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Entries include Welsh language names for fields and hills in move to ensure preservation of stories and legendsDozens of placenames in Welsh, some hinting at ancient legends, others telling rich stories of how people used to live, have been submitted t…
Ceremony marks 80 years since release of the Rev W Awdry’s first book and coincides with railway bicentenaryEighty years since the first of a beloved fleet of trains was introduced to the world, a national blue plaque is being unveiled at the redbrick …
Campaigners say go-ahead for ‘theme park’ attraction in quarry could imperil area’s Unesco world heritage statusPlans to create an underground zip wire experience in a 19th-century Lake District slate quarry have been given the go-ahead by a high court…
Experts and volunteers working at Castilly Henge have been trying determine if it is the county’s lost great stone circleIt was a grey Cornish autumn day, but Henry Stevens’s tough shift digging in a field next to the A30 was about to get very exciting…
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk He was the leading English composer of the 17th century, writing masterpieces such as Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen before his life was cu…
South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museumsRaiders have broken into one of Wales’s most beloved museums and stolen gold jewellery from the bronze age.Staff at St Fagans National Museum of…
Two years after the tree was cut down, the National Trust says it wants to turn a sense of loss ‘into a sense of hope’Artists are being asked for ideas to create a “nationally important” work from the wood of the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree whic…
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are PictishThe Book of Kells was likely to have been created 1,200 years ago in Pictish eastern Scotland, rather than on the island of Iona, accordin…
Exclusive: Regent Sounds recording studio in London to be turned into landmark site for rock’n’roll, jazz and bluesThe Regent Sounds recording studio on “Tin Pan Alley” in London was famously used by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones bet…
Hopwood DePree has been leading efforts to renovate listed Hopwood Hall, nicknamed ‘Downton Shabby’, since 2017It was a story fit for the pages of a Hollywood screenplay, with a California actor moving to a town in north Manchester to restore his dilap…