Enclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s...
Read MoreEvent takes place days after ancient monument in Wiltshire targeted by Just Stop Oil protestersSummer solstice – in picturesAbout 15,000 people greeted the sun with cheers, smiles and prayers as it rose over Stonehenge for...
Read MoreDay-trippers will have to pay €5 to visit Italian city under scheme designed to protect it from excess tourismAuthorities in Venice have been accused of transforming the famous lagoon city into a “theme park” as...
Read MoreWatchdog examining claims key details have not been disclosed about altar tablets it is facing calls to returnThe British Museum is being investigated by the information watchdog over claims it has been overly secretive about...
Read MoreImportant collection rediscovered during house-clearing includes numerous rare speciesAn internationally important collection of shells, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years...
Read MoreThe Return of the Buffalo Herd, by teenage prodigies Edward and Charles Detmold, can be seen at Bateman’s after conservationA rare watercolour depicting the aftermath of a climactic moment in Rudyard Kipling’s The...
Read MoreLocal authorities are thinking of plugging budget shortfalls by raising millions selling off public assetsMinisters’ plan to push English councils to sell assets to plug budget holes condemnedFor centuries councils have...
Read MoreLifesize replica of 70-metre work was part of sale of late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’s estateIn 1872, a photographer from the South Kensington Museum – now the Victoria and Albert – travelled to...
Read MoreCommission’s proposal backed by Co-op party aims to expand existing scheme with sixfold increase in purchasesVacant pubs, shops and community centres put up for sale in England could be offered to local groups to buy first...
Read MoreCulture minister Lina Mendoni pledges to ‘fill the void’ at the British Museum should the ancient sculptures be returnedGreece is prepared to part with some of its greatest treasures to “fill the void” at...
Read MoreGreek minister says Sunak’s snub to his PM was ‘bad day’ for relations between two countriesGove breaks away from the line of questioning to issue an apology.I want to take this opportunity, if I may, to...
Read MoreLevelling up secretary breaks away from evidence at Covid inquiry to apologise for ‘errors I and others made’Gove breaks away from the line of questioning to issue an apology.I want to take this opportunity, if I...
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