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England's cricketers are convinced that the hotel they are staying in is haunted. The players are staying at the world-renowned, 5-star Langham Hotel on London's Regent Street. During Test matches in London this summer, some players have requested to move rooms, whilst some wives and...

Medieval graffiti of straw kings, pentagrams, crosses, ships and "demon traps" have been offering a tantalising glimpse into England's past. What do the pictures reveal about life in the Middle Ages? Mysteries of medieval graffiti in England's churches...

Ninety people have taken part in a two-week archaeological dig at Leiston Abbey in Suffolk - and the group found a medieval poker chip and a curse tablet. A 'Nuremburg jetton', which would have been used for gaming, was found along with the metal curse tablet, which is expected to contain a...

England have made cricketing history with a world record-breaking last wicket stand of 198. James Anderson and Joe Root’s incredible partnership at Nottingham’s Trent Bridge shattered the previous best of 163 by Australian pair Phil Hughes and Ashton Agar at the same ground last year...

Never mind the World Cup. Welcome to the Chap Olympiad! This eccentric competition has got to be, without a shadow of a doubt, the most British of all sporting contests. It has been held every year since 2005 at Bedford Square in Bloomsbury, central London, and is aimed at revisiting the...

This year Britain is marking the 300th anniversary of the Hanoverian accession. But 200 years ago this Tuesday, the country was marking the 100th anniversary of the Hanoverian accession and London was resplendent in its lavish celebrations of a grand jubilee. Throughout the month-long...

Real Madrid legend Alfredo Di Stefano, regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, has died three days after turning 88. He suffered a heart attack on Saturday and had been in an induced coma in Madrid's Gregorio Maranon hospital. Real Madrid confirmed the news, saying Di...

A newly discovered letter that has lain unread for over 600 years is forcing a rethink of a 14th Century prince with a controversial reputation. Was the Black Prince, the eldest son of Edward III, really as bad as we think he was today? Was Edward the Black Prince really a nasty piece of...

A hoard of Roman and Iron Age coins has been found in a cave in Derbyshire, where they have lain undisturbed for 2,000 years. A member of the public stumbled across four coins in the Reynard's Cave and Kitchen cavern in Dovedale in the Peak District, sparking a full-scale excavation of the...

Cyclists, in their fluorescent lycra and their silly helmets, are usually a menace and a danger on the roads, who think the laws of the highways for which they pay no taxes don't apply to them as they pursue their Victorian hobby. But you can't fail to be impressed by the sight of hundreds of...

A seagull has denied a Middlesex Panthers batsman smashing the ball for six runs during a NatWest t20 Blast match on Friday against Sussex Sharks in Hove, East Sussex. The seagull seemed to be supporting his county team. You can see now why the local football team, Brighton & Hove Albion, are...

Is this another sign that Britain is moving towards the exit of the hated anti-democracy EU which, yet again, is completely and utterly ignoring the public? As usual, it seems to be only the British protesting about the EU's casual disregard for election results. Britain's 24 new UKIP MEPs...

The Bayeux Tapestry, designed and constructed in England by Anglo-Saxon artists and stitched by Anglo-Saxon seamsters, who were famous across Europe, is arguably the most famous piece of embroidery (it's not actually a tapestry) in history. Yet, when it was rediscovered 300 years ago, the...

A green fireball meteor was seen over the UK this morning: Fireball meteor caught on camera BBC News 30 June 2014 Wtch video: meteor on Vimeo A green fireball meteor seen over the UK has been captured on camera by an observatory in Devon. The "bolide" meteor was seen in the West...

Judy Murray, the mum of British sporting hero Andy Murray, has slammed Scotland's nationalist First Minister Alex Salmond for unveiling a Scottish Saltire inside the Royal Box on Centre Court when Andy won the Wimbledon men's singles title last year. Tennis coach Judy Murray who, like Andy...

Californian heavy metal band Metallica shook the genteel English countryside (and a few middle-aged hippies and a lot of left-wing, middle-class, BBC-type snobs) last night when they became the first metal band ever to play Glastonbury, the world's biggest music festival, since its inception in...

The joint-oldest international football teams in the world are England and Scotland, who played the first ever official international football match in front of 4,000 spectators at the West of Scotland Cricket Club's Hamilton Crescent ground in Partick, Glasgow, on St Andrew's Day (30th...

You may think that trolling is a modern phenomenon, but it's actually far more ancient than is often thought. Centuries before computers and social media, the Romans wrote messages wishing ill of others on so-called "curse tablets". The nasty messages were written on pieces of lead by...

ITV Studios have released a sneak preview of the new Thunderbird 1 which will feature in their hotly anticipated new show Thunderbirds Are Go! Set against the backdrop of the Hollywood sign the rocket maintains its distinctive silver bullet style which many fans will remember from the...

British actress Patsy Byrne, best known for playing the kind but dim-witted nursemaid to Elizabeth I in Blackadder II, has died at the age of 80. She died on Tuesday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors, in Hillingdon, north-west London. The Kent-born actress joined the...