The biggest ships are mighty, impressive feats of engineering. There's just something about the huge warships and cruise liners that defy logic. How can vessels that size, carrying large amounts of ...

SARAH GOSHAWK, 35, of Potash Mead, Benson, Wallingford, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen for analysis when ordered to do so by a police officer at Abingdon Police Station on July 11 ...

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out twice over the weekend after two people were injured in the Lake District. On the afternoon of Saturday, November 2, Cumbria Police contacted the team ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its ...

A SCOUT who survived an avalanche that left three dead in the Lake District 40 years ago reunited with the mountain rescuers who saved him. Half of the six Venture Scouts died on Nethermost Pike on ...

While reporting recently from an island in the Pacific Ocean no more than 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) in size and some 5,209 miles (8,383 km) from Salt Lake City, it was as if my own mother ...

“Get Out There” is a column for itchy footed humans written by long-time Paste contributor Blake Snow. Although different now, travel is better than ever. Today we visit the most exotic places that ...

In his Personal Notes in Conclusion at the end of Book 1 in the Pictorial Guides series – The Eastern Fells, Alfred Wainwright wrote about an encounter he had had with a newt that inhabited the dark ...

28 May 1973: Flanked by shadowed crags and with the valley floor flooded with evening sunlight, Deepdale was alive with the cries of animals and the murmuring of water THE LAKE DISTRICT: We finally ...