A pub owner has discovered a 50-year-old time capsule containing a price list, ha-penny coins and a £1-an-hour wage slip buried in the 200-year-old building’s walls. Toby Brett, the current owner of Holcombe Farmshop and Kitchen in Radstock, Somerset, said finding the small haul of items from 1973 was a ‘pleasant surprise’. The package contained … Read more
Father-of-three farmer, 36, who dug large tunnel to try to rescue his trapped terrier from a hole was buried alive by mounds of falling earth in front of his horrified cousin moments after posing for a picture, inquest hears Farmer Gary Davies, 36, died after trying to rescue his small trapped terrier The father-of-three had … Read more
The grave of a three-year-old child who lived 78,000 years ago has been found in Kenya and is thought to be the earliest known burial of a human in Africa. Dubbed Mtoto, Swahili for child, the individual was interred in the foetal position with their knees drawn up to their chest. The gender of the … Read more
A woman whose beloved dog was snatched from her back garden by dognappers told how her dog was found tied up in a bag and buried in undergrowth ten minutes from their home. Nicola Pinner, 51, from Boston, Lincolnshire, said her two-year-old Maltese Mabel was left ‘terrified’ and whimpering after being dumped in an old … Read more
Shocked families of two Covid victims discover the bodies of strangers were buried on top of their loved ones in cemetery just days after their funerals Relatives of Basheer Meghjee ‘left in pieces’ after hearing grave was reopened Warned family members of man buried next door, where same thing happened Cemetery says all families signed a … Read more
Shocked families of two Covid victims discover the bodies of strangers were buried on top of their loved ones in cemetery just days after their funerals Relatives of Basheer Meghjee ‘left in pieces’ after hearing grave was reopened Warned family members of man buried next door, where same thing happened Cemetery says all families signed a … Read more
How wild horses and donkeys can survive in DESERTS: Equids have an innate instinct to find water buried up to 6ft below ground, study finds Researchers monitored wild horses and donkeys in the Sonoran Desert in the US These equids would dig wells in the arid landscape to reveal subsurface water Their instinct for sources … Read more
An ancient church, high on the barren Northumbrian moors, is the surprise last resting place of one of our national heroes as well as the unofficial and ultimately temporary burial place of a best-selling author. Before the latest lockdown, I cycled out there to find out why. I uncovered a bizarre tale involving a 1930s … Read more
An ancient church, high on the barren Northumbrian moors, is the surprise last resting place of one of our national heroes as well as the unofficial and ultimately temporary burial place of a best-selling author. Before the latest lockdown, I cycled out there to find out why. I uncovered a bizarre tale involving a 1930s … Read more
Archaeologists in France have uncovered a massive cemetery containing 40 tombs dating from the first half of the first millennium. Bodies were discovered inside of amphorae, or large jars, from Northern Africa. The site, on the island of Corsica, is being called a necropolis, taken from the ancient Greek for ‘city of the dead.’ Corsica … Read more