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A swan belonging to the Queen was butchered and barbecued and left on a river bank near Windsor Castle in Berkshire. The mute swan was found on Baths Island in the River Thames on Sunday. Not only can the culprit or culprits be charged with animal cruelty and face a maximum six months jail...

A treasure hunter has unearthed a valuable silver ring that provides tantalising evidence that there were early Christians in Britain before St Augustine arrived on an official mission in 597AD. Were there Christians in Britain BEFORE Augustine? Ring suggests Roman converts existed before...

A movie in which Blackadder and chums are imprisoned in Colditz Castle during WWII may be on its way.... Blackadder to return as film 2 August 2013, 09:00am Rowan Atkinson starred as the intelligent, charming, witty, manipulative and sardonic Edmund Blackadder in the four series of the...

One of those mobs of troublesome Left Wingers that you get from time to time - the usual smelly, jobless, vegetarian, hippy swampies - has set up shop at Balcombe in West Sussex for the last few weeks protesting over the fact that exploratory drilling by fracking company Cuadrilla is taking...

The actress Maxine Peake (from my hometown of Bolton), who has appeared in such top shows as Shameless, Dinnerladies, Silk and The Village, has led the 194th anniversary commemorations of the Peterloo Massacre. The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field in Manchester on 16 August 1819...

It’s certainly not your average scene on the roadside - and would no doubt have livened up a few morning commutes for the passing motorists. Fifty lost Mallard ducks were given a single-file police escort along the hard shoulder of a main road, leading to a build-up of traffic in the morning...

Iron Age settlement discovered in Devon is 'most significant Roman discovery for decades' Archaeologists now working at the site in Ipplepen, near Newton Abbot It followed discovery of coins dating back to 117BC Several round houses, a Roman road and pottery also discovered By...

Scotland Yard last night said they were assessing the credibility of new information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed including an allegation that they were murdered by a member of the British military. It said it was 'scoping' the information, which surfaced in the...

A couple were left shocked when they saw this massive, puma-like creature on their early morning walk - and believe it may have been the infamous 'Beast of Trowbridge'. Herbert and Doreen Smith saw the unusual animal while walking in Murhill Woods, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire last week. Mr...

The burying of 6,000 bodies at Bath Cathedral in the city of Bath in south west England may cause it to collapse.... Burial site: An estimated 6,000 bodies were 'jammed in' to shallow graves under the stone flooring of Bath Abbey (pictured) which is now beginning to collapse because the...

A mummy found in County Laois in the Republic of Ireland may be the world's oldest bog body. It has been dated to 2000BC and is 700 years older than the famous mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. The young adult male is believed to have been a victim of ritual sacrifice. Many bog bodies...

Despite having just under half a million people, the great Northern English city of Manchester has 200 languages spoken within it. These languages include Nahuatl, the ancient language of the Aztecs, Zulu, from South Africa, and Dari, from Afghanistan. Also spoken in Manchester are Acholi...

The man who parachuted into the Olympic Stadium dressed as James Bond, with another man parachuting into it pretending to be the Queen during the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, has been killed. Mark Sutton, 42, from Surrey, died while wingsuit flying near Martigny, Switzerland...

The beleagured leader of Britain's Labour Party, Ed Miliband, was today pelted with eggs at a south London market. The day after polls show that the British people trust the ruling Tory Party (which is in a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats) more with the economy - which is now...

This is slightly unusual: Hoghton couple killed on same day 'devoted to family' 13th August 2013 BBC News A murder investigation into Mrs Maude's death is ongoing Relatives of a couple who died on the same day have said they were "devoted to family". Judith Maude's body was found at...

The drummer of British indie band The Charlatans has died today aged just 44 after battling brain cancer. This is the second death that The Charlatans - who were formed in 1989 - have experienced. Their keyboardist Rob Collins died in a car accident in 1996 whilst they were recording their...

It has long been suspected that the world's largest broadcaster has a Left-wing bias, and now a study has found it is twice as likely to cover Left-wing policy proposals as Right-wing ones.... By Lucy Osborne Daily Mail Centre for Policy Studies found 'left of centre bias' on BBC website...

Scotland has just witnessed the biggest marching army of ugly gingers since the Scottish Wars of Independence: Redheads stage Ginger Pride march at Edinburgh Fringe 10th August 2013 BBC News Hitchins led scores of marchers through the streets of the Scottish capital. Scotland is home to...

Permission has been granted to see if remains in an unmarked grave at a church in Winchester, Hampshire, are those of the legendary King Alfred the Great. Alfred the Great was the king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex (West Saxon) between 871 and 899. Winchester was, at the time, Wessex's...

British professor Richard Dawkins, probably the world's most outspoken atheist, has become embroiled in a Twitter row after he claimed the last time Muslims contributed something worthwhile was during the Dark Ages. The 71-year-old author went on to tweet that the world's Muslims had won...