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A Roman settlement has been discovered in London on the site of a new luxury hotel. An incredible 11,000 Roman items, which are around 2,000 years old, have been found buried just one and a half feet below the surface at the building site at Syon Park. A new hotel is being built on the spot...

The French usually don't like complimenting other countries - especially Britain - as they think their nation is the centre of the entire universe and that all planets, stars and entire galaxies revolve around it. But they have now shocked mankind (except the British) by declaring that London...

Next year's royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton couldn't have come at a better time - as it will give Britain's beleagured, recession-hit economy a £1 billion boost and, at the same time, show the world why the British monarchy is a real asset to the country. Income from...

The mighty New Zealand rugby union team is nicknamed the All Blacks because of the way they play in black shirts, black shorts and black socks. The new nickname for England, though, could be the Almost Blacks. Yesterday, England broke 139 years of tradition - during which they have worn...

With Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney recently stalling on signing a new contract for his team until he was made the world's highest paid footballer at £250,000 a week (£12 million a year), it is hard to believe that once upon a time footballers truly WERE proper role models. The story...

Prince William made a surprise visit to Our Boys and Girls in Afghanistan today to lay a Remembrance Sunday wreath and take part in a service of remembrance at the British base of Camp Bastion. His wreath read: 'For Jo, Lex and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.'...

12 million people - almost a fifth of the entire UK population - watched Coronation Street on Monday night to watch one of the soap's best-loved characters pass away. In one of the most emotional scenes ever seen on the long-running soap, Jack Duckworth passed away in the same armchair in...

The RAF veterans of the Battle of Britain were thanked by the nation on Monday, just days before Remembrance Sunday. Just 70 years ago, the RAF defeated the Luftwaffe in the skies over Britain despite being heavily outnumbered. It was the first major defeat for Hitler's hordes in World War II...

More than 500 vintage vehicles took part in the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run on Monday. The vehicles set off from London's Hyde Park to travel the 60 miles to the Channel coast town of Brighton in East Sussex. It was the 77th rally, which is organised by the Royal Automobile...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected requests by the Chinese for him to remove his "offensive" poppy - as it reminds the Chinese of the Opium Wars, as poppies are used to make the drug. Britain and China fought two wars against each other - the first from 1839 to 1842 and the...

A winning design has been chosen for the memorial to honour Britain's most iconic aircraft and the most beautiful fighter plane to have ever flown our planet's skies - the Spitfire. The design, by London-based Australian architect Nick Hancock, was chosen from hundreds of entries and is of a...

Some German tourists got more than they bargained for when they tried to have their photo taken with an armed St James's Palace guardsman. Two young German boys went to stand next to the bayonet-carrying Scots guard so that their parents could take a photo. But this enraged the British...

The players of Birmingham City and West Ham United had a very early bath during a Premiership game yesterday - as the sprinklers in the turf came on during the match. Just three minutes into the game two sprinklers erupted into life, drenching the players under fountains of water and causing...

Queen Elizabeth II may be 84 years old but she is not averse to embracing modern technology. Earlier this year the Monarchy opened an account on the photo-sharing website Flickr, which to date hosts more than 1,400 royal pictures. Last year a Royal Twitter account known as @BritishMonarchy...

Did anorexia indirectly lead to England's break with Rome in 1534 and the creation of the Church of England? The reason why King Henry VIII divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, so he could marry Anne Boleyn was because Catherine failed to produce him a male heir. This divorce led to...

Thanks to England's long and eventful history, it's amazing just what stories, stretching back centuries, can be unearthed even in the smallest of villages and hamlets. And one of the most successful BBC documentaries of the year - a good example of how the corporation makes some of the best...

The British Army's Gurkhas are, without doubt, the bravest and most fearsome soldiers on the planet. This has been proved again with one Gurkha fighting off a dozen Taliban in Afghanistan with a Rambo-style hail of fire. Sergeant Dipprasad Pun hoisted a giant machine gun - weighing 30lb -...

The two queens of Coronation Street were given their MBEs yesterday at Buckingham Palace - by the real Queen. Barbara Knox, 77, who plays kindly shop owner Rita Sullivan, and Eileen Derbyshire, 79, who plays Emily Bishop, put on their best hats, clothes and pearls to meet the Queen who gave...

Britain probably has a greater variety of landscapes than any other country of comparable size. From the mountains of Scotland, northern Wales and northern England, the wet flatlands of East Anglia and the lonely moors of Yorkshire, Exmoor and Dartmoor, Britain has a lot of geographical and...

A Muslim woman has been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years for the attempted murder of Labour MP Stephen Timms. Roshonara Choudry, 21, stabbed Mr Timms - the Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury - on 14th May this year at his constituency surgery in East Ham, east London over his...