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Watch station at RAF Ibsley is thought to be structurally unique as well as historically importantIts walls are made of crumbling concrete and covered in graffiti, its windows shattered or stolen, and the landscape it was built to oversee has long sinc…
With cruise ships decanting thousands of tourists in Athens, tough new controls have been imposed at the country’s most visited siteIt’s official: more than 25 centuries after it was built and nearly 200 years after it began attracting tourists, the Ac…
Discovery of more than 800 artefacts includes some of largest early prehistoric stone tools in BritainResearchers have discovered some of the largest early prehistoric stone tools in Britain, including a foot-long handaxe almost too big to be handled.T…
West Lindsey council votes down proposal to relocate dog, named after a racial slur, to Norfolk airbaseCouncillors have rejected proposals to exhume and relocate a dog buried at the former base of the Dambusters put forward amid concerns about the suit…
Ivan Dimitrov, from Bristol, apologises to Rome mayor and says he was ‘embarrassed’ to learn of amphitheatre’s antiquityAn English tourist accused of defacing the Colosseum has said he was not aware of the age of the ancient monument.Ivan Dimitrov, a 2…
Linmere site has more monumental pits in a single area than anywhere else in England and WalesA prehistoric site with as many as 25 monumental pits has been discovered in Bedfordshire to the astonishment of archaeologists.Found in Linmere, they date fr…
Lord Mayor’s chapel, sold during the dissolution of the monasteries, has been described as a ‘hidden gem’A medieval chapel in the centre of Bristol that Henry VIII sold off at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries has been taken back into the …
Boston Manor House in Brentford, which dates back 400 years, has received a six-year restoration costing £6mA Jacobean manor house that has been home to a primary school, an institute for training domestic servants and bedsit accommodation for spinster…
Italy’s culture minister has called for the man who defaced the site with ‘Ivan+Hayley 23’ to be identified and prosecutedItalian police are on the hunt for a young tourist who carved his and his girlfriend’s names into a wall of the Colosseum, sparki…
Exclusive: £4.8m refurbishment, which has taken eight years, will include extension to building, restored interior and 50-seat second screenWhen Hyde Park Picture House first opened its doors to the public shortly before the first world war, women were…