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An "earthquake" made by football fans celebrating a goal has been recorded for the first time in the UK. A University of Leicester team installed a seismometer near Leicester City's King Power Stadium and reported a minor quake with a magnitude of 0.3. The tremor was attributed to a "sudden...

Back in 2014, a team of British researchers made headlines for producing the blackest material known to science. Called Vantablack, the material was so black, it absorbed all but 0.035 percent of visible light, which means to our eyes, it was borderline invisible. Now the blackest material...

Tomorrow, my hometown, Bolton, and its football club, Bolton Wanderers, will mark the 70th anniversary of the Burnden Park disaster. The Burnden Park stadium disaster was the worst loss of life at an English football ground before the 1980s. Thirty-three people died and around 400 were...

Former Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson has been branded by the media as a "paedophile" after a court found him guilty of sexual activity with a besotted 15 year old fan. Rather predictably, Twitter has gone into meltdown as its members attack Johnson, who is preparing for prison. But...

To celebrate the fact that this is British Pie Week, here are ten weird and wonderful facts about pies... British Pie Week: 10 things you never knew about pies 10 weird and wonderful facts about pies Saffron Alexander 7 March 2016 The Telegraph Food and Drink...

An earthquake has struck near the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire border. Residents in Chinnor and Thame in Oxfordshire as well as Princes Risborough, Aylesbury and Bledlow in Buckinghamshire reported feeling shaking late on Sunday. The BGS said the earthquake, centred on the village of...

The foreign politicians and establishment figures who support Remain forget that the British electorate always stands up to bullies... Why am I considered a bigot or an idiot for wanting Britain to leave the EU? The foreign politicians and establishment figures who support...

One of the most iconic images of post-Renaissance London has been redrawn, revealing just how much the capital has changed in four centuries. The 1616 Visscher engraving details the city from Whitehall to St Katharine’s Dock and has been described as one of the most 'recognisable and...

Beware the 'swivel-eyed’ moderates who refuse to see the way the world is going nor admit how they have failed... Our pompous, bigoted elite have not even bothered to consider the case for Brexit Beware the 'swivel-eyed’ moderates who refuse to see the way the world is...

Dissident republicans in Northern Ireland want to kill members of the security forces in the run up to the centenary of the Easter Rising, a senior police officer has said. Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin was speaking after a bomb exploded under a prison officer's van. The device...

A flypast to mark the 80th anniversary of the Spitfire's first flight is taking place in Southampton later. The first prototype, K5054, designed by R.J. Mitchell, took off from Eastleigh Aerodrome on 5 March 1936. A Spitfire is due to pass Southampton Water and the site of the Supermarine...

The American comic Toby Muresianu put it best: last night’s Oscars felt like ‘three hours of being told to eat your vegetables’. If there has ever been a more grating gathering of smug, self-important asses keen to educate the TV-watching blob about Serious Stuff, then I’m struggling to...

Back in 1916, the whole of Ireland was part of the UK. However, some Irish people were opposed to this Union and wanted Ireland out of it and become a new sovereign state. On Easter Monday (24th April) in 1916, as WWI raged, a group of Irish nationalists staged a rebellion against the...

Scientists believe they have discovered a way to "steer" the immune system to kill cancers. Researchers at University College, London have developed a way of finding unique markings within a tumour - its "Achilles heel" - allowing the body to target the disease. But the personalised...

In what seems like another case of ludicrous Nanny State scaremongering nonsense, a group of "experts" has written to British government ministers to call for a ban on tackling in school rugby to lesson the dangers of children being injured. But rather than a simple of case of 'Elf 'N Safety...

After Super Tuesday, the nightmare scenario has moved a step closer to reality. America is on the brink of electing a polarising president with a long history of dishonesty, scandals and shady finances. No, not Donald Trump. While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating...

We are beggars, not choosers: that, it increasingly seems, is the Government’s message on Brexit. We have no choice and no power: we can either take what little we have been given and remain a member of the EU, warts and all, or face economic, social and cultural catastrophe. There is...

Chimps often use tools to find and eat food, but the tools they choose and their different purposes can differ depending on where they live. In West Africa, for example, chimps throw stones at trees resulting in conspicuous accumulations at various sites. But, unlike the use of sticks and...

It was once the largest royal residence in Europe, but the last remnant of the Palace of Whitehall is now undergoing a facelift - with the help of a lot of scaffolding. These pictures show the extensive renovations taking place at the 17th-century Banqueting House, including cleaning...

Nowadays it is just a barley field in the middle of the Fens. But following a chance find, archaeologists say that in 750 AD the site was a ‘significant’ centre of international trade. Experts believe that monks, priests and noblemen lived on what was an island – until it had to be...