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Rugby league club Catalans Dragons pulled off one of Wembley's biggest upsets as the unfancied French side beat Warrington Wolves to win their first Challenge Cup yesterday. No team from outside England had ever won the trophy in its 122-year history. The Perpignan club is the only club from...

After just realising that the Labour Party has been taken over by a "leftist clique", Blackadder actor Sir Tony Robinson should quit, treat himself to a consolatory turnip and just leave Corbyn to destroy that once-great party with his Stalinist purges... ROD LIDDLE Baldrick, here’s my cunning...

Let's explore eight of Britain's most intriguing ruins... 8 of Britain’s most mysterious ruins From haunted castles to cursed, crumbling manor houses, Britain is home to hundreds of ruins steeped in spooky and supernatural history. Here, David Hamilton, author of Wild Ruins, explores eight of...

A shortage of food and medicine; the break-up of the UK; the Grand National being hit; the collapse of British science; an outbreak of super-gonorrhoea. These are all the scare stories the Remainers have come out with in recent days in the event of a No Deal Brexit. What are they going to warn...

Nine of britain's best castles, including medieval fortresses and clifftop ruins... 9 of Britain’s best castles From medieval fortresses to dramatic clifftop ruins, Britain boasts countless awe-inspiring castles. Here we round up nine of the best and explore their fascinating histories... By...

An amateur treasure hunter has stumbled across a hoard of Bronze Age items that could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in a Norfolk field. David Lovett, a 64-year-old from Smallburgh, unearthed the precious haul of ancient goods when walking through the field in Barton Turf, Norfolk...

A new record has been set at a national competition for stone skimmers in the Lake District. The 10th annual All England Open Stone Skimming Championships took place at Fell Foot Park on Lake Windermere. Record set at 10th stone skimming event on Windermere BBC News 19th August 2018 Alex...

A gold ring that was lost in a vegetable garden 12 years ago has been found on a carrot dug up for dinner. Lin Keitch, 69, from Monkton Heathfield near Taunton, Somerset, noticed it while washing her home-grown vegetables. Somerset lost gold ring found on carrot dug up for dinner 17...

Laying a wreath on the graves of the terrorists who committed the Munich Olympics attacks shows just how contemptible Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who, in the past, has shown his support for other terrorist organisations - is... DOMINICK SANDBROOK: Contemptible Jeremy Corbyn hasn't even got...

Excavation work has started in a bid to find out what is left of a castle where Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned. A series of trial trenches will be dug in previously uninvestigated areas where Sheffield Castle once stood. The dig, said to be the first comprehensive survey of the...

Sir Patrick Stewart quits Labour Party after "awkward" encounter with Corbyn Sir Patrick Stewart, one of Labour’s most high-profile members, has abandoned the party he has supported for 73 years after saying he no longer knows “what it stands for”. The Star Trek actor, who attended his...

The UK's new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is to set sail to the US where fighter jets will land on its flight deck for the first time. The Royal Navy's £3.1bn future flagship is expected to leave Portsmouth Naval Base at about 18:00 BST. During the 65,000-tonne carrier's trip it...

Nigel Farage has said he is going "back on the road" to campaign against the prime minister's Brexit plan. Writing for The Daily Telegraph, the UKIP MEP said Theresa May's Chequers agreement was a "sell-out" because it included regulatory alignment with the European Union. He added he...

A small piece of a flag that is said to have been used to prop up Admiral Lord Nelson's head as he lay dying at the Battle of Trafalgar has emerged for sale. The great British seaman was rushed below decks on HMS Victory after a French sniper shot him in the chest with a musket ball during the...

A well-preserved Roman road and hundreds of fragments of Roman pottery have been unearthed in County Durham. About 60 archaeologists and volunteers spent six weeks excavating the largely undisturbed northern end of Binchester Roman Fort, near Bishop Auckland. Binchester Roman Fort excavation...

An amazing 40,000 year old horse has been found perfectly preserved in a Siberian crater nicknamed the “Mouth of Hell”. The three month old dark brown foal dating from the Palaeolithic era is described as “unique in the world”. The animal had been preserved in permafrost since the Ice Age...

Tiny wooden robots have been found on a beach, sparking a social media appeal to track down their creator. The 6in high figures have been left at Portobello Beach, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, over recent weekends... Mystery over tiny robots left on beach By Angie Brown...

Legendary guitarist Brian May is heading to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to launch an illustrated biography on the Victorian Scottish photographer, George Washington Wilson. Wilson, who became the Queen's official photographer in Scotland, is best known for his photographs...

The uproar from our MPs over Boris Johnson's burka comments - three and a half years after they declared "Je Suis Charlie" - highlights the ridiculousness of our modern political class... Coffee House What happened to Je Suis Charlie, Prime Minister? Gavin Mortimer...

Hundreds of baseball-like sea creatures have washed up on a Cornish beach. The small heart-shaped orbs were sea potatoes, a sea urchin that lives buried in sandy and muddy sea beds all around UK coasts... Hundreds of sea potatoes cover Penzance beach 11 August 2018...