Pendle Walking festival
It's the time of the year to dust off those walking boots and head to Lancashire's witch country over the annual Pendle Walking festival.
Now...
Forty years on -Manchester Photographer Gets Rare Access To The Airport That Time Forgot
A Manchester freelance photographer has recently entered the derelict Nicosia International Airport in North Cyprus, exactly 40 years after the last flight left.
Chris...
Have archeologists found the Pompeii of the North?
Excavations at a Roman site in County Durham have revealed the ‘Pompeii of the north’, say archaeologists.
The spectacular discoveries at Binchester Roman Fort near...
The Victorian Meme Machine
A new project will be getting underway in the North West that aims to bring Victorian jokes up to date.
Edge Hill University’s Bob Nicholson...
The darkest periods of European history revealed
The Black Death is the darkest period of history, Brits identify the Roman period as the most prosperous in history and six in ten...
Look to the skies-Happy St Swithun’s Day
St Swithun’s day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St Swithun’s day if thou be fair
For forty days ‘twill rain nae mare
People...
Buxton Festival
A Happy Marriage of Opera, Music and books is how the Buxton Festival which kicks off this Friday describes itself.
At this year's offerings promise...
Tussauds plays homage to Corrie’s Hilda on her fiftieth anniversary
One of the best-loved characters in the history of the small screen, Coronation Street’s busy body Hilda Ogden celebrates her 50th anniversary since bursting...
The mystery of tangled headphones is solved
Good news that the mystery of how to stop headphone cables spontaneously knotting may have been solved.
Robert Matthews, Visiting Reader in Science at Aston...
Beam me up Scotty and solar power the norm for 2025
How will science and technology affect our lives in the next decade?
A new study from the United States concludes that Scotty may soon be...