Jason Arunn Murugesu BBC News, North East and Cumbria The Vindolanda Trust Dr Elizabeth Greene says eight of the shoes at the site are over 30cm (11.8in) long Unusually large shoes discovered at a Roman fort have left archaeologists baffled. Earlier this year, 32 shoes were dug up at the Magna Roman Fort in Northumberland,...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images “Hi, my name is Jarvis,” said Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker, greeting the crowd Glastonbury’s worst-kept secret is out. The mystery band billed as Patchwork were, in fact, Pulp. Still, no-one was prepared to believe it until it happened. “If Robbie Williams comes out? No, I’m leaving,” said a woman...
Ken Banks BBC Scotland News Gavin Geddes Jim Runcie is pictured on the right on board Loraley with a crewmate at sea The mystery of a North Sea message in a bottle found on a Swedish island after 47 years has been solved by BBC Scotland News. Friends Ellinor Rosen Eriksson and Asa Nilsson found...
Chris Ellis BBC News, South West Rick Ayrton Dr Harry Bennett said the SS Nantes sank “with the loss of a substantial number of the crew” The mystery of a maritime disaster has been solved after experts found a vessel that sank almost 140 years ago. Diver and explorer Dom Robinson identified the SS Nantes,...
Banksy’s latest piece of grafitti art has been revealed to the world – but where it was painted remains a mystery for now. Images posted on the elusive artist‘s Instagram depict a lighthouse stencilled on a drab, beige wall, along with the words: “I want to be what you saw in me”. A false shadow...
We discuss the managerial vacancy at Rangers and what relegation means for Ross County. Read full article at source...
Rebecca Morelle Science editor Reporting fromAlberta, Canada Alison Francis Senior science journalist A tour of the bones being unearthed at Pipestone Creek Hidden beneath the slopes of a lush forest in Alberta, Canada, is a mass grave on a monumental scale. Thousands of dinosaurs were buried here, killed in an instant on a day of...
Wedaeli Chibelushi & Pumza Fihlani BBC News, London & Johannesburg South Africa Police Service Constable Boipelo Senoge was among the three officers whose bodies were found in the river Police in South Africa are searching for answers after the bodies of three police officers – who had been missing for six days – were found...
Fergus Walsh Medical editor BBC Dr Ellie Irwin’s sight has been saved after a test pinpointed the cause of her long-lasting eye inflammation A 29-year-old doctor from Bristol has had her eyesight saved after a “game-changing” test identified a mystery infection that had plagued her health for five years. Ellie Irwin suffered persistent inflammation in...
Alison Francis Senior science journalist Kevin Church/BBC The team has so far found 41 skeletons buried in the cemetery A medieval cemetery unearthed near Cardiff Airport is continuing to confound archaeologists, as the mysteries surrounding it are multiplying. The discovery of the site, dating to the 6th or 7th Century, was announced last year, with...
Time to play The Dog That Didn’t Bark. In this version of the media game, we try to find that strangely silent and altogether unmentioned dog, who had been barking plenty until yesterday. The Wall Street Journal did a deep dive last night into Donald Trump’s decision to pause ‘reciprocal’ tariffs against 75 trading partners...
Gemma Handy Reporter, St John’s, Antigua Courtesy of Patricia Joseph Hyacinth Gage, 74, disappeared six years ago The worst part is the mental torture, Patricia Joseph says. The “gut-wrenching” flashes of wondering what her mother’s last moments were. The infinite state of limbo. Six years after her mother’s mysterious disappearance, Patricia still catches herself looking...
An Exeter University art historian has solved the 70-year mystery over the theft of an original oil sketch, by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, from a stately home in Northamptonshire. The Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg was stolen in 1951 from Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry. It was...