12+ hour, 45+ min ago   (433+ words) The Grenadier Guards have been awarded the Freedom of the Town of Newmarket at a special parade and event. A march of the Nijmegen Company and Band took place on the Suffolk town's High Street, followed by a military inspection…...

20+ hour, 49+ min ago   (604+ words) "It's really humbling just to be there and think of all those huge decisions being made, but then you've got the reality of the people participating on the front lines losing their lives." The fate of the world hinged on…...

21+ hour, 43+ min ago   (580+ words) The Bayeux Tapestry is on display to the public in the UK for the first time since its creation about 950 years ago - but if you missed out on tickets, there is another way to enjoy it. The 70m-long (230ft) tapestry, originally…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (19+ words) bbc.com Read more about the first day of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition....

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (440+ words) A city centre siren which went off daily at lunchtime for more than 150 years has sounded for the final time. The 13:00 time signal at HL Brown jewellers and watchmakers, on the corner of Barker's Pool and Leopold Street in Sheffield,…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (844+ words) The Bayeux Tapestry has gone on public display in the UK for the first time since it was created nearly 1,000 years ago. It was originally embroidered in England but kept for centuries in France, and tells the story of the…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (419+ words) A man has returned his late grandfather's library books which were overdue by 116 years. Peter O'Sullivan's grandfather, Walter Griffith Owen, took out Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's King Lear in 1910. A note inside showed they came from former Llanrwst Reading…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (702+ words) Prajval Haldia has has not heard from his parents, Pavan and Kavita, since the devastating floods in the Himalayas two weeks ago. The last he heard they were enjoying their trip to the mountain range, and were last known to…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (616+ words) A set of giant monoliths known as the "Devil’s Arrows" were moved 18km (11 miles) across Yorkshire by Stone Age people, new research has found. The three columns have been standing in a farmer's field in Boroughbridge for thousands of years, with…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1062+ words) Open the same map in the US and Canada and you may see two different names for the same lake. So, who decides what a place is really called? Open Google Maps in Toronto and you may see one name…...