MUSUEMS in East Anglia have been successful in a campaign to stop an early landscape painting - thought to be the first painted in the open air - by the artist JMW Turner, leaving the UK, reports the Guardian.

A private buyer at an auction held in Etwall, Derbyshire, has picked up a fascinating piece of history, reports the Daily Express. The buyer spent £12,500 on a hunger strike medal awarded to a militant suffragette, which was found after more than 100 years gathering dust in a drawer. Apparently the Medal of Valour was […]

THE BBC puts the spotlight on 81 year old Mavis Paterson, from Glenluce in Scotland, who at 81 has become the oldest woman to cycle the 960 miles (1,540km) from Land's End to John O'Groats. She took up the challenge in memory of her three children who all died within four years of one another. […]

WE Brits love our hedgehogs so much that a new traffic sign will be appearing on UK roads warning drivers of their presence. The Independent says that the signs will be placed in areas where accident rates are the highest in an aim to reverse the decline in small wildlife numbers, especially hedgehogs. Government minister […]

AN article in The Guardian announces that Grace Jones, who was Britain's oldest person, has died at the age of 112. Grace died at her Worcestershire home, and her 81 year old daughter Deirdre McCarthy said: “I never dreamed when I was a little girl that my mother would be the talking point of the […]

YOU never know what something that has been stuck away in a cupboard or drawer could be worth! The Guardian tells us that a small walrus tusk warrior figure, which was bought for £5 in 1964, has now been revealed possibly worth as much as £1m. The Lewis chessmen hoard was found in 1831 in […]