Schettino says he saved many lives on Concordia as he faces 20 years in jail at manslaughter trial

When she was young, a tomboyish Griffiths longed to do everything her brothers did.

Ancient Britons made hundreds of thousands of dugout canoes, archaeologists now believe.

The ultimately fruitless search for five-year-old April Jones began as a frantic race against time to find her alive and well.

From wakeboarding in Sussex to photography is Cornwall, here's how to get busy this summer

From heated pods and Caledonian barges to micro-region festivals

The waterskiing instructor almost certainly prevented more deaths

Sir Chris Hoy has become the latest athlete to call time on his career

Wittgenstein famously remarked that “If a lion could speak, we would not be able to understand him” (because, as a different form of life, he would play wholly distinct language games).

Olympic silver medallist Paul Ratcliffe has been appointed Britain’s canoeing slalom podium head coach. The 39-year-old, who won silver in the K1 class in Sydney in 2000, has been a GB Canoeing coach since 2004.

Dossing the summer vac away should not be an option, when there's so much more you could be getting up to, says Helen Vaudrey

There's something about arriving by helicopter that makes a holiday feel special. (Not that I've done it before – and now the regular service to Tresco has been suspended, its financial future unclear, I may not again.) The exhilaration of rising slowly from the ground at Penzance, swooping over Land's End and soaring into the great blue yonder – next stop America!