This year Greenwich Observatory is set to celebrate its 350th anniversary, since it was first constructed in 1674.

Acting Lieutenant-Commander Ernest 'Mick' Gidden spent six hours tackling the 1,000lb device, which landed on Hungerford ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children's playground in northern England ...

Trump says the destruction in Gaza means “no one can live there.” But experts say the enclave can be rebuilt without the mass ...

Momentous decisions made at the highest level prevented the New Forest going the same way as many other royal woods.

The Greenwich Foot Tunnel, which links Cutty Sark Gardens to Island Gardens, opened in 1902 as a lifeline for workers heading to the shipyards and docks of East London. Before that, people relied on ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

professor of nutrition for global health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “What’s missed … is that the damage done will not suddenly stop when the emergency stops.” ...

A hand grenade found in a residential area of Cornwall has been safely removed by a bomb disposal unit, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said it was notified that a grenade had been found ...

Thirty metres (100 feet) below the UK capital's bustling streets, all that can be heard in the tunnels built to withstand a nuclear attack is the rumble of the London ... a World War II bomb ...