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Black Sabbath star Tony Iommi has been made a professor of music at Coventry University. Iommi, 66, who has been the Birmingham heavy metal giants' guitarist since they were formed in 1969, had already been awarded an honorary doctorate by the university in November. He plans to return to...

One of the Queen's young page boys dramatically collapsed in the House of Lords earlier today as the Queen was giving her Gracious Address - which sets out the government's agenda for the coming session of Parliament - to MPs and peers during the State Opening of Parliament. Witnesses...

The Queen's magnificent new carriage - dubbed a palace on wheels - has been unveiled today, when it was used for the first time in the State Opening of Parliament. The new Diamond Jubilee State Coach, which is the work of the finest craftsmen from across the Commonwealth, is only the second...

Spain's King Juan Carlos has announced that he is to abdicate. The Spanish monarch, who has been on the Throne since Spain became a democracy nearly 40 years ago, will hand over the Throne to his son Crown Prince Felipe, who will "open a new era of hope" for Spain. For much of his reign...

Churchill's last surviving child, Lady Mary Soames, has died aged 91 after a short illness. Mary, who was the youngest of Sir Winston and Clementines's five children, passed away peacefully at her west London home yesterday evening surrounded by her family, after a short illness. One of her...

An independent Scotland would soon realise what a pup they had been sold by First Minister Alex Salmond and his friends, and would be back with their begging bowls in no time at all: Why the Scots MUST vote for independence! It'll save the rest of us a fortune, says a very provocative SIMON...

German magazine Der Spiegel has revealed that British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that the UK could quit the EU if Jean-Claude Juncker becomes the new (unelected) president of the European Commission, the executive body of the EU responsible for proposing legislation, implementing...

As part of Britain's WWI centenary commemorations, a large sculpture of a British Tommy reflecting upon the horrors of WWI during the first minute after peace was declared has been unveiled. This imposing metal sculpture, entitled 1101, owing to the fact the armistice went into effect at 11am...

Nine amputee British servicemen are to retrace the journey made during one of the most famous and daring raids of WWII. In December 1942, during Operation Frankton, ten Royal Marines set off in canoes from the Royal Navy submarine HMS Tuna to attach mines to enemy supply ships in Bordeaux on...

A man with a slurry fetish has been jailed after targeting a family who tried to stop him performing sex acts in their slurry. David Truscott, 44, of Camborne, Cornwall, repeatedely rolled around naked in slurry and developed an obsession with a farm in Redruth, Cornwall. Truscott initially...

A prehistoric fossil tooth found off Chesil Beach in Dorset is the biggest of its kind ever found in the UK. The tooth, which measures 2in in length, was dredged from the seabed off Chesil Beach, which forms part of the 96-mile long, fossil-rich Jurassic Coast. It belonged to an ancient...

The Plantagenet Alliance, distant relatives of Richard III, have lost their battle in the High Court to have the last Plantagenet monarch interred in York. It means that Richard will, after all, be interred in Leicester Cathedral later this year, in the same city where he was found in 2012...

King Edward II is the English monarch who famously lost the Battle of Bannockburn against Robert the Bruce in 1314 and who was murdered for being gay - his gay relationship with Hugh Despenser alienated Edward's queen Isabella - by having a red-hot poker shoved up his anus at Berkeley Castle in...

A great British institution returns tomorrow night for its tenth series. The BBC's Springwatch has, alongside its sister series Autumnwatch, been on our screens every year since 2005 (with Winterwatch starting in 2012) and, this year, will be on every night from Monday to Thursday for the...

The world's most complete woolly mammoth has gone on display at the Natural History Museum in London. Lyuba - whose name means "love" in Russian - was just one month old and just over four feet long when she died in the vast and frozen Russian wilderness 42,000 years ago. She was discovered in...

Nottingham, Britain's ninth-largest city, is not only famous for Robin Hood and his Merry Men and its lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries, but it's also famous for its plethora of caves. There are 544 known man-made caves throughout the city, with 100 of them only -re-discovered within...

This skull could be the first-ever recorded victim of the Battle of Hastings. Experts have revealed that it belongs to a 45-year-old man who was hacked six times with a sword to the back of his head – and could provide first-hand evidence of the brutal battle of 1066. No bones have...

The Queen yesterday visited the Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster, almost 24 years to the day after Her Majesty launched her. The ship's crew welcomed the Queen - who is the symbolic Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces - onboard at Portsmouth Naval Base. The national anthem...

A metal detectorist has found a Bronze Age gold tribal necklace worth £20,000 in a field full of grazing cows in Dorset. David Spohr, an engineer, had just about given up on his search in the field near the market town of Blandford Forum in the Tarrant Valley and head back for his lunch when...

In the 1690s, Scotland tried to found a Scottish Empire on the Isthmus of Panama on the Gulf of Darien in Central America. But the scheme was a massive failure and led to an impoverished Scotland unifying with its much larger and richer neighbour England. The late 17th century was a difficult...