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THIS is the face of the only man to have ever assassinated a British Prime Minister - seen for the first time through fascinating facial reconstruction. Angry businessman John Bellingham shot dead PM...

The UK’s withdrawal agreement from the European Union has been approved by EU leaders, its chief official Donald Tusk has announced...

An animal rights group has been roundly mocked after suggesting the Dorset village of Wool change its name - as it currently ‘promotes cruelty to sheep’...

A bloodstained tunic belonging to former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket is to be returned to the UK after a 500-year Italian exile...

It's wobbly screen time for some of Britain's most impressive ruined castles - because they've been rebuilt using digital wizardry...

The two different responses from the Remainers over two Daily Mail front pages... Leavephobia – the new racism...

WITH a Brexit deal close to being agreed, what has happened? Someone has shoved a Spaniard in the works, that’s what...

Whether we voted Labour or Conservative, Leave or Remain, we all pay for the BBC through our licence fee. We...

A metal detectorist has found what is thought to be the first Celtic chariot burial to be uncovered in Wales. The burial ritual was reserved for high-ranking chiefs who would be interred...

A helmet thought to have been worn by a king has been reconstructed nine years after fragments of the original were found within the Staffordshire hoard...

King George III suffered a bout of mental illness after reading King Lear - Shakespeare’s play about a monarch who descends into madness - according to royal medical records which have been published online for the first time...

Time and time again we are told that the EU has not the remotest intentions of establishing an army, that this is just Little Englander fantasy, and that to speak of the EU as an emergent, undemocratic empire is paranoid xenophobia...

All roads lead to Rome, the saying goes. Well, all roads except for the Roman road of Watling Street, which at one end takes you to Dover (Dubris) and at the other Wroxeter (Viroconium) in Shropshire...

World Cup semi-finalists England were too good for the USA on Thursday night in a game in which England fans bade farwell to Wayne Rooney. It was the D.C. United striker's last game for England after nearly 16 years, in an international career which has seen him become England's all-time leading...

I always shudder when I hear people say ‘Let’s stop Brexit’. They say it so casually, so cavalierly. It rolls off the tongue as if it were no big deal. They seem utterly unmoved by what ‘stopping Brexit’ would entail and the consequences it would have. It would mean blocking the largest act...

Theresa May's pathetic 585-page Brexit deal is too lengthy for most people to want to read it all from beginning to end. So here's a list of the top 40 horrors lurking within it...

Some athletes blame poor performances on the state of the pitch. Others blame it on tactics, or perhaps just a bad day at the office. But blaming your opponent for farting is definitely a new...

An amateur metal detector enthusiast from Dorset has unearthed a 500-year-old gold ring worth £10,000. The immaculate piece of jewellery was buried under several feet of mud and is set to be...

A box of poppies believed to date back almost 100 years has been found in an old suitcase. Bernie Axtell found them while looking for paperwork in his home in Cardiff on Sunday, a week before Armistice Day. The 77-year-old was given them by his friend Vic Luckhurst about 30 years ago while...

There is something mystifying and creepy about some churches - especially the ones that are home to the likes of a mummified corpse and thousands of human bones...