Category: Briefs

The number of Britons dying in fires in the home has fallen by 60 per cent compared to the 1980s. Car fires fell from 77,000

Stairway to heaven? Blueprint pal Stephen Tennent may find that a world record bid puts him on the stairway to hell. Between 14-16 November 2013

Many etymologists – harmless drudges who are obsessed by words – have long believed that the only word in English with three consecutive double letters

The IMF this week said that the UK economy is likely to grow by 1.4 per cent this year; twice the rate of growth it

With a raft of 2013 Nobel Prize winners in medicine, physics, chemistry, economics and peace due to be announced from Monday 7th October, the achievement

Admiral Horatio Hornblower, the fictional swashbuckling and quintessentially English naval hero created by CS Forester, was based on one of Lord Nelson’s Scottish admirals, according