A 42-year-old beekeper in China has won a bee-bearding competition in Shaoyang, Hunan province. Wang Dalin attracted 26.86kg of bees on to his body in 60 minutes to win
Iain Tolhurst started collecting timber from the woods behind his house after the great storm of 1987. Then he began building a boat… 24 years later, and after 22,000 hours of work, the timber ketch was launched on the Thames
Most people surveyed the wreckage caused by the great storm of October 1987 and phoned their insurance company. Not Iain Tolhurst. He looked out on the fallen trees and realised it might be time to gather some cheap timber and get cracking on the boat he’d dreamed of building, single-handed, since he was a boy.
Discover this beautiful hotel in the heart of Barcelona, with an outdoor pool on the roof with an impressive view of all the monuments of the city. The Grand Central Hotel offers 147 rooms and two bars poolside bars
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Mexican soldiers discovered the largest marijuana plantation in the country’s history, hidden under black cloth in the middle of the desert.
The 300-acre plantation is four times larger than the previous record discovery by authorities and workers had even installed toilet facilities, the Defence Department said.
The towering pot plants sheltered under black screen-cloth in a huge square on the floor of the Baja California desert, more than 150 miles south of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego
