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…
Every pandemic in history has had its share of miracle potions and magic cures, most of which, sadly, have been anything but. Nonetheless, there is a real sense of the miraculous about the contraption sitting before me in a factory workshop on the outskirts of Worcester. It is the prototype of a mass- production hospital … Read more