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The residents of a British town are being spooked by a creepy-looking clown which bears a resemblance to Pennywise from Stephen King's It. The figure has been spotted in full clown attire around Northampton - and one woman claimed he offered to paint her windowsills after knocking on her front...

Great Britain and Ireland has Europe's second-longest coastline - after Norway - and the 12th-longest in the world. The coast of Argyll alone is longer than that of France. Canada may have the world's longest coastline, but its coast/area ratio is 2:39 whereas Britain's is 51:37. The long...

‘Missing piece’ of Stonehenge Avenue uncovered Thursday 12th September 2013 HISTORYEXTRA.COM The official website of BBC History Magazine Archaeologists have uncovered a missing piece of the Stonehenge Avenue, the route leading to the prehistoric monument. During works to...

The Royal British Legion has unveiled a new "Never Forget" war memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire. The memorial - one of over 250 at the Arboretum - features a giant wreath around which poppies, inscribed with individual names and dates, can be planted as a...

A grandmother has made a splash in her local village after digging up a peculiar potato - shaped exactly like a duck. Dorothea Clinton, 73, was left stunned when she unearthed the unusual crop from the allotment near her home in Peaton, Shropshire. In fact, the retired farm worker has become...

The deadliest and most advanced weapons in the world are currently being displayed for top military brass at a conference centre in east London. The Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) weapons conference at the ExCeL Centre in the London Borough of Newham - not far from the...

These photos may look like they show typical drunken hooliganism by a group of drunks who have decided to wreck a bike rack whilst they walk home. But, in fact, they show a group of drunks FIXING a bike rack. The lads were queueing for kebabs - the staple food in Britain for those who have...

A new study has found that watching too much telly can change people's regional accents. Experts have for the first time shown that ‘active and engaged television viewing’ does help to speed up a change in language. The study looked at how watching the television soap EastEnders is altering...

There has been a bit of a witch-hunt against male celebrities in Britain over the last couple of years where they have been arrested - even with little evidence - on suspicion of child sex abuse. One of those was actor Michael Le Vell, who has played garage mechanic Kevin Webster on Coronation...

She was the deadly special agent who charged headlong into occupied territory to fight for her country and the Jewish mother who was killed in a concentration camp. Christine Granville (real name Krystyna Skarbek) - the favourite spy of Winston Churchill - worked for years for British secret...

A British warship which has lain on the seabed for 269 years can now be seen for the first time in unprecedented detail thanks to the first ever "virtual dive". HMS Victory - not to be confused with the later HMS Victory, which was Nelson's flagship during the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and...

A series of letters written by Charles Darwin show that his attitude towards women changed over his lifetime. In 1838, aged 29 and undertaking his third voyage on the Beagle, he wrote that a future wife would be an 'object to be loved and played with - better than a dog anyhow.' But Philippa...

67 Brits lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks, meaning that Britain suffered more fatalities during those attacks than any country in the world other than the US. Most Brits died in 9/11 than died in the 7/7 attacks on London in 2005. To honour the 67 British dead, the US gave Britain a 28ft...

Flag Fen Bronze Age boats older than was first thought 8th September 2013 BBC News Experts have discovered the boats are made of oak, lime and field maple The eight Bronze Age boats were discovered in Cambridgeshire in 2011 Eight Bronze Age boats discovered in a deep Cambridgeshire...

Liam Fox, the British Defence Secretary from May 2010 to October 2011, who has links with the US Neocons, gives us ten global nightmares that should keep us awake at night, including why Pakistan is the most dangerous country on earth, why water could kill us and why the euro is as explosive as...

A suspected burglar has been arrested after being discovered in a royal state room at Buckingham Palace. Police said the man was found 'in an area currently open to the public during the day' after scaling a 12ft fence to get into the palace. A security review has now been launched following...

Scientists believe they have discovered the remains of Britain's oldest-known northerner in a cave in Cumbria. Analysis of a leg bone fragment unearthed from a cave in Cumbria suggests it is more than 10,000 years old, making it the earliest human bone from northern Britain on record...

Over 200 people have been injured in a massive pile-up which lasted ten minutes and involved a hundred vehicles. The incident happened at 7:15am on the New Sheppey Crossing bridge connecting the Isle of Sheppey with mainland Kent. The accident occurred in thick fog with some witnesses saying...

A medal awarded to a dog who extinguished an incendiary bomb by urinating on it during the Blitz has been discovered in a house clearance. Juliana the Great Dane leapt into action after the device fell through the roof of her owner’s house in 1941. It is thought she put out the flame on...

King Richard III, whose remains were found last year under a car park in Leicester, suffered from roundworm, analysis has revealed. Scientists found roundworm eggs in a soil sample taken from the pelvis of the skeleton of the king, which was discovered last year by archaeologists at the...