Tories back in lead with 34% versus 31% for Labour in Ashcroft poll
The latest Ashcroft National Poll puts the Tories back in the lead with 34%, three percentage points clear of Labour at 31%. UKIP are...
Eurostar suffers 17 cancellations after person is killed, hit by train on railway track
After a person was killed, hit by a train between Ashford International and Ebbsfleet International, on the English side of the London-Paris and London-Brussels...
Nigel Farage says he’d be no good as Prime Minister
Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-EU UKIP party, says he does not think he would be very good as Prime Minister, and also confessed...
SpaceX launches two all-electric satellites on Falcon 9 rocket
SpaceX launched two all-electric satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket, which launched successfully on Saturday. The huge booster lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air...
Homer Simpson wrote Higgs Boson equation 14 years before scientists did
Fictional character Homer Simpson was super close to predicting the Higgs boson (Higgs particle), an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics,...
Svalbard Doomsday Vault receiving thousands of seeds this week
The first delivery of forest tree species seeds have been accepted by the Svalbard Doomsday Vault, a secure seed bank on the island of...
Body found at Richard III excavation was an elderly woman
Within the mysterious lead coffin at the former hastily-dug grave of King Richard III was an elderly woman, probably of high socioeconomic or religious...
British manufacturing growth will continue into 2015, says industry report
Manufacturers in the UK have had an upbeat start to 2015, according to a survey published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF and law firm DLA...
Dogs helped modern humans beat Neanderthals 40000 years ago
Dogs bred from wolves helped modern humans vanquish local Neanderthals 40,000 years ago from Europe, says Professor Pat Shipman, an anthropologist from Penn State,...
Brown calling for public sector investment to save the North Sea oil industry
Gordon Brown will be calling for the public and private sector to save the North Sea oil industry in one of his last major...