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Around 20 Roman-era skulls have been found by workers working on London's billion pound Crossrail project. The skulls were found beneath Liverpool Street train station where the River Walbrook, a tributary of the Thames, flows. The Walbrook began being covered by buildings in 1440 and it now...

Stonehenge's new £27 million visitor attraction has been unveiled to the world. Scaffolding surrounding the new structure has been removed to reveal a single-storey building which is hidden out of sight of Stonehenge in a natural hollow 1.5 miles away from what is probably the world's most...

The two men accused of murdering soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south east London, on May 22nd have pleaded not guilty in court. Michael Adebolajo, 28, from Romford, east London, and Michael Adebowale, 22, from Greenwich, south-east London, denied the charges at the Old Bailey. The trial of...

The ashes of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, who died on 8th April, were laid to rest yesterday at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, west London, alongside those of her husband, Sir Denis, who passed away in 2003. The Royal Hospital was founded by King Charles II in 1682 as a...

Thirty tourists were today forced to jump off a burning Duck Boat and into the Thames as the boat sank near to the Houses of Parliament and Lambeth Bridge. Flames ripped through the tour vessel in Central London around midday. The passengers - described by a London Fire Brigade spokesman as...

Iron Age fort and Bronze Age burial mounds uncovered in New Forest Thursday 26th September 2013 Submitted by Emma McFarnon Official website of BBC History Magazine The New Forest in Hampshire was created as a royal forest by William I in about 1079 for the royal hunt, mainly of...

The christening of William and Catherine's new son, Prince George, is to take place at the Royal Chapel in St James's Palace in London on Wednesday October 23rd. In a break with Royal tradition, the couple have chosen to hold an ‘intimate’ ceremony at the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace -...

This is brilliant. A group of annoying feminists - you know the type - decided to protest against Paris Fashion Week by storming a catwalk. However, the topless feminists from the group Femen didn't reckon with Scouse model Hollie-May Saker, 18, who was strutting her stuff on the catwalk at...

A second book has named Queen Victoria's Welsh surgeon Sir John Williams as Jack the Ripper, the world's first modern serial killer, who murdered at least five prostitutes in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields areas of London's East End in 1888. The book - The Fifth Victim - is written by...

The long-running, once-a-month BBC astronomy series The Sky At Night could be axed at the end of the year. The BBC confirmed yesterday that discussions are currently ongoing over the future of the show, which is scheduled to run until the end of the year. The late-night monthly series...

Of all the places to find 2,000 year old mummies, God's Own County of Yorkshire (or, as proud Yorkshiremen wouldn't thank me for pointing out, God Own Counties of North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire and West Yorkshire as Yorkshire has been since it was spilt into four counties in...

A 4,000 year old pavement - or sidewalk, as North Americans call it - has been discovered in Cornwall in south west England. The pavement was discovered at the Hurlers stone circles near the village of Minions on Bodmin Moor and it is believed to have linked two ceremonial stone circles. The...

The Prince of Wales yesterday became the oldest heir apparent for almost 300 years. The oldest heir apparent until yesterday was King William IV - Prince Charles's great-great-great-great-uncle - who became monarch in June 1830, aged 64 years, ten months and five days, on the death of his...

The new documentary by natural history legend Sir David Attenborough starts tonight on BBC2. In Rise of Animals: Triumph of the vertebrates the naturalist explores the origins of the backbone by studying a tiny prehistoric animal and a living fossil living in the south of England. Sir David...

The design for Richard III's new tomb at Leicester Cathedral has been unveiled. Despite York currently mounting a legal challenge to have the king buried in that city rather than Leicester, cathedral officials said this was the "right place and the best place". The tomb will cost around...

The tumultuous history of Europe over the last Millennium, including its many revolutions and wars, has been captured in a remarkable video lasting just over three minutes. From the Crusaders until modern times, the lines on the map of Europe have been redrawn many times and tell a tale of the...

Prince Harry is a patron of the charity Walking With The Wounded He will join ex-servicemen and women on a grueling trek to the South Pole Harry and his teammates spent a day in a -35C cold chamber to prepare They practised skiing and putting up their tent in the icy conditions Daily Mail...

The hilarious, bald, Manc twonk Karl Pilkington - the loveably grumpy star of all three series of Sky 1 HD's comedy travel show An Idiot Abroad - is back with a brand new comedy, globe-hopping series on Sky 1 HD. One of the modern world's greatest philosophers: Karl again lets loose his...

A new British/French version of the Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron) is coming soon to Sky Atlantic HD. The Bridge follows a police investigation following the discovery of a dead body on the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark. There is no bridge...

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today said religious veils should not be allowed in the classroom. The Liberal Democrats leader said it was ‘inappropriate’ for students to wear a full veil during lessons because teachers needed to see their faces. Liberal Democrat leader Nick...