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Jose Mourinho has shown off his rarely-seen skills on the pitch by starring in a charity football match for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. The Manchester United boss came on as a sub goalkeeper in the Game4Grenfell match between two teams of celebrities and ex-players at...

In just two years, Oliver Cromwell made the journey from little-known MP with no experience of armed combat to brilliant, battle-winning leader... Oliver Cromwell: the secret of his military genius In just two years, Oliver Cromwell made the journey from little-known MP with no experience of...

A hard drive containing unfinished works by Terry Pratchett has been crushed by a steamroller, as per instructions left by the fantasy novelist. It is thought up to 10 incomplete novels were flattened at the Great Dorset Steam Fair. The six-and-a-half tonne Lord Jericho was used to roll...

An Iron Age home in the Highlands appears to have been hastily abandoned after a fire broke out either accidently or in an attack. Archaeologists investigating the remains of the broch in Assynt, Sutherland, say they have found evidence to support the theory that the building caught fire...

A 1,600-year-old Roman mosaic unearthed in Boxford in Berkshire is "the most exciting mosaic discovery made in Britain in the last 50 years", archaeologists have said. The mosaic dates from 380AD, in the last decades of Roman rule in Britain. It is 6 metres long, showing a range and...

Young men from late medieval London's lower classes faced a life of violent conflict to resolve their differences, according to a new study. Analysis has found that rates of serious head injuries were twice as high in London, compared to other big cities like York. Around 400 skulls...

The European Commission didn't seem to think at first that the so-called "Brexit bill" would be much of an issue. Britain's outstanding debt would be calculated "scientifically", Jean-Claude Juncker said in March, then airily predicting that the final bill would be "around" £50 billion...

Events in Britain and Paris are marking 20 years since Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris. How has Princess Diana's death changed the Royal Family? - BBC News

The new £1.35bn Queensferry Crossing could still be operating in 150 years, according to its technical director. Mike Glover, who has managed the bridge project for the decade since it was first approved, told the BBC its design would make it easy to maintain. The new 1.7 mile (2.7km) crossing...

Late Victorian students fuelled their studies with steamed and shaped sago puddings, menus from a Cambridge college have revealed. The popularity of the now unfashionable South Asian starch can be found in the Girton College menu books which date from 1896 to 1903. Sago pudding tops 1900...

Do any of these eight numpties have what it takes to be Britain's Macronite Prime Minister? Coffee House Steerpike Eight people who think they could be Britain’s Emmanuel Macron Steerpike 22 August 2017 BBC News Emmanuel Macron may have the lowest approval ratings of any modern-era French...

A section of the UK's new polar research ship will get an early taste of the sea this week. The rearmost portion of the RRS Sir David Attenborough's stern is being moved from its production yard on Tyneside to Birkenhead where the rest of the hull is being built. "Block 10", as it is...

A group of pagans has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury demanding two churches to make amends for those it says were stolen 1,300 years ago. The Odinist Fellowship, which represents 1,000 members of the pagan religion, wrote to the Church of England last month asking for two...

The Notting Hill Carnival is beginning with a special ceremony as "a small act of remembrance" following the Grenfell fire tragedy. The charity single Bridge Over Troubled Water will be sung and a group multi-faith prayer will be said. Organisers have encouraged attendees to wear or...

I've got plenty of food particles on my carpet. I'd like to hoover them up but I just can't be bothered, what with the football on right now and then the Women's Rugby World Cup Final between New Zealand and England tonight. So I'll have to hoover up next week or something.

Particles that make up food are edible.

A gold ring given by Elizabeth I to one of her naval commanders after the defeat of the Spanish Armada has emerged for sale for £70,000. The ring is believed to date from 1590 and was commissioned as a gift by the then Queen of England as a thank you to a naval chief, possibly Sir...

Counter-terror police are investigating after two police officers were injured while arresting a man with a knife outside Buckingham Palace. Officers saw a "large bladed weapon" in the man's car when it stopped near the palace on Friday evening. As they arrested him, both men suffered minor...

Afua Hirsch is a 36-year-old half-British, half-Ghanaian journalist brought up in London who, until this week, scarcely anybody had heard of. She has now, however, achieved her five minutes of notoriety, space in the Guardian and a television debate, by proposing that Nelson’s statue in...

Lewis Carroll's photographs of the girl who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will go on display alongside images of her as an older woman. They will be shown in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography. Lewis Carroll's pictures of the...