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The new £1.35bn Queensferry Crossing could still be operating in 150 years, according to its technical director. Mike Glover, who has managed the bridge project for the decade since it was first approved, told the BBC its design would make it easy to maintain. The new 1.7 mile (2.7km) crossing...

Late Victorian students fuelled their studies with steamed and shaped sago puddings, menus from a Cambridge college have revealed. The popularity of the now unfashionable South Asian starch can be found in the Girton College menu books which date from 1896 to 1903. Sago pudding tops 1900...

Do any of these eight numpties have what it takes to be Britain's Macronite Prime Minister? Coffee House Steerpike Eight people who think they could be Britain’s Emmanuel Macron Steerpike 22 August 2017 BBC News Emmanuel Macron may have the lowest approval ratings of any modern-era French...

A section of the UK's new polar research ship will get an early taste of the sea this week. The rearmost portion of the RRS Sir David Attenborough's stern is being moved from its production yard on Tyneside to Birkenhead where the rest of the hull is being built. "Block 10", as it is...

A group of pagans has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury demanding two churches to make amends for those it says were stolen 1,300 years ago. The Odinist Fellowship, which represents 1,000 members of the pagan religion, wrote to the Church of England last month asking for two...

The Notting Hill Carnival is beginning with a special ceremony as "a small act of remembrance" following the Grenfell fire tragedy. The charity single Bridge Over Troubled Water will be sung and a group multi-faith prayer will be said. Organisers have encouraged attendees to wear or...

A gold ring given by Elizabeth I to one of her naval commanders after the defeat of the Spanish Armada has emerged for sale for £70,000. The ring is believed to date from 1590 and was commissioned as a gift by the then Queen of England as a thank you to a naval chief, possibly Sir...

Counter-terror police are investigating after two police officers were injured while arresting a man with a knife outside Buckingham Palace. Officers saw a "large bladed weapon" in the man's car when it stopped near the palace on Friday evening. As they arrested him, both men suffered minor...

Afua Hirsch is a 36-year-old half-British, half-Ghanaian journalist brought up in London who, until this week, scarcely anybody had heard of. She has now, however, achieved her five minutes of notoriety, space in the Guardian and a television debate, by proposing that Nelson’s statue in...

Lewis Carroll's photographs of the girl who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will go on display alongside images of her as an older woman. They will be shown in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography. Lewis Carroll's pictures of the...

Scientists have discovered a brand new flower in Shetland. It is a beauty. A delicate golden bell of a flower, its throat flecked with tiny, blood-red spots - colours echoing the Lion Rampant. Scientists discover a new flower of Shetland By Kenneth Macdonald BBC Scotland Science...

This is the moment a heavy metal singer called out a man in his audience for touching a woman's breast during a concert. Sam Carter, frontman for British metalcore band Architects, stopped the show at the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands to berate the culprit with a furious rant.... 'I...

The anguish surrounding Brexit cannot be explained in purely political terms. Its cause is at least as much psychological. Some Remainers – a minority, but not an insignificant one – are so determined to see bad news that they are becoming unhinged. Like King Lear, they cannot adjust to...

The wrecks of a World War One U-boat and two merchant ships containing 15 cast iron cannons have been given protected status. The submarine, off the coast of Whitby, North Yorkshire, sank 40 ships before being bombed in 1918 with the loss of all its crew. It is thought the two vessels...

Which historical figures interest people the most in 2017, and which person is THE most interesting? History Hot 100 results: the historical figures who fascinated you most in 2017 We asked readers and historians to vote for the historical figures that most interest them at the moment. The...

The UK's new £3bn aircraft carrier has docked in its home port. HMS Queen Elizabeth entered Portsmouth Harbour for the first time at about 07:10 BST on Wednesday following extensive preparations at the naval base. HMS Queen Elizabeth: Carrier arrives in Portsmouth 16 August 2017 BBC News...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered remains of the riverside palace where King Henry VIII was born. Greenwich Palace, otherwise known as The Palace of Placentia, was also the birthplace of his daughters Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. Experts working on a major development underneath...

Trevor Wainwright was off duty the day that a loner brought tragedy to his sleepy Berkshire town. As the local PC, he knew everyone on his beat; but who could have had any inkling that 27-year-old Michael Ryan - an unemployed handyman, who lived with his mother - would commit mass...

A rare 6th Century gold pendant created from a Byzantine coin has been found by a metal detectorist more than 1,500 years after it was made. The coin is imprinted with an image of Emperor Justinian and is thought to have been made in Constantinople, which is now known as Istanbul in...

Big Ben's famous chimes will fall silent from next week until 2021 to allow essential repair works to take place. The bongs will sound for the final time at midday on Monday before being disconnected to allow the clock and surrounding tower to be restored. The Great Bell has sounded on the...