More than 60 Labour MPs are threatening to derail plans to weaken people’s long-standing right to oppose the building of new nuclear power stations and airport runways in their own “backyards”.

Ministers want to hand the final decisions to…

One of Britain’s rarest and most endangered birds has returned to a site where it hasn’t been seen for more than 40 years.

Two bittern nests have been found at a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve…

Some of the last of the Neanderthals lived in Sussex, according to a remarkable horde of ancient tools that once again undermines the popular image of our cousins as beetle browed big nosed brutes who were too dim to compete…

A campaign has been launched to bring the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the world’s great works of art, back to Britain for the first time centuries, and put it on display in Canterbury Cathedral.

The famous embroidery of the 1066…

Researchers from University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have recently completed work on the results of three closely related Bronze Age round barrows excavated at Cossington, Leicestershire.

Their excavations revealed a variety of burial practices from Bronze Age, Iron Age,…

Vast areas of farmland lie idle, reports Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Across a great arc of the Eurasian steppe from Ukraine through Russia to Kazakhstan lies enough arable land to feed the world for years to come, with spare for biofuels to…

The chalk outline of the Cerne Abbas giant has become almost totally obscured from view by thick vegetation, because there is a shortage of sheep to keep the hillside trim.

Local farmers have traditionally lent their flocks to graze on…

Britain may have to accept the cultivation of genetically-modified crops to help combat the global food crisis, a Government minister has said.

Environment minister Phil Woolas said that the nation must ask itself whether GM crops are part of the…

The 8th Duke of Wellington has joined leading military historians in a bid to save the farm that was pivotal to British victory at the Battle of Waterloo.

They are trying to raise €3 million (£2.4m) to save the dilapidated…

The most complex, “mind-boggling” crop circle ever to be seen in Britain has been discovered in a barley field in Wiltshire.

The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.…

Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and ‘pray to Allah’ during a religious education lesson.

Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take…