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Portavadie, on the banks of Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland, was originally earmarked as an oil rig, but plans fell through. Today it is a marina with…
Portavadie, on the banks of Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland, was originally earmarked as an oil rig, but plans fell through. Today it is a marina with…
The Imperial War Museum in London was founded on 5 March 1917, during the First World War. Its purpose was to ensure that the ‘efforts and sacrifices’ of soldiers from…
Summer is at an end, and suddenly spiders seem to be everywhere – in your house, in your garden, in your hair. Fresh webs hang from doorways, walls, shrubs and…
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On Tuesday, Andy Burnham addressed MPs on the direction in which he hopes to lead the country, which appears to be back to the halcyon days of the 1970s. The…
Hello and welcome to the Cotton Capital newsletter. I’m Nadine White and this month we’re asking: after the toppling, what comes next? Britain spent much of 2020 arguing about what…
Moses Itauma’s hopes of becoming the second-youngest world heavyweight champion in history lay in ruins after the extraordinarily tough and resilient Filip Hrgovic stopped him in the ninth round of…
Name: Badgers. Age: European badgers live for five to eight years in the wild. They have been in the UK, where this story is set, for half to three-quarters of…
Let me open with an obvious point: Britain doesn’t have enough homes for its ever-growing population. Houses are in such demand that prices remain completely detached from average wages across…
Perched in our glass-fronted eyrie, 300 metres out to sea, we watch a murmuration of starlings rise and fall and swoop around us. When the show is over, we turn…