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A British soldier is attempting to be the first man in history to cross Antarctica solo - unsupported, unassisted and using muscle power alone...

An adventurer from Grantham, Lincolnshire, has become the first person to swim 1,780-miles around Great Britain...

Four hundred years ago, Sir Walter Raleigh, the poet, soldier and favorite courtier of Elizabeth I had his head chopped off after he was convicted on charges of conspiring against the monarch's successor, James I. Legend has it that Raleigh’s widow, Bess, was so distraught that she took...

Flooded chambers inside an historic bridge have been opened for the first time in more than 250 years, revealing their eerie secrets...

How the UK would look if it were divided into a "Leave Land" and a "Remain Land" - with Leave Land having twice the population of Remain Land... The Brexit Isles: Two maps reveal Leave Land and Remain Land... how a divided Britain would look if it were separate nations based on EU vote...

The man who defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn was born in Essex - a new historical account claims. Historian Dr Fiona Watson believes Robert the Bruce was from a village...

The great lie about the European Union is that it is a joyous union of European states, an internationalist, progressive haven in a sometimes dark and reactionary world. The battle between Rome and Brussels over Italy’s budget reminds us what a crock that is... The tyranny of the European...

The body of a bare-knuckle fighter who escaped slavery in America and went on to spar with Lord Byron could be unearthed as archaeologists dig up 10,000 years of British history along the line of HS2...

British confectionery giant Cadbury is releasing a new chocolate bar to commemorate its staff who fought in World War I. Here is their story... ‘Chocolate soldiers’: the fascinating story of Cadbury during WW1...

Michael D Higgins has been re-elected as Irish president after receiving 56% of the country's election vote...

Five people are feared dead after a helicopter crashed outside Leicester City's King Power Stadium last night...

A hammer-wielding man has been arrested after an attempted smash and grab of a Magna Carta from its display at Salisbury Cathedral. Alarms went off when the would-be thief tried to break through the glass box...

Experts have finally shed a light on the origins of an ancient and mysterious golden relic which has baffled archaeologists for more than a century. The small, flat golden...

The experiments that inspired English author Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein... The experiments that...

Britain should go for a No Deal Brexit and ditch the £39 billion divorce bill, says former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott...

Police searching for a Ross Geller "lookalike" thief believe they have identified the man after being "inundated" with responses. Social media images of the man clutching a crate of...

On the streets of central London with thousands of ill-informed Remainers... COFFEE HOUSE What I learned at...

That Theresa May was allowed to address her fellow EU leaders at their summit last week, but instructed not to dine with them, has to be the final insult. What don't these arrogant, rude, self-serving, mostly...

Road workers building a new bypass have unearthed the Ice Age remains of a woolly mammoth and a woolly rhino. The...

7 bizarre cases in medical history, from the curious case of a knife-swallowing sailor to an epidemic of exploding teeth…...