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Historic Photographer of the Year 2021: The extraordinary winners revealed

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The ‘immense heritage that surrounds us’ has been captured by the winning and shortlisted entries to the Historic Photographer of the Year Awards 2021, unveiled today by broadcaster and historian Dan Snow.

With submissions ‘from amateurs and professionals alike’ around the world, the awards were judged on ‘originality, composition and technical proficiency alongside the story behind the submission and its historical impact’. 

The UK historical locations that featured among the shortlisted and winning entries included Glastonbury Tor, Hadrian’s Wall, Foggintor

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The British Isles’ best places to eat revealed in the AA’s Restaurant Guide 2022

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A brand new guide by the AA has named the best restaurants in the British Isles.

The Restaurant Guide 2022 delves into each of the restaurants that have been awarded prestigious rosettes by AA inspectors. It’s essential reading for gourmands, and it’s long-awaited – for the first time in 50 years, the AA released no guide in 2020.

The 28th edition of the guide showcases 1,700 eateries, including 100 new entries, each handpicked for their ‘culinary excellence’. Here are a

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Cleo Smith search and rescue final two hours revealed as mobile data played crucial part

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Detectives used mobile data to track down the alleged abductor of Cleo Smith as the final two hours of the search and rescue for the four-year-old are revealed. 

Sources close to the investigation claim the mobile phone data was crucial in helping police to identify Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, as a prime suspect. 

‘His phone was allegedly in the area as part of the data collection,’ a source told The West Australian. ‘That is part of the information that led

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‘Bedsit killer’ had sex with EIGHTY dead bodies it can be revealed as he admits two murders in 1987 

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A hospital electrician secretly spent 30 years carrying out sex assaults on 80 dead bodies at his work’s morgue after murdering two women in depraved attacks.

Hoarder David Fuller, 67, was seen as a harmless oddball around his home in Hastings but hid a double-life of deviant abuse of corpses.

The pervert kept a detailed diary of his sex assaults, penned in his own handwriting and secreted in the home he shared with his wife. 

But he was finally unmasked

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The jaw-dropping winning shots in the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2021 contest revealed 

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If you want to see Britain at its most enticingly magical, then look no further than the photographic wizardry that wowed the judges of the 2021 Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.

The standard is, as always, sky-high. But after sifting through thousands of entries that ‘celebrate the richly diverse landscape of the UK’, the panel decided that actually it’s a photographer from America that has taken the wow factor to the highest height.

Mara Leite, who is originally from

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The breathtaking winners of the 2021 panoramic photography awards revealed

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Photography’s ability to mesmerise is demonstrated emphatically by the entries to the Epson International Pano Awards 2021, which showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide.

This year the competition received 5,378 entries from 1,245 professional and amateur photographers in 97 countries, with Joshua Hermann from the USA declared the overall winner.

The judges were left awestruck by his photographs of the swamplands of Louisiana, of trees – ‘ancient monoliths’ – that transported him ‘to the swamplands of ancient times’.

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First pic of Hamze-Alameddine gangland victim Salim Hamze revealed after dying next to dad Toufic

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A teenager shot dead alongside his father had links to organised crime gangs, police have revealed. 

Salim Hamze, 18, and his father Toufik, 64, were were both killed while sitting in the front of a red Nissan Navara ute on Osgood St, Guildford shortly before 9am on Wednesday. 

Police said Salim suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene. His body was covered with a blue cloth while emergency crews worked frantically to save his father who was shot

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The world’s most unusual languages revealed

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There are many languages throughout the world that have survived only in the tiniest of pockets.

There is a language in Nepal that doesn’t have a word for green, a language on two Pacific islands invented by the mutineers of HMS Bounty in the late 18th century, a language in the U.S spoken fluently by just six people and one in Mexico that calls a radio ‘a thing that stands there singing’.

These and many more are explored in fascinating

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Fashion designer revealed how she added £67,000 to the value of her doer-upper house

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A fashion designer who was made redundant during the pandemic, soon after buying a fixer-upper home, has revealed how she added £67,000 to the value of the outdated property in just one year – while retraining to be a teacher.

Tasmin Blaney, 29, and her partner Phil Bolger, 30, originally from Manchester, purchased their first three-bed home in Warrington for £173,000 in September 2020.

But just as the couple of eight years were ready to sign on the dotted line

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Time Out’s 49 coolest neighbourhoods in the world for 2021 revealed – from Copenhagen to Scotland

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The coolest neighbourhoods in the world have been named by the influential Time Out guide, and Norrebro in Copenhagen has claimed the top spot.  

Coming second in the guide’s annual ranking is Andersonville in Chicago, with Jongno 3-ga in Seoul seizing third place. Leith in Edinburgh just misses out on the top three, coming fourth, while Dalston in London and Dublin 8 in Dublin both make the top 15.

The list was put together using a global survey of 27,000

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