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Crisis, a UK-based homelessness charity, announced the launch of the Homelessness Covenant alongside the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) and DLUHC (Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities).
A 103-year-old war veteran received more than 900 birthday cards from strangers following an appeal from her care home to mark the big day.
Nellie Orme has reached the ripe old age of 103 and her birthday will certainly be one to remember
Nellie Orme, who served in World War Two, is a "joy to be around", say care home staff.
Ocean-going ships were key to rising maritime economies of the Early Modern period, and understanding how they were built is critical to grasp the challenges faced by shipwrights and merchant seafarers. Shipwreck timbers hold material evidence of the dynamic interplay of wood supplies, craftmanship, and evolving ship designs that helped shape the Early Modern world. Here we present the results of dendroarchaeological research carried out on Batavia’s wreck timbers, currently on display at the Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle. Built in Amsterdam in 1628 CE and wrecked on ...