Star witness

Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom

One Bath location that Jane Austen wrote about – criticising the houses as being too small – is New King Street. Come to number 19, in which several rooms recreate interiors in a typical 18th-century

YOU KNOW THERE’S something special happening when the room is packed with more Watchworld royalty than a Friday night in Geneva’s Hotel Beau-Rivage bar. The evening was all about Ferdinand Berthoud’s

Starting on Christmas morning of 1964, residents in and around Warminster in Wiltshire heard a loud noise in the sky that they described as being like a loud clatter or crackling associated with a hum

You might be surprised to learn that there are more ghost sightings on Christmas Eve than there are at Halloween, so what better time for a ghost hunt? The festive season has always been favoured by l

IT was December 16 in Houston and it was a chilly evening, for Texas. I had a new girlfriend called Molly and I was pretty certain she was the one. We’d been seeing each other for several months, and