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Inside the floating polar research laboratory

The vessel the public once hoped to name Boaty McBoatface is poised to return to Antarctica after making its first voyage to the continent a…
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“What were her last words? Did she ask for us?”

For years, Jack Sepple and Ashley Wadsworth were modern-day pen pals who used the internet to bridge the 4,500-mile (7,242km) distance between them. But just…
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The waitress. And cleaner. And carer. And mother

Each page of the calendar on Rebecca Kellaway’s living room wall is full of highlighted entries – some for her, some for her 10-year-old daughter.…
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Can going off-grid offset the cost of living crisis?

At the eastern edge of England, where the River Blackwater meets the North Sea, a small community whose size oscillates with the seasons lives without…
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A Civil War letter, the witch finder’s guide and the last letter from Lawrence of Arabia

Dr Sarah Demelo was helping a researcher when she came across a handwritten letter pasted into a book. The letter was penned by Sir Thomas…
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How does someone just disappear?

A man police feared had been murdered has been discovered living in undergrowth, five years after vanishing. But why do people go missing, and how…
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The village where the women are still in charge

Nearly 100 years ago the long-defunct Westminster Gazette told its readers about a village “run by women”. The village in question was Lawford, which adjoins…
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The tower block residents who want their old cladding back

Housing providers up and down the country have been removing potentially dangerous cladding in the aftermath of the Grenfell disaster which left 72 people dead.…
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Why are old post boxes suddenly vanishing?

There are more than 100,000 post boxes across the UK. But in recent weeks, villages across East Anglia have reported their post boxes missing. Why?…
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What do the new inflation figures mean for those already struggling to make ends meet?

New figures show that soaring food costs and the energy bill crisis are driving up prices at their fastest rate in almost 30 years, squeezing…