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A suspected drug dealer who hid a stash of Class A drugs inside his body when he was arrested has been in custody for three weeks because he refuses to go to the toilet, police have said. Essex Police's Operation Raptor West unit arrested the man - thought to be from a London gang - on 16...

Brexiteer Nigel Farage got a hero's welcome in the United States on Friday, telling the Conservative Political Action Conference that supporting Donald Trump in 2016 was 'the best decision I ever made in my life.' The swashbuckling anti-establishment Member of the European Parliament was on...

The earliest mosaic ever found at the Roman Baths in Bath has been discovered during excavations taking place in advance of the Archway Project, which will extend the public access into a new area of the site. The mosaic was found by local volunteer Fiona Medland who is part of the team...

A young couple have found letters telling the tragic story of a young First World War soldier's death hidden inside a wall in their bathroom. While redecorating, Phil Harbone, 28, found the heart-breaking string of letters between 23 year old soldier Walter Harrison and his parents in a...

DEATH threats, online abuse and fury in the streets: I'm only 18, but these are the sorts of things I put up with every day. I've not committed a crime or tried to be offensive - in fact, all I've done is express my opinion on the biggest political decision most of us will face in our...

A 1,500 year-old tomb containing human remains and armor of a chieftain has been discovered in very good condition. The tunnel-tomb was found in the city of Shibushi on Japan's third largest island, Kyushu, while workers were paving a road along a farm. The tomb contains the most burial...

High street bakery Greggs has been a British favourite since 1939, but one diehard fan has claimed its famous pasties could have been a favourite as far back as the sixteenth century. Twitter user Luke (@goopery), from Manchester, couldn't resist tweeting the baker when he spotted...

Theresa May and 11 senior ministers have been thrashing out the UK's approach to Brexit in an eight-hour discussion at the PM's country retreat. BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said everyone is said to have left Chequers happy implying "baby steps forwards not a huge...

Contrary to the traditional view of them as brutes, it turns out that Neanderthals were artists. A study in Science journal suggests they made cave drawings in Spain that pre-date the arrival of modern humans in Europe by 20,000 years. They also appear to have used painted sea shells as...

The secret to how the ancient Egyptians achieved the near-perfect alignment of the Great Pyramid of Giza may have finally been uncovered. Ancient engineers used shadows cast during the equinox to line up the 4,500-year-old structure with the cardinal points, north-south-east-west, an...

A stunning statue which once stood in the ancient kingdom of Nubia has been revealed by archaeologists as depicting the ruler Aspelta. An inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphics was located on fragments of the 2,600-year-old monument at the ruins of a temple near the Nile River...

Stonehenge has a proud place in Britain's history as one of the wonders of the world and the best-known prehistoric monument in Europe. But, according to a major new study, modern-day Britons are barely related to the ingenious Neolithic farmers who built the monument 5,000 years ago...

A recreation of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham is to leave its home at a British university to travel to the United States – fulfilling his wish 180 years after he died. His skeleton, wax head, clothes, hat, chair and walking stick is to leave University College London and to go on display at...

An elite group of citizens flaunted their status by wearing 'ostentatious' rings in the last days of Roman rule over Britain. Experts looked at flashy Brancaster rings, which they have dated to the fourth and fifth centuries, for clues about their owners. They found that the quality of metals...

The BBC will launch its first virtual reality news documentary today, giving viewers the power to point the ‘camera’ where they want. Audience members watching Damming the Nile VR through a special virtual reality headset will feel as though they are at the heart of the action without ever...

A metal detectorist has spoken of his shock after discovering two halves of the same valuable gold ring - a year apart. Pensioner Paul Schorn, 69, discovered the first half of the broken 14th century ring in a field near Winchester in Hampshire in 2016. He went back to the ancient site...

Senior Labour officials are alleged to have aided the Soviet Union. Left-leaning Oxfam is accused of covering up the sexual exploitation of impoverished Haitians and its chief executive, hauled before MPs, admits that the charity faces 26 further allegations of sexual misconduct. Evidence of...

The corset seen on Queen Elizabeth I's funeral effigy is to be unveiled as part of a new exhibition at Westminster Abbey. The delicate garment was supplied by the Queen's tailor, William Jones, to be used in the procession marking the death of the monarch in 1603. For 415 years the bodice has...

MYSTERY surrounds an ancient Greek temple which has been dubbed a "portal to hell" after a spate of unexplained deaths. For years any beast or bird that came near reportedly dropped dead amid claims they were killed by the deadly breath of the Greek god of the Underworld, Hades. During...

The riddle of how ancient humans first began to speak may have been solved. It was invented to help them mess about in boats, a leading academic controversially suggests. Man 'began using words 1 million years ago': Researchers believe humans would not have been able to build boats and sail...