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Back in 2014, a team of British researchers made headlines for producing the blackest material known to science. Called Vantablack, the material was so black, it absorbed all but 0.035 percent of visible light, which means to our eyes, it was borderline invisible. Now the blackest material...

Tomorrow, my hometown, Bolton, and its football club, Bolton Wanderers, will mark the 70th anniversary of the Burnden Park disaster. The Burnden Park stadium disaster was the worst loss of life at an English football ground before the 1980s. Thirty-three people died and around 400 were...

Former Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson has been branded by the media as a "paedophile" after a court found him guilty of sexual activity with a besotted 15 year old fan. Rather predictably, Twitter has gone into meltdown as its members attack Johnson, who is preparing for prison. But...

Give it a try and then report back here to tell us how it was. ASDA supermarkets sell mini chilli beef and bean pies.

This is making me hungry this, now. It looks like it's going to be pie and chips for my tea tonight, with plenty of HP Brown Sauce.

As someone from the North of England, I enjoy a wide variety of pie fillings, but my current favourites pies are chicken tikka masala pies. Steak and ale pies are nice, too, especially the ones you get in pubs.

To celebrate the fact that this is British Pie Week, here are ten weird and wonderful facts about pies... British Pie Week: 10 things you never knew about pies 10 weird and wonderful facts about pies Saffron Alexander 7 March 2016 The Telegraph Food and Drink...

An earthquake has struck near the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire border. Residents in Chinnor and Thame in Oxfordshire as well as Princes Risborough, Aylesbury and Bledlow in Buckinghamshire reported feeling shaking late on Sunday. The BGS said the earthquake, centred on the village of...

The foreign politicians and establishment figures who support Remain forget that the British electorate always stands up to bullies... Why am I considered a bigot or an idiot for wanting Britain to leave the EU? The foreign politicians and establishment figures who support...

One of the most iconic images of post-Renaissance London has been redrawn, revealing just how much the capital has changed in four centuries. The 1616 Visscher engraving details the city from Whitehall to St Katharine’s Dock and has been described as one of the most 'recognisable and...

Beware the 'swivel-eyed’ moderates who refuse to see the way the world is going nor admit how they have failed... Our pompous, bigoted elite have not even bothered to consider the case for Brexit Beware the 'swivel-eyed’ moderates who refuse to see the way the world is...

Dissident republicans in Northern Ireland want to kill members of the security forces in the run up to the centenary of the Easter Rising, a senior police officer has said. Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin was speaking after a bomb exploded under a prison officer's van. The device...

A flypast to mark the 80th anniversary of the Spitfire's first flight is taking place in Southampton later. The first prototype, K5054, designed by R.J. Mitchell, took off from Eastleigh Aerodrome on 5 March 1936. A Spitfire is due to pass Southampton Water and the site of the Supermarine...

Crop circles are one of the things which make me proud to be British, along with the Queen, Churchill, Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, the red telephone box, Big Ben, fish and chips, the mini skirt, PG Tips, the Spitfire and the Aston Martin CX75. Is that the kind of book you would wish...

The American comic Toby Muresianu put it best: last night’s Oscars felt like ‘three hours of being told to eat your vegetables’. If there has ever been a more grating gathering of smug, self-important asses keen to educate the TV-watching blob about Serious Stuff, then I’m struggling to...

Back in 1916, the whole of Ireland was part of the UK. However, some Irish people were opposed to this Union and wanted Ireland out of it and become a new sovereign state. On Easter Monday (24th April) in 1916, as WWI raged, a group of Irish nationalists staged a rebellion against the...

How do you know there aren't aliens living around 50 light years away whose signals would take only 50 years to get to Earth? We could easily receive those messages and then send some back and it'll only take 50 years for our messages to reach them, providing we make our signals strong enough to...

Scientists believe they have discovered a way to "steer" the immune system to kill cancers. Researchers at University College, London have developed a way of finding unique markings within a tumour - its "Achilles heel" - allowing the body to target the disease. But the personalised...

How do you know they are communicating with us specifically? They could just be sending messages out hoping that someone, somewhere, will receive them. They could be sending messages out in lots of different directions at random hoping for some to be received, and some of those messages could...

How would aliens on another planet so far away even know that we (aliens to them, of course) were so primitive?