Why Scrabble is a real S-P-O-R-T

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Britain's Scrabble world champion has set himself a tricky new challenge – to have the board game reclassified as a sport.

Workers discover buried Roman villa

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Workers were laying power cables at a farm when the owner discovered a villa along with mosaics, coins and brooches.

Watch VideoIs it a whale? Or is it Nessie?

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A YouTuber who boarded a cable car in Greenwich caught movement in the River Thames on camera as it surfaced momentarily.

Shakespeare’s will analysed

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British scholars revealed that acclaimed playwright William Shakespeare's will was written in different sittings

‘Space music’ heard from dark side of Moon

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Hidden Nasa recordings reveal Apollo 10 astronauts heard mysterious whistling sound while orbiting the far side of the Moon. [VIDEO]

Meet the BFG

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Zulu the Biggest Friendliest Giraffe is thought to be the world’s tallest giraffe in captivity

Nature’s not always black and white

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Meet Qi Zai, an extremely rare brown and white panda whose unusual appearance has left scientists scratching their heads.

WW2 bomb found in basement

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An unexploded Second World War bomb was found in the basement of a three-storey mews in London's East End.

Couple find medieval chapel in garden

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Despite her entire front garden being reduced to a series of muddy trenches, archaeology enthusiast Mary Hudd is delighted with the find.

Watch VideoIs Nessie just a giant catfish?

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Steve Feltham gave up his life to devote the past 24 years to finding the first definitive proof of the Loch Ness monster. [VIDEO]

Boy, 13, cracks rocket science at MIT

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Connall Cairns, 13, has just achieved one of the highest scores in an astrophysics course run by one of the world's top universities.

Around the world in 80 rays

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Solar Impulse 2 took off from eastern China for the longest and most dangerous leg of its audacious attempt to fly around the globe.

Spooky photo sparks speculation

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Does this murky photograph show the most famous ghost at one of Britain's most haunted sites or something less spooky?

Cowboy builders botched Stonehenge - expert

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Professor describes prehistoric wonder on Salisbury Plain as 'a unique and possibly failed experiment. '

Nasa, I have a problem!

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Lucas Whiteley, four, sends questions to space experts - and the answers are out of this world. [VIDEO]

97 years on, wreck unearthed by storms

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The violent storms that lashed Britain have laid bare the wreck of the WW2 ship SV Carl.

Storm reveals ancient forest

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Thought to date back to the Bronze Age, the stumps became visible for the first time when the peat washed away in rain.

Roman eagle found under London street

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Experts confirmed that the sculpture is one of only two statues of its type in the world.

Expecting? Panda gives nothing away

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Britain's only female giant panda was placed under 24-hour surveillance after tests suggested she is expecting.

The saucy love letters of wartime sweethearts

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The love letters between two wartime sweethearts are from a more innocent age, but their contents are not so innocent.

The chimney, the pigeon and the coded message

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“It will be amazing if we discover an unknown detail from such an important part of British history. ”

Turin Shroud made by ‘flash of light’

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Scientists have found evidence that casts doubt on claims that the relic - said to be the burial cloth of Jesus - is a fake and they suggest that it could, after ...

Viking silver unearthed in England

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Found beneath the surface of a field in Lancashire, the objects have been hailed by the British Museum as one of the most important Viking discoveries of recent ...

Not such a Dumbo after all

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How elephants flirt, argue and have feelings just like humans.

Meet world's cleverest collie

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Dog owners like to think that their pets understand what they’re being told.