This Britain

Royal paint firm 'could be relocated to France'

The landscape painter JWM Turner was among the first of the great British artists to buy Winsor & Newton's silver tubes of coloured oil paints when the two men founded their art materials company nearly two centuries ago.

Inside This Britain

Minor British Institutions: The 'Sport'

Saturday, 10 July 2010

The Daily Sport, or Daily Spurt, as its detractors would have it, has been around since 1991, and the Sunday Sport since 1986, and, despite the difficulties that have troubled the British newspaper industry, both are still going.

You wait ages to find one hoard of gold coins...

Friday, 9 July 2010

... and then Dave Crisp came across buried Roman treasure twice in one week

Our forgotten freedom fighter: Why the unsung Hurricane is the true ace of the Battle of Britain

Friday, 9 July 2010

It took a lot of muscle to haul her round the sky. Burnt to cinders – like a match. It would do what you wanted it to do. Pure joy. Like flying a brick. Just incredible. It had the wonderful ability to absorb battle damage. It became a good friend right from the start, and I loved it more and more. Very reliable. I never had to worry about that Merlin engine ... you're flying very low, a couple of trees high off the ground, and you do want it to keep going. Cross-wind landings are particularly easy. At 2,000 feet and 200mph, petrol consumption is 30 gallons per hour. The cockpit is weather-proof. Against a fighter, the Hurricane was hopeless."

Top 10 things to do in the park

Friday, 9 July 2010

What better way to spend these warm summer days than in the park.

Detector man unearths 52,000 Roman coins

Thursday, 8 July 2010

A man with a metal detector has made one of the largest finds of Roman coins in Britain, it was revealed today.

Traces found of the earliest Britons from 900,000 years ago

Thursday, 8 July 2010

Mammoths trampled the undergrowth, giant elk stalked the land, and hyenas and sabre-toothed cats took no hostages. This was normal for Norfolk 800,000 years ago, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of human settlement in Britain.