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London's Natural History Museum is re-modelling its entrance, moving out its famous Diplodocus skeleton - affectionately known as Dippy - and moving in a blue whale. The exchange will not happen overnight: the complex logistics involved mean it will be 2017 before the great cetacean is...

A fluffy red hat with an ostrich feather which was allegedly thrown in triumph by Henry VIII after his army won a siege in 1544 is set to go on display after being bought for £12,000. The Tudor headwear is set to go on show at Hampton Court Palace in Richmond, Greater London, after the...

Left-wing "comedian" Russell Brand has been invited to face shipyard workers after saying the Astute-class submarines they are working on should be scrapped. He posted a video online saying too much money was spent on defence and it should go to the NHS instead. New...

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This story isn't important because it's only happening far away in some strange, foreign, alien land (the weather isn't too bad here), but I'll say this: Just imagine what it would have been like had global warming not existed. Elf n Safety gone mad. I'm surprised they not wearing hi-viz...

In Scotland they'd deep-fry it.

Australian PM Tony Abbott has used the country's national day to announce a knighthood for Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. Mr Abbott, who reintroduced the honour last year, said the Prince had lived a "long life of service and dedication". He praised the Prince's work as a campaigner...

A 1,000-year-old sculpture which was used in recent years as a tombstone for a cat has been bought by a museum for £150,000. The Anglo-Saxon limestone relief depicting St Peter was originally discovered at a quarry in Somerset by Johnny Beeston, a stonemason. He took it home and used it to...

Wolf Hall, the £7m BBC blockbuster starring Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance, has already become the TV event of the year, exposing the skullduggery and political intrigue at the heart of the Tudor Court. And now a historic west London bakery has given a fascinating new insight into the...

Henry VIII may be known as one of history's most ruthless rulers - remembered best for his penchant for chopping of his wives' heads - but it seems the much-married monarch may have had a slightly less violent hobby: gardening. A well-thumbed book found in his library seems to suggest...

They have been burning churches and murdering Christians again in Niger. You’d think that they’d have more immediately pressing concerns than worrying about a cartoon, Niger regularly winning the award for being the worst country anywhere on God’s earth, and the poorest. But nope, it’s...

Today is the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death. The great man died on 24 January 1965 aged 90. He was given what was the largest state funeral in history anywhere in the world at that time, which even saw the dockers of London Docks lower their crane jibs in respect as Churchill's...

Former Home Secretary Leon Brittan has died aged 75 after a long battle with cancer, his family have said. The former Conservative MP was a key figure in Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s and later became a European Commissioner. Prime Minister David Cameron said he had been a...

Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP for the South east of England, argues that Britain should leave the moribund EU and concentrate on the booming Commonwealth. More than six years after the financial crash, every continent on the planet is growing satisfactorily — except Europe. Or, more...

The BBC's lavish new six-part historical drama Wolf Hall - based on the first two novels in Hilary Mantel's trilogy, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies - started last night. Wolf Hall - based on real events - chronicles the rise of Thomas Cromwell, the son of a humble blacksmith who became King...

A 19th Century inventor who lost a fortune in legal disputes with Westminster ended up taking the hot air out of government by ventilating the Houses of Parliament. Goldsworthy Gurney: Inventor took hot air out of Parliament BBC News 22 January 2015...

Pupils at a Christian school (and it is mainly Christian schools or schools with mainly white pupils which are picked on, of course) have been branded bigots... after a young boy gave the wrong answer when asked what a Muslim was. Durham Free has been told to close after Ofsted inspectors -...

Wolf Hall, the BBC's lavish new historical drama based on Hilary Mantel's award-winning novel, is starting tonight at 9pm on BBC Two. The new drama, which stars Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn, has exposed several Tudor myths. And here are a few more. Did you know...

She should thank our lucky stars there is no Global Warming because, if there were, these numpties would be contributing greatly to it.

I thought they would have all cycled there, like what they keep telling us lot to do.