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Ahead of Bonfire Night tomorrow, we explore the life of the conspirator most closely associated with the foiled 1605 Gunpowder Plot… Life of the Week: Guy Fawkes...

Some addresses in London, it turns out, have more than a few skeletons in their closets. A new interactive map shows the precise locations of the capital’s plague pits, where victims of the epidemic that killed around 100,000 people in the 17th century were buried en masse. The map...

A football fan whose parents named him after all eleven members of a winning Leeds United team has gone against his name - to support Arsenal. Dominic Cazaux, 22, is in a league of his own when it comes to his full name after his parents decided to name him after an entire football...

These incredible photos show two British birds of prey doing aerial battle for a meal as a brave kestrel tries to steal a meal from an owl twice its size. The barn owl swooped through the air gripping a vole with its hooked beak, while a sly kestrel followed in pursuit, hoping for a...

David Cameron has been ridiculed online after Downing Street was caught photoshopping a fake, oversized poppy onto a picture of the Prime Minister and using it as an official Facebook picture. Hilarious memes poking fun at the Downing Street blunder swamped the internet after eagle-eyed...

BAE Systems has bought a 20% stake in a company developing a radical engine that could propel aircraft into space. BAE is paying £20.6m for the stake in Reaction Engines, which is developing a hybrid rocket/jet engine called Sabre. Reaction says the technology would allow the launch of...

An "extremely well preserved" family burial vault has been discovered "accidentally" at Gloucester Cathedral. The tomb in the North Transept contains coffins belonging to the Hyett family dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It was found by archaeologists who lifted a neighbouring...

A dig in Jersey has yielded a stash of hunter-gatherer artefacts from the end of the last Ice Age, including stone pieces criss-crossed by carved lines. They are similar to engravings found from the same period in continental Europe, but are the first of their kind in the British Isles...

Adult colouring books are all the rage at the moment, and one is now on sale featuring the Labour Party's new Far-Left leader Jeremy Corbyn. One image by artist James Nunn lampoons his unofficial 'Jez We Can' campaign slogan, and features him in front of a bright red bus headed straight...

Legend has it, it could be the skull of William Shakespeare - robbed from the playwright's grave to win a £300 bet. But clergymen attempting to solve a centuries-old mystery over the identity of a lone skull found in a Worcestershire church vault have been thwarted by a senior church...

It's the Muslims again... ISIS claims responsibility for Russian jet crash: Victims 'found over three-mile radius' after plane with 224 on board crashes in Egypt leaving no survivors - but officials blame 'technical fault' ISIS...

A bat stored in the vaults of a London museum for 30 years is a previously unknown species, experts have discovered. The Francis' Woolly Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus francisi, has been named after Charles Francis, who collected the specimen in Malaysia in 1983. Bat species discovered at...

Land thought to contain important archaeological remains has been saved from being used for housing after a mystery benefactor bought it for a seven-figure sum. The site in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, is next to where remains of a Roman villa have previously been discovered. The land has...

A 6,000-year-old "eco-home" has been discovered close to Stonehenge, archaeologists have revealed. The shelter - in a hollow left behind by a fallen tree - at Blick Mead was used over a 90-year period from 4336 BC, it is believed. Archaeologist David Jacques, said: "They... used the stump...

UK population is to increase beyond 70 million in the next 12 years, official projections suggest. The Office for National Statistics said the population was expected to increase by 4.4 million in the next decade, before reaching 70 million in 2027. That increase is roughly the size of...

The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War should be published in June or July 2016 - nearly six years late - says its author. Sir John Chilcot said the two million word report would be finished in April, with two months or so then set aside for national security checks on it. The mother of a...

He is one of the most notorious and pivotal figures in English history, leading a revolution against the Crown that saw him cast as a libertarian, a brutal dictator and a class hero. So it is hardly surprising that Oliver Cromwell's sudden death at the age of 59 in 1658 has been...

Britain's Lewis Hamilton has joined the pantheon of F1 greats after becoming only the tenth driver to win the F1 world title at least three times. Hamilton, 30, claimed his third world title, and his second in successive seasons, after winning the US Grand Prix in Austin yesterday. Winning his...

A pile of bones discovered in a Welsh pub could be the last remains of an English saint who was hanged, drawn and quartered in the 17th Century for his religious beliefs. The bones, found 140 years ago in the Olde Star Inn next to St Winefride’s Well, Holywell, Flintshire, were discovered...

It is 600 years since Henry V led England to victory at the battle of Agincourt, defeating a French army significantly bigger than his own. But despite deservedly being one of the most famous battles of the Middle Ages, Agincourt is not necessarily one of the most significant of the era...