Couple are lucky to be alive after massive timber lorry smashes into their stone cottage

Welsh couple’s Victorian stone cottage is DEMOLISHED by huge timber lorry that smashed into their home as they made lunch in terrifying ordeal A lorry carrying logs crashed into a cottage on Monmouthshire country road  Bryony Francis, 51, was luckily in the kitchen when the truck hit her home  She and her husband John Clark, … Read more

Couple are lucky to be alive after massive timber lorry smashes into their stone cottage

Welsh couple’s Victorian stone cottage is DEMOLISHED by huge timber lorry that smashed into their home as they made lunch in terrifying ordeal A lorry carrying logs crashed into a cottage on Monmouthshire country road  Bryony Francis, 51, was luckily in the kitchen when the truck hit her home  She and her husband John Clark, … Read more

Beetles have eaten through MILLIONS of acres of trees leaving dead timber igniting Creek Fire

Deadly wildfires in California have burned more than four million acres and while many scientists say climate change is to blame, others are also pointing to beetles. These insects have eaten their way through millions of acres of trees across the western North America, creating heaps of dry timber just waiting to be ignited. The Creek Fire … Read more

Mysterious ‘timber circles’ in Portugal are from 4,500 years ago

Mysterious ‘timber circles’ 65 feet in diameter uncovered in Portugal were used as a ceremonial complex some 4,500 years ago Timber circles are massive monuments built during the Bronze Age They have been found in the British Isles and the US, and now Portugal The structure is 65 feet in diameter and was used in … Read more

Henry VIII hated camping so much he slept in easily-erected ‘houses of timber’ 

Henry VIII hated camping so much he slept in easily-erected ‘houses of timber’ while on campaign, a historian has revealed.  Alden Gregory, curator of historic buildings at Historic Royal Palaces, said that while Henry was associated with the sumptuous tents at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, there was no evidence that he ever … Read more