Helen Briggs BBC environment correspondent•@hbriggs Maciej Biernacki The boomerang was found near stones, animal and human bones The world’s oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time. The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now thought to be...
Stuart Maisner BBC News, South East Hallmark Care Homes Ethel Caterham celebrated her 115th birthday in Lightwater in Surrey in August A woman from Surrey has become the oldest person in the world, at the age of 115 and 253 days. Ethel Caterham, who lives at a care home in Lightwater, reached the milestone following...
America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS),...
The oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal has had her offer of compensation increased but she said “it’s still not good enough”. Betty Brown, 92, was originally offered less than a third of what she had claimed for, but she has now received a new offer of 60%. However the former sub-postmistress...