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INCREDIBLE: Diane baked 36,000 mince pies—and helped save her village shop.
In Hesket Newmarket, Diane Scott spent 28 years behind one counter. When the owner retired, the shop and Post Office could have been lost.
A friend from Cumbria called about the change: the village had bought the shop itself. I was amazed, because the story began with routines so small that nobody outside Hesket would notice them.
Diane started one day a week in the tearoom. Within weeks it was two days, then full time. She stocked shelves, worked the till and remembered how returning customers took their tea.
Over 13 years, she baked more than 36,000 mince pies. She also delivered supplies during Covid and kept an eye on people living alone.
I love that this was never only about selling groceries. It was a counter that noticed who had not called in.
When retirement put the shop’s future in doubt, Diane bought one of the first shares, donated cakes, sold tickets and backed the community bid.
Even when a government fund closed the week their application was due, the group kept going. A share offer raised £345,661 from 290 members, and the shop and Post Office reopened under community ownership.
I’m proud of Hesket Newmarket for doing something so practical. They protected food, post and human contact under one roof—not a village ornament.
That is what villages should be helped to protect: useful places, and the people who make them human.
Who is the person behind your village counter?
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BEA’s Berlin flying jumped from propellers to a jet.
The Super One-Eleven replaced Viscounts on BEA’s Berlin routes in 1968. For that European hop: Vickers Viscount or BAC One-Eleven 500?
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Cornwall’s Minack Theatre looks as if it has been carved into the cliffs for centuries. In 1931, it was still a rough gully of gorse and granite above a 90-foot drop to the sea.
The change began because Rowena Cade wanted somewhere for a local group to perform Shakespeare.
She had moved to Cornwall after the First World War and bought the Minack headland for £100. In 1929 she helped with an outdoor production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a nearby valley. When the group decided to stage The Tempest next, Rowena offered the cliff at the bottom of her garden.
There was one problem. There was no theatre.
So Rowena and her helpers started making one.
Her gardener Billy Rawlings and another local man cut huge granite boulders by hand. They worked with bars, hand tools and, sometimes, dynamite on a slope where one bad step could have meant a fall into the sea.
Rowena filled the gaps with earth and stone. She carried sacks of sand up from the beach to mix into concrete. The first audience arrived for The Tempest in 1932, with the young theatre lit by battery lamps and car headlights.
That could have been the end of it.
Instead, she kept building.
Year after year, Rowena added terraces, steps, seats and strange little details that made the place hers. She pressed patterns into wet concrete with an old screwdriver. Many of the seats still carry the names and dates of productions performed there.
She continued working on the Minack well into her eighties.
I assembled these images because the finished theatre can hide the hardest part of its story. What looks like an ancient amphitheatre was shaped, altered and cared for across one woman’s lifetime, with a few helpers, simple tools and a cliff that never became any less steep.
The Minack is still a working theatre. It welcomes more than 200,000 visitors a year and stages more than 200 live performances, from plays and opera to music and children’s shows.
That is why this place is worth remembering. It was not inherited complete from some distant age. It was made because one woman looked at an awkward Cornish cliff and decided it could become a stage.
The sea is still behind it. The granite is still under it. And every time an audience takes its seats, Rowena Cade’s unlikely theatre does exactly what she built it to do.
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Nigel Farage is branded “ratty” by Sky News while its reporting at the home where his daughter lives is under formal Ofcom scrutiny.
A friend rang after seeing the headline and asked why Sky did not tell readers that. I think that omission is shameful.
I checked the record: Sky accepts that a reporter approached the property, but says there was no contact with his daughter. Ofcom is examining a fairness and privacy complaint; no verdict has been reached. I am appalled that a family home entered this political row, then Farage was reduced to a sneer.
This is why I back Reform UK. Nigel Farage has the nerve to challenge powerful institutions when they mark their own homework. Britain needs that leadership.
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Hadrian’s Wall wasn’t always Rome’s northernmost frontier in Britain. Change your view?
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James Rebanks and his son Isaac were on the Matterdale fells at 4am, gathering sheep before the heat became too much for the dogs.
I love that the answer wasn’t to abandon an old way of working, but to change the hour. Rebanks’s family have farmed around Matterdale for more than 600 years, yet this gather still depends on shepherds from different farms working together.
That really moves me. Village life survives when knowledge like this is still being used and passed on, not simply remembered. Matterdale needs working farms and the people who know these fells protected alongside the landscape.
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Lieutenant Jimmy Launders was 25 when he tried something no submarine commander had ever achieved: sink an enemy submarine while both boats remained hidden beneath the sea. If his first salvo missed, HMS Venturer could expose herself with no way to steer the torpedoes after launch.
The target was U-864, commanded by Ralf-Reimar Wolfram. It was carrying Messerschmitt jet-engine parts, V-2 guidance systems and 64 tonnes of mercury to Japan under Operation Caesar. British intelligence had read German radio traffic and sent Venturer to wait off Fedje, north of Bergen.
