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Treasures found at a 2nd Century Roman villa in Kent reveal that it was once home to a future Roman Emperor. Lullingstone Roman Villa, near Orpington in Kent, just 20 miles from London, was first uncovered in the 1930s. It has been suspected for some time that the villa was home to a wealthy...

A BBC weatherman has caused a storm after giving a rude gesture live on air. Tomasz Schafernaker, 31, was about to give the weather forecast on the BBC News Channel when, not realising the camera was on him, he stuck his middle finger up at presenters Simon McCoy and Fiona Armstrong who were...

A mystery has arisen concerning symbol-inscribed stones in Scotland that predate the formation of Scotland itself. The stones are believed to have been carved by the Picts, who lived in a kingdom which covered much of what is now Scotland from the 300s to the 800s. Researchers say that...

Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth's II only daughter, today celebrates her 60th birthday. The Princess Royal was born on 15th August 1950 at Clarence House in central London which adjoins St James's Palace and which became the home of her grandmother, the Queen Mother, from 1953 until her death...

Worried residents in an English town contacted Google when an image of a street in the town showed what looked like a body. The body was that of a young girl lying on the pavement, with her shoe in the gutter. Now the mystery has been solved. The girl lying "dead" in the street in...

Britain's Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will tomorrow run Britain as Tory Prime Minister David Cameron starts his two week holiday. Whilst Cameron has a break in Cornwall, Clegg will become the first Liberal to run Britain since Prime Minister David Lloyd George from 1916...

The EUSSR has fined British organisations a total of £150 million for failing to fly its logo on buildings, websites or posters. Companies and organisations receiving European grants must, for some mysterious reason, display the EU logo. This is despite the fact that these "European grants"...

A town crier has made a formal complaint after a rival town crier encroached onto his territory. Mike Kean-Price, town crier of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, has complained to the Ancient and Honourable Guild of Town Criers about the actions of Peder Nielsen, the town crier of Bromyard...

The Domesday Book, completed in 1086, was a great survey of England when it was a colony of Normandy undertaken on the orders of England's King William I, or William the Conqueror as he arrogantly preferred to be known (he was previously known as William the Bastard). William, the Duke of...

The oldest known house in Britain has been discovered by archaeologists. At 10,500 years old, it is more than 6,000 years older than Stonehenge - that's three times the length of time since the birth of Jesus to today. The 11 foot wide circular structure has been uncovered at Star Carr, near...

It's already known that London property is amongst the most expensive in the world. But this just takes the biscuit. A two-floor flat in a complex in Knightsbridge, central London, has been sold for a whopping £140 million - that's £6,000 for just each square foot. The property, designed by...

Every division, except the top flight Premier League, in the English league kicked off the new season yesterday. The big boys in the Premier League don't start their campaign until next weekend. But today was the Community Shield, traditionally played the Sunday before the new Premier League...

"Serial killer" Bamber vows to prove his sister carried out murders of family Convicted mass killer Jeremy Bamber, jailed for life for murdering his adoptive family, has vowed to prove that his schizophrenic sister Sheila was behind the 1985 killings. Bamber, 49, who has spent half of his...

A British man who threw his shoes at Pakistan's president yesterday said last night he was proud of his actions. Sardar Mohammed Shamim Khan, 57, who comes from Coventry, West Midlands, but has Pakistani ancestry, said a speech that President Asif Ali Zardari had made in Birmingham so angered...

A new book has revealed that British author Roald Dahl slept with numerous women whilst working as a spy in America. Dahl was a fighter pilot in the RAF during the War and narrowly avoided death after making an emergency landing in the Egyptian desert. He was invalided back to Britain after...

900 years ago, thanks to the Norman Invasion of 1066, England was nothing more than a colony of Normandy. These days, the French like to brag, wrongly, that England was once a French colony (though huge swathes of France were an English colony just a few centuries after the Norman Conquest)...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected Indian calls for the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. The diamond, which is a part of the British Crown Jewels, was seized by the British East India Company in 1849 and was presented to Queen Victoria, who was the Empress of India. The last...

It's not the first time that the British have defeated the arrogant yet cowardly French in a naval battle (or any battle) so it's hardly anything so unusual that the world will take note of it. But that fact doesn't make it any less satisfying. When a British trawler and a French trawler...

Royal fans got a treat on Monday as the British Royal Family returned from their holiday. Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince Philip and some of their children and grandchildren spent two days on a small cruise ship, the Hebridean Princess, sailing around Scotland's western isles. As the...

The Yorkshire Ripper has launched a fresh bid for freedom after a High Court judge ruled that he should die behind bars. Mr Justice Mitting likened the Ripper to a terrorist, saying the 'brutality and gravity' of his crimes meant he should never be freed. But now the serial killer has...