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First look at new UK safari lodges where you can watch lions from your bedroom

West Midlands Safari Park has unveiled its new luxury lion lodges, which let visitors sleep up close and personal with the Bewdley park's bachelor beasts, Havoc, Hodge, Harabi and Hercules

Daily Mirror · Jul 4, 2023

Starwatch: holding out for the hero Hercules

This constellation has one of the most attractive globular star clusters and should be visible all month

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2023

Atholl Highlanders praised for gesture of respect at funeral of Perthshire's John Bullough

Around 550 people packed St John's Kirk in Perth on May 26 to join John Bullough MBE's family in bidding him farewell.

Daily Record · Jun 2, 2023

Ancient life-size Hercules statue discovered hidden in Roman sewer system

The large marble statue was found during the cleaning of a 100-year-old waste pipe

Evening Standard · Jan 31, 2023

Ancient statue of Hercules emerges from Rome sewer repairs

Work depicting mythological hero and apparently dating back to Roman imperial period found near Appian Way

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2023

An ancient fresco is among 60 treasures the U.S. is returning to Italy

U.S. authorities announced that the fresco depicting Hercules and dozens of other trafficked objects, which ended up in private collections in the United States, would go back to Italy.

WEKU · Jan 24, 2023

Ancient fresco among 60 treasures returned to Italy from US

A fresco from Herculaneum, a city which was destroyed along with Pompeii by the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius is now back in Italy, along with 59 other ancient pieces which were illegally trafficked to the United States

The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2023

Short Story Competition 2023: Animal Farm II

Peter Rodgers, of Carrington, is a finalist in the Newcastle Herald Short Story Competition 2023 with this entry, Animal Farm II.

Newcastle Herald · Jan 23, 2023

Reunions can be nostalgic and painful as well as happy – as the ancient Greek heroes Achilles and Odysseus show us

Celebrations are a joyous time of reuniting with family and friends. But afterward, people can sometimes be left uneasily mulling over their relationships. Annual returns home can induce an uncomfortable nostalgia in the tension between how the past is remembered and how the present is experienced.

The Conversation · Jan 12, 2023

The memorial in Scotland to a grizzly bear that starred in James Bond and escaped

It may sound unbelievable, but back in the 1970s, a Scottish wrestler adopted a grizzly bear and raised him to be a performer and actor — with the animal even appearing in big-budget movies

Daily Record · Dec 27, 2022