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So, we finally know the identity of that celebrity threesome. Yesterday David Cameron, Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock manned the phones for the In campaign – a perfect example of the strange bedfellows that politics makes. If any of these gets through to your house, keep them on the line for an...

A university student has produced a stunning digital reconstruction of how a famous ruined castle would have looked if it hadn't been destroyed almost 400 years ago. Ciprian Selegean's footage of Corfe Castle in Dorset is so realistic it looks as if someone has filmed the medieval...

England's only resident golden eagle is feared to have died, wildlife chiefs have said. The bird, which occupied a site at Riggindale Valley, near Haweswater in the Lake District, has not been seen since before the turn of the year. An RSPB spokesman said it was "incredibly sad" and added...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and met the country's young king and queen. The royal couple were allowed into the cockpit of their Royal Bhutan Airways chartered jet as it landed at Paro airport - one of the most challenging...

British Muslims are not part of some rich tapestry of urban life. It's a myth, dreamed up by the BBC, and perpetuated by the Islington elite, says Katie Hopkins... KATIE HOPKINS: What do British Muslims Really Think? Now we know. And it's terrifying By Katie Hopkins for MailOnline 14 April...

This pro-EU propaganda leaflet stinks — stinks like a Belgian wrestler’s jockstrap — and we should demand explanations from those who have authorised it. It is hard to think of a more blatant stitch-up in public affairs since, well, the last time our country was given a vote on Europe back in...

If the British Crown dependency of Guernsey can thrive outside the EU, then so too would Britain. Guernsey is outside the EU. Essentially, it opts into the economic aspects of EU membership, but opts out of everything else. The Channel Islands are outside the Common Fisheries Policy, outside...

The new design for the $5 note has been mocked online with many pointing out that the Queen's 'digitally altered' face looks 'strange' and others saying it seems to be covered in 'bacteria'. Thousands have taken to social media to slam the Australian banknote which features Queen...

Actor, TV presenter and author Stephen Fry has made some intelligent remarks - so intelligent, in fact, that the right-on Twitterati are raging. The QI presenter and former Blackadder star, 58, has sparked outrage after criticizing the idea of safe spaces and trigger words, and saying that...

Archaeologists in Mongolia are slowly unwrapping the mummy of a suspected ancient woman found preserved in the Altai Mountains. So far only one hand and her feet in modern-looking boots are visible, but experts believe the find dates to around 1,500 years ago. It also appears to be...

The wife of singer Sir Tom Jones has died after a "short but fierce battle with cancer", it has been announced. Lady Melinda Rose Woodward - known as Linda - who was married to the star for 59 years, died on Sunday morning at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. "Surrounded by her...

A leading Tudor historian has made an important discovery in an unlikely place – eBay. Alison Weir believes that a 19th-century engraving on the internet shopping site could be a 'lost' 16th-century portrait of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England. The sitter's lavish necklace bears the initials of...

A Labour councillor has been suspended from the party over anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account. A message on Luton councillor Aysegul Gurbuz's Twitter feed claimed Hitler was the "greatest man in history". Another tweet on Ms Gurbaz's account suggested Iran could develop a nuclear...

Say what you like about the recent spate of leaks, none have led to people having their testicles ritually crushed. Nor, as far as we know, has anyone been locked in a temple until they starved to death. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are not universally popular, but even their most...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are meeting children in Mumbai for a game of cricket after landing in the city this morning to begin their first royal tour as a couple for almost two years. They were given an enthusiastic welcome upon their arrival at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel...

Parishioners had to wait for their new toilet after skeletons dating from as far back as the Anglo-Saxon era were unexpectedly found at a church. Some 40 graves lay just 18in below a path outside Holy Trinity Church in Hildersham, Cambridgeshire. Archaeologists examined 19 intact...

Just past 5.30am on January 20, 1838, Sergeant John Robinson was watching over hundreds of criminals detained on a ship heading to Australia when he heard a commotion in the waters below. A convict had escaped from his bolted cell on the William Jardine ship heading from Dublin to...

Daniel Hannan, one of the three Conservative Members of the European Parliament for the South East of England (along with four Ukip MEPs, one LibDem MEP, one Labour MEP and one Green MEP), hopes that he will soon be out of a job - because that would mean the British people have voted for Brexit...

Here are some of history's most famous monarchs in pictures... In pictures: kings and queens through history With...

It was the last pitched battle to be fought on British soil, ending the hopes of the Jacobite uprising and Bonnie Prince Charlie's claims to the throne. Now a skull found on the battlefield of Culloden is helping to reveal the brutality of the fighting that ended the rebellion against...