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The list of hopefuls also includes sites in Birkenhead, Northern Ireland and the Cayman IslandsThe historic city centre of York and ancient settlements in the Shetlands are among seven sites backed by the UK government to win Unesco world heritage stat…
Directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos have joined campaign to save the Astor and Ideal from hotel and office developmentsThe spectre of two historic Athens cinemas being closed by commercial interests bent on turning them into a hotel and office block has…
The 188-year-old coastguard’s tower in Cornwall is to be moved 100m inland to save it from coastal erosionPerched on an exposed clifftop above the Atlantic, which gnaws ominously at the sandstone and shale foundations below, Bude storm tower in Cornwal…
Government to take over care of Llys Rhosyr, the 13th-century site used by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, to encourage more visitorsThe Welsh government has acquired the ruins of a medieval court used by the last native prince of Wales before the 13th-century E…
Document signed by almost three-quarters of Welsh women in 1920s arrives in Aberystwyth after transatlantic journeyThere were tears of joy, speeches of hope, and sighs of relief that all had gone smoothly after an extraordinary century-old document rep…
Building that closed after disaster off Cornish coast in which 16 people lost their lives granted Grade II-listed status Weather-battered oilskins still hang on the boathouse drying rack; the tools in the mechanic’s workshop are carefully ordered as if…
Apo Whang-Od appears on front of Philippine edition and is credited with keeping batok form of art alive An Indigenous tattooist in the Philippines credited with helping to keep alive a form of the art known as batok has become the oldest Vogue cover s…
Campaigners hope bid to develop site of prison where famous poem was composed may finally succeedThe site of Reading’s former prison has a highly desirable location in the town’s centre and a celebrated history, not least as the setting of Oscar Wilde’…
Carved heads of a boy, a horse and a bearded man, formerly in Vatican Museums, unveiled in AthensThe desire of Pope Francis to right a wrong has led to the official return to Greece from the Vatican of three ornately carved fragments that once adorned …
Government urged to ratify UN convention in order to protect undersea areas like shipwrecks and now-submerged First Nations heritage sitesThe underwater world – from shipwrecks with human remains inside to First Nations sites that are tens of thousands…