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New figures show that the British economy is now the best in the world, with growth outstripping all other major economies, including the US, Japan and, far less surprising, the rest of the EU. Britain’s economy grew even more this year than previously thought. The Office for National...

After a four year hiatus, UK ghost hunting show Most Haunted is returning with a brand new series. The show, presented by former children's TV presenter Yvette Fielding and directed by her husband Karl Beattie (who are both karate black belts), originally ran from 2002 to 2010 and appeared to...

Outing white, middle-aged, male celebrities as "historical paedophiles" has become a national sport in recent years, with the Met's "Operation Yewtree" going into full swing. Whilst it has outed a few white, middle-aged, male celebrities as people who committed sexual abuse decades ago without...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the last executions ever to take place in Britain On 13th August 1964, Peter Anthony Allen was hanged at Walton Prison in Liverpool and Gwynne Owen Evans was hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester for the murder of John Alan West. West was a 53-year-old...

The Royal Mail has released a set of 97p and first class stamps featuring Britain's greatest-ever Prime Ministers. And it may not surprise you to know that political pygmies Blair and Cameron are NOT included in the set, and neither is Lloyd George, who served as PM in the second half of WWI...

Ricky Gervais is to make a big screen outing centred around his comedy creation from The Office - David Brent, the egotistical, self-promoting general manager of the Slough branch of the Wernham–Hogg paper merchants. The film, Life On The Road, will chart Brent's progress in the 15 years since...

A group of schoolboys from Alston Primary School in Cumbria has unearthed a rare 4,000-year-old ornament during a dig at Kirkhaugh in Northumberland. The boys were taking part in an excavation of a burial mound when they saw a glint of gold in the soil. The object is believed to be a...

An RAF Typhoon was scrambled to escort a Qatar Airways plane into Manchester Airport earlier today. Residents of the city said that the fighter plane "came out of nowhere" to escort QR23, which was flying to Britain from Qatari capital Doha, to the airport, Britain's third busiest after...

Just the day after the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games have finished, the Commonwealth family has come together again in the same city to mark the 100th anniversary of Britain's entry into WWI, exactly a week after the conflict started. 1,100 people, including Commonwealth royals, politicians...

Northern Europe - especially Denmark, Ireland and Britain - are renowned for their abundance of bog bodies. Over 2,000 of them have been found over the years, lying in the boggy peat which helped preserve them. The oldest known bog body is the skeleton of Koelbjerg Woman from Denmark, who...

Melanie Phillips attacks the appalling silence from Britain's political leaders at a time of rising anti-Semitic racism.... What our leaders would say if they really cared about defending Britain's Jews This lynch-mob mentality has been building for years By Melanie Phillips Melanie...

Photos taken 100 years ago of British Tommies preparing for the First World War have been brought to life after they were digitally coloured. The vivid snaps are in stark contrast to the grainy black and white photographs depicting the Great War that we are used to seeing. Most of them...

England and Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali has been banned from wearing wristbands saying "Save Gaza" and "Free Palestine". The 27-year-old Muslim Brummie - who has been noticeably silent whilst his fellow Muslims are being killed by Muslims in Syria and Egypt and by Muslim terrorist...

Historian Max Hastings (who, in 1982, was the first Briton to enter Argentine-held Stanley) believes that the medieval religion that is Islam should start accepting much of the blame for many of the ills in today's world: Yes, the West has fought the Muslim world for centuries. But Islam must...

It's only Day 1 of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and England are already at the top of the medals table after taking gold AND bronze in the women's triathlon. At a hot and sunny Strathclyde Country Park, England's Jodie Stimpson stormed to the first medal of the 2014 Commonwealth Games...

Archaeologists have found a series of extraordinary finds on the site of a 1,800 year old Roman fort in County Durham in northern England. The discoveries at Binchester Roman Fort near Bishop Auckland date back 1,800 years and include a silver ring - said to be one of the earliest pieces of...

It seems that potholes in roads are not just a bane for modern drivers. It seems that even 2000 years ago they were a menace. Wheel ruts found in a newly excavated road surface in Ipplepen, 7 miles north west of Torquay near the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, are thought to be similar to those...

Nick Griffin has stepped down as leader of the Far-Right BNP after 15 years in the job. Mr Griffin said he had had "more than long enough" in charge and had seen off both external and internal attempts to "destroy" the party in recent years. Former MEP Mr Griffin has been replaced...

Today is Prince George's first birthday and, to mark the occasion, Kensington Palace has released two beautiful new photographs of him with his parents. The photos show the clearly enchanted young family in the midst of the ‘Sensational Butterflies’ exhibition at the Natural History Museum in...

Seven Wonders of the Commonwealth In this one-off BBC documentary, shown last night on BBC1 to herald the start of the XXth Commonwealth Games, some of the nation's best-loved presenters travel around the vast Commonwealth to marvel at seven diverse natural wonders and meet some of its 2.3...