In a daring raid 75 years ago, four university students stole back an early symbol of the Scottish kings. It had been taken ...

The evergreen mistletoe plant is now a common sight around Cambridge, characterised by green spherical clusters among the ...

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Bishop Richard Moth has been announced as the new Archbishop of Westminster, replacing Cardinal Vincent Nichols as the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. Speaking to reporters after ...

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Bude's famous storm tower, which was dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt 120 metres (390ft) inland so it is protected from ...

In 2025, UCL scientists made breakthroughs in Huntington’s disease, cancer and sight loss, revealed the Sun’s south pole and ...

The world is awash in gin, but only a rare few rise above the crowd. These BevTest Hall of Famers prove—year after year—what ...

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...

For hundreds of years, Britons accused of substantial crimes have had the right to be tried by their peers in a court of law. But now as the country grapples with an acute backlog of cases ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

In 2011, archaeologists in England made an extraordinary find: While excavating an ancient riverbed, they unearthed nine well-preserved log boats that were between 2,500 to 3,500 years old. Now, after ...