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A museum has paid £40,000 for a rare 3,500 year old Bronze Age dagger which has spent the last 12 years being used as a doorstop since it was ploughed up in a field in East Rudham, Norfolk. The 27-inch blade, believed to have been used in ancient rituals, is only the second of its kind found...

The Left hate everyone - not just the white working class, says RICHARD LITTLEJOHN By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail 25 November 2014 The name Jack Monroe may ring a vague bell with regular readers. She was the Guardian blogger on ‘poverty issues’ who featured in a Labour party...

A report released at 11am GMT this morning has cleared Britain's security services of any blame over the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby last year. Fusilier Rigby, 25, was murdered by Islamist terrorists Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, outside his barracks in Woolwich, south...

Australia batsman Phil Hughes is in a critical condition after being hit by a bouncer during a match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The 25-year-old was at the crease for South Australia against New South Wales when bowler Sean Abbott struck him on the head, missing his helmet, during a match in...

Monty Python member and TV globetrotter Michael Palin leaves the world of comedy behind to star in his first dramatic, non-comedy role since GBH in 1991 in the BBC's new, three-part supernatural drama Remember Me, which started on BBC One last night and which is set in what seems to be a...

Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Argyll has seized 1,900lbs of cocaine worth £36m in the Caribbean after a high-speed chase. Smugglers began to throw their cargo overboard but were surrounded by patrol boats guided by the Plymouth-based ship. The 1,900lbs seizure is the third by HMS Argyll in...

Charles Darwin's notebooks in which he first jotted down his theory of evolution have been put online in one of the most significant worldwide releases of the naturalist's material. Charles Darwin's evolution notes released by Cambridge University BBC News 24 November 2014 Charles...

Lewis Hamilton has won the 2014 Formula 1 world championship after a comfortable win in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, becoming the first Briton to win the world championship multiple times for 43 years. The 2008 champion became only the fourth Briton to win two world titles. He is the first...

Archaeologists fear that a Neolithic settlement lying at the bottom of the Solent, which flourished before one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded on Earth made Britain an island, may be washing away. The Solent is the narrow stretch of water between mainland England's south coast and the...

Just hours after the Labour Party proved yet again what the Left Wing Ruling Establishment thinks of the people of Britain (especially the English), Ukip went on to win their second MP. Yesterday, on the day that the people of Rochester and Strood, with its lovely medieval castle dominating...

Historical trio Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold are back for their brilliant new BBC series Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom. Goodman and Ginn teamed up together in previous popular BBC series Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm, and this is the second series...

I'm afraid to say that, yet again, the troublesome Left is at it again and upsetting innocent people. This time, the rabidly Left-wing Ofsted, the government body for regulating schools, has denied a school in Market Rasen in Lincolnshire top grades. But what did it deny the school top grades...

The Queen warned last night that focusing too much attention on the Ebola outbreak could lead to an upsurge in other deadly diseases such as malaria. At an event alongside world leaders in the science of infectious diseases yesterday at Chatham House in London, she asked ‘piercing’...

A British-led venture called Lunar Mission One has begun a crowdfunding effort to send a robotic lander to the moon with a monster drill. The multi-million pound scheme is hoping to fund the private lunar mission within the next decade, and for less than £64 (US$100) each, members of the...

A letter written by British national hero Horatio Nelson, victor over Pierre-Charles Villeneuve's Franco-Spanish forces at Trafalgar in 1805 (a battle which got central London's new square named after it in the 1840s), to his lover Lady Emma Hamilton, which was sent just a fortnight after the...

The tiny nation of San Marino's football team last night ended a 61-game losing streak after they drew 0-0 with Estonia in the Euro 2016 qualifiers at Stadio Olympico in San Marino. At just 24 sq miles in size, San Marino is the world's fifth-smallest country and its football team is ranked...

When the song was originally released 30 years ago, a number of today's biggest pop acts weren't even born. But Bob Geldof openly welcomed in the likes of Rita Ora and the world's biggest boyband One Direction (who had the world's biggest-selling album in 2013) as he re-recorded his classic...

A football fan has been killed in an accident during last night's Euro 2016 qualifier between Scotland and the Republic of Ireland at Celtic Park in Glasgow. Scotland fan Nathan McSeveney, 22, from Cumnock in Ayrshire, fell down a stairwell and was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary from Exit 33...

The Bible has been named the world's most influential book in a nationwide survey for the Folio Society. The YouGov poll asked people to rank books from a list of 30 works chosen by The Folio Society, according to their significance in today's world. The Bible topped the poll, with 37% of...

In this moving tribute to the teenage heroes of the Great War, BBC News Foreign Correspondent Fergal Keane unearths the most powerful stories of Britain's boy soldiers. With as many as 250,000 boys under the age of 18 having served in the British Army during World War I (the youngest British...