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THERESA May has vowed to look beyond Europe and “forge a new global role for the UK” as she prepares to lead her first major trade mission next month, to India. The Prime Minister claimed that the UK will become the “most passionate, most consistent, and most convincing advocate for free...

If MPs want a revolution, ignoring the result of the EU in/out referendum would be a surefire way to start one... DAN HODGES: If you want a revolution, this is how to spark it. The people spoke on Brexit - but MPs stuck their fingers in their ears and ignored them. This could get nasty... By...

British scientists will face ‘six minutes of terror’ next week as the Schiaparelli space probe plunges to the surface of Mars after a seven month journey. If successful, it will be the first time a European mission has successfully landed on a planet. Although Britain's ill-fated Beagle 2...

Yesterday's League One match between London club Charlton Athletic and Coventry City was delayed for five minutes after both sets of fans threw little plastic pigs onto the pitch at Charlton's The Valley stadium. The supporters were protesting against the two clubs' respective owners, and...

Although Victorians faced many public health problems, could it be that they ate more healthily than us? Michael Mosley, presenter of the BBC's new living history series The Victorian Slum, investigates... How to eat like a Victorian BBC News Michael Mosley Although Victorians faced...

Why was Domesday Book made? What does it say about the impact of the Normans on England? And what more can we learn from it? Stephen Baxter considers the big questions about this pivotal work… Domesday Book: The most important document in English history...

An excavation in Devon has turned up a child’s shoe which could be hundreds of years old. Archaeologists carrying out a dig in the heart of Newton Abbot were stunned when they came across the ancient footwear. The leather shoe, which has been well-preserved in the clay soil at the site, could...

SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her anti-English brigade must be faced down. Theresa May should call her bluff over her demands for another referendum and grant it to her, for Sturgeon is using them to extort yet more largesse from the beleaguered British...

Clearly, the Brexit story is going to be full of drama. In the last week alone we have had an appeal to the High Court on behalf of the sacred sovereignty of the British Parliament - and Marmitegate. Neither of these things was what it seemed. The solemn court action, couched in the high-flown...

Tributes will be paid to the 116 children and 28 adults who lost their lives in the Aberfan disaster at events on Saturday. It will be 50 years on 21 October since a coal waste tip collapsed and submerged a school near Merthyr Tydfil. Veterans from The King's Own Royal Border Regiment will...

Jean Alexander, who played Coronation Street's Hilda Ogden and Auntie Wainwright in Last of the Summer Wine, has died aged 90. Alexander portrayed Hilda Ogden, a sharp-tongued, put-upon housewife who was one of Coronation Street's best known characters, from 1964 to 1987. She appeared as...

A new portrait to mark the Queen's six decades as patron of the British Red Cross has been unveiled by the monarch. In the painting, the Queen wears her garter robes as she sits in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle. The artwork, which was unveiled at Windsor Castle, is by artist Henry...

Thousands of people are expected to descend on East Sussex to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. Battle Abbey, widely accepted as the site of one of the most famous events in British history, is the focus for a weekend of events. The battle, between William of Normandy...

The siblings who continued the English royal line after the Battle of Hastings, which took place 950 years ago today.... 'England's darling' and Scotland's saint By Trevor Timpson BBC News 14 October 2016...

An "urgent inquiry" is needed after a male gorilla escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo, say conservationists. The western lowland silverback's escape did not endanger the public but it "could have ended very differently", the Born Free Foundation warned. Despite it only getting into...

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, has died after 70 years as head of state, the palace says. The 88-year-old king was widely revered but had been in poor health in recent years, making few public appearances. He was seen as a stabilising figure in a...

The Beeb's impartiality during the EU referendum campaign was surprising and admirable. Yet now that Remain lost the referendum, the Beeb is showing its true pro-EU colours... STEPHEN GLOVER: During the referendum, the BBC was laudably impartial. I just knew it was too good to be true! By...

Walking football is a very popular game in the UK - trouble is, no-one can agree how to play it. There are 800 clubs playing a sport invented in 2011 as a low-impact alternative to the 'beautiful game'. But with no standardised rules, except that running is forbidden, disputes have become...

We may not know exactly how England's King Harold II died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but die he certainly did, in spite of later rumours that he fled and became a hermit. But what if it had been Duke William's lifeless body stretched out on English soil, not Harold's? In an article for...

An amateur palaeontologist who discovered a 200 million-year-old fossil accidentally smashed it to pieces while he was excavating it. But then, instead of giving up on the fossil, he spent two years painstakingly gluing it back together. The fossil came from a plesiosaur, long-necked marine...