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Just the day after the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games have finished, the Commonwealth family has come together again in the same city to mark the 100th anniversary of Britain's entry into WWI, exactly a week after the conflict started. 1,100 people, including Commonwealth royals, politicians...

Northern Europe - especially Denmark, Ireland and Britain - are renowned for their abundance of bog bodies. Over 2,000 of them have been found over the years, lying in the boggy peat which helped preserve them. The oldest known bog body is the skeleton of Koelbjerg Woman from Denmark, who...

Melanie Phillips attacks the appalling silence from Britain's political leaders at a time of rising anti-Semitic racism.... What our leaders would say if they really cared about defending Britain's Jews This lynch-mob mentality has been building for years By Melanie Phillips Melanie...

Photos taken 100 years ago of British Tommies preparing for the First World War have been brought to life after they were digitally coloured. The vivid snaps are in stark contrast to the grainy black and white photographs depicting the Great War that we are used to seeing. Most of them...

England and Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen Ali has been banned from wearing wristbands saying "Save Gaza" and "Free Palestine". The 27-year-old Muslim Brummie - who has been noticeably silent whilst his fellow Muslims are being killed by Muslims in Syria and Egypt and by Muslim terrorist...

A couple of neighbours saw a UFO flying over our flats last week in the bright blue summer sky. It was weird.

Historian Max Hastings (who, in 1982, was the first Briton to enter Argentine-held Stanley) believes that the medieval religion that is Islam should start accepting much of the blame for many of the ills in today's world: Yes, the West has fought the Muslim world for centuries. But Islam must...

It's only Day 1 of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and England are already at the top of the medals table after taking gold AND bronze in the women's triathlon. At a hot and sunny Strathclyde Country Park, England's Jodie Stimpson stormed to the first medal of the 2014 Commonwealth Games...

Archaeologists have found a series of extraordinary finds on the site of a 1,800 year old Roman fort in County Durham in northern England. The discoveries at Binchester Roman Fort near Bishop Auckland date back 1,800 years and include a silver ring - said to be one of the earliest pieces of...

It seems that potholes in roads are not just a bane for modern drivers. It seems that even 2000 years ago they were a menace. Wheel ruts found in a newly excavated road surface in Ipplepen, 7 miles north west of Torquay near the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, are thought to be similar to those...

Nick Griffin has stepped down as leader of the Far-Right BNP after 15 years in the job. Mr Griffin said he had had "more than long enough" in charge and had seen off both external and internal attempts to "destroy" the party in recent years. Former MEP Mr Griffin has been replaced...

Today is Prince George's first birthday and, to mark the occasion, Kensington Palace has released two beautiful new photographs of him with his parents. The photos show the clearly enchanted young family in the midst of the ‘Sensational Butterflies’ exhibition at the Natural History Museum in...

Seven Wonders of the Commonwealth In this one-off BBC documentary, shown last night on BBC1 to herald the start of the XXth Commonwealth Games, some of the nation's best-loved presenters travel around the vast Commonwealth to marvel at seven diverse natural wonders and meet some of its 2.3...

England's cricketers are convinced that the hotel they are staying in is haunted. The players are staying at the world-renowned, 5-star Langham Hotel on London's Regent Street. During Test matches in London this summer, some players have requested to move rooms, whilst some wives and...

Medieval graffiti of straw kings, pentagrams, crosses, ships and "demon traps" have been offering a tantalising glimpse into England's past. What do the pictures reveal about life in the Middle Ages? Mysteries of medieval graffiti in England's churches...

"Come on, Trixibelle! Stop hugging that tree! Your quorn burger's getting cold!"

Ninety people have taken part in a two-week archaeological dig at Leiston Abbey in Suffolk - and the group found a medieval poker chip and a curse tablet. A 'Nuremburg jetton', which would have been used for gaming, was found along with the metal curse tablet, which is expected to contain a...

Great news. The Warmists and the Swampies won't be happy but Australia's taxpayers will be.

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