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Douglas Hunter re-traces the search for the Northwest Passage through the Arctic, and almost gets lost among the spectral boatmen and copycat mutineers that ...

This story is over Share a Coke tour comes to Lincoln Share with friends: A popular Coca Cola campaign will be making its way to Lincoln this weekend. Lincoln residents searching shopping aisles to find their name on a Coke bottle rejoice, as the Share a Coke Tour is heading to the city centre. The Share a Coke Campaign sees cans and bottles of Coca Cola emblazoned with 250 of the most popular names in Great Britain. Many people though cannot locate their name, so the Share a Coke Tour will provide drinkers with the chance to get their name, or a friend’s, on a free 250ml bottle of Coke o...

‘The Terror’ is a new BBC drama based on the doomed Arctic expedition headed by Spilsby born Sir John Franklin in search of the fabled North West passage – a route around the top of Canada connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is an epic tale of hardship and is the worst disaster in British polar exploration. The fate of the 129 men has been a matter of speculation for 170 years. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror set out from Greenhithe, Kent in 1845. Both were state of the art craft: extremely strong, with sophisticated heating systems and steam driven propellers, ideal for Arctic conditi...

‘The Terror’ TV drama tells the tale of Lincolnshire explorer Sir John Franklin’s doomed voyage Famous Lincolnshire explorer gets own BBC show Sir John Franklin has a statue up in Spilsby. | Photo: Lyn Gould for The Lincolnite ‘The Terror’ is a new BBC drama based on the doomed Arctic expedition headed by Spilsby born Sir John Franklin in search of the fabled North West passage – a route around the top of Canada connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is an epic tale of hardship and is the worst disaster in British polar exploration. The fate of the 129 men has been a matter of...