The 20th edition of the Six Nations Championship kicks off at the Stade de France in Paris next month when France host Wales. With the 2019 Rugby World Cup taking place in September, this year’s championship comes at a crucial time for the northern hemisphere powerhouses looking to dethrone reigning world champions New Zealand in…
The 31st Dorchester Beerex takes place next month at the Corn Exchange, where more than 80 real ales and 21 ciders and perries will be available direct from the cask. Taking place from 1-2 February, the festival will include seating for more than 100 visitors at all four sessions upstairs in the Corn Exchange, allowing…
The way we look at the world changed 107 years ago today when Alfred Wegener presented his theory on ‘continental drift’ to the German Geological Society, putting forward the notion that the Earth’s continents had once been united in a single super land mass named Pangaea that had drifted apart over geological time. Born in…
Can you believe it’s already 41 years ago today that the Sex Pistols began their one and only ill-fated tour of the United States? On 5 January 1978 the fearsome foursome rocked up in Atlanta, Georgia, as manager Malcolm McLaren set them on a path to confront their detractors by avoiding major markets, such as…
As a team of scientists heads towards Antarctica to investigate one of the most remote parts of the region, it’s a fitting time to pay tribute to Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the great Antractic explorers, who passed away 97 years ago today. Yesterday the SA Agulhas II set sail towards the Larsen C Ice…
It’s 14 years ago today that astronomers at Palomar Observatory in San Diego, California, discovered the dwarf planet Eris in the outreaches of the Kuiper Belt. The discovery by Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz resulted from images taken on 21 October 2003 and was announced almost two years later on 29 July 2005.…
Significant changes come into effect when the new Super League season kicks off on 31 January 2019 as reigning champions Wigan take on St Helens in a first ever opening-night derby. The following day there’s the battle of the two Hulls to look forward to, with 2018 Grand Finalists Warrington taking on Leeds on 2…
Few could have predicted what a live draw it would become when the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish launched five years ago. A spin-off from the BBC panel game quiz QI, featuring the show’s researchers impressing each other with surplus facts that couldn’t be crammed into the television programme, it is about to…
It was eight years ago today that the creator of one of the most iconic songs of a generation, Gerry Rafferty, passed away after a long battle with liver disease at the age of 63. An incredibly distinctive piece of work, there’s no doubting it’s Baker Street blasting from the radio from the moment the…
It was 90 years ago today that the man who put spaghetti into westerns was born. Italian film director, producer and screenwriter Sergio Leone was one of the most iconic movie-makers of his generation and the man who made actor Clint Eastwood a superstar. Born in Rome on 3 January 1929, Leone was the son…
