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The funeral for Shakespeare's greatest villain is fast approaching. But did he really kill the princes in the Tower? How bad a guy was Richard III...

London Mayor Boris Johnson says he intends to renounce his American citizenship to prove his "commitment to Britain". He told the Sunday Times that his citizenship was "an accident of birth that has left me with this thing. I've got to find a way of sorting it out". Johnson, who was born in...

The 11th Cricket World Cup, the world's biggest sporting event of the year, is set to start, with co-hosts Australia and New Zealand both playing on the first day. New Zealand's game against Sri Lanka gets the tournament of one-day matches under way at 22:00 GMT on Friday...

Australia may be about 10,000 miles from Europe on the opposite side of the planet but it is to compete at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. This year is the 50th Eurovision Song Contest and, to mark the occasion, the Antipodean nation has been invited to take part as a one-off. The...

Illegal digging on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland has been branded a worrying "heritage crime". Evidence of excavations have been found by National Trust staff at Steel Rigg and Peel Crags on the central section of the world heritage site. The damage, thought to be from...

On this day in 1975, Margaret Thatcher became the first female leader of the Conservative Party. Yesterday, with 85 days to go until the General Election on 7th May, the Labour Party unveiled their response. According to The Grauniad, “a bright pink minibus of female Labour MPs will tour...

A stone with unusual carvings that was sold as a garden ornament could contain a hidden message. Plucked from a garden in Leicester, the stone was purchased by an archaeologist who believes the intricate pattern was probably carved in Anglo Saxon times, over 1,000 years ago. James Balme...

Lincolnshire lad Guy Martin's two greatest loves in life are motorbikes and tea. The 33-year-old has competed in the Isle of Man TT, the world's most prestigious motorbike race and, in between speeding about on motorbikes, likes drinking copious amounts of his favourite beverage. So he can...

We all know that she was the second of Henry VIII's six wives (to be pedantic, he actually had only three wives, as three of his marriages were declared "null and void", which essentially declared that a true marriage never took place); that she was the mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I...

In this article, Prince Charles speaks of his fears for Christians who are being persecuted (by mainly Muslims) in the Middle East and that he is worried that there could come a time when there are no Christians left in the region, with their numbers dwindling dramatically as a result of...

A large crowd of Muslims today gathered near Downing Street in central London to take part in an anti-Charlie Hebdo march. The group couldn't get into Downing Street itself as it has been gated off to the public and manned with security since the height of the IRA threat in 1982, but they...

Forget the silly events of last weekend: the commercials for laxatives and piles treatments; a crappy concert with a couple of crappy "singers"; and the odd bit of "sport" interrupting proceedings from time to time. Now's the time for PROPER sporting action. Last night the 2015 Rugby Union Six...

What a brilliant episode of Question Time it was last night. The BBC showed yet again how "impartial" it is by deciding to throw Britain's most famous anti-Semite - that Far-Left slimeball George Galloway - into the lion's pit by having him appear on the panel on last night's episode of...

Scottish champions Celtic have confused their new player for a New York priest. The Glasgow club have just signed young Northern Irish winger Michael Duffy from Derry City, but they sent online messages of congratulations praising him for his move to Fr Michael Duffy in New York Fr Michael...

Twenty five endangered African wild dog puppies have made their first public appearance at a Kent wildlife park. The dogs, which are usually found in southern Africa, were born in three litters at Port Lympne Reserve, near Ashford, in November and December. Their arrival takes the number of...

With just three months to go until the British General Election, this new four-part series takes a look behind the scenes of the House of Commons. For the last year, cameras have been given access not only to the House of Commons Chamber where, probably uniquely amongst world parliaments, the...

It was teeth poking through the mud that caught an amateur fossil hunter’s attention. The sight led Jonathan Stewart to discover the remains of a prehistoric rhino on a Norfolk beach, after the cliffs were eroded by stormy weather. He came across the two rows of teeth at the foot of the...

Digging For Britain Series 3 Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology. In the summer, archaeologists were unearthing our history in hundreds of digs across Britain. They have gone to extraordinary lengths to uncover long lost...

I'm not normally into reality show rubbish like Big Brother, but here's a new reality show that I do like: 10,000 BC. In October 2014, Channel 5 sent 20 Brits back to the Stone Age to take part in a social experiment: The Harding family, five of the 20 participants of Channel 5's new reality...

In its new series, A Cook Abroad, the BBC has sent six British TV celebrity chefs abroad to try out different recipes around the world. The first episode, which aired last night, sees one half of the Hairy Bikers, Dave Myers, travel to Egypt to sample the local delicacies. The Hairy Bikers -...