Explore England’s places of worship and you’ll find masterpieces of design, some of the world’s most beautiful stained-glass windows and a host of astonishing murals, monuments and carvings spanning over a thousand years of turbulent history – as a fascinating new book reveals. The National Churches Trust teamed up with prolific church photographer Matthew Byrne … Read more
A mother who was in a coma and given three days to live after contracting coronavirus has made a miraculous recovery with help from an experimental drug. The family of Claire Haythorne, 45, from Hillsborough, Sheffield, said they had been through the ‘hardest two months’ of their lives. She contracted the virus at the start … Read more
Even by the astonishing standards of the natural world, Anguilla anguilla, the European eel, is an almost unbelievable creature. It can live for a hundred years. It can wriggle across fields. Eels that appear dead and dried out can come back to threshing life. During its existence, the eel changes into four different versions of … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: A mere Summer Statement this might have been, but really it was so much more than that. It was a one-time pitch to save our frazzled economy…
A mother-of-two told her husband had ‘zero chance’ of surviving coronavirus has revealed how he will come home in days after spending 61 days on a ventilator. Sue Martin, 49, from Cardiff, broke Radio 4 listeners’ hearts in April as she revealed she was given 10 minutes to say a heartbreaking final goodbye to Mal, 58. She told … Read more