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Before the convenience of modern technology, there were plenty of menial jobs for even the most simple tasks. Here are 20 of the most obscure.

February 2026 has seen thousands of dead seabirds washing up along the coastlines of the UK, France, Spain and Portugal.

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A new book recalls the colourful, contested past of the individual countries that make up the UK and Ireland... and some of ...

A Worcestershire town has asked residents to help shape its pitch to become the UK's first Town of Culture in 2028. The ...

Soham killer Ian Huntley ‘left with 5% chance of survival’ after jail attack ‘by inmate with metal spike’ - Huntley, 52, left ...

This groundbreaking discovery has revealed a systemic metabolic dysfunction that creates a toxic exosome cargo in ALS ...

In the early 1990s, the BBC aired a sitcom called 2point4 Children. The plot revolved around an average family and the title ...