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Tiger Roll won a thrilling Grand National to become the first horse since Red Rum 45 years ago to win the Aintree race back-to-back...

I’ve never felt European. We are a more globally minded people, more likely to emigrate to other English-speaking countries than to France or Spain, and our history would seem to have set us on a different course to those nations that haven’t got over defeat or devastation during the...

Seventy years ago this month, a prime minister led a divided nation towards the exit from what was then one of the world’s most important organisations. On that occasion, Ireland was the country wanting to leave and there was no backstop to hold things up. Despite the pleas of the other...

An amateur metal detectorist scouring the grounds of a field in Kent has discovered a perfectly preserved gold coin dating back almost 2,000 years. It is emblazoned with...

The first British passports without the words European Union on the front cover have been issued to the public, despite the delays over Brexit...

London football club Tottenham Hotspur has unveiled its new stadium. The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is located in the north of the capital and has a capacity of 62,062. It cost almost £1 billion and features the world's first dividing, retractable football pitch, which reveals a synthetic turf...

Exactly 100 years ago what are believed to be the bones of St Magnus were rediscovered in the cathedral built in his honour in Orkney. They were originally the centrepiece of a shrine at the twelfth century church in Kirkwall. It is thought the bones were hidden in a pillar during the...

The petition is not a plea by the pro-Remain lobby for Parliament to vote on revocation, nor that we give it another go: to rehash the arguments about whether or not we should be a member of the EU, and then let the people of this country make their finaldecision on the matter. It simply...

An "extraordinary" connection has been uncovered between a fountain in India and one taken down in the UK over 50 years ago. Northampton's Market Square fountain was erected in 1863 to...

People on both sides are passionate about the Brexit debate but they are not passionate because they have views about the economic effects...

Imagine if 2016’s referendum tipped 52 per cent for Remain. Thus the majority of Britons are content to quietly get on with continued membership of the EU. Yet freakishly, after the 2017 snap general election, and in defiance of both main parties’ pro-EU manifestos, three-quarters of MPs...

A 14-year-old schoolboy helping out at an archaeological dig in Glasgow has found one of a set of lost gravestones from the Middle Ages...

Iconic steam locomotive the Flying Scotsman is visiting Swanage, Dorset. The engine is hauling trains for a...

MPs were issued an instruction by the British people. Given the Byzantine complexity of the Brexit process, it would be foolish to pretend it was a simple one. But it was clear. They were told to withdraw the UK from the European Union...

The People's Vote campaign has been accused of "overestimating" by Brexiteers after claiming one million people took part in a march through London in support of a second referendum...

A silver seal used to sign documents in the medieval period belonged to a significantly wealthy owner, a treasure inquest heard. The seal matrix was found near Nayland-with-Wissington...

Human remains thought to be about 4,000 years old and charred have been discovered by builders working on a hotel in rural Northumberland. The Tankerville Arms in Wooler was...

YOU’D be forgiven for watching the chaos in Parliament over the past few weeks and throwing up your hands in exasperated despair...

BRITS were hit by motorway chaos after lorry drivers brought roads to a standstill in protest at the Brexit date being pushed back. There was traffic mayhem in Devon, Cornwall, Lancashire...

Prof Stephen Hawking has been honoured on a new 50p coin inspired by his pioneering work on black holes. The physicist died last year at the age of 76, having become one of the most renowned...