It took the group of retired doctors, teachers and engineers four years to tunnel through to the vast chamber To uncover the secrets of what is thought to be the largest cavern ever found in the ...

"Where does this rank on the list of all-time-great hotel breakfasts?" My wife always asks me this question when we stay somewhere she thinks is worthy of inclusion. “Because this,” she adds, “is the ...

Crop fields have been churned up by vehicles believed to have been used by illegal poachers Concerns have been raised by farmers over the "extensive damage" to their land caused by illegal poachers ...

The National Trust says it hopes biodiversity will be given a boost after the completion of a meadow restoration project. A mix of 26 native wildflowers have been planted at Tor Hill Wood in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This week, 135,000 revellers will descend on Worthy Farm in Pilton for the five-day Glastonbury festival — ...

IN reply to the question of “Inquirer” in last week's number of NATURE, asking for explanation of a passage in my Address to the Geological Society, allow me to observe that geologists judge of the ...

YOKO Ono today gave her backing to a “fab” student project to make husband John Lennon’s childhood garden more authentic. From the age of five, the Beatles singer lived at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, ...

With the weather having wiped out the traditional opening round of the British Cycling Junior Road Race Series, the Cadence Road Race the first year Juniors were thrown right in at the deep end – from ...

IN the address of the President of the Geological Society of London reported in NATURE NO. 129, page.490, it is stated that “Denudation has removed from the crest of the Mendips a mass of strata ...