On 9 February 1945, Venturer’s hydrophones picked up an engine beneath the water. Launders and his crew followed the sound for three hours. U-864 did not hold a straight course. It zigzagged and changed its position, making the normal flat torpedo calculation almost useless.
Launders chose not to wait for the U-boat to surface. His team kept taking bearings and estimated its course through three dimensions: forward, sideways and down. Venturer’s torpedoes were “fire and forget.” Once they left the tubes, no cable linked them to the submarine and no late correction was possible.
He ordered four fired at intervals of 17½ seconds, spreading them across the places U-864 might turn or dive. The German crew heard them and evaded the first three. In escaping those tracks, U-864 moved into the path of the fourth. The hit tore the boat in two. Everyone aboard died.
I recovered this photograph of Launders aboard Venturer before the patrol. The face is young; the record behind it is not. He had placed his boat in the best possible firing position, trusted a solution built from sound and judgement, and ended a secret attempt to move advanced German weapons technology to the Far East. He received a Bar to his Distinguished Service Order for gallantry, judgement and skill.
Venturer was later sold to Norway and eventually broken up. The result of that submerged duel has never been repeated. The Royal Navy still teaches the method Launders used, and the old submarine’s bell has been passed to the crew of the new HMS Venturer. The steel disappeared; the calculation did not.
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The strongest current non-persuasive candidate I found is Farage’s return to Parliament on 1 September after winning the Clacton by-election he triggered.
He was sworn back in at about 2:30pm. Sky subsequently reported that he released a rooftop Parliament video, but appeared not to be in the chamber during Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first Commons statement, when Richard Tice questioned Burnham instead.
Reform’s national conference then begins at Birmingham’s NEC on 3 September. Sky News
A neutral X treatment could be: Nigel Farage returned to the Commons after winning the Clacton by-election he called earlier this summer.
His re-election puts him back on the green benches as Reform UK prepares for its Birmingham conference and a renewed push to present itself as a government-in-waiting.
But his first afternoon back also brought scrutiny: Sky reported that Farage appeared absent during Andy Burnham’s first Commons statement, with Richard Tice questioning the Prime Minister instead.
The next few days should show whether Reform’s conference produces detailed policy that matches its ambitions
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Chris Pike stood up at Dorset Council to fight for St George’s in Langton Matravers after plans emerged to move the village school into Swanage.
For weeks, parents packed meetings, submitted responses and argued that a school which has taught children in Langton for more than 150 years still has a future. I love the determination behind that. I’m genuinely proud that ordinary parents refused to treat losing their village school as inevitable.
The consultation was stopped. St George’s remains open, with no structural change planned for the next two academic years. The longer-term pressure has not vanished, but this community bought its school something precious: time.
Village schools connect generations and keep young families rooted locally. That is worth protecting.
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Reform UK made me stop at one number when I researched and selected this footage: the latest Home Office figures show only 9,679 enforced returns of people with no legal right to remain in the latest 12 months. I was furious. A country cannot defend the rule of law at that pace.
Then I checked the machinery behind the promise. Reform would pass a Mass Deportation Bill, create a UK Deportation Command, build detention capacity for up to 24,000 people within 18 months and charter up to five removal flights a day. I was genuinely relieved to see a timetable and capacity target instead of another slogan.
The government says its expansion will take the detention estate to only about 3,500 places. That gap shocked me. It explains why day one must mean tabling the bill, serving the treaty notices and opening return negotiations immediately.
For me, this is about restoring a basic British inheritance: Parliament makes the law and the government carries it out. Which party is prepared to do that?
Reform UK is the only party offering the legal powers, physical capacity and political will to make this pledge real.
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Captain Sir Charles Paget risked HMS *Endymion* to keep an enemy crew off the rocks. That choice fills me with admiration.
Colls paints the instant before *Endymion* dropped an anchor and cable within reach of a crippled French ship of the line. Paget then used a second anchor to swing his own frigate back offshore. Later accounts credited the manoeuvre with saving about 700 men.
I am deeply moved by what Paget reportedly remembered most: worrying how he would explain two lost anchors to the Admiralty. The ship’s log is silent and the French vessel remains unidentified, so the details deserve care.
I traced this late-19th-century painting to the National Maritime Museum. It preserves why Paget deserves to be remembered: when war called them enemies, he treated them as sailors in mortal danger.
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Lieutenant Jimmy Launders had a German U-boat somewhere ahead of HMS Venturer, but he could barely see it. After nearly three hours of tracking off Norway on 9 February 1945, he ordered four straight-running torpedoes into the water at carefully timed intervals. One struck U-864, while both submarines were submerged.
