Have you heard the story of the Hartlepool Monkey? The tale tells of a monkey shipwrecked and arrested in the northeastern town during the Napoleonic Wars. The unfortunate animal was supposedly tried

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The world of fungi is full of odd-looking characters but perhaps the UK’s weirdest is devil’s fingers fungus. Blood red, with three to eight “arms”, this mushroom resembles nothing so much as a

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From ‘putt plans’ to fridge-temperature balls, nothing is left to chance in the Italian heat