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A European Space Agency (ESA) rocket lifted off from French Guiana this morning carrying the British designed and built Gaia observatory. The satellite was designed and built in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, by satellite manufacturer Astrium, which is the third biggest space company in the world...

The former leader singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets has been jailed for 35 years today for child sex offences, including against two babies. Mr Justice Royce at Cardiff Crown Court told Watkins, 36, that he will have to serve 29 years without parole and the remaining six years on licence...

One of the perpetrators of probably Britain's most notorious crime of the 20th Century has died. Ronnie Biggs died in the early hours of this morning at the Carlton Court Care Home in East Barnet, north London, aged 84. Biggs was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m (the equivalent of...

Visitors can come face to face with a real Neolithic Briton when the new £27 million Stonehenge visitor centre opens tomorrow. The man's face is based on a 5,500 year old skull that was excavated from a long barrow not far from Stonehenge in 1963. It is the most advanced facial reconstruction...

On Christmas Eve night in 1914, soldiers of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) heard the Germans singing Christmas carols from their trenches, and saw that they had adorned their trenches with lanterns and fir trees. Both sides stopped shooting at each...

Cambridge University has unveiled the world's "greenest" supercomputer. Wilkes - named after British computing pioneer Maurice Wilkes - will be used for development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). When complete the SKA will be the biggest radio telescope ever made. The computer's power...

Jesus is the most famous person in history, followed by Napoleon and Mohammed, according to a new internet search programme. The software, developed in the US, scours the internet for opinions expressed about famous people and uses a special algorithm to predict how important they will remain...

Muslim protesters, including creepy-looking women clad head to foot in burkhas, gathered on London's Brick Lane to demand that businesses there stop selling alcohol - and that they face 40 lashes if they don't. The protest was led by hate cleric Anjem Choudhary, the former leader of banned...

I bought a kangaroo burger from one of the stalls on the huge Christmas market in the centre of the brilliant city of Liverpool on Saturday evening last week. Liverpool is a place I'd recommend a visit to. Apart from eating kangaroo, I also visited the Cavern Club and had my photo taken with...

No. Packham's show was the first to do it.

They've obviously copied that BBC programme hosted by Chris Packham - The Burrowers: Animals Underground.

Britain currently has two advantages over Germany: its population is growing rapidly, faster than any other country in Europe, contributing to about a third of total annual EU population growth, as a result of both immigration and a high birth rate, whilst Germany's shrinks. And Britain is...

Doctor Who fans have set up a petition calling for a newly-discovered planet to be named Gallifrey after the Doctor's home world. The petition has so far received 80,000 signatures, with 50,000 of them coming in the last 24 hours alone. The planet, whose original name is the less catchy HD...

Comedian, actor and director Ricky Gervais has spoken of his sadness at the demise of the building that featured in the opening credits of The Office. Gervais starred in the BBC comedy series as pompous and snide David Brent, the boss of the Slough, Berkshire branch of the Wernham Hogg Paper...

Stonehenge may have been a prehistoric centre for, literally, rock music, according to a new study. According to experts from London's Royal College of Art, some of the stones sound like bells, drums, and gongs when they are 'played' - or hit with hammers. Archaeologists, who have pondered...

70 sandbags of soil from WWI battlefields has arrived in Britain. The soil, collected by British and Belgian schoolchildren, arrived in London yesterday from just across the Channel aboard the Belgian Navy frigate Louisa Marie. At the Menin Gate, which commemorates all those British and...

Archaeologists have uncovered 18 medieval skeletons at Durham Cathedral, but have been left baffled by their unusual alignment. The team members first thought they had uncovered remains of Durham Cathedral’s medieval cemetery, the boundaries of which may have extended further than the present...

A Muslim convert held a British soldier by the hair and tried to hack off his head 'like a butcher attacking a joint of meat' after knocking him down with a car at 40mph, the Old Bailey heard today. Drummer Lee Rigby was 'mutilated, almost decapitated and murdered' by Michael Adebowale, 22...

Archaeologists have discovered a rare board game piece from the 7th century which casts raucous Anglo-Saxon feasts in a new light. The archaeologists, from the University of Reading, were excavating an Anglo-Saxon royal great hall in Lyminge, Kent when they unearthed the gaming piece in the...

Britain has formally protested to the Spanish authorities after Spanish police opened a diplomatic bag at the border with Gibraltar. The Foreign Office said diplomatic bags were "inviolable" and opening one was "a serious infringement" of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. The...