Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Robin Hood's Bay is the home of a picturesque old fishing village on the Heritage Coast of the North York Moors. It ihas a traditional sandy beach, as well as rock pools to explore and ancient fossils to discover. Wandering through its narrow, twisting cobbled streets and alleyways, you can easily imagine the sailors and fishermen, smugglers and press gangs that walked these streets centuries ago.
The hedgehog is one of Britain's favourite mammals, and was once a common sight in gardens and parks after dark. However, they are becoming increasingly rare, with the population thought to have declined significantly overall, and by a third in urban areas since 2000.
Wigan Pier is a former industrial location on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which runs through the town of Wigan in Greater Manchester.
Alfred is the only English monarch to be known as 'the great'. He served as King of Wessex, a Saxon kingdom based in the southwest of modern-day England, from 871-899 AD. He ruled successfully, emerging as a military force, with his most important achievement being to prevent an island-wide invasion from the Vikings and to establish a united Anglo-Saxon culture.
It was one of the most iconic British TV ads ever, and spanned four decades. A mysterious James Bond-style man dressed in all black facing danger at every turn to deliver something of vital importance to a romantically anticipatory woman – a box of Cadbury's Milk Tray chocolates.
David Edward Hughes is generally acknowledged to have invented the first practical working carbon microphone in 1878, though other inventors were producing similar methods of amplification. A Welshman by birth, Hughes is believed to have been born in Corwen, north Wales in 1831.
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