Ilfracombe, UK
Verity, a statue by Damien Hirst, is positioned on a plinth on the harbour wall. The 20-metre-high bronze artwork depicting a naked pregnant woman holding a sword, has been loaned to the seaside town for 20 years by the artist, who lives locally (via guardian.co.uk)
Dartmouth, UK
A double rainbow is seen over the harbour. The view shows the rainbow arcing over Kingswear (via Telegraph)
Chulmleigh, UK
Liberty, the last ex-battery hen to be rehoused, is fed. The small battery hen cage has been phased out and replaced by more spacious ‘enriched cages’ (via guardian.co.uk)
Devon, UK
A frustrated homeowner has painted a 15ft road sign on the side of his house because he became tired of speeding cars racing through his village. Tim Backhouse spent five hours painting the sign after he had repeatedly written to the Highways Agency asking for a review of speeding on the road outside his home. He finally snapped and with the help of a friend designed and painted the mural on the side of his four-bedroomed semi-detached house. The house is situated on a busy main road on the side of the A3072 (via Telegraph)
Teeth and jaw are from ‘earliest Europeans’
Two baby teeth and a jaw fragment unearthed in Italy and the UK have something revealing to say about how modern humans conquered the globe. The finds in the Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, and Kents Cavern, Devon, have been confirmed as the earliest known remains of Homo sapiens in Europe. Careful dating suggests they are more than 41,000 years old, and perhaps as much as 45,000 years old in the case of the Italian “baby teeth”. The details are in the journal Nature. The results fit with stone tool discoveries that had suggested modern people were in Europe more than 40,000 years ago. Now, scientists have the direct physical remains of Homo sapiens to prove it. It confirms also that modern people overlapped in Europe with their evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, for an extended period. These humans went extinct shortly afterwards, and the latest discoveries will raise once again the questions over Homo sapiens’ possible role in their relatives’ demise. (via BBC News)
Devon, UK
Rupert Kirkwood holds the tail of a 6ft (1.8m) shark, which dragged him half a mile after being hooked by the fisherman. Mr Kirkwood, 51, was fishing from a kayak a mile off the Devon coast in the Bristol Channel when he hooked a 65lb (29.5kg) tope shark. (via The Telegraph)
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