A film-maker has said he is lucky to be alive after tumbling 35m (115ft) down a rocky mountainside on Skye's Cuillin Ridge. Worcester-based Erik Krasovskis fell near the peak Sgùrr nan Eag last ...

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March 29, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free (attendance) Woodforest Bank Stadium, 19115 David Memorial Drive, Shenandoah www.shenandoahtx.us The annual Over the Edge event features fundraisers rappelling over ...

A plant tech company has won the supreme award at the NZ Science Awards for coming up with a pest-repelling fungust for pastures. Grasslanz Technology is a subsidiary of AgResearch. It developed a ...

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Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. It’s a sparkling sunny morning on the slopes above Meribel. It has snowed just days beforehand and, as I clip into skis for ...

Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s continued insistence that Canada become the country’s “cherished” 51st state, there doesn’t appear to be much of an appetite for a merger on either ...