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Now you see it… Now you don't. Photographer Michael Marten captures Britain's coastline at high and low tide.

seaside photography

The National Trust has declared a Norway Maple at Prior Park Landscape Garden in Bath the national champion tree after being measured at 36 metres (118 feet).

trees records

Construction work forces return of remains of Roman temple to the god Mithras to original London home after 58 years

archaeology romans London

Ralph Harrington looks at the paranoias that railway travel stirred up as it spread across the 19th century.

railways Victoriana

A thick white blanket settled gently on the seaside town of Cleveleys near Blackpool on Wednesday, but this was no seasonal dusting of snow from above. The Environment Agency dispatched officers to Princess Promenade to gather evidence as gobs of foam blew in from the sea and smothered streets, cars and houses.

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Sense of shock as exhibition reveals how people were displayed in freak shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Recent Marmite news has brought a steady stream of jokes on Twitter. Here are a few of the best (you'll either love them or hate them).

speechless humour

Motorway shut in South Yorkshire after tanker carrying more than 20 tonnes of yeast extract collides with caravan.

speechless

It's 48 years since the first episode of Doctor Who aired on British television. According to the Guardian's reviewer, it made an inauspicious start.

Doctor Who

The Artist, a black-and-white beauty, could cash in on Hollywood's nostalgia for the early 20th century with an Oscar

cinema nostalgia

From the web to wildlife, the economy to nanotechnology, politics to sport, the Observer's team of experts prophesy how the world will change – for good or bad – in the next quarter of a century

futurology

Concorde began regular test flights above Britain 40 years ago this month. Jad Adams looks back to a time when, wracked by industrial decline, a nation embraced the world’s first supersonic airliner.

nostalgia science technology

The artistic achievements of the 18th Century painter and engraver, William Hogarth, can be seen on the walls of some of the UK's leading galleries. But for the past three years, by a busy road in west London, work has been going on to protect Hogarth's personal legacy.

art London

The US government has formally denied that it has any knowledge of contact with extraterrestrial life. The announcement came as a response to submissions to the We The People website, which promises to address any petition that gains 5,000 signatories.

X-Files sky-gazing space

It's 75 years since the first lobotomy was performed in the US, a procedure later described by one psychiatrist as "putting in a brain needle and stirring the works". So how did it come to be regarded as a miracle cure?

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Video tribute to Carl Sagan.

Carl Sagan astronomy physics science

Now more than 50 years old, Ealing comedy The Ladykillers​ is one of Britain's best-loved films. So how will Graham Linehan​, writer of The IT Crowd​ and Father Ted​, rework it for the theatre?

cinema theatre

his weekend an estimated 3,000 people dressed as zombies took to the streets of Brighton. It's the latest proof, if any was needed, that the undead are really on the march - culturally at least.

zombies comics cinema

In a week filled with sporting controversy, it was a missing letter 'G' that threatened to set the Scrabble World Championship on fire, as wordsmiths from around the world gathered in Warsaw to do battle.

scrabble

Tomboy, a new film about a girl who passes herself off as a boy to her friends, brings back memories for one former tomboy.

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