The number of serious stabbings has increased by more than 50 per cent in less than a decade, it has been revealed.Nearly 6,000 victims were treated in hospital last year for stab or slash wounds. This compares with around 3,800…

A bear-worshipping indigenous minority of northern Japan are to receive official recognition, a move that will end 140 years of enforced assimilation and discrimination.

The Ainu, the original inhabitants of Hokkaido island, were conquered by Japan in the mid-1800s and…

Britain is losing its heritage to “metal detectorists”, erosion and ploughing, according to the nation’s best known archaeologists.

“There is a massive problem,” says Tony Robinson, presenter of Time Team, the long running Channel 4 series that features high speed…

As a great port on the East of England, Dunwich was nothing short of a medieval metropolis. Eight churches, eighty ships, five religious orders – including the Benedictines, Dominicans and Franciscans – and prosperity to rival London from its trade…

Gordon Brown’s case for holding terrorism suspects without charge for 42 days is bogus and little more than scaremongering, according to Sir John Major.

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In early October, weather permitting, a number of residents from the village of Grosmont in south Wales are planning a party with a magnificent hog-roast as the centrepiece. The village, home to around 200 households, is cushioned on all sides…