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A British man who saved 669 children, most of them Jews, from the Nazis is to receive the Czech Republic's highest state honour. Sir Nicholas Winton was 29 when he arranged trains to take the children out of occupied Czechoslovakia and for foster families to meet them in London. Now 105, he...

British Prime Minister David Cameron was shoved in the street by a member of the public today in a "very significant security breach." The PM was in Britain's third-largest city, Leeds, to promote the government's proposed HS3 high speed rail link between Leeds and Manchester. But as he came...

After 13 years and 453 fatalities, the British military's role in the War in Afghanistan has come to an end today. In a historic moment in the Afghan desert, Britain lowered its flag in Camp Bastion in an end of operations ceremony signifying the finish of the longest military campaign in...

More than 1,400 staff of British intelligence agency GCHQ have created a giant remembrance poppy at the organisation's "doughnut" headquarters in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Staff dressed up in red rain ponchos to form the 125ft poppy to mark the start of the Royal British Legion's...

Veteran glam rocker Alvin Stardust has died at the age of 72. He had recently been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer and died at home with his wife, Julie, and family around him, his manager said. Stadust, whose real name was Bernard Jewry, was born in London's East End in 1942. His...

A man has stunned archaeologists by locating a Bronze Age settlement using Google Earth. Howard Jones’ online research was proved correct when he unearthed 5,000-year-old flint tools and other evidence of habitation. He began his search for a settlement by trawling satellite images for the...

This is bound to get the PC Brigade keeling over in a mass coronary. The BBC is under pressure not to play a “calypso” record released by Ukip, which was today denounced as offensive by rival MPs. Nigel Farage endorsed a song written and performed in a cod-Jamaican accent by Mike Read, the...

A perfectly preserved glass ‘witch bottle’ has been unearthed in Newark, Nottinghamshire - three centuries after it was buried in the ground. The green vessel is believed to have been used during the 18th century to ward off witches and evil spirits, and survived for so long because it was...

Scientists have discovered that sex started at the bottom of Scottish lakes (or lochs, as they are called in Scotland). Professor John Long from Flinders University in Adelaide has narrowed down the exact time in evolutionary history when sexual intercourse was first developed as a means for...

DNA testing has revealed that Hatch, the world's most famous ship's dog, was male, not female. The unfortunate Hatch the dog went down with the English warship Mary Rose in July 1545 along with around 500 sailors when she sank whilst fighting the French (who else?) in the Battle of the Solent...

West Ham United are due to move to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London, from Upton Park in 2016 while Tottenham Hotspur, who have plans for a new stadium next to their current White Hart Lane ground, will have to find a temporary home venue for the 2017-18 season whilst they wait to...

Plans drawn up by Britain's most senior army officer could see 3,000 British troops being sent to Sierra Leone to set up military blockades to stop the deadly virus from spreading. Sir Nick Carter, the Chief of the General Staff, will advise Ministers on proposals, including an increase in...

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, also known as The Book of Household Management, comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House-Maids, Lady’s-Maid, Maid-of-all-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid...

My precious! Ring with "Lord of the Rings" inscription found in farmer's field A gold ring engraved with a romantic message has been unearthed centuries after it was last seen. Amateur treasure hunter Morley Howard was metal detecting in a newly ploughed field in Highbridge, Somerset, when...

Albania players were left "emotionally shaken and psychologically distraught" by the violence that caused their Euro 2016 qualifier with neighbours Serbia to be abandoned on Tuesday night, says the nation's football association. Players and fans clashed in Serbian capital Belgrade during the...

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh today visited the Tower of London art installation featuring hundreds of thousands of ceramic poppies. 888,246 ceramic poppies are being placed in the moat of the Tower to remember each of the British armed forces personnel who died in WWI. The last poppy is...

Tonight sees the start of ITV's lavish new historical drama - The Great Fire. Written by Tom Bradby, the political editor for ITV News, the drama, which consists of four hour-long episodes, tells the true story of the Great Fire of London, which raged from Sunday 2nd September to Wednesday 5th...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Iron Age chariot whilst carrying out excavations at an ancient hillfort in Leicestershire. The chariot was found along with horse care tools on Burrough Hill - the county's largest hillfort - and it is thought to date from the 2nd or 3rd Century BC...

King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, is generally believed to have perished at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 by having a Norman arrow shot through his eye, an event depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry (although, as it is actually unclear in the Bayeux Tapestry whether or not the...

Researchers have discovered that the Avebury stone circle may have had more stones than previously thought. Avebury, the largest prehistoric stone circle in the world, so big than part of the village of Avebury lies within it, may have originally had 30 stones in its southern inner circle...