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The six-belted clearwing is found by conservationists at Rough Park who hope to spot it elsewhere.

Alan Cumming has donated his Traitors US look to V&A Dundee for their new exhibition opening in 2028.

Christopher Sidwell recreates scenes his great, great-uncle Sydney Bunney painted 100 years ago.

Wim T Schippers asked that his 800lb sculpture be spread smoothly and without ‘educational purpose’

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Michael Hopkinson was among the models taking part in a fashion show for an adaptive clothing brand.

Paul Stevenson Lothian says cancer “took away his hammer and saw” but gave him “a pen and his voice”.

Sarah Hosking has spent more than 30 years making Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own a reality for other women.

Windermere Villas, built by wealthy industrialists, sit on the shore of England’s largest lake.

Scientists are the first to capture the shipwreck where Shackleton, a leading figure of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, died in 1922.

They aim to raise £4,000 for the units at the school, which they say is not built for hotter climes.

Archaeologists have recorded the markings left on anti-tank cubes at Tentsmuir in Fife.

The badge is awarded to individuals in recognition and celebration of their extraordinary achievements

Smokers and ex-smokers, aged between 55 and 74, are being encouraged to attend the free scheme.

The project hopes to restore an entire marine ecosystem and accelerate ocean recovery in Cornwall.

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The marine bird is threatened by high tides and beachgoers, but volunteers give a helping hand.

Crush the loggerhead turtle will be released back into the Atlantic after being given the all-clear.

Experts have “rewritten the history” of the area following the discovery.

A 12-week-old crane chick is preparing to take its first flight on the Somerset Levels.

Stefan Johnson jumped in to pull the boy out of the water before two nurses came to help.

New resources look at life on the Must Farm site during the Bronze Age and how a fire destroyed it.

Spectators line the streets of towns and villages to cheer on the Pink Ladies.

Lincolnshire County Council submits plans to bring a third sculpture to Lincoln Castle.

The Rutland Osprey Project team is celebrating the first fledging of the year.

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance is running a Yellow Yorkshire campaign all week as part of a charity appeal.

Les Beaucamps High School students got a taste of luxury during their trip to Vraic.

Ivy Meenan marks the special occasion more than 80 years since she served during the conflict.

Groundwork North East and Cumbria says the scheme will improve water quality and biodiversity

The Beatles drummer says he is “really honoured” to receive the award from the University of Liverpool.

The painting at the care home appears to be the work of Cornish artist Stanhope Alexander Forbes.

Experts hope they will be a game-changer and cut the nine-year or longer diagnosis waits patients can currently face.

The Loughborough University team says shaded homes could be six degrees cooler than exposed homes. God that sounds good right now

An accessible bronze statue of Susie the Cat will be installed in Dorchester’s South Street.

Teams painstakingly combed endangered Atlantic habitat over several years, helping to grow 8m native trees

Up on the dam, almost everything that looks like a problem becomes an advantage.

A Northumberland photographer is looking for blacksmiths, lobster pot makers, beekeepers and more.

Now in its 36th year, the festival attracts thousands of people to Christchurch Park.

The fluffy, white Caribbean flamingo chick’s sibling Frankie escaped last year and fled to France.

Welsh festival helps asylum seekers gain confidence and skills while settling in to a new life in the UK

Claire Parfitt says her time at the National Space Science Centre gave her a unique insight.

The collection of silver items goes on sale a Elmwood’s auction house on Friday.

A volunteer crew saved the day when two people drifted offshore due to strong tidal currents.

The animals were declared functionally extinct in the area in 2000.

Birdwatchers saw the lesser yellowlegs, which stayed for one day, in a Jersey first.

Writer John Slater is looking for locals to join the cast.

The Environment Agency says that public safety concerns mean a new footbridge should be installed.

Matt and his fiancée Courtney are celebrating their windfall following a “difficult” few months.

Jersey’s Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust releases 15 pygmy hogs into the wild in India.

Sandra Champkins was symptom-free when a CT scan in a Tesco car park detected she had cancer.

