Mother and her three year-old are taken to hospital after falling into canal in Berkshire 

Mother and her three year-old are taken to hospital after falling into canal in Berkshire Mother and child were pulled from the River Kennet in Newbury this afternoon Emergency services rushed to the scene and condition of the pair is unknown  Police ask members of the public to avoid the area as officers remain on … Read more

Feisty kitten tries to start tussle with uninterested two year-old as he watches Sesame Street

Cat fight! Moment feisty kitten tries to start tussle with uninterested two year-old toddler as he watches Sesame Street The video shows Marshall the kitten tapping and hissing at two-year-old Rory  Toddler is too busy watching TV at home in Sudbury, Ontario, to notice the cat  Rory’s mother, Kailtin Rorison, captured footage in her living … Read more

37-million year-old ‘saber-toothed tiger’ is up for auction with a starting price of $90,000

3D printer completes 37-million-year-old saber-toothed tiger skeleton – before the four-foot long fossil goes auction with an asking price of $90,000 A four-foot skeleton of a Hoplophoneus is going up for auction next week It’s one of several prehistoric creatures dubbed a ‘saber-toothed tiger,’ though none are closely related to the modern feline Ninety percent of … Read more

Archaeology: Stone Age campsite containing a 7,000 year-old charred hazelnut found in the New Forest

Evidence for a Stone Age campsite — including flint tools and the charred remains of a 7,000-year-old hazelnut shell have been found in the New Forest. Archaeologists and volunteers from the National Park Authority and the University of Bournemouth carried out the excavations at the Beaulieu Estate in Hampshire. Destructive radiocarbon dating of the shell placed it and … Read more

Boyfriend ‘murdered partner’s year-old daughter in horrific attack’ 

A boyfriend murdered a one-year-old baby in a horrific attack after her mother had been warned that it was not safe to leave the child with him, a jury has been told. Jamie Chadwick, 22, is accused of murdering Oriana Crilly-Cifrova, the daughter of his girlfriend Chelsea Crilly, 20, in a violent assault at their … Read more

Dominic Cummings added mention of coronavirus into a year-old blog post just weeks ago

Dominic Cummings added mention of coronavirus into a year-old blog post about ebola in April –  before saying he warned about pandemics ‘last year’ PM’s special adviser said at Downing Street on Monday he had written about the ‘urgent need for planning’ for a coronavirus pandemic in 2019 Mr Cummings is now facing charges of … Read more

4,500 year-old skeleton found in Germany in grave ‘lovingly bordered with field stones’

4,500 year-old skeleton found in German countryside grave ‘lovingly bordered with field stones,’ offering new insight on ancient burial practices Archeologists in the German countryside discovered a 4,500 year-old gravesite It contained the remains of a woman buried in a north facing fetal position The positioning is similar to that found in other sites across … Read more

Stone me! A house with a four-billion year-old boot scraper

HISTORY THE STONEMASON  by Andrew Ziminski (John Murray £20, 336pp) West Kennet Long Barrow has been standing amid the downs of North Wiltshire since around 3650 BC — a thousand years before the first Egyptian pyramid was so much as a gleam in a Pharaoh’s eye. And you can still crawl inside it. This is … Read more