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Dorothy Levitt was Britain’s first female racing driver, breaking several speed records before dying in obscurity 100 years ago this week

BBC News Published image copyrightGARRY JONES image captionThe arrow-shaped racer reached 628mph (1,010km/h) on the lakebed of Hakskeen Pan, South Africa, in late 2019 The bloodhound land speed racer has been stored in a museum while the search to find a further £8m investment begins. Fundraising is for a motor to break the world record of 763mph (1,228km/h). The Bristol car's owner, Ian Warhurst, has handed the project over to the group's head of engineering Stuart Edmondson, who said he was "confident" it would leave the museum one day. Coventry Museum said it was "thrilled" to support th...

Ali Cherri is the National Gallery's 2021 Artist in Residence Ali Cherri, Still from Petrified, 2016. Single-channel video, colour and sound. Duration: 12 min. © Ali Cherri. LONDON .- Ali Cherri, a Beirut-born artist whose work is inspired by artefacts and the natural world, is the National Gallery’s new Artist in Residence for 2021, it was announced today. Ali Cherri (b. 1976) is the second Artist in Residence to be chosen since the launch of the Gallery’s new Modern and Contemporary Programme, following the first appointment of Rosalind Nashashibi in 2019. The award is a collaboration w...