Virginia Furness covers sustainable finance in London. She writes about how the financial sector is shifting to meet climate and development goals and the impact these changes are having on the ...

Known as the ‘House of Kings’, until 1760 the Abbey was the final resting place of 17 monarchs, including Elizabeth I and Mary I. Many monarchs chose to be buried close to the shrine of Edward the ...

Remarkable views of Venus are available this month. The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets in the early evening sky. Low toward the west ...

All battles and bravery—Richard the Lionheart, Robert the Bruce, Henry V. The path to Westminster Abbey was being laid before I knew it. I was also learning to think of this, then that. A picture a ...

The Mayor of Barrow, Councillor Judith McEwan, and the Mayor of Ulverston, Councillor Graham Scrogham, officially opened their towns' fresh branches of Furness Building Society. Representatives from ...

This includes the region's most prestigious hotels such as The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel on Abbey Road, The Clarkes Hotel at Rampside and the Furness Abbey Hotel. The establishment welcomed many ...

Plans to permanently shut an ancient monastery during the winter have been confirmed. Furness Abbey, on the outskirts of Barrow, Cumbria, was founded about 900 years ago and was the first of ...

From morning till dusk and midnight till dawn, the cycle of spiritual bathing at the mega gathering of humanity in this holy city goes on without a break. The religious festival, billed to be the ...

A US university denies it is planning to sell Wroxton Abbey to be repurposed into a school for Russian boys. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Banbury Guardian, you get 70% fewer ads while ...

Director/producer David F. Sandberg and producer/writer Gary Dauberman appeared on IGN Fan Fest Tuesday to promote their upcoming horror-thriller Until Dawn during which time they shed light on ...