Penzance

since 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 21:30 UTC

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14 days ago

‘Nobody has done this before’: Britain’s beloved steam trains trial pioneering technology

found 2025 › Apr › 19 (Sat) @ 14:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

In-cab digital signalling was tested last week as part of a project to secure the future of main-line locomotives

About 500 steam trains run across the UK each year, from Penzance in the south to Inve…

43 days ago

We're the Songs of Praise superfans, we travel thousands of miles around Britain to get to EVERY recording

found 2025 › Mar › 21 (Fri) @ 06:09 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Trevor and Christine Ransome, a couple in their 80s, have travelled as far and wide as Glasgow and Penzance to appear in dozens of recordings of Songs of Praise.

59 days ago

House viewers go wild for 'Apocalypse bunker' on the market for low price - would YOU spend your last days on earth here?

found 2025 › Mar › 05 (Wed) @ 15:18 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Currently used as a holiday let, the former pumping station is situated within the popular coastal town of Penzance in Cornwall.

89 days ago

End of the line for UK's longest train: CrossCountry's 14-hour Aberdeen to Penzance direct service is set to be axed from timetables in May

found 2025 › Feb › 03 (Mon) @ 11:47 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

CrossCountry runs the 35-stop service from Aberdeen to Penzance which takes more than 13 hours and covers 785 miles - but it will no longer run from May due to a timetable shake-up.

3 months ago

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Has there ever been a report of a shark attack off the UK coastline?

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 06:04 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

There are records of about 30 shark attacks in British waters. The most recent was in 2022, when a woman was bitten on the leg by a blue shark as she snorkelled off the coast of Penzance in Cornwall.

Play that funky noise intoner! The rumblers, gurglers and howlers of the world’s strangest orchestra

found 2025 › Jan › 16 (Thu) @ 16:04 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

With their funnel-like hooters and cupboard-like shapes, they looked bizarre, sounded wild and left audiences baffled. Now, more than 100 years on, Luigi Russolo’s orchestra of futurist machine instr…

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