Search results

People across England are being warned to avoid strenuous activity due to smog consisting of sand from the Sahara and local and European emissions. Much of southern and central England has been coated with a layer of Saharan dust, whilst visibility is low due to the smog. The elderly and those...

Could this be a what we see in our cities later this century? Londoners Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa have come up with the concept of vertical railway stations. The idea is to rid big cities like London and New York of their huge, cathedral-like railway stations and free up...

With a Taliban fighter looming in his sights half a mile away, the British sniper knew a clean shot would take down his enemy. What he could not have known was that the single bullet he fired would account for five more insurgents. But, incredibly, his rifle round triggered the explosive...

Last week, during a live televised debate on the EU between anti-EU UKIP leader Nigel Farage and pro-EU Liberal Democrats leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Farage accused the EU of having ‘blood on its hands’ for provoking Russia over Ukraine. He said EU leaders had been ‘weak and...

A fearless British secret agent in occupied France, a drunken poet and the man who dreamed up Desert Island Discs. At first glance, they may not have had much in common, but the ten men and women commemorated in a new set of Royal Mail stamps would all have celebrated their 100th...

Startled tribal men in a remote part of the Amazon basin in Brazil shake their spears as they are pictured from above. The pictures, shot from a plane earlier this week, were taken of the isolated tribe on the Peruvian border. It is thought the tribe have had little to no contact with the...

Black Sabbath are to play at this year's British Summer Time (BST) festival in London's Hyde Park. The Birmingham downer rock band, who invented heavy metal, are to play the opening night of the festival - which has been nicknamed Black Sabbath Time (BST) - on July 4th. Vocalist/harmonica...

A giant sandpit has been built in Stevenage, Hertfordshire (30 miles north of central London), to mimic the surface of Mars. The indoor terrain, about the size of a basketball court, will be used to test systems on the rover that Europe and Russia will send to the Red Planet in 2018. It...

This is one of the best sporting fights I've seen for a while. Aussie Rules footballers decided to knock ten bells out of each other during a match between Cranbourne and Berwick in Melbourne. Epic Aussie rules footy fight - YouTube

A new photographic portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their son Prince George and their dog Lupo has been released ahead of the family's tour of Australia and New Zealand. The eight-month-old future king, Prince George, is pictured in his mother's arms. Whilst the two parents...

The scandal of MPs enjoying extravagant expenses might seem like an indictment of the modern politician. But the identity of the very first commoners sent to Parliament can be revealed by the new book Parliament: A Biography by Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda, only because they too...

Racy tiles showing explicit scenes have gone on display in the Museum of London for the first time. The 18th century tiles, which offer a peek into the bedrooms of Georgian London, were discovered after a fire in the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub in Fleet Street in 1962. But, due to the tiles'...

A family of rabbits are unwitting archaeologists after uncovering what is believed to be a Neolithic complex near Land's End in Cornwall. The burrowing Lagomorpha uncovered arrowheads and flint tools which were found in their freshly dug network of warrens. Although a formal dig of the...

Ian Mortimer, author of Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, takes us on a shopping trip in a 14th-century English marketplace A time traveller's guide to medieval shopping Tuesday 25th March 2014 BBC History Magazine By Ian Mortimer, historian, writer and nephew of the British...

Britain is gearing up for great TV entertainment when Nick Clegg takes on Nigel Farage in a televised TV debate. The debate, which will be aired on BBC Two and on London LBC Radio on Wednesday 2 April, will see the leader of the left wing, pro-EU Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg, who is also the...

A ceremony to commemorate the Great Escape, the famous breakout of mainly British airmen from German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III on 24-25 March 1944, has taken place in Poland. Survivors, families and UK and Polish officials gathered in Zagan in western Poland, 70 years after the...

The Neolithic Britons buried their dead in specially-built stone long barrows. Now, modern Britons are to do the same. The first long barrow to be built for 5,000 years is taking shape at All Cannings in Wiltshire, a county dotted with ancient structures, such as Stonehenge, Avebury and the...

Today, there's often a perception that Asian children are given a hard time by their parents. But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home. Not surprisingly, the children didn't always like it. What...

It's not that often that we hear the Queen giving her opinions on anything. But that's what happened during her visit to Royal Holloway, University of London ten days ago. She said: ‘Poor people and their problems don’t get reported often, and they need all the assistance they can be given.’...

The Royal Navy's newest submarine - a miniature sub which can launch underwater that James Bond would be proud of - has been spotted moored off Gibraltar. The submarine is intended to launch underwater in order to carry Special Boat Service (SBS) commandos to their destinations covertly so...