Date:
25-06-2010
Author:
Ben Care
We Brits have a complex relationship with our houses. The need to get a foot on, and then climb up the property ladder is almost taken for granted. Huge amounts of time, money, physical and emotional energy are daily ploughed into maintaining our houses...
Date:
04-06-2010
Author:
Jason Gardner
There are many artefacts the world over whose origins lie shrouded in mystery. Take Stonehenge, for instance: how did the stones get there? Did Druids drag them from quarries in Wales, were they transported by UFOs, or is the assembly of monoliths simply the result of student antics during a Bronze Age 'Fresher's Week'?
Date:
19-03-2010
Author:
Margaret Killingray
Back in the mid-twentieth century you could buy pocket-sized booklets in the I Spy series. There were I Spy books for dogs, railways, countryside, seaside and many others. I think we could do with one for plastics...
Date:
15-01-2010
Author:
Nigel Hopper
Lately, there's been more talk about the weather than is normal - even for the British. Day after day there has been an avalanche of media coverage about the impact of the snow...
Date:
04-12-2009
Author:
Helen Parry
In the old days, news spread by word of mouth. Thus, Jacob, when the land of Canaan was gripped by famine, heard that there was corn in Egypt. Reunited with Joseph, he and his family settled in Egypt. And the rest, as they say, is history...