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A Newton Aycliffe man who dumped a fridge freezer at the side of a County Durham road has been left more than £1,000 out of pocket. Billy Clifton, 42, of Phoenix Place, Newton Aycliffe, dumped the ...

A MAN who dumped asbestos next to a Bradford medical centre has been jailed. Martin Haley had been on the run from police since June, when he failed to attend his sentencing hearing at Bradford ...

A man who dumped asbestos next to a Bradford medical centre has been jailed.

Manuel Beghian sneakily dumped his trash on the pavement, leaving behind plastic bottles, packaging and even a pair of ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is now southern England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of iron pyrite against flint to create sparks, ...

While the merits of making your bed are many, science may support leaving it a mess. For years, experts have maintained that the morning ritual can help you sleep better, have more sex, boost ...

It was “an unfathomable sum” for two fellows who had struggled to get into the industry, Todd James Pierce tells us in “Making Mary Poppins,” an illuminating microhistory of the brothers, their ...

"Avatar: The Way of Water" might be the most digitally sophisticated movie ever made, but it only worked because all of its tech was in service to human emotion. In what now feels like a humbling ...