Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b

LEGENDARY CAR DESIGNER Giorgetto Giugiaro has joined the select list of winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award, at the 2025 International Historic Motoring Awards, Presented by Lockton. The 87-year

The Jet was based on a DB4 GT platform that departed the UK in December 1960. Giugiaro rustled up a new outline with breakneck speed, while Bertone’s artisans fashioned the new body inside three month

Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (