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Britain’s tallest surviving stone row may have travelled farther than archaeologists once believed, after scientists traced tiny mineral grains on its weathered surfaces to a distinctive rocky landscape 18 kilometres away. The Devil’s Arrows, a group of enormous prehistoric stones near Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire, have long been linked to a closer gritstone source. According…

Image: The Salvation Army What began with a 12-year-old boy spending some of his own birthday and Christmas money on gifts for children he had never met eventually grew into a community-wide Christmas campaign. Oscar, from Cleckheaton in West Yorkshire, first started collecting presents for children who might otherwise have little or nothing to open…

A 440-year-old Elizabethan mansion up for auction for £600,000. (Photo: SWNS) A remarkable 16th-century mansion with a fascinating royal and architectural history has gone on the market for a guide price of just £550,000–£600,000, offering house-hunters the extraordinary opportunity to live like an Elizabethan lord for roughly the price of a London flat.Barlborough Hall, a…

After 23 years at the helm, Monty Don announced that he is stepping down from the BBC’s long-running Gardeners’ World series, bringing an end to one of the longest and most recognisable chapters in British gardening television.“I have decided that the current series of Gardeners’ World is to be my last,” Monty Don, 71, confirmed…

Thirty years ago, conservationists began an experiment at Rutland Water that was intended to bring a vanished bird back to England. Three decades later, the osprey has not only returned, it is breeding, spreading and producing new generations without the need for further translocations. According to the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT), which runs…

The new home has also given him a quieter place to continue playing music In January 2024, homeless man Rhys Wynne-Jones walked into St. Mary’s Church in Penzance, England, on a freezing night and asked if he could play its piano. His performance of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was recorded by a volunteer and posted on…