A disused railway fogging hut beside a tunnel in the Cotswolds countryside, a type of structure dating back almost 200 years, has been converted into a dedicated bat shelter after a whiskered bat was found hibernating inside. The conversion turns an overlooked piece of working railway heritage into a hibernaculum, a safe place where bats…
Ed Sheeran performs at New York fundraiser raising $1 million for disadvantaged children in Suffolk (Image Credit: Lentonbrook Foundation via Ipswich) A private fundraising evening in New York has brought a $1 million boost to charities supporting disadvantaged children and young people in Suffolk, England. Singer Ed Sheeran joined Ipswich Town Football Club chairman and…
Patrick Mohr, second from left, holds up his wedding ring alongside the three Italian friends who found it. (Photo credit: CBS Radio) An Irish father who thought he had lost his wedding ring in a fast-flowing stream in Italy was reunited with it after three local men spent days searching the water and then flew…
A chandelier that an artist bought for £250 after spotting it in a London antiques shop sold for £2.922 million at Christie’s in 2023, turning a chance discovery into one of the more remarkable stories of the art market. The bronze light fitting, created by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, had been recognised by British artist…
Jaishree lost her job in February while awaiting a decision on her visa extension.(Photo: Facebook/Trinity College) An Indian woman who moved to Ireland for higher studies in 2022 is now reading her own deportation notice during stand-up comedy performances in Dublin. Jaishree Malik, 25, from Gurugram, had completed her studies at Trinity College Dublin and…
A Christmas song about heartbreak has found a lasting way to help people facing difficult times. Four decades after Wham! released Last Christmas, royalties accumulated from sales of the festive hit helped the George Michael Fund make more than 20 grants to organisations supporting children and young people across the UK. The funding, announced to…
1890 Sherlock Holmes first edition found in charity shop sells for £11,520 (Image Credit: Wikipedia) A rare first-edition copy of The Sign of Four, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels, sold for £11,520 after being discovered among book donations at an Oxfam charity shop in Shrewsbury, England. According to Oxfam’s official press…
A painting of flowers by former British prime minister Winston Churchill has sold for £716,800 at Christie’s in London, with all of the hammer-price proceeds set to support a charity programme promoting arts in public spaces. The painting, Amaryllis Lily, was sold during Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale on October 21, 2026….
Arnold’s garage housed the reconstructed Spitfire F Mk 22 PK519 fuselage. (Instagram/Dominic Winter Auctioneers) For more than 20 years, a garage in the British town of Newport Pagnell housed the partly rebuilt body of a historic Spitfire aircraft. Its owner, Peter Arnold, had spent decades collecting aircraft remains and putting together pieces of aviation history….
Photo credit: Ewbanks/BNPS A necklace nearly taken to a car boot sale with a £15 price tag turned out to be a rare 18th-century Polynesian treasure worth almost £100,000. The piece, made from human hair and sperm whale bone and originating from the Austral Islands in the South Pacific, had been found during a house…
