It broke out in a room in the geriatric ward, on the ground floor of the building, and spread to the facade of the floor ...

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra performed the Blue Danube during the space transmission, which actually sent up a version from rehearsal. It is part of a year-long celebration marking the 200th birthday ...

The body of a British hiker who went missing in the Dolomites has been found, a search team in Italy said. Aziz Ziriat, 36, was discovered lying in a rocky crevice on Saturday, around 400m below where ...

Landslides and flash flooding triggered by days of torrential monsoon rains in India’s north east have killed at least 22 ...

There was a buzz in the air in Washington state as about 250 million honeybees escaped after a lorry overturned. The vehicle ...

THESE old pictures are part of a goldmine of old photographs which were handed into a bookshop in west Dorset. They were given to Robert Speer of the Sanctuary Bookshop in Lyme Regis 10 years ago and ...

Here's the story of how a lion roaming along a west Dorset roadside gave motorists a shock - before the poor creature was shot dead. The incident is immortalised in this Claud Hider postcard from a ...

THE countdown is on for the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, now firmly established as the UK’s largest palaeontological event. Over the weekend of June 14 and 15, leading palaeontologists, experts, ...

A community’s battle for a 20mph speed limit is progressing but the parish council is frustrated by news that it could take up to a year to be ...

The new funding will see UK munitions spend hit £6 billion during this Parliament and support around 1,800 jobs throughout the country.

Adam Carthy has made tiny versions of around 60 buildings including Trellick Tower and Alexandra Road Estate, in London.

The Government has pledged £1.5 billion as part of the strategic defence review into at least six munitions and energetics factories.