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Was King Æthelstan even greater than his grandfather King Alfred the Great? If King Alfred was great, was Æthelstan even greater...

Amid the millions of words of obfuscation and bull being spouted about Brexit, we witnessed a rare moment of truth this week. European Council president Donald Tusk let the cat out of the Brussels bag when he warned the European Parliament that the EU will be ‘defeated’ in the Brexit...

A 17th Century silver hawk ring found in a field by a metal detectorist has been linked with royalty. The 0.3in vervel, unearthed in Buckinghamshire in 2015, was worn by a hawk to identify its owner. It has since been established it was owned by Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon - a keeper...

Pop star George Michael has topped the UK album charts, 10 months after his death. An expanded version of his second solo album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1, beat Niall Horan and Pink to become the week's best-selling record. It means Michael's album has spent two weeks at number one...

Police have stormed a bowling alley at a leisure complex in Nuneaton and ended an armed hostage siege, the firm's chief executive has told the BBC. Mehdi Amshar said two hostages had been held at MFA Bowl, in Bermuda Park, but the situation has now ended and there were no casualties...

From the fleeting mayfly to the enduring Greenland shark, here are the lifespans of some of planet Earth's great species... read old about it From the fly that lives just 24 hours to the shark that can survive 512 years – nature’s shortest to longest lifespans After tortoise Jonathan reached...

On LBC radio's The Nigel Farage Show, leading Brexiteer and former Ukip leader Nigel Farage asks: "Are the global elite trying to stop Brexit?"

They've all got a screw loose, those enviroMentalists. So many years ago they were telling us all to drive diesel vehicles, saying they were better for the environment. Now they're telling us not to drive diesel vehicles because they are bad for the environment.

New BBC drama Gunpowder dramatises the events of one of the most famous thwarted assassinations in history – the Gunpowder Plot, where radical Catholics attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament to kill King James I and inspire an uprising. But when making the drama, star Kit Harington and...

Until AD 865, Viking raiders’ modus operandi in the British Isles was simple – they came, they saw, they plundered, and then they sped away back over the sea. But that year something changed... The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons...

With the busy lives that everybody leads and one eye on the clock for when Tesco shuts, you might have failed to notice that Beijing has this week been hosting the 19th Congress of the Communist Party. Some 2,300 unswervingly loyal apparatchiks have gathered to cheer to the rafters President...

A French tourist says he is glad the UK is leaving the EU after making a trip to Devon - stating in a letter that he was disgusted by the attitude of the people. Claiming to be Henri Philippe Petain, the man said he recently visited Fremington, a village between Bideford and Barnstaple in...

The western-most concentration camp in the Third Reich, Lager Sylt, was located on British soil - only about 70 miles south of Bournemouth on the island of Alderney. Should this camp and other relics of the Channel Islands' occupation by Nazi Germany be developed into tourist...

Leaders of the 27 remaining EU states have given the green light to preparations for the second phase of Brexit talks, dealing with trade, European Council president Donald Tusk said. The move paves the way for the possible start of formal talks on the future EU/UK trade relationship in...

One of the world's most popular sports is barely known in the US. But, driven by a new generation of immigrants, could cricket finally take off? American cricket gets ready for take-off By Owen Amos BBC News, Washington DC 14 October 2017 One of the world's most popular sports is barely...

Boiling seas, huge flying fish which snatch birds from the sky and armour-clad octopuses were once thought to be purely the stuff of fishermen’s tales. But remarkable new footage, captured over four years by BBC filmmakers for Blue Planet II, has proven that many sailors’ myths are actually...

Britons' Stone Age ancestors dined on lavish meals of roasted sweet pork, butter and cheese - despite likely being lactose intolerant, it has been revealed. Through an analysis of food fragments left in pots and bones found in the ground near Stonehenge, scientists have deduced what builders...

Simon Smith was walking down Gun Street in Reading, Berkshire, when he got hit by a purple double-decker bus. But Simon is British so, rather than letting a little thing like being hit by a double-decker bus get him down, he merely got up and walked into The Purple Turtle pub:

Once again, the Remain camp has overplayed its hand. First, it lost the referendum – which it just might have won – 
by insulting the intelligence of the people with a scare campaign so hysterical that it became, to the splendidly laconic British voter, risible. Apparently having learnt...

A family stranded in the Scottish Highlands have been rescued by the "Hogwarts Express" steam train. Jon and Helen Cluett and their four young children were staying at a remote bothy (a small hut or cottage) in Lochaber when their canoe was swept away by a swollen river. Facing a long walk...