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The head of a Neolithic dog has been recreated using a skull discovered in a cairn tomb in Orkney. A forensic artist used 3D images of the 4,000-year-old animal to build the model - complete...

A bricked-up window containing 15th Century glass and a Georgian baker's oven have been found during restoration work on a city's "hidden gem". Tunwell's Court has two shopfronts...

A prehistoric monument that boasts the world’s largest stone circle and now stands among the World Heritage Sites may have been designed to commemorate a single, humble house when it was built more than 5,000 years ago...

Glasgow's wild parakeet flock is colourful and popular with the locals but their days may be numbered. About...

New research has shown where William Shakespeare lived in London when he was writing Romeo and Juliet. It was...

We rejoin Sir Toby Amadeira, the MP for the West Country seat of Crumblybottom, after a rather bruising encounter with his local party officers. He decides to visit the famous Crumblybottom market... The messages MPs will be getting from their local Market Square...

Nigel Farage has vowed to bring together prominent business people and academics to stand in the 2019 European Parliament elections as members of his new pro-Brexit party. The former Ukip leader confirmed his Brexit Party will be contesting all 73 seats. His bombshell announcement comes amid...

Cambridge have won the 165th University Boat Race on the Thames in London, winning in a time of 16 minutes and 57 seconds, not far short of the course record of 16 minutes and 19 seconds set by Cambridge in 1998...

Tiger Roll won a thrilling Grand National to become the first horse since Red Rum 45 years ago to win the Aintree race back-to-back...

I’ve never felt European. We are a more globally minded people, more likely to emigrate to other English-speaking countries than to France or Spain, and our history would seem to have set us on a different course to those nations that haven’t got over defeat or devastation during the...

Seventy years ago this month, a prime minister led a divided nation towards the exit from what was then one of the world’s most important organisations. On that occasion, Ireland was the country wanting to leave and there was no backstop to hold things up. Despite the pleas of the other...

An amateur metal detectorist scouring the grounds of a field in Kent has discovered a perfectly preserved gold coin dating back almost 2,000 years. It is emblazoned with...

The first British passports without the words European Union on the front cover have been issued to the public, despite the delays over Brexit...

London football club Tottenham Hotspur has unveiled its new stadium. The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is located in the north of the capital and has a capacity of 62,062. It cost almost £1 billion and features the world's first dividing, retractable football pitch, which reveals a synthetic turf...

Exactly 100 years ago what are believed to be the bones of St Magnus were rediscovered in the cathedral built in his honour in Orkney. They were originally the centrepiece of a shrine at the twelfth century church in Kirkwall. It is thought the bones were hidden in a pillar during the...

The petition is not a plea by the pro-Remain lobby for Parliament to vote on revocation, nor that we give it another go: to rehash the arguments about whether or not we should be a member of the EU, and then let the people of this country make their finaldecision on the matter. It simply...

An "extraordinary" connection has been uncovered between a fountain in India and one taken down in the UK over 50 years ago. Northampton's Market Square fountain was erected in 1863 to...

People on both sides are passionate about the Brexit debate but they are not passionate because they have views about the economic effects...

Imagine if 2016’s referendum tipped 52 per cent for Remain. Thus the majority of Britons are content to quietly get on with continued membership of the EU. Yet freakishly, after the 2017 snap general election, and in defiance of both main parties’ pro-EU manifestos, three-quarters of MPs...

A 14-year-old schoolboy helping out at an archaeological dig in Glasgow has found one of a set of lost gravestones from the Middle Ages...