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It's party conference season in the UK but, unlike most party conference seasons, this one comes in the run-up to a General Election, so this is where the General Election campaign really starts. The Labour Party held their conference in Manchester last week, but the speech made by Marxist Ed...

In her new book Comic, Curious & Quirky: News Stories From Centuries Past, Levin pulls together some of the most bizarre tales to fill the columns of British newspapers as far back as the 1700s – from the woman who in 1830 poisoned her dinner guests, then died, having forgotten she'd used the...

More players are now taking up blind cricket than ever before but why is the sport becoming increasingly popular? Hassan Khan: 'Blind cricket changed my life'...

The northern gannet is the largest seabird in the North Atlantic, and the UK is home to TWO THIRDS of the entire world's population of them. And one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in the UK is seeing these magnificent birds dive into the sea to catch fish. Northern gannets can dive from a...

An amateur metal detectorist has unearthed one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain. Laurence Egerton, 51, made the discovery as he explored land near Seaton, in Devon - and he was so concerned someone would steal it, he camped out for three nights while archaeologists...

Jackanory was a BBC children's TV series that was originally broadcast between 1965 and 1996 that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show's format, which varied little over the decades, involved an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in...

Liverpool progressed to the fourth round of the Capital One Cup at Anfield last night - but only after winning the joint-longest penalty shootout in English football history against Middlesbrough. After the match ended 2-2 after extra time, with young English player Jordan Rossiter, who has...

TV presenter and University of Manchester physicist Brian Cox says he supports the idea that many universes can exist at the same time. The idea may sound far-fetched but the "many worlds" concept is the subject of serious debate among physicists. It is a particular interpretation of quantum...

I once ate a scorpion.

Sixty years ago exactly, a Roman God was uncovered at a London building site. The excavations for the Temple of Mithras moved around but are now going back to the original site. Tom de Castella asks: How do you reconstruct a Roman temple? Temple of Mithras: How do you put London's Roman shrine...

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, has attended mass in Malta to mark the tiny island country's 50 years of independence from Britain. Leading national figures were also at the mass at St John's Co-Cathedral in the capital Valletta. It is believed to be the first time that the prince, who...

It's funny how, now that the Scottish independence referendum is over, focus has now suddenly shifted from the pampered Scots to the long-ignored English and how to give more powers to them. England, apart from London, which has its own devolved assemly headed by the mayor, is the only part of...

England, which hosted the 1966 World Cup and Euro 96, is to co-host Euro 2020 after UEFA announced that Wembley Stadium will host the tournament's semi-finals and final. Like the World Cup, the European Championships is usually hosted by one nation, with France hosting the next one in 2016...

Recent dry weather conditions have revealed a number of prehistoric and Roman sites across Wales. The discoveries include one prehistoric defended enclosure in Pembrokeshire and another one in Gower. Toby Driver from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales said...

Analysis of Richard III's remains has suggested that the king was surrounded by soldiers and hacked to death after losing his helmet in battle. Medical scanners were used to establish that the king suffered 11 injuries from enemy soldiers at Bosworth Field in 1485. The 32-year-old died after...

It is thought that children as young as ten could have made the greatest treasures of the Bronze Age found near Stonehenge. The ornate jewellery and ceremonial daggers, which were found 200 years ago, are so intricate they could only have been made by children. The artefacts were crafted...

It looks like it's been toasted for far too long.

Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum have raised enough money to keep a rare Iron Age mirror in the county. The mirror, dating from the 1st Century BC, was found near Didcot, Oxfordshire and had been at risk of being exported to an overseas buyer. Grants and donations from...

Divers exploring an underwater shipwreck have discovered parts of sailors' shoes, which could give clues about life in the 17th Century. The soles and insoles were recovered from HMS London, a Royal Navy warship which sank off the Essex coast in 1665. Evidence of cabins and hand-made glass...

David Cameron has vowed that Jihadi John and his fellow ISIS terrorists will be brought to justice after video emerged last night showing the Briton beheading his fellow countryman David Haines. Mr Haines, 44, an aid worker from Fife in Scotland who had been living in Croatia with his Croatian...