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The world's longest aicraft has today been unveiled in Bedfordshire. The machine - which looks like an airship but isn't - is called an Airlander. It has a length of 302ft (92m) and is about 60ft longer than the biggest airliners, the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8. It is also almost 30ft...

Today Blyth Spartans, based in the little town of Blyth, Northumberland, are a small football team playing in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football. But during WWI, as six million British men were away fighting a war which made Britain go from being...

New ancient rock art has been found in the desolate wilds of northern Scotland. Archaeologists made the discovery in the Highlands in Ross-shire while moving a boulder decorated with ancient cup and ring marks to a new location in Ross-shire (a now defunct county which is now part of the vast...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making a visit to Britain today to speak to both the Head of Government and the Head of State. The leader of Europe's richest country is to address both Houses of Parliament and have tea with the Queen during a one-day visit to the UK. Mrs Merkel will...

Protesters, including the EDL, are currently protesting outside the Old Bailey in central London as Drummer Lee Rigby's killers are awaiting their sentencing. According to tweets from Sky News presenters outside the Old Bailey the murderers are to be sentenced at 4.30 pm, around 15 minutes'...

Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg, who was lauded by the left wing media, such as the BBC, The Guardian and the Independent as a poor, little, innocent victim of the Americans after his release without charge, has been arrested over Syria-related terror offences. The 45 year old...

How a great British invention - the tank, a metal monster which terrified the Germans - not only helped the British win WWI but how it was designed, in little over two months, by two men working in a small hotel room in Lincoln, Lincolnshire: "The panic started, everyone from 1st and 3rd...

The oldest known survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, Alice Herz-Sommer, has died in London at the age of 110. Born into a Jewish family in Prague in 1903, Ms Herz-Sommer spent two years in a Nazi concentration camp in Terezin. She was an accomplished pianist and music teacher and taught at the...

Ray Ellis, the last survivor of the 1942 Battle of Knightsbridge, who was also the last soldier to fire on advancing German troops in the battle, has died in Nottingham aged 94. The battle - one of the most celebrated acts of bravery in the Royal Artillery’s history - saw the 107th Regiment of...

Scotland's footballers have today been drawn against new boys Gibraltar and next door neighbours Republic of Ireland in the qualifiers for Euro 2016. It is the first time Gibraltar are to play in the qualifiers of any major tournament. Last year the tiny British territory, which borders Spain...

The MoD has confirmed that the Queen will officially name one of the Royal Navy's new 65,000-tonne Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth at a ceremony on Friday 4th July. The event will be held at Rosyth dockyard in Fife where work to assemble the vessel is being...

A woman who died almost 4,000 years ago was suffering from toothache. The Bronze Age woman was found by archaeologists from Glasgow-based Guard Archaeology after a cist – a stone burial chest – was inadvertently disturbed by construction workers during landscaping of an access track through...

A good thing that WWI did was enrich the already rich English language. The conflict gave rise to British English expressions and slang such as "Blighty" ("Britain"), "cushy" ("undemanding", "easy", "secure", "comfortable") and "Boche" ("German"), but only some are still used, says Kate Wild...

An ancient forest has emerged after the recent storms. The 5,000 year old tree stumps, from the Bronze Age, emerged when the peat which once covered and preserved them was washed away by torrential rain and strong waves. Now they cover a whole beach near the village of Borth, Ceredigion, on...

Football's first professional black player is to be commemorated with a statue in South Yorkshire. Arthur Wharton is to be honoured outside Rotherham United's New York Stadium. Born in 1865 in Jamestown, in the British Gold Coast, in what is now Ghana, Wharton played for Rotherham Town - the...

They are two of history’s most captivating figures, their romance-turned-tragedy known the world over. But what was the true nature of the relationship between Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn, and how did Anne come to lose her head? In a new two-part series for Britain's Channel 5...

As part of the Natural History Season on the brilliant BBC Four (one of the best TV channels there is, it is renowned for its brilliant science and history documentaries), Dr Michael Mosley, a medical doctor and former City banker, turns his body into a living laboratory by infecting himself...

Did you know that John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator?; that President Jackson had a foul-mouthed parrot?; that Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, had a confused-looking lapdog who died after falling from a great height?; and that Lord Byron probably had more pets than Dr Doolittle? Well...

A 7ft tall hedgehog has arrived in London. But, thankfully for the denizens of that great metropolis, it isn't real. The prickly Erinaceinae has been unveiled to mark the launch of Sir David Attenborough's new TV wildlife series. The beast emerged from two months of hibernation at a workshop...

Experts in the legend of Robin Hood have dismissed a ballad that claims the famous outlaw had another love interest before Maid Marian. While the ballad insinuates a romance between Hood and the Queen, historian Ralph Needham points out that it would have been written a long time after the...