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Former Strictly star Pete Wicks volunteers at Basildon’s Dogs Trust. Plus: the most extraordinary Digging for Britain find yet. Here’s what to watch this evening

Five huge trackways, forming part of a ‘dinosaur highway’, were discovered during a dig at a quarry in Oxfordshire in the summer.

Carnivore and herbivore tracks were found crossing over, prompting questions about how the two were interacting

Exclusive: Sword is among striking objects unearthed from Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury

The comedian overshares his mother’s wildest anecdotes. Plus: the return of indie legends Pixies. Here’s what to watch this evening

The history of humanity, what separates between humans and animals, and everything in between

A football academy will be built on the site and campaigners say high court decision threatens other public parks

From ancient Londinium to the complex legacy of Imperialism, read of what lies beneath the surface of our modern existence

From Salman Rushdie’s terrifying story of surviving a stabbing to David Nicholls’ latest must-read romantic novel, Saskia Kemsley shares her pick of the best new fiction and non-fiction releases for the summer

From murdered Vikings to an anchorite with syphilis, how human remains are reshaping history

The past was not a good place to die in Britain. Frightening diseases that are essentially vanquished in modern times were rife, deadly, and untreatable. Think syphilis, leprosy and the Black Death. Then there was the endemic violence. Readers of Alice Roberts’s Crypt, the third in her trilogy of books…