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NIFTY shades of grey! Royal Navy paints HMS Tamar with 'dazzle camouflage' not seen since iconic style was used on warships to confuse U-boat captains in WWII By HARRY HOWARD FOR MAILONLINE 30 April 2021 The 'dazzle' camouflage paint job applied to a new Royal Navy patrol ship was originally...

Fingerprint from 5,000 years ago found in Orkney BBC News 23 April 2021 I The print was found at Ness of Brodgar A fingerprint left on a clay vessel made by a potter 5,000 years ago has been found in Orkney. The print was discovered on a surviving fragment of the object at the Ness of Brodgar...

Gold ring from Civil War era unearthed in Manx field BBC News Tuesday 20th April 2021 The ring will go on display at the Manx Museum in Douglas from Saturday A gold and crystal mourning ring thought to have connections to the Lord of Mann during the English Civil War has been unearthed by a...

Labour leader Keir Starmer got his henchmen to attack a pub landlord...

'Royal hillfort' revealed by Dunkeld citizen science project BBC News Tuesday 13th April 2021 An artist's reconstruction of the hillfort near Dunkeld What is believed to be a Pictish royal hillfort has been revealed after three years of excavations and analysis of finds from the site. The...

Roman stately home unearthed in Scarborough 'potential world first' BBC News Wednesday 14th April 2021 The complex of buildings includes a circular room and a bath house A Roman villa unearthed on a building site has been described as potentially "the first of its kind" ever found. The...

Yorkshire's 'largest ever dinosaur print' discovered on coast BBC News Tuesday 13th April 2021 The print is claimed to be the largest ever found in the county A dinosaur footprint belonging to a "real Jurassic giant" has been discovered on the Yorkshire coast. The print, said to be the...

Rachael Blackmore wins Grand National on Minella Times By Frank Keogh BBC Sport at Aintree 10th April 2021 Blackmore's Grand National win comes three weeks after she was the first woman to be leading jockey at the Cheltenham Festival Rachael Blackmore made sporting history by becoming the...

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'Exciting' Stone Age discoveries in the Cairngorms BBC News Wednesday 7th April 2021 University of Aberdeen students at work to unearth the traces of the stone age inhabitants of the Cairngorms New research has uncovered rare evidence of people living in Scotland's mountains after the end of...

Battle of Culloden's 275th anniversary to be marked online BBC News Wednesday 7th April 2021 The battle is usually commemorated by a service at the site The 275th anniversary of Culloden is to be marked in a series of online events The battle on 16 April 1746 saw forces loyal to Bonnie Prince...

Road sign blunders see Saxilby and Thorpe on the Hill renamed BBC News Wednesday 7th April 2021 A sign installed on the A46 Lincoln bypass directed motorists towards "Saxibily" Red-faced highways officials have apologised after misspelt road signs directing motorists to non-existent villages...

Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent BBC News Wednesday 7th April 2021 The findings come from the US Muon g-2 experiment From sticking a magnet on a fridge door to throwing a ball into a basketball hoop, the forces of physics are at...

Prehistoric human bones in Guernsey discovered by coastal walker BBC News Wednesday 7th April 2021 The bones likely came from around four individuals Prehistoric human bones have been found by a man walking around Guernsey's north coast. An archaeologist estimated the remains were between...

Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe BBC News Tuesday 6th April 2021 The slab is covered in patterns of engravings A freshly unearthed Bronze-Age stone may be the oldest three-dimensional map in Europe, researchers say. The 2m by 1.5m slab (5ft by 6.5ft), first uncovered...

2021 Boat Race: Cambridge beat Oxford in both men's and women's races BBC Sport Sunday 4th April 2021 Winning time: 14 mins 10 secs Overall wins: 85 80 1 dead heat: 1877 Cambridge continued their recent dominance of the Boat Race, winning both the men's and women's contests in...

Burrowing rabbits dig up 9,000-year-old tools used to skin seals and Bronze Age pottery on remote Welsh island that would otherwise never been discovered Wardens on Skokholm stumbled across a rabbit hole near their cottage The rabbits had unearthed a 'bevelled pebble' used to skin seals in the...

Norfolk: 'Elephant and castle' gold seal only third found BBC News Sunday 4th April 2021 The elephant is carved on to a gemstone, which experts believe is probably a carnelian A medieval gold seal which shows an elephant carrying a castle on its back has become only the third of its kind...

Egypt mummies to pass through Cairo in ancient rulers' parade By Wael Hussein BBC News, Cairo Saturday 3rd April 2021 The parade will see the remains of 18 kings and four queens transported to a final resting place Crowds of Egyptians are expected to line the streets to witness an historic...

Dig reveals 6,000-year-old salt hub in North Yorkshire Archaeologist says neolithic discovery may be among oldest salt-processing sites in western Europe Esther Addley Wed 31 Mar 2021 The Guardian Neolithic people were manufacturing salt in Britain almost 6,000 years ago, before the building...