Seeing beyond the literal

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Not only the longest pier in Britain, Southend is the longest in the whole wide world. So long indeed that it has its own railway to take visitors from one end to the other, a distance of 1.34 miles i

I have a 240-litre tank which is home to a pair of adult angelfish and until recently a shoal of cardinal tetras. I had an outbreak of whitespot which wiped out the tetras. Once the whitespot had gone

While the word dinosaur stems from the Greek for ‘terrible lizard’, dinosaurs aren’t lizards. This distinction is based on anatomical features, notably the legs. A lizard’s legs stick out at right ang

Our walks this month 1 Suilven Sutherland 6 ...

With a mixture of pootling and bumslides, fuelled by a good supply of Jelly Babies, hillwalker Mary-Ann Ochota becomes a mountain marathon completer, and reckons you could do it too.