Eight discarded Bronze Age boats discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry are much older than it was first thought, research reveals.

Archaeologists in Liverpool date 10,000-year-old remains as the earliest known human bones from northern Britain.

A mother on her way to hospital ended up giving birth to her son outside the home of the Large Hadron Collider last month.

Scientists say that they have discovered the single largest volcano in the world, a dead colossus deep beneath the Pacific waves.