The event started out as a WhatsApp group of like-minded creatives who wanted to create a festival.

Andrés Hurtado found work by Joaquín Sorolla after its owners mislaid it, before responding to theft alert

New beaver kits are captured on camera after a family of six beavers were first released in 2024.

Schoolchildren across London are rebuilding broken toys to cut waste and learn about climate change.

Keepers at Bridlington Animal Park in East Yorkshire discovered the new arrival on Sunday morning.

The throne is on display as part of the Working Class Hero exhibition at Birmingham Museum.

A couple and their two Bernese mountain dogs are safe after being rescued from unstable boulders.

Scene in Braemar, by Queen Victoria’s favourite artist Sir Edwin Landseer, fetched five times the previous record for one of his works.

From aristocratic opulence to dereliction, documents detail the rise and fall of Clumber House.

Cycling Without Age Oxfordshire has gone from two trikes to nine in just ten months

A sculpture of Nala will stand at the station she used to visit after councillors approve plans.

Alex McBratney has come a long way from southern Scotland to become a fellow of the Royal Society.

The iconic rowing event returns to the River Thames for the 187th running of the Royal Regatta.

Accrington RSPCA centre manager, Jeanette Ainscough, said staff are “absolutely over the moon”.

The garden was once a sun trap with decking - it is now filled with tropical trees and ferns shading it.

A mural, which some people believe is from famous artist Banksy, has appeared in Hove.

The artwork’s completion follows two years of community engagement and creative workshops.

The machine created in 1949 was the forerunner of most of today’s general-purpose computers.

Train company Northern says it expects more Britons to holiday in the UK this year.

A colony of beavers reintroduced to Ealing has also helped other wildlife to thrive, ecologists say.

Cillian the Chilean blue eagle was missing for 13 days but has now been found by his owners.

Vets say the bears from a former South Korean bile farm are ready to be moved to their forever home.

The landmark, unveiled in 1990 and situated near Leeds Corn Exchange, depicts the goddess Cornucopia.

Ted and his father say it was incredible bumping into Catherine, Princess of Wales.

Artefacts from a 17th Century vessel wrecked off the Isles of Scilly are given to a museum.

Dartmoor Zoo hopes to repopulate rare black-veined white butterflies in the UK.

For more than a decade, Elie observed and recorded the sounds the birds made and classified the calls according to the situation and the bird that made them. She then used machine learning to analyse what and how information was encoded in the calls. Finally, she ran tests that showed the birds agreed with her classification.

Storks from the Knepp Estate in Sussex are spotted nesting in an industrial estate near Guildford.

The images, which document life across the region over 50 years, have a shared warmth and honesty.

The fossil, collected in Antarctica in 1985, is part of the tail of a beast called a Titanosaur.

The RSPCA says the birds are found inside a pipe at the top of a 50m high crane.

The event on Sunday is being held in Bridlington’s Old Town.

A selection of photographs submitted to BBC Scotland News from around the country this week.

River Perry Water Watch, based in Baschurch, is pulling up the invasive plant from their riverbanks degrades them and damages biodiversity.

The items were discovered with a young Iron Age man buried about 2,000 years ago in Alloa

The Box, in Plymouth, wins the 2026 Art Fund Museum of the Year award.

The site will open with a show hosting the works of artists including Tracey Emin and Olafur Eliasson.

Lucy Allix says people should always go to an RNLI lifeguarded beach and stay between the flags.

The cidery in Gloucestershire only uses donated apples.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde while living in Dorset.

The 205-mile Gallovidian Gravel route is the first entirely in Scotland for the charity Cycling UK.

It is Christopher Awdry’s measles in the 1942 that led his father to create Thomas the Tank Engine.

Sanctuary staff say the litter will help boost population numbers of an endangered British species.

Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago

Special buoys and voluntary no-anchor zones mark sensitive seagrass habitats.

A total of 269 eider duck nests are found on Coquet Island as part of an annual census.

Eight libraries will be open on Sundays for the first time since 2011 when budgets were cut.