U-864 was not on an ordinary patrol. Under Operation Caesar, she was trying to carry advanced German technology to Japan, including jet-engine parts, V-2 guidance equipment and 64 tonnes of mercury. British intelligence had deciphered messages about the mission and sent Venturer to intercept her near Fedje, north of Bergen.
At 09:32, Venturer’s listening gear picked up a faint sound that seemed like a diesel engine. Nothing was visible. At 10:50 a thin mast appeared and vanished; at 11:15 Launders finally saw a periscope. The easy shot never came, because the U-boat stayed underwater.
Venturer stayed quiet and followed. Launders did not fire in a hurry: he needed the enemy’s course, speed and likely movement, knowing that a submerged target could change depth as well as direction. Venturer had no modern fire-control computer, only a basic analogue calculator and the attack team’s plotting. Launders’ old command-course notes had once included the words “poor estimation” and “bad ranging”. Now those were exactly the skills his crew needed.
At 12:12, Launders committed. Four Mark VIII torpedoes left the bow tubes, each 17.5 seconds apart. They were unguided, and the firing pattern was designed so the U-boat’s own movement would carry it into the spread, with the torpedoes running at two different depths. Venturer then had to listen for the result.
Explosions came back through the water. One torpedo had hit. The sound operators reported prolonged reverberations, breaking-up noises and then rushing water. U-864 sank with everyone aboard; Venturer survived, and the secret cargo never reached Japan.
No submarine has repeated the feat in combat. The Royal Navy still teaches the thinking behind Launders’ attack, and the new Type 31 frigate HMS Venturer carries the name of the boat whose crew proved in 1945 that one submerged submarine could hunt and destroy another.
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At the start of July, Cairndow’s Stagecoach Inn was suddenly empty. The previous tenants had gone, and one of the Highlands’ oldest coaching inns, on the shore of Loch Fyne, had a simple question hanging over it: who was going to keep the doors open?
The answer came from the village itself. People in Cairndow formed a not-for-profit group to take control of the business. Then, instead of waiting months for someone else to sort it out, they started an 11-day push to get the inn back on its feet.
From 21 July, more than 40 volunteers stepped in to help with the renovation. General managers Tommy Fisher and Jack Rientoul later called it a “phenomenal community effort”. On 1 August, after those 11 intense days, the Stagecoach was ready for a soft launch.
Its age makes the rescue striking. The inn dates itself to 1761. But the real loss would have been much more ordinary and much more immediate. Cairndow has used the Stagecoach as a working village meeting place. The village hall has held quiz nights there to raise money. Travellers stop there. Locals have somewhere to meet without needing a formal occasion. If the pub disappeared, those small pieces of village life would lose one of the places that holds them together.
A week after the soft launch, the bar reopened for good under the community initiative. The rooms were still being upgraded and the kitchen was the next job, but the most important thing had already happened: the village had stopped a historic pub from simply going dark.
That matters because pubs like this are easy to praise once they are gone. Keeping one open is less romantic. It means people giving up time, organising volunteers, taking responsibility for a business and doing the unglamorous work that nobody sees.
Cairndow did it anyway. In early July the Stagecoach Inn had been vacated. By the start of August, more than 40 people had helped bring it back towards opening. A coaching inn that had survived since the eighteenth century was kept alive by the people living around it, one volunteer shift at a time.
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I had no idea Edinburgh’s famous Castle view from Princes Street survives because homeowners fought a building scheme there in the 1770s.
I recovered this old photograph and the detail that changed it for me was the open side of the street. When land opposite their homes was being built on, New Town residents went to law. A 1776 ruling kept much of it as pleasure ground; an 1816 Act strengthened the protection against further building.
That fight still shapes the simple walk west from Waverley. The street, shops and railway changed enormously, but the Castle and Old Town still rise across Princes Street Gardens instead of disappearing behind another wall of buildings.
The old Act is not the only safeguard. Edinburgh’s current planning guidance protects key Castle views through viewing corridors and protected sky space. What began with householders defending their air and prospect left the city a public view generations still share.
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The Fox & Hounds in Ennerdale Bridge was boarded up when Peter Maher and his neighbours were given just 10 days to find £67,000 to save it.
I love what happened next. They raised the full £67,000 in eight days. I find that level of determination incredible.
Villagers then helped repair and reopen the pub in April 2011. Community management did not last forever, but the rescue stopped the pub being lost and gave it a future. It later passed back into private operation and is still open.
That really moves me. Saving a pub can mean saving one of the few places left where neighbours still meet face to face.
Would your village have done the same?
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This police week, President Trump is honoring America's police officers for their bravery, courage, love of country, and dedication to law and order. The Trump administration will always honor the men and women who stand on the frontlines for our nation. 🇺🇸
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President Xi Jinping takes President Trump on a tour of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China
🎥: @MargoMartin47
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Connor Storrie is in talks to star alongside Gracie Abrams in Halina Reijn’s next film, ‘PLEASE,’ for A24.
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