guitarist Eric Clapton also features on the record...

The rise of the Tudor navy and eight places related to it... Where history happened: the Tudor navy Charlotte...

Across parts of Germany, running battles between immigrants and neo-Nazis are becoming so frequent that they no longer lead the news. In France and Belgium, Jewish schools and synagogues require armed guards. In Toulouse, a mosque has been burned to the ground. In Sweden, neo-Nazi thugs...

Horizontal fracking can go ahead, the government has said, in a landmark ruling for the UK shale gas industry. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has approved plans for fracking at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton in Lancashire. A second site, Roseacre Wood, has not yet...

Theresa May set out her vision for post-Brexit Britain today, pledging a country run for 'ordinary working families' instead of the 'international elite'. Delivering her keynote speech to Tory conference in Birmingham, the Prime Minister insisted the historic result in June was a...

UKIP has been plunged into turmoil after Diane James unexpectedly quit as leader after 18 days in the job. Ms James cited professional and personal reasons for her decision. Ms James, who succeeded Nigel Farage on 16 September, said she did not have enough authority in the party and would not...

British soldiers will never again face a legal witch hunt, Theresa May will pledge as she says that European human rights laws will no longer apply on the battlefield. In a joint announcement with Sir Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, the Prime Minister will say that UK troops will be...

James Lind is remembered as the man who helped to conquer a killer disease. His reported experiment on board a naval ship in 1747 showed that oranges and lemons were a cure for scurvy. But why did the Royal Navy, which celebrates the tercentenary of Lind's birth on 4 October 2016, take...

The Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent, also known as the Potteries, has been a production centre for ceramics for 300 years, but does its creative heritage stretch back to Roman times? Stoke-on-Trent: Did the Romans make pottery there? 3 October 2016 BBC News...

A man accused of killing the Labour MP Jo Cox refused to enter pleas as he appeared in court. Thomas Mair, 53, from Birstall, remained silent when asked to plead at the Old Bailey on four charges relating to Mrs Cox's death. Mrs Cox, 41, who was a married mother-of-two, was shot and stabbed...

The largest Iron Age earthwork in Britain has been identified at the former site of a Norman castle. The mound at Skipsea Castle in East Yorkshire is 278ft (85m) in diameter and 42ft (13m) high. It was thought to be part of a Norman motte and bailey dating from 1086 but archaeological analysis...

After weeks of uncertainty, and accusations that the Government hasn't the faintest idea of how to handle Brexit, Theresa May yesterday showed us that she knows exactly where we are going... STEPHEN GLOVER: Praise be! How sweet it is to hear a PM honour the will of the British people Theresa...

You would probably get a confused look in today’s world if you called someone ‘tarse’ or ‘nippy’, but it would have caused plenty of trouble centuries ago. That’s because the unusual terms are among Britain’s best long-lost swear words, which also include ‘bald-a*se’ and ‘hollow-mouthed’ -...

A 3,000-year-old pressed flower is among finds within an 'absolutely jaw-dropping' Late Bronze Age hoard unearthed In Lancashire. The thistle appears to have been deliberately placed into the hollow end of an axe handle and buried with various objects, including weaponry and jewellery, many in...

Finally, the British Government is outlining its plans to take Britain out of the EU. Theresa May has insisted the Brexit process will begin in earnest by the spring as she pledged a 'Great Repeal Bill' to scrap the 1972 act that took Britain into the EU. The Prime Minister said Article...

An amateur treasure hunter has found a rare 2,000-year-old Roman pendant in a field in a Cheshire village. Luke Sansom was searching with a metal detector in Farndon, near Chester and the Welsh border, when he stumbled across the silver piece. Made with carnelian gemstone, it features a...

Brexit, they say, has emboldened the hateful. It has given people permission to spout their prejudices, to pollute public life with their weird, rash dislike of anyone who is different to them. And it’s true, Brexit has done this. Only not in the way they think. The most visible hatred...