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What a brilliant episode of Question Time it was last night. The BBC showed yet again how "impartial" it is by deciding to throw Britain's most famous anti-Semite - that Far-Left slimeball George Galloway - into the lion's pit by having him appear on the panel on last night's episode of...

Scottish champions Celtic have confused their new player for a New York priest. The Glasgow club have just signed young Northern Irish winger Michael Duffy from Derry City, but they sent online messages of congratulations praising him for his move to Fr Michael Duffy in New York Fr Michael...

Twenty five endangered African wild dog puppies have made their first public appearance at a Kent wildlife park. The dogs, which are usually found in southern Africa, were born in three litters at Port Lympne Reserve, near Ashford, in November and December. Their arrival takes the number of...

With just three months to go until the British General Election, this new four-part series takes a look behind the scenes of the House of Commons. For the last year, cameras have been given access not only to the House of Commons Chamber where, probably uniquely amongst world parliaments, the...

It was teeth poking through the mud that caught an amateur fossil hunter’s attention. The sight led Jonathan Stewart to discover the remains of a prehistoric rhino on a Norfolk beach, after the cliffs were eroded by stormy weather. He came across the two rows of teeth at the foot of the...

Digging For Britain Series 3 Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology. In the summer, archaeologists were unearthing our history in hundreds of digs across Britain. They have gone to extraordinary lengths to uncover long lost...

I'm not normally into reality show rubbish like Big Brother, but here's a new reality show that I do like: 10,000 BC. In October 2014, Channel 5 sent 20 Brits back to the Stone Age to take part in a social experiment: The Harding family, five of the 20 participants of Channel 5's new reality...

In its new series, A Cook Abroad, the BBC has sent six British TV celebrity chefs abroad to try out different recipes around the world. The first episode, which aired last night, sees one half of the Hairy Bikers, Dave Myers, travel to Egypt to sample the local delicacies. The Hairy Bikers -...

The world's deadliest military sniper is a Royal Marine with 173 confirmed kills, including 90 members of the Taliban in just one day, it has been reported. The Briton, who has not been named, had served in the elite unit for more than a decade and recorded most of his kills during a...

Five people have been injured after a double-decker bus had its roof ripped off on a busy shopping street in central London today. Scotland Yard and Transport for London (TfL) have both launched investigations into the collision, which saw the roof of the bus being flipped over...

According to the Greater London Authority (GLA), London's population has reached 8.6 million, larger than New York City. The vast metropolis is already Europe's largest city and the 6th richest place on Earth and its population is expected to keep growing, with it expected to top 10 million...

It was the tree beneath which King John sealed the Magna Carta – the document that first ushered in the basic rights that underpin British democracy to this day (contrary to popular belief, King John didn't sign it. He merely put his seal on it). Now, exactly eight centuries after that...

A female Channel 4 newsreader has been thrown out of a mosque on what has been the national "Visit My Mosque Day". Cathy Newman expressed surprise that she had been turned away and explained that she was there to mark the nationwide event organized by The Muslim Council of Britain...

American football is about as much fun as shooting yourself in the face, says The Telegraph's Michael Hogan... 11 reasons why the Super Bowl sucks Why would anyone want to watch a four-and-a-half hour orgy of consumption where the rare glimpses of sporting action are tediously...

A workshop that produced early medieval chess pieces has been uncovered during an archaeological dig "for the first time" in England. Similar chess pieces have been found at digs at manor houses but this find is evidence of their manufacture. Archaeologist Andy Chapman said it was "the most...

A priceless piece of jewellery which is believed to be linked to King Alfred the Great is returning to Somerset for the first time in nearly 300 years ago. The Alfred Jewel was found by Sir Thomas Wroth on his land in North Petherton in 1693. The jewel is one of the most popular exhibits at...

Birds of paradise are one of David Attenborough's lifelong passions. He was the first to film many of their beautiful and often bizarre displays, and over his lifetime he has tracked them all over the jungles of New Guinea. In this very personal film, the 88-year-old uncovers the remarkable...

Young British jihadis are pornography-obsessed inadequates who only turn to radical Islam when they fail to “make it with girls”, Boris Johnson has claimed. The Mayor of London said an MI5 probe had found that terrorists who joined Islamic State were sexually frustrated...

A remembrance service marking the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's funeral has taken place at the Houses of Parliament at the start of a day of UK-wide events. The Havengore, the boat which carried the wartime prime minister's coffin along the Thames, will make the...

Legend has it that crown jewels, gold and money were lost in the medieval mud of the Fens - a natural, marshy region of eastern England - in 1216. It was the year after the Magna Carta was sealed, the country was in revolt and King John was having to quell rebellious uprisings. He...