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The earliest example of Roman irrigation in Britain, dating back almost 2,000 years, has been discovered in Cambridge - and it may have been used to produce wine. A network of ditches and ridges was found on the site of a proposed new £1 billion development on farmland at the edge of the town...

CCTV has captured footage of a flickering ghost standing by the bar of a pub in the centre of my hometown. Manager Tony Dooley discovered the spectre after heading downstairs in the early hours of the morning on Valentine's Day and stumbling upon a broken glass lying on the floor. Thinking...

British scientists have successfully revived mosses that have been frozen under the Antarctic ice for 1,500 years. The researchers thawed out the ancient vegetation and were surprised to see new shoots rapidly appear. While bacteria of a similar age have been recovered before, the...

Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, which helped to destroy a Franco-Spanish fleet during the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, may be about to show her true colours following a new discovery. The ship which, despite her age, is still a commissioned Royal Navy warship, the oldest commissioned warship in...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is asking people to choose a name for British astronaut Tim Peake's next mission. Citizens and residents of all the Agency's member nations are eligible to enter the competition. The 20 member nations of ESA are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark...

Most young lefties shake off their bizarre beliefs as they get older. But one man who that didn't apply to was WWII veteran Tony Benn. His left wing beliefs just kept getting stronger. The pipe-smoking, pizza-loving socialist, friend of Arthur Scargill and leader of the Stop The War...

Twenty British soldiers have been laid to rest with full military honours, 98-and-a-half years after they were killed in battle. The remains of the 20 heroes who perished in the 1915 Battle of Loos between Britain and Germany were found in 2010 during clearance work for a new prison near...

Keeley Hawes is to appear in an episode of the new series of Doctor Who. The actress, who has appeared in popular dramas such as Ashes to Ashes and Spooks and has voiced Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video games, is to appear as a villain in the new series and, in the modern politically...

The £3 million Anglo-Saxon treasure known as the Staffordshire Hoard has been brought together to allow experts to shed more light on the Dark Ages. Found by a (now rich) man with a £2.50 metal detector in a (now rich) farmer's field near the village of Hammerwich in Staffordshire on 5th July...

The inventor of the World Wide Web has marked the 25th anniversary of his creation by calling for a 'Magna Carta' bill of rights to protect its users. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web in 1989 whilst working as a scientist for CERN, told BBC Breakfast the issue could be compared to...

The remains of a young monk who lived 800 years ago have been found sticking out of a sea cliff in South Wales. Mandy Ewington was enjoying a stroll along the beach at Monknash, Vale of Glamorgan, when she looked up and saw two leg bones poking out of the cliff. She took a picture of the leg...

A portrait of Prince Edward with his family has been released to mark his 50th birthday, which is today. The Earl of Wessex, the youngest child of the Queen and Prince Philip and who is now eighth in line to the Throne, was photographed with his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and their...

The bed in which one of England's greatest monarchs, Henry VIII, was conceived has been found in a hotel car park. The bed was found dismantled and dumped in the car park of the Redland Hotel in Chester, which was being turned into flats. It was later bought at auction by Ian Coulson, a...

Headlines are dominated by talk of the Ukraine crisis, as EU leaders decide how to respond to Russia's troop deployment in the country’s Crimea region. Members from eastern Europe are calling for tough sanctions, while others, led by Germany, seek mediation. But how does the current crisis...

A 13-year-old Lancashire schoolboy has become the youngest person in the world to carry out nuclear fusion. Jamie Edwards, a pupil at Penwortham Priory Academy in Penwortham, Lancashire, created the project from scratch with help from his school. "I can't quite believe it - even though all...

It's not just modern walkers who need the aid of GPS when hiking through the Brecon Beacons in Wales. So, too, did their ancient ancestors. Archaeologists have found what they believe to be a 4,000 year old GPS system in the Brecon Beacons. An ancient standing stone - whose exact location...

12 bottles of rum dating back to 1780 were found in a cellar in a country house near Leeds - and then were sold by Harrogate Fine Wine Company for a whopping £80,000 at Christie's in London. The bottles - which were covered in cobwebs and layers of dust when found - were valued at £600-£800 per...

Scotland's new away kit looks like it has been designed by gay rights group Stonewall. But, according to the Scottish Football Association (SFA), the kit is in honour of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, the British Prime Minister between March 1894 and June 1895. Apparently the kit is...

London has evolved incredibly since it was merely a series of villages spanning the length of the Thames. But during the 18th century, shortly before the industrial revolution, the city was far grittier, and yet some would describe it as far more regal. These amazing pictures, shared on the...

A spree killer has become just the third woman in Britain to be sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison. Joanne Dennehy, a diagnosed psychopath who randonly murdered three men, yesterday joined serial killer Rose West and serial child killer Myra Hindley (who died in 2002) as women...