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As the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire celebrates its tenth anniversary, director of operations Graham Rankin describes the challenges to Abigail Neal. Mr Rankin says it was created during "an organic process", and he describes the challenges of making a historically accurate medieval garden with no record of previous design plans. The BBC is not... [read full story]
It's a little-known - and slightly ironic - fact that when Lehman Brothers exploded last year it did so as the proud owner of 500,000 pounds of yellowcake uranium: enough to make a nuclear bomb. Uranium’s appeal was as a...
Two men died when a tipper truck apparently hit an overhead power cable. The men, in their 40s, were in the rear of the lorry when the incident took place in Middlewich, Cheshire. The driver of the vehicle was unhurt. Cheshire...
Charles Walker was a distinguished civil engineer in Scotland and the Far East who is memorable as the man who tracked down the unmarked grave of the Scottish Olympic athlete Eric Liddell, who died in a Japanese prison camp in...
