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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 Conservatives have called for some prison officers to have access to firearms to counter “out of control” Islamist gangs and violent prisoners. Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said ...

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

An innovative treatment that reprogrammes immune cells to recognise and kill cancer has been shown to be effective on patients with certain tumours in a pioneering trial. CAR T-cell therapy is usually ...