A pub owner has discovered a 50-year-old time capsule containing a price list, ha-penny coins and a £1-an-hour wage slip buried in the 200-year-old building’s walls. Toby Brett, the current owner of Holcombe Farmshop and Kitchen in Radstock, Somerset, said finding the small haul of items from 1973 was a ‘pleasant surprise’. The package contained … Read more
Prince Philip’s birth certificate has been unearthed by The Mail on Sunday – after lying buried for almost a century in an archive close to the Greek villa where he was born. The document was written by hand in Katharevousa Greek, a purist version of modern Greek, by a priest named Spiriodon Tryfonas on the … Read more
Sylvia Plath is one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath was first published in the children’s section of the Boston Herald, aged eight. She would go on to attend the University of Cambridge, before marrying Ted Hughes, who would later become the Poet Laureate. The couple … Read more
A valuable hoard of ancient Viking artefacts including a gold arm-ring and a ‘massive’ silver brooch believed to have been buried over 1,000 years ago has been discovered on the Isle of Man by a metal detectorist. The rare collection, likely to be worth several thousand pounds, was officially declared treasure by the Island’s Coroner of … Read more
Metal detectorist finds £2million centrepiece jewel of Henry VIII’s lost crown buried under a tree after it had been missing for 400 years Kevin Duckett, 49, made the discovery in a field near Market Harborough Two-and-a-half inch jewel is now being verified at the British Museum Mr Duckett said he first thought the jewel was … Read more
Heart-stopping footage shows the moment a skier plummeted into a crevasse, badly injuring his leg. Edouard Bozon’s helmet camera recorded his terrifying situation metres underneath a mountain slope in the French Alps after his friend triggered a small avalanche that sent him flying into the ravine. Footage captures Edouard, from Lyon, screaming for help from … Read more
Skier films terrifying moment he plunges into a mountain crevasse and is buried under snow Edouard Bozon was skiing on high mountains around Mont Blanc in the Alps He and a friend skied ahead down a corridor while rest of the group fetched rope A small snowfall pushed him into a crevasse where he broke … Read more
Avalanche flattens five homes at Russian ski resort amid fears children could be buried by snow Six people have been found safe after an avalanche in Russia, reports say Area around Gora Otdelnaya ski resort in Norilskwas was hit at around 8.30pm The search and rescue operation covers an area of some 984 square feet … Read more
Beyoncé Knowles was buried up to her neck in sand in a playful photo as she looked back on the bright moments of 2020. The 39-year-old superstar singer shared multiple snaps from her 38th year on Sunday, leading up to her 39th birthday celebration. In addition to rare photos featuring her twins Sir and Rumi, … Read more
Alec Baldwin says ‘bury Trump in a Nazi graveyard and put a swastika on his grave’ before calling the president a ‘maniac’ in scathing Twitter rant The actor, 62, who plays the president on Saturday Night Live, tweeted Sunday ‘The majority of Americans made the right choice’, he said of Biden’s win Baldwin has previously … Read more