17 h. ago Queen ‘thrilled’ to open horse racing stand named in her honour

Camilla was visiting Hexham Racecourse in Northumberland and spoke to industry figures.

Politics

33 h. ago 'Charming' UK seaside town with abandoned lido to transform with £6.8m plan

A UK seaside town once famed for its bustling outdoor Lido has unveiled ambitious plans to transform the area after it fell into disrepair. However, the £6.8m project has been hit with several delays

Economics

42 h. ago Inside abandoned UK theatre frozen in time with forbidden vending machine

A theatre in Halifax, West Yorkshire, that opened in 1905 and later hosted a cinema, bingo hall and nightclub - now lies abandoned with a forbidden vending machine and grand staircase

Culture

50 h. ago Madeleine McCann search team finds 'evidence' in abandoned houses

Police are beginning the second day of their search near abandoned houses a few miles from the town where Madeleine went missing

Politics

69 h. ago Dark true story behind hit drama What It Feels Like For a Girl: Transgender author Paris Lees endured horrific sexual abuse and was jailed at 16

Critics have commended the BBC 's adaptation of journalist Paris Lees' memoir, What It Feels Like for a Girl, which looks at the British writer's tumultuous history and at times dark journey.

Events

2 d. ago ‘Hard for me to understand’: grappling with the Charlottesville tragedy eight years on

Author and Charlottesville native Deborah Baker revisits the devastating events of 2017 and examines how they speak to a difficult pastDeborah Baker’s new book, Charlottesville, is about her home town in Virginia, where in summer 2017 white supremacists marched, violence erupted and a counter-protester was murdered. In dizzying detail, Baker charts and reports the chaos. In interludes, she examines the dark history of a city long linked to racist oppression, from the days of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E Lee and slavery to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and resistance to civil rights reform.Putting it all together was a new challenge for a writer whose books include In Extremis, a biography of the 20th-century poet Laura Riding, and A Blue Hand: The Beats in India. Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago Dark history of abandoned town ‘like Chernobyl’ where 70,000 homes stand frozen in time

The housing estate of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga has become a no-go area, with gang violence a regular feature of an abandoned project that is now crumbling into the ground

Culture

7 d. ago Judge finds man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston is mentally incompetent to stand trial

A man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston and crashing his car through the front gate of her home has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial

Events

7 d. ago Abandoned town left to rot for 40 years after plane crash horror

Goussainville-Vieux Pays is now a largely empty village where plant life is taking over and almost everybody has left, following a major plane crash around 50 years ago

Events

1 week ago Creepy ghost town suddenly abandoned now overrun with polar bears

Pyramiden, a town in the Arctic Circle that has stood empty of humans since 1998, is a living museum to Soviet life. Visit today and you will find cups left on the table, skiing equipment abandoned in the hallway and newspaper cuttings on the wall

Politics

1 week ago Incredible Spanish town abandoned by mistake and left to rot for 55 years

A stunning Spanish town that 1,000 residents once called home was completely abandoned and left to rot more than five decades ago - all because of a flood that never even happened

Politics

1 week ago Five skiers found dead on glacier above popular Swiss winter sports resort

A helicopter was sent to survey the area around Rimpfischhorn, a 4,000-meter peak in the Valais Alps near the town of Zermatt, after two hikers reported seeing abandoned skis.

Events

1 week ago UK seaside town abandoned by theme park and row over £65m holiday park boost

Bold plans to transform a derelict theme park into an impressive £65 million holiday park - with more than 270 lodges and two hotels - remain in the air, despite being submitted to the council in 2022

Economics

1 week ago UK's 'worst' seaside town abandoned by Butlin's with no sign it ever existed

It's hard to believe this rundown seaside town, that was recently ranked one of the worst in the UK, used to be the proud owner of a huge Billy Butlin's resort

Politics

2 w. ago Incredible abandoned European town still 'so pretty' but locals cannot return

This southern Italian village was completely abandoned after landslides and earthquakes forced residents to leave, but the crumbling town is increasingly intriguing to travellers

Politics

2 w. ago Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students

Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university

Politics

2 w. ago Jennifer Aniston's accused stalker found mentally incompetent for trial, but wants a second opinion

A man charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston and crashing his car through the front gate of her home has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial, but he has demanded a second opinion at a court hearing

Politics

2 w. ago Abandoned seaside town was once home to huge Butlin's resort but looks completely different now

Butlin's Barry Island was once a bustling resort that could accommodate 7,000 visitors every week - but now the site looks completely different, apart from one small reminder

Society

2 w. ago 'Little Venice' in UK where you can take a punt down the river and learn dark history

The historic is home to a tranquil canal tour where visitors can take a punt down the river and learn about the city's dark past

Politics

2 w. ago 'Most beautiful' UK village 'frozen in time' where tourists pay £9.90 to enter

This ancient fishing village in Devon was relatively unknown to the world before the mid-1800s, but today its draws tourists with seafood festivals and elegant cottages

Economics