1+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (582+ words) Jayne Gray said the sculpture fired her imagination Mystery surrounds the origins of a piece of coastal artwork featuring shoe soles nailed to a large wooden pole in the sand dunes. Jayne Gray regularly walks along Crimdon beach, near Hartlepool,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (714+ words) The coelacanth was once incorrectly believed to have died out millions of year ago The fossilised remains of a prehistoric fish have been unearthed at a Leeds beauty spot. The skull bone of the coelacanth, which was discovered in Roundhay…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (681+ words) The items include a bronze cloak pin and a glass bead pendant Rare treasures found with a young Iron Age man buried in Alloa about 2,000 years ago are to go on show for the first time in a new exhibition....

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (68+ words) Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria is a poem written by Robert Burns in 1796 and read here by Dougray Scott. Previous work: A Fragment [Ballad on the American War] Next work: Fragment [Montgomery's Peggy] Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1139+ words) The Dundee-based South Georgia Heritage Trust have been working to stabilise the building Work is under way on a South Atlantic island to preserve a key building in the story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton famously reached the whaling…...

11+ mon, 4+ day ago   (548+ words) Tintanic II was made by retired Army Major Mick Stanley five years ago Retired Army Major Mick Stanley will be completing his final charity row in his homemade boat Tintanic II on Friday. Major Mick, as he's known, built his…...