Dorset, UK
Durdle Door beneath the Milky Way (via Telegraph)
Weymouth, UK
A giant sand castle marks 100 days to the 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony in London. (via BBC News)
Weymouth, UK
Last year’s winner is dressed up as the pudding during the annual 5k Chase The Pudding Santa Dash. Over 200 hundred Santas took part in a beach fun run. The money raised from the event will be donated to the British Heart Foundation. (via Telegraph)
UK: Red Arrows pilot killed in plane crash following air show display
A Red Arrows pilot died on Saturday afternoon when his plane crashed after a display at an air show.
Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging was killed when his Hawk T1 aircraft plunged to the ground near Bournemouth Airport in Dorset.
Onlookers reported seeing the plane flying low before smashing into a field and coming to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop.
The aircraft was one of nine members of the famous RAF display team that had taken part in a display over the seafront in Bournemouth for the town’s fourth air festival, which was watched by tens of thousands of people. (via The Observer)
UK: fossil hunters
Visitors comb the beach below the cliffs at Lyme Regis, Dorset, part of the 95-mile-long Jurassic coast world heritage site, where 185m-year-old fossils have been found (via guardian.co.uk)
The Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow by marantzer on Flickr.
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