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A unique collection of Iron Age metal artefacts has shed new light on the feasting rituals of prehistoric communities near Leicester around 2,300 years ago. Experts uncovered a trove of ancient buried treasures during excavation works for a warehouse development project. Rare objects...

Both were British comedy legends famous for wearing bowler hats - yet there was no love lost between Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin... Stan Laurel's secret jibes at 'mean, cheap' Charlie Chaplin: How the relationship between the two slapstick actors was no laughing matter Laurel and Chaplin...

England have been drawn with Belgium, Panama and Tunisia in Group G at next year's Fifa World Cup in Russia. Gareth Southgate's men will begin their tournament against Tunisia on Monday, 18 June (19:00 BST) in Volgograd. They will then face World Cup debutants Panama in Nizhny Novgorod on 24...

Dramatic footage shows a whirling waterspout forming off the Italian coast before making its way inland. The weather phenomenon was captured in the north-western Italian city of Sanremo, on the Mediterranean coast, on 1 December. It caused damage to central and western parts of the city and...

Archaeologists believe they may have uncovered the first evidence of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 54BC. The discovery of a defensive ditch and weapons led them to identify Pegwell Bay in Thanet, Kent, as the place they believe the Romans landed... Julius Caesar's Britain invasion...

The Archbishop of York - second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England - has put back on his dog collar in an end to his ten-year protest over Mugabe. In December 2007, John Sentamu appeared on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show in which he took off his dog collar and vowed...

The EU leadership and the European Commission are far too preoccupied with political chaos in Germany and with Brexit to deal with a much greater threat to their grand European dream. In Britain, bitter Remoaners are fighting a forlorn rearguard battle to try to stop Brexit and sneer at...

It's a gimmicky read based solely on the Jeremy Corbyn personality cult, is full of ridiculous jokes and will probably end up in the bin after a couple of days. No, it’s not the Labour Party manifesto but the must-have gift for the Dear Leader’s supporters this Christmas – a 2018 annual...

Sailors from the Royal Navy are to perform the Changing the Guard outside Buckingham Palace for the first time in the ceremony's 357-year history. Eighty-six sailors from 45 Royal Navy ships and establishments have spent a month preparing ahead of the first ceremony on Sunday morning...

Archaeologists have unearthed workshops from a Viking camp dating to a winter in the 870s. The new discoveries are located at a campsite in the small village of Repton, Derbyshire, which has been known about since the 1970s. There were fragments of Saxon millstones and a cross fragment...

A treasure hunter has unearthed a haul of ancient gold coins, thought to have been buried with an Anglo-Saxon king nearly 1,500 years ago. Chris Kutler, 54, stumbled upon the coins after spending four days searching a 1,600 sq metre field in Chelmsford, Essex. The hoard has now been sent...

The non-EU cities of Istanbul, Reykjavík and Stavanger have each been European Capital of Culture. So why has the European Commission said that those British cities competing to becoming European Capital of Culture 2023 will now be kicked out of the running? Coffee House After...

Tarnya Cooper reveals what eight exhibits can tell us about the lives of ‘ordinary’ Elizabethans at home, at work and at play... The other Elizabethan England With an exhibition on Elizabethan society now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery, Tarnya Cooper reveals what eight of the...

Ahead of the UK premiere of The White Princess, we take a look at the real figures portrayed in the historical drama… The real history behind ‘The White Princess’ The White Princess, a TV series based on Philippa Gregory’s bestselling novel of the same name, dramatises the story of the women...

A teenage boy who found a massive fossil on a British beach has discovered it's a 6,000-year-old auroch horn - after initially thinking it was just a piece of driftwood. After realising it was a fossil, Archie Wood, 13, who made the discovery while metal detecting, thought it might be a mammoth...

Tim Heap climbed into the twisted carcass of Deborah, a British tank that smashed through German defences precisely 100 years ago in the battle that marked the birth of modern warfare. "My grandfather would have been standing right here up front. His DNA is in still inside. And if he...

She has, by all accounts, had nothing but a warm welcome from the Royal Family so far. The forebears of Meghan Markle, the girlfriend of Prince Harry, were not quite so fortunate, it has emerged. A study into the American actress’s family tree has discovered her ancestor was in fact...

Seventy-one victims of the Grenfell Tower fire have been formally identified and police believe that all those who died have now been recovered. The number of victims includes baby Logan Gomes, who was stillborn in hospital on 14 June, the day the 24-storey blaze broke out. The final two...

It is one of the bloodiest family feuds in British history that saw a clan of 400 people wiped out. Now archaeologists have confirmed children were among the victims of the bitter 16th Century MacDonald-MacLeod rivalry in Scotland after the discovery of bones in a cave on the island of...

A butcher hit back at flower-clutching vegans who staged a silent protest outside his shop by trolling them with a hilarious sign. The pair of anonymous campaigners arrived outside Arthur's Butchery and Delicatessen in the affluent village of Topsham in Devon on Thursday afternoon...