It started on a Sunday, two weeks and half a lifetime ago. Adam Peaty in the pool. Two dry days, then came Joe Clarke in his canoe, Jack Laugher and Chris Mears together in the springboard diving. Flowing on, the men’s team sprint. And then the flood. Three one day, the women’s coxless pair, the men’s coxless four, and the men’s team pursuit. Three more the next, the men’s eight and the women’s team pursuit and Mo Farah’s first. A full five on the middle Sunday, success coming in such a giddy rush now it was a struggle to keep up.

Black Lives Matter protesters intent on causing chaos in London blocked in a Waitrose lorry as they chanted 'hands up, don't shoot' at police officers - who were not carrying guns. The group of so-far peaceful demonstrators marched through east London and stopped traffic in Whitechapel and Shoreditch, frustrating revellers heading to the trendy area for a Friday night out. A Waitrose lorry was caught up in the drama on Whitechapel High Street, with police called in to guard it as officers allowed the march to continue.

A woman has been killed and five people have been injured in a mass stabbing in the centre of London. Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command, known as SO15, were investigating the incident in Russell Square on Wednesday night but police also said that mental health could be a “significant factor”.

Near the village of Hanbury is RAF Fauld. Once it was a munitions dump: now it's a crater. Here's why.

Britain was running out of bread in 1800.The Napoleonic blockade was beginning to have an effect and British domestic production had not yet started to increase.

Number of single-use bags handed out dropped to 500m in first six months since charge, compared with 7bn the previous year

Must Farm is the site where an almost year-long archaeological dig has been taking place.

Britain is leaving the UK... or maybe not? Let's place some odds on what might or might not happen with Brexit.

Doubts over the UK’s ability to win future project grants mean some EU partners are avoiding working with British researchers

Exclusive Proposed constitutional reform would give each nation and region of the UK full sovereignty over its own affairs

Political uncertainty following last month's Brexit vote continues, as Angela Eagle has said she will announce her bid for Labor Party leader.

London: As the bands played on at the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, England, Lewis Phillips and his friends drowned their sorrows in song and alcohol. "We're the ones who've got to live with it for a long time, but a group of pensioners have managed to make a decision for us," Phillips, 27, said of Britain's decision to withdraw from the European Union. He said he was now "terrified" about the country's economic prospects.

A petition calling for a second referendum on UK's membership of the EU has gained more than one million signatures following the vote to leave. The petition will be considered by Parliament as it has passed the required 100,000 threshold. The UK voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48% in Thursday's referendum but the majority of voters in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed Remain. David Cameron has previously said there would be no second referendum.

Britain could soon vote to leave the European Union. John Oliver enlists a barbershop quartet to propose a smarter option.

A man who must give police 24 hours' notice before he has sex after he was cleared of rape has said the ruling "puts an end to your life". The man, in his 40s, was acquitted last year at a retrial. He has been charged with breaching the terms of the order by refusing to give police the pin to his phone. He accused North Yorkshire Police, which declined to comment, of "sour grapes" in applying for a sexual risk order after the case.

Notes, bills and contracts dating to as early as A.D. 43 were discovered during work on a new building in London. The wooden tablets mention debts, legal disputes and one Tertius the Brewer.

Roman tablets discovered during an excavation in London include the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain, archaeologists have revealed. The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) said it had deciphered a document, from 8 January AD 57, found at the dig at Bloomberg's new headquarters. The first ever reference to London, financial documents and evidence of schooling have also been translated.

The 1871 cat show ushered in a new era of appreciation for the furry rat-catchers.

A woman sitting on a chair made of gold has encouraged the country to "live within its means" during these times of austerity while addressing a room ful...