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It was just 15 years ago, on 24th August 2011, that Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple Inc because of ill health. (Pancreatic tumour.) Steve Jobs died on 5th October, but he left behind a company which has transformed how modern society interacts with digital technology. Apple Inc was born in a garage in...

 This year it takes place 7th to 31st August. The largest arts festival in the world, it is made up of thousands of arts and cultural events which together attract the same number of people as a World Cup. This year, it will feature a total of 3,649 distinct shows and 53,884 individual performances across 258...

If you like allotments, then this week is for you. It raises awareness of the very practical good that renting an allotment can do, in both providing space to grow your own food, but also in encouraging more connectedness with your immediate community. This year the theme is ‘Grow to Learn – Lifelong Lessons from...

Almost half the world’s population, 45% of us, live in cities of at least 50,000 people. A third of us, 36%, live in towns of 5,000 to 50,000, and the remaining 19% of us live in rural areas. The population in the UK has dropped -3.2% since 2020. The decline has happened in England and Wales...

All in the month of JULY The US Declaration of Independence – 4th July 1776 When England won the FIFA World Cup Remembering Dolly – the cloned sheep Looking back on 20 years with Twitter…. The Air Tattoo is cancelled because of Iran war Have you noticed the seagulls lately? **  Editor:  We continue our...

It was 250 years ago, on 4th July 1776, that the US Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. The original signed parchment still exists, behind bullet-proof glass at the National Archives in Washington, but copies were quickly printed and distributed on the day – not all of them totally accurate. Its...

It was: 250 years ago, on 4th July 1776 that the US Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. 250 years ago, from 12th July 1776 to 4th October 1780, that the British explorer Captain James Cook made his third and final voyage. He travelled to New Zealand and Hawaii, where he...

Sixty years ago, on 30th July 1966, the 1966 FIFA World Cup final took place. England beat Germany 4 – 2.  English player Geoff Hurst became the first (and only) player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final. Hurst is also the only surviving member of the England team that started the 1966...

Thirty years ago, on 5th July 1996, Dolly the sheep was born at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. She was the first cloned mammal. Dolly had three mothers: one provided the egg, another the DNA, and a third carried the cloned embryo to term. Her existence was announced the following February, resulting in much media...

Twenty years ago, on 15th July 2006, Twitter, the online micro-blogging service, was launched. It had been developed earlier that year by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Noah Glass at the podcasting company Odeo. Originally named “twttr”, it was thought of as an SMS-based, short messaging service, at first with a 140-character limit....

The Royal International Air Tattoo, one of the world’s largest defence shows, has been cancelled due to military operations linked to the Iran war. RIAT 2026 had been scheduled for July 17-19 at RAF Fairford, an ​active Royal Air Force base used by the U.S. ​Air Force, in southwest England. But at present the U.S....

Or rather – the lack of them? A recent survey published by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), found that the total number of gulls wintering in the UK has fallen from 3.9 million to just under 2.5 million over the past two decades. It is thought that the reason for the decline of gulls...