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The lost settlements of one of Scotland's most visited landscapes, infamous for the worst murders of the clan era, are to be traced by archaeologists for the first time. Glencoe was the scene of a massacre of the MacDonald clan, which saw more than 30 members of the kinship group slain...

It was a key battle that changed the course of British history. Now, a lengthy investigation has revealed the site of the 1066 Battle of Fulford in York. Archaeologist Charles Jones says the compelling evidence shows 'beyond any sensible doubt' that the historic battle in the city of York...

Remains of an Iron Age hill fort have been uncovered during excavation work to restore a series of caves in Kent. A dig at Margate Caves in preparation for the site being reopened to the public revealed the 'wonderful' find. Researchers discovered a defensive ditch during routine excavation...

One of the oldest trees in Wales which was probably planted 1,000 years ago as a boundary marker along Offa's Dyke has fallen down. The Buttington Oak was spotted collapsed in its field two miles from Welshpool in Powys by a man nicknamed the "tree hunter". 1,000-year-old oak on Offa's Dyke...

Theresa May was forced to rebuff calls to reverse Brexit today after she warned a failure to strike a new UK-EU security treaty could cost lives. The Prime Minister was challenged twice after her speech to the Munich Security Conference to explain why she was pushing through the...

A man has driven a sports car across 21 countries, starting at the most northerly pub in the world and finishing at the most southerly. Ben Coombs, 38, from Plymouth in Devon, drove 20,000 miles across three continents from the Arctic Circle to the southernmost tip of Chile. It took him...

The moment a large block of ice fell from the sky and landed just metres from a street cleaner in London has been caught on camera. CCTV showed the man's narrow escape after the ice crashed to the ground at speed and smashed into pieces in North Road, Kew. The incident on Wednesday morning is...

It was on a cold morning in March 1862 when up to 100 people gathered to watch as a mournful Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone for a project that she and her late husband, Prince Albert, had set their minds on for years: a final resting place that would reunite them forever. Having been...

A policeman found himself in a real-life Hot Fuzz situation when he was called in to help catch a swan. PC Jamie Payne swooped in when the bird was spotted on the A33 near Reading. After winging his way to the busy A-road, the roads unit officer pursued the "elusive swan" on foot - in scenes...

A Russian passenger plane has crashed after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo Airport with 71 people on board. The Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 50 miles south-east of Moscow. Russia jet crashes after Moscow take-off BBC News 11...

Shards once believed to have fallen from a UFO which crash landed in England have reemerged 60 years after they were first discovered. The fragments of the 'Silpho saucer' were found inside a cigarette tin inside a storeroom inside London's Science Museum. The discovery of the...

Michel Barnier is facing a backlash in some EU states for his 'aggressive' bid to force Britain into 'soft' Brexit. The EU chief negotiator triggered a furious row with the UK last week when he claimed leaving the customs union would guarantee a hard Irish border. He also threatened to...

This Brexit of ours is going to be fought every step of the way by bitter and twisted deadbeat Remainers incapable of understanding the meaning of democracy. Who are they? Largely a few people you’ve heard of but wish you hadn’t... ROD LIDDLE Shrieking Remainer madams like Anna Soubry in...

A huge Neolithic monument has been found alongside a treasure trove of ancient humans remains and pottery shards just two miles from Windsor Castle. The site was uncovered as a series of encircling ditches that once formed artificial boundaries to a ringed ceremonial gathering place...

From the Brexit result and the Battle of Hastings to Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation and Hitler's planned invasion, these are just some of the fascinating maps which tell the history of our islands through the medium of cartography... From the Battle of Hastings to Brexit: New book tells...

A 2,000-year-old underground fridge has been discovered by accident on a Scottish Island. The 20-feet long Iron Age chamber, thought to be used around 350BC, was discovered during construction work for a new house being built in Ness on the Isle of Lewis. Experts believe it could have...

With just over a year to go until Britain leaves the European Union, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently told an audience in Strasbourg that British troops in World War II were fighting for "European values." How wrong and insulting that is... I voted Remain. But to say our WWII troops were...

He stood only about 4ft tall, yet what Benjamin Lay lacked in stature he made up for in moral courage and radical thinking. He was a militant vegetarian, a feminist, an abolitionist and opposed to the death penalty - a combination of values that put him centuries ahead of his contemporaries...

British MPs were last week celebrating 100 years since women were given the vote. Amongst those MPs, of course, were many Remainers. Do these Remain MPs not see the hypocrisy in celebrating women being given the vote while, at the same time, trying to overturn the biggest democratic vote in...

An Elizabethan stone bridge which features in the classic Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles has partially collapsed. Wool Bridge in Dorset features in a dramatic scene in Hardy's 1891 book, but part of the wall slumped into the River Frome... One of England's finest Elizabethan...