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If you point out that “Europe”, unlike in 1975, the last time we had an EU in/out referendum, does not feel like the future, people respond. The EU’s defenders are clinging to something that is weakening: those who want to leave are reaching out for something better. That is the exact...

Whilst Queen Elizabeth II is our longest reigning monarch, poor Lady Jane Grey had the shortest reign …just nine days... Lady Jane Grey By Ellen Castelow, Contributing Writer Historic UK Lady Jane Grey reigned from 10th July to 19th July 1553 Tragic Lady Jane Grey is remembered in...

New photographs of Princess Charlotte, taken by her mother the Duchess of Cambridge, have been released to mark her first birthday. The four photographs were taken in April at their family home in Norfolk. The princess, who turns one on Monday, is seen walking - with the aid of a baby...

A 4,000-year-old red deer skull and antlers have been found on the same Welsh beach where an ancient forest was uncovered by storms two years ago. The amazing find was made by two walkers who spotted the antlers lying in the sand on the beach at Borth, Ceredigion – an area already...

Cameron has been wonderfully clear: Britain will take in 20,000 refugees but it will fly them in directly from the Middle East. To take those who arrive in Europe, he says, is to play the game of people trafficking – an enterprise that Britain wishes to eradicate, rather than support. On...

Pearl Mackie has been unveiled as the Twelfth Doctor's new companion. Mackie's role as new Doctor Who companion Bill was revealed on BBC One on Saturday, at half time during the FA Cup semi-final between Everton and Manchester United in a special scene showing Capaldi's Time Lord and Bill...

Furious Labour MP confronts Red Ken and brands him a 'f****** disgrace' and 'Nazi apologist' over his claim Hitler backed moving Jews to Israel 'before he went mad and ended up killing six million' Labour MP John Mann today...

After Obama's intervention in the UK's EU in/out referendum last week, in which he said that the UK will be "at the back of the queue" regarding a trade deal with the US if it decides to leave the EU, the Bremainers were looking and acting rather smug, thinking the intervention is going to put...

Anyone who harbours serious political ambitions in the England of 2016 must first become a member of parliament. Things were very different in 1516, during the reign of Henry VIII, when the most prized courtly positions were, superficially, the most degrading. As Dr Edward Dutton reveals, the...

Built at the command of the eighth-century king of Mercia, Offa’s Dyke is today Britain’s longest ancient monument. When first built, it delineated the border between the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys. Today, it roughly follows the border between England and Wales...

Experts began unearthing one of the earliest and best-preserved theatres in Britain on Monday. Built in 1577, the Curtain Theatre played host to Shakespeare’s earliest plays including the first performances of Henry V and early performances of Romeo and Juliet. Archaeologists say the...

Great Britain athletes have unveiled their Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics kit, designed by Stella McCartney, who also designed the team's London 2012 kit. Great Britain unveil Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics kit 27 April 2016 BBC News Great Britain athletes have unveiled their Rio 2016...

Ninety-six football fans who died as a result of a crush in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed, the inquests have concluded. The jury decided the match commander Ch Supt David Duckenfield's actions amounted to "gross negligence" due to a breach of his duty of care to...

Obama's intervention in Britain's EU referendum, in which he called for the British people to reject Brexit, seems to have had little effect. With the EU referendum still some eight weeks away, it would be brave to call the final result today as some have begun to do. Eight weeks is a...

Britain's first official astronaut, Major Tim Peake, has entered the record books by becoming the first person to complete a marathon in space, by "running the London Marathon" on a treadmill at the same time that the London Marathon was taking place. He ran the 26.2mi distance in about three...

I don't mean to be funny, but can anyone notice what is, to me, the obvious connection between these people who were seen brazenly stealing bottles of water left for official marathon runners in today's London Marathon? A group of people including parents with children were seen stealing...

Obama's intervention in the UK's EU in/out referendum - according to a Sky Data poll, 60% of British people were against Obama's intervention - has persuaded the previously undecided Janet Daley to vote Leave... Why should we take advice from a president who has surrendered the world to chaos...

The BBC’s Nick Robinson may have had fun on the Today programme last Tuesday morning trying to pin down Michael Gove, the chairman of Vote Leave, on precisely how Britain would manage to leave the EU (apparently without invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty) while retaining unrestricted...

For the past few months, archaeologists have been testing a full head of hair found in a coffin. Is it the hair of a saint? Romsey Abbey: The mystery of the hair in the coffin 24 April 2016 By Jon Manel, Broadcasting House, BBC Radio 4 BBC News Magazine...

Barack Obama’s decision to visit Britain during an election campaign was controversial enough. His writing an article against Brexit in the Daily Telegraph was more controversial still. But to stand in Downing Street and threaten his host country with being dumped ‘at the back